The types of threads & comments posted on here (and other sites) has had me amazed for the past few days. Its almost a hysteria - as a lot of the claims are based more from an emotional point of view more than anything.

Seriously, this game is not meant to be the witcher or gta or cod. Even those games don't have certain mechanics (and graphical) fallout has.

If your expectations can be based on a few hours of gameplay, then you are either really jaded and should take a break from open world games, or you simply do not like open world, post apocalyptic games - which is ok in and of itself.

Surely there is a tag for this hysterical bunch of naysayers? Perhaps a fallout themed brand - like, something along the lines of 'Ghoulish Naysayer'

PLEASE: stop pretending the only people who don't like this game don't like Fallout don't like bethesda games, or were expecting another type of game. This is closed-minded thinking and doesn't lead to a substantive discussion. I've been a Bethesda fan my entire life, but I'm getting tired of these same problems popping up over and over. A lot of people are angry at SPECIFIC perfectly valid things, like the game crashing on startup, like framerate being tied to simulation speed (which is impossible to fix without working from the ground up), things like the dialogue system, things like the terrible AI (which was in previous games sure, but don't you think games should improve?), the cliche story, uninspired characters, there's a lot of legitimate complaints here.

We are just as devoted as fans as you. We just don't like something you like. That's it.

This thread won't fly, methinks.

Mostly due to the apparant overly-critical and dismissive attitude to those who don't like the game.

There are plenty of valid reasons not to like the game after a few hours, most of which have nothing to do with the format. Maybe they suffer from a bad case of bug-itis, or they found the game to fall flat of its hype. Maybe they find the Voice Acting too immersion-breaking, or they don't like the overall feel or look of the game that no amount of modding can fix.

I feel applying a label to them is rather rude.
Everyone has their opinion. And well welcome to them.

Sure, people can express their opinion...

However, i take exception with opinions that have loose justifications.

So then at the very least listen to those opinions that do try to justify themselves instead of ignoring them.