Seems like a lot of new people have popped up, and seems like I'm one of them. But I'm a bit like Roger from American Dad, I have to out my poison at moments like these, else I'll suffer.
If they just have to put something like the Fatman in, make it acceptable. Like if the Fatman had been a last resort weapon. You’re cornered, you’re outnumbered, you’re outgunned and you’d damn well like to creep back to your vault. You know that using the Fatman will do irreparable damage to you or at least leave you in bad shape for a long time. But there’s just no other way out. Nuclear explosions close up means anybody in the vicinity of the blast dies, either now or a bit later in a probably more horrible fashion. And you’re going to share some of that pain and hope for the better. Could’ve made a fortune on the market with that damn thing too…
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Which is what makes the Fatman in Fallout 3 as far as I've seen it such a sad try at ‘being cool and down whit da’ hood man! issa nuke! woo!’ They should’ve called it a bombrail or something, because that’s what it is, a rail with a spring, a tube, catapulting a bomb. I’m afraid that they’ll make it too easy to get, with enough ammo to go around and share with your buddies. Look, it’s the nuke team!
But what I fear most is that enemies will get their hands on it and that I’ll be nuked and survive it, repeatedly, without consequence. It’ll be ‘just another weapon’ instead of ‘that most dreadful of all weapons, you know you’re going to be hunted down if you actually use this don’t you? People don’t take kindly to adding radiation to a world that’s already been chewed on, spit out and tread on, we like non-radiated areas sonny… course, if it’s some backwater raider camp, go ahead’.
Ack, I always do this, write too much while hardly saying anything. Curse my attempts at eloquence.
