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Food from where? He had no agricultural assets. Trade from what? He had no industrial base. Remember, the whole reason Vegas operates like it does in FNV is because of the NCR. House was biding his time, slowly building up power reserves because that was all he had the power to do. He...

Bigger question: Is Mr. House capable of providing protection outside of Vegas at the outset? No. The forces he has available are limited. Unlike the NCR, he doesn't have hundreds of thousands of people to work with. He doesn't have a large industrial base. He doesn't even have a power...

Nah, that's what the Alien Blaster is for. Half a dozen Deathclaws charging from different directions at once all end up in piles of blue dust before they can even reach you.

I don't know how to make mp3's out of the geck, but here's the script: [spoiler:1b0ca93c0e]Courier: What happened to the Legion? Moore: With their leader dead, the rest of their army retreated to the east. We've sent scouts to track them, but that's it. We don't have the forces or...

I got the sense that, outside of a fanatical few loyal to Caesar, nobody in the legion actually cared about the legion. They were all just afraid of Caesar and his enforcers. This should have lead to mass desertion and defection to the NCR when he got stalled at the Hoover Dam. You can do so...

But what happens when you're attacked by more than one deathclaw? Places like that ridge with the free power armor that has a good two dozen deathclaws of various varieties milling about in groups... I had a good 6-8 charge me at once.

Sounds like someone at Bethesda got their wires crossed. Probably the guy writing up the descriptions for the the vault-tec database got confused. That certainly sounds alot like the boomer vault, doesn't it? Lack of power would certainly be a cause to suggest population control.

I figured that was House's doing. He was powerful enough pre-war to convince Vault-tec to build a vault to his specs. Remember his plan was to rebuild Vegas in his image, and he expected Vegas to survive. He needed people to do that. So I could certainly see him pulling strings to get it...

To be fair, House has been rather constrained in his power before the events of FNV. He was largely reliant on Hoover Dam for electricity, and only had enough robots to patrol Vegas itself.

That pissed me off. [spoiler:5bb51db00b]I picked the Yes Man on my first time through under the idea that I was going to take over personally and set myself up as Mr. House.[/spoiler:5bb51db00b]

At no point in Roman history did they treat women the way Caesar's Legion does. Yes, women were not citizens, but pre-marriage, they had the social status of their father's house, and after marriage their husbands. Women is caesar's legion are bought and sold, forced to perform backbreaking...

Along those lines, the NCR in the Mojave is quite similar to the US Army in the Mojave in the 1800s. The "old west" theme is everywhere. It is very much "the frontier". NCR's ability to project power is far less than it is back in California. You also mentioned the trains, which...

Actually, we kinda did... the Legion isn't an insurgency that can hide in the population. The real invasion part of both Afghanistan and Iraq went very well. Rooting out individuals is hard. When you have superior firepower, fighting armies is easy. The Legion is a standing army, not an...

All true. Bethesda is good at creating terrain and dungeons, not so good at the whole population thing. That reminds me of another thing that bugged the heck out of me with F3: No agriculture. No forge. Heck, not even a decent smithy. It felt like 20 years after the bombs, not 200. After...

See, that's the thing. They were finished. It's like the Red vs. Blue vault. It's over. All the original inhabitants are gone, and the only thing left are some journal entries and the powder gangers that moved in. Boring. Or Vault 3, which they didn't even seem to bother creating an...

I had a bit of a different take. The whole thing about protecting humanity from the super mutants was self-gratifying propaganda. They went around spitting on the 'locals' constantly. They weren't so much protecting the locals as killing super mutants because the super muties represented a...

Honestly, Vault 11 was the only vault I thought was really interesting. As a concept, it was maxed out on the creep factor. But actually going through the vault, it's all dead with some random bugs to kill. It seems like the Vaults in NV tend to have a more interesting theory behind them...

It need not be the Sierre Madre in LA. The Sierra Madre is also a mountain range. Personally, when I saw the Sierre Madre signs, it got me thinking of fun scenarios about not needing the prizes from the star bottle caps. Something along those lines would also fit Fallout's culture time frame...