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Honestly? Because it's a good game. Not a perfect game- no game is- but a solid game. Good exploration, good art design, unique enemies, vast world. Why else?

To be fair, Fallout 3 was supposed to be set 20 or so years after the Great War, not 200.

I'm going to have to disagree with pretty much everyone and say that Fallout: NV is "railroaded" or "linear" within certain bounds or certain ways. Not a bad thing, and it was done for good reasons, but it is a definite that the devs wanted the player to follow a certain path (especially for...

I've heard this a lot. In fact, it's usually the first argument against New Vegas people say. Which is fine, but I'm wondering how valid of a claim it is. It is true New Vegas does "push" you into making a huge horseshoe from Primm to the Mojave Outpost to Nipton then up to Novac. Admittedly...

raider warlords. Crossbows. Miniature crossbows you can put on your wrist. Cars made out of junk. Football gear and chains! Cannibalism! You know, Mad Max shit. Cool shit. Stylish shit. But how realistic is this sort of stuff? Like, raider warlords taking power and abusing survivor...

simple answer: get FCO.

Well, the secessionist rebels in Eastern Ukraine are backed by Russians. There is a simmering conflict going on there. While Russia took the Crimea, I think they plan to make Eastern Ukraine a satellite state.

RedLetterMedia strikes a nice balance, I think. They don't lampoon something like the new Robocop remake just because it exists, but because it's kind of just a typical PG13 action movie like so many others. They do show occasional moments of bias- especially Rich (Or Rick? the balding guy who...

I would say this is less the realm of cliche and more like, ready-made-plots. It's like the Monomyth story structure: if done typically, it requires no creativity. You only need to interject characters and locations into where they're needed, like some kind of story where the square peg goes...

Harrison Ford is so fucking dead to me. Whenever I see him in a film, he always looks so bored, tired, and passionless. I would like nothing more than to see some fresh star and not that haggard old piece of shit who keeps on making movies he clearly doesn't want to make. Same with Bruce Willis...

So I've been writing and doing a bit of armchair studies on firearms on how they're classified and work. Mainly I needed to look up the differences between AKM series weapons. If my facts are right, though, then it would seem that up until Fallout: New Vegas, Fallout had really... silly gun...

Any thoughts? Hernan saw his town like a dusty mirage. It was low, made of adobe and wood, maybe two hours walking from where he was now. It was a small farm town along the foothills of the Santa Catalina Mountains; two days south by caravan from the city of Tucson. He followed the old highway...

...you're cool. Do two responses to your posts (one of which was in a thread I started) seriously mean I must be attacking you? Do you suffer from paranoia? A refusal to be proven wrong? (I kid, I kid. But you are being needlessly rude.) I'm not misanthropic, and I have no idea where you...

stick in the mud- that's totally false, a myth perpetrated by the american school system. The thing that skews European medieval lifespan *averages* is the mortality rate for children. If you lived to adolescence, your life expectancy was 60-70. Medieval europeans did not have absurdly short...

Oh, Dharma. To digress a little bit from the original subject, wasteland culture is Fallout 1 was distinctly multicultural. I'm not sure which writer was responsible, but between the track Trader's Life, Shady Sand's racial diversity; the Khan's weird neo-mongol thing; the various character...

Van Buren was very much an exploration into the past of the Fallout universe, and would have been an incredible game (rest in peace), so I have no doubt that a Fallout title can walk the line between there being too much of the old world and too little. (one of the things I never got about...

The NCR is a parody of the worst aspects of American government and society- expansionism, economic imperialism, uncontrolled capitalism, vicious consumerism, and militarism. NCR history has many parallels with American history. That being said, America will never "go fascist". America is...

You know, this is also a chief argument against the Institute's androids, but I don't see it. Fallout is sci-fi, but it's sci-fi where reel-to-reel computers are powerful enough to run near-human AI. I mean, that was in the first two games. Fallout's a universe where FEV exists, or where you can...

What? There's plenty of evidence the culture was at least somewhat retro, and no evidence explicitly against it- in Fallout 1 or 2. Does the opening video with "Maybe" not exist? Do the various pre-war advertisements littered around not exist? Marketers and musicians don't make products to an...

Oh man the comments, why That being said, the Fallout 3 OST on a whole was way too action-y. Like how can you go from "Metal Monks" to... that Oh shit. things Fallout 3 did right. Um. The... locaaation-al... fuck, I liked how the energy weapons looked, I guess