for all its faults, I think the core gameplay—being, exploring the world and gunning down raiders—is solid enough as it is.
revisiting the vanilla game has been a whole lot less frustrating than I expected it to be.
now, I am deliberately ignoring the main story because that is where the praise ends for this game. I think its as fine and valid as any other big game, but for what it tries to accomplish, it doesn't follow through on really any of it.
its a bit of a shame.