Gentlemen said:
They created Fallout 3 a FIRST PERSON SHOOTER(with some RPG elements)! Imagine playing a FIRST PERSON SHOOTER FALLOUT GAME...Every time I think of this 1/2 of my brain cells die violently.
As I see from the reviews of Fallout 3, they obviously didn't get the whole idea of Fallout, instead making it as they fit it. Oblivion is a good game, but much worse than Fallout/Fallout 2. It's like Metallica's album called St. Anger - it's a good album, but different than the expected, that's why they got a grammy for it, but the fans hated it.
It is really painful for me to imagine myself making habit of fighting radscorpions with a combat knife in Oblivion-fashioned way. Yes, it's really exciting to see how would it look like, but the true Fallout is turn based and will always be. I don't mind playing Fallout as FPS because it's different from the original; I mind it because it won't be as good as turn-based playing.
It's not only about Fallout being turn-based: as I just mentioned, they didn't get the whole idea: Fallout had some options that are obviously not worth picking - some perks like Snakeater, Heave Ho!, Stonewall, all those that give skills(Master Thief, Medic etc.)and much more; having your car and a trunk to store your stuff; they are too much. In Oblivion everything is much more balanced. In Fallout 3 I'm sure you'll never have to find a water chip, go to The Glow to become a member of the Brotherhood of Steel, do a quest to upgrade your Powered Armor to the best armor in the game, save and load loth of times to see all the dialog options, being able to have a super-mutant, dog, cybernetic dog, ghoul and ever a deathclaw in your party...
There are so much things that made Fallout 1-2 what Fallout 3 will never be. A game is fun even if you are cheating - try playing Fallout 2 with a character you already played, then use something to modify your character to make yourself able to kill even Frank Horrigan alone - you will see that even after that it won't get boring. I play Fallout at easy game difficulty, whimpy combat difficulty; I am able to kill everything I have to without(much)problems, I rarely(if ever)use a stimpak! However, it's still very interesting. This is something Bethesda will never realise.
In fact, Bethesda didn't ruined nothing, because if they didn't ever started making Fallout 3 it wouldn't have been better. Fallout Tactics and Fallout
oS do not harm anyone. It is just very painful to see how it was possible for Fallout 3 to be as good as Fallout 1 or 2 or maybe even better. We all want to see the original intended storyline. I really doubt this will be something similar to Fallout. I love even the graphics of Fallout 1-2 - it makes me somehow satisfied. If Fallout 3 looked like that it would been fine(for me). But nooo, this way they won't get their bloody money! And here we are, FALLOUT FPS 
