Really, they are. The pain they were in FO1 is diminished in FO3 to a slow, low level target with added arc projectile. You would think that a creature with six legs could zone in on you like Batman, but no. Crawl, crawl, crawl to your death you gross annoyance. You add nothing to the scary factor, muteness, lack of expression beyond that blank look on your face / faces. Then you reappeared in New Vegas with zero improvement. Why?

Oh ghoul, you so crazy with your hissing. Why can't centaur be terrifying like you? Raise your hand if you died to a centaur in your last play. No one?

I dont really care... but they are kind of scary and make annoying sound.... actually, they are DISGUSTING!

They are digusting creatures, which is enough for me (in terms of "scariness"). But aside from their fairly weak combat abilities, they can be quite an annoyance, alerting Super Mutants and irradiating you.

Yep... I do love blasting mutants faces with mine .44 but shooting these " centaur's " is like shooting fly's with an m60 and wasting expensive 7.62mm ammo D Even when shooting feral ghouls is more fun because they explode to pieces! These just fall like fat meatsacks... oh man, im bad at english :3

I actually found them much less dangerous in the originals. They do not have ranged attack, do not deal much damage, but the real kicker was that they arrived in large packs and gave huge amounts of exp. Wandering around Military Base killing Centaurs is my favorite way of power leveling.