Recent reviews by Ulner

Linking Steam to another account site/launcher is one thing (and it's really stupid), linking Steam to an account owned by a Company infamous for having data breeches, people's money going missing and games going missing is another.

Review will remain negative until Sony backpedals their idiotic idea.

UPDATE: 2: Sony has backpedalled, but I will not change my review until all delisted countries are free again. We all dive together, or not at all.

The combat is great, PvP is fun, crafting and gathering is immersive and the visuals are fantastic for an MMORPG.

Sadly the server size is currently 2000 players (soon upgrading to 2500) and there is only enough server space to house HALF of the concurrent player base on steam at the moment, which means waiting between 2 to 8 hours to get into the server of your choice.

Will change this when these server issues are solved, but for now it's ironic that one of the largest server companies can't even provide enough for their games.

Bought Founders Pack years ago to support a spiritual successor to Ragnarok Online. Game started out extremely well, but lack of content after a few months made it hard to keep playing. Returned to the game in September 2021 to find that my characters were deleted and if me or a friend jumped into a cutscene one of us would get permanently stuck in the cutscene and unable to leave after the scene was done.

It's nothing more than a cash grab at this point. A waste of founder money.

Fallout 4 is a great game, but in my personal view it had more disappointing points than good ones.

The game for someone who’s never played a Fallout game would be amazing, it’s a shooter with RPG elements. But that’s the thing, the game has devolved into a shooter with a few RPG elements. Fallout 3 was a bit more tactical and you had so many methods to do quests. Fallout 4 is just shooting people/bashing people in the head with quests. Almost close to Borderlands, if it weren’t so serious. The graphics are great, better than Skyrim and of course better than Fallout New Vegas, but it’s not top of the line. The environments feel like you are in a wasteland, but still be bright and vibrant and holding pockets of the past in colour. It’s definitely not boring walking around, like in New Vegas. The characters feel like they’re wax models and most of them have the same face preset. Kinda makes that super cool character creation and sculpting look like a special snowflake thing. That isn’t to say the characters are bad, all of them have personality (well the named ones) especially the companions. My favourites so far have to be Nick and Cait,, I love their reactions to places to bits.

Gameplay wise, well I’ve kinda already given the rundown of it. It’s a shooter with quests. The shooting element has improved A LOT. It’s miles better than in Fallout 3/New Vegas. V.A.T.S is a lot more tactical, having the gameplay slowed down rather than stopped entirely and I like that a lot. The new Perk system is a positive, I like to plan things ahead before and getting to see the perks I can choose means I can plan way ahead in advance. The quests are interesting and as usual there’s a mountain’s worth of them, but most of them just hold one ending and one of my favourite things in previous Fallout games was going through the quests a second or third time to see what would happen if I chose a different option. I’ve reloaded most of the quests I’ve done so far only to find it has just one ending. Bummer. The main story feels like I’m just walking one road as well. Very few options and always pushed to the next person when there’s something the first one can’t do. Speaking of one road:

You, the main character, has a vague backstory and a goal and that’s not cool with me. In other games you’re given a vague goal and you can build your character the way you want to. You can be a scientist that runs around stabbing people with a switchblade or you can be a pyscho ex-raider with a minigun that’s pumped to high heaven with drugs. In Fallout 4, you are forced into a backstory, you are given very little chance to develop a character. You are a Lawyer/Pre-War Soldier, depending on gender, that is looking to find the man who killed your Husband/Wife and find their son. A good 90% of the dialogue revolves around your son. Fortunately for the character I’m running right now, I can handle having a Lawyer type woman. My character is a femme fatale “beat you to death with a tire iron while you sleep” type of person that uses her charisma to get around trouble when she can. But what if you wanted to be a crazy scientist? Well you can’t, you’re a Lawyer or a Pre-War Soldier. Tough ♥♥♥♥, look for your son.

Now wherever Bethesda Game Studios goes, bugs follow. Surprisingly I’ve yet to encounter a single bug in the game in my 20 hours of playing on PC, but I have heard a lot of bugs from others. The companions have always been near me and not stuck between objects, unless fighting then they tend to go off and return. I had no problems getting out of the Vault, which is apparently the most common bug in the game. No quest issues, nothing. I won’t put it past Bethesda to not have this game riddled in bugs, but I am fortunate to not experience any.

Overall this is a triple A game, it has earned that title but it doesn’t feel quite as Fallout as it has in the past. I wouldn’t call it bad though, I’m still enjoying the game and getting that Fallout feel when I can. 3.5/5.