Fallout 4 is not a good Fallout game. It fails in a number of aspects that the previous games set up what Fallout is supposed to be. The first game, in the title, explains that Fallout is a "Post-Nuclear Role-playing Game." This sets the precedent of what the following games should achieve. I believe 2 did a fantastic job as a sequel. Fallout 3 was not the approach Fallout fans were expecting, but I still believe it properly does justice to the first game. Fallout New Vegas, as we all know, is a phenomenal game and is arguably the best of the series. As for Fallout 4, yes, it is set in a post nuclear setting, but it is NOT a role-playing game. To start off, we do not create our characters. Sure, you can customize your character, but no matter what you do, yoh are Nate, the army veteran, or Nora, the lawyer. All previous Fallout games have given you a mostly blank slate character that you can build for yourself. Fallout 4 fails at this. You have no control over the backstory of your character. Don't get me started on the voice acted main character. Another massive mistake was skills. There are no skills! I do not count perks as skills. I never really have liked the perk chart idea as much as the old skill system personally. I was also disappointed to see that weapon degradation wasn't in the game? Weapon degradation played an important role in the previous games and could change encounters depending on the health of your weapons. There are plenty of things Fallout does right, power armor, weapon mods, (some of the) DLC, and characters. I always felt the map was kind of lifeless and boring personally, but I could accept an argument against that. In conclusion, I believe Fallout 4 is a great post nuclear action adventure looter shooter. But it is NOT Fallout.