This is a good point to show my mate the game, I thought, because I was on my way to Diamond City, Fallout 4's biggest settlement. It's a post-apocalyptic role-playing game set in a huge open world.
'You explore, talk to NPCs, shoot monsters, complete quests and level up. My quicksave set me loose where I'd left off: out and about, exploring Bethesda's wonderful wasteland. So on went the PlayStation 4 and on went Fallout 4. But he'd seen adverts for Fallout 4 and asked me to show it to him. He'd never played any of the Fallout games, nor had he played any of the Elder Scrolls games. A friend of mine visited over the weekend.
