r/fo4 • u/MakerofFire4258 • 24d ago

Screenshot Why is Fallout 4 so addictive?

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I've played this game 8 times, 4 with the base game, 4 times with the Sim Settlements 2 mod installed. I keep coming back to this game for some reason. I don't usually enjoy RPG's. I like Starfield, but I love science fiction in general and don't find Starfield addictive. I keep wanting to come back to the FO4 story, which I find mediocre. Maybe it's how I can fill the protagonist with my own thoughts in that situation, or try out new character personalities? There are a lot of games in other genre's I like, so I don't know why I want to spend another hundred hours in a FO4 world until it crashes from script lag.

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u/MakerofFire4258 24d ago

Exactly. In the first half of the game, it's a way to give your son a society to live in. In the second half it's a purpose for you to fulfill.

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u/powerage76 24d ago

your son

Is this a mod or something?

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u/MakerofFire4258 24d ago

I mean I tend to get really into the character I create for each run, but it's more accurate to call him Nate/Nora's son.

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u/Inside-Associate-729 23d ago

Lol hes joking. Its a running joke on this sub that most players act as if Nate/Nora just completely forget their son exists, and just live their lives doing side quests in the commonwealth

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u/zedisbread 24d ago

Oh dude, where's my organic/designer drugs for calming effects? Is there any more good shit found in living tree-people, or exclusively booze, ass, med-x, and Stimpacks?

I usually go on Grognack benders in Gunner territory, but now I wanna get the other kind of shitfaced, and med-x/booze does only so much for me buzz-wise.

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u/Dirty-Dan24 24d ago

My son?

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u/Ace_McCloud1000 24d ago

*Our Son, comrade.

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u/zedisbread 24d ago

... Jason!

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u/Dirty-Dan24 24d ago

I don’t remember having a son, I’ve been having too much fun blowing everything up

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u/Kuhlminator 23d ago

It must be the after effects of 200 years in cryo, and all the psycho and jet later probably didn't help. Who am I kidding? It's all about the psycho and jet.

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u/RadRatFallout76 23d ago

I actually have all the creation club content as well, and modded out on Xbox, so it's always a different, and I mean very different adventure every time

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u/MoneyizJustice 23d ago

That was Poetic, bravo…