[Question] The Gamingforce Game of the Year 2015: Too many massive RPGs - voting edition

Fallout 4: 30 points. I didn't play much of Fallout 3 but what I do remember is the game being a bit more difficult at the start. Since Skyrim came out and Bethesda integrated the scaled difficulty into both Skyrim and FO4 it was a little easier to get into the game. So I played along for a while but started losing interest when the weight limit made it difficult to make improvements to my weapons and armor, and then

Spoiler:

once I got to the Institute and heard my son was running the ASPH (Android Society for the Prevention of Humans) I said fuck it and annihilated the whole Institute...and then the whole Brotherhood for being a bunch of smarmy dicks.

Unfortunately I only made a quicksave prior to that and the save got deleted so I couldn't go back and redo it. So now I'm starting over but this time I'm playing with all the perks on (and leveled up to 270 or whatever it is to do that) and an absurdly high weight limit so I'm a little freer to explore and see what the whole world has to offer. (Most people seem to like a more challenging game, but I like a more liberating game.)

I guess that's my problem with these open-world games: yeah, I get that they want you to work up to being this powerful character who slowly explores the world and (your)self and your abilities, but, at least in FO4, you're kinda stuck having to follow a storyline in order to get the most out of it and I don't necessarily want to do that.

Back to the factions. I'm glad to see I'm not alone in thinking the four factions are each disappointing in some way. It's part of the reason I'm starting over and avoiding their questlines. I can see the merits of all of them but their negatives (Minutemen: boring; Brotherhood: dicks; Railroad: lifeless; Institute: dishonest elitists, like those never existed anywhere) make me not want to back any of them. But then I realized that there's no logic to wiping them out if I want to get longevity out of a playthrough so I had to start over.

Other random thoughts: I do enjoy the gunplay, stealth, and economy of the game. I still haven't fully determined whether salvaging stuff for crafting or selling stuff for caps is wiser. I think fast traveling also ruined the game for me a bit, so I'm trying not to. Dog is the best companion.

I forgot all about Rocket League. What a blast of a game. I'm a fan of soccer games and arcade-y driving games and Rocket League merged them both together quite well. 30 points.

Jam it back in, in the dark.