Like most people on this forum, I tend to agree that NV was better. But there was one thing about Fallout 3 that I really loved, which I felt gave the wasteland a much more tragic and emotional atmosphere... the morse code distress signals... as well as the pre-recorded voice clips asking for help.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljL3ldYfO8s
I'm hoping there will be at least a few of these in Boston. Not saying the game should be more dark and depressing than it needs to be... but what if the Survivor came across one of these signals... and recognized the voice? What if he found out that his best friend died trapped like this?
Just throwing out some story ideas for you, Beth.