Agreed. I don't mind Fallout going the 3D shooter way at all, games needs to evolve and I'm fine with that.
The real problem was, they didn't understand what the old games were about. At all. I played original Fallout when I was 18ish. Back in those days, games were about fairies, wizards and brave knights saving princesses while riding on unicorns. Then out of nowhere comes this game and it has murderers, rapists, prostitutes, drug dealers, slavery, and the world where everything seems thoughtfully put together and actually feels real and dangerous. It was a total culture shock. I didn't know games could do that. I couldn't even imagine games could do that.
Fast forward to 2005, Fallout 3 comes out. I'm launching the game, within 20 minutes I land in Megaton City, and already the whole world makes zero sense whatoever. People living near defunct nuclear bomb? Its cool and awesome, but it makes no sense. It doesn't feel like a world, it feels like a game.
Fallout:New Vegas picked up a lot of old Fallout magic, but that game was outsourced to Obsidian, who took many of the old Fallout 1&2 staff. The very idea of Bethesda making another attempt made me less then comfortable.
Sounds good! I was mostly following the news, and seeing how primitive dialogue systems are and how simplified the "talent trees" are, was a real red flag. The game is also getting absolutely slaughtered on Metacritic user scores, although you never know if its not some 4chan raid or something.
But you're right, all they have to do is nail down the atmosphere and the core combat. Those things are critical, everything else that's wrong should be salvaged by modders.
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the mods will be off the scale for this game I tell thee.