It is Fallout. Damn, your blather reminds me of Trekkies who think certain episodes of Star Trek don't qualify to be canon. I'm sorry, but you don't determine what is canon. What is canon is what is produced by officially licensed developers of the IP. You don't like it? Too fucking bad.
You don't even know that. You're just talking out of your ass based on very limited information that's available to us. So a few mechanics are different, but you don't have the complete picture.
It also doesn't mean that Fallout 3 won't get a major following either.
This is a community of diehard Fallout fans. It's obvious that anything that remotely deviates from what you are all used to is too far fetched to be worthwhile, at least at this point. I think you will all be surprised...
You're all just sooo optimistic... Personally, I'm looking forward to Fallout 3, even if it's different from Fallout and Fallout 2. It's obviously not going to be as disastrous as that sorry remake of Shadowrun. And if I wanted to play a game with features as they once were, I'd play Fallout and...
I think I experienced that crash. I was black screening when entering Vault City. I copied the wind audio tracks from the disc to the appropriate folder and all was fixed.
After walking from Arroyo to San Francisco to Navarro back to San Francisco and then to Klamath, I'm a bit tuckered out, especially after helping Torr save his brahmin by killing the Radscorpions without (unfortunately) killing the Dunton brothers and then realizing my last save was in San...