Listening to the reviews was a mistake!

Seriously someone tried Fallout 4, decided it wasn't for them, and moved on by not getting it...how is this bad?

Whereas i played fallout 4 to the end and found it a tier 3 game. Or 'aggressively average' as the Lorerunner put it.

Truth be told, Bethesda games really don't have a wow opening to them. Oblivion starts you out in prison, you get out cause the emperors secret exit happens to be in your cell, then you're out in the open world to explore. Skyrim starts you out on the patch to execution (wrong place, wrong time) where you're exposed to the world once past getting through the dragon attack. Fallout 3 and 4 just start you in a vault, then you leave for whatever reason to go to wastelands.

in short: they don't really have eye opening intros but the exploration they have is HUGE and you're not restricted. I wouldn't expect a great story either, its serviceable at best, the meat is really everything else besides the main story line. The crafting is awesome, building your own trading centers, exploring other vaults and finding out their intents and what happened as an after effect, the various buildings of Boston, and the simple joy of inventory management if you're a hardcore gunslinger (ammo can get rare depending on your play style).

fyi in general: I'd prefer FO4 character character over andromedas character preset. I could spend hours on it where as I can't with Andromedas.

I prefer FO4s creator cause it has more options than Andromeda, not so much about good looking characters to me however I think it's more do-able in Bethesda games because of more options. You can change the forehead, nose, cheeks in their games where as in Andromeda all you can do is move it, not really changing the actual appearance.

Skyrim opens with a demi-god Dragon attack and FO4 opens with an Atomic Bomb going off.  You are one hard person to impress.

For me it's about the result, not the process, and what I see coming out of cryochamber in Andromeda is alive, breathing characters that look great to my eyes, and move well. In FO4 I see a maneken that moves stiffly, and well, lacks the plastic beauty of a Barbie doll that I would have accepted as artistic licence in a game that is supposed to be about 1950s.... it's void of some sort of attraction, spirit, anything... just lifeless and dated.

Yah, think we're aware of the kitchen that you've spoken about ad nauseam.

Heh. Try Morrowind. You wake up on a boat, under arrest for something, or maybe nothing. The boat docks in Morrowind, where you get off, talk to the local official who... hands you some money and lets you go. You're supposed to go introduce yourself to some guy in a city in the middle of the island. You can go there or not go there, nobody's going to make you. And that's it.

Hope that you know that V changes your perspective. First to third person. I dunno, maybe you knew that, maybe you didn't. *shrug*

Who wants to play RPGs in first person anyways?

I play Skyrim in 3rd person.

Majority of people don't...