Well, I did make a post already. But I've kept trying to play because I spent 60 dollars and didn't want to feel like it went to waste (I got a refund (well he said it would be accepted) from talking to support chat/email, but then they decided NAH no refund too many hours played lol. oh well, guess its a huge lesson for me to never buy first day or pre-order no matter what company is behind the game (as bethesda is generally one of my favorite gaming companies)
Onto my final thoughts (really final this time lol)
Maybe its just me, but I thought Skyrim was vastly better. I also think Fallout 3 and new vegas were way better too. But Skyrim being newer than NV...
Skyrim takes about 25-30 minutes to get from one end of the map to the other if you don't stop and follow the roads. Like solitude to windhelm takes me 20-30 game time to get to it, but I don't use a horse. The number sky rockets if I DO NOT ignore bandits, but this is just running and sprinting ignoring everything. And that is only from city to city.
Fallout 4, I can get one end of the map to the other in 10-15 minutes, while following the roads AND being distracted by stuff (but ignoring mutants). And that is from starting in Sanctuary and going into Diamond City
Fallout 4 map feels WAY smaller than Skyrim.
Fallout 4 does also feel like it has vastly less content than Skyrim, comparing vanilla vs vanilla (taking no mods into account).
Skyrim, I can get so lost by the millions of possible dungeons, side quests, or doing random cr@p
Fallout 4, building a settlement is cool, but speaking of mods, Skyrim and fallout 3/NV has a WAY more USEFUL settlement building mod. In fallout 4 it feels like it doesn't really have any use, AND in fallout 4 if you build too many defenses the AI doesn't attack you (at least in sanctuary). Feels very secondary, and Skyrim's building mod(s) and Fallout 3/NV feel vastly superior and vastly more useful.
But, fallout 4...feels...like...I don't get lost at all in what I want to do or not do. There is barely anything to do compared to Skyrim or even fallout 3 or new vegas. That was why I liked older Bethesda games, they FELT vastly more sandboxy than fallout 4 does. I think this is where I'm not liking fallout 4 and where it doesn't feel right to me. While skyrim is more of a sandpark (or whatever you want to call it, since it isn't really a sandbox, but not a themepark game)...fallout 4 feels like a themepark game to me with an open world.
That doesn't even touch the lack of RPG feeling fallout 4 has (which I think I posted in my thoughts before), and I don't like FPS games, and fallout 4 feels way too much like a FPS game (which in fallout 3/NV was fine cause it had tons more RPG stuff). And a number of other issues.
But the key thing for me is, all of Bethesda's previous games felt vastly more sandboxy to me, where as fallout 4 is like playing a themepark game with an open world.
Maybe just me that sees it that way, dunno, everyone is different. But it is the very first Bethesda game that I've been disappointed by.
On the other hand, my friend is LOVING fallout 4 and compares it to borderlands all the time...which I really didn't like borderlands...but thats just me
its not my type of game
But I do see it being compared to that a lot, especially by console players. If it is indeed like borderlands (to be honest never played it, I already know from watching videos I'd not like it at all), no wonder I'm PERSONALLY greatly disliking fallout 4 lol. (edit: I should say, my friend doesn't even LIKE RPGs, only fps and RTS games, he hasn't ever liked one single RPG. Which to me since I know him personally, speaks for itself that he likes fallout 4 so much lol)
And also as a sidenote, it isn't even because I played Witcher 3 before hand. I never really got into Witcher 3, I think skyrim is better (definitely my opinion on this one) simply because witcher 3 has vastly worse modding capabilities and skyrim's modded is vastly superior to witcher 3 for me (again my opinion lol).
I'll be going back to playing modded Skyrim and witcher 3 (I do like it if I could play a female lol) once a playable ciri mod is out (if there ever is one)