Fallout 4

I've been playing this more recently, and I am having so much fun, you have no idea.

I like to play as a sneaky person in Bethesda games. I sneak around everywhere in Skyrim, and now I sneak around everywhere in Fallout 4.

And what I think is absolutely hilarious is the reactions of hostile NPCs when you're sneaking around their base and taking out their people.

I'll one-shot a guy from a sneak head-shot as he is standing beside another guy. Not-dead guy freaks out, yelling "who's there!" I stay in sneak, not shooting, and not-dead guy will say, "I must be imagining things."

Your coworker's dead body is right beside you.

They do the same thing when you clip them. They'll be at 50% health and talking about how they must be paranoid.

Normally I am not so gleeful about killing things, but the raiders in Fallout will say, "where'd that bitch go?" and things like that, and that is SO not cool. All my sole survivor wants to do is find her baby and maybe help some people because this wasteland thing is awful, especially compared to her previous life, and it isn't like her lawyering skills are going to do much help so seriously, raiders, fuck you for trying to take out my settlements and for calling me a bitch.

But I was doing the main quest progression, and I thought level 17 was going to be good enough to take on that first boss fight, but I guess it wasn't. I'd take out the two adds beside the boss no problem, get the boss down to 50% health, and then it would take me out with one critical hit from full health. I literally spent about two hours trying different strategies trying to take him out, getting more and more frustrated, before I finally turned to the internet for guidance.

I found out that in the boss's base there was a mini missile launcher if you found the code in the one hidden place I didn't think to look (I explore everywhere, usually, and missed this spot), so before confronting the boss I went and grabbed the missile launcher.

Took out the two adds with my regular gun (because they were spread out), and then shot the boss with the missile launcher.

He died instantly.

It was both really annoying, and really satisfying.

In any case, I would highly recommend this game to anyone with a computer that can run it, or a system that can run it, because it's a lot of fun. I've never played a Fallout game before, and I can say that it doesn't ruin anything to have not played the previous games.

It's kind of like Skyrim, but set in a post-apocalyptic world. Its main story quest is much more obvious than the one in Skyrim (find your kid), so you will actually know you're progressing in the main story in a quest rather than having no bloody clue what the main quest in Skyrim is (I thought it was Nords vs Imperials until I googled it).

It also has a similar atmosphere to the Portal games - kind of dark and futuristic, a blacker sort of humour, a you-against-the-world thing. It isn't really similar in terms of gameplay, at all, but it inspires a similar place in the imagination.

Also, if you haven't play the Portal games, do it. Right now. Go buy them and play them. You will thank me.