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And once again the innate superiority of pen and paper RPGs comes forth; you can't save scrub real life. But in defence of FO3, I save-scrubbed a lot in New Vegas - I carried a lot of mentats and skill books for that very reason! It feels "fairer" to me to fail a % chance test than to be...

Remnants Power Armour, Guns 100, a custom Brush Gun and 160+ .40-70G semiwadcutter will make short work of the Legion. And, for that matter, anything short of an Alpha Deathclaw.

Oh don't get me wrong, Dead Money's narrative was solid, but it's negatives outweigh the positives for me. Plus... I wasn't sold on a lot of the core elements. Replicators scattered about the hotel? Really? Zombies? Ghosts? Honest to Gods living dead shambling about? Really? Invincible...

On the DLC front, I recently bit the bullet and acquired them, so here are my thoughts: Gun Runner's Arsenal: This is fun. The new weapons are expensive as hell, but worth it. I love my customised Anti-Materiel Rifle and all the new hand-load ammunition, so this is definitely worth having...

Actually, having Science being the primary skill to maintain / repair energy weapons could be a nice idea. Science then becomes essential for hackers and EW-users (to keep the guns in good order) as well as other "techie" stuff. "Repair" becomes about more mundane stuff (repairing machinery...

So, this stuff appeared in Fallout 2 on the Oil Rig, yes? And I understand some Fallout fans took issue with FO3 Enclave Armour being called "Advanced Power Armour Mk II" because of the FO2 version existing... but I'm not sure that's a valid complaint. Firstly, as far as I am aware FO2 Mk II...

My last playthrough I did side with the Legion, and was woefully disappointed. I can get behind their militant outlook on life. I can get behind them enslaving people, oppressing women and generally being dicks. That's why I signed up - it's fun to be the Bad Guy now and then! But I can't get...

Random thought... What if FO4 saw the West Coast BoS beaten down by the NCR and on the run, fleeing east to their bases in the Midwest / East Coast, where they come into contact with the BoS groups who have "gone native" and this sparks off a conflict? If the Capital Wasteland is either the...

Replayed FO:NV recently (finally!) and tried it as a Legionary. That was probably a mistake... siding with the Legion feels woefully under-developed. The game wasn't as bad as I remember, and I picked up on things I'd forgotten about (like the radio actually noticing when you do things) but...

Personally, I would have done FO3 / FO:NV / would do Fallout 4 differently. I don't like "energy weapons" as a skill when the in-game lore suggests there is no more skill required to shoot a laser than a kinetic gun. In fact, since lasers are designed as having little to no recoil it should be...

The Brotherhood of Steel, in part or in its entirety should be the main focus of conflict in Fallout 4. The reason I say this is because, as I've stated elsewhere, the Brotherhood are done to death. Having a game where the canonical ending is to blow the crap out of their headquarters and...

This isn't so much a story as a collection of background and RP notes from a forum RPG I ran inspired by Fallout, but set in the UK. Elements were added to carry the faction over to conventional Fallout settings. A History of Albion Albion is a nation born from fire and water; a community of...

I generally agree with the OP on this, but would like to add a few more points: 1) No direct connection to previous games. I don't want Fallout 4 to be slightly south of Capital Wasteland, or on Caesar's side of the Hoover Dam. I want to see somewhere we haven't seen yet. Ideally, I'd like to...

So I've been thinking on this again, trying to wrack my brain and work out what it was that made me give up on New Vegas much sooner than Fallout 3. As I said, on paper most everything in NV is better and I do acknowledge that, yet I wanted every FO3 DLC (Zeta was a letdown, but the rest I...

I had forgotten how much I like ThreeDog in FO3. I don't recall having a similar mechanic in New Vegas, and yeah he does get player-centric, but for me part of the fun of doing quests was discovering how GNR would report on it. As I say, I don't remember New Vegas doing that, so that might...

I never had a problem understanding what any of the factions were doing in the Mojave, and it is nice that they aren't black and white moral forces (even Ceasar's Legion could be seen as a force for good in certain areas), but my issue was that, for me, I never saw nor felt the connection to the...

This happens with pretty much every franchise ever. Fans of the Old Trilogy will tell you the New Trilogy are the worst three films ever made; Sonic fans loathe every game that isn't in 2D; StarCraft fans bitch night and day that Brood War was the best game and SC2 was 'dumbed down' too much...

I can't speak for Fallout 2, but in Fallout 3 President Eden seems to be trying to win over the people of the Capital Wasteland. Maybe they adopted "Enclave" there because that's how people knew them? I know the Enclave have bad press, but what sounds worse; "Yes, we're the Enclave, but we've...

Alright, so as a way of presenting credentials, here is a quick overview of my Fallout history. FO3 was my first game, and it was one I dismissed early on because I thought it would just be another dull grey FPS with all the imagination and inventiveness of walking down a corridor that flashes...