This leads to a lot of disappointment down the road with many of your decisions amounting to jack squat, either they don't have satisfying in-game rewards or punishments or they wind up being irrelevant to the story as a whole and turn out to have been a colossal waste of your time. Rather than give you actual decisions that shape the world around you and have in-game consequences you can live through, Bethesda has instead opted to give the illusion of choice, which is sorta like the bootleg version of choice. Their issue of not being very good at dealing with 'choice' rears its head again. Its huge sprawling world, engaging story (at least at the start if you're anything like me you spent around 100 hours of gameplay faffing about) and interesting gameplay cement it as a triumph.īethesda, however, still falls into its usual mistakes and habbits.
Fallout 4 is one of those games that's going to wind up going down in history.
