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Allow me to start with the premise that I offered to try this game with my wife. A lovely lady who has played this far before I have for years. Now I love the entire franchise, do not get me wrong... But THIS takes the cake. Its execution was extremely poor at the start, and now sits as mediocre at best. I tried this game with the intent of providing support for my wife as a marksman, long range, and within five levels I had perk cards (A confusing new way to level your SPECIAL up with point assignment at level 25 in case you regret how you sorted your SPECIAL stats) and even a shortcut in the first opening minutes skipping me to level 20. As soon as I stepped out I'm greeted by that sly Ghoul who looks like a washed up dishrag in the Creation vomit equivalent of sloughed skin. And my immersion was broken, as I encountered him not only there but in a few hours of railroading with my wife, was also there in Foundation. Now consider me impressed my immersion was broken by a 4th wall break out the gate. So there's also a persistent reminder to check out new areas that you aren't at level for, and repetitive dialogue that doesn't change no matter his location. He doesn't even ♥♥♥♥ off after you come out in thirty minutes. He's just asserting that that's his dead bounty corpse to step on. He might not even need the caps after all.

But I digress, I return to my criticism of the game itself (Or what can be described as a game, just not akin to Fallout.) The faction and story dialogue bore me. It kills me with the pacing of all the speech, the breaks, yes I can skip the dialogue but the poor writing stands out in so many ways I just wanna beat my head across the desk. Just pointless "Blah Blah Blah." And Skill Checks? Basic. They maybe alter how the quest will fork off in certain conditions with quests that allow such things but otherwise, it's a 7 Experience Point boost for choosing a bonus dialogue option. In a shared trait with Four, it falls flat, and a lot of the things exchanged between NPCs in most cases seems awfully lazy just to enable to most basic of "Kill-And-Retrieve" style fetch quests. And that segues us to the next stand I have here.

The quests are so empty and are custom tailored to feel like clearing tutorial prompts on a Call-Of-Duty screen, and rather so, many quests outside the main story have lackluster drive. Involving the story, there's a quest to build a Sign. This introduces you to "Plans" for items to unlock building a CAMP (Oh boy A working build feature in a Bethesda game,) and go figure, they are also awarded at events. But to have to progress the story via a concept into building a shelter on the go, and boy let me tell you it broke my immersion having to build a single generator and a sign to complete a quest just to wait. I only built a chair to sit. For one NPC to come, go, and the one I was supposed to see pop up. No buildup, no fun dialogue, god, working for the Van Graffs had more life to it than this did. And following the markers, running into so many factions I couldn't be bothered to socialize with for a quest, and being told to do it for information; the classic Bethesda Quid Pro Quo. Now between you and me, if there was something more than scattered folks I'd be fine. But Now, I transfer to one of my biggest points.

The World. It's EMPTY. WEST VIRGINIA IS A GRAND PLACE! Having been there I hoped places like Charleston and Watoga would actually be more built up. The entire worldspace is disappointing. From Point Pleasant, to Morgantown, hell, even Atlantic City, something I played on a separate occasion (again, on offer of the wife on her Playstation) felt empty and just devoid. No good hooks, no real reason to explore, no niche communities, just a cell, a small corner about the size of a maxxed out source engine map, and the dreaded level padding. And I wanted to explore this place, but it being so empty a couple of decades after the bombs dropping is okay but in the sense of wandering ten minutes with not even hostile wildlife I can't bare to keep going. You can't help but ♥♥♥♥ off as fast as you can for the hope of actually FINDING something, god forbid it just be three Floaters outside a gas station (and not the ones you flush.)

As for the C.A.M.P and Loot and Events; the majority of this game is a grind. Rewards so pitiful it'd take full business days for a chance to see if your vendor of choice has what you want. Or god forbid the legendary system and the absolute unit that is the modification system. Chances to learn mods requiring scrapping weapons? Leveling and perks would have been grand to a point, but I can say for certain I can appreciate the leveling system but I would have simply figured SPECIAL checks would be there for weapons too, considering you put in Condition/Status for the weapons as well.

And my Final Gripe of them all: I signed up on an email linked to this account, then they sent it to an unlinked email I use for my debit card; Now keep in mind my wife purchased this for me. I will say it was January 4th. I signed in, used the email I used for this account, let's call it, "DingDongDamn." Now let's call my personal and actual life account "GreenPain." Take a guess which email I signed up with on their website to link mine? "DingDongDamn," the one for my steam, that I accepted the account on, with my email having the invite to accept the gift going to it. Now, after contacting and attempting to link that account to my Steam, it seemed my account was already linked to another email with a quick account. (Who the Fuh Wants to go around being called SilkyDevourer84551?) After contacting support and sending two copies of certain documents all linking to my email, I had a verification pop up from Bethesda on my Personal account. My Bank Card and Business Handling account. "GreenPain." So my questions are simple, it is really, "why did they wait three days to send that verification to my email?" for one, and the second being "When did you get a hold of my PERSONAL EMAIL ADDRESS WHICH WAS KEPT FROM THIS FOR A REASON?" Aside from having to wait for almost 3 days for the chance to change my name to my Bethesda Profile Name, I dealt with an automated bot after going through numerous support articles and navigating the hellscape that is the "i did this" list. And it told me the exact thing the support article I CHECKED HAD LISTED THAT I OBVIOUSLY HAD TRIED FORTY TIMES BEFORE. And after submitting an actual screen recording of running the game and failing to link my account, they still asked for proof of my email whilst having my account information open on my Steam recording, as I am operating their portal and signing in ON VIDEO THROUGH STEAM AND FAILING TO LINK MY ACCOUNT NUMEROUS TIMES.

So yeah, to be fair, I regret having my wife spend four bucks on this but I'm glad it wasn't more. I couldn't be ♥♥♥♥♥♥ to let it go if it were forty bucks. I would purpose break my whole "Moderated Drinking" bit because this game would cause me to go full alcoholic if I spent 40 bucks on it. I did it for her and I can't be arsed to pick it up. I'll take the ones that work so far, thank you very much.

I'm sorry wifeypoo, I love you, and I have to say that you're on your own.


TL:DR: Conclusion is this game is cheeks and its an empty box with nothing to do but have a second job to maybe get a wall or desk you like.

Do you like shooting, okay gunplay and stories for your quests as well as simplified RPGs where "No" never means No until someone is mad at you in the story? I reccomend this for you, especially in the gunplay is alright for sure, each weapon feels nice out of the box and the DLC weapons hit nicer than most you'll come across.
However, if you're looking for the Fallout 3 style that Bethesda held onto before getting into simplifying a complex formula of filling that role, this game will not be for you. It's got a few liberties taken with the story, and in certain ways, you tend to have objective and layout that will befuddle you at times, and insultingly easy at others. For shooty-shooty-bang-bang, this game is good. For the immersion of picking a role in the wasteland, stick as the Wanderer and check out 3. This game is perfect for the run and gun formula. After quite a few playthroughs, I may be done with it for now, but I still recommend for anyone who needs to shoot stuff without remorse.

When this game dropped it was riddled with bugs.
Nowadays the community had revamped it to a new game you can barely tell from the 2010 release.
Tread with caution, I run this on a Win10 2070Ventus with 16GB and an i7 8600, It crashes sometimes. Once a week. Modding takes practice and knowledge of files. You can enjoy a stock playthrough of all DLCs in the Ultimate Edition fine. I insist you give it the patience due for the time of the Vista/7 Era during 8's development. This game's world is there, albeit a bit zany and out of ways, the narrative is grounded and the context is constant. For lore and story as well as the RPG/FPS Blend that was pulled of with this old engine, I recommend it for anyone who wants a game that can vary a bit between each playthrough, provided the player and user want to install content and play with it to their heart's content. I can't help but enjoy it as a time waster or active title i choose to engage with daily for periods on end. It will tire out eventually. But you can always... Spice it up.