Quote Originally Posted by TinCow
The way I feel about Fallout can be explained by my feelings about Fallout Tactics (which I'm currently replaying). Ignoring the storyline and violations of canon, the actual game itself is interesting and entertaining right up to the point where it moves off into robot-o-doom. At that point it quickly becomes boring for me because it leaves the wrecked towns, the inhabited wasteland, the struggle for normalcy in a post-apocalyptic world, and it simply becomes Fallout style combat in a different setting. I lose interest because I miss the atmosphere which I associate with Fallout. I've never seen a Fallout game with the atmosphere but without the combat, so I don't know for sure if I would like that, but I suspect that what I really enjoy most is simply the wasteland existence.
I really have to agree with you there, it a flavour/atmosphere thing to me more than a mechanics thing (though the dialog system will be of huge importance)... I want to revisit that world and I am not too concerned about the perspective I am viewing it from when I get there...

To be honest I got the first tingling of the "Where has the Wateland gone" right at the end of FO2 (though the RPG elements persisted of course, it did not totally devolve into a big tech fight)... And now in Tactics it is fine while you are out and about on missions, but it feels too sterile back at the bunker and by the sound of it that will only get worse...