I have never seen someone write a 7500 word complaint about a video game in their free time. Seriously, it doesn't help and makes fans of the original Fallouts seem like pretentious assholes. To a passing reader it just looks like, "I hate Fallout 3 and I think you're a douchbag for liking it...
Why does it reek of laziness in only Fallout 3? Why doesn't it do so in the original Fallouts? And why would they randomly generate different models of a centaur to fix such a minute detail?
You can run into Super Mutants in random encounters near the Broken Hills in Fallout 2, I think. I started praying not to encounter them near there until I got Power Armor.
In Fallout 2, I remember the first time I encountered the Enclave and Super Mutants without Power Armor. I was obliterated in about 1 turn. In Fallout 3, a Hunting Rifle to the head easily dispatches any Mutant and Enclave soldier. I was even able to kill a swarm of about 6 Super Mutants on Very...
Operation Anchorage is already established as a battle before Fallout 3 came out. It is more well known as The Anchorage Reclamation.
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Anchorage_Reclamation
An entirely different character could be used for that storyline.
I actually prefer the First Person Perspective because it's so much more easier to move around in. Especially when you're opening a door on the north side of a wall while you're outside. What your proposing just sounds tedious...