I hated the Remnants Power Armor at first when we saw the screens, but it's really grown on me; I love it now. It just worked out really well ingame.
The point of Power Armor is to make a man into a tank, the original games, they really did that, you got PA and you were set for the rest of the game, you were nearly as tall as a mutie and strong as one too, the APA Mk1 looked like what it was, a tank that you wore as a suit, FO3 made PA into fancy Metal Armor.