Worst Fallout by far. It's better if its on PC with about 100 mods to make it an actual RPG. I would just play Fallout New Vegas 100x better than 4.

It is good until you realize the dialog always comes down to 4 choices of Yes, No, More/Info/Other, and Snark//Mean/Joke. The plot elements are these bland two path splits between two opposed factions and the "dynamic quests" are just repeats of existing content.

If you like RPGs with mild RP and some fun moments its worth the effort but I predict you will get bored of the repeated formula.

The story was not nearly as good as New Vegas. A lot of the conversations are too linear with too few meaningful dialogue options. There are some really repetitive quests that you'll end up ignoring after a while. And building up your settlements doesn't have much of an impact on the game's plot, so while that part of the game is fun and creative and interesting, it doesn't really have much of a purpose.

That said, the game mechanics and engine are fantastic. Settlement building is fun as fuck even if gathering shit for it can be kinda tedious. The expanded crafting system is great. The sandbox part of the game is a lot better than the main storyline. I think if they gave the engine to the people who did New Vegas to bring back the faction system from NV and make taking and defending settlements for your chosen faction and fighting or negotiating with other factions part of the main plot it would be one of the best games ever.

Once you see through it you will never come back.

Fallout 4 is a flawed masterpiece at EVERY LAST ASPECT OF THE GAME. Meaning that at every turn you see insane potential that didn't quite get there in vanilla. Thank God for mods so you can fix MOST of it's problems. Mind you unmodded vanilla is still worth playing if you just want to explore and shoot stuff, it's just that you'll be constantly disappointed by what they didn't fix or didn't quite get right.

I hated it right off the bat when the nukes fell and they made a point to show two lesbians, black and white, running away together.

They took the fifties/sixties aesthetic that they created, and just HAD to inject it with progressive degeneracy.

Story's sucked too. Underground railroad folks were played off to seem like they were fighting racism, so I always destroyed them. Game play was pretty weak too. I also hated the dialogue during conversations. Fallout and elder scrolls were always cool bc they didn't have your npc talk. It made it more immersive. Seeing your character speak every time just reminds you that you're playing a game. Reading it in your head and choosing the dialogue option is much more immersive.

Expect the next games to suck too..Muh diversity in the gaming industry is ruining it. Except Russian games. They still seem to be decent. EFT and Deadside are both fun. Plus stalker 2 is coming out soon and that looks bad ass as well.

I have played Fallout 3 and then New Vegas, really enjoying and getting absorbed in the latter. Starting 4, I couldn’t be too excited because of the lackluster reviews. But I think so far with a few minor niggles it’s very enjoyable.

The dialogue doesn’t seem as good. It’s slightly glitchy. But I am wondering why people thought this was such a letdown.

So long as you ignore the nonsensical story and the lack of actual choices, its pretty fun. The gun play is good and the exploration is good. That's all I really want.

I actually finished my playthrough of it, which is rare. I still haven't finished games I absolutely loved. Maybe 6 out of 10 overall, with mods. It's not great.

It's a top 10 of all time modern game.
Not as good as previous fallouts. But runs well today and still mostly supported. Where the other fallout games run like shit now.

The real fun is when you get to modding it. Anything you want. There's a mod for that. Remove anything. Add anything. Change anything.