Starting up Fallout Tactics, the supposed "true-to-Fallout-game" I was greeted by an http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kxq3Rmq1ho (what?) followed by a http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFV1QvnLVsM&feature=related (double and triple what?). I was then plunged into some rather unintuitive gameplay, much differently than Fallout 1, 2, and 3, all of which I didn't even HAVE a manual for. Needless to say, the flawed story was not enough to get me over the learning curve and I stopped playing.
Then, the "BURNED GAME". The "black sheep" of the Fallout Franchise, and the reason "Interplay should never have the Fallout license again." I boot it up, and get greeted by a http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifnMjqdm4QE&feature=related This time, I'm thrown into a dispute with Raiders and townsfolk over the Junktown-esque city of Carbon. Everything's going pretty well until... the infamous "thong babe". Actually named "Raider Matron" she, in fact, sports clothing about as skimpy as the female raiders from Fallout 3 and New Vegas, with the exception of the fact that instead of sporting skimpy, lore-friendly patchwork armor, http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110627122131/fallout/images/b/b4/Jane.jpg. Yeah, that's kind of embarrassing. But in all fairness, I'm 2 hours into the game, and I would probably say it's somewhere in between Fallout 3 and Tactics, in overall "goodness" (on a scale of NV-2-1-3-BoS-T:BoS). It has boss battles, that with the exception of the Giant Roboscorpion from Old World Blues, and Frank Horrigan from Fallout 2, are more nuanced than any I've seen in a Fallout game to date. The Dialogue is about as "bad" as the dialogue as Fallout 3, except in a different way (if that makes any sense).
In closing, Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel is not a bad game. There is some clear pandering to the often-immature "console crowd" but in my opinion it's better and more reconcilable with current canon than Tactics. If you're looking for a stupid fun Fallout fix, I would recommend giving it a fair chance. And if you're one of those people who have never played it, but use the term "Burned Game" day in and day out to describe it, I would recommend Google searching "bandwagon appeal".