The most obvious difference is that I played at launch and Seow is playing three years later with the support of mods. But Seow establishes trade routes and builds self-sustaining communities.
Sure, I tinkered a bit with the game’s open world settlement system, making basketball courts and the occasional farm. Seow’s Fallout 4 places him as a nobody caught up in a factional conflict bigger than he can ever really overcome. My experience with the game cast me as the wasteland’s chosen hero in his fight for android equality.