Fallout 4 is to the Fallout series what the first disney stars wars is to its franchise. something that, at its core, mistakes its own identity for iconography and marches on directionless with no unique ideas or interesting concepts. Instead, it relies on series' traditions and guns. Fallout 4 is a game that thinks people liked Fallout because focus groups of 13 yr old boys named Kyle think the apocalypse is cool and that power armor and shooting are awesome. Gone is any remote facsimile to something resembling well-thought world design, character writing, or role playing. Instead, characters talk at you and you select one of the boring options that never reflect the character you want to play. Because you can't play a character. You're a boring wife, with a shitty kid, on a lame adventure. An adventure thoroughly uninterested in creating anything, instead coasting off of things you recognize and modern game design tropes. yes, its combat feels better than New Vegas, but it's never as engaging.