Recent content by gothfox

Ah, so even actual games are not "canon" enough for you. Fallout 2 is like that, yeah. It doesn't mean that you can just pick and choose whatever you deem logical and dismiss everything else. Well, you can, but it makes further discussion about "setting" rather pointless since you refuse to...

I think it's more of a maintenance thing. Maintenance seems viable enough. The people were able to maintain quite a lot of different equipment after all. The engines on some cars might've been adapted to work on something like biodiesel. People are creative and, well, cars can even run on steam...

k9wazere I think Gears around here became something like a cliche for a "dumb shooter", an anti-CRPG (which is neither dumb nor a shooter). It's on the same level as hate for "console kiddies" and such, I wouldn't pay any attention to it. :D

Rad Blaggard Yep, something like R2 coop could've been great for story mode. Shame we'll never see this because of apparent NIH syndrome at Bethesda.

They should have outsorced the Anchorage thing to some company actually proficient with making shooters as a separate spinoff. Anything involving "action" and packing thereof is not Bethesda's strong point (to say the least) and therefore is destined to turn out boring, stupid and looking...

Not really, sorry. The explanation given in the bible does a good job to validate cars as a part of Fallout canon whether you'd like to consider the bible itself "canon" or not.

Reading Fallout Bible before trying to lecture people on Fallout canon might be a good idea. For example:

It doesn't really need any precision or twitch shooting, VATS or not. FO3 is very slow paced, compared to real shooters. I played through the PC version with the controller (much easier to relax on the couch in front of the HDTV with the controller, kb+m feels kinda iffy in this situation)...