But how long can that kind of legacy stand for? And I assure you, I remember Ultima IX. Oh God, do I remember it. The horror... the horror... And in all honesty, my buddies who bought the game (They're still good people...deep inside...) didn't pick it up because "a bunch of nutjob fans hated it", but because it was just hyped the fuck out of. If you're going to speak on historical terms, an actual gaming historian is going to say, "The game was poorly received by the fans, and was well received by the public. The game did have many flaws that could not be disputed, but it still appealed to the masses. However, it cannot be the perfect game as Gamespy and Eurogamer claimed it to be. And unlike the previous Fallouts, it received censorship and was catered to not offend anyone in particular. Several things were censored. For example, in Japan's release one could not blow up Megaton, nor were the Fatman weapons called Fatman, as it could have brought negative commentary upon their finished product." That would be a rather proper entry, rather than, "Fallout 3 was awesome, you are idiots if you didn't like it." Even Gaming History is subject to fine manipulation, so if Fallout 4 comes down the road, this process is going to be rinsed and repeated, except that they're gonna add, "But we promise to fix all the problems with Fallout 3."
And in our defense, don't we who like the original Fallouts want this game to be remembered as the black sheep of the series? The blight upon what could have been Van Buren? (I know not everyone liked Van Buren, but come the fuck on. That was a way better concept than this.)