Did anyone know this fact about New Vegas?

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Weaver

First time out of the vault
I was going about my usual rant of how New Vegas had better writing than Fallout 3 because it was written by Obsidian, then some fellow pointed out that New Vegas actually had different writers than the first Fallouts. I checked it out, it's true!
For some reason I now have a much lower opinion of New Vegas.
 
Sounds like a confusing feeling, I must say. I think that most of us here feel that good writing speaks for itself regardless of who wrote it, just as horrible writing does. If it's really bothering you that much, though, it might help if I point out that the New Vegas dev team included the two men who the original devs chose to pass the design torch on to when it was time to find a project lead for the original Fallout 3. Their influence is a big part of what helped the team tie the game in so well with the originals and assisted in keeping them from making a confused, derivative, unoriginal mess of the story and setting. Hopefully you can rest a little easier now ;-)
 
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Careful now. This person isn't some troll. She's come to share a fact with us, albeit one most of us were already aware of, and perhaps to look for our help in understanding her illogical reaction to it. If we waste posts on flames and name calling, we're not doing anyone any good, and we're not giving her what she's looking for.
 
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... How could you tell Weaver's gender from just one post?
Or do you just use the feminine pronoun if the gender's unknown?
Anyway, I have no idea who wrote what in which Fallout game. I know Chris Avellone wrote stuff for Fallout 2 and New Vegas, but that's it. Can't say I really care as long as the writing is actually good. Which it is in New Vegas (in my humble opinion at least).
 
Well, I am not gonna say is a stupid reaction to think less of a game's writting just because of who wrote it but it's a pretty stupid reaction to think less of the writting of anything just because the person who wrote it wasn't who you tought. Is just as bad a saying something is incredible just because a specific person wrote it without taking in account the actual quality.
The writting speaks for itself. And not just the writting Sawyer did a very good job directing the people to achieve a cohesive product in the end.
 
It seems unfair to judge a piece of writing based on who wrote it. If your opinion of a game can be changed simply by discovering who the author is, then can you objectively judge its worth?
 
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Which it is in New Vegas (in my humble opinion at least).
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Opinion reinforced by fact. If the writing makes sense, is unique and creative, and avoids poor characterization, then it's good writing. Fallout NV is all those things. It's up to you to like it; I don't like LOTR, but it's good writing nonetheless. There is criteria for writing; writing can be objectively judged and definitely determined to be "good" or "bad".

Same goes for 3 in reverse, it's not good writing because it's plothole ridden and has lots of senseless things, but you can still like it.
 
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