And apparently to him it doesn't feel like a Fallout game at all either. But he started playing Fallout 3 after and he says it's much more of a Fallout game than NV.
Jokes on you. Before he even played 3 and NV, he played Fallout 4 and back then he said it was amazing and that he wants to download it and 100% it again. (Got this from a really old convo on Discord w/ him so who knows if he 100%-ed F4 again.)