Recent content by Kilgore Trout

No. I think ISIS is a more apt comparison.

Here's the back story of my courier who sided with Mr. House: Raised by the Shi, "Lucky" Tseng grew up scavenging, repairing and maintaining old world technology. Although well respected for his technical acumen, gambling debts and itchy feet eventually lead him to leave San Francisco's...

No. This is the greatest strength of the main storyline - it forces you to make trade offs and assess what your greatest value is - stability? Freedom? Democracy? Technology? Personal wealth? It also lets you come up with a nuanced answer to this question - one could support any of the major...

Yes, exactly, and that's how they are described in Fallout 1. One of the NPCs in the Hub calls them "a bunch of gun nuts", and that's largely how they come off - a small, isolated sect, not a nation. Even if they opt to help you directly take out the Mariposa Military Base, they only send a...

+1 Rads for Seinfeld reference I also have the game + DLC on the xbox, since my computer is too lame to run it. It's a tough call, if your Macbook can handle I'd give it a try for the JSawyer Mod. On the other hand, there's still plenty of options for interesting playthroughs on the Xbox...

It really boggles my mind. Purely looking at Fallout 3, New Vegas, and Fallout 4 from the perspective of killing stuff, I would say they have shitty gameplay and shitty graphics. The controls are jenky and combat is a glitchy cheesefest. There are so many games dedicated to killing things in...

I agree that the NCR has a number of potentially fatal problems, but that doesn't mean that the Brotherhood is going to be able to the fill power vacuum from a collapsing NCR. They are too few, too isolated, and too stuck in their narrow ideology to become a great power in the wasteland. Their...

Yes, it's amazing how much more complex and reactive (and therefore, immersive) the world is in Fallout 1 and 2 compared to the later entries in the series. Technology has advanced, but world building, role playing (in sense of stat and perk selection), story telling, and the mechanics of...

The Brotherhood is basically finished. Even if the NCR loses the Mojave - and that is often the outcome when I play New Vegas - there is no guarantee that the Mojave Chapter survives. Literally every faction wants them destroyed; even Yes Man would prefer you take them out. In my opinion, it...

I agree; the radio in New Vegas, while still annoying, does make sense given both the plot and the setting, unlike say Fallout 3 and 4, where it is just there.

Please describe some of the references to "these kinds of songs" in the classic Fallouts; aside from the intro sequences, I can't think of a single reference to pre-war music anywhere. And there certainly wasn't any radio playing 300 year old songs. I stand by my criticism of the radio - for...

Because every post-apocalyptic world since Beneath the Planet of the Apes *has* to have a radiation worshiping death-cult, otherwise people wouldn't be able to tell it's post-apocalyptic. The same reason why every post-apocalyptic world since Road Warrior *has* to have a bunch of raiders...

I love the Shi. My favorite Courier backstory is a wandering tech scavenger and gambler who was raised by the Shi.

I think it's deeper than that - it shows a failure to even understand reality logic. Saying raiders raid each other is kind of like thinking that an economy where the only jobs are haircutting is sustainable, because everyone can just cut each other's hair. Fallout 1's raider tribe made sense -...

There is a huge contrast with the early games, where we actually got to see new societies emerge, ones that weren't simply squatting in post-war buildings and wearing post-war rags, but had developed unique cultures and ways of life. Even the people that were living in ruins still managed to...