>>72983F1 and 2 are pretty lame tbh. Get a power armor and fist, and then let the game pretty much beat itself. Side quests aren't that interesting and the combat is mindless once you have a good weapon, which is pretty easy to obtain because the economy makes no sense. Bullets are overpriced so selling them from corpses or storage gives you enough to buy anything.
The only ways i ever got killed was via critical hits that knock you down causing absurd damage and making you lose action points, or critical misses that cost me turns. Even fights meant to be hard like the super mutant in mariposa in fallout 2 who spawns deathclaws are super easy once you get the hang of it.
And once you get how it works, difficulty drops from incomprehensible to barely a game. Large caves like the deathclaw cave or the alien cave on f2 are just pure boredom.