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Caesar's reaching out to you doesn't have anything to do with the platinum chip - Indeed, Benny can flee to the Fort with the platinum chip and Caesar still sends his Frumentarius to contact the Courier. Same goes if you don't meet Mr. House first, or if you don't talk to Victor first (by coming...

This is probably giving them too much credited: While they clearly wanted to copy the vibe of Gizmo vs. Killian with Moriarty vs. Simms, they didn't copy the quest at all. Indeed, almost nothing in Megaton comes out of human political dynamics that arise from the premises of the setting...

the difference of course being that a "director's cut" is generally a version a creative wanted to make but was unable to realize due to studio/marketing constraints, whereas Broken Steel was driven not by enuine artistic desire but instead market backlash You chose probably the worst possible...

I don't think you actually have to go in to Megaton at any stage of the Holy Water quest.

The Fallout 4 Kings look too animalistic IMO, as opposed to Fallout 3's "Turtle-Man" version of Kings. Compare Fallout 4's - With Fallout 3's - Fallout 3's looks infinitely more like the fish-man on that magazine. You should! It's good!

@PaxVenire to clarify my stance around Mirelurks - I think I've expressed plenty of times that I'm a huge fan of Fallout 3's Mirelurks, and I think Fallout 4's are a huge downgrade... but I don't hate them. They're a generic fantasy giant crab as opposed to a B-Movie race of menacing crab-men...

The Fallout 3/NV Sentry Bot is pretty awful, definitely a downgrade from the classic. Not only does it lack even the barest resemblance to the classic Sentry Bot, It just looks bad, like something some middling modder kitbashed. Really have to give credit to Fallout 4, they took that terrible...

A lot of people did have problems with the Bethesda Mr. Handies, especially given that Mr. Handy wasn't a new design, it was a complete redesign of one of the classic bots. Indeed, I think a lot of people still do have a problem with Mr. Handies. For my part, I don't really mind the Bethesda Mr...

I think this is kind of an arbitrary distinction. After all, it was a difference that was introduced by Fallout 3. The unmarked quests in Fallout 3 are just as meaty as plenty of the quests in Fallout 1 and 2, and indeed quite a few marked quests in New Vegas. It is a unique adventure hook, and...

I mean like I said, it's a problem for every fictional setting. We didn't we see any of the guns from Fallout 2 in Fallout 1? Quite simply because they hadn't been added to the series yet, we don't need any more explanation than that. Sometimes a diegetic explanation can be nice. Assaultrons...

well of course any time you add anything new to a setting it raises the question, "Hey, why didn't we see this in previous entries?" You can cope till the cows come home and try to draw some explanation but at the end of the day, the answer is just "Because the writers hadn't invented it yet."...

Yeah I think these are branching paths but still under the "Power of the Atom" quest.

And Joshua Graham in Honest Hearts

As I recall people felt their robotics were too sleek, too advanced. Why are RoboBrains, Sentry Bots, and Floating Eyes so clunky by comparison if America had the ability to make robotics this effective and mobile? Same applies to Fo3's Protectrons (which I think are almost universally regarded...

I'm pretty sure that the point of Liberty Prime in Fallout 3 was as a propaganda setpiece to be deployed in the liberation of Alaska, not mainland China. Of course Anchorage was already liberated before Liberty Prime was complete, and perhaps it would have ended up being deployed in Mainland...

Which is to say, a hero

Someone has to fill out this new subforum

You are right, but this is actually a point in Fallout 3's favor: Fallout 3 in its pre-War architecture and styles is a mix of the 1950s retrofuture, and the 1950s itself. New Vegas, on the other hand, looks almost entirely like a parallel 1950s Las Vegas. This is a massive failing of New...

It just feels like you're eliding any kind of specific discussion with generality whenever any critique is brought up. And moreover it does seem like a lot of the things you invoke I wouldn't really count as a part of "worldbuilding," virtues of Fallout 3 they may be (and Fallout 3 does...

This may be true but it doesn't actually have anything to do with worldbuilding of one versus the other. This aesthetic distinction (which is real) doesn't serve to justify the lackluster worldbuilding of Fallout 3. In the dying world of Mad Max, we see far better worldbuilding than we do in...