Originally Posted by
AaronChance
I think this points to one of the biggest differences. In the original Fallouts, you really needed to decide what sort of character you wanted from the start and build to it. In F3, you can be pretty much a jack of all trades by 20, so none of that really matters. In Morrowind, it was fun to start out as a poor thief running from every fight and end up getting in fist fights with gods. Walking around as an all mighty in Fallout feels wrong though.
I forgot about the intelligent super mutants, though I dislike how these guys are used as mindless gun fodder in F3 to begin with. They're not trying to accomplish anything. They're just sort of there, which is boring.