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Because "the internet" has a general agreed upon etiquette. Surely this isn't the only forum you've visited- I'm sure there are others you've noticed "USE THE SEARCH FUNCTION" stickied. In short, your thread here suggests that you consider *your* time more valuable than others. That's what...

Because the Enclave (or their ancestors) *required* the Great War. That doesn't mean they necessarily started it, but my impression was that they were counting on China retaliating when they went after Beijing- and if China didn't launch their nuclear weapons, the U.S would have anyway. Making...

Yes, which was part of the menu. I don't think my character pulled out a television every time he wanted to talk someone face to face. Much like how I don't think my character actually hit a bit red button whenever he wanted to use an innate skill. The Pipboy interface, quest list and map...

Have you ever played the original Deus Ex? I think it came off much more of a RPG than a lot of other so called 'FPS/RPG' or 'RPG Shooters'. Encumbrance isn't really a huge thing to fans of that genre- and to be frank, I think Fallout 4 is closer to Deus Ex than a lot of the other hybrids...

Gizmojunk, I'm going to reply to Crni first, as I believe it's relevant to the discussion: Because that's how it was in the originals. I'm pretty sure they copied the terminals for Fallout 3- though I can't remember where the white terminal was depicted. However, a few examples I do remember...

I was surprised too. I did a number of Minutemen and Brotherhood of Steel quests (Eradication and obtaining tech). Far as I can tell, those are repeatable quests you can do over and over for XP and ammo/materials. It does make some sense considering one of the advertised features was no level...

Probably. There was a thing in the news before Fallout 3 about Bethesda renaming all the drugs in the game so Australia wouldn't ban it- they originally had 'morphine' that was renamed Med-X. Jet may have been meth, or something similar and renamed. Personally, it doesn't bother me anymore...

Fallout 2 had so many jokes and references that it's difficult to sort the wheat from the chaff. Vault 69 would be 'chaff', for example. In any case, it gets worse when you start including the Fallout Bible and Van Buren- perhaps President Richardson (yet another Fallout 2 joke) was wrong in...

I'm well aware- I've pointed to, several times, Sci-Fi works from the 50s and 60s. The "popular" sci-fi. You're moving the goal posts. You argued that Bethesda's interpretation of the setting isn't as technologically as advanced as it was in the original Fallout games. You specifically...

That's the first I've seen of that. Nice find- it's rather obscure though. Regardless, however, Fallout takes inspiration from a lot of Sci-Fi. If you look at the 40s, 50s and even 60s Sci-Fi you don't see anything like Cell Phones. In fact, the inventor of the first mobile/cell phone...

Except the whole 'Vaults are officially "everything goes" experiments' was established in Fallout 2. Seriously, the *entire plot* was about that. You can't pin that on Bethesda (or Skynet, or talking deathclaws for that matter). The experiments are explained on the Oil Rig by President...

Cell phones and modern music players don't work in Fallout. Microprocessors didn't exist until the early '70s, and weren't conceivable in the 50s. There's a reason that the Pipboy in the original Fallout is monstrous by today's standards, and limited to a monochrome monitor. A microprocessor...

I've got (cautious) optimism for it- I doubt they'll be using ICE vehicles and have furry, psychic deathclaws among their initiates. I've always liked the concept of a BoS chapter that went rogue- it helps explain why, prior to Van Buren, the council was never able to decide in favor of...

I believe what they said was that they consider Fallout: Tactics to be completely non-canon unless mentioned in canon games. Same thing with Van Buren- which is how we know the war between the NCR and BoS happened, but whether Vesper attempted to rain nuclear fire down on California, or whether...

Expected, unfortunately. I haven't played Mass Effect, but if it's anything like L.A Noire, sometimes your character goes off on a completely different tangent than you expect. That always broke any sort of immersion for me. You know what would have been nice about this 'dynamic' dialog they're...

I sympathize. There was a time when this would have really bothered me, but now...eh. What's your experience with Pencil and Paper RPGs? Have you played any White Wolf? Shadowrun? GURPs? D20? Battletech (Mechwarrior/Time of War)? Etc. The reason I ask is that a that their game systems...

I, for one, would like to thank you for the (cautious) optimism for Fallout 4. I think you and I have a similar view on Fallout 3 and probably 4. I've lurked these forums off and on, but haven't really bothered to post because anything along the lines of "Fallout 3 wasn't worse than Tactics or...