70 hours, never been "even seen from distance- Diamond City.

FO4 seems to be smaller, both in geography and quest depth. But nothing to base that one other than gameplay. DLC and mods will embiggen the game.

yep

Fallout 4 is way bigger than Skyrim. Anyone who says otherwise doesn't know what they're talking about and rushed the game.

For me Fallout 4 feels smaller than Skyrim. And I wasn't yet much south of Boston. My feeling has much to do with the density of the settlements and the fast travel. The absence of in-the-game-travel-devices in Fallout forces you to fast travel much more than in Skyrim. I can only play Skyrim with fast travel disabled but I see this impossble in Fallout 4. I don't have the feeling of exploring a big wasted land in Fallout 4, just in the beginning it was there. BTW what does the danger of a radstorm mean when you can easily fast travel away and back?

To be honest I feel the exact opposite. The map feels tiny, but the expansiveness and intricacies of the city helps balance that out. It feels far smaller than Skyrim in terms of physical size, but feels way bigger in terms of things to do and places to explore.

Running from one edge of Skyrim to the other is surprisingly fast. Probably the same with Fallout 4, Fallout 3 on the other hand is far smaller both map size and number of quests than FO4 and Skyrim.

Now one difference between Fallout 4 and Skyrim is that Skyrim has lots of guild and faction quest lines you are railroaded into and who stand open even after doing the main quest.

In Fallout 4 its a bit easy to just do one faction and main quest and dooing main quest kill off the other factions.

there's twice the playable space in fallout 4, skyrims map is deceptive becaue the mountains take up a huge footprint and you're funneled in between the mountain ranges so its actually a half the traverasible area, so its the other way around, its less space and less to do also, not in way of quests so far but its got far less going on the map than fallout 4 which is just dense map for the most part, very dense in some areas.

To expand upon all the comments about both the density in Fallout 4 and the non-traversable areas in Skyrim...

One thing I'm loving in F4 is the verticality (I think that's the right buzzword...). In all the city areas - which cover a fair porttion of the map - You can get up on the roofs of most every building! Fire escapes and ramps are all over the place giving access to a huge world of raider camps and secret entrances in to buildings which don't always have ground-floor entrances and aren't always named locations (that is, a location with a map icon).

It's when you go 'up' in the world that you can really see the scale of the world. Go up to the top of Trinity Tower and enjoy the joy!

Skyrim feels like it has more content and replayability compared to FO4 imo. I dunno, for a bethesda game FO4 just feels a little less epic and grand than their previous games.

It may be bigger from a traversable real estate pov, and in my brain i realize all the vertical space prob does make it bigger than skyrim, but in the sense that counts the most for me - it 'feels' smaller and certainly less 'epic' world. Skyrim go its credit, gave me a sense of grand scope that FO4 while very enjoyable, does not.

Well do more people like swords and bows, Or Guns and Lasers?

I do not know, for one thing you can go past the edges of the map if you do not mind death claws and radiation and it is a very large map with a lot of buildings it seems about the same size to me.

I'll be honest, I felt like this "maps too small,not enough to do" after completing the MQ in under 35 hours.Then I remembered I'm playing a bethesda game and started to build and adventure now at 74 hours and still finding loads to do.i have been all over the map but still finding locations I didn't discover earlier. I put over 2000 hours into oblivion about the same into skyrim and fallout NV. I think fallout 4 map size is very deceptive....its huge.

you did everything in 60 hours? no you didn't, thats a huge lie, sure you have fallout 4?, there is NO POSSIBLE WAY, you do everything in 60 hrs...its not possible, sorry but i doubt you do much exploring if you even actually have the game at all, to make a comment like " i did everything in 60 hrs" thats absurd and laughable.

I'm 120 hours in. The Castle is the furthest south that I've been, I have only been to Diamond City once for a quick look round, I haven't discovered every spot in the northern part of the map, I have only had Dogmeat and Garvey as companions - haven't even had the option to take another one yet. I have never met most of the factions that get mentioned in these threads. I played Skyrim as about six different characters but I reckon I'll be playiong FO4 for at least a further 500 hours before I feel the urge to roll another character.

So no, FO4 is not smaller than Skyrim by any measure.

Skyrim was way way way way bigger.

It took me literally months of play time to explore and clear every destination in Skyrim.

I started playing Fallout 4 2 weeks ago and have 3 days of play time in and I've explored almost everything.

I have a little exploring to do in the bottom left corner of the map, and that's all...

In Skyrim it took you easily 2 times (if not 3) as long to get across the map if you rode a horse than it does to walk it in Fallout 4.

That said, I enjoyed Fallout 4's story line and role playing a lot more than Skyrim.

I think the map was bigger in skyrm but locations and quests aren't anywhere near as abundant as in fallout 4.

Im still finding new things all the time and not finding any empty areas. Though I would like to see more types of enemy out there.

Fallout is bigger.

I played through Skyrim twice, three times if you count a temp character I made as I messed up an achievement quest twice over. It was a fantastic experience but for me lacked replayability - exploring randomly wasn't as much fun and the combat not as involving.

For skyrim. I find that harder to reach an destination. Due to the high mountains. Following the quest marker direction doesnt really help much. For fo4. The direction and destination is more straightforward.

Vanilla fo4 had more combats too. While skyrim is more empty.

But fo4 lost out to skyrim on npc dialogue. Npc interactions number is lower.