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Fallout 4 Trophy Guide

Editorial Team

Fallout 4 Trophy Guide. Difficulty: ***  An action-RPG set in an open-world, post-apocalyptic version of Boston, and part of the Fallout series. Like other games in the series, the Platinum is not difficult, only time-consuming.

Game Name Difficulty Trophies Developer Country Bronze Silver Gold Online DLC
Fallout 4 *** 51 Bethesda Game Studios U.S. 34 15 1 0 34

Fallout 4

Fallout 4 is an action RPG taking place in a post-apocalyptic world, and is the fifth major installment in the Fallout series, though the first to be released on eighth generation consoles. Players explore the open-world environment of Boston city and its surrounding area of Massachusetts, battling against both human enemies as well as mutants and robots. The game adds a crafting aspect known as base-building, and returns the feature of playing in either first or third-person.

Taking place in the year 2287, ten years following the events of Fallout 3, and two centuries after the Great War between the United States and China which ended in a nuclear holocaust, the player-character is tricked into entering cryogenic tubes and frozen alive in Vault 111, along with his wife and son. After being reawakened by two strangers, he learns that his wife has been murdered and son is kidnapped. After returning to cryogenic sleep, he is awakened again following a malfunction in the support system. Discovering he is the sole survivor of Vault 111, he sets out to avenge his spouse's death and find his son.

Fallout 4 received positive reviews with an average score of 88%, praised for its story, vast amount of content, and improved combat system, though criticized by some for its visuals and bugs.

I've you've played gotten the Platinum on either Fallout 3 or Fallout: New Vegas on the PS3, then you should have a good idea of what to expect. The game is not particularly difficult, only time-consuming. There are a vast number of missions to complete, enemies to defeat, collectibles to find, and a few other miscellaneous challenges, on your road to the Platinum. The Platinum can be earned after one playthrough with some mopping-up afterwards, if a few strategic saves are made.

Expect around 70-80 hours minimum for the Platinum, though more if you are taking your time exploring and performing more side-missions than necessary.

The faction-related trophies follow a similar fashion to Fallout: New Vegas, in that siding with one faction will eliminate the chances of siding with another. This means that not all the trophies can be unlocked in a single, straight-forward playthrough. However, like Fallout: New Vegas, the issue with missable trophies can easily be avoided by making some strategic saves.

With that in mind, we recommend beginning with simply playing through and enjoying the story. As you start working through the faction quests, you'll eventually receive a warning that your next decision will make another faction hostile to you. It is here where you'll want to make an extra save. Then, continue playing through and unlocking all the trophies related to that faction. Once completed, reload your previous save and head on to another faction.

Aside from the faction-related trophies, there are no other missable trophies in the game. As you play however, you'll want to hack every terminal you come across to work towards the RoboCo's Worst Nightmare trophy, and pick every lock for the What's Yours Is Mine trophy.

Once you've completed the main story and gotten all the faction-related trophies, it's time to mop-up. You'll need to find a total of 20 bobbleheads for the They're Action Figures trophy, find and read 20 magazines for the Print's Not Dead trophy, discover 100 locations for the Ranger Corps trophy, and a number of other miscellaneous ones which you may or may not have unlocked during your playthrough. Be sure to check out the Fallout 4 trophy guide links under our Links tab to see what you still need and their requirements.

First, IGN has a Walkthrough here:
http://www.ign.com/wikis/fallout-4/Walkthrough_and_Quest_Guide

And a text-based Walkthrough by SeniorBill:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps4/164592-fallout-4/faqs/74585

And a Walkthrough by Redemption:
http://www.neoseeker.com/fallout-4/walkthrough

Harry94 has a great Trophy Guide here, which includes the DLC by Sellers et al:
https://www.playstationtrophies.org/game/fallout-4/guide/

A detailed Trophy Guide by DaveyHasselhoff and Luckay:
http://ps3trophies.com/forums/showwiki.php?title=PS4-Trophy-Guides:Fallout-4-Trophy-Guide

A great Trophy Guide by Hazanberg, omegarevan, spazza136, and NCSFan001:
https://psnprofiles.com/guide/3638-fallout-4-trophy-guide

And PowerPyx has a useful Trophy Guide here:
http://www.powerpyx.com/guides/fallout-4-trophy-guide.html

And an Achievement Guide (same as the trophies on PS4) by BiggD and The Deadly Dog:
https://www.xboxachievements.com/game/fallout-4/guide/

A video demonstrating the Mercenary trophy, by HarryNinetyFour:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuezDefO6iY

And a video demonstration of the Future Retro trophy, by HarryNinetyFour:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppacXMazVr4

And HarryNinetyFour's video demonstration of The Harder They Fall trophy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZlSIOsAT7A

And a video demonstration of the Pranksters Return trophy, also by HarryNinetyFour:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6umhPQrEUA

An interactive Map:
http://www.fallout4map.com/

Finally, here's a basic Trophy List:
https://www.truetrophies.com/game/Fallout-4/trophies

Could a Fallout 3 Anniversary Edition Be Coming To PS4?

Editorial Team

Earlier today, a leaked document from Nintendo that was uncovered by Powerup revealed a list of upcoming games for the Nintendo Switch that were soon to be revealed at this year’s E3. One of these titles turned out to be a new version of Fallout 3, named the Fallout 3 Anniversary Edition, by Bethesda.

Fallout 3 was first released on seventh generation consoles and the PC in October 2008. If this leaked information is true, than it wouldn’t be too much of a stretch to speculate that the Fallout 3 Anniversary Edition may also be planned to be ported onto the PlayStation 4.

Considering both the time and resources Bethesda puts into their games, it’s no wonder they hope to extend the lives of their products. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, for example, was first released for seventh generation consoles in 2011, then ported onto eighth generation consoles five years later, then again in November 2017 for the Nintendo Switch, and again for the PlayStation VR. Bethesda may be planning the same revamping with their Fallout 3 Anniversary Edition.

With DLC trophies included, the original Fallout 3 on the PS3 has a total of 73 trophies. Trophy hunters may rejoice with the chance to double that number should the Fallout 3 Anniversary Edition release a separate list on their PS4, as Bethesda had done with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

For those of you who never played the original Fallout 3, or are in need of a refresher of its storyline and contents, check out our Fallout 3 Review.

Fallout New Vegas Review

Editorial Team

7 / 10 Banzai!s

The Game:

Developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Bethesda Software, Fallout: New Vegas was released in North America and Australia in October of 2010. A first-person action RPG, it continues the Fallout series in its post-apocalyptic world, this one set in and around Las Vegas, Nevada.

Like other Fallout games, players can customize their character, find places to live where they can store their gear, battle robots and super mutants, hack computers, pick locks, and use V.A.T.S. to target their enemies. Fallout: New Vegas includes a Hardcore Mode, which requires the players to eat, drink and sleep to ward off starvation, thirst and exhaustion, among other new challenges.

Unlike other Fallout games, the player character is not a Vault-dweller. Rather, you are a courier who has been shot and left for dead by a man named Benny (voiced by Friends Mathew Perry). After being rescued by a robot named Victor and taken to a nearby town to be healed, your quest is to search out Benny and take back the casino chip he’s stolen from you. Along the way, you’ll eventually be forced to either make an alliance with one of three factions: the New California Republic, a military force posing as what remains of the American government; Caesar’s Legion, slavers who follow the customs of the Roman Empire; or Mr. House, a mysterious controller of the Vegas strip. Or, you can discard all three options, and attempt to rule Hoover Dam’s power all to yourself. The choice is yours, thereby creating four possible endings.

 

What I Liked:

Having been released so shortly after Fallout 3 (the last DLC – Operation: Anchorage – was just released on the PSN only 8 months earlier) the developers decided to add some changes and twists to the game, which I applaud them for trying something new and keeping the series fresh. Besides the Hardcore Mode – which was a new, yet challenging way to add realism to the game – the three factions narrow the gameplay to specific choices which must be made during the second half of the game, creating more reason to load back after and completing the story to try a new path. None of the four possible choices are purely selfless, with endings somewhere in the grey area, rather than a good or evil decision.

Unlike other areas left in ruin after the war, the Vegas Strip is powered by the Hoover Dam, filling the setting with bright lights and attractice colours as you play roulette, black jack, slot machines, or watch some of their entertaining shows – as entertaining as they’ll get in a video game, anyway. Again, the developers were trying to keep things new and fresh from their previous game, and the changes in setting added to that freshness.

The characters are interesting and colourful. You’ve got Victor, the robot with a friendly, Roy Rogers like voice who is either following you for protection or spying on your actions. The King, who started a cult-like group in worship of Elvis Presely. And Mr. House himself, a mysterious behind-the-sceenes fella who may or may not even be human. And like the previous Fallout 3, all the quests and side-quests are filled with interesting twists and turns. The story is never linear nor boring in Fallout: New Vegas.

 

What I Didn’t Like:

The bugs.

This game had so many problems that, if not for the bugs, I probably would have awarded an 8.5 or 9 Banzai!s out of 10. The game froze, on average, at least once every hour – sometimes even just shutting down the PlayStation 3 completely, and restarting the whole system all on its own. The DLC for Fallout 3 was criticized for freezing at times, but I found Fallout: New Vegas to be far worse, forcing me to save the game every 10 minutes for fear that it would crash on me at any moment. This game was NOT ready to be released on the shelves – but for whatever reason, Bethesda did it anyway.

Fallout: New Vegas also lacked the feeling of an “open world” in comparison to previous Fallout games. Unlike Fallout 3, where you were free to roam from one end of the map to the other and explore new areas, New Vegas was filled with mountains, trenches and large bodies of water which restricted your movement, almost as though setting you on pre-determined paths.

 

Overall:

Fallout: New Vegas is a fun game for fans of the post-apocalyptic series – provided that you have the patience to get past the constant freezes and crashes and not toss the game out the window in frustration. It offers fresh new settings in a different way of storytelling, enough so you don’t feel you’re simply playing one of Fallout 3‘s DLCs. Though not as grand as its predecessor, and despite containing far, far more bugs than any game I’ve ever played (including Terminator: Salvation) it’s still worth checking out. Those new to the series, may want to pick up Fallout 3, first.

 

written by Damon Finos