Eh. I dunno. I recognize the game is obviously flawed, yet I can't stop playing it and wanting to keep playing it. Sure, the writing is pretty crap, it's difficult to care about pretty much any of the characters, hell, it's barely even an RPG, but still. I love adventuring, exploring, crafting new weapons/armor, and just being a general badass. Oh, and it's got some nice weather effects, which do wonders when it comes to getting me engrossed. At least on the Xbox version.
More than anything though I think the combat is really tight and the gunplay addictive and genuinely challenging.
It's just a fun game. Nothing more, and I agree that the hype is overblown and disgusting. Thankful I stayed as far away as I could from all that.
One last thing I gotta give a shout-out to is the classical music station, not because I'll claim to be some kind of pretentious classical buff (FAR from it), I just think the music generally goes hilariously well with my wasteland misadventures, be it gunning down ghouls from atop an old car, or running away from mini-nuke brandishing suicidal super mutants. Probably just my stupid sense of humour though.
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