The story sucked, you were basically given the option of two major factions to join, either the scientists that wanted to hide from the majority of humanity while replacing them with synthetic clones or the Brotherhood of Steel chud brigade that is led by one of the guys from Dude Perfect, there is a 3rd faction of freedom fighters but they only offer a handful of quests and I don’t think you can even complete the story only siding with them. NPC interactions were homogenized to the point you had 4 dialogue options (Yes) (Yes but sarcastic) (Fuck you but ultimately yes) (No). The weapons and armor were stripped of unique varieties you’d have to go into vaults or other dangerous areas to find and implemented a Borderlands/Mmo style loot table with stat/effect modifiers. Base building was janky as fuck, some people liked it but it was painful getting tiles to snap together correctly. The whole game likely needed another year in the oven imo, seemed like a lot of it was rushed or incomplete. I will say the gun handling is the best of any of the 3rd person FO games and getting into power suits is basically like stepping into a mecha which was cool.
You can side with the railroad against both the institute and the brotherhood but otherwise I agree with all of that.
Oh, I guess I’ll add it was the first time I really got into having a follower. I got in the habit of just not using them in Bethesda games because the AI was typically awful and ruined my stealth archer/rifleman play style but they did a good job with making me want to do their personal quests.