What dont you like about Fallout 3? It is one of my top ten favourite games of all time.
It's good but it should have been made under any old post apocolyptic name not Fallout.
I never played Fallout 1&2 how did they differ apart form obvious graphical updates?
You had to be specialized.
You couldn't just become a god of everything.
Intelligence judged your ability to speak+option not charisma (that did affect how likley you were to succeed though).
So if you made a 1 int character you played a totally different game as you couldn't really say anything other than "ug" etc.
And while a really charismatic but average int guy could talk his way into an army base he wouldn't be able to discus the technical, details of the super computer in it.
The writing +dialogue +humour was far far better.
You could kill anyone you damn well liked.
None fo this "I'm too vital to the quest to die" crap if you wanted to shoot a guy in the face you could, if he had a quest or was vital to one too bad.
Or you could (directly) kill no one, and stealth/talk your way though every encounter. (with the right points in the right skills.)
Although if you go that option best to invest some perks in bounus move so you can run from ransom encounters
They were just better written and didn't really care if the average console gamer couldn't figure out that shooting daddy in the ball sack might impede your progress some.
Oh and you could kill kids in front of their parents.
But again there where strong consequences for doing that.
And that's the main difference consequences.
if Fo3 had been made by them, then blowing up megaton wouldn't have just beena choice of having your apartment in a tower or a scrap yard it would have been between getting a place or just getting money/gun/being told to **** off and shot in the arse.
Overall the writing storey and world felt much more linked and detailed.