WOW, how the main plot sucks!

[mikaeliby]

I mean, I may be late to the party, but this main story really sucks. And there are not even choices to make. I really raced to the "end" if it can be called that, because it was the only logical option for the character (as a parent: why the hell would she join gangs/become a super detective/start little towns/whatever when she was looking for her child?), and that was a short ride with not much content.

I guess my question is, is it worth playing the rest of the content, and if so in what way? I have the DLC:s and haven´t explored much.

[𝔗𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤𝔲𝔰 𝔄𝔠𝔱𝔲𝔞𝔩𝔦𝔰]

Originally posted by mikaeliby:

I mean, I may be late to the party, but this main story really sucks. And there are not even choices to make. I really raced to the "end" if it can be called that, because it was the only logical option for the character (as a parent: why the hell would she join gangs/become a super detective/start little towns/whatever when she was looking for her child?), and that was a short ride with not much content.

I guess my question is, is it worth playing the rest of the content, and if so in what way? I have the DLC:s and haven´t explored much.

Well if it was real life and you had no idea where your child is what would you do other than explore the wasteland,fight through hordes of mutants and occasionally helping people on your way?
You wouldn't have a quest marker taht says "hey man your son is here,just go kill some raiders around(red markers) and free him"
That's what the game is about
It's about exploration and side quests
What did you expect?
A 100 hours long action packed shooter with intense story or what?
It's impossible in fallout's universe
Far cry series is about action and long story, fallout is about exploration and huge amount of hidden side quests
Honestly I went into exploration and side quests so much that I haven't visited Diamond city after 80+ hours of gameplay...But the good side is that my character got a lot of new friends,became the general of minutemen and found a good partner
Main story gotta wait a bit,I need to save the world first :D

[avenger]

If the main plot sucks I'm not sure the game would be fun for you at all... That's so personal a thing...
I have played over 800 hours of the game and still haven't finished the main story line (I'm in that part that we need to kill a courser to get entry to the institute, and I am out of side quests (nuka world and far harbor included), so I guess my next step would be to do the main plot :P

So, to me, playing the side games was very enjoying. The little I played from the main plot though was amazing, so your mileage may vary. If you hate so much the game story, maybe you should move to the next one.

[matt]

Bethesda games do not usually have a very long or exciting main quest. It's mostly just there to satisfy people who demand that every game have a "main quest". The Far Harbor DLC has a better story.

[big bungo ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ]

Honestly, all Bethesda games have really sloppy writing. Its the gameplay and freedom of choice in these nonsense stories where the fun is found. Especially for Fallout 4, which has a weaker plot than any COD games, but has the best gameplay of any Fallout game and dare I say Elder Scrolls game too.

[hawkeye]

The rest of the game is just more shootouts. The Far Harbor DLC is the best content. But it really needs a few mods to remove the fog and radiation and also create permanent clear weather to get the best out of exploring. Far Harbor is loosely based on Bar Harbor, an island in Maine.

Modded screenshot -
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2627253634

My view is that the game is only worth playing with mods. The plot is unchanged but few people play the plots in these games more than once or twice. (I usually stop at killing Kellogg as revenge plus being told that the baby has grown up and is happy.)

Mods add extra stuff. For example npc's who talk to you and have their own side-quests, more than 1 follower, proper settlements that grow and are populated by people with names, green overgrown landscapes, improved enemies, more realistic game mechanisms and so on. If you like sandboxing then modding is the way to go. Otherwise play something like AC Valhalla.

[Jedasd]

Writing in the game is surprisingly bad. Especially the dialogue options for the main character makes me think whoever wrote them wanted to appeal to either 5 years old or deranged hyper asocials who never had human contact.

[mikaeliby]

On the question "what did I expect". I have played N.V. alot, and that is so packed with story and it has actual branching depending on your attitude in the speech options. The story is in the many stories of the mojave, and the character is a clean slate wich makes the drive to do whatever and explore the natural way of playing it. And of course I had read about how inferior 4 is to N.V. in that aspect.

But I like to role play my character "seriously", at least in a first run of a game. And in this game the character motivation is so fixed that the only way for me to play it was to go with that. The thing is, as a parent the story is actually really compelling at first, but it is like they dropped the seriousness of it and just "finished writing". But the fact that she actually finds clues is suprising. We sort of learn that Shaun has lead her with hints, instead of just going there and fetching his mother safely. So weird. And the speech wheel is so limited that many times what I thought was my answer, turned out to be the opposite. All of a sudden I´m in a faction, and bridges burned behind me. Like a trap. Many times what one says isn´t even written out. Just "Sarcastic" or part of a sentence that could mean anything.

I really wanted to feel serious about it, putting myself in the characters position, but after reaching the end I now will go back to my safety-save and just ditch the Institute, ditch the Railroad (Wow what a mess, "die for any synth"? like the RR would die for a courser? the speech option isn´t even there...) ditch the BoS and just be reckless. I find that to be the most logical reaction by the character, traumatized and jaded after finding shaun in that way. So now I will go out with my trusty sledgehammer (which already at level 15 is almost OP) and just be generally dangerous :)

[wtiger27]

I have found the main quest story chain to be really good. I do not like all the choices during it however. But there are different ways to do it.

FO4 is much more than just the main story, which actually compared to the amount of other content that is available, is rather short. But that does not make the main plot bad. For myself. It's kind of like art or music. What some think is great, I think sucks.

[Docsprock]

The game is not about the destination, it is about the journey. Shaun is where he will be. Take your time and experience the rest of the Commonwealth.

[SuperSledgeNY]

Originally posted by Docsprock:

The game is not about the destination, it is about the journey. Shaun is where he will be. Take your time and experience the rest of the Commonwealth.

+1

I think this is the best way to enjoy this game. Even after all the playthroughs I've done, vanilla and modded, I'm still discovering new things as I go along. Just like in Skyrim, the game world is rich environment waiting to be explored. If you just concentrate on the story line, you're missing 90% of the game.

[ErzPaladin]

I like how you shoot an enemy and the enemy gets knocked into the air and comes down like a meteor. I've never seen that in any other game before xD

"My pistol has magic! pew pew pew!" xD

[ErzPaladin]

Originally posted by Pookie101:

Originally posted by ErzPaladin:

I like how you shoot an enemy and the enemy gets knocked into the air and comes down like a meteor. I've never seen that in any other game before xD

"My pistol has magic! pew pew pew!" xD

One of my favourite weapons in the game is the world series bat. I actually sent a ghoul flying across the bay and he hit a supermutant with it haha

*rolls a dice*
*rolls a "1"*

I'm shocked! oO

[MrPatalchu]

That's not a free pass. You hear me, Todd! A good story won't hurt a game.

[ErzPaladin]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2646532933

[waste of life]

some open world games don't really focus on the story that much, but focus more on the game world