People complain a lot about the story in FO4, lack of choice, etc. but we've KNOWN this. In Fallout 3 your main objective and whole reason for going out into the wasteland was to find your father.

What if I don't give a shit about him? I'm looking for myself out in the wasteland, why do I have to through such lengths to find the guy that left me in the vault for safety, completely disregard his wishes and go on this epic wasteland-crawling adventure for no reason other than "werees me dad uhee uhurr".

Same problem persists in FO4. Where no matter what, "you have to look out for the best for the commonwealth", after the first playthrough(and the first for some people) I'm in a state of "Motherfucker I don't CARE what happens to the commonwealth, I need to deal with the fact that I need to take care of myself first". But no, you're forced to play along with the good guy act of actually giving 2 shits about the Commonwealth, which took your son and made you hate him depending on what route you take.

New Vegas didn't have this problem. No matter what you did, changes were happening with or without you. Someone in the middle of this mess is gonna want to come out on top, and it's up to you whether to take up arms with either of the 3 forces, or go for broke and become the top dog, the true survivor.

The New Vegas story was a story about the "survival of the fittest", even if one of the factions(Legion) was inherently evil. No matter what type of character you played, no matter who you are, you're gonna want security. That's what made the NV fallout story a real story.

Both the original games had stories about survival, whether it was the water chip or the GECK, either was about staying alive.

In 3 and 4 it's just assuming you have this good guy mentality, and it really puts a damper on the game as a whole having the groan I have to keep doing the main quest , knowing full well you shouldn't have such a adamant feeling on the main story of a game.

I went on a bit of a rant here but I wanted to write this because I was about to play FO4 and I remember on my current playthrough I've yet to go save Nick because I simply don't fucking care. Don't get me wrong, I have 230 something hours on this game, and they'll keep coming, but being put off of launching because I remember that I have yet to do the first batch of main quests and its' just waiting for me is upsetting.