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It's possible that some add-ons might improve the game if they're done well - good writing, good quest design, good locations, etc. But even if, and that's a big if, Bethesda can deliver on all that, there are still the problems that are pretty much built into the game, like the abysmal...

In my experience, when someone complains about political correctness, chances are excellent that what they're really complaining about is the fact that they were being an asshole and got called out on it.

The World-Eater title is metaphorical. Alduin was going to destroy the world - which probably just meant he was going to destroy all life in the world, not destroy the physical terrain of the world itself. It's hard to say for certain what was going to happen, as there's a fine line between...

I understand that this is meant to be facetious, but it's worth pointing out that Bethesda puts far more care and effort into making sure that their worldbuilding in TES is logical and consistent than they do for Fallout. They would never put something as incredibly stupid as "Kid in a Fridge"...

On the whole, F4 felt like it was trying to be much "darker and edgier" than F3. Not that it didn't have its share of goofy moments, as well as poor writing in general, but details like the lack of humor, the flawed factions, and the nihilistic fate of the Capital Wasteland being revealed...

All jokes aside, I'd welcome a retcon that set Bethesda's games around the time of F1, or maybe even a bit earlier. There'd obviously be a few continuity issues about the BoS and the like, but the level of chaos and disorder that seems to be a fixture on the east coast would make so much more...

The leading lady is much, much better. That being said, I'd still mod out the player voice entirely.

I don't think the accents are too bad. They're at least better than the accents that you hear in pretty much any movie set in Boston. But aside from that, there isn't much there to make it feel like Boston. At the end of the day, picking through the ruins of a destroyed city isn't all that...

Critic reviews do matter insofar as much more attention is paid to what they say than to what regular customers say. Bethesda isn't going to be daunted by the mixed user rating on Metacritic when they got 9/10s across the board from all the professional reviewers. Personally, I'd like to see...

It's even worse than that. They literally said, "Obviously, they did a little bit more work with the player dialogue in Fallout 4" and mocked "Oh, thanks. Can I ask a few more questions?" as a specific example that FO4 supposedly improves on. I'll give Delaney some credit for at least...

The worst has got to be the male Sole Survivor. I can't for the life of me understand how he got the role. It's not even so much his lack of talent that irritates me about his performance as it is his lack of effort. He so obviously didn't give a shit about his character or the story...

I don't know too much about the game development process and what kind of changes can realistically be implemented at the testing stage. The only two things I'd guess could quickly be fixed would be automatically getting quests with no opportunity to decline them, and the lousy dialogue wheel...

They couldn't even be bothered to give the baby a smaller skull. His head must have been enormous!

F4 is greater than the sum of its parts. All Bethesda games are, really.

I don't mind the ambiguous approach that Bethesda takes to addressing what was "canon" in the previous games of a series. I think it's a good way to respect the various choices that players can make in an open-ended RPG. That's why I'm so surprised that they would go out of their way to tell us...

The jet reference was a pretty understandable mistake, and could easily be fixed with a simple patch changing the word used in that terminal to "drugs." Bear in mind that the effects of jet seem to change from game to game, so it's reasonable to suppose that at this point, "jet" is a nickname...

Bullshit. People want entertainment. They are going to play the video games that are available to them, and if most games are dumbed-down, homogeneous AAA fare, then we're going to see that reflected in their purchasing and playing habits. Nobody offered them a choice between smart games and...

I think the BoS would notice a gigantic army of robots invading the wasteland. But in general, yes, the Institute's tactics would make more sense if they were up against actual nations on the surface world, rather than ramshackle shantytowns like Diamond City and Goodneighbor.

They do, and they're pretty neat, but they don't play much of a role in anything. One of the many interesting things that Bethesda teased and then didn't deliver on. An Institute that really went nuts with making all sorts of creatures, whether through synth design or genetic engineering...

I really like that so many of our criticisms of F4 are largely shared by the gaming community on websites as mainstream as reddit. It's too late to impact the overwhelmingly-positive reviews of the game, but if there's enough fan backlash on this, we might end up with a situation similar to...