Rarely does a game capture my imagination through gripping story telling like Fallout 4. I think back to the days of Final Fantasy 7 and how absorbed I was with the game and what would happen next. Now a new generation has Fallout 4, what a next gen game should look, sound, and feel like. Let me explain with a story. After settling in to Fallout 4 (FO4)’s introduction and Settlement system, I started liberating towns and securing defenses. I couldn’t stop. It was so fun to think I was helping out the wasteland and my results were starting to show all over the common wealth. My actions were effecting the game at large, call this Role Play or whatever, but it was fascinating. The next thing I know, Freedom Radio broadcast a distress signal in one of my heavily fortified towns requesting Minutemen backup. This was my first time responding and I was excited. I arrived to a clouding swarm of gunfire and super mutants ambushing us from all over. There was even a legendary mutant that I … [Read more...] about Why I Can’t Stop Playing Fallout 4