So, when Bethesda took over the series, fans were more than hyped for the next game in the series that would bring it back to its former glory.
There was a time when the Fallout series was nothing more than a once-celebrated CRPG series that had slowly lost most of its popularity, with the latest game in the series - Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel - being reviled by the franchise for being a sub-par entry in a series that had consistently held itself to an extremely high standard.