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Born into the Brotherhood of Steel, quit after the war with the NCR started, integrated into NCR and started working as a courier. Very capable with energy weapons but prefers to disassociate himself from his past so uses revolvers instead. This is mainly so I have something to do as I pass...

In New Vegas they come off pretty easily, but then once you leave the vault and find yourself in bandit country you might figure it's best not to be seen with this quite useful and valuable piece of technology, which would lead to bright sparks learning how to hack the things, whereas in the...

Well, if you don't kill the overseer then things are a little different when you go back to the vault later in the game. I don't know how you avoid killing him though, since as far as I remember the only way out of the vault is through him. You can probably sneak past him or something.

True, but you still have your companions and Elijah as object lessons n the importance of letting go. Besides, it adds another, unintentional lesson: nobody who is rich came by their wealth legitimately.

I doubt that most of them did, but it's surely happened. When I took the gold out I did it as a sort of self-imposed challenge, since I already had Implant GRX so just getting out of the vault would be trivial. It was a lot of fun and took a few tries; I felt like I'd actually achieved...

Zion also didn't get hit, but still got fatally irradiated once the fallout reached it. Likely the same thing happened with Vegas. Even without radiation though, there'd be mass panic and it probably didn't take long for the place to devolve into complete lawlessness.

It's not quite revenge. He doesn't hate the Courier for destroying the divide, he hates you for not being aware of it. His plan in Lonesome Road is to make you a part of his apocalypse, and to make sure that this time you know the part you played.

Sauron has gigantic dragons. They don't even have to kill the eagle that's carrying the ring, they just have to get it in a fight so it drops it.

Yeah I've got no idea why they felt it was necessary to make it TWO bullets. One is stretching it, to be honest. Quick fan theory: In Fallout 2 the Enclave president said that due to radiation and FEV basically every human in the western wasteland is at least slightly mutated in some way...

The quest design isn't bad; it's overly combat-focused but skills see a decent amount of use in quest resolutions and some quests get pretty elaborate(Tenpenny Tower, the Survival Guide, the simulation, etc). The quest arrow telling you where to go can be obnoxious, but really the worst part of...

I loved it apart from the crappy faction-detection mechanic whichgoes purely by Reputation and can't actually detect if I've locked myself out of a particular faction by, eg, KILLING HOUSE; and the lack of consequences for nuking main factions at the end. I would have liked it if whoever you...

This really annoys me, because the Super Mutants are built up as like this big threat, and the Brotherhood of Steel has been fighting them for 20 years, and then you go to the vault where they came from, and you... leave... and they're never mentioned again. did the Enclave wipe them out? Is...

Yeah it's weird that none of the patches ever addressed karma. I guess it's something that couldn't be fixed by patch somehow, or maybe they discovered too late that the karma values were messed up.

The "aliens started the war" thing comes from an audio log where the aliens are trying to get nuclear launch codes from some general. He gives up a bunch of military secrets easily, but when pressed for the launch codes he resists and starts screaming, and the audio log ends. It could imply...

The vaults aren't army bases but they do have moments where they evoke that same feeling. Particularly Vault 34, which combines the "oh shit I'm being constantly irradiated, I'm gonna die" feel of the Glow with the "oh shit look at all these weapons, I'm rich!" feel of the Sierra Army depot...

don't give up on Arcade; he has one of my favourite stories in the whole game. It doesn't unlock until you're near the end of the game, but it's worth the wait.

"All people do is say they like New Vegas better than Fallout 3 and then give several reasons why. It's infuriating!"

Boone, Veronica and Arcade Gannon in the main game, all had great stories. Christine from dead Money is up there too, just because she delays the infernal beeping of the collars. The other companions in that game are great too. I don't much care about combat ability, though I like Boone's...

I don't get why they have to be an option. Frankly it's enough for me that they're well thought out enough to have a backstory and motivation that's understandable; I don't necessarily have to then go "yes, good, I will join you". You can complain that they're unrealistically brutal, but...

VG Chartz is barely better as a source than just guessing, though those numbers look about right based on what little I know (New Vegas sold 5 million copies within 2 months, ie the only time when a game sells in appreciable quantities). I don't know how much the old games sold but it must...