Having only played Fallout 3 before this, I don't think there's any way to think of it other than a direct upgrade in many many ways.
The story and different allegiances are very fleshed out with fun missions, almost always giving a diplomatic option. Almost any build is viable, even a pistol build (which is what I went for).
Combat is fun as usual and perks are varied with lots of fun options. The map is crafted in a way that makes it seem huge & expansive, but really is just engineered that way to fit as much as possible into a small space.
My main issues with this game are a couple places where they didn't bother to improve; namely audio levels being weird, the radio still having only like 5 songs on repeat and not as interactive as in 3, speech system was made worse imo, crafting/repair system still super uninteresting&unnecessary, minimaps (especially local maps) are extremely unintuitive and unreadable, and the worst of all: CRASHES. This game crashed so many times during my playthrough, and it's nothing to do with my PC, it's just a buggy game. Once or twice I even had to do console commands to fix missions that weren't ending / triggering an event that it should have.
BUT the game otherwise is SO good and charming that I have no choice but to give it such a high rating. There was fun round every corner and it's so hard to put the game down and not just play 1 more mission.
The story and different allegiances are very fleshed out with fun missions, almost always giving a diplomatic option. Almost any build is viable, even a pistol build (which is what I went for).
Combat is fun as usual and perks are varied with lots of fun options. The map is crafted in a way that makes it seem huge & expansive, but really is just engineered that way to fit as much as possible into a small space.
My main issues with this game are a couple places where they didn't bother to improve; namely audio levels being weird, the radio still having only like 5 songs on repeat and not as interactive as in 3, speech system was made worse imo, crafting/repair system still super uninteresting&unnecessary, minimaps (especially local maps) are extremely unintuitive and unreadable, and the worst of all: CRASHES. This game crashed so many times during my playthrough, and it's nothing to do with my PC, it's just a buggy game. Once or twice I even had to do console commands to fix missions that weren't ending / triggering an event that it should have.
BUT the game otherwise is SO good and charming that I have no choice but to give it such a high rating. There was fun round every corner and it's so hard to put the game down and not just play 1 more mission.