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Agreed, there are not very many folks still hard Stanning for 3. Though I think a large reason for that is 3 was superseded by Skyrim, and FO4. While NV fans are still kinda waiting on even a true spiritual successor. So NV fans really haven't moved on, while 3's fans have long since gone onto other things.
Plus, the things 3 does well kinda makes you "forget about most of it" after a while. Like, I play A Tale of Two Wastelands pretty often, and one thing that stands out about 3's world is how much of it is just more of the same. It all just blends together. Eventually, the feeling of a real world breaks down, leaving you with a "lot of gameplay with not a lot of substance"
NV's emphasis on world building and choice on the other-hand makes you think about the game a lot more, even when you put the game down, you can still "play it" just by thinking about how your choices would affect the long term realities of the world.
So while 3's fans can basically say "Yeah, I really liked that game, the world was fun and stealing the Declaration of Independence from that robot was funny", NV fans can have full on years long debates of "Independent Vegas vs NCR vs House", I've even seen some mad lads argue that Caesar's belief that a sufficiently strong opponent to challenge the NCR would force the NCR to address some of the issues they were having as a country was a good idea. These people are of course insane, but you get my point.
All of this really adds up to the fact that NV built a game that is easy to form communities around, and people are excited to talk about, while 3 kinda just built a really solid turn your brain off game.
Edit: Oh, and yeah, 100% agree. More people should play 1 and 2. It's hard to recommend for fans of Bethesda games to go back to an obscure game from the late 90's, but like, they're so fucking good!