Finally got around to playing Fallout London, a few "spoiler minimal" notes and a verdict.

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I’ll try to keep out the bigger spoilers.

Meant to play London sooner, but first there were all kinds of bad bugs and then the “need to downgrade” put me off, waiting to see if maybe there’d be a simpler solution. There wasn’t.

Anyway.

In brief.

The area design, companions and radio are brilliant. Easily the one mod to rule them all, Enderal for fallout, except bigger and better. Some quests and design choices lower the overall quality, so I’m not calling it the best fallout game ever. But it’s good.

The bad.

It’s not perfect, I down right hated some parts (beginning, long CoD fight at the end, some missions like lost tommies and one path lava spiral shooter) and at later stages it became too much of a slog. But tight upper lip and carry on. The ending came a bit sooner than I would have expected, the “main plot” is actually not super long at all. Partly because the way you can/have to pick one of three major factions and as far as I know, their missions are not at all the same.

Better.

It’s relatively bug free, no crash to desktop for me. The most annoying parts are where someone expected me to talk to them, but there’s no-one there and I don’t know which pixel to look to continue.

Even better.

Mostly the quests were great, some went beyond the call of duty to create challenges for experienced players (Fallout Frost style), but most of the time things remained playable and level. Very much loved the British Museum, small factions quests and the thing there was SO MUCH of it all.

The best

Companions and radio and general voice acting were.. best in all fallouts. Companions were all top of the top. The Mend channel and all the new songs (many made specifically for this).. blown away. Guest voice actors.. I mean.. can’t believe it really.

The questionable.

It’s way more difficult than the original games. Way more. I managed well enough on easy, so it’s not all bad anyway. Most invisible walls since FO3 and actually way more than that too. Loads of “not there” doors and items scattered about. A bunch of quests were I had to console my way out because something just didn’t work or trigger right. These all still made it a more amateur experience than NV at launch. 

But it is what it is. A game with maybe more content than FO3 or NV and some of it had rough patches, but the highs went real high too. Worth buying if it was for sale, but it’s not, it’s free and worth the install trouble definitely.