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I always got the idea that it was a small group of like 5 enclave soldiers that went into mariposa. Those casualties were based on being overrun rather than enclave deploying in full force. Mark II power armor is really powerful, and plasma weapons are exceptionally powerful, so I imagine they...

Marcus seems to believe that individuality survived well into having the master's influence, but if they are as subservient as you seem to think, you could argue that becoming part of the unity is to give up what it means to be alive at all. If life is merely to exist to propagate more life, it...

I always wanted to have a longer discussion with the master. The sterility thing seemed like a minor issue, but I wanted to discuss about what free will was and whether life with such omnipresent guidance could actually be feasible to keep a people able to pursue their own individuality while...

Don't give your kids mutations! FEV causes autism!

People often cite that Caesar's use of hegelian dialectic makes him this intellectual and that his decisions for the wasteland might make him a good choice for winning hoover dam, but I often have a hard time seeing it through. He seems to think that whether or not he wins or loses, doesn't...

I mean, TBH you're not wrong.

Noble savage is certainly a powerful philosophical concept of Rosseauian philosophy that I think Fallout likes to play with. Lonesome Road is actually my favorite DLC, but I don't get what of his talks were psuedo philosophy. Everything was either Hobbesian in relating to human nature...

YAS! Feed me your pretentious tears and anger. They only make me stronger!

Here's the one that will really get me crucified. That "Inconsistent tone" people accuse of Fallout 2, that hammy comedy that's right next harrowing truths about the wasteland? That's the ideal tone of Fallout. It's this sacrilegious tone meant to set people off their norms and keep people...

New Vegas's main storyline is boring and isn't worth playing without dlc.

Yeah, it didn't become big until 3, but Bethesda's head writer has gone on record saying his motto is something like "Keep it simple", I believe. When a franchise becomes very big, they start playing to a wider audience, and I think that fallout is now being designed to be a people pleaser. It...

New Vegas and all the new fallout games are hiking simulators. Its big sprawling levels that take long amounts of time to cross, especially if you don't find anything, and its generally so big that they can't make it an information rich environment. They try to tell you about an area in grand...

The joys of classic fallout isn't with doing things fast. Its patient and methodical so you can think out every move, plan your steps in advance. You get to have a full view of the whole battlefield with good descriptions of what is going on, so you can take the time to imagine how all of it is...

Foreshadowing and Chekov's gun are not good or bad inherently, its a matter of how they are used. Beyond the Beef is hamfisted. I don't see it as being all that great for outcomes either. Either you stop them or you don't, and you decide whether to use force or not. That's generally standard in...

It absolutely is a chekhov's gun. Its an inconspicuous detail that you bring attention to because you intend to use it later. Thats exactly what they do with mentioning the ultraluxe's restaurant. They don't mention that they are cannibals, but because they mention the restarant at all means...

Well duh, you can't take the silliness away from the writing of OWB and have the writing still be good. The silliness is part of what makes the serious part of the dlc work. Its a world that has lost its mind. Thats the whole point. I get the feeling some people here are just terminally unfun.

I just consulted my sister who knows nothing about fallout to see if she could guess what the White Glove's big twist was. All I told her was that they had a restaurant and they were very fancy. Immediately, her first guess was "They eat people." Its just not well done. Its long hanging fruit...

Its really hard to say that the chairmen would be acting out of character, speaking that they don't have any traits to make them act out of character with. I'm saying that at the very least having them throw something in like a secret legion contact would make you have to reevaluate them. It...

Old World Blues is pretty worthless if you don't have that thematic backing. It makes the jokes fit in with everything else and makes it not become a schizophrenic mess. I feel like saying combat is really poor in Old World Blues is off color because combat in all of New Vegas and just...

OWB is an excellent dlc. It is very wacky, but its informed by theme, and that makes it something that lets you wander in thought as you play. It starts with that ominous bit of "We had all the answers, but they were answers to the wrong question." And that rings true. Old World Blues is largely...