Fallout 4 was a shooter with RPG elements and I'm getting tired of RPG being stripped from my RPG's

FYI - NEVER apply gauze to a burn... It will stick and have to be cut off with skin due to bonding because of plasma secreting and acting as a bonding agent.

Simple. Get Obsidian to do the story, quests, lore and dialouge, while Bethesda handles gameplay, the engine, the music, and the marketing...

Problem is Bethesda forced us to play the game their way. No rpg whatsoever. Players should feel offended being treated like a bunch of morons.

I don't think Bethesda will learn about Dumbing their games down. Reviewers give their games 9s when they lose content from previous games and dumb them down. Also Fallout 4 sold really well so why would they change it back to actually be an RPG?

"Another settlement needs your help!"

There's a lot that Bethesda can learn from Fallout 4. What will they learn? Increase the price of the season pass.

Let's see... Let's do an If-Then statement... If Bethesda can learn from the Paid Mods fiasco, then Bethesda can learn from Fallout 4's Failure- Oh wait. No, they didn't.

+Rags Another issue is that your character has a really defined backstory, married with a kid, soldier or lawyer as your occupation. trusts a robot to take care of a kid, etc. This, voice protagonist and Mass effect dialogue wheel. *The Unholy Trinity* that ruined role playing.

This weird Dog keeps waking me up at 4am

Bethesda: Comes out with Fallout 76 Rags: Am I a joke to you?

They need to get rid of that pre-made protagonist idea and family toubles stuff. There is no reason why a lawyer would somehow have skills of carpenter, marksman, skilled assassin, brawler and so on. I can't write my own backstory and have to stick with that stupid family I give no crap about, this is frustrating.

Rags I was on your team the other day on dirty bomb and I was trash and made are team lose. I would like to apologize for that.

Are you kidding me, Fallout 4 looks terrible, it looks like a bomb went off!

The Courier is still the most powerful and influential protagonist in the series. A mailman resolved a great regional conflict with diplomacy, strength and dialogue. You can talk down the menacing Legate Lanius a man who killed dozens with his Blade of the East.

After the release of 76, I can safely say that Bethesda learned nothing from Fallout 4.

That moment when you're a console gamer but Rags is your favourite youtuber

Fallout 4 sold a shit ton, so the executives will think "Hey, gamers like the direction Fallout 4 took! Lets stick to this dumbed down rpg for the mindless masses." And they'd be right to do so. , financially speaking. Hopefully the devs listen more to the hardcore fans, and not to executives or casuals feedback tests. Best case scenario though is Obsidian gets to make another fallout game while Bethesda make the next elder scrolls game.

I guess the one thing I liked about FO4 would be to customize my weapons and armor to my preference. I want more fleshed out characters and smarter companions too. Dogmeat kept blocking my way; as a German Shepherd we're smarter than this...

Fallout 4 was the first game I ever pre-ordered. Hell, I got the Pipboy edition. "It's Bethesda," I thought. "I can trust them to make a game I'll love." Long story short, I'll probably never pre-order again. At least I still have the pipboy. It's kinda cool. Most of your thoughts were pretty similar to mine, or have at least come up in discussion with friends with one exception I found interesting. My friends and I always found the factions to be one of the worst story-related parts of the whole game, in that they're all kinda assholes except the Minutemen, but the Minutemen are the nice guys who just want to help but have the least resources and the least ways they can improve the wasteland. The BoS had arguably the most they could offer the player, but had pretty much regressed to how the West Coast BoS had been a hundred years ago in their attitude. And the Institute are a scientific utopia built on slaves they don't see as sapient, but for some reason that's too grey so they're also dicks to the surface because ?????. Oh. And the Railroad. I don't know too much about them since when I met them on my one playthrough and they did their whole "I would literally sell your soul to Satan to maybe save a synth" thing and I wasn't about to fuck with that.

New Vegas is the only Bethesda Fallout game that doesn't need a quickstart mod. Take a hint, Bethesda.

what can bethesda learn from fallout 4? just let obsidian do it

Nah man face it, once a company takes the roleplaying elements out of a roleplay game...they ain't planning on putting them back. They aren't going to learn from this and the Fallout Franchise is as good as dead even if it keeps going.

One thing they could learn is how to hire somebody that actually knows how to write or create a proper story. The story of FO4 was "okay", but right from the get-go it just screamed FAIL. Wife killed, son kidnapped... could see the climactic build-up there... but then the fizzle of running around for so long, just asking here and there, "have you seen this boy!?". That's usually the story setup that has a protagonist barreling through, kicking ass, taking names, and in a bad/nasty mood -- more or less turning the non-typical badass into, well, a badass! Yet through FO4, the protagonist is all, "hello there, how are you, pleasure to meet you, the weather is beautiful, thing are nice, and oh yeah, btw, my wife was slaughtered and my son was kidnapped from a stasis tube, so that kinda' sucks, but hey, I'll keep checking to see if he's on sale on Craig's List". :P~

No, the weapons in failout 4 were NOT good! In the world that is FALLOUT it makes no goddamn sense for long abandoned military bases to have FUCKING PIPE WEAPONS and WW1 WATERCOOLED EMPLACEMENT GUNS! Along with the fact that the game outright FORGOT about all of the other weapons in the series.

This was the best possible way to wake up; to a notification that starts with "New from Rags"

Spoilers from the future, no. It only got way worse

With the announcement of Fallout 76 we now know that the answer is a resounding "No".

I want all of the fallount: NV sensibilities in an elder scrolls game. I think that'd be grand.

Bethesda learned all the wrong things: Settlements are boring - Fallout 76 is Settlement based! The story is boring - Fallout 76 doesn't have an actual story! Have some fetch quests! Some people that should have no say in RPG development: I want multiplayer - Fallout 76 was built from the ground to be multiplayer!

This video is even funnier after 76

The most amazing mod I have every downloaded for F4 is "Old world radio boston" which adds 15+ new different entertaining radio stations to your pidboy

Rags, every time I see your videos they really help me get through the day

No. "Hey, Todd!" "Hey, Pete." "You remember that complete fucking mess that happened when we tried paid mods with the Steam workshop?" "Yeah?" "Why don't we try that again, but use that trick freemium games use where you buy a pixel currency to buy the stuff instead of directly spending a dollar for it?" "Uh, Pete? Our fans aren't that dumb..." "Well, I bet 0.15% of them are, and Forbes said a couple years ago that 0.15% of mobile gamers pay 50% of that industry's income." "Uh..." "So we can easily make off like bandits doing this if we model it like a mobile game!" "Um..." "I mean, if they didn't kill me when the only thing I presented at E3 that wasn't a sequel, DLC, or port was a cringy e-sports mess, how smart can they truly be?"

One more thing they did well, in my opinion: Companions. I felt that they were actual people with the own skills that they brought to the table.

no mention of Power armor Lore? well then allow me to fill ya in, first of all the game contradicts itself when it comes to T-60 power armor on wether it's pre war or post war. Fusion cores never exsisted till now infact if dive DEEEP into the lore you hear that the Reactor in the T-45d model can last up to over 300 years before needing refueling. XM01 is BULLSHIT. it's post war. created by the Enclave. on the oil rig. END OF STORY this is just scraping the surface btw.

And, it's rags. 3 am. or not, I'll still watch Rags.

The voiced protagonist really ruins it for me, I play role playing games like the elder scrolls and fallout NV to actually role play (shocking I know) I like making my own character and giving them a unique identity and backstory, even something as small as their voice being wrong just takes me out of it

Morrowind start: "wierd dream.... your awake, your a released prisoner, here are your papers FUCK OFF the door" Skyrim start: "1000 hours intro... OH NOES DRAGON ATTACK RUN RUN UR HERO UR DARGON BORN KILL DARGONS FIGHT WAR KILL UR KING UR AWSOME WOW.." see the difference?

Me: Skyrim had some pretty decent melee combat. Also Me: Looks at mods for dodging, parrying, improving AI, realistic momentum with weapons, and realistic weapon ranges that I installed. Wait a minute...

What failures? They can sell a trailer for Fallout 5 at $60 and they'll make billions.

bethesda needs to learn how to program first

things Bethesda can learn? easy 1. don't rush your games 2. give it to someone who knows/cares about the series (Obsidian) and aren't out to make a quick buck off their fanboys (Bethesda) 3. get feedback so you can make the negative stuff not so bad 4. make DLC that's actually good and fun 5. stop making your games oversimple i have brain and i can use it 6. remove the pre-written backstory 7. LET US ROLE PLAY IN YOUR ROLE PLAYING GAME 8. do all the work yourself. the amount of bug fix mods is disgusting 9. make missions fun. not the talk to person go to place kill everything come back talk to person get paid repeat that's not fun and is lazy 10. add more guns not cool when you can get every gun that is not tied to a quest. 11. make the special guns actually special 12. get a new engine don't care that it is to do just fix it 13. rework the boring story 14. make it so the voices and missions don't bled together so bad you can't tell which faction's bitch your doing 15. i can go on and on

3 months later paid mods

The vast majority of the weapons are really ugly.

I still enjoyed this game. I know it was a letdown and had tons of unforgivable mistakes (I wish more people mentioned how fucking garbage melee is in FO4, for instance,) but I _definitely_ still got my money's worth.

It's weird coming back to this a year later and seeing just how much nothing Bethesda learned beyond playing the extortion game. Take a look at how bad creation club is, how it's a literal nicking and diming of the playerbase, especially because it circumvents the PSN's no-mods rules by turning them into microtransactions. Fallout 76 is a confirmation of Bethesda's current focus with the fallout franchise, money at as little expense as they can put into it.

I miss having multiple ammo types for guns.......that was pretty neat. having to switch between hollow points and armor piercing rounds, or between high damage+high degredation and Low damage+low degredation ammo depending on the situation was a pretty nifty idea I miss stats, but i was never really a fan of fallout's style of improving them. leveling up and just dumping 20+ points into a single stat just to magically become better at it never felt rewarding. i preferred the elder scrolls "improve it by practicing it" method ....honestly, dogmeat always getting in my way made a bit of sense, being that he's a dog. i have a dog of a similar size, albeit a husky and not a german shepard, and she LOVES to get in my way, and get under my feet as much as she can just to get a bit of extra attention. i've lost count of how many times i tripped over her and spilled something. i liked them taking away the armor/weapon degradation for 1 reason. i am a GREEDY mother fucker. i do not like having to either a. pay out the ass to fix something i like because duplicates of it either dont exist or are super hard to find (fuck you fallout 3's t-51b power armor. fuck you. the one good thing that came out of operation anchorage was the near indestructible winterized version.....well, that and the stealth suit), or b. pay out the ass to stock up on weapons just to use as spare parts. it's one of the reasons i loved new vegas adding in the jury rigger perk, when i could use any shit tier gun or armor suit to repair a better one of the same basic type the only way i can make myself stomach the narrative is by applying the fan theory that the sole survivor is a courser class synth, and the whole thing is just an experiment put together by father. it's also how i put up with the perk system, by telling myself the "perks" are actually programs and subroutines that are slowly reactivating over time. also Rags....at 19:43, were you checking out that mutant hounds ass? ......kinky.

The best feeling in the world is when you randomly log onto KZfaq and see a Rags video was posted 54 seconds ago. I probably should have posted this the second I got here instead of watching the video.

Its the way Dogmeat was programmed that is the issue. If you noticed when traveling with him that he always tries to stay out in front of you as you walk, this is how Bethesda programmed him to be to always be walking somewhere in front of you, which is a sort of new behavior for companions. This is all well and good until you enter tight spaces, this is when this program choice starts to show its flaws. Due to Dogmeat always trying to stay out in front of you thanks to his programming, this often puts him into situations where he wedges himself into places and blocks your path. Rex did not bother you cause he was not programmed with such behavior and followed you by staying directly behind you like other companions normally do. D-Dog from MGS5 was programmed to stay beside you instead of in front so he never got in your way either because of that. Dogmeat is using a new form of path finding where he does not have to be directly behind you to follow you where you go. He sticks close to you and alters his path based on the direction you are moving.

05:27 - Hah. I guess that expectation wasn't met... Aww... How sad.

Duct tape > your missing son

@ 13:20 actually that bug is "common" in bethesda games. somehow the engine goes nuts if it goes above 60fps. Skyrim was the same, it has loads of issues if you went above 60

bethesda can try to learn by giving the player consequences for helping a particular faction. look what obsidian did for NV factions

I remember in F3 and NV you could use intelligence to solve some problems or have special dialogue. The only time that slightly happens in F4 is at the robot ship on top of Weatherbe savings and loan.

Make Elderscrolls & Fallout great again!!!

As a long time Fallout fan, I absolutely hated FO4. They turned a Role Playing Game into an Action Adventure game. 0/10

Rags, not to go against your point, the leather armour gives you a bonus against laser/alien weapons

bethesda inherently dislikes traits which have both positive and negative consequences because they're far too invested in their elder scrolls design philosophy. that is, they dont want to penalize you for doing anything or making choices. this can also be seen by the lack of a level cap. they seem to believe that allowing you to do everything is a worthwhile form of game. they fail to realize that the lack of consequences makes a lot of things meaningless -- something you don't want in an rpg.

Remember in older games how they handled squads and followers? There always were those little icons which showed the stance of the squad, like rectangle or triangle or line formation. There really should of been something like this for the followers including some complex if-then triggers to keep followers in line.

Just FYI Rags, the leather vs steel sneaking benefit you were talking about, they have that in Skyrim (and I think Fallout 4 as well), but it's based on the armor weight. It's not armor specific, but it is there. Just wanted to let you know.

YOU SHOULDNT APPLY GAUZE TO A 3RD DEGREE BURN.....!

I really like how he acknowledges and appreciates the genius art direction of this game, regardless of all the other bad stuff. A lot of people wouldn't give it that deserved credit

8:40 Honestly, i feel like that's a common problem in a lot of games these days- the quest in some way eventually has something to do with "go to a, kill b". My fave game of all time, Solatorobo, has a very interesting set of quests, however. Each quest is in some way different. One of the most notable quests that I can remember is this one lategame quest where you have to go into a fisherman's aquarium and choose fish for a recipe with no prior hints on what a good choices there are. However, during the quest, poachers from a sky pirate faction show up on each level of the aquarium, and you have to repel them. And when you successfully force them into retreat, they'll lament the fact that they were "so close to x", basically giving you hints. That game is so weird, but also weirdly fantastic. I forgot to mention that the fish float in the air

Nothing can beat the unarmed fighting system in Fallout New Vegas.

Hopefully they don't leave gamebreaking bugs all over the fucking map. Apparently the reason why people crash a lot in areas like Cambridge is because there's a shit load of stuff below the map that they buried instead of just removing, which causes shitloads of crashes, mostly noticed during the Hunter/Hunted story mission.

Oh and i also feel like Fallout 4 did power armor very well. It felt more like a vehicle than a late-game armor, and made geetin fusion cores fun, like "Hey i found a fusion core, now i can explore the downtown area in my power armor and survive a bit better than with my crappy leather armor i have atm"

I think the settlements could have had a feature to assign an overseer of the settlement who would assign things and when something needs your attention a courier would find you and ask if you would want to do it, and then it does it automatically, as the overseer would delegate responsibility.

yep. the infinite levels really bummed me out. had a level 150 something character. full synthweave chothing, combat armor and a pistol/crit build where i had no chance of dying. ever. on survival. fuck off. had nothing to do

Hi dad

Also the Fallout 4 story is basically Fallout 3 story but in reverse.Instead of a child looking for a parent (I.e. the player looking​ for their father in FO3) It's the parent looking for their child and I'm aware of the twist with Shawn towards the end,so yeah they really didn't fucking try in the story department.The could have had a simple a story as FO1 with the player fixing a Vault water supply before everyone dies.These games are about the journey not the destination. Plus mods are the only reason I played this game,so if I want to run around in Optimus Prime power armor or play as Batgirl so be it.

I found this video after rewatching the Fallout 76 reveal.

Fallout 3 is my favorite fallout game. I know that New Vegas is objectively better but I have more personal memories with Fallout 3 than NV.

So Randomly decided to Play Fallout 4 Then Rags Uploaded 😍😍

I played the game once with a detailed walkthrough on how to get the peaceful ending. The game bugged and the Railroad wouldn't speak with me.

Dogmeat is to fallout 4 as Donnie is to Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector...

*I fucking hate school.*

Im 15 at this current date and FO4 is my first rpg experience, and at first I thought rpg's were these giant sorta daunting games with actions leading to consequences etc. But when I started playing FO4 it felt really dumbed-down compared to my own thought that u had of rpg's being this really big adventure where my personality could show leading to certain things. If I would compare fallout 4 to any other game it would be GTA 5, without the cars and atmosphere of course, all the missions led to the same things (although GTA 5's were really good), it's like any shooter campaign but open world.

Armor weight affects your ability to sneak in FO4. If you're trying to min/max in favor of stealth, shadowed leather is the best armor in the game, especially if you can find legendary leather armor that have bonuses to agility.

One thing that I will always love Fallout 4 for, is that it was the game to really get me into the other Fallout and Elder Scrolls games. More specifically; if it weren't for this game, I probably wouldn't've played Fallout New Vegas. So yeah, thanks to that it's a great game (for me anyway)

Rags...are you actually bisexual? This is a serious question not an insult.

Goddamn this video aged well, didn't it

you know what i like about your commentary? it isn't edited. when you misspeak, it isn't cut out. feels much more real.

More catering potential and an intimidation factor so that enemys surrender or shoot worse but less charisma and a chance to make friendly NPC and quest givers to attack you or even in a way outlaw you

Its undoubtedly because of impossible to meet deadlines and more importantly the fact they still use the same version of the abysmal Creative Engine, which has to be the single worst triple A (or even just in general) engine ever made.

When they stop making money... so no.

But skill sets and dialog, isn't that more then half of the fallout series? if they didn't do these right then its not a fallout game as far as I am concerned.

Spoilers: They haven't.

does Bethesda even play test? Think of the consoles

2018 e3 2018 fallout 76, they have not learned jack shit

Given Fallout76 and Starfield, the answer seems to be no. In fact they got worse.

Yeah Dogmeat was also annoying since whenever I'd close a door at Red Rocket, or close a gate I'd built, Dogmeat would immediately open it. I got mods to lock gates so he couldn't. Being able to wall off Red Rocket, and close/lock the gate was a great defense against Super Mutant Suiciders.

Honestly. Shooting needs to be less stat based (no skill should directly increase weapon damage) and everything should die easier and deal way more damage. Then, bring back all the alternate and non-combat choices from New Vegas. Design missions with alternate solutions other than rush in and genocide to be so difficult and the odds of rushing in and killing everything so against you, that you are naturally encouraged to use other means.

18:47 I think a setting to turn off voiced protagonist would be a better option since some people like a voiced protagonist.

I personally think the new power armor system was great. Sure you got a suit too early but power armor actually felt like POWER armor for the first time ever.

33:00 Dogmeat is in fact programmed to get in your way, he' supposed to try and stand in front of the player, he's meant to be heeling but pathfinding does odd things and makes him predisposed to block doors.

Nope, they didn't... they buried what was left of fallout into the microtransaction/destiny/ea/Activision formula... How fucking sad is to see this franchise die...

Fallout 76: "No. No they can't."

I am...soooo late to the party, BUT one thing that could have fixed the "I need to save Shaun" is instead of seeing the murder take place, you instead just wake up 200 years later to find your spouse dead, decomposed and Shaun missing. You'd assume they died during the 200 years and that Shaun likely isn't around. You then settle down to your new life...UNTIL, towards the end of the story, it is revealed Shaun is alive!

The first time I played Fallout 4; I was going through the Brotherhood quests, and got to the point where you get to the giant airship. At this point, the game became un-playable. ALL of the AI was broken: Companions would run off into the wilderness never to be heard from again, enemies would stand immobile as I gunned them down, NPC characters (such as the people at my settlements) would spin around in circles and would refuse to do their jobs. I won’t play it ever again.