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Kinetic energy scales with the square of speed. A kinetic tungsten or depleted uranium impactor moving at several km/sec can have the destructive force of a small nuclear weapon when all that energy is released on contact with a target.

I hate nanotech as a plot device! What powers the nanotech that it can break apart molecules and reassemble them? Why not use that to just power whatever you were going to use the oil for?!

Yep, official canon is that stuff like the Microfusion Cell and matter replicators came too late to have any effect on the scarcity that ultimately led to the Great War. I prefer to make a small retcon to that in my head, because it enhances my enjoyment of the games.

Slightly off-topic, but one of the things that provoked the resource wars was a depleting supply of Uranium. We do actually have a limited supply of Uranium for our current reactor designs, because they are developed from technology originally intended to produce Plutonium for weapons...

Ugh, all conjecture. Don't get so attached to it. Anything after 1950 is completely up in the air until it is mentioned in-game. Referencing real-world events isn't relevant to the Fallout timeline. Maybe Mao was ousted by a Leninist coup? Maybe a Stalinist doctrine was maintained and Khrushchev...

I doubt the NCR's technological ability was particularly developed while they were weak. Not until they absorbed Vault City, dealt with raiders and lawlessness inside their borders, got a functional education system going. New Vegas happens 40 years after Fallout 2, the NCR-Brotherhood war...

Because they didn't want to give up their autonomy in return for a relatively small degree of influence over the affairs of the common wastelander, most likely.

They were never assimilated. They stayed outside the NCR's power structure, while maintaining friendly relations with them. Eventually something happened to put them at odds with each other. Could have been an overly aggressive elder, could have been something the NCR did, an early sign of their...

It wouldn't necessarily be anarchist, it could be all manner of things. In fact, I'd say it would be more authoritarian and right-wing, to crack down on suspected communist sympathisers. I doubt the paranoid US would want anarchy right on their doorstep for the Chinese to exploit. Of course...

As zegh said, there was initially no reason for the BoS to crush the NCR. By the time their interests came into conflict with each other, the NCR had a population of hundreds of thousands, which means probably tens of thousands of troops. The Brotherhood were probably closer to a few hundred to...

Yeah, I'd say American puppet state, with direct American control of things like key ports and airfields. If they weren't very closely-aligned with America there would have been no reason for the Chinese to nuke them.

Even then I think you can set different genres of game in the same universe (heck, we have FIFA, but we also have Football Manager). The only real gripe is the numbering system. Numbered sequels should probably fall into the same genre to prevent people getting the wrong idea.

Looks like we'll have to agree to disagree then. For me, it's a game, not a movie, you have to let the player in at some point. Even in the original Fallouts, you could make a character who couldn't say their own name, and yet could understand the concept of "go to Vault 15 and get a water chip"...

I'd rather have "tyranny of the state" than "tyranny of market forces". In a pure unregulated economy, you are worth whatever someone rich is willing to pay you. The children of the rich have an unfair advantage over the children of the poor. Nobody is there to stop the rich and powerful from...

Gun skills work perfectly well in an FPSRPG. Lower gun skill equates to more weapon sway. If your character has low guns skill, weapons, especially more advanced ones, sway around all over the place. There's no problem having an element of player skill involved.

Of course not. Skyrim has a huge, gorgeous world, with a load of interesting, varied stuff going on to explore in all sorts of different environments. That goes a long way to make up for a lot of the characters being cardboard cut-outs from My First Big Book of Stereotypes. If the worst thing...

I'll continue to defend Skyrim. Just because it's a rubbish RPG doesn't mean it's a bad game. I really enjoyed playing it. Nothing wrong in particular with "shallow and broad". From what I've seen of FO4, it's along the same lines. A not-particularly-intelligent romp through a poorly fleshed...

Sentry bots are wheeled though. I know in-game they can roll around up and down stairs, and charge along over rough ground, but IRL they would only really be useful for patrolling or assaulting areas with relatively even ground. Which is where power armour would come in. Capturing critical...

Would power armour have the speed and mobility to outflank an enemy formation though?

That sounds fucking incredible, I would play the living shit out of that!