Evaluating Fallout 4- An analysis on the game's story, mechanics and structure



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This was a long time coming and took me forever to do, but I’m glad I did. Join me as I rumble around the Commonwealth to save my son and help out settlements.

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Songs:
A lot of Fallout 4’s OST
Hello, Happy Kingdom from the Super Mario RPG OST
Backstabbers | 月読 by Leo.SZN- https://soundcloud.com/leoseazon/backstabbers
Valley of Time by Foreign/National
Hell on Earth by Mick Gordon (Doom Eternal OST)
Loving You (Superhygh edition) by Atlas/Purpan
Flexile Sentry from the Dark Souls 2 OST
Toad’s Theme from the Mario Strikers Charged OST
Shred by B. Bravo & Lean Rock (Lethal League Blaze OST)
The song from the Halo 3 Believe ad
Tweaker from the Doom 3 OST
Meta Knight’s Revenge from the Smash Bros. Brawl OST

Timestamps:
00:00- Intro
02:24- Character creation, prologue stuff
11:50- Perks, combat, equipment
15:59- Speech/dialogue
21:40- Minutemen intro stuff
25:49- Settlement building, workbenches
29:12- More Minutemen questing
31:56- Brotherhood of Steel intro stuff
36:57- Taking the Castle
39:48- Railroad intro stuff
48:48- NordVPN
50:40- Completing Act 1
01:00:17- More Brotherhood questing
01:05:24- Completing Act 2
01:16:15- Institute introduction
01:24:56- Choosing the Institute
01:41:00- Choosing the Brotherhood
01:52:16- Choosing the Railroad
01:58:46- Choosing the Minutemen
02:02:09- Wrap up/Final thoughts
02:02:44- Outro

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43 thoughts on “Evaluating Fallout 4- An analysis on the game's story, mechanics and structure”

  1. After hearing about the cascade of issues with Cyberpunk (haven't gotten to it myself yet lol), I've decided to change my Twitch giveaway which I mentioned at the end of the video that's running until December 30th to a general game giveaway ($60 or less).

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  2. The bombs in Japan weren’t anywhere near as powerful as a modern nuke, let alone hundreds of nukes. But you make an interesting point. Surely Fallout 4 is set far enough in the future that the radioactivity has fallen lol

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  3. My whole head cannon is that you and the wife are synths, and the institute took both the original Nate and nora and shawn in raised him when they pass shawn put together an experiment. Given past memories of the original Nate or nora and then put together the whole performance in vault 111 all to see what he would do in the wasteland.

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  4. This inspired me to replay the game.
    I've never sided with the Institute, and I think I've only fully beat the game once.
    Made a full nerd build.
    Was gunna go no mods….but then I aww this clone trooper replaced for the Institute and well..

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  5. I find it fucking hilarious that as soon as Danse is found out to be a synth Maxson wants him taken out. Then when Nick comes on board the Prydwen the brotherhood don't give more than 2 shits.

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  6. I love this video, it's pretty much how I ended up feeling after playing a few times.
    I do disagree with one thing
    Yeah your character looks like someone f*cked a crash test dummy to make, but that's because of the mix matched armor
    The full sets are actually pretty good looking, it just depends on the style you're going for.
    Like, you had a raider arm and what looks like a combat helmet and metal chest, 3 completely different looking sets of armor
    At one point it was a synth helmet

    Everything else I agree with
    But I think the end game armor looks really good, if you approach it with a sense of fashion

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  7. This honestly makes a ton of sense. I love fallout 4 and i love playing the hell out of the game but my friends would always ask me why I never got around to beating the game. Fallout 4 seems to be a good game worth playing and sinking hours into but at the end of the day there seems to be very little reason to actually beat it.

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  8. Never experienced the Institute quest. When my character discovered Shaun was head of the institute, he short circuited, executed him, nuked the institute and jumped off the building where he witnessed the explosion. End of the play through.

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  9. I think if you picked the guy the tutorial should have been you the player fighting in the battle of Anchorage and at the end you meet with your wife and have a montage of you starting a family ect with small bonding with your family. By the time the bombs fall hes 5-6 if your a female it's a more charisma tutorial while you worry if you husband will survive the battle. Also the execution should have been very brutal

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  10. I've played all the fallout titles. And fallout4 Common wealth was way better than New Vegas, although the one thing they should have aloud in the game. Fully customizable ammo. But, hands down. Better than the other previous games.

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