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Imo, no.
It suffered from the same mechanical changes as Skyrim. They streamlined a lot of it, and you end up encountering mostly the same few enemy types. Because of pathing and clipping issues, dumb things like bloatbugs ended up being deadlier than Deathclaws.

There isn't a lot of roleplaying, your skills don't factor into questing/dialogue as much as it did in FO3 or New Vegas, a lot of the quests are repetitive, it is difficult at times to discern when a mission is a radiant mission or not.

Outpost building was a wasted mechanic, really just serves to glitch the economy for unlimited bottle caps.

A lot of it just feels lazy and incomplete. Like the town of Salem which has *really* interesting history in real life. They recreated some of the historical sites so well in Fallout 4, then... just left it mostly empty with a couple of throwaway forgettable missions.

The pacing of the story was a complete wash - they put so much time into pointless radiant missions that if you end up following the main story you get through the whole thing pretty quickly and any shocking revelatory moments are quashed instantly.

The whole base game just felt like a second job to me tbh. There's an expansion pack (Far Harbor? Or something like that) that actually had more traditional Fallout writing with interesting gameplay choices, but it was short. I just wish the whole game had been like that.

Finally, my biggest personal gripe was a glitch with the stealth system. No matter what, every time I sniped someone with a silenced weapon, everything immediately detected me. I would be trying to snipe a group of supermutants from across town and I'd get a kill and then have a handful of mininukes raining down on me with pinpoint precision. Just ruined that for me.