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What makes Fallout 4 a great game? GameSpot reviews editor Peter Brown joins Danny & Alexa to talk about why he gave it a 9 out of 10.

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The flaws of the games didn't factor in to the score because he ignored it. Said reviewer.

9/10

Seems legit :)

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It's a 10, every other game sucks compared to it besides Bloodborne, which is the ONLY contender to Fallout 4 for GOTY; TW3 sucked and got boring after a week along with MGS5, Fallout 4 is a gem that one can easily get hundreds of hours out of.

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@Chernnunos: holy sh*t, looking at your post history and that is all you do, comment on talking sh*t about people who praise Fallout 4. What kind of a loser spend that much time mad about other people liking a game?

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@Chernnunos: dude, you are a loser, face it.

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@Chernnunos: what's your point? Holy sh*t some people are seriously stupid on the internet, but you take the cake.

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@Chernnunos: Thank you very much for confirming how big of a loser you are.

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@Chernnunos: (Background noise: hammer hitting nail after coffin squeaks shut)

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What a boring game! (yawn)

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I don't understand the point of these videos. Call me crazy but I'm pretty sure the review itself is supposed to explain the reasons for the score a game received.....

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I'm not sure what the internet hipsters are ranting about on this one...

reviews are pretty much 8.8s to 9.5s across the board. GS seems to be dead in the middle of educated opinion on this game.

...and i'm totally digging the lefty bolt rifle he's rocking in the vid.

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This is basically fanboys disappointed with the game that were smart enough not to pre-order it vs fanboys that actually bought the game and now feel the need to defend their choice at all costs.

Why don't you just admit the game isn't that good and that 9/10 is very inflated?

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@maneljoao: I didn't pre-ordered or day 1 buy, I didn't buy at all. That UI shown in trailers scared me hard. F4 is a fail, for a new generation of players, younger ones. Or maybe Bethesda isn't competent to make a good Fallout game.

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He flat out said that he ignored the flaws of the game and they didn't factor in to his score at all. That makes you a fanboy, not a critic.

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I even have the poster on my wall. Next to my calendar of dogs underwater. It's very classy.

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10/10 From me. That means I'd have to give The Witcher 3 11/10 though.

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'' What makes Fallout 4 a great game? GameSpot reviews editor Peter Brown joins Danny & Alexa to talk about why he gave it a 9 out of 10''

Because you guys/girls got paid to lie us, potential customers. F4 is a huge step back in terms of gameplay, story and innovation. F4 is for casuals and console users. UI is terrible, Bethesda ported console UI to PC, lazy Beth. Zenimax and Bethesda made/released an unfinished work. Conversation wheel ? for console. No karma, unlimited levels ( so u cant think witch skill(??) perks to carefully choose, you'll have all perks in the end). Game is to colorful and happy for a nuclear world, to cartoony. And settlements ? Didn't work in WoW with Garrisons, or Wildstar, or SW and in Fallout is a waste of time (anyway mods in FNV were better), FAIL. Survival mode is a joke, I have found 5 or 6 stimpaks in Vault 111 (survival mode) 1 hit to radroach, power armor to soon, no weapon/ armor degradation, no skills, 0 immersion, Dogmeat is OP, unkillable NPCs, cant change Gamma or brightness, pistols occupy half of sreen etc etc etc. For me any many many others this joke of a game is a FAILURE.

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@spartanro: opinions will always vary

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You have fallen, Gamespot!

Now you don't even have the courage to straighten your back and say it out loud that a game deserve a 7/8/9/10. You simply give out a score to test the water. Then you observe the community's reaction. After that you write an article to explain your point.

I mean, what the F*CK! You didn't include your reason for giving a game a score in the review? What's the point of your review then? Or more specifically, is there a point in writing a review which serve not the purpose of explaining where it belongs on the scale from 1 to 10?

In short, I'm deeply disappointed with you, Gamespot!

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Just remember MGS4 is a 10/10. LOL!

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Edited By DaRq_MiNoS

Was looking forward to this game so much. After 12 hours I've gotta say it feels like an 8, when I so expecting a 10 after waiting 4 years for a Bethesda game. Game is good, but doesn't feel like a great game or a classic at all so far. Just feels like the story is subpar for Bethesda, and there's no really exciting new mechanics or anything.

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Well the short answer to why Fallout 4 Got 9/10 is the check written to Gamespot cleared.

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11:11-11:26.

Thanks for the spoilers again, Pete.

You've done this before.

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"Great video!" That's what I would have said if the video player worked.

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ass syndicate was better than fallout 4

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@razecah12: That's such a totally different game, saying it's better doesn't really mean anything.

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My question is: Why does Gamespot feel like they need to defend a review score? Stop that shit. Stick to your guns.

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@Tanares: I like these segments; you get to hear other people talk about the game than just the guy who reviewed it. And if the videos weren't named, "Why X got a Y" nobody would be saying they were defending their scores, because all they're doing is talking about the game.

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@Mogan: I don't think so. Those that wrote the review do not state the opinion of themselves but that of Gamespot as whole. They speak on the behalf of the entire Gamespot staffs. Otherwise the value of the review is no more than that of a user's review. So, there is no need to listen to the opinion of other people of Gamespot.

But on the other hand, if Gamespot decided to take the review as a stand alone, unbound to the main body itself, then it would rise the question of why the opinion of one person has more value than others.

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@solid_snake1461: I don't think reviews speak for anybody other than the reviewer, because the other staff they talk to on these segments don't always agree with them. And I don't think the opinion of Gamespot as a whole is any more important or useful than the opinion of any single person. And you don't need to listen to anybody's opinion of video games if you don't want to; and you shouldn't buy one just because someone else said they liked it. That's not the point of a review.

I don't think professional reviews are inherently better than user reviews, they're just generally more in depth and better written.

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9 is like the default score for huge AAA releases from mainstream gaming sites.

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@bussinrounds: Halo got an 8, Call of Duty got an 8, the Nathan Drake Collection got an 8, The Taken King got an 8, Gears of War got a 7, and Mad Max got a 6.

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@bussinrounds: Not always the case, but seems that way, hate to say it.

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@bussinrounds: TRUTH

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Was she being sponsored to say the word like? What is this current weirdness of saying like after every word? "I like went like to like the like shops like" Stop it's moronic. Please stop making Idiocracy the future.

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@robertand71: why do you care? just breathe

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@traviis1488: The reason is present in my original post. The dumbing down of society. You should care also.

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@robertand71: haha you're one of those old guys who tell stories of yesteryear starting with "back in my day" aren't you?

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@traviis1488: Hyperbolic ad hominem trash.

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Fallout 4 -10/10

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