[Mr Caption] No Todds, No Masters critique Fallout 4 (reupload) 

Time Stamps copied from another archive of the video 00:00 - 1: Game introduction 20:02 - 2: Fallout 4's dialogue system 35:37 - 3: Construction system , psychic, power armor 51:31 - 4: plot, companions and tasks 1:32:42 - 5: game world, Kroger's memory and Vergil 1:58:48 - 6: skills, NPC level division, Upgrades, battle system, all the settings of the previous game that I miss 2:28:06 - 7: Four major forces, B Club, game ending and DLC

No Todd’s no masters is still the best title of all time

You have no idea how badly I want Caption to come back to slag off Starfield

NPCs potentially dieing without the player noticing has one even easier counter: Protected. It's a flag in the Creation Engine which makes an NPC unkillable unless the player deals the final blow. So you can actually have both things, NPCs not dieing to NPCs, but the player still being able to kill them.

Don't forget on the a kid in the fridge quest apparently ghouls don't need air to live either because those frigerators were air tight

Having all the music on radio be about atomic power and war also goes against one of the themes set in Fallout games - the tragedy of the apocalypse. Listening to normal pre-war music creates contrast with the wasteland you see now while listening to Fallout 4 music does not.

If Fallout 4 were good, my character would've been an engineer who learned to repair robots and focused on traveling and repairing robots.

Kinda sad that after 7 years we're still nowhere close to a Fallout 5, and even if we were the fact that elements of 76 will bleed into it is just depressing...

I love this review so much I've watched it multiple times over the years, too bad he let the trolls get to him.

i can’t believe this was almost lost media! thank you so much for this reupload, this was always one of my favourites

Fallout New Vegas actually had several originals made for it. The radio track "Streets of new Reno" is made by Zur himself

It's really sad to think about how a game studio could lose a person/people who speaks with such passion and love for their franchise and world they manage.

36:26 At least the player doesn't have to fight a Deathjaw. They have bigger teeth!

If you’ve ever tried to use vanilla fallout settlement building, it’s incredibly underbaked. Shit barely works and I only lasted like 2 hours without multiple building mods.

2:08:30 absolutely agree. I ended up farming radiant quests for the brotherhood in my first playthrough.the one where you go to different places, kill all, then pack up and leave. Sure, I did a few the right way, until once, the synths shot a car which blew my escortee up. The quest updated, I took her loot to give it to kells as a kind of memorial, then went back. Kells said “that sucks. Wanna try again and GAVE ME EXP.” So I did it again, but this time, I took them to the farm shed behind the airport and shanked him, looted him and came back. Same result. I did this for about 3 hour, just piling up bodies. Eventually, I had killed about 50 scribes and Had levelled around 20 times, all for doing nothing, honestly, the loading screens were the reason I stopped. Variant quests are infinite, so they have no value

Everything about this video was utterly and absolutely deserving of millions of views, but that ending was just out of this world. What a great fucking guy Mr Caption is.

I have watched this video probably 10 times over 4 years. Every now and then I need something long and for some reason this video is always something I can toss on an enjoy like it was the first time all over again.

Well...if Mr Caption chose not to play Fallout 76 when it came out...he made the right choice.

I can't believe they didn't have a mission tree that resulted in you *_reviving Nora's frozen body and installing a Synth component to make her live again_* as a Synth. Then she has a reset memory, but you can take her with you as a companion and possibly romance her. That would have made the Institute section with Father so much better. You may have been able to convince Shaun!

2:15:00 A revolver was added to F4 with the Nuka-World DLC (the Western Revolver) and it does have the same upgrades.

43:30 i like to imagine that mama murphy is just a junkie with a high charisma and high luck stats. Edit: also worth noting that it's even easier to go north of Goodsprings when you have the mercenary's grenade rifle from the courier's stash add-on

when he shows that you can go the "easy route" to avoid the cazadors by going via Black Mountain this isn't technically a lie although it IS a slight exposition dump way of making his point. the fact is even if you walk past Slone and stay on the rail tracks on the right (heading towards the crane and metal shack) you can avoid all Deathclaws without them seeing you meaning you wont get killed going towards Vegas OR coming towards Goodsprings

39:40 To Bethesda’s credit with FO4, it makes sense that you would need some sort of power source to use power armor. However, it doesn’t negate the lack of balance.

Playing Fallout 4 today feels like watching the Star Wars Prequels before the Sequels. You start to understand that, yes, what we got was absolute garbage, and when we were telling ourselves that this is okay and people are overreacting, we realize, we were in denial. And we continue being in denial as we tell ourselves 'Things can't possibly get any worse'. But Disney found a way. My God, did they find a way to make it SO much worse. And I have no doubt Bethesda will find a way too.

Thanks for reuploading(x3). I just found it missing in my favorites.

34:12 lol mr matty plays was fun to watch on the hype train lead up to the game drop but afterwards I realized he’s just really annoying and licks Bethesda’s boots

Yep, it’s all about money for Bethesda. That’s why I won’t touch 76. I will be waiting at least a few months before considering to buy any new Fallout games until I’m sure it’s worth it.

Amazing video, for this video this is ultimate review for the game, this one and the response "FO4 isn't better than you think"

Worst thing about this review is that he fully says each vault name. "One hundred and eleven" instead of 1 eleven.

Man, I really would have loved it if he came back to give his opinion on the shitshow that was 76.

Big thanks to you and all who archive content. You are doing the Lord's work.

Oh my God i was looking for this guy for years. Forgot his name but i always remembered his video on Fallout aliens. I want to hear that video again. Anyone got it?

Bethesda would make a star wars game and have lightsabers be nothing more that foam swords

I hope that some day you come back, Mr. Caption :') we love ya :D :')

the only good thing about fallout 4 was the stuff modders backported into new vegas like the ui.

Take a drink anytime he says fallout new Vegas

wow, absolutely amazing review, i can understand the people against it, telling the truth in a world full of lies is frowned upon and that's saying it lightly. Bravo, the game could have been so much more, if the developers didn't half ass it, as we saw them do with redfall, might this be the beginning of the end for bethesda. How the game is even categorized as RPG, is an unsolved mystery to me, when it's clearly an LPG (linear playing-game)

For a while i thought that Todd is the problem. But now in recent years i see. Todd is just one of the problems. He is in fact a minor problem. Emil on the other hand is much bigger problem. But the biggest problems, are Bethesda old ass engine and a unskilled and unmotivated developers that don't even know how to utilize the tools they own to its full potential. In short Bethesda have a LOT of problems. But, all of these are overshadowed but the elephant in the room taking the form of greedy corpo CEO. To reiterate a quote from Robocop: " This is Bethesda, money comes first."

Why does no one ever mention that the whole look-and-feel of Kellogg's memory exploration is ripoff of the nightmare sections from "Max Payne"? Anyway... You just earned yourself a new follower.

The thing that kills me about the Ghoul kid quest, is it's not even internally consistent with lore in the game it's in. Someone PLEASE explain to me how he never went feral after being locked in a fridge for 220ish years, but other ghouls in the wasteland did. Even non ghoulified people don't handle confined spaces for extended periods of time in solitary confinement. EXPLAIN WHY HE'S NOT FERAL

Who is this man I can't seem to find him anywhere like what happened to this internet personality

no todds no masters? i see you're an anarchist of culture as well

It suddenly occurs to me, that Preston Garvey mentions his group were traveling through Concord - meaning they were newly arrived to the area... and that the raiders they were fighting could very likely have been living in those ruins, when Garvey's group showed up, invaded the most well-preserved structure and started shooting the locals if they tried to get in. In which case, the raiders were defending THEIR territory, and Preston is a violent psychopath who displaced a group of people from their homes by force, so he and his friends could have a roof over their heads. Just a random thought that came to me... 🤔

Fallout 4 companions being essential is a crutch for the fact that the combat ai for npcs is utter dog shit. When you go into combat the only thing you can rely on your companion to do is to do the exact thing you wanted to avoid.

Fallout 3 had a better excuse because they had a constant threat of super mutant attacks keeping them from moving forward but fallout 4 didn’t have that and arguably was heading the way of California until the institute destroyed the newly forming government

Emil is the real enemy

Glad i found this review again.

I wonder what happened too all the old mr caption videos. It's been years I really can't remember if there was another one and it's bugging me .

On the topic of radio, half of the songs you complain about being about atomics and rockets are ripped from the CONELRAD FNV mod. It's not a coincidence.

45:34 It does make sense that stronger defenses deter raider attacks. Raiders aren't stupid. They attack when they think they can overcome the defenses because failing to overcome them renders no reward. The principle of deterrence is very important in the real world and it's one thing Bethesda got right in Fallout 4. Food is entirely different since everyone needs to eat to survive. Attacking fortifications is not generally necessary for survival.

I just completely ignore the kid in a fridge and pretend it simply does not exist.

only thing mr caption said wrong is special you COULD makie a weak character - there was a window saying that you should use all points but you legit could start a game without doing so (unless i played something else) and failout 4 limiting special like that is stupid 1. real fallout games give you no way of incerasing your special later except "gain stat" perks which you can take only once at around level 15 or so and less than 4 specific places where you have to do something to gain the point - like very costly operations or fuck all expensive implants 2. failout 4 literally puts special on that god awful perk chart and you can level them up which is completely stupid because it has no level limit meaning you will be maxed out sooner or later and the way failout 4 plays it's sooner

Around 1:10 you were talking about solutions to Essential NPCs, on the point that Bethesda doesn't want other NPCs killing Important ones they could always add the Protected tag to that NPC, which only allows the Player to kill that important character.

3 hours thank god bro made it quick

Just an FYI, 60 Minute Men, is in fact related to nuclear war. It’s a play on the Minute Man rocket.

It is of my opinion with the character creation is that Bethesda tried to have their cake and eat it to. In my opinion they should have chose a route, either give us the typical RPG character set up and give us almost no backstory other then your a vault dweller who was around when the bombs dropped and frozen, and allow you to shape your character including your appearance and name to how you wish. OR they can do what they did in 4 but remove the name and character creator just call you Nate remove the Nora option and make it a single player looter shooter open world set within fallout with a set character with his own backstory but you can still allocate your stats whichever way you wish kinda like Borderlands. That would have been fine if they had balls and stuck with it instead it feels like they stuck their toes in it and got scared and went back to a roll play while keeping their toe in the water making it a confusing mess that pretends to give the player freedom but actually doesn't. Like your telling me Codsworth called your character sir Nate before the game starts but now all of a sudden just because you wrote down buttstallion on a vault tech resident information sheet that Codsworth wasn't even present to witness now all of a sudden your name is Buttstallion and he calls you sir Buttstallion accordingly but your still a non power armor foot solider with a wife named Nora and child named Shaun. I feel if they had ran with the direction they did but removed the "roll play" side of things it would be much better but they honestly should have just got rid of the backstory all together and let us roll play the intro changes absolutely 0 if that was the case you can still be a husband or wife moments before the bombs dropped, you can still be frozen in vault 111 and your spouse can still be killed and Shaun can still be kidnapped and you could have still easily came up with who your character was pre war just fine. Either one works but Bethesda decided to try both and it fails immensely

Mann, Creetosis was right - this was a _damned_ fine review of the game by Mr. Caption! Thank you, kind sir, for reuploading this one. Shoulda included this P.S. before hitting Send!

1:50:42 funny he says that, because that just reminded me; Emil said that he wanted to put Skyrim's magic system in fallout 4

something i dont see people mention in regards to the "ghouls dont need food or water" issue, is that in fallout 3 there is a town of ghouls called the underworld and it has a bar/restaurant

currently my fallout 3 playthrough isn't following the main quest and my Lone Wanderer's excuse is that while she doesn't hate her dad she's always felt treated like a child. she doesn't feel the need to look for him since she's now free to punch raider and junkie scum in the face, and whatever her dad is doing now is his own business anyhow. this is a specific case but i wanted to bring it up. thank you for bringing up infinite levelling. i've argued with comments saying that it invalidates previous games and i'm sorry what? it actually infuriates me how people actually buy this lazy slop. as if level scaling didn't already make the act of levelling already hollow and empty.

This man should still be making videos

1:51:42 the level designs and missing gothic architecture ruined it for me

If Fallout 3 and 4 had stories as well told as The Witcher or Mass Effect, having your back story told to you wouldn't be such a bad joke.

It’s the same Problem like with new action movies. They value new graphic effects over story writing. And they dumb the Games down to get more and more players who would never have touched a dark and „complicated“ game like Fallout 1&2.

Flyover on a vertibird is an engine flex, I kinda like it. You don't expect anything like that on this engine.

With the music I just figured the dj from diamond city liked atomic songs

Still best Fallout 4 video. Thank you very much for reuploadings. Shame about music between chapters. RU-vid in these days is ridiculous.

From all the reviews on Fallout 4, your is the better one, and I have seen all of them. Most reviews are either people screaming, and throwing insults as if that made their arguments true, or it was people masquerading a Fallout New Vegas review under the guise of a Fallout 4 review, with few being a mix of both that always have the "I'm doing this, because I am a Fallout fan, and want the best for Fallout 4", while refusing to play Fallout, because Bethesda bad.

I hated when mother and father would fight about the dishes 😭

I came across a Ghoul Settler sitting in the middle of the Road a choke point random encounter. she begged for Rad Away. Im sorry Lady but its a bit late for that. But its a shame that the RNG the game doesnt know what it does a NPC complaining about you walking away as they shove you back and forth like a hacky sack. Jank.

Why does the audio cut out at points?

Has anyone ever recorded the audio at 52.25 and reversed it to find out what what said?

Yea my bros channel got nuked by Suzanne

Just an observation but, something not mattering retroactive to ur experience of it doesn’t change how much it mattered in the past.. so when u played fallout 1 that decision mattered a lot, and just because fallout 4 might’ve ret conned its impact doesn’t negate that hard choice u made back in 1997 pal.. this is why I think people obsessing over lore and changes to it r being a bit silly

You know, I've never seen it mentioned, but Kellog killing the spouse with a revolver within 5 or so feet of the infant's face is underrated in its nuttery. Like, I hope you don't care about that kid being able to hear.

this town isn’t big enough for the two of us… kidding dude! this is an excellent video great job dude

Nexus Todd Manager

How much is that doggy in the window

1:41:15 They wouldn't even need a ladder one of them could just let the other stand on his shoulders and climb up.

Still☢️Fallout 3 has very nice callback to the game by gamers for gamers in Point Lookout petrolium and Uranium competitor$. Man❤🎉

I hear you about Diamond City Radio, but the real goat of the soundtrack here is Classical Radio

The best video on Fallout 4.

About the Institute. I guess what Emil was trying to say is that science must be in constant check otherwise it can go astray with vanity projects such is the Gen 3 synths. Additionally, i think he also tried to force in a joke faction to a degree. As in, imagine what would happen to the world if all those bullied geeks and nerds from high school suddenly came in position of wielding an immense power. They would go ape shit on everyone and anything and try to justify it with the words like: " Its for your own good", or in Fallout case " A betterment of mankind". I guess that was the original leadership of the Institute once. Destroying CPG becuse "intellectually inferior" residents of the Commonwealth refuse to bow to them unconditionally. So they get sourpuss and make life real difficult for the surface dwellers with stuff like homemade Super mutants and kidnappings and prototype terminators. By the time of the events of the game take place this behavior was no longer a case of show of force, it was a tradition. In game Institute knows nothing better than "sticking to their guns". I wont lie Institute had a lot of potential as a faction but because of Emil's special way of writing we got what we got.

Why are people so for the whole “no skills” thing it forces this weird linear “rpg” formula that just blatantly objectively DOES NOT WORK for fallout, like it’s not fucking MASS EFFECT AND NEVER FUCKING HAS

I bet why they made the dialogue descriptions vague instead of exactly what the voice actor will say is because it could get boring hearing a repeat of what you just read. Then most people would just skip their own characters dialogue.

See I like the idea that a companion can take care of themselves, you know scavenge\properly use healing\positive buff items, equipment management etc. But I also want them to be able to fuck up and not be an automatic master\infallible computer at doing these things.

19:23 - 20:00 Is video supposed to get broken here? Ah. It's music. I get it.

wish you would have counted fusion cores as a negative. As they where only made to limit how much low level players could use it. Which you have to ask. "If you did not want us to use it at low levels. Why even give it to us?" Also Bethesda games have a special code where npc can not be killed from other npc. The code that prevent npc A from killing npc B. Does allow the player to kill npc B. Meaning the essential npc bethesda has is only there to prevent you from killing them. Anyone using the npc is in danger argument. Does not know the game at all.

For you Fallout 4 was the straw that broke the camel back. For me it was Starfield.

What you don,t want to be gifted bruisier called Jinx❤?

Great video. You deserve a lot more views. I've been done with Bethesda games for a while. They're lazy and poorly designed.

Leather Godd Todd

Never cared for my "son" Shaun, not for a single second, pretty uninteresting start for a game. The only values for Fallout 4 are exploration and modability, story is worthless, most factions are worthless, I can only see the Brotherhood as barely interesting, just barely.

Reddit mod something something, touch grass something rabid fan et cetera Jokes aside, this was a good review.

I’ve never played Fallout 4, so you stating that the music is basically unrelated to the area is somewhat disappointing. I grew up with family in the Boston Area, so MA is a place I’m pretty well acquainted with. There are songs that are uniquely known in MA. The best example I can think of off the top of my head is “The Man Who Never Returned”, a song about a man getting stuck on a Boston subway train. Considering the fact that the Boston subway tunnels (the T) are clearly present in postwar America in the Fallout universe, this song would likely have existed (I don’t know the date it was released, so I’ll have to look it up). It’s a shame they missed that opportunity.

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I've built over 300 in defense and still get attacked sooooo....

Regarding trash: this man has not been to India.

bethesda making action role playing games but forgetting the role playing part

I'm guessing the original upload had captions from Mr. Caption... :P