Played this game at launch and haven't felt like playing it through again since, but Fallout 4 is a lot of fun when you're shooting and exploring but the story and questing segments in-between are painfully mediocre to bad.

The gunplay is fine and I enjoyed exploring the Commonwealth but the RPG elements are toned down so much that they might as well not be here. In particular, I take huge issue with the voiced protagonist (not the acting, it was fine), it had such a negative impact on the whole dialogue system that not even mods can really fix due to the, at max, four responses an NPC can give you when you are given a choice. The story is uninteresting with pretty poor writing and very few likeable characters. Also, the way they did the whole "choose a side just to get this ending" thing was done so poorly (in part due to the lack of a real Reputation system). It felt pretty rushed in the end.

It's pretty disappointing to me as a Fallout game but I had a good time with it, overall. Most of the DLC was pretty shit but I highly recommend checking out the Far Harbor expansion if you enjoyed the synth related and Nick Valentine quest lines. It still has many issues that the base game does but with a more interesting setting and much improved writing.