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I'm VERY tempted to buy Fallout 4: Game of the Year edition due to my hype for Fallout: London (which releases in April of this year), but I'm worried of getting burned if it turns out to be a bad/disappointing mod. :/
If you liked FO3 you'll like 4.
It's a lot stronger mechanically than 3 or NV - shooting is a lot less janky and the gun customization adds some great emergent quests.
The Boston of FO4 has its moments - a certain duck pond stands out to me in particular - but aside from Nick Valentine the questlines are largely forgettable.
Still, the core game loop is a lot of fun - go here, blow stuff up, scavenge bits to upgrade your stuff.
As a longtime Fallout fan (came for the isometric apocalypse, stayed for the 3D googie architecture) I still put 80 hours into FO4.
It's a good fuckin' game. It's just competing with the legacy of a lot of other great games in the series.
4, for it faults, is a wonderful framework for mods and survival playstyles.
Enjoy!
FO4 was...okay imo. It pales in comparison to NV and 3 imo though.
Imo, FO4 did everything better than FO3, except the plot. But FO3's plot was already kinda bland to begin with. I mean, back then... It was incredible. But not by today's standards.
As someone who couldn't tolerate F3/NV because they paled in comparison to 1/2, I actually really enjoyed 4. It lost a lot of the engine jank and felt like a decent FPS with light RPG mechanics, wearing the aesthetics of Fallout.
If you're still considering it, you can get it for like $10-$15 on GOG. Same price of steam but DRM Free, and it's almost always onsale.
Same boat man. Tough call.
Buy it, don't play it so you keep play time under 2 hours, refund it if it turns out to be a disappointment, keep it if not!
Or just wait for the reviews, and then the next sale. These Steam sales aren't one-off special offers, they happen a few times every year.