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>>story axes the complex and thought out lore of the series for fanfiction-esque writing, warping factions like the brotherhood into caricatures
It well it literally was fan fiction. Bethesda loved Fallout 1 and 2 and jumped at the opportunity of telling a Fallout story set in their home region.
What would you have preferred Bethesda to have directly handled west coast lore?
>>roleplaying consists of "do you be an edgelord asshole who kicks puppies and enslaves children or do you be a decent guy"
That was the style of the time. All sorts of games in the 2000s were focused on binary morality.
>>atrocious gunplay outclassed by games from the 90s
Yeah it's not great. But it does kinda aid the RPG side of it. You can't play Fallout 3 as a straight shooter, you need to find a strategy or build to get through the combat.
This is done better and more intentionally by games like VtM:B, but still the bad gunplay kinda works for the tone and world Fallout 3 goes for
>>literally can't play without mods or you'll crash every 30 minutes
Yeah it's fucking crazy that Bethesda hasn't bothered getting one of their most famous games to run on modern systems.
Like, what the hell, they're just loosing money for no reason.

>Is this whole debate (NV vs 3) spawned solely by the advent of zoomer contrarians who think good games are "reddit"?
No, it's spawned because people started applying flaws of Bethesda's later Fallout games on to 3.
People couldn't accept that Bethesda made a decent Fallout game, so they pretended all of them were shit. (or well, most of you probably always thought it was shit, I'm talking more about the /v/ users here)
So there's a counter reaction of people defending the game.

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