I knew this would be the case when I bought the game, because I’ve played previous games from Bethesda Softworks, the studio behind the Fallout franchise: the fantasy RPGs in the Elder Scrolls series, Morrowind and Skyrim, which share many gameplay mechanisms and design elements with the Fallout series, as well as the game’s predecessors, Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas (which was created by a different studio, Obsidian, under a license from Bethesda). By the time you read this, my tally will almost certainly be even higher. That’s 57 hours and change - almost one and a half workweeks - since the game arrived on my doorstep, and an even larger percentage of my waking hours. I know this because the game keeps track and tells me every time I start it up.
Two days, nine hours, and 17 minutes - that’s how long I’ve spent playing Fallout 4, the post-apocalyptic role-playing video game, since its release on November 10.
