Let’s look at the premise of Fallout from a bird’s eye perspective. But ultimately, Fallout 4 is emphatically a Fallout game, and a particularly good one at that. It was clunky in a lot of ways, and Preston Garvey is still an irritating dipshit. There was no Megaton, granted, and it lacked the boundless freedom of an Obsidian RPG.

I’d like to think I’ve grown up enough in the last five years that my impressions of video games are no longer steered by the thoughts of my friends - and, somewhat more baselessly, the internet. I’ve purged that immensely embarrassing article from the face of the earth. Fallout 4 is a load of shite.” I think I actually wrote a blog post when I was 19 called, “Fallout 4: The Death Of A Franchise.” You won’t find it anywhere, don’t bother looking. “I know,” I replied, “and Fallout 3 had a much better story. “It doesn’t have the freedom of New Vegas,” a friend of mine told me back in November 2015. To say people were unhappy when Fallout 4 came out is an understatement.

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