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Because I can't imagine any situation you'd define as darkly ironic that isn't, ultimately, ironic. Given Fallout's comparitive lack of popularity among gamers before Fallout 3 came out, I'd say there's no major problem with that. If you know the original two games, Harold is a special...

I distinctly remember being worried the first time I played Fallout because NPCs kept saying that Deathclaws were these deadly beasts. Then I finally saw one in the city, scared the crap out of myself, and then did the Standard Attack I Always Did - Projectile Weapon To The Eyes - and it...

I'd argue that the fact that Harold is creating life, but wants to die, is suitably ironic. Maybe not "dark irony", but that's semantics. Maybe it was just me, but my choice in the quest was a hard choice. I didn't want to kill Harold - he's Harold, for crissake. Plus, I liked that he was...

Here's one that prolly was said, but I couldnt find it: BI: Deathclaws were brown blobs that everyone said were scary, but they blew all their AP running at you while you shoved your bullets into their primary nasal passages. Bethesda: Deathclaws are large, angry beasts that, unless you...

It is relevent, exactly because of your critisim you laid at Bethesda's feet. The further down the Fallout timeline we go, the longer it's going to seem bizzare to players that the ruins still exist, that there's still no greenery, or that raiders are still scavenging the remains of a major...

I'm not sure how to respond to that, given that that's what I'm saying. Want to blame someone for the fact that Fallout's setting is wasteland and ruin long after the Great War? That's Black Isle's sin. The only thing that struck me, in Fallout 1, as...

Paraphrasing from the Fallout Bible - "Fallout's setting is based on what someone from 1950 would think a post-nuke place would be: barren landscape for miles." Fallout 1 doesn't look at all what a post-nuke society would look like after 84 years, much less 300. You know what it'd look like...

The funniest part of Prime's point in the plot is that if you look carefully, the Brotherhood guys didn't exactly clear the Penatgon's walls when they lifted him out. Really, I can't see any reason why someone could not have fun with that sequence. I actually was worried when he fell to his...

Like I said, after I thought about it a bit, I was convinced by Eden's actions. I still am only 50-50 on being convinced that Master blowing himself up as actually altruistic. Except that you can tell him to wait where he is.

This is going to sound like a troll, but has there been any thought that a lot of this traffic is based on people being curious about how NMA responds to Fallout 3? I'm reminded of when that large preview came out and scanned in. Every article I saw about it (on Fark, on Digg) inevitably...

The old lady at your birthday party says something along the lines of "When your father came to us..."

About Eden,

My guess / opinion on the use of bottlecaps was because it hammered home the fact that it's been 200 years since the Great War, and human society is stuck. The cities are still covered in rubble, everything is made from scrap from the old, and those that want to do something positive for...

Truth be told, I haven't played Tactics in forever (it long reached the "Old Game I Try Playing But Can't Cope With How Old It Looks" level). Still, wouldn't be too hard to make it work. A few lines implying that Lyon's Brotherhood met up / civilized the Midwestern ones, forming the New...

I wonder if they mentioned the Midwest BoS because Bethesda wanted to hint that every BoS group that has left the west coast has eventually earned the ire of Lost Hills. Bit of a BoS Civil War in the next Fallout game: the Rouge Brotherhood versus the Original Brotherhood. Player has to...

Let's see... * Like the OP, merging First Aid and Doctor. I've always felt that FA and Doctor as seperate skills would be fine in a tabletop RPG (where the DM can specifically define a specific injury and a specific way of healing it, which would need a specific skill), in computer RPGs, it's...

I've noticed it too, but I don't see it as "we'll ignore these flaws" so much as "there are flaws, but they aren't statistically relevent enough to influence our score".