27 Things About Fallout 3... and then some.

[xdarkyrex]

Considering that i can set 20 plastic explosives in the trunk of the highwayman and detonate them and NOTHING HAPPENS TO THE CAR....


Should we also make cars indestructible?
Or maybe just car trunks?
I mean, that IS what they intended for the fallout universe, right?
If they thought cars should be destructible at all they would have put it in, RIGHT!?

You couldn't hurt cars at all, so whether they're potentially explosive or not is a moot point, as they did not choose to include the gameplay mechanics that would have shown whether they are or not, simple as that.

Straw Man. The Highwayman was purely a transportation vehicle and never intended for anything else. Having it explode would've been a lot of work put in for no reason.
Instead, people here are arguing from the background you see in Fallout, not the actual game mechanics. Exploding nuclear cars make even less sense when you consider the fact that nuclear explosions are supposed to be world-ending happenings, not cheap 'eeh, I kill a mutant' booms.

You seem to be missing my point.

My original argument is that it has nothing to do with canon and science and continuity or anything of that nature.

It's just an artistic choice.

And your argument is a red herring. Simply because they weren't destructable in Fallout 1 + 2, it doesn't mean it's okay for them to go Hiroshima in Fallout 3 since it still violates continuity and the spirit of the universe.
Like it or not, the chances of Junktown somehow not having a significant amount of nuclear cars in it's walls are zero to none. And if they did explode, Junktown would be a crater. That alone is a contradiction.

Assumptions list.
A) how many cars are nuclear
B) how big the explosion is in game.

No, because people would gladly see mini-nuclear explosions in their city because of some drunken driver who crashed his nuclear car.

Which is different than a gas tank exploding... how?

Gas tanks don't explode when shot at.

Not often, but it has been known to happen.

More importantly, a gas tank can explode when a car crashes.

 

[Vault 69er]

Assumptions list.
A) how many cars are nuclear

Well let's work it out. Petroleum is so rare that China had to invade Alaska for the last few drops of it, the U.S. put up the Poseidon Oil rig in the middle of nowhere to get the supply there, and even that ran out.

In this world, how many cars in use are still going to be gasoline powered?

B) how big the explosion is in game.

Big enough to fry some nearby giant ants.

 

[xdarkyrex]

Assumptions list.
A) how many cars are nuclear

Well let's work it out. Petroleum is so rare that China had to invade Alaska for the last few drops of it, the U.S. put up the Poseidon Oil rig in the middle of nowhere to get the supply there, and even that ran out.

In this world, how many cars in use are still going to be gasoline powered?

Are you asking me or telling me?

Because if you are asking, I am going to answer that I don't know.

But if you are telling me, then I would like to see your answer.

 

[Per]

Are you asking me or telling me?

All right, this is ridiculous already. xdarkyrex loses argument, everybody cheers. Locked pending vattage or overrulage or something.

Edit: Seraphim, if and when you update the article you can make a new thread for it. (Make it good though!!)

 

[Sander]

You seem to be missing my point.

My original argument is that it has nothing to do with canon and science and continuity or anything of that nature.

It's just an artistic choice.

And you seem to be missing the point. Changing the Super Mutants into orcs is also an artistic choice, but that doesn't make it a *good* choice when viewed in the context of Fallout's setting.

Not often, but it has been known to happen.

More importantly, a gas tank can explode when a car crashes.

Gas tanks *do not* explode when shot at. They really don't. Simply because all that that bullet does, is create a hole in the gas tank.

However, there are occassions of gas tanks exploding in a car crash. Specifically, there was a high-profile class-action lawsuit against Ford in the 60s (I think), where Ford used the interesting argument 'Our placement of gas tanks saves us about $15 per car, but kills about 1/100 more. Assuming the average person produces $xxxx for our society, our savings of $15 per car are worth more than the lives of those individuals'.
Needless to say, they lost the case.