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Fallout 4: A Players Journey (PS4)

8/2/2016

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Guest Blog by @DanRush
Fallout 4 main character and dogmeat
Fallout 4: A players perspective. Where have your journey's taken you?

From the first start up screen, it’s clear that Fallout 4 is a quality game, designed with a real focus on user experience. Throughout the installation, you’re presented with a series of humourous videos showing the benefits of each of the game’s core SPECIAL statistics; Strength, Perception, Endurance, Charisma, Intelligence, Agility and Luck. Not only does this serve as an excellent explanation prior to setting these stats for your character, these shorts set the tone and kickstart that immersive experience from the moment that you load the game. Bethesda Game Studios finest hour perhaps?

The main quest plays out as a role reversed Fallout 3, tasking you with finding your missing son. This is far from a simple retread, however, with part of the setup throwing in a unique twist for the series that will keep you guessing exactly what’s going on throughout your play through.


The numerous side quests play a fantastic role in creating a unique player experience. I’ve enjoyed talking to gamers who’ve had a completely different adventure to me, simply because they headed in another direction at one point. From pirate obsessed robots who need help fixing up their ship to ages old laboratory research in need of completion, there’s so much to do here that you will undoubtedly have plenty more to discover after dozens of hours of playtime.

Throughout your journey, you’re tasked with managing an ever increasing number of settlements, and while optional in the main, it is beneficial to do so. The most immediate advantage is the generation of currency through trade, so build up shops, plant crops, and ensure they’re adequately defended. Everything build-able has a list of required materials, and this is a game changer for the series. The junk that litters the world now has a real purpose. I’ve never felt more like a true post-apocalyptic survivor as when wandering the wasteland looking for old plates.
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Notably absent when compared directly to Fallout 3 is the karma system. In its place, your companions will either like or dislike your actions based on their personality. For example, the synth detective Nick Valentine likes when you hack terminals and dislikes when you act in a threatening way. This feels far more natural than the rigid good or evil choices presented before, and contribute to that unique experience depending on player choice.
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Fallout 4 - The Power Armour in full force


Graphically, Fallout 4 isn’t the most beautiful game of this generation, and there was one moment that I experienced a severe drop in frame rate (I’m playing on PS4), but all of this is easily forgiven when you look at the scale of the title. There is so much to see and do here, and it’s all of such high quality, that if a choice had to be made between content and aesthetics then I’d choose the content every time.
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Despite all of this praise, when I finished the game I didn’t feel entirely satisfied. I was hoping to experience the same sense of wonder that came when I left Vault 101 in Fallout 3. I’d never experienced anything like it before, but with Fallout 4 I had, in its predecessor. This was more Fallout 3, with added polish and gameplay refinement. More Fallout 3 is no bad thing, but a magic trick is never quite as impressive the second time you see it.

Guest blog by @ DanRush
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Fallout 4 Midnight Launch - Gallery

12/11/2015

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Fallout 4 dropped two days ago. We're already seeing news of glitches, mods, reviews, moans, rants and personal journeys from the Wasteland. It's amazing how much information can circulate in two days. Fortunately, most of the Fallout 4 news is positive and crawling the wasteland is once again, an awesome experience. 

I went to a midnight launch of Fallout 4 at GAME in Chesterfield, England. I was lucky enough to get my hands on the Pipboy Edition on the Playstation 4 too.  Here are all of the pictures from the evening as well as the video. Drop me a comment and let me know some of your tales from the Wasteland. My full review will be up in the coming weeks! 

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​-Gemma (thanks to Jess for the shots)
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Bethesda at E3 - Doom, Fallout 4 & more

15/6/2015

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By Gemma ~ @Juicygamereviews
E3 Bethesda overview Fallout 4 Doom
E3 Bethesda Presentation
Bethesda launched their first E3 presentation and stunned the gaming world by delivering some of the most anticipated news from deep within the Bethesda vault. Doom and Fallout 4 were some of the more anticipated titles that fans were eager to see and learn about the intricate details and boy was it worth the wait! Let’s take a nose dive in to some of those highlights and pick out some of the Juicy details from Doom, Fallout 4, Dishonored 2 and more.

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Fallout 4 Trailer review, screens & box art

3/6/2015

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By Gemma ~ @juicygamereviews
Fallout 4 trailer review
Fallout 4 - Bethesda Studios, we salute you!
Finally! After years of waiting Fallout 4 was confirmed to be in existence by Bethesda today and will launch on the PS4, Xbox One and PC. As of yet no release date has been announced which still leaves Fallout 4 shrouded in a thin layer mystery. Let's hope Fallout 4 will be on the shelves this year. The Fallout 4 cinematic trailer is now live for the world to see but when will we get to see some gameplay from the Wasteland? Bethesda confirmed that fans will be showed the world premiere of Fallout 4 gameplay at E3 this year. Excited yet? 

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Fallout 4 - The ultimate 24 hour tease

2/6/2015

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By Gemma - @juicygamereviews
Fallout 4 announcement
Fallout 4 - We've been standing by for years now
Fallout 4 is a game I've been craving since I saw the closing scenes of Fallout 3. Nope this is obviously not a review but more like a pre, preview of the newly teased Fallout 4 by Bethesda. Earlier today, Bethesda Tweeted a link to a countdown screen. It doesn't take a genius to decipher that the art style of the countdown screen is reminiscent of the Fallout series. As I write this the clock has sixteen hours and forty seven minutes to go until the big reveal. That means the exact time of the reveal in the UK will be 3pm, 7am Pacific time and 10am Eastern. I'll be one of millions of excited gamers waiting for the news to drop or rather; for the Fallout 4 cinematic trailer to drop. That's my prediction which is weighted by the LinkedIn profile of Luis Nieves. Luis is a Freelance 3D artist that mistakenly added Fallout 4 Cinematic Trailer  to his portfolio, thus evidencing that he'd worked on it. Now my excitement is rising! What's even more intriguing the cinematic trailer was allegedly made by Guillermo del Toro's studio.
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LinkedIn screenshot of profile of Luis Nieves. Note the Fallout 4 Cinematic Trailer point
So all we have to do now is wait to see the news on Fallout 4. 2015 marks Bethesda's first year at E3. Will it be a good one? Will Fallout 4 live up to the hype? One thing is clear here. Tomorrow at 3pm GMT I will be standing by with bated breath waiting to see what awaits within Bethesda's next RPG. Are you pumped too?
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