Damn near perfect CRPG. The humor hasn't aged as well as New Vegas's, for every hilarious moment there's some real "wow the 90s was a different country, huh" moments, but this game swings for the fences in ways that stand out from just about everything else, and does things with the mechanics and environmental design later installments won't or can't accomplish. Most prominently is the presence of Jet in the game: it's not just a consumable buff potion you anachronistically run across in pre-War lockboxes, it's an incredibly destructive drug that's ravaging the population centers of the wasteland. My character took Jet once only for me to discover that addiction is both highly likely even with one dose and permanent, and much of the rest of the game was shaped by my character being gripped by this vice. In fact, withdrawal was so crippling that I found myself making some dark choices, culminating in my character sleeping with a fellow addict in a ratty casino suite just so he could suck the inhalant fumes out of her mouth. That sticks with you.