Having dropped New Vegas in the past due to lost interest, I decided to try this game out finally since a friend of mine was having a fallout 3 playthrough himself. It was it 8 bucks, so I figured why not. I have to say, I put way more hours into this game than both other Bethesda games I’ve played through (Skyrim and Oblivion) before even finishing the main quest line. The combat was excellent in my opinion, and I (seem to be in the minority of people who) really liked the story. The choices it forces you to make sometimes really had me feeling emotional at times. I also played it with some minor mods installed, just some custom outfits and real world guns for immersion. Nothing to break the story or anything, though there are a few DLC sized mods I’m eyeing up to play in the future. Overall I seriously enjoyed this game, I’ve noticed online it seems to be regarded as one of the least popular mainline games but I think it’s become my favourite Bethesda game I’ve tried so far honestly. Seriously recommend anyone who hasn’t played this yet to at least give it a try. It really pulled me in.

Edit: Since I’m done with F4, got New Vegas running with some nice mods to add gritty aesthetics and real world weapons. Giving it another try 6 years after I initially tried it and so far I’m way more into it!

Edit 2: more specific context

  • Donebrach@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I’ve been replaying and somewhat enjoying Fallout 4 recently too and all I can say is Bethesda made a very good (and janky) video game back in 2003 and managed to reskin it into 5 different games over the past 20 years fairly well—only blatantly showed its age with Starfield because they removed all the (now out of date) modernizations introduced in Fallout 4. I will not buy The Elder Scrolls VI if that ever comes to market.

    Just throwing it out there if you haven’t played it, The Outer Worlds hits all the fallout notes in a tighter package (also made by obsidian who made New Vegas)

  • Zozano@aussie.zone
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    6 months ago

    I loathe Fallout 4 for all the things the game has robbed the franchise of.

    Most dialogue choices boil down to “yes / sarcastic yes / tell me more / not right now”

    I really hate the settlement building, but I feel like I need to interact with it to play properly - it’s too powerful to ignore when playing on Survival.

    I would have preferred if the settlers improved things themselves over time if the resources were available for them.

    The three factions make the moral choice a no brainer. The Institute are slaveowners, the Brotherhood are Nazis and the Railroad are the Underground Railroad (very clever Bethesda).

    (Minute men is not a real faction, they’re tertiary)

    • caesaravgvstvs@feddit.de
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      6 months ago

      Yes!! I felt the same way!

      Particularly the ham fisted way it’s written, you’re really led to choose the railroad path, but I felt I never got a proper explanation on how the institute was bad (the why is clear).

      I ended up going with the institute and I got a really underwhelming ending

  • Varyk@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    It was actually the first fallout game I played, and I’ve replayed it a couple times since then, I really like it.

    That’s a great came to play for the first time, especially with qol mods.

    • Sockenklaus@sh.itjust.works
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      6 months ago

      Any QoL mods you’d recommend?

      I play F4 with Vivid Fallout for better textures, Load Accelerator and the Unofficial patch mod.

      What are must have QoL mods that that don’t alter the vanilla experience too much?

      • Varyk@sh.itjust.works
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        6 months ago

        I played f3 and 4 next to each other, so it can’t remember exactly which was which, but removing the tint over everything outside was huge, visibility immediately increased, the sky was blue, everything was more aesthetically appealing.

        I really liked adding the weather mods in so it rained or snowed, and then textures. I didn’t change too much, but with an improved look and distance, everything felt more fun and immersive.

        It sounds like that vivid mod you have did pretty much all of that

  • Atomic@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    I’ve noticed online it seems to be regarded as one of the least popular mainline games

    Where have you been looking in order to find that? It’s regarded as the best fallout by almost everyone as far as I’m aware.

    Or are you confusing Fallout New Vegas with Fallout 4? They are two different games

  • ZephrC@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    Fallout 4 kind of in a weird place where it’s simultaneously a bad Fallout game and arguably the best Bethesda game. How much you like it really just depends on which of those things you’re more into. I’ve personally never really gotten the appeal of Bethesda games. I usually end up spending 90% of my time going through my inventory analyzing the price to weight ratio of all the worthless junk I’ve accumulated, and the worlds have always just felt really shallow to me personally, but clearly I’m in the minority. I am sort of curious why more people seem to have agreed with me on Fallout 4 than on Skyrim though. I guess maybe it’s just that the people who talk about it the most are more likely to be Fallout fans than Bethesda fans.

    • AmosBurton_ThatGuy@lemmy.ca
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      6 months ago

      Fallout 4 kind of in a weird place where it’s simultaneously a bad Fallout game and arguably the best Bethesda game.

      Thank you

      That’s how I’ve described fallout 4 since it first came out. Nice to see someone else had the same thought. It’s a great game and I’ve put a ton of time into it and I play through it every 2 years at most.

      But it’s really not a great fallout game. The game overall is excellent but it feels the least fallout-y, to me at least.