the fallout tv show fully depicting the brotherhood of steel as a crazy cult is really compelling and interesting to me in the same way fallout 4's iteration of the brotherhood was a fascinating evolution of the versions in the games before that.
however, i fully believe that the version of the brotherhood that carries the most weight in my mind is the one where they're the wasteland's version of guys that look at you and say, "well, clearly you don't own an air fryer."
I wanna say that Fallout 3 would be so good if it was good, but in reality the more I replay this the more I feel like I can now see the largely cohesive-if-frequently-stymied shape of what they were going for, so it's kind of just good. Fallout 4 is the one that would be so good if it was good