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It wouldn't be NGE if they didn't make you wait way too long for closure on anything.

@CT Phipps No offense, but why are you stumping so hard for this? The natural state of human society isn't social entropy. We're communal creatures and we're too curious and too desirous of security not to build and grow. You argue that the natural state of (wasteland?) societies is to moulder...

For the most part. When it comes to the Powders, I doubt Cooke would have even bothered freeing most of them if it hadn't been an all-or-nothing proposition or a spit in the NCR's face. Cooke's core group seem a lot savvier about keeping off the radar, and they're a lot more like hard-line...

I agree with Mr. Sawyer about the Followers, but therein lies the rub -- They ARE functionally structureless, with few or no hard rules about who does what, let alone what they do or don't do as an organization. Caesar came from them, and in the peculiar form and path he took a "reformer" like...

You're not wrong. I might just be a curmudgeon. I sppose it's mostly a matter of taste-- I'm one of the people who feel that Fallout 2 got further and further off the rails the further around the big circle you got from Arroyo, and the Sierra Army Depot was a particularly "wild wasteland" kind...

What if a given faction had a major endgame questline, in other words. I'm sorry if the semantics weren't clear, I may have made a conceptual leap in my head that didn't come through in the writing on that one. I don't disagree, and it's not a combo I'd have opted for myself, but gaining...

Synth AI does exist in Fallout, it's just so complex it requires a room-sized server for a brain. Sure, it's feasible that The Institute could have reached that level of miniaturization and cybernetic technology in the 200 years since the war, but by the same token it'd be just as feasible for...

Realism is great where it's called for and the 3d Fallouts' hacking and lockpicking systems could definitely use some work, but one does have to keep in mind that the gamespace is an analog of a world, not a direct representation. Designers need ways to separate the world into discrete locations...

I mean, that's the whole point of a "what if," no? We're not talking about game endings here but about actual outcomes. One of the most frustrating things about the independent ending is that you've got all the elements at your disposal to change and reform Vegas a thousand different ways but by...

I'm not sure about the restoration mod, but I know for sure that FIXT does a decent amount of work towards making a stealth playthrough work as intended, as well as some tweaks on sub-factions to differentiate stealth play and make things a little more realistic (e.g. making it possible to...

Consider this a full and heartfelt repentance in the hopes that I can save even one other from making the same mistake. I mean, it's not that difficult to overlook, right? Mediocre damage, an incredibly situational debuff, and a frenzy effect on an enemy you're already in cqc with? But I've had...

The argument "philanthropy should be a personal choice" looks good on the surface, but taxes to pay for things that are demonstrably crucial to the common good =/= philanthropy. Why are the physical and mental health of the citizenry less important than cops or firefighters or paved roads? Or...

I tend to roleplay each character as they come, but the styles I gravitate to usually call for them breaking with the Legion and heading to Wyoming. If I'm playing a particularly get-off-my-lawny Independent playthrough I usually try to become Papa's heir, take over as chief Khan, and take them...

I'm not sure if I missed a joke here, but at the risk of being that one too-earnest guy, nobody was lying to him. The males could really only know that their equipment seemed to be working normally, which it presumably was if their reports were coming back "all systems go." The fact that they...

I'm not sure how Perlman feels about the franchise now that he doesn't have to do ending narration for every single possible detail of the endings, but at one time he was pretty unhappy with the job. Between that, his star (and star fees) having been consistently on the rise since Fallout 2, and...

It's real, but it's annual-- no one is reporting on it because it's not really news, any more than any given American vote to extend military funding. Russia does various drills like this every year at the start of October as part of their civil defense month. The numbers they publicize on the...

Ghoulification has been treated pretty inconsistently throughout the franchise. so a lot of the blanks are left for you to fill in as you please. The process has been depicted as anywhere from near-instantaneous (Moira Brown, the ghoul private at Camp Searchlight in New Vegas) to taking weeks or...

Yeesh. A guy steps out for a few years and you lot let everything get all weird.

I don't wanna hijack the spotlight, but just for the record, should anyone need me for anything, I'm going to be clocked out on a ramshackle rocket tour of ill-omen for an indeterminate span of time, effective from about three months ago until (???). I'll still be keeping an eye on PMs and...