New-Vegas was a broken cookie cutter remake of fallout 3. There was nothing new, aside from the atrocities that Obsidian put into the game while breaking it. A f***all broken combat and leveling system, unforgivably broken AI, menus, interface, save system (3 months to make it so you can actually save and continue playing? i think not) A forgetable (at best) story, NO creative locations (ooh, a desert, ooh more desert, ooh a cave in the desert, OOH MORE DESERT).
Fallout 3 was the turn point in the fallout series (an already great series, mind you) that New-Vegas tried to ride the coat tails of but couldn't hang on and crashed and burned miserably.
Hero with some miracle one in a million situation in the begining? -Fallout3, check, new-vegas, check
First person shooter style RPG? Fallout 3 was the first, new-vegas, attempts.
Story and locations being memorable? Fallout 3, check. New-Vegas, lol are you shitting me?
Story revolving around water-source being a control point for power. Fallout 3, check. New-vegas, oh that's original.
Combat system & leveling that allowed you to change to how you played? Fallout 3, check. New-Vegas *targeting rock next to large group of enemies* *targeting companion behind you* *targeting cloud* *oops your dead*
Fallout 3 was a point in the series history that drew in crowds of people, and is STILL being played and replayed to this day. New-Vegas? The WORST rated game in the series, broken to all holy hell, and making fans of the series weery of ever touching or hoping for another fallout game to be made just because of how broken it was.
Maybe if they had just let obsidian write for them, it could have been acceptable. But having a company that is yet to have a single game they release in the past 10 years live up to the hype that is set for it, let alone actually be to a point of acceptable release quality by todays standards, that was a horrible idea, and I prefer they (Obsidian) not drag another good series through the mud and into a pile of shit.