OK they didn't get the Skyrim SE glorious GFX, but I always found it part of the charm of the Fallout series.. and on the other hand the modding communities made it fantastic with overhaul mods.
True but it needs the quests. Now granted there are a lot of quests in Fallout 4 but nowhere near the amount that were in the FO3 + DLC games. The DLC for FO4 was a joke ! glad I only paid £15 for it from CDKeys whilst it was cheap. Two quest DLCs and the others are just boring and almost put me to sleep.
No what I mean by soul is having buildings you can enter and then spend three or four hours exploring like in Fallout 3. Hidden quests (like Sidney and Moonbeam, Keller Family etc). Fallout 4 has none of that. What you see from outside of it is pretty much what you get.
They have tried too hard on things that were not important (like building, it's post apocalypse for crying out loud just give me a mattress) and didn't focus on what was important, like depth.
Obsidian had a year or two to develop New Vegas and did it remarkably quickly. It was a fantastic game, however, again it lacked depth. Hardly any of the buildings were even open, let alone full of goodies.
FO4 should have had all of that and more, due to the time they spent on it. However, large chunks of the map were lazily marked off as waste zones full of fallout and nothing more and even the main city was hugely disappointing.
I spent more time in the metros in Fallout 3 than I did playing Fallout 4.
And yeah, graphics don't make a good game but they were probably THE most important thing. Bethesda had already nailed gameplay we've seen that time and time again, so they should have made it look better IMO. It just doesn't feel like a true Fallout 4. Fallout 3.5 maybe?
