You're really taking it personally, aren't you? Bethesda failed you and gamers like you; it failed to live up to your "unusually high standards".
You seem to see yourself as some kind of educated connoisseur, and that puts you into a position of some small authority. I actually AM interested...
For something that doesn't need defending you sure do work hard at defending it. Can anyone say "blind advocate"?
Were nuclear weapons somehow appreciably less devastating in the 1950s? Are you entirely unfamiliar with the principles of Mutually Assured Destruction?
Your childish insults...
How so? This entire thread is filled with people bickering over the possibility of wastelanders having English accents and the condition of the wood in the DC wasteland's trees. Realism and believability, in the mind of this forum's users, seem to be linked. My point is that realism (or...
Mikael Grizzly, you can't be serious. Are you actually trying to defend the realism of Fallout?
Fine, if you want to play that game, the realism game, you wouldn't be playing any game at all. The fact of the matter is, in the event of nuclear war, NOBODY would survive. The world would be...
To the original poster:
Dude, it's a GAME. It's not meant to be a scientific study of a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
First, you point out that Fallout 3 lacks a certain logic when dealing with things like economy and radiation, etc, and you say that the first Fallout makes much more sense...