All the choices were the same. The combat and story were bad. The camp building minigame was just to add time to the game and it was done poorly at that. They used the Skyrim map. Most of the characters were forgettable and the graphics were stuck on the previous gen. Basically, the game was not good at any point beside for a very few savable moments which were only found in the paid DLC.

I liked it, but it was watered down compared to 3 and NV.

The whole settlement system ended up being a persistent annoying fetch quest, with someone needing help every 10 minutes. And it got worse the more settlements you freed. There was no point in building anything, other than being a beta for Fallout 76. The graphics and mechanics are the best in the series, but the story progression and game world weren't much of anything.

Because it was less than what we had before, when you get a new game in a series you expect it to build on what people love not take away. I still enjoyed Fallout 4 and play it to this day, but mainly for the map, the settlement building and the mods that have turned it into a better game. Fallout 4 without the mods is a dull game, the others still hold their own.

Will be playing for rhe first time since the update for ps5 coming out definitely will have fun, we need more post apocalyptic gems I'm so ready for stalker for series x hopefully it really releases this year

Currently replaying FO4 using the "A StoryWealth" mod compilation (600+ mods).... loving it so far!

It's cause it wad dumbed down, alot of us hated the base building , etc. It's definitely the worst one. I still like it but it's got faults

It was good but new vegas was still better. It also felt a bit lacking.

The gameplay was pretty fun but that's about it.

The game was nothing more than an empty shell lifting on the Fallout legacy in name only. It's storyline was bland and unimpressive and the side quests were forgettable.
The world itself was strange and felt cheap, the settlements and communities were static and did not feel alive.
What made matters worse is that they put too much emphasis to the settlement builder. While it could have been a fun extra aspect to the game they used it as a cheap replacement of real living and breathing settlements with their own backstories like the settlements in New Vegas or even in FO3.

I quite like Fallout 4. In comparison to say, Fallout 3 and New Vegas, the sense of exploration was not necessarily lost but changed. My favorite parts of 3 and NV were the exploration required to find the coolest and rarest of items and weapons etc... There are some in 4 sure, but the focus kind of went toward building good weapons and armor, as opposed to finding them through exploration.

It's not some great mystery. It's been talked about to death by this point.

My big issue with FO4 is that they sacrificed a lot of the RPG systems in the game in an effort to make it more accessible to the action shooter crowd.

Settlements. They ruined the game for me.

I personally loved it and rank it as my favourite to date

I love all but 76. But frankly, the show is just okay, maybe a 7 out of 10. Not digging the leads at all. #bulgingeyes

i didnt hate it, but god i had so many bugs and glitches ha.

It was a parody of Fallout 3 which was a parody of a real Fallout game. :SHRUGS:
It was still fun but outside Fallout/2/New Vegas, you are getting a Todd's reading of what Fallout is, not what it was or should be.
Now notwithstanding, I played it for over 300 hours, got the platinum on PS4, and enjoyed it for what it's worth, it just doesn't hold a candle to New Vegas as a 3D Fallout, and no BGS Fallout ever will. They just don't get the setting, the humour, and especially the RPG elements.

Fallout 4 is pretty good actually but without mods it became a time sink title that goes nowhere fast.
Too much time spent on settlement building and management instead of looking for your child and quests doesn't feel like quests they kind of just started for no rhyme or reason.
Its Map are also not fun to explore not to mention long and frequent load times going in and out of each indoor location.

F4 is awesome but f3 is still my favorite.

Because it was an okay shooter, but a terrible Fallout game. Story and RPG elements were severely lacking. A causality of Bethesda's mass appeal idiot-proof design plaguing their games since Skyrim. Fallout 3 even with all it's problems is and always will be the peak of Bethesda's ability with this IP.

I don't care what anyone says, it was a hard pivot to an "open world action game with RPG elements", akin to Far Cry, whereas the Fallout series was HEAVILY dependent upon the concept of morality, choice and consequence in a world very different to our own. It's a very shallow experience with Fallout 4 in comparison.

It was also missing any real role-playing element as far as skills go. In New Vegas, a charisma + speech build was MASSIVELY different from a melee + strength build. Fallout 4 has a veneer of this with SPECIAL etc, but it's just that -- a shallow veneer.

The issue I have with Bethesda is this: Obsidian literally showed them, using Beth's their OWN assets, what it takes to make a deep first-person RPG that everyone loves with FNV....why not even take notes?

It seems to be a case of if you played Fallout 3 and New Vegas, you were team "Hate Fallout 4" and if you didn't, you likely enjoyed Fallout 4. Obviously a very simplified view, but among my friends that seemed to be the case. The ones who hated it kept comparing it to things they enjoyed in Fallout 3. For me Fallout 4 was my first in the series, and I enjoyed it a lot.

I didn't find 4 all that, the feeling to it was off compared to 3 and new Vegas.
I tried it a few times and each time, I've given up roughly in the same spot.

I found there was too much busywork for Preston right at the start of the game almost, put me off. I could have ignored him and wandered off, but I wanted to see the story but those missions were dull.
Maybe I'll spin it up again with the new update.

Most divisive or controversial? The author clearly doesn’t remember Fallout 76 at launch. It was a disaster back then but Bethesda has turned it around.

Bring back freedom with magic (even if exploitable it's fun). Bring back utterly bizarre and memorable characters (starfield felt like theirs were designed by a committee of wet blankets). Bring back actual consequential player choice ie different classes and guilds/houses/etc that can't all be done in the one playthrough. And update or replace that damn engine for more seamless streaming/traversal so dungeons, towns and buildings aren't segmented separate levels. And for the love of god don't dare do that shitty dialog wheel and voiced player again

First of all, they should replace Todd Howard for that to happen.

Starfield could have become an (Xbox) megaseller and critically acclaimed milestone in the Sci-Fi genre.

I would have never let them work with CreationEngine 2 for that, but scrapped it completely.

the Fallout 4 Anniversary edition is a JOKE.. way too expensive.. and its broken.. Bethesda is a joke now..