Unless you, like me, just need to experience if for yourself, I'd stick to watching lore videos. I think people who say this game aged well, especially in terms of game mechanics and gameplay, are blinded by nostalgia. They know all the tricks to get it to work, so they don't think twice of how janky it really is. But this game is a buggy mess, saved by it's expansive lore, and interesting stories. If you are a newcomer to this game, you will have a hard time.
Every solution to a problem, and YOU WILL run into one, seems to be to reload a save. So get used to saving, but you can also lock yourself out of things if you save wrong (don't save in combat btw, that will corrupt the file), so make sure to have two saves, maybe alternate between two saves, and have a third one per arriving to a different location. Ideally you should probably have four saves per play-though, and that is btw, INSANE!
As I'm writing this, I'm locked out and will have to go back to a much father save if I want to continue. I am at the location of the second to last boss (depending on how you play) and I'm pretty sure I'm stuck because I can't get passed these emitters that randomly turned on. I don't have equipment to turn them back off. the game also never even attempts to tell you how to get passed them. Oh, and the location is set to self destruct. When I try to bomb the emitters, the game crashes. So, just know you can get so far, only for something so stupid to spoil your whole play-though and set you back hours.
That said, there's a lot to love about this game, that's why I'm recommending it, while starting off with some abridged frustrations. It wouldn't continue to be talked about today, if there wasn't. Though a lot of it has to do with it's story, and the other might just be experience how old CRPGS were back then, and see how things have changed. I can only really recommend this game to Fallout fans who absolutely need to experience it firsthand despite it's flaws, and masochists.
