The first time I played Fallout 4 VR was in a tiny little booth after Bethesda’s 2016 E3 conference. I called my short time with the game ‘underwhelming’ back then because the whole experience was little more than a stationary shooting gallery with bottles for targets. Even then though, it was still a thrill to feel like I was actually standing next to a real-life Red Rocket gas station.
Fallout 4 VR finally released in December 2017 to fairly positive reviews, even though there was a lot of criticism about the VR implementation and its lacklustre graphics. Despite these faults however, most helmet-heads on PC were thrilled to have the opportunity to play through the entirety of Fallout 4 in virtual reality. Sure there were some corners cut here and there but still, props to Bethesda for even attempting this port in the first place, I wish more developers and publishers would do the same.
In the roughly 6.5 years since Fallout 4 VR’s release, enterprising modders have been attempting to improve the vanilla experience one tiny mod at a time. But there are some, like content creator, GingasVR, who have put together huge mod lists that aim to alter the original version of Fallout 4 VR and bring it up to the standards of something like Half Life: Alyx.
Obviously the big talking point at the moment is the Fallout TV show, so on this week’s episode of Ian’s VR Corner (which you can watch on the player above), I attempted to mod Fallout 4 VR using GingasVR’s incredible ‘Fallout VR Essentials Overhaul’ mod list. This epic collection includes almost 300 mods, many of which GingasVR made themselves. But, and this is a big but, I’m both computer illiterate and short on time, so when I couldn’t make things work perfectly (or be bothered to stand up), I just went with the flow and, well, as you’ll see in this week’s video, Ian-brand chaos ensued.