Played this game at launch and haven't felt like playing it through again since, but Fallout 4 is a lot of fun when you're shooting and exploring but the story and questing segments in-between are painfully mediocre to bad.

The gunplay is fine and I enjoyed exploring the Commonwealth but the RPG elements are toned down so much that they might as well not be here. In particular, I take huge issue with the voiced protagonist (not the acting, it was fine), it had such a negative impact on the whole dialogue system that not even mods can really fix due to the, at max, four responses an NPC can give you when you are given a choice. The story is uninteresting with pretty poor writing and very few likeable characters. Also, the way they did the whole "choose a side just to get this ending" thing was done so poorly (in part due to the lack of a real Reputation system). It felt pretty rushed in the end.

It's pretty disappointing to me as a Fallout game but I had a good time with it, overall. Most of the DLC was pretty shit but I highly recommend checking out the Far Harbor expansion if you enjoyed the synth related and Nick Valentine quest lines. It still has many issues that the base game does but with a more interesting setting and much improved writing.

I'm kind of mixed on this one. I liked the soundtrack but there is a noticeable downgrade and variety of tracks here than in previous games, and the combat was fun (albeit very very easy, even on Nightmare) with some new additions to spice things up. However, I am pretty conflicted about the story overall.

Cold Steel IV's plot is really really good at points with some awesome and emotional moments but at the same time it is very messy, with a lot of blatant filler and generic shonen and power of friendship stuff. It was almost nauseating to boot up the game sometimes because I just was not very invested in some of the early to mid-game plot. Without getting too spoiler-y, it is disappointing to me that Falcom chose not to commit to some of the highly emotional moments from past games in the saga, instead choosing to undo them here. I don't mind twists like that occasionally but it really did lessen the impact certain moments could have had in this game, as I started feeling that nothing bad could actually happen to good guys. I did love the big crossover between the Trails sagas, however.

I definitely didn't dislike Trails of Cold Steel IV or anything, though. I enjoyed it a lot overall. It just wasn't as impactful of an ending to the trilogy as I was expecting.