I played fallout 4 hours or so and after talking with a friend of mine who has played it more, it seems I'm almost at the end. I like the freedom to develop your character to pretty much anything, but in the end it felt just as pointless as in oblivion, unless you really want to collect items a lot.
At times it had okay story bits and such, but mostly the dialogue is unnatural, characters are robots and the world is surprisingly bland. I didn't feel the horrors of nuclear radiation, there was no despair, no joy, it was all very monotonous at least so far. Some places had good ideas and such, but the presentation just takes the edge off of everything.
For example, you walk in to the first town, there's a guy who offers you a detonator for the nuke. No-one around reacts to this and it's odd how he offers it to some random guy who comes in. The mutant guy at the bar became friendly instantly when you selected the nice line and so forth and that seemed to be the case with most of them mutants. Extremely xenophobic people don't usually become your friends the moment you say something nice to them...... you know, cause the moment they let their guard down the anti mutant guy would take advantage of the situation.
I don't know how much people work at bethesda, but one guy dedicated to making the characters emote would've been enough. Currently they can only sit, stand, or move their mouths, that's it. In fallout 2 they moved around, made expressions and such.
I've found the game to be lots of fun regardless, but for reasons other than the characters or story. I invested all my level up points on unarmed, melee and stealth, so now i can just pwn everything with a knife or a sword. Even the supermutants go down with 2 or 3 slashes, which is kind of odd, since my brother is at the same location in his save and the same enemies take like a 100 shots from the minigun. He's also at a higher level than me, so the enemies probably level up as you do.
@dogmeat
Some places have none, some places are filled with invisible walls. There's a few city locations that have very specific paths that you can't stray from.
I'm on the fence with this game at the moment. Occasionally there would be great immersion, but it's constantly interrupted by things mentioned before and BUGS!