Sometimes The Past Should Be Forgotten
HIGH Some of the writing is great.
LOW It’s visually messy, and has terrible technical performance.
WTF Why is this on the Switch?
Tag: Fallout
Wasted Review
Like your time
HIGH Taking out an S.O.B. Purifier
LOW Losing everything because I took the wrong fork at the start of a level.
WTF This is the grossest take on Richard Nixon ever, right?
This Is Not A Review: Fallout 4 Vault-Tec Workshop DLC
Brad Gallaway recently rolled out a new column titled This Is Not A Review. In it he discusses general impressions, ideas and thoughts on any given game he’s playing, but not reviewing. It’s an exercise in offering a quick recommendation (or dismissal) after spending enough time to grasp the ideas and gameplay of a thing without necessarily playing it from A to Z. I’m hijacking his column to offer my impressions on Fallout 4‘s latest DLC — Vault-Tec Workshop, which is developed and published by Bethesda for Xbox One, PS4 and PC.
Fallout 4: Far Harbor Review
Set sail for intrigue
HIGH: Hermit crabs!
LOW: Tedious workshop crafting puzzles shoehorned into the main quest
WTF: Could everyone in Fallout 4 be an android?!?
Fallout 4: Wasteland Workshop Review
Fallout + Pokemon + Fight Club = Boredom
HIGH New cosmetic settlement items
LOW No new quests to justify the new items
WTF Bethesda's still pushing the weakest part of Fallout 4—the settlements
Fallout 4: Automatron Review
Fallout: Real Steel Edition
HIGH Robot companions' sassy dialogue
LOW Not enough new weapons
WTF Turning sweet little Curie into a lethal monster
Fallout 4 Second Opinion
Fallout. Fallout never changes.
HIGH Detective Valentine is charming and entertaining
LOW Shooting mechanics too weak to be a proper shooter, RPG mechanics too shallow to be a proper RPG
WTF Oh, it's the same "tracing through disconnected memories" scene that we've played in Dishonored, Assassin's Creed, Life Is Strange…
Fallout 4 Review
An A-Bomb for Effort
HIGH Primary colors.
LOW The eleventh-hour plot twist that's supposed to tie all the threads together.
WTF An NPC calling my character "Mike" with full voice acting.
GameCritics.com Podcast Episode 89: A Fallout Sojourn
Our first off-week adventure takes us into the land of Fallout. A lively debate on Fallout 3 versus Fallout: New Vegas gets top billing, and then we compare the Fallout of today to the Fallout of the past, and try to find out if the old spirit still lives, Featuring Richard Nak, Chi Kong Lui, Brad Gallaway, Tim "The Gambler" Spaeth, and Darren Forman.
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You can’t always CYOA
Something interesting I noticed this year was a trend of push-back against "choice" games in which the player did not get to control every outcome. The two biggest examples which spring to mind are, of course, The Walking Dead and Mass Effect 3.
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