I've previously said the only thing that kept me playing Fallout 3 for the length I did was the environment/setting. That's it. Thought combat kinda sucked, thought the story was hot trash, characters were completely forgetable, quests were bland, animations weren't great, graphics were ok I suppose, and luckily I didn't run into too many bugs on my play through.
Hiring some good writers would make me a fanboy of the damned series and company. As it stands I usually end up getting the the games, messing around a bit and getting bored and let down at all those things I mentioned before. Good writing can go a long way.
I think the frustrating thing for those of us with negative feelings is that there's literally a list that fans have that they say don't matter which is fine, but that also means if they improved those things the fans would still be fine with the games too.
