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If the original dev team gave Bethesda their blessing and declared Fallout 3 the true successor to 1 and 2 then it would put to rest any hope for a Van Buren and all this pining for a bygone era by fans and allow them to move on with their lives.

Make it a prequel about how the world got to the state it is in FO. There will undoubtedly be retcons but people won't be as pissy about it because at least they can't claim it's raping the post-apocalyptic setting.

Deus Ex came before GTA 3, Manhunt, Bully, all of those controversial games. Video games have a much greater spotlight on them nowadays, and as such gamemakers have to tread more carefully.

Alright, well FPS usually have a ridiculously overpowered most powerful gun weapon, though. The one that maps out to 9 on the keyboard.

Final Fantasy has limit breaks, don't they? Don't most RPGs have some sort of rare super attack that only occurs several times a day?

Ah, and another hypothetical. What if there was an FO 3 that was isometric RPG, but it was real-time instead of turn-based? Kind of like what X-COM Apocalypse did to UFO Defense and Terror from the Depths?

Not really, it's lame to criticize a genre convention unless it directly contradicts something integral to the series. Did Fallout 1 and 2 deliberately not have a "most powerful" superweapon? Is the presence of a superweapon contradictory to the game's themes? Is the series supposed to be so...

Were all of the games in the original FO viable? I can understand stupid things like the teddy bear launcher being worth criticism, but it seems that most games have at least one over-the-top weapon for the sake of being the most overpowered gun.

How faithful was Sands of Time to the original Prince of Persia.

Didn't they kind of balance it out with the concept of Megaton, though? So atomic weapons weren't quite as feared in one place (where you can get the Fat Man), but elsewhere, people really paid reverence to the Bomb. I can understand the thematic criticism of a Davy Crockett in FO 3 but...

What if Bethesda had completely captured the setting, canon, humor, and cleverness of the original FO games, even though FO 3 was still a FPS action-RPG? Also assume that the issues with animation and difficulty level and whatnot were dealt with. Even if it's no Van Buren, would NMA FO fans...

True. Perhaps there's no going back to isometric turn-based RPG. But there's still the chance that someone will 'reimagine' the series to bring it back in line into the spirit of the setting/story of the original games. I mean, I think Prince of Persia is still in the same hands of the same...

There's got to be a fine line between forbidding things for being too unrealistic and allowing things because they are cool. MGS3? Cool. Teddy Bear Launchers? Eh... not so much.

They can do a gag in a future Fallout game where rival factions in an abandoned Interplay mega-skyscraper are fighting over who are the true successors to "the vision of Caine."

Actually, Diablo 3 may not be different from its predecessors and it's still at the hands of Big Brother Blizzard, but fans are already bitching about how "cheerful" the art direction is. No Minions Allowed

Yeah, but if the rights ever pass to someone else, or even a different team within Bethesda takes over, they can always choose to ignore the current games and claim theirs to be the true spiritual successors to the original two games.

That's the point of the joke. Most everyone's been complaining about how easy FO 3 is, and the first negative review (at least in this round-up) is criticizing about how DIFFICULT it is.

Not really. Do you think Prince of Persia is ever going to go back to its roots and there will be a side-scroller game just because the Sands of Time games weren't called Prince of Persia 3, 4, and 5? Think again. Titles don't matter.

Davy Crockett was in MGS3, everyone who opposes it is just player-hatin'.

The least favorable review (80/100) is about how DIFFICULT Fallout 3 is. HAHAHAHAAHHAHAAHHAHA I want to see some reviews that say how slavishly Bethesda held onto Black Isle's vision instead of implementing their own idea.