6. If The Humour Is Back
Say you came on board the Fallout train through part three (many did), your vision of the franchise is most likely a bleak wasteland peppered with the occasional pocket of humanity and doused with random bandits and ghouls to take down in between. However, although New Vegas introduced some more 'advanced' (contextually) societal elements, it couldn't get away from the muted-looking colour palette and drab approach to the world - something Fallout 4 is remedying in spades when you look at how even post-blast there is a lot of vibrancy in the world. In addition to this complaint, many fans forever lamented how this vision of the landscape carried across onto your general character's overall interaction with NPCs and the dialogue choices therein. Occasionally you'd get a prompt to say something far more informal or humorous, but for the most part the tonal direction of 3 and New Vegas was far more serious than that of the originals.