My PS3 backlog is enormous. I bought one late in its life cycle, so I never got to play a bunch of great games like The Last of Us or Valkyria Chronicles. I bought them, I just moved on to XB1 too quickly to play them.

Or we could call it “people sometimes make mistakes.” But whatever you need to do to justify your opinion on a game being “correct,” rather than one interpretation of an experience works for me, brother.

It’s also been a month or two since I’ve bothered loading the game up; I misremembered the stone for which the city was named (and obviously confused it with The Wizard of Oz). Editing post now to fix, but trust me, I’ve shot my fair share of raiders, settlement threats, and rad roaches.

I’m not really sure it was Bethesda’s treatment of Kotaku that begat this reaction, though. I mean, it’s possible there’s a bit of an axe to grind here, but plenty of folks who played the game independent of having read Kotaku’s coverage (myself included) found the game to be decidedly, “meh.”

It’s not a bad game. It’s…

My wife bought Fallout 4 for me as an early Christmas gift.

I was as impatient as I’ve ever been waiting for Steam to finish downloading it (we live in the southern US, in a rural part of our home state, and our connection sucks). I booted the game up, started playing—and initially, was enjoying myself.

I’m about 22…

Nevermind Kotaku. Bethesda should have been nicer to RPG fans.

It really is an underwhelming game, though. :(

You mean the dull boring cookie cutter settings they rip off from other people? The dull worlds full of ugly cookie cutter visuals? You MUST be falling in love with that, because you certainly aren’t falling in love with the clunky, clumsy, boring, and incredibly clumsy gameplay.

Eh, typical Bethesda game really.