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On another forum a debate recently arose comparing the merits of Skyrim vs, of all things, Fallout: New Vegas. The original poster posited the straw man argument that "people say" New Vegas stands heads above Skyrim and was curious why this view was held. I've yet to play Skyrim and I wish...

Regardless of whether the Legion are "grey" or not is immaterial if you don't really encounter them for the first 30-40 hours of game play. Even if the player isn't completely convinced that the NCR is the way to go they'll be habitualized to their presence and conditioned to take that side...

Preamble: I'm not a modder. Hell, I don't even own the PC version. However, I am handy with programming languages and plan to pick up the PC version when I invest in newer hardware sometime next year. I was just curious whether the mod tools were flexible to implement these ideas. The Ideas...

I started playing on the Xbox after the latest major patch (i.e. the one that fixed Veronica's data based leveling bug). I've only suffered one freeze in the 40-50 hours that I've been playing and most of the AI bugs are ignorable (generally they're confined to behaviors at the draw distance)...

Ultra quickie: Do companions have their own stealth skill or do they use your own? Secondly, as this just came to me, is ED-E bugged even with the latest patch? "She" seems to aggro on enemies faaaaaaaaar more than any of my other companions, even when set to passive. Thanks.

This will just be a quickie: I was reading through Nonsensical Elements in Fallout 3 thread and stumbled across Brother None's message which made an offhanded commentary to the fact their discussion didn't help explain "retarded shit, plotholes, internal logical inconsistencies or doing stuff...

Hey guys, does anybody know the name of the track from the Fallout 2 soundtrack that plays on the NCR side of Primm anytime you're near Haye's tent? It's a subtle remix of something very familiar (too subtle, sadly). Still, it made me smile to stumble across it. You know, I never...

Just a passing curiosity: I'm replaying Fallout 2 for the first time in what feels like 15 years (10? I dunno) and just got to The Den. Far more so than I remember, those little blighters in The Den have been robbing me blind of all my caps. Noticing that they ran straight to Tubby, I...

If i had more space that would have read "looking to get back onto PC gaming." I was a PC gamer since the 80s up until 2002 at which point I dedicated my computers to art (audio composition/mastering and digital photography) and offloaded my "dirty habit" onto consoles (ostensibly because the...

I know it wouldn't be mandatory in the slightest. However, to get the most out of things, should one load up and replay the originals again? I haven't played Fallout 2 past Redding since.. ohh.. 2000? I've been thinking of repurchasing them (somebody pointed me towards that legit download...

I've been floating around this forum since Fallout New Vegas launched. I've been reading reviews and impressions, discussing finer details and exploring its depth. I even purchased the game for a few weeks before returning, unopened, for reasons exogenous to the game (though the "a few weeks"...

Just curious. For most game's it's mainly a skin change and might elicit a different set of pronouns from time to time. In Fallout 2, however, it played a big role regarding content accessibility. I presume Fallout New Vegas follows Fallout 3's example but, for all it's faults, I liked...

[Disclaimer: Yeah, I noticed the other thread and even posted in it but, now many days later, I'm still the most recent post.. so here's try two] I'm still a little annoyed that Wild Wasteland was included as a trait and not merely a toggleable world setting like hardcore mode...

Just curious. Anybody know whether it's possible to get Fallout 2 running under Ubuntu? I'd like to install it on a driveless netbook (acer aspire one) which was kicked down to me. However, this means -- in order to try -- I have to purchase a downloadable copy from somewhere. This is all...

Crappy thread title, I know. However, the sentiment is very sincere. Here's my problem: I normally play games on the hardest available starting difficulty. I like to think. I like a challenge and, hell, I've been playing video games since the Infocom Zork, PlanetFall, Space Quest days...

I stumbled across this on another forum and, despite my general good nature and charm, felt a flash of anger: He then went on to say that this brilliant bit of deduction came from the $10-30 million dollar budget FONV was saddled with and Zenimax's reluctance to give carte blanche to...

I'm new around here but I've been tickled by the keen analytical skills of many posters. Does anybody know of any fair and balanced Fallout 3 reviews that explicitly itemize all its deficiencies in a level headed, if not humorous, manner? I've played the game so this is more for my...

I remember the first day I heard about Fallout: I was in my teens and was waiting in line to purchase something PC related at a local Electronic Boutique or Babbages in Ohio. I'd long been a lover of RPGs and science fiction but had never discovered a game which embodied both. The counter jockey...

I'm a little rusty on my Fallout 1 lore but was anything ever explicitly stated about the relative socio-economic positions of the people who got into the vaults opposed to those that were omitted? Was it a rich / poor dichotomy or used for social commentary at all? Anyhow, it's just a...

Over the intervening years since FO3 was announced by Bethesda I've been intermittently following the press. Personally, I fall in the "well, they'll probably screw it up but at least it's something new" camp that cynically expects the worst but feeds the Bethesda machine more quarters than it...