Against my better judgement, I bought Fallout 4 on a whim. I'm now 3 hours in.
There's a lot of bugs, which is expected from Bethesda.
Visually, it doesn't really feel "current gen", though I am far from playing on max settings, I don't have the rig for it without drops in muh frame rate. But compared to how Skyrim was in comparison to games of its time, it's much less disappointing.
For one, THERE ARE COLORS. Still not a single green plant to be found, but at least it isn't 100% browns and grays.
So far the only enemies I've run into are molerats, various bugs, Raiders, one Deathclaw (that was not a fun fight let me tell you) and feral ghouls. The ghouls are really believably vicious, which is nice. But the AI on human opponents is up and down.
As for level design, there's some verticality added. Right now I'm at an assembly plant, and I feel like a damn ninja jumping around all over the place and shanking people.
Soundtrack and sound effects are on point.
It's alright so far / 10 - Mingspot