Most of the Raiders offered up standard fare: leathers, pistols, ammo and the like. They'll probably have some cool stuff I want.'Īfter the shootout, I did my rounds, leaving a trail of naked corpses in my wake. 'You spend a lot of time scavenging, looting corpses, opening boxes, that sort of thing. 'I'll kill them for their loot,' I told my friend. What stories would I hear? What secrets would I discover? How deep would the rabbit hole go? This kind of off-the-beaten-track diversion is Fallout at its best. On the way, while crossing a destroyed bridge over a radiated river, I stopped to investigate a group of Raiders who'd claimed a boat that had crashed many moons ago. This is a good point to show my mate the game, I thought, because I was on my way to Diamond City, Fallout 4's biggest settlement. It's a post-apocalyptic role-playing game set in a huge open world. 'You explore, talk to NPCs, shoot monsters, complete quests and level up. My quicksave set me loose where I'd left off: out and about, exploring Bethesda's wonderful wasteland.
So on went the PlayStation 4 and on went Fallout 4. But he'd seen adverts for Fallout 4 and asked me to show it to him. He'd never played any of the Fallout games, nor had he played any of the Elder Scrolls games. A friend of mine visited over the weekend.
