I've been wondering the same thing. How games like Fallout 4 and Skyrim can get so much love, but yet they lost something original which made the earlier versions so successful. I actually loved Fallout 1 graphics it had a claymation look to it because they rendered actual 3d models into 2d sprites. Fallout 4 is pretty, but fallout 1 is real and gritty. The voice acting was good because it had to be. I think maybe out of necessity games had to stand out and offer something special, now not so much.

lol cool.