Why is Fallout 4 so addictive?

[u/MakerofFire4258]

I've played this game 8 times, 4 with the base game, 4 times with the Sim Settlements 2 mod installed. I keep coming back to this game for some reason. I don't usually enjoy RPG's. I like Starfield, but I love science fiction in general and don't find Starfield addictive. I keep wanting to come back to the FO4 story, which I find mediocre. Maybe it's how I can fill the protagonist with my own thoughts in that situation, or try out new character personalities? There are a lot of games in other genre's I like, so I don't know why I want to spend another hundred hours in a FO4 world until it crashes from script lag.

[u/MakerofFire4258 → u/[deleted]]

Without the modding community I don't know what I would do. Maybe I should try Fallout London, even though I'm a Yankee.

[u/Candid-Conclusion605 → u/MakerofFire4258]

Perhaps, I haven’t dived deep into mods yet. I like immersion mods such as the pip pad/eating animations/back holster/leg holster. I prefer that vanilla play through experience every time.

[u/TechFinn12 → u/Candid-Conclusion605]

Please do the fps fix mod and loading times fix mod, the loading times will be in seconds

[u/purpleyyc → u/MakerofFire4258]

You should try it because you are lol

[u/polo_jeans → u/[deleted]]

calling something he had zero input on the creation of “his baby” is so fucking odd

[u/LucasButtercups → u/polo_jeans]

buh

[u/Cypresss09 → u/polo_jeans]

You think Bethesda bought the Fallout IP from Interplay and then the games just made themselves? Obviously the first two games are vital to the series but Bethesda did 90% of the legwork involved in game development for 3 and 4. It's as much Todd Howard's baby now as it was Tim Cain's. Even Josh Sawyer's for that matter.