Am I doing something wrong? I pre-ordered Fallout 4 (digitally) on Ps4 the moment it became available, having faith that I would fall in love with the game and it would fill the void left by my 200+ hours of Ps3 Skyrim gameplay. 

About 15 or so hours in, I'm really having trouble just loading the game up. 

Idk what it is. Everything seems like a chore. I'm not invested in the world. The visuals are meh but honestly that's not the thing. It's obvious they sacrificed 2015 top standard visuals for great performance; to which Bethesda succeded. I've yet to run into any game ending bugs and the framerate (surprisingly) runs very smoothly. 

I know it's probably one of those games that you really have to dig into it for a while to become invested in the story/atmosphere of the world. But I don't remember Skyrim being like that. 

The moment I loaded Skyrim for the first time and traversed into WhiteRun... Breathtaking. The world was amazing. It really suck me into it with a great atmosphere and soundtrack. Fallout 4 just didn't doing the same thing for me. I'm sure once I carve out a good 10 hours to just play it straight I will be able to actually enjoy what the game does best. 

But until then I feel like it's a pain to get into it. 

Anybody else feeling the same way?

Fallout 4 has gotten very mixed reception from those with high expectations of an enthralling, visually masterful experience. That aside, I bought The Witcher 3 and just couldn't get into it. It happens.

It's tough to impress when the Witcher 3 came out this year. Fallout 4 is more of a shooter than a RPG.

It took me longer (about 47-48 hours, the last ten are paused time), but I largely feel the same way, but also for some additional reasons. I haven't played for a few days now, and I don't really feel like it either.

How are you playing it? I started out wandering around on my own, exploring, not paying attention to the quests. I was already 15 hours in before I went to the Corvega assembly plant. No different from when I played Skyrim.
It is more rewarding if you pay attention to the logs scattered around and Preston with his minute men is kinda a low point of the game. The side quests are much better. (I guess he's a side quest too, I vaguely remember some baby I'm supposed to start looking for)

Maybe it's a case of open world fatigue. It does ask a lot of your time and these games are never enjoyable when you're in a rush or only have a small amount of time to play. If you could only play an hour of Skyrim at a time you would probably feel the same way.

Probably because the entire Fallout plot was synth-lovers vs synth-haters, and all you can really do is shoot things. I found the power fantasy a little too easy to acheive as well; you got power armor pretty early into the game, and became the General of the MInutemen not long after that....

In Skyrim there was the College of Winterhold, the Blades, the Imperials vs the Stormcloaks, the Thieves Guild, the Dark Brotherhood, and the really cool sidequests from the different towns. The murder mystery in Morthal, the mining prison in Markarth, the really cool ruins all over the place in which you could learn new dragon shouts, all the different races and their conflicts (including the Falmer, Dwemer and Thalmor) etc.

Im about to pop this game in . We shall see how it goes.

200+ hours of Ps3 Skyrim maybe just filled up your Bethesda craving. Their games don't change that much. I never got into skyrim and i think part of that was fatigue over playing morrowind, oblivion, fallout 3 and a number of expansion packs. There were other reasons. I think getting sick of mediocre subquests in big worlds after going though an mmo phase was a major factor for me.

It's hard for me to put my finger on why. I'm prepared to give fallout 4 a shot when I have the time.

I started out by doing just that. I did the first quest where you help preston and his gang; then set up sanctuary. Did a couple small things then went to the Corvega to help him get rid of the raiders. 

After that I just walked around trying to explore and get lost in the world. It didn't happen. 

I think a big problem I'm having honestly is the difficulty. I played Skyrim from the start at normal and slowly ramped it up to the hardest difficulty as I got stronger/more knowledge of the combat. 

But in Fallout 4 I had to turn it all the way down to very easy. I'm not a pro gamer, but I'm quite experienced so it feels weird. I had a tough time finding things to feel me. I'm searching everywhere but can't seem to find anything lol. I think that's a big part about why I'm not enjoying it. 

Also I have 3/4 of my HP bar full of RAD and I know you supposed to find somebody in Diamond city to help you with that but I can't find her. And I don't want to google it lol. 

Nothing wrong with you. Skyrim is neat because it's about magic and dragons Fallout is literally and figuratively a wasteland.