I hardly see how this means Bethesda "forgeted up" Fallout 3.
I'll take dumb story and awesome gameplay over good story and mediocre gameplay (looking at you, Mass Effect 1).
Too bad Fallout 3 didn't have awesome gameplay. Strategy consisted of
>get chinese assault rifle
>win every firefight ever
>get chinese stealth armor
>steal literally anything you want
Congratulations, you are the winner of Fallout 3.
And to top it off the actual fighting was just as slow as mass effect 1, only even less interesting because there are no worthwhile status effects or ways to proc them outside of using very specific weapons. It was all just use gun on man/mutant/monster, ad infinitum, only sometimes you would pause the game and roll some dice to determine the outcome.
New Vegas took a step in the right direction in some areas, but being made by Obsidian it was a buggy, convoluted mess.
And honestly, I don't see much point of going into detail about anything I'm saying anymore-- I'm pretty much just wasting my time on you.
These are the words of someone who doesn't want to admit he doesn't have a leg to stand on.
(By the way edgy still doesn't mean what you think it is and just because you use it like that doesn't mean you aren't wrong and a moron.)