Don't Worry If Crafting Isn't Your Thing, Fallout 4 Won't Make You Do It

Crafting systems can be divisive things. Some people love pottering around in games like Minecraft for hours on end, building makeshift homes and gathering materials for new equipment, but it's certainly not for everybody. Fortunately, if you're the type who lets out a deep sigh when you discover that your new role-playing game has got a cumbersome crafting system, then you'll be happy to know that you won't be forced to use Fallout 4's.

One of the post-apocalyptic adventure's new points of interest, crafting seems to play a big part in Fallout 4, but Bethesda's Pete Hines told GamesRadar that you won't have to make use of it to finish the game. "If you don't care about [crafting] and you just want to play quests and play side quests, and finish the main quest and that sort of thing then you can just ignore all of this [crafting]. Or do as much or as little as you want," he explained.

However, Hines does go on to admit that "there is a benefit to it", but again insists that "it doesn't prevent you from playing through the game". Sounds fair enough to us.

In all honesty, we're not expecting Fallout 4's crafting to make up a gigantic portion of the release - the system seems to have been pushed into the limelight purely because it's something new. It's already been confirmed that you'll only be able to build bases and settlements in predetermined locations, so we can definitely imagine that unwilling players will be able to ignore it altogether.

But is it something that you're going to ignore, or do you like the sounds of gluing together bits of junk to make guns that shoot lasers? Enter VATS in the comments section below.