Same here, first Fallout game i ever played, it looked so awesome seeing how fraked up the world had become. That, or ascending to the top of the Washington Monument, especially after visiting it IRL. When I went up there with my classmates, I said"Its beautiful seeing it not destroyed and full of Super Mutant trenches"
I agree with Bryn, I'll give it 9. Mods fixed pretty much all my gripes with it. Companions and factions could've been more fleshed out and that's probably the only "negative" thing I can say about it. Though mods fixed a lot of its shortcomings for me, notably absence of Hardcore mode and ironsights.