Oh please, there is bad change and good change. Look at the reactions to Resident Evil and Dead space after they stopped being survival horror games. Do you think they were like "Yay progress", no they were they were pissed. People were up in arms when EA took out base building in Command and Conquer 4.
I guess it's called progress because that is what selective and biased people say.
It is change, yes but it's obviously change you don't agree with. I do though
I tried getting into Fallout and Fallout 2, but i just never could. Whether that was because I was spoiled by the 3 dimensions of Fallout 3 and New Vegas, or whatever.
I like the improvements posed for fallout 4. Crafting is waaaay more interesting than in Fallout 3 or New Vegas (not sure if there was a crafting system for the originals as I never got that far). Even in some aspects I think that the RPG element that you enjoy is at least slightly improved in regards to not having enemies level with you. We don't know if this change will be good or bad though, the games not even out yet!
I guess what I'm trying to say is Fallout 4 seems like it's an improvement to 3 and NV. I can't say it's an improvement over 1 and 2 though because like I said I haven't played enough and it is a different genre of game. Not sure why Bethesda moved to change Fallout entirely, but I like it.
Just curious, did you ever play Wasteland 2? What'd you think of it? Seems like a spiritual successor to Interplay's Fallout