Witcher 3 is pretty cheap at the moment so I i'm definitely getting it first now. I'm ordering it tomorrow.

Old gen visuals, awful framerate often, and gameplay wise it's a good FPS but a very bad RPG, very bad writting and characters

So a decent game

We don't play dat shit on consoles, I gave myself a month ban on purchasing it.

Fallout 4 is such a major improvement in most areas over Fallout 3/NV and Skyrim. I didn't think they'd be able to do it but they cut out most of the bugs that plagued the engine. It has a fraction of the glitches that Skyrim and New Vegas had. I'm 240 hours into the game and I've only had two glitches of note--one has an easy workaround and the other did not repeat when I reloaded a save. I've had four crashes to desktop, two of which were related to the bugs I mentioned. With Skyrim, I crashed once a day.

As for size, the idea that it's short made me chuckle. I'm nowhere near finishing the main quest, I haven't done the Brotherhood of Steel questline yet, or the Railroad questline. I'm still swimming in side-quests.

It's kind of funny to read people only talk about what they feel are the negatives compared to older games but why don't they mention all the improvements? Guns are so much better now, especially with the new modification systems. The addition of reflex mods ALONE make Fallout 4 more fun. Settlements are a massive improvement, as are companions. There is a companion that will fit your playstyle.

It's not a game that holds your hand and makes your choices for you, though. If you're someone who complains about freedom and wants a game to force you into picking one path or one style of play then you might want something else.

Personally, I'm absolutely loving it. I do what I want when I want. Sometimes I just want to explore, or work on securing more settlements, or building up my settlements, or working on my armor and weapons, or following one faction or another. My character is who I want them to be without being led around by the nose based on a highly flawed "karma" system.

Let it download the 10 updates first :) There have been tons of fixes and improvements to UI and gameplay. It would have saved me a lot of aggravation if I had waited :) Fallout 4 can use some fixes too, it seems the quest I was following broke down on me. The quest follow up marker simply hangs in the air and the person I'm supposed to talk to is ignoring me. Luckily there is so much to do that a few broken quests are hardly a hindrance (just as in TW3) yet it's nicer for my game ocd to clear them off the quest log! I ended TW3 with a couple of broken quests and some that re-appeared as failed for no reason. Should all be fixed now.

Meanwhile I brought the ps4 to it's knees by building too many monitors in my settlement. With this billboard, consisting of 217 monitors, connected to my power grid of over 50 generators, my fps crashed down to an highly iregular 5fps :/

(I used a glitch to circumvent the size limit, yet there is a strange bug with large power grids. Disconnect the monitors from the power grid and the frame rate shoots back up, whether they're on or off)

its a definite buy for me. But I learned for NV and Skyrim, that if a Beth game launches in Nov I should buy it in Feb.
So ya patiently waiting on this.

I had a good bit of fun with it even if I kind of hated the main storyline. Played it on a stout PC, and with the right visual mods it actually looks fairly nice (it will look WAY better in a few months).

There are many games which are fine (or even better!) on consoles. Bethesda games are definitely to be played on a decent PC if possible.

There are some awesome mods already out. One fixes the stupid default simplified conversation tree by giving you a more detailed preview of each thing you can say to an NPC. Another fixes the bad stock map with one that shows more details, which really makes things more understandable along the way. And yet more greatly alleviate a ton of the terrible stock textures.

I'm looking forward to conversion mods that fix the terrible endings which force you to several awful (imho) choices that make no sense.

Anyway, if you enjoy Bethesda open world stuff from Oblivion through Fallout 3/NV and Skyrim, and can live with a bit of jank and some pretty poor storytelling, it's a great pickup. Best on PC, but decent either way.