True, the Courier could have any background you wanted him to have really. Even Ulysses, who was also working as a Courier, had a pretty speckled background.

The SS just gets to have those...background moments...After the Vault.

I like to say we create the background this time, rather than having it as a precedent.

And none of those character concepts actually make it into the game. I cannot even mention nor get recognition from being a legion or NCR soldier, or mention being part of the BoS. That is more important to me than mechanics. All that mattered in NV was that my character was a courier. Whoever they were before was dead before the game started and I actually created the character.

I like Total Biscuit well enough and enjoying hearing some of his perspective on the game industry, as he is far more informed about it than most. My opinion and his own tend to be aligned a lot when it comes to games. However, I usually stuff my ears when the elitist stuff comes out on his bias with PC gaming. I understand some of his reasons for it, but it gets tiresome to hear.

With that said, he brings up a lot of good points in criticizing Fallout 4 that I've said plenty myself. However, I am also able to find things about it that I like, thus why I am still able to enjoy the game.

But we dont create it, it forces a background on us. Sure we can try to say that the SS changes after leaving the Vault but when every conversation in the game is all about SHAAAAUN it constantly slaps you for even daring to not play the "main story". It is the difference between forced origin and forced circumstance. The voiced Protagonist makes this even worse. You can be a total jerk to some people early on and the guy VA will sound "hesitant" like he doesnt mean it...

Total Biscuit is a self described Cynic and you know what that means right? He finds the worst there is in everything there is which sort of automatically means he will find the worse in FO:4 or anything else he reviews. To believe him you must be a cynic as well.

Most of what he does is be a cynical jerk which is quite funny at times but it's meant to be taken with a grain of salt. Basically he does it for the humor. That is all.

So it really means nothing if you don't see it for what it is. Cynical humor.

I contest the part about NCR soldierhood, as NCR personel would address me differently if and when I was wearing NCR armor. I don't know if it WAS a thing, but it was something I noticed.

Not only do we create the background, you can only say that you are specialized when you are at max level since perks are level locked

Well, I never wore the faction armors since they ruined the reputation mechanic that was not important.

What? When you have high rep with NCR a ton of people will ask you "what do you want?" and you can respond "Im with the NCR" (Helios One and Mojave Outpost come to mind) in order to use that rep. You can make certain decisions that are only available when you have high rep with certain factions (like interrogating the Centurion in Camp Mccaran has new options if you work for Caesar). NV is full to the brim with RP freedom, so im not sure how you missed any of it

Angry Joe. That is all I need to know about video games. So far, everything I see from his is honest and I agree with. Would post his link but not sure if allowed. He swears a bit but just you tube Angry Joe Fallout 4 review. It seems accurate.

Loved his Witcher 3 review. That was just classic lol.

I rather listen to a cynic who points out all the bad things the listen to some paid of IGN/PCGAMER "reviewer" who says F4 has no bugs and is a 9.5/10 game. TB pointed out the most obvious things. It has bugs and most RPG elements are gone. Again it doesn't matter if he does it for the humor, he pointed out the most obvious things the game lacks.

My memory of FO:NV may be a bit hazy (was beset by various tech issues that hampered the playthrough, it was compelling enough to wade through that headache once, but not more than once ) but I thought 'Courier 6' was far more than a rumour. It's the reason you are in the game. No different to being the 'Vault Dweller' from Fallout 1 or 'The Chosen One' from Fallout 2.
The game may not have given you a backstory beyond 'hey you got shot in the head' but at the same time any backstory you gave was ignored by the game as well.

My head-canon in FO4 for example...

This. It is hard to find a critic you can actually trust is giving an honest view point, this is why Youtubers are popular because they build their reputation around themselves instead of some big website or magazine. TB is a big advocate of being transparent and forbidding paid-for opinions. Regardless of agreeing with his views we know that he means what he says and isnt being paid by a marketing department

Just saying, technically you could be and be addressed as an NCR soldier, is what I'm getting at.

That funny how partial and logic are the people who like the game.


Come and critic some aspect of the game and they will tell you million of people buy the game so that mean you are wrong and the game is perfect.


A youtuber follow per more than 2 millions of people critic the game, the video is liike by more than 30k of people but of course this guy is a fail,he dont play the game .... he his wrong and just because you are not agree


I miss the time we could have clever and advlts arguing between gamer and not teenagers fight

Your character is carrying a package across a distance when they are ambushed and shot...the end (until Lonesome Road threw in some garbage origin). A Courier is an occupation, not an origin. Anyone can deliver something for a quick paycheck or as an excuse to travel. Courier Six (at the time of release) could be anything they wanted because it was like the Elder Scrolls starting point: You have no history, but you are now involved in a conflict, enjoy

Surely everyone on this board already has the game and, after five weeks of playing, has made up their own mind as to whether they like it or not. So what's the point?

What a load of rubbish. Plenty of his reviews are a bit too enthusiastic for my taste, and he has a lot of positive reviews (or first impersonations or whatever you want to call it) to begin with. Maybe you should look outside of your bubble sometimes. You'd find out that what TotalBiscuit, Yahtzee, Jim Sterling, Mack, and plenty of others say is not, in fact, some "cynical jerk". Especially TB, who has very little humour in his videos in comparison with others.

It's as if you actually haven't seen a single video he's released.

Except most RPG elements aren't gone. Voiced protag doesn't stop someone from RPing, a pre-determined background (A feature a LOT of rpgs actually have, hell even the elder scrolls games had them before Morrowind came around) doesn't stop someone from rping, removal of quite frankly an arbitrary and archaic skill system that only acted as a way to gate off perks and did very little for your actual playing or skills even at high levels doesn't stop someone rping.

Still a ton of way to RP and the mechanics are all there.

But that high rep doesn't exist because of your backstory, it exists because of the choices you have made from the point you 'wake up'

Exactly, unlike in F4 where your character from start to end is restricted by their origin. Every conversation is based on Shaun, your motivations always come down to that single thing. Why do you join the BoS, RR, Institute, or MM? They will help you get to where the SS is meant to go (or because Shaun is there for the Institute). There is nothing in NV that tries to stop you from having your own backstory that you build on, this is my point

Of course those things aren't gone. They're just watered down to what BGS thinks is an acceptable minimum

When was this magical time in this plain of existence?

Ask him. He is the one who describes himself as a cynic. Thank look up the word. I'm just telling you he knows this is what he does, he knows it's the fun of it and not actually very factual. He does it for the kick, for the humor. This is how he thinks of himself. So if you think it's rubbish, it's him who is doing the rubbish. Myself, I think it's quite funny when taken in the way it's meant. And actually my grandson and I watch him quite often. For a laugh.

I will have to wait until I get home to watch TB's videos.

However, I would have to say that I am a bit disappointed with Fallout 4 though it is still a good game.

It definitely feels less of a RPG compared to Fallout 3 and that is due to a culmination of several things which includes dialog choices and the perk system rather than a numeric skill system (with perks) in FO3. But there's also the fact that weapons no longer deteriorates as you are using them. Yes, repairing armor & weapons can become a pain and in FO3 I had a bit of a habit making repairs every time something dropped to 90%, but it added to the overall RPG feel of the game. VATS was much better in FO3 because you can target weapons like focusing at a grenade while your enemy is still holding it.

I am not looking at Fallout 3 through rose tinted glasses or relying on some distant memory of the it from years gone past. I finished replaying Fallout 3 right before Fallout 4 was released. It was mostly vanilla FO3, I didn't install any mods that changed the combat system... I did not even bother with installed graphic mods either. Most of the mods I installed basically fixed some technical issues with FO3. Overall, FO3 is a much better RPG FPS game than FO4.

But that doesn't mean Fallout 4 is a bad game. The combat system is a definite improvement, I can use iron sights now and I do not use VATS as much as in Fallout 3. Not to say VATS is bad, but the updated combat system makes the game more immersive when fighting. While grenades (mini-nukes, motolov) can no longer be targeted in VATS, it's really not that big of a deal. If FO3 had FO4's combat system, then FO3 would have truly been an awesome game.

Personally, I did not have much of an opinion regarding settlement building in Fallout 4 when I first heard about. I simply thought it was an interesting concept that was probably worth checking out. At first I was a bit lukewarm about when I started building, but eventually I started to get into it. I think it's is a nice addition to the game since you can actually change landscape within the game (other than blowing up Megaton in Fallout 3). While building settlements is a nice sandbox within a sandbox it is a half baked idea that is missing what I and many a lot of basic features. Settlers cannot be renamed, there is no way to quickly determine what each settler assigned job is (if any where assigned), half the time the settlers are simply standing doing nothing. Even at night they simply stand around doing nothing even though not 10 feet away there is a simple structure with nothing but beds in it. Let's not forget auto failures if you did not personally show up at your settlement when it is under attack.

Settlements is a half-hearted feature of the game which actually needs the help of modders to improve upon this less than rudimentary game feature. I think that is the good and bad part of Bethesda's RPGs games. It's one thing to allow modders to improve upon a feature within a game, but it is an entirely different matter to rely on modders to fix lazy half implemented game features and settlements really sticks out like a sore thumb.

Overall, I am having a lot fun playing Fallout 4, but in my opinion Fallout 3 is overall superior to Fallout 4. However, that takes into consideration all the DLC that has been released for FO3. Will DLC eventually make FO4 equal to or better than FO3 in my eyes? Only time will tell...