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My guess is the Soviets were probably playing the long game. Wait for the US and China to wear each other down, then start flexing their own muscles. Any conjecture based on real-world geopolitical events after 1945 is just that, conjecture. Unless it's backed up by the Fallout Bible or in-game...

In terms of canon ending, I usually go with Yes Man, but I'd prefer to see either House or the Legion victories. A House-run, corporatist Mojave several decades down the line could lead to some interesting stories, but as I have suggested in another thread, my dream Fallout V would be for you...

That could be really good. After years of peaceful contact, suddenly the Shi go silent. NCR patrols sent in to find out what happened disappear without trace. You are sent into the ruins of San Francisco to find out what went on, and uncover something that could either be a source of immense...

Nobody chatting about the moral implications of the Republic of Dave or the Talon Company. Just sayin'!

Anybody who has played the game have any idea what Obsidian would be able to do using the FO4 engine, and their different philosophy? A few thoughts from me: -Lack of skills: I think Obsidian could still make things interesting with the new system. It appears badly implemented, as opposed to a...

Isn't it lore that there were treaties limiting the size of warheads to a few tens of kilotons, and limiting the development of ICBM technology? To be honest, I think the ruined prewar building aesthetic is pretty cool, so I don't mind a bit of handwaving to get it included. Same with the...

"Kid has become a ghoul with morally ambiguous motives" would be a much better one.

Hmm... Becoming addicted to something is down to both biology and personality. I could get on board if your charisma just made you slower to get addicted to things, even if endurance would make more sense in an in-universe context. I doubt we're going to have the ability to overdose on things...

Blind post, but I've given up expecting an RPG. I am still hopeful of a decent FPS set in a universe I really enjoy, which I'd be happy enough with, until Obsidian can try and do something better (fingers crossed!)

Fallout:Market Forces In which our hero plays a perfectly rational actor striving for true Pareto efficiency.

I'd like to see a more "frontier" region from before the war. Northern Mexico or Southern Canada. Probably plenty of interesting stories to tell about what the Pre-War USA was up to there, and lots of scope for interesting factions, new and old.

Em, what?! Gamers want to ban video games? Riiiiiiiight...

They also have no great love for the Great Khans, but aren't above using them for their own ends, but that's neither here nor there. I know there is no canon link between the Legion and the Fiends, it was a conclusion I jumped to while playing, before reading background lore and spoilers.

Isn't one of the key aspects of laser and plasma weaponry in lore that it is easy to maintain and operate? No bullet drop, no recoil, no need for oil, no moving parts to get sand and dust clogging. Also, I kind of assumed that the Fiends' energy weapons came from Caesar. The Legion never use...

It's not really an either/or situation in this case, I mean, it's not as though the modeller/animator who worked on the toilet-drinking animation would otherwise have been penning incredible dialogue. Actually, now I think of it, if Bethesda had a staff member who could write the most amazing...

So? FO1 allows you to go back to Vault 13 and start shooting people in the groin. Plenty wrong with FO3, but being allowed to drink from a toilet when it doesn't strictly make sense is riiiiiiight down at the bottom of the list.

Once you have an organisation and a structure in place, mass production isn't that hard, it's the economics that are the issue. You need to invest in specialised tooling that can't be reused, and it has to be built from scratch. For small populations and early post-apocalyptic societies, this...

Caesar disappears into the Lucky 38, orders keep on flowing out, the legion keeps expanding west. The NCR fragments under the defeat into several statelets, each geographically and ideologically distinct, prevented from falling into their own territorial squabbles by the need to band together...

I always imagined that the thing stopping motorised vehicles wasn't a lack of technology, but a lack of fuel. There's no oil left, and uranium is scarce (the only reactors we see are all pre-war, running vaults and military facilities, as far as I remember, no new reactors are being...

There's realism and there's realism. Not many people would enjoy a Fallout game where you cut yourself on a rusty spike and died agonisingly of tetanus if you walked too close to a barbed wire fence, as "realistic" as that may be. When things are so unrealistic as to break your willing...