I understand why so many people hated this game. It's a lot more ambitious than part 1 and takes way more risks with it's story, and the result is something divisive and a bit inconsistent. I really did love this game despite all that though, and as someone who was going through a lot of mental health issues at the time, seeing this character I related to so much as a younger teenager fall into this downward spiral of self destructive (and obviously just plain destructive) behavior as all her worst fears come crashing down on her hit me in a way that not a lot of other games really do.

I see a lot of people say this is "a good game, just a bad Fallout game", and I used to agree. But the more I think about Fallout 4, the more I just hate it honestly. It sacrificed so much that made Fallout special and for what? To be another mediocre open world FPS game about collecting loot? Was it really worth all that time and effort to turn this series into something so bland? Fallout 4 isn't "a good game, just a bad Fallout game."
It's a dull, repetitive trend chaser that abandoned every last bit of it's potential.