I'm probably going to get a bunch of thumbs down for this comment, that's to be expected since any opposing opinion seems to get completely trashed on this site. But, whatever, I still feel the need to say this.
I still have yet to see why Fallout 3 got all of the hype and attention it did. I gave it a shot, I beat it twice, in fact, but the entire thing was nowhere near as good as depicted by its fans. If anything, it was just as generic and bland as Oblivion. The story wasn't too interesting, and the battle system needed a lot of work, same thing with Oblivion. In fact, the only thing I really enjoyed about the game was the feel of the world that Bethesda made for Fallout, and the awesome old jazz music.I felt that so much more could have been done with this game. I haven't seen Bethesda release anything more than just generic games lately, and this statement goes for a lot of other companies out there too. I had 10 times more fun playing the first two Fallouts over and over again than playing through a single session of the third. To me, all of this hype is absurd.
This is just my opinion, so don't go ape shit over it.