I played 90 hours and im still in the vault trying wake my wife up.

150 hrs, and still in the main quest line.

While the OP has clearly limited their play-through by focusing on one faction,

Fallout 4 is objectively not 'short' on content.

49 hours is short? Mate, you have some strange standards.

What's with these people who finish the main quest to brag about how quickly they can finish the game, then complain that 100 hours is too short LOL?! I suppose Halo 5 and the latest COD have more than 100 hours campaign.

Im 60 hours in and only did 4 of the main quests. To short? No this is nowheres near to short. There are so many possibilities and things to do in this game. You are really doing something wrong or just missed alot.

In Fallout 5 they will make it a 5 hour campaign and see how these people like it then.

No way you could have did all side quest in 49 hours. I'm close to 100 hours and I haven't beaten the game. Stop running through the game this isn't a COD campaign. Explore and level the map is way to big to beat under 50 hours.

LOL LMAO!!!!! Mmmmmmm Oh my god stop your freaking lying lol. There is not way you beat the game, all the side quest and explored everything on survival in under 50 hours. I call bs lol

I'm 120 hours in, done the main quest and mostly every sidequest. Still lots of the map I haven't seen yet, but I think I'll save that for my next playthrough

Iam at about 85-90 hours... and still not finished the main quest..

85 hour here and still hanging around Concord.

I guess you can complete the main quest pretty quickly. At the moment I'm role-playing searching for Shaun as quickly as possible. I've busted through Act 1 like a madman (as I would be in that situation). Act 2 has just started and given the revelations that Kellogg gave I'm role-playing that my character is confused and is trying to make sense of a lot of things. He's gone back to the Red Rocket to start building it up while he gets his head straight. Then he's going to investigate the BoS Airship. Once he's done that he'll likely get stuck into Act 2 as he gets a grip on things and blasts through Act 2. Once he discovers the truth he will likely go through another period of confusion where he wanders and keeps himself busy while he comes to terms with what he's learnt. Once he's explored the Wasteland for a while and started understanding each faction his loyalties will settle and he'll head towards endgame.

I can see myself getting a lot of time out of this game as I've only just finished Act 1 and I'm ten hours into this character.

Instead of bragging about how long/short the game is, I will tell you this:

This game works like finding mushrooms in forest, you can walk 5 times past the same spot and on the 6th you will find something. You are not able to split the map into 30 routes and think you saw all, you really have to do a lot of walking from different directions and try to see areas from different perspectives in order to find it all. It is easy to miss a door in a rock, that take about 5% of the screen and those door might take you to new area that is a 2h long dungeon. There are those tiny elements that are often barely visible and end up being a one hour adventure. That is why people say the game is about exploring.

I think that is the reason why experience differs so much between players.

People that complain about length are the ones who think that they found it all, because they've split map into sections, walked from left to right in each section and that's all. They see entire map covered in icons and think that game has nothing more to offer, while they saw 30%.

Another problem is the completionist approach. People say that they are done, when game says they're done. If something is not written as a quest/achievement, then they see no point in doing it. There is a lot of content that is fun, dozens of unmarked locations, hidden jokes, terminal stories that are just as entertaining as everything else, but some people won't care because there is nothing to gain in terms of statistics. But that makes difference, one guy plays to have fun and understands the story, while another guy will just play it like fps, rushing to unlock achievements. You have the right to play the way you want but don't say the game is short if you refuse to do half of the content because it is unmarked on map and doesn't give experience points.

I'm taking the same road in the north for the 5th time today and I am pretty confident I'll find new quests and events to do like always.

If you don't like exploring same places over and over and it is not fun to you, then I guess you picked wrong game, wrong genre. It was pretty obvious how it will work before release.

I think I went 40 hours straight at one point not doing anything in the main quest. I just left it at the agency and went out and explored the world.

thanks for that, i needed that boost today.

It took be like 70+ hours to finish my first playthrough. But I did pretty much advance every faction as far as I could before I had to make a choice.

For my current playthrough I'm ignoring the Minutemen and the BOS, and I'm already at the Glowing Sea Mission with only 12 hours. I didn't get to the Glowing Sea until 50+ hours in the first time.

I don't understand this.

First playthrough - 85 hours. Probably 4 hours of that was settlement building.

Did the main quest and the railroad.

Completed lots of side quests, but still had tons in my Pipboy.

Never even visited the northeast or southeast portions of the map.

Still have undiscovered locations in Boston.

And you CAN complete the main quest too fast in Fallout 4 - in the since that a lot of quests and sidequests become permanently unavailable past certain points in the main quest line. Let yourself get distracted and wander off the beaten path.