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Unlike idiocracy which is made to be purposely stupid. Fallout 4, when especially looking at the main writer, is accidentally stupid.

The joy of it is that Bethesda is no more. It's senior people all retired and all we have left is Todd Howard running around the Microsoft offices bragging about how he made Skyrim.

I will be honest; the world-building is pretty crappy in Fallout 4. But the crafting and inventory system was so much better than Starfield. I just don't get why they would make it so hard to craft anything. In Fallout 4, the settlement box connects to the workbenches. In Starfield, I made a base, and it took 10 minutes just to make a ham sandwich because I had to look through all the boxes in the base.

how is it that no one in diamond city has trench foot from living in the mud all day?

Calling it now. ES6 is gonna be the same Bethesda shit, terrible writing, terrible worldbuilding, terrible engine. ES6 is gonna be more of the same. As we saw with Starfield, it's all Bethesda is capable of

Wtf I just read the title and it instantly clicks. Everyone is so dumb that they just instantly make you in charge

Imagine if Bethesda actually leaned in this idea fully and intentionally, with everyone being very technologically and socially regressed. Being able to choose a proper background for your character and having it be extremely important to gameplay. With no real initial objective, you just wander around and learn about the region and choosing to solve conflicts, and unite groups to attempt to gain back that prewar normalcy or tearing everything down because why not the worlds already blown up. I just feel like fallout 4 never really went into the whole psychology of someone who’s entire world is blown up and now they have to live with stinky tribals and get shot at by raiders on the daily,

Dude. They're Bostonians...

It's even worse than idiocracy. Bear with me. - Idiocracy has the excuse that people got dumber over many generations. At the very least the knowledge got lost. E.g., no living soul still knows WTH plants need, because that knowledge got lost. - Fallout 4 has ghouls that were alive since before the war. It's not even conjecture, there's TWO in Goodneighbour alone (plus some in FO3) that tell you as much. And not all of them are random uneducated folks. There's an engineer at the Slog, for example. You're NOT the only pre-war person around. Even those born in the most recent idiocracy age, didn't have to wait for you to teach them ye olde pre-war smarts. They had people from that age all along. As a simple example: At least some of them must still KNOW what, say, an adobe wall is. Or how to just melt some asphalt (you only need a bucket and some wood) to make bitumen paper for a roof. But nope, they'll sleep in homes with wide gaps in the walls for the wind to blow through, under incomplete roofs, on a wet blanket, while it actually rains on them. Forget raiders, that will kill you next winter in Boston. Yet they're incapable of even learning from the pre-war ghouls anyway. BUT IT GETS WORSE. The major factions have devolved just as much, for no obvious reason. E.g., the BOS actually forgot how to army. In NV you actually have to dig into their archives to re-discover something as elementary as the chain of command. And by FO4 time, they're down to just a loose band of irregulars who work for loot instead of pay or even a guaranteed meal, buy their own gear, have even less idea that a chain of command even is a concept, and generally are more like the old Ottoman Bashi-bazouk irregulars than any modern army. Or read the holotapes when you get to find Brandis. They're so focused on running with the loot, that they just leave their mates and subordinates behind to die for no reason. E.g., Knight Astlin is back at the National Guard training yard to secure the base... but Brandis never goes there to even as much check on her, much less retrieve her. No, seriously, he actually says he doesn't know what happened to his team. He legs it to the bunker up north on his own, and that's it. E.g., the Institute never actually managed to make a new processor or even new version of the operating system. Not only their terminals literally display the same OS version, and are vulnerable to the same 200 year old hacks. No, it's worse. As shown in Curie's companion quest, their synth chips are literally bit-for-bit compatible with a pre-war Miss Nanny. Like, you can just copy the program and data from a Miss Nanny into one, and it will just work. They presumably miniaturized the chips, but they just are otherwise the same. It's flippin' sad, really...

The main problem with Bethesda is that there's just no reason for them to be using the Fallout IP like they are. It's clear that they want a wacky post-nuke apocalyptic setting, but it's supposed to be CENTURIES after the bombs dropped in Fallout. The central point in New Vegas and FO 1 and 2 is that people are rebuilding, getting organized. Cultures are forming. People are building cities, making skyscrapers of their own. They're powering their towns with efficient energy. They're mastering agriculture. Humanity is climbing out of the hole. A great example is how the NCR is a bonafide *nation*. It's a straight-up country. It has infastructure, its wealthy enjoy the use of motor vehicles and paved highways, there's a functional democratic government with voters and legislatures and civilian benefits, there are labor unions and taxes that are collected go into welfare for the poor. It even had a gold standard to its currency, and things are advanced enough that they swapped to FIAT. Bethesda doesn't understand this at all. They just want a fun and LE EPIC post-apoc shooter game. Which is fine, but they're butchering the IP to get it. We're actually supposed to believe that in the Commonwealth, nobody's cleaned up any of the skeletons who've just been sitting around dead for 200 years and in major areas that are densely inhabited. Folks are still wearing 200 year old clothes that they scavenged off of corpses as their main means of clothing. People are still squatting out in bombed-out skyscrapers built pre-war all over Boston. People are fighting over cans of Cram at the Superdupermarts. Nobody knows how to build or farm or fight off raiders or ghouls. They struggle to collect water or do much of anything. This is how Vault Dwellers should be acting fresh out of the Vaults, but it's people who've been living in the wastes for centuries. It should be centuries past the bombs, but by Bethesda's perspective it feels like it's been a few weeks at most. Nobody is organized. Factions require you to do literally everything for them as the designated errand boy (and eventually you become errand boy slash supreme leader (who also has no real power and still get told what to do like a lackey)) to function whatsoever. In Obsidian titles, you feel like the story just happens to have you in it. In F3 and 4, you're basically Jesus. The story hinges on your very breath, and if the player dies, the wasteland itself seems to cease to exist.

Literally the reason I refused to play Fallout 4 until the amazing mod (made for free by the way and still has custom models and even actual professional voice actors) Sim Settlements 2 where settlers will actually build and develop the settlements on their own, your only input is what sorts of plots you want set (living, farming, leisure, municipal, defense, etc.) and eventually you can have settlers create settlements on their own depending on an assigned unique leader NPC's traits and specialties.

I live in New England. A few weeks back I didn't shut the door tightly and the wind pushed it open about an inch. After a few minutes the whole downstairs of the house cooled several degrees. It was in the low 30s outside. It wasn't one of those cold snaps. 30s is something this region would see even with insane global warming. Everyone in that game outside of the institute wouldn't be there because their ancestors would have died from exposure.

" you guys neglected your real life children to play this" 😂

Diamond City was a huge letdown. Biggest settlement in the area, and it barely houses a dozen or so people. Rivet City, on the other hand, felt like a bigger, more lived-in place. I know raiders would be a concern in this setting, but has no one tried to rebuild? That, and giving us a predefined backstory were just awful choices.

It's all the settlement building. That's what makes Fallout 4 seem so much different than the others--adding in settlement building. In order to make those mechanics engaging and challenging, they have to be deeply incorporated into the whole thing. Which means making some pretty ridiculous concessions, like "somehow in 200 years nobody bothered to try rebuilding this very obviously fertile farmland."

To be fair, fallout 2 started the trend of "just about everything is a reference" but it wasn't as blatant. Fallout 3 was "sets set the game a few years after the bombs...no wait i meant 200 years and the people still act like the bombs fell yesterday" and fallout 4 is just creatively bankrupt. From its main story and other quest. Bethesda just made a theme park, you come and visit, see the people role-playing what they think a post apocalyptic world would look like, then you go home. 4 honestly is the worst. Why is everyone living in trash and with skeletons? Why is everyone acting as if they new life before the apocalypse and are just now crawling out the ashes? Its been 200 years and these people act nostalgic for a culture they never knew or were apart of. If you go to modern day Boston it is nothing like it was 200 years ago so why is it in Bethesda's fallout everything is static. Humanity is just frozen and unable to recover and advance which is not the case in 1 and 2. In those games you see that people have built villages and aren't living in burnt out ruins. You got the brotherhood of steel which is actually developing its own technology and not just hording old world technologies Bethesda is just honestly pretty trash when it comes to any sort of writing. All that interesting lore in the elder scrolls was fan source from back in the early days of the internet from a forum or was written by Michael kirkbride who stopped working at Bethesda after morrowind. The lore in oblivion mostly came from his notes and that hack of a replacement Emilio or whatever his name is butchered everything. He also did the bad writing in fallout 3, 4, and skyrim. And i say he is a bad writer as a fact because he did like a 40 minute rambling in which he explained his writing methods which boils down to "who cares no one is going to pay attention and keep it stupid simple" Honestly now that I'm ranting and the allure of Bethesda games has been broken i can't see the appeal of any of them. Morrowind and daggerfall feel outdated which is not fault of their own they are still fun games but the other ones are middle of the road and janky. Mods are cool but when i download enough mods to overhaul skyrim to be ripoff vampire the masquerade or fallout 4 to be bootleg stalker am I even playing a Bethesda game anymore? If your game is so trash that i need to overhaul it tgat its no longer recognizable to the base game then something is wrong. Okay thats my 2 cent rant

People act as if personally offended whenever I point out the same stupidity of this game, calling me a New Vegas stan, or some other form of an oppressive gaming elitist. But when actually looking at the difference between this and New Vegas from an critical point of view, is it any wonder I preffer one over the other? And the fact people are offended really prooves this further; Fallout 4 really is an idiotic game for absolute morons. Modders really do deserve credit for trying to make games better. Starfield is modders trying to add life to a creatively dead game, and Fallout 4 is modders trying to add sense to a retarded world

Idiocracy has president camacho Fallout 4 doesnt You can guess Wich one is the better

Lead poisoning vs radiation posioning

fallout 4 has me scared for the next single player fallout release

This aged very well, re upload it and title it "Fallout TV show is Idiocracy"

We live in idiocracy, games like fallout 4 proves this.

This game is fun when you have 50 mods installed. 😅

You don't need to watch Idiocracy... We are living it these days.

Can you imagine if Mike judge wrote a fallout quest line? That would be awesome

I saw somebody on Twitter say that Bethesda's fallout games are written as if the bombs only dropped ~20 years ago, and something about that stuck with me. How much better would the world of Fallout 4 be if the story took place in 2161, like Fallout 1 did. You really mean to tell me while the east coast is living like wild animals, the west coast has not only a government, but a faction strong enough to oppose said government? Will say, FO4 Worldbuilding and plot is terrible, but the gameplay is so mind numbingly fun that ive started many playthroughs and only finished like 2

I know game mechanics exist but Nora doesn't makes any sense, while in the other games you were a vault dweller, courier (wastelander) or soldier (Nate), in this one you are... a lawyer. Yet you get out the pod and instantly know how to shoot every weapon, use power armor, craft all kinds of items, run faster than Usain Bolt and kill any enemy including Coursers which are supposedly one of the deadliest foes in the game, the Terminator equivalent of Fallout. Yet Nora can 1v5 them and still win by hitting them with a 30kg sledgehammer. What?

Seriously. Even the Fiends in New Vegas weren't total dummies (unless you told them you had drugs in which case they instantly became gullible).

your idea of the commonwealth needing to suspect the player more is actually interesting character building. because it kinda adds a conflicting layer to synths. people are understandably afraid of synths replacing them. but like... somehow people in goodneighbor, the place where people go for refuge if they have nowhere else to go, people will still kill you if they suspect you are a synth. a synth literally got caught because a person that drinks and cheats abruptly changed into a better person. that kinda... raises some flags. like it kinda makes it feel like the commonwealth is outright forcing you to become a certain type of person. and if you are outside those categories, you might be a synth. my character to me (a ghoul survivor) would be angry that his goodneighbor neighbors would think that he is a synth. just because he is a goodie two shoes that likes focusing on a hobby that isn't killing, drinking, and surviving. he is like a young adult in a old ghouls body. and he would think it is unfair that people would expect him to be more sleazy, carefree, or tired for a ghoul.

Have you ever been to Boston? If you don't get how the Fallout 4 population can be so dumb, just visit modern day Boston, and you'll see the bombs might have been a slight improvement, even.

I still can't believe that anyone who knew anything about Boston thought it was possible for people to live for two centuries in thin-walled drafty shacks. The devs knew it snows in Boston, right? And it snows HARD! But sure, you can live in a shack that won't even keep the rain off your bed. No problem!

People who vehemently confess to love Fallout and still keep supporting what Bethesda does to the series is the real Idiocracy at play here.

Yeah Fallout is wacky sometimes and expected, but in some aspects the worldbuilding is needlessly crappy or goes overboard. Makes NewVegas look realistic in comparision :)

Imagine fallout 4, but it was the size of if not bigger than Skyrim, and had the same amount of options for how to build your character and go about exploring the world, but also with a more coherent and meaningful main story like seen in New Vegas. Thats what i was expecting and instead got a bunch of mods for Fallout 3. Also, so annoyed that so much of the game revolved around Synths.

I love this clusterfuck of a game. The logic is nonexistent and the writing is ridiculous but I've got 900+ mods and it's eternal entertainment. And the protagonist is silent, obviously.

I'm scared for the fallout show.

I could imagine Nate eventually becoming president of the commonwealth with Piper as first lady, Garvey as war minister, Curie as health minister, Danse as secretary of state, Cait as culture minister, Valentine as chief of police, Strong as the president's bodyguard, Hancock as minister of trade, and Macready as education minister. He would have continued to secretly aid the railroad after the destruction of the institute and signed a peace treaty with the brotherhood. By the time Garvey succeeds him as president, the commonwealth would be on a similar level to the NCR

It’s like what Noah Caldwell said about it, You play as a guy trying to recreate his civilisation whilst having no self awareness about that civilisation’s part in creating this mess in first place. Unlike in 3 Bethesda has become too enamoured with the pre-war world to satirise it properly.

I think Fallout 3 fits in this too. Just because they have cities in that one, doesn't mean squat, as they still have little infrastructure to actually feed their populations. And Megaton feels like a movie gag.

Too much misinformation about the lore. Pretty bad critique. But this video only made me want to replay it for the fourth time, thanks!

Remeber kids "It has electrolytes"

I never made that connection before, but it really is the same story but grim and nuclear

Fallout 4 is proof Bethesda doesn't understand how to build a compelling narrative and a world that makes sense.

feels like Bethesda's appeal is also one of the things that harm their games: they always try to make the series accessible to reach as many people as possible, new players included, even if it makes the series not be a series anymore. they don't make Fallout's society rebuild, Super Mutants still exist, etc, it's almost as if every Fallout is a Fallout 1, because any of them can be used as an entry point, but this stuns the lore, world-building and general progression of the history that said, it helps them market the games, so it works to an extent edit: grammar

Fallout 4 is singlehandedly my least favorite game and my favorite one. Ive dedicated around a month now to completely overhauling the games story and gameplay with mods, my favorite game ever

Fallout 4 just tells you what Todd Howard thinks of the people of Boston 😂

well, it's not that i dont want to find my son.. but i gotta help the minutemen to rebuild... afterward, they'll point me to diamond city which lead me to detective which lead me to joining the railroad and now i'm stuck doing quest for the railroad...

Fallout 4 suffered a lot because of whatever decision made them jump the timeline back 200 years. It would've been more fun and made more sense if they just tried to work the story around it being 10-40 years after the bombs dropped

I had Preston help me with the quest Open Season yesterday. Gave him his own set of X-01 Power Armor and Gatling Laser. When it was all said and done, the first thing he said to me after I initiated dialogue was "I know you think you're doing your best. But I know you could be doing better." This made me harbor a special anger towards him I never had before.

Better than Starfield... I think that playing with paper airplane is much more fun than playing Starfield

I play FO1, FO2, and FONV for the writing and the atmosphere. I play FO4 (with mods) for the gunplay and the survival mode exploration. I don't play FO3.

When I first heard that Bethesda was going to buy Fallout IP I thought to myself: sure, why not, they made Terminator Future Shock in the 90s that was basically a FPS in an apocalyptic setting, they can do it. You could drive a car or fly a plane freely in that game. It defined the controls for FPS for years to come (I remember one reviewer saying who would ever want to control a shooter this way :D (for the younger people - Terminator FS was the first shooter where you controlled the player with mouse and keyboard, basically the standard controls now)) Then the Fallout 3 game came out and it was..... its something... but at least we had a new fallout game... Its 2024 and bethesda can not make a game where you can drive a car in fallout nor you can fly freely in starfield... the best things that they had in their engine in the 90s yet stayed with the things that were in that engine due to hardware limitations - loading screens...

Fallout 4 was my last Bethesda game. I didn't hate it, but it definitely soured my opinion of Bethesda and made me more pessimistic about future games - so I decided from that point on, that I would at least check the reviews before buying any future Bethesda games... which had the unintended side effect of making me not buy any more Bethesda games.

Fallout 4 was, to quote Todd Howard, the "stepping out" moment for me: terrible, immersion-breaking writing with mediocre / long overdue game mechanics made me realize there are better shooters available since Bethesda no longer makes RPGs. Starfield is a logical continuation in Bethesda's long line of dumbing down their games to reach a wider audience.

Fallout 4 be8ng better than Starfield is fucking sad. 8(?) years difference and the quality went down, lol.

Plants do infact need electrolytes tho, fertilisers include potassium for a good reason lol

I've replayed Bethesda's games so many times, to the point where I can't really take the stories seriously anymore. Now, it feels more like a "reason why I'm doing anything" aside from me joking about absurdities whether intentional or not. Bethesda to me is the kind of universe you play countless times without actually accomplishing anything. It feels like the story is just background for discovering as much absurd stuff as possible along the way while also getting addicted to RPG mechanics like it's crack. (This is Pre-Fallout 76 btw)

5:24 so...how exactly is fictitious, post-nuclear Boston any different than modern reality?

its not just fallout4, the actual world of the USA is currently teetering on the brink of idiocrazy. ( need proof, talk to a teacher, talk to a person who works a help desk, talk to a postmand or a store owner trying to hire help.

Well, Fallout 4 ist just the "logical" extrem of BADthesda! I mean Fallout 1 and 2 showed a world on the road to recovery (from Shady Sands founding the NCR, to cities coming together (even if led by crime families!) etc. - Fallout 3 onwards on the other hand sadly showed a hopeless wasteland (except New Vegas, where the NCR shows up, where Vegas itself is nearly unharmed by the bombs etc.), without ANY PROGRESS! Seriously, we should have had more factions like the NCR by now, trying to rebuild, maybe even negotiating treaties (end goal? Re-Form them US of A!)

The "Get yourself a swatter!" character could have fit seamlessly in Idiocracy

Guess I'm VERY guilty of neglecting my child lol I've got over a thousand hours into Fallout 4 and still haven't seen a single ending. Every time I remembered I had a kid I was supposed to be finding, I also remembered that I had to collect the excess water from my settlements to sell for building supplies lol.

This is why starfield is disappointing! It’s still cool! But why is there only like three or four towns? Why isn’t there any real world building???

It's crazy how almost 30 years later the original "Fallout" is still the best game set in the Fallout world to date. Despite so many tries, so many millions of dollars invested, still nothing beats the original. It's not about the graphics, it's not about more choices, more open world. It's about the story. Well written, well narrated story, in which we, as players, can participate. At least that's what cRPG's are about. If you just enjoy shooting weird monsters in post apocalyptic setting, that's fine. Just don't try to pretend there's something more to it. If you do, you get the grotesque results like Bethesda's interpretation of Fallout. Give me a good story and you can keep the fancy graphics, complex game mechanics, a sandbox world with trllions of side quests to explore. All of this will never come close to justify a poorly written, not engaging story.

People always love to boast about how great Bethesda is at world building and environmental storytelling, but this game really was not good at either, also skeletons being placed somewhere is easy as fuck literally, anybody could do it and it’s not “great” environmental storytelling just because you put a toaster and a skeleton in a bathtub

The thing that most irks me about the Bethesda Fallouts is they take place 50 and 60 years after Fallout 1, and the world seems to have regressed even further in that time. It makes no sense.

To be fair, if you look at anything close enough and stretch things far enough you can always make connections to other things.

In fairness: we come from a society that has compulsory childhood education. None of us have an experience of a society without this baseline education, and being so ubiquitous for the last 4generations we largely take it forgranted.

"The settlements you build are better than the world Bugsthesda built"... well... yes. Once we got the DLC which allowed us to build structures with walls which don't allow the wind in, and roofs that are able to withstand rain. The issue is Bugsthesda understands that Fallout is a post apocalypse world. And that's as far as they got in understanding Fallout.That's as far as they got when thinking about its world design. So, everything they made is "these people are struggling to survive in a post nuclear apocalypse"... then they advanced the time frame 200 to 210 years... which makes zero sense. Sure, for the first few years after the bombs, the first priority is survival. Some locations will devolve into pure anarchy, other locations will have just enough means to grant the people stability. Over time the previous locations will dwindle in number and the later will became bastions of progress. They will form political regions, no longer content on "mere" survival, they will expand to to engulf other regions, either through conquest, or through mutually beneficial alliances. That's what the Diamond City and the Minutemen were doing. That's what the Commonwealth General Council represented, before the Institute destroyed it.This means the Commonwealth would be well past the Raiders fighting over prewar food stockpiles... They should be fighting over wealth, power, _influence_ instead. *Shakes Head* At least Fallout 4 was a good exploration/survival game... too bad the badly implemented RPG was accompanied by a brain dead story.

Fallout 4 sounds like misanthropy as a video game

It's like.. I love the Fallout and Elder Scrolls series and I hate that Bethesda just not only keeps dumbing everything down but also just drops the quality of each new release by a shit ton. Like how the hell do people feel right defending a company who is blatantly telling you that they don't care about their games and only care about money?

To be fair, they just needed a way to get a father and a kid from prewar to postwar. There's only 2 ways to do that; time travel and freezing.

Not long ago I played F4 again only for the sake of the America Rising 2 mod. Suddenly motivations make sense: if playing as male character you are former soldier and it makes sense to join proper government agency from your time. Your life pre-war was without mutants, so it would make sense if your character's motivation of bringing the world back to how it was aligns with the ideals of the Enclave. The organisation itself has very pragmatic goals and motivations that fit a government's strategic goals. You get rewarded appropriately for your efforts to ranks that make sense towards your importance or required information clearance. Lastly it was the attitude towards the institute that made other factions seem so childish as in this mod their reaction was: "Oh they are enemy unless we can recruit them. Synths are ok tools to potentially bolster our strength and save the lives of our troops, but the main prize is that hydroponic facility that grows clean not irradiated crops that could feed the Enclave!" In some respect this mod also pays homage to Fallout 3 Enclave that wanted a to control a clean water source. NCR also knew importance of clean water, crops grown on it and importance of energy. Diamond City is soaked in irradiated water.

Bethesda writing is idiocracy central in general. Nothing can ever get done without the player's direct involvement. No wonder you become the defacto leader for like 80% of their factions.

Maybe I am wrong but i have a feeling that Fallout 1 & 2 had situation where even tho to us the players and observers so to speak the world was cartoonish, to the in game characters that world was real and they were grounded in it. After Fallout 3 and 4 i have a feeling that characters in it are somewhat aware that they are living in simulation and that's why all of the stupidity. Its all Tranquility Lane, and every single character is somewhat aware of that. That constant flirting with the 4th wall. That, one line Muggy says in NV : "Of course I'm obsessed! They made me this way! You think I don't know how crazy I sound? Of course I do! THEY PROGRAMMED ME TO KNOW THAT TOooo-arrr..." I agree, In the Fallout 4 everyone is stupid because the game requires them to be stupid. Or else, this roller coaster ride wont work and amusement park isn't amusing. I feel that with every iteration Fallout is less Fallout and more Borderlands. And, i hate Borderlands.

Idiocracy is what Starfield would be if it were honest. Actually, I'm pretty even in Idiocracy, they still used phones.

Mfw psychos in Mad Max: The Game are much more competent and smarter than supposedly civil folk in Fallout 4

New character frozen, dumb new world, is a pretty common sci-fi trope, but I do agree that there are a lot of accidental similarities. Gene Roddenberry had this plot twice (Genesis 2 and Andromeda), and the video game Crystallis are a couple of examples of this plot.

I got sick of building settlements. All the settlers do is complain, they need more beds, they need more crops, they need this and that, like they do not know how to get or make anything. When you play you are just a nanny helping to take care of a bunch of children.

Not enough eugenics

BTW, since I wrote so much criticism about its plot, Steam says I have literally 1800 hours in Fallout 4. (I'm not even rounding it up or down. Weird that it's actually a multiple of 100:p) Which is how I know what every single NPC and terminal ever says. Plus in other FO games. Plus I've spent thousands of hours modding Beth games, as in actually 3D modelling and texturing stuff. I'm also one of the guys who literally took a hex editor to FO3 before it had a GECK, to help create all those tools. (Not out of any altruism, mind you. I just couldn't wait for Beth to get their crap together.) So I don't HATE their games. You don't do that if you hate them. Just... I wish they'd make a bit more sense... Ya know what I mean?

4:57 i always love a good metal gear reference!

It wasn't till late last year that i was binge watching a bunch of king of the hill video essays and found out mike judge created both shows it wasn't until feb 20, 2024 at 2:40am that i found out mike judge also created the movie i point to every time people say education isn't important (forgot to put am and it turned the time into a video time stamp lmao)

I disagree that mods cant save it. Some of the mods, and that one set in London, are technically fallout 4, it just doesnt use Bethesdas world that much. Even those stories that is set in the commonwealth let you skip the bethesda main story. However, I have had a great time playing my female overboss. You just need 8 raider bases and the rest you steamroll for food, meaning you never have to think about them again. It wasnt hard creating her backstory. She had planned to kill both Nate and the child for the insurance money when the bombs dropped, so that bummed her out, but finding the raiders and getting an army was great luck. The only problem is that I am running out of things to do, and she would never follow the main story, but whatever, still have far harbor to do, and this time I dont have to care about settlements. Or choices.

The biggest thing fallout makes me think about is who still make the cram? Like canned ham has a long shelf life but that long. Who makes the cram what is it made out of. Also does the main character eat the blamco mac n cheese dry? It's never cooked at a cooking station I personally think the character should take damage if it's not cooked till you find something to watch it down. Also why can't I make a siltbean farm but they give you the option for every other type of crop?

That is why I say fix it. Mods Mods an more Mods. Fallout is a good game story. F the makers.

I mean, you're ignoring the whole thing about the game explaining how the Institute is behind most of the misery in the area. -There was going to be a government until the Institute decided to stop it and kill all figureheads that could lead -There have been people smarter than the player but the Institute just kidnaps them and makes them work under then (you even do this in a mission for the faction) -A lot of the hatred of synths is somewhat believable when you learn the Institute is infiltrating communities to make them run as they want (also not 1 but 2 groups in the game come from vaults so that's why people are lenient about you) I guess it is lazy to make the Institute boogyman the one answer to every plight in the Commonwealth but that's your answer

how the fuck are nate and nora losers? they accomplished more than most of our generation. law school is hard!

Fallout 4 is a great analogy to Bethesda A parody of itself that doesn't even realize it

"Fallout 4 mods can't save the games" that's absolutely quite true and that's the reality that I wish I could refund the game..

I think it's more "Demolition Man" than "Idiocrocy", at least story-wise. The Bethesda Fallout's setting is Idiocrocy for sure.

there is actually a chance that fallout 4 took some inspiration from that movie! It took a lot of inspirations from other dystopian movies. Here are some of them: Bladerunner, tankgirl, waterworld, mad max, postman,... the gates you can build in this game are literally the gates from waterworld lol

You can thank Emil Pagliarulo for the horrible themes and plot...

This deserves way more views. As for the subject matter of the vid, I'd go further and say that all Beth open world games since Oblivion are basically Idiocracy. Their stated game design paradigm has been "how do we say yes to the player as much as possible". To accomplish that, they have to rob agency from the NPCs inhabiting their world.

They're both Rip Van Winkle

I took two weeks of vacation to play fallout 4, I think I played it for about 25 hours and stopped. It was so inferior to fall out new vegas, and even fallout 3.

I think we can all Universally agree that Fallout 4, while being a genuinely good game, is absolutely notorious for having bad writing and world building. And this video just kinda proves that even more so. I would like to add too that 3 out of the 4 endings where you nuke the institute. Wouldn’t that cause more problems knowing that… well… THERE’S A MASSIVE CRATER NEAR DOWNTOWN BOSTON? And yet you’re praised as a hero. But if you side with the institute you are seen as a monster or people are very scared of you because you basically took over the boogiemen of the commonwealth. Either people in Fallout 4 are just that stupid or Bethesda needs to make their writing make sense.

GO AWAY! BATIN!

Kinda late to these type of games but ive played fallout nv, fallout 3, fallout 4, fallout 76 and skyrim. So far Starfield is the only bad game for me🤷🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️