I can't believe more people aren't mad at BoS for causing 9/11.
Well, it did take the Fallout franchise from a medium-to-palatable series and made it into a laughingstock that Interplay wanted to sell off to cover the debts.
So this was the equivalent of them torpedoing the foundations of the Fallout franchise.
This odd Bethesda hatred trend is fascinating to me and I was even on board with it at a point in time. It was always there in places like NMA which makes sense, they played the isometric games and didn't like the new style so I get it and if I recall some of them even disliked NV when it first came out. I feel like it was things like the HBomberguy video and others like it that more or less made it "cool" to hate Bethesda's Fallouts and make 1,2 and NV these untouchables. Any criticism given to NV is conveniently blamed on Bethesda even when it doesn't make sense and most of them haven't played the first two, at best read the wiki and watched lore videos.
What really made me appreciate the Bethesda Fallouts were the music from the radio. It's an idea Bethesda put in that made Fallout's replay value shoot through the roof. Listening to classic tunes while blowing away Super Mutants and power-armored mooks is far more cathartic than just running around in a filthy environment as the same drab, melancholic music plays in the background.
When I first played New Vegas, and that same dark, drab music played as I trekked through the Mojave, I wasn't too thrilled with the game, until I turned on the radio and found out that you can get music while playing. After that, my view of the game changed forever, because yes, music is a big factor in how your game gets received. Many games, from Halo, Mass Effect, the Star Wars games, and the Elder Scrolls games get through because of awesome music.
Part of what makes the dragon fights in Skyrim a blast to play through for the average noob who just bought an RPG out of sheer curiosity is the epic music blasting in the background as the dragon swoops down for another pass. The same went for me in Fallout; the experience of slaughtering the entire Brotherhood of Steel while "Big Iron" played in the background is comparable to gunning down the Covenant in the Silent Cartographer level in Halo while the rock and roll version of the Halo theme played; an experience of gameplay joy and ecstasy that few games can bring, making your victory taste sweet.
And while any person can just turn on the music on the background for that, when the game thinks of doing it for you, and adds in some very classic, catchy tunes that you can sing alongside it, that's a feature well worth several extra points in the "good game" category. Fallout went from having drab, melancholy tunes, to introducing kids to good music, from the Enclave Radio channel that had catchy patriotic songs, to Radio New Vegas and its cowboy songs. Fallout 1 and 2 made fun of 1950s Cold War America, but Fallout 3 and New Vegas brought the joys of American music to the modern day.
Honestly a better discussion to have would be how would they improve Fallout 3, honestly surprised there hasn't been a mod project to try and fix the issues with 3 like adding a greenhouse to Megaton and other things of that nature. Do a Broken Steel for the whole game and not just the ending, I'd play it.
Exactly. Instead of calling it quits, they should be talking about how to make things better. Especially since their blind worship of the first two games practically puts into question their status as objective critics.
. 
