Summary
- Fallout 4 is older now than Fallout 3 was upon its release - which is only slightly terrifying to think about.
- PS5 and Xbox Series consoles are set to receive an update on April 25th which addes 4K and 60fps support
- We likely aren't getting Fallout 5 for several more years, so why not give this underrated fourth entry another shot?
I will never forget the first time I played 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Fallout 4. Hype for Bethesda’s R🐟PG sequel was huge upon its reveal, with fans waiting six long years for this sequel to one of the most beloved titles ever made. To make you feel incredibly old, it has now almost been a dꦗecade since Fallout 4 came out, because time is an illusion, and death will come for us all one day.
The E3 reveal for Fallout 4 was spellbinding as Todd Howard swaggered on stage to explore what felt like a fundamental evolution of the Bethesda formula. It looked spectacular, combat was more than an afterthought, and it seemed like many of the systems we loved from other games had been greatly expanded upon. That ultimately wasn’t the case, and th𒐪🐼e game isn’t as fondly remembered as many would have hoped for. But it still wasn’t bad. Far from it.
A week before Fallout 4 released in November 2015 I was hit by a car while walking back home - after watching Spectre, of all things, a mediocre James Bond film that was definit🍸ely not worth breaking my thigh for.
After having my leg pulled back into place on the concrete while police of♛ficers and paramedics held me down, I was taken to the nearest hospital for emerg🌱ency surgery where several nails and a big metal rod was used to piece my busted femur back together. It was split clean in two after being hit at 40 miles per hour, and they told me afterwards it was a miracle I wasn’t killed. Good, because Fallout 4 was coming.
Fallout 4 Isn’t A Bad As People Say It Is
I had to spend a few days in hospital and let my university tutors know I wouldn’t be in for a little while, due to the whole getting nailed by a car thing, and my parents insisted I retu🍷rn to their house for a couple of weeks to heal up without bothering my flatmates. It was definitely the right call, but because I knew I’d be bored out of my mind, I took my PS4 with me. Fallout 4 launch day was on the horizon and I wouldn’t miss it for the world - busted thigh be damned. With crutches in hand and far too many painkillers running through my veins, we got on the road and prepared for the nuclear apocalypse.
Bethesda games are infamous timewasters. While there is a main narrative to follow and your player character to outfit with new skills, perks, and equipment, you are free to walk anywhere and do anything. While it has a spoken protagonist and some building tutorials we need to get through before the Boston Wasteland properly opens up, Fallout 4 follows this same pattern. I relished this fact as I jumped i💦n for the first time, ready for it to live up to six years of hype as it followed on from one of my favourite games of all time. It didn’t manage that, but I still had so much fun with it and it’s not like I needed to be doing anything else with myself at that point.
Thinking back, it's kinda hilarious I damaged a limb quite terribly and ignored it by playing loads of Fallout. It's just like crippling limbs in the game but without a stimpak for treatment.
I was in a lot of pain, had to redress grotesque wounds running down my entire thigh, and had absolutely no appetite. So it made sense to pour all of my attention into video games, favouring escapism over dealing with the fact I now had a screwed up leg likely to leave me with lasting physical ramification♕s - although thankfully the only time it has really done me dirty is after two🎐 weeks of walking tens of thousands of steps every day across Japan. Anyway, back to Fallout 4.
A lot of critics had already expressed their positive yet ultimately underwhelming takes on the game, and players were beginning to feel 🥀the same. But I suppose I was relieved about it being a grand and all-encompassing RPG right when I needed one. Ge🐟tting lost in its world was a breeze when I had no desire to stay in my own, even if after a few months I looked back on it with the critical eye it deserved. Now, almost ten years later, I plan to return to it all over again.
Fallout 4’s PS5 And Xbox Series X Update Is Coming This April
First announced in 2022, Bet﷽hesda has finally confirmed that a current-gen update will be coming to Fallout 4 on April 25, just weeks after the Prime Video adaptation which pulls an awful lot from the fourth game’s aesthetic. It will bring native apps to PS5 and Xbox Series consoles wi🅺th support for 60 frames per second and 4K resol💮ution output. Bug fixes, along with a number of stability fixes, will also accompany the new update, which basically feels akin to a definitive edition we aren’t being charged for.
Fallout 4 has several solid expansions and other post-☂launch content which builds on the Boston wasteland that Bethesda created, not to mention official mod support which allows curating of the console experience in ways that were previously impossible. This coming update will make all o💯f these processes smoother and more approachable, not to mention you can now pick it up for pennies without the contemporary disappointment many of us felt back in 2015.
I know there is nothing that will make me fall in love with Fallout 4 like I’d always hoped✅, but it still holds a warm place in my heart because of the escapism it provided during a rubbish time in my life. I’m not saying you’ll need to walk into the nearest road and get hit by a car to finally appreciate Fallout 4, but it’s a game that was dealt a bad hand at the time and deserves a second chance. Who knows, maybe the excelleꦍnt TV show will put you in the mood for a new playthrough too.
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