Does Fallout 4 Hold Up in a Post-Starfield World?

One more trip into the wasteland

Alex Rowe
8 min readSep 11, 2023

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My character views the terrain in Fallout 4.
Xbox Series S screenshot taken by the author.

I finished Starfield’s campaign over the weekend, and immediately dove into its fascinating New Game Plus mode. I also started a second character who I’m roleplaying as an evil chef. I want to talk more about all of those things — but later on, probably in the coming months. There’s just too much to go into that would be unfair to comment on when so relatively few players have yet to see the credits.

All of this endgame Starfield indulgence got me thinking: now that I’ve been spoiled by its many improvements over the Bethesda games of years past, would Fallout 4 still be fun? I was a huge fan of the game at launch. I’ve even wrote a couple of cancelled series about it a whole digital lifetime ago.

But in all this time, in spite of owning its post launch DLC, I’ve never actually made it all the way through all that extra content. I have meant to, but you know how these things go — there’s just too many excellent games out there. Fallout 4 also hopes that you’ll play its main story first before trying the DLC, so I’ve done what any normal person would do in this scenario: reinstalled Fallout 4 to fiddle with alongside my continued Starfield obsession.

Here are my thoughts after one lengthy day with the game. It’s definitely the…

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Alex Rowe

I write about gaming, tech, music, and their industries. Creators and fans are so much more than numbers on a graph.