I got Fallout 4 on sale and am a few hours into the game. Here is my train of thoughts throughout the 3 hours:
- "Oh great, a scripted intro showing the main characters family life. I do not care. Just get me to the Wasteland."
- "The main character's wife who I knew for one minute was shot. Meh."
- "A snipe hunt for a family member. This story feels familiar."
- "What's with these controls and user interface, they are horrible. Did they design this for console players?"
- "We were test subjects for cyrogenic suspended animation? That's kind of an interesting plot point, although I'm not sure how you'd provide nutritional support remotely for someone in a tube for decades."
- "Wait, why are there skeletons everywhere? Surely after 200 years people would have disposed of all the corpses. And why did paper thin wooden walls survive a nuclear blast and centuries of the elements? Talk about breaking the immersion, it feels like you crawled out of the vault 20 years after the nukes dropped."
- "Why are loading times so long, I have a modern rig and this is an old game?! This is worse than Playstation 1 loading times. "
- "I'm trying to approach a computer console and the game keeps locking when the main character needs to sit down. Reddit says this has something to do with the frame rate. This game has been out for 8 years and there isn't an official patch to iron out this issue?"
- "Err, main character, you keep telling people you are looking for your son who is a 1 year old baby. You are aware you were refrozen after they took your kid, he could be any age or even dead by now."
- "They got rid of statistics?! And the perks are cookie cutter. This series really is going backwards."
- "I'm having a scripted fight with a DeathClaw already as part of the main questline? That doesn't seem appropriate. Oh well, I'll just camp in a building and plink him down with a 10mm."
- "OK, I have to go to Diamond City to try and find my kid, but you also want me to do side-quests for the Minutemen. If I were in-character why on Earth would go off on a tangent and do side-quests when I have a lead to find my son?"
- "Hmm, Diamond City is surrounded by supermutants far above my level who I waste all my ammo on. I probably should have done the Minutemen series of side-quests even if it didn't align with the main characters motviations."
- "Wow, Diamond City is pathetic. 200 years after the bombs dropped and this is the best humanity in this area could manage?"
- "This female Truther news reporter is annoying as anything, but I guess I have to deal with her to progress the plot."
- "Why is there a bartender who speaks with a Russian accent? That only makes sense for a first-generation immigrant from Russia, who wouldn't exist in this setting. I'm probably overthinking this."
- "So now I'm fighting gangsters who are based on the 1940's mafia. This has been done to death in the Fallout series, and I never really thought it fit the setting. Boy there are a lot of them, is combat really my only option to rescue their hostage? Seems kind of dumb to launch a frontal assault on a heavily entrenched group of armed gangsters but I guess that's what I have to do. Aiming is horrible, I'll just have to run up to within a meter of them and shoot them in the head."
"Why are the loading times getting even longer?!"
So yeah, probably not the best gaming experience so far.