Objectively? If I didn't like the story, I didn't like it. It could be grammatically flawless, but if I didn't like the direction it was taken, it's subjectively bad to me. You're so set in the 'if someone hates something I like, they're wrong' mentality. Sure, better stories can and have been told, but that doesn't diminish the game. Even if they had rebooted it and called Fallout 3 'Fallout', you wouldn't be satisfied. You'd say "Oh no, they redid the story. I hate their reboot, the old games are better." And that's your opinion. But it's subjective.