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- Environmental design is pretty great this time around. - Gunplay is much improved. - Fallout 4 is actually a better game writing-wise than Fallout 3 (and it has mostly better writing than NV's Lonesome Road, which is faint praise because that DLC's writing was NV's low point.) There are a...

Ummm no, Salafism is NOT an orthodox movement, it's fairly heterodox, and it's quite new as far as the Islamic tradition goes. Salafism reared its head during the colonial era, but before that many of its scholars and leaders were considered heretics at best and disbelievers at worst throughout...

Nanjing. It's a location similar to HK but have been occupied by American forces during the great war. You could get some american gadgets and crap like vaults and it wouldn't be all that weird to find these similar elements, and it'd be interesting to see 50s-projected hypernationalistic and...

Tree huggers! Hippie environmentalists who know a bit of the past and try to "clean up" the wasteland and keep ecosystems and such. Maybe take down some old-world stuff to that end. Of course, they might be called "purifiers" or something, but I'm not good with names.

Long winded and possibly limiting? Yes. Contrived? No. Actually, it'll probably feel really smooth.

Eh... About industry, I think it's going to be really hard for post war people to kickstart it on their own, especially when the amount of fossilized old world tech begins to lessen with time, since the lore basically says earth was pretty much stripped of its finite natural resources like...

Actually, CoD makes you lose if you shoot a civillian or something usually, so even in that game you can't shoot everyone indiscriminately. Tbh though, recently, the immortal NPC mechanic is less for pandering to trigger happy idiots and more as a bad fix for the problem of radiant or semi...

Ehhh, Joshua Graham is pretty high up there. I like his character a lot, especially the contrast between the things you hear about him and then how calm and subdued he is when you first meet him. A supposedly reformed guy--but soon you see the vestiges of his past in him, and he seems very aware...

Yep. People tend to focus on mechanics superficially without giving a lot of thought as to what these mechanics are supposed to do. I always, for example, disliked the term "RPG mechanics," to describe things like leveling up and experience bars. Leveling up and experience bars on their own...

I don't think so. FO3 could have thrown out everything in the franchise and still have been a good deep rpg game. Whether or not it's fallouty enough doesn't say anything about the actual quality of the game. You can't really personify Fallout either and say anything betrayed anything else...

Wow, this is actually a surprisingly thoughtful post with a good point. IMHO when it comes down to it, RPGs are about being able to make a character (however defined they may be beforehand) and actualize them in the game using its mechanics. All these skill systems over the years, experience...