Because Bethesda cant make a good game to save themselves. Oblivion sucked.
Ok think about it this way.
What made fallout great? The dark humour and setting, turn based combat, multiple playing styles. Actual characters and settings that are interesting. The fact that you could do quests in different ways. The fact that I could kill children. It wasn't suger coated. Fallout was truly faithful to the post-nuclear setting. Bethesda are incapable of doing any of these things.
"Hey guys lets buy fallout and make it oblivion with GUNZ"
"What a great idea old chap!"
They're going to make fallout 3 a game that is only fallout at its face value. It wont be dark, it wont be funny, it wont blur morality like the fallout games did.
I was reading pcpp (a popular games magazine in Australia). They had an interview about the game and they were talking about the super mutants in the game and how you can't negotiate with them because they're obvilously evil viscious super mutants! Wait a sec! You could negotiate with super mutants in fallout. Lets just make everything black and white, its easier to design and will sell more. They even said in the interview that it wont have dark humour :( Thats why the second game was so great, it was funny as hell.
Much love Bethesda. Much love.
EDIT Poor troika, the world was ready for your genius :(
