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Well one must also consider that there most likely were fans of Fallout 1/2 who did enjoy FO3. I know I was one of them myself. But then because my first Fallout experience was with Tactics back in Middle School and thus I was exposed to "lesser" Fallout games early on, perhaps I'm not such a...

True, but then I guess I see it as being in the same vein as the AT-ATs from Star Wars: they might have tried to provide some weak "logic" for their design years after the movies came out, but the real reason they were there was because they were visually striking (aka "cool") machines. FO3...

Really, the only thing I truly liked more in FO3 was the setting (in loose terms). I liked the more destroyed and post-apocalyptic grimdark look and feel of many of the locations. Even those that weren't (Lamplight...) were still very visually interesting (even when the "cities" were "populated"...

This. I very much enjoyed Fallout 3 when it came out (the originals were better, of course, but FO3 was not bad... although I expect to be lynched shortly for uttering such words), but after Fallout: New Vegas the idea of returning to FO3 is just not appealing. F:NV was basically FO3 with...

It was earlier on, with someone talking about how a Fatman 'nuclear' explosion is impossible to recreate in our world (especially complete with mini-mushroom cloud). Like I said, I agree with that opinion. I personally think the Fatman should have been the previously mentioned boss-only...

Know it like the back of my hand now. I'll spring that puppy on the family at dinner time and see what happens! :D Ah, see, I was bringing up the Ghoul and power armour because people here were arguing that the Fatmans (or is the plural still 'Fatman'? 'Fatmen?) effects didn't fit in with...

Thats not a word; its a question on the SAT. "Use verisimilitude in a sentence." Anyway, do giant scorpions created through radiation or a ghoul with a tree growing in its head really have the 'appearance or semblance of truth' (Thanks to dictionary.com! :D )? I am not arguing that the...

Maybe its a Science! approach to it? I mean, during the 40's and 50's nuclear weapons were getting smaller and more sophisticated, so if you extrapolate that out it could follow a 50's pulp-science idea about nuclear technology being able to get smaller. I'm just grasping at straws, I know...

And Tolkien did go to some pretty crazy lengths too, like making up a whole new language. But wasn't Tolkien's appeal because he was one of (if not the) first fantasy authors? I'm really looking forwards to FO3, and yet I never really liked Oblivion myself. Never beat it, always got real...

I mean, to be fair all of that "canon" was established outside the movies themselves, which are in reality the true "canon" when you think about it. So in that case, the non-canon stuff was better than the canon. With Fallout, it seems that much of the canon is from sources who created the...

Ah, you got me there. :wink: Damn you, logic! Damn yooouuuuu! *Raises fist in anger* No no no, you misunderstood what I meant: I was saying that wasn't the fact that people were upset derived from how the Tactics intro broke with canon becuse it did show a fossil-fuel powered car and a...

I know. I was being facetious. :wink: I thought that widespread and common use of nuclear power was one of the aspects of the Fallout pre-war Earth: an expansion on the ideas in the 50's of how Science! and nuclear power were going to better mankind in all aspects of life. I mean, we had...

Yeah, its not really a shadow government until its governing something. :D Of course, they would actually need to be controlling another government that would be governing, but you get my point.

Well, it might be more than just whats in those cities. Whats underneath, or in nearby shelters/bunkers could be valuable. Then there is also the other ways technology might have been preserved. For instance, we have that concept art with the aircraft carrier on land: might they be travelling...

Thats my silver lining too. If anyone wants to see how much you can change Oblivion, just look at all the mods there. With the dedicated fan base of the Fallout series (sans those who won't even touch a computer with FO3 installed on it) I expect there to be many changes in the game within...

Maybe one that ran on nuclear power cells from a bulky backpack, giving the player a reason to try and conserve power and use torches or flashlights more often? That wouldn't be bad at all, really. You would have to choose between limiting yourself to a 1-handed weapon and a torch/flashlight...

Its called the "Half-Life" syndrome. Anyone ever wonder what Black-Mesa was doing with a few thousand unstable exploding barrels? Or what the Combine was doing with thousands more of the same barrel in Eastern Europe? Its more explosions for explosions sake. It can give combat a nice twist or...

Yeah, exactly. I can accept a Brotherhood presence on the west coast, but the NCR better not be there at all, even if its the lone diplomat. The Brotherhood might have the ability and technology to make it accross the nation in one peace, but I doubt the NCR would. Plus they would be more...

Well, one of the reasons could be that because in Fallout so much of everyday life is derived from Nuclear-related things (the cars? Nuka cola?), so they might be more trusting and ignorant of the dangers. I mean, if your car is powered by a nuclear engine, then you might feel a little more...

I like the vehicles in FO:Tactics too, until I realized the car was a Hummer and the tank a Sherman, and both would be 200+ years old. What, the US didn't develop a new MBT after WW2? Please.