It is weird that that Fallout 4 has been given such a pass from reviewers despite it's reportedly spotty and frequent technical issues. Reviews make a note of this, Gametrailers, Eurogamer etc but still give it a 9/10 regardless. Now they do say that it is a great game, a large game with a lot of stuff going on within it, more of Fallout 3 essentially and I personally can't wait to play it (on Christmas Day, thanks Santa), but I dunno, I just see a lot of people on forums and reviewers give these obvious technical issues a pass but if it was say, Assassins Creed or any other open world game, it would have been crucified. Case in point, The Witcher 3 is a hugely ambitious game, the first time CD Projekt Red made an open world game and it's perfectly playable on consoles, rarely dropping below 30 fps. But on consoles within a certain area, the framerate can take a drop and people
hated the game for it, promising not to play the game again until it's fixed despite this being an area you spend about 1% of your overall game time in. Keep in mind it didn't crash the game or anything, the framerate just took a drop, and yet people slated it for being a mess. That negativity stuck with the game even now after it's been patched to be completely fine. I guess time will tell if FO4 gets the same rep, but early impressions to me are a lot of excuses, dismissing the same criticism (which reportedly happens much more frequently than The Witcher ever reports) which seems unfair on other games. Can't tell if it's just the hype machine working so much into overdrive at this point, opinion may change when people get their hands on the game when it's released.
This isn't the first time either, FO3 and Skyrim handled decently on consoles but also had many technical issues like single digit framerates and game crashes. I would have liked to have heard that Bethesda worked to address that and give much better performances on consoles but that didn't happen. And while reviews do point this out, the review scores don't seem to reflect that.
Hopefully come Christmas Day there will have been patches to address a number of the issues. In the meantime, nerd rant over