Before I start, this is not supposed to be an attack on your favorite Fallout, but sharing my opinion and asking for yours.
I just want to clarify I really have no "nostalgia" for any of these games. My first Fallout was 76. I just got done playing Fallout again and I thought it was great. In my first play through, I was mostly playing to say I played Fallout. This time I actually dove into some of the quests and the presentation and the world was just so captivating. I did the same with Fallout 2 at the time and wanted to give it a real shake.
The game just feels like a major downgrade from Fallout in every way imaginable. The main quest just feels like a copy of the first one but with the stakes raised even higher but with an uninteresting villain. Though the Master was clearly evil, his motivations made sense and seemed logical. The Enclave just feels generically evil. I know a lot of people hate the weird 90s references but I personally do not care about them. What bothers me is how insanely horny this game is. It feels like every encounter involves sex. I think a lot of the factions, especially the crime families in New Reno and the Shi in San Fran, are cool, but I'm just so turned off by everything around them that it makes it hard to learn about them.
I find this even more confusing as New Vegas is my favorite Fallout and a lot of the people who made Fallout 2 returned to work on New Vegas. A lot of Fallout 2 references and characters are also in New Vegas. So I say all this to ask, why do people like Fallout 2 so much?
