Fallout 4: a tour of the buggy, janky mess — and why I don’t want Bethesda to ‘fix’ it

Fallout 4 is broken in the same ways that all Bethesda Game Studios’ projects are broken, and I love it even if it looks silly.

I’ve spent several dozen hours in The Commonwealth now (read my review), and that means the dynamic open world has gone silly on me a number of times. I’ve seen enemies falling into the landscape and other characters stumbling into the middle of serious conversations. The camera has zoomed in so far that it was giving me a really good shot of the inside the face of one of my companions. Yes, Fallout 4 is often absurd and busted in a way that you wouldn’t expect from one of the biggest releases of the year.