Things we learned from New Vegas

DevilTakeMe said:
Ophiuchus said:
86) You can ingest all kinds of harmful drugs and other consumables (nightstalker squeezin's?), but smoking cigarettes is a no-no.
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This one, though, does have a rational explantion (as silly as it sounds). It does have to do with modern games.

Fallout 3 was actually going to be banned by some countries and various parent watchdog groups because Morphine was in the game. The complaint was that the game depicts the player as using a powerful and addictive drug, that kids would also try to use the real thing.

Morphine became "Med-X" so it would be a "fantasy" drug rather than a real one.

The same logic applies to cigarettes. While NPCs can smoke and you can trade cigs, the player themselves can't because kids would never ever try and copy what characters other than the player character are doing. [/sarcasm]
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Right and it's the double standard that is so irritating, especially in a series like Fallout. Turning Veronica into companion a l'orange is fine, but enjoying a smoke after a hard day of gecko skinnin' is somehow taboo.
 
Right! There's another one.

87. Companions that get on your nerves can be served up on a gourmet platter.
 
88. Blowing up nuclear warheads with a special detonator designed for this task makes their detonation much more harmless rather when they fitted on top of a missile and are fired.

The radiation disperses much more quickly and sometimes there is no structural damage at all.
 
The Dutch Ghost said:
88. Blowing up nuclear warheads with a special detonator designed for this task makes their detonation much more harmless rather when they fitted on top of a missile and are fired.

The radiation disperses much more quickly and sometimes there is no structural damage at all.
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That's actually not that unrealistic.
A nuclear explosion is a complicated thing. The implosion-type of bombs (like Fat Man) requires precise detonation of a lot of smaller charges to create a supercritical mass.
If that laser just randomly triggers a few of the initial charges, the warhead would detonate rather harmlessly, just spreading the nuclear material around.
The dispersion of the radioactivity is stupid, of course :D
 
I forgot about the critical mass thing in which you are correct, but still the explosions shown in the game should cause damage all the time and not part of the time.
 
89. Chain-guns are blunderbusses now apparently :lol:

90. Crazy conspiracies will outlive the apocalypse (good news for my uncle Yusef :lol: )
 
91. Some of the most powerful rifles fire pistol ammunition. Or is it the handguns which fire full-powered rifle ammo? Ah, whatever.

92. You can silence a .308 sniper rifle...

93. ...and then crouch down in the middle of a room full of fiends, and start picking people off one-by-one without anyone noticing...

94. ...and afterwards, nobody will even suspect the heavily armed stranger who appeared just before people's heads started exploding.
 
Ophiuchus said:
Right and it's the double standard that is so irritating, especially in a series like Fallout. Turning Veronica into companion a l'orange is fine, but enjoying a smoke after a hard day of gecko skinnin' is somehow taboo.
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Not saying anything, but it seems you just said that being lesbian and smoking is at least an equally bad thing to do.
 
Ravager69 said:
Not saying anything, but it seems you just said that being lesbian and smoking is at least an equally bad thing to do.
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He's not saying anything of the sort; companion a l'orange refers to turning her into a meal at the Ultra Lux. He's pointing out the hypocrisy of making smoking a cardinal sin, but cannibalism a venial sin at the worst.
 
DoubleRubix said:
95. Every woman from 20's to 80's have the same body but with different looking faces.
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95 1/2. As will every man, every ghoul, and every super mutant.


96. Earthquakes can still ravage a region even years after whatever cataclysm takes place
 
97) After breaking out of prison, the rational choice is to keep wearing prisoner garb.

98) Wearing a radiation suit mitigates radiation in your digestive system.
 
99. Weapons with names are always better then weapons without names.

100. Jet can be used to make better drugs, empty jet inhalers can't be reused to make jet.
 
101. The same firearm, in the same condition, shot from the same position and hitting the same point, will do radically different damage depending on the person firing it.
 
102. The people of 2281 have Plasma Rifles, Stealth field generators, and verti-birds.... but no cars, motorcycles, bicycles, or even a horse!
 
103. It doesn't matter if you just saved an entire town from bandits, and it doesn't matter if everyone in town knows exactly who you are--trading your moth-eaten leather jacket in for one of the prisoners' nice, sturdy suits of guard armor WILL force your erstwhile teammates to try and kill you.
 
105. Nobody bothers to clean up and remove junky old cars from New Vegas, despite it being the hub of civilization in the Mojave.
 
107. People all over the Mojave are willing to kill and die for Sunset Sarsaparilla Stars. Unless you just walk in and take one off of someone's kitchen table in broad daylight, that is. Then, they couldn't care less.
 
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