How often do you start your game over?

[nellanella]

Personally I can never bring myself to finish the game. I'll get all excited and I'll make a new character and install a bunch of mods to make the game look super pretty, then I'll decide "oh I'm gonna build a ton of settlements that are super detailed and hoard a ton of power armor and crap"... by the time I've finished the fifth settlement, I get burnt out and just stop playing entirely.

Then a few months pass, and I want to play again. Does anyone else go through a similar cycle???

And don't even get me started on Skyrim.

[wtiger27]

Never. I have over a dozen play runs and do not consider any of them totally finished to the point, I will never consider going back to them and play some more.

If you want to consider "finishing" as in doing the main stories in the Commonwealth and the two DLC's, I have did that in all of my runs except for one. In that one, I did the two DLC's and did not do a final siding with any factions in the Commonwealth. But I may go back sometime and finish up on that one.

Am still not burn't out after more than 2500+ hrs of playing the game. There is just nothing else that is available I care to play now.

[Swordgun]

That's a problem with a lot of games; especially open world RPG games where you get OP over time. I love FO4 at the beginning when I create a new character. You really feel like you're a survivalist especially with survival mode. You don't have food, clean water. So you resort to eating bugs and drinking dirty water. And then you discover that you can farm and make tons of clean water. Survival Mode at this point stops being about survival and starts being about micromanagement; oh I'm hungry; let's pick on of the thousand foot items I have here. Oh I'm thirsty! No biggie I have a lot of clean water in my settlements.

That experience at the beginning where you barely have anything is peak Fallout IMO.

That's why I try to install mods that make it a lot harder to be able to get food items and clean water; I also try not to plant too many vegetables or build too many water purifiers.

The game, other than the survival aspect, can easily be made more exiting by just making the game a little harder. Which is basically to make enemies kill you easier (or that you can kill enemies easier). That'll make encounters much more fast-paced and you never feel like you're invincible.

But the survival aspect is much harder to balance out.

[CEPHY]

I started over like 5 times in the last 2 days alone.

And I just altered my mods list again so I'll need to start over again

[Zes]

i used to, not anymore

[jamiechi]

Originally posted by CEPHY:

I started over like 5 times in the last 2 days alone.

And I just altered my mods list again so I'll need to start over again

Had to do that myself. After a few months of not playing, I started again. Had to add and remove a bunch of mods. Some mods were removed from the Nexus so I had to make changes.

And when that happens the Saves break.

Although, for me I only had to restart once in the last couple of weeks.

[ErzPaladin]

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[Fake]

Depends, sometimes I just do runs to see how broken a build gets. Once it's broken, I find a different build to break the game.

[hawkeye]

I tend to start new games to try out various mods. I rarely proceed past dealing with Kellogg, if that far. The game itself is too "thin" to be deeply interesting and worth playing all the way through. Very repetitious. It should have been a survival game. Something like The Walking Dead.

[Heimdall313]

I "accidentally" empty my saves game folder on New Years.
New year, new saves. I keep my main and that's it. :P

[DouglasGrave]

It depends on the character for me. Some have a definite goal and I mostly stop playing them once I've achieved it, like becoming a DC guard (getting the gear and having a house in DC), building a massive robot army, or completing a vault settlement to hide away from the world.

Others are open-ended, and I'll generally play them extensively until I've completed all the available non-radiant quests, after which I may occasionally play them again on and off. I haven't really had a lot of throwaways where I just didn't want to finish.

[neds_not_here]

probably every 6 months or so . any mods I want for the next play thru , I usually install my new mods on a flash drive , them manually install them into my mod mods or delete them on the end of each play thru to make shore the work , Delete the saves and go again .

[The Grin]

I think that in every Open World game people tend to start over right in the middle because of the upcoming reasons:
- You learn to play the game but the first time you miss out on tons of things.
- When you get to understand the game you know how you must manage and avoid all errors you have done / things you have missed.
- New mods increasing / fixing game experience.....
- You used wrong skill attributes that mess up your whole build....
- New mods :p
-You messed up the storyline with wrong choices that impact you negatively.
- ..................... NEW MODS :D .............
. and in the end you restart because, of course, -> NEW MODS + new reshade + new enb :p

I have restarted 4 times in 2 weeks because I messed up my builds. Now I am playing through and really enjoy the game. Still , I know there are tons of things I haven´t discovered or understood. I will need ot restart right after finishing.

Fallout 4 is just such an awesome game.

[luther84695]

I am 400 hours in and restarted probably 10 times. The first couples in VR and realized that I can't deal with the literal headache. LIke other said, I restarted mostly because I want to try other character ideas and don't want to wait until I finish a full run. Also, I made some bad decisions in story line and character builds that warrant starting over.