I like Fallout 4, I really do, but that doesn't mean I'm not puzzled by it's lack of direction. There is a sense of urgency, desperation and a fish out of water feeling up until the point you bump into Preston. Once you have murdered 20-30 raiders and a deathclaw with a chain-gun whilst wearing power armor for some guy you just met, the games direction really breaks at this point for me. As someone who tried to play the game "realistically" I said NO to quests (even though I was still given them anyway) and focused (as I believe any desperate parent would) to find my infant son. By the time I had reached the glowing sea I realized that this wasn't the intended method of playing as I was under-leveled and under-equipped. I felt at this point it was a good idea to seek help from other's, and made finding fusion cores my quest. My in game brain thought, oh, the brotherhood of steel, I bet if I got in with those I could get some fusion cores. But it was just people asking too much of a guy searching for his son, and sent me off in a direction that any of the quests I refused to accept would have. It was 80 hours in that I discovered that Fallout 4 had already planned how I should play. I was meant to play as a nice guy who helps everyone for no reason, who kill's, lock-picks and hacks everything. Who spends a disturbingly amount of time building furniture just to make complete strangers feel comfy, and cleaning mess up (because it would appear that world was frozen for 200+ years and not just me). So I started a new game, and decided to play it the way I had felt the developers expected of me. I killed everything and helped everyone, even if it meant trekking half way across the map. I completed the main quests as and when I wasn't distracted by something else, but all this resulted in was a lack of depth and emotion for my son and the whole situation. For the next 150+ gaming hours I was essentially some kind of God, destroying all in my way. I don't know, maybe it's just me, it's hard to like the character Fallout 4 wants me to be when he/she cares so little for their kidnapped child. Mod's like "Live Another Life" can't come soon enough so I don't have to be the fickle minded ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ I'm forced to play as.