The general dialogue is pretty good and there are some great characters like synthetic private detective Nick Valentine, but Obsidian’s New Vegas still wipes the floor with any of Bethesda’s efforts in either department. Many open world games struggle to keep the relevance of their dramatic central story and still allow room for all their many silly diversions, but Fallout 4 is probably the worst attempt at reconciling the two that I’ve ever seen.įortunately you’re probably not playing a Fallout game for its story. You can’t even ask the first group of people you meet about him, but you’re totally happy to single-handedly fend off raiders, build a community and plant carrots for them instead. Any parent would literally stop at nothing until they find their child, but the Vault Dweller forgets about his son immediately after leaving Vault 111.

Unfortunately the way Bethesda does this completely ruins their own central narrative. The story is okay, certainly better than Fallout 3 but in my opinion not as strong as New Vegas or even Skyrim, although as usual in Bethesda games its main job is just to move you around the world to experience everything the game has to offer. You have to survive the Commonwealth Wasteland, make allies (or don’t), and get him back at all costs. You’re cryogenically frozen, woken up 200 years later, and your son has been stolen.

From there things get only worse for you. Fortunately you and your family have an invitation to the local Vault and make it to Vault 111 just before civilization is annihilated. Keeping things basic with the story, your character starts in Pre-War America just before the bombs fell.

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