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Fallout 4
Average Sentiment
0.83
Average Monthly Article Count
11.02
First Article Date: October 2008
Highest Monthly Average Sentiment
0.99
Month: March 2023
Lowest Monthly Average Sentiment
0.30
Month: July 2017
Total Articles Count
2,016
Most Active Authors
- GR Staff - Game Rant (210 articles)
- Eddie Makuch - Gamespot (184 articles)
- Patricia Hernandez - Kotaku (117 articles)
Article Source Distribution
Game Rant: 39.73%
IGN: 17.21%
Gamespot: 15.87%
Article Count Frequency Trend
Decreasing
Historical Trends of Fallout 4
Fallout 4
Genre: Action Role-Playing
Mode: Single-Player
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Description:Fallout 4 is an action RPG set in an open world, featuring both first-person and third-person perspectives, extensive crafting, and base-building. Players can freely explore, customize weapons, and create settlements with NPC inhabitants. Key elements include the Pip-Boy interface, the tactical V.A.T.S. system, a detailed character progression system with numerous perks, and interactive companions who impact gameplay.
Historical Trends Summary
Fallout 4 is considered one of Bethesda greatest hits, with an engaging storyline in a unique universe the game title still has an active community that constantly add new and increasingly innovative mods to the game. The Fallout franchise has a long and storied history, with many news outlets speculating on its launch features as early as 7 years before its release. However, interest across media outlets has largely faded away as the lack of new content and release of new titles has drawn players away from the game. Historically, Fallout 4 enjoys a respectible average sentiment of 0.83, although chronilogical sentiment has been wildly varied since launch as article count dropped.
Additional Observations
The first speculation over the Fallout 4 release was seen in October of 2008 on Gamespot, when an article by the Gamespot staff attempted to predicted the release date of Fallout 4 to occur in 2011 with the reasoning that anything more than 3 years would be considered too long of a gap. In hindsight they could not have been more wrong.
Although Fallout 4 would not be officially announced until June of 2015, a leak on twitter and the reddit forum r/gaming by a Bethesda employee surrounding the games setting and gameplay elements sparked a small wave of interest across the community. On the games release, it hit its last high of 242 articles in a single month, before quickly tapering off in the coming months apart from occassional renewed interest when expansions such as Far Harbor and Nuka-World were released. After several years, a combination of the COVID-19 lockdowns which spurred interest videogames as well as the upcoming DLC sized mod Fallout Miami have renewed some interest in the title which has resulted in elevated article activity.
This renewed interest in the title has stabilized the chronological sentiment somewhat, although this can only clear up its trend to a certain point. The month of its release and the following months, Fallout 4's sentiment hovered within 0.83 which it has held to this day.
Count of Articles by Authors
Source Rankings
Highest Average Sentiment Authors
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1 Nicole Carpenter (Source: IGN, 14 articles)0.96
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2 Matt Porter (Source: IGN, 16 articles)0.93
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3 Andrew Heaton (Source: Game Rant, 37 articles)0.93
Lowest Average Sentiment Authors
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1 Anna C (Source: Game Rant, 50 articles)0.47
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2 Charles Burgar (Source: Game Rant, 14 articles)0.51
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3 Clayton Cyre (Source: Game Rant, 32 articles)0.57
% of Total Articles by Source
Authors & Source Summary
Cover of Fallout 4 has been far more equitable than many other titles covered on Game Sentiment*, with most of the articles split relatively even apart from Game Rant which covers a reasonable chunk of Fallout 4. However, journalistic diversity is somewhat less distibuted, and is largely concentrated within Game Rant and IGN.
Gaming news outlet sentiment is also substantially less varied than most other titles, with most sources hovering within 0.05 points of the historical average. This would also suggest the most news outlets are at a consensus about their positive opinion of Fallout 4.
Additional Observations
Game Rant is largely less concentrated in its article count for its journalists, with its largest journalist actually recording as GR Staff, comprising 210 of Game Rants's 801 articles or 26% of the total. The largest independent journalist is Eddie Makuch (184 articles) who dominates Gamespot's coverage of Fallout 4, making up nearly 58% of the news outlets articles for the title.
Given that the data shows that IGN is the highest sentiment news outlet with a score of 0.88, it is not unexcepted to see that the two highest sentiment journalist with more than 10 authors are both from IGN, Nicole Carpenter (14 articles) at 0.96 and Matt Porter (16 articles) at 0.93. Rather unexpectedly however, is that all three of the lowest sentiment journalists are all published by Game Rant which reports a sentiment of 0.82 which is just 0.01 below the titles historical average. Anna C (50 articles) is the only journalist with more than 10 articles that the data shows has a score below the baseline of 0.50 which suggests a slightly negative tone.
The composition and sentiment of Fallout 4 is not expected to vary from its current state looking into the future, as the lack of article volume will not enable any significant change in the data.