It's a great game, but obviously not without it's flaws.


General Thoughts:

 

-Settlements are fun to build up.  Scrapping spare junk lying around is useful, but I also feel like I want to save everything like a hoarder, instead of selling it so I can buy Ammo.  Which means I run out of ammo a lot.  I like to scrap stuff that's lying around, and usually spend a little time doing that every time I get a new settlement.


-There's too many turrets.  The first settlement quest you get, you have to go take out some raiders near Concord, and you expect a fairly easy early quest.  A few raiders equipped with melee weapons, and maybe a few with some guns.  Instead what you get is a fortress with turrets with difficult to reach consoles, and raiders armed to the teeth.  Obviously you don't have to do the mission right away, but you have to start somewhere.  In almost every place you go, there's turrets just waiting to eat away at your health. Codsworth and I managed it, but only after I toned the difficulty down.


-The Map is much better than Fallout 3.  Getting around is really easy.  There don't seem to be a lot of places where you have to worry about getting stuck.  And unlike New Vegas, there's not been any places (so far at least) where there's Deathclaws waiting to tear my eyes out at level say... 7 or 8.  (I'm level 18 now).  I did run into the Legendary Deathclaw.  Then I ran as fast as I could, and fast traveled back to Sanctuary.  


-There should have been a tutorial for building settlements.  Seriously.  I mean I got the hang of it eventually, but there's still some things I don't understand.  A Tutorial quest for that would have been nice.  Especially since it's a new feature.  I had to look up Supply Lines and shops.


-The game is absolutely gorgeous.  Now if only it could be less buggy... Haven't had any crashes so far, so that's a plus at least.


-Companions are way easier to find than in Fallout 3.  In FO3 i didn't have a companion until toward the end of the game.  It's more like New Vegas in that regard, where ED-E and Boone were with me almost the whole time.  I do wish you could take more than one at a time though.  One human and one non-human companion would be nice. 


-I like the critical system in VATS.  And I like the addition of VANS, which makes it easy to find your way around.


-Dialog choices are a little weak, but that's what you'll get with a voiced protagonist.  Wish they had a bit more impact though.  


-Shops should be cheaper, or produce more bottlecaps for you.  One or the other.  I mean I think you have to have settlers unassigned to anything to make money off of them, which makes no sense.  

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