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End lides would be nice but no I don't think it just comes down to end slides. Decisions in New Vegas and Fallout 2 would still feel more impactful than Fallout 3's even without their end movies, simply because the world and locations are (on average) better written.

But curiously these catastrophes hardly matter to any other community. Three Dawg might mention it in and of itself on the radio, maybe you'll get a random encounter, but otherwise nothing is changed, no one behaves differently. Really the problem is there's not even a pretense of things...

That's the tidal basin. It's a cistern, it's not cleaning the whole river. It is showing the water is now clean, but not for the entire river, certainly not upriver.

You can still start Blood Ties without meeting Lucy West, however the letter she gives you lets you convince Ian to leave the family guaranteed. Otherwise you have to rely on Speech Check/RNG. All things considered I would class that as a "real" consequence of your actions in the wider world...

Drawing some connection between these locations would have been great, A+ stuff. But Fo3 fails at even the most basic level of worldbuilding, namely - What are the consequences of Grayditch dissappearing? Well, sure, it's a personal tragedy for some Little Rascal extra named Bryan Wilkes...

It's not only poorly explained, it's also poorly shown. On it's face the idea that the point is to fix the river basin falls flat because if that were the case than Project Purity should be up river, such that all of the river downstream would be clean, and groundwater would be re-charged with...

A trick that works for me, because for some reason like half the pictures posted on NMA don't display: Right click picture, and then refresh the new tab. It should then show up in the new tab. (and yes)

I agree this is the best explanation, but the problem is that it's not really directly reflected by anything in the game, it's only reflected by the absence of things. Megaton doesn't come across as a tightly-knit community like the oil drillers in the Road Warrior... in fact it doesn't come...

Eh, I don't know that I disagree with this. Literally the first character you meet on your way into Megaton is a water beggar who will tell you how scarce water is in, and how they have water inside the city walls but for a steep price. And the fact that Megaton has water, but the purifier is on...

Something funny is that three of the points you list as either mediocre or outright bad ("very little sense of how this world connects to one another as parts of the map", "stupid timeline", "lack of history") are the only points you list which I'd actually consider to be properly a part of...

LOL, good lateral thinking, never considered that before. I think if he were true to his own principles that he wouldn't do such a thing, it would foreclose the ability of history to develop organically into a stronger form, instead continuously being aa weak projection of his own will and...

I agree that Caesar doesn't expect to see the completion of the dialectical process, which is to say the cohesive merger of the NCR and Legion into a single culture. But I think he knows that he needs to live to actually make things inevitable, which is to say actually launch the invasion of...

It's insane that it's been 8 months and they still haven't managed to release DLC for this game.

I think the whole thing would be settled very shortly after the Legion takes the Mojave. Once they punch through the mountains, the next target is the Hub in the middle of the California High Desert, on a direct path from Long 15. The Hub, as it tied the Wasteland together in Fallout 1, ties...

Yes, to start with they learn things through scouts and informants, but once he destroys Necropolis his army does in fact start acting like a rolling horde and just wiping out settlements out in the open. But that doesn't matter either way - Even if we disregard the invasion, the Master does not...

The Water Merchants would only make the Master find our about Vault 13 quicker, he eventually finds out about it anyway (at least pre-the time limit being patched out)

Yeah could be that simple - though if it were dead and rotting (and not ghoulish), I guess that means the draw they were storing fingers in was un-refrigerated? I'm no expert, but it seems like an organ harvesting business that isn't refrigerating its transplants and is just leaving them out at...

Yes, I was referring to the ghouls in the cells. I assume, since the grafted finger was gray and shriveled, was that it was supposed to be a ghoul finger. My thinking was that since ghouls now have an almost-instantaneous healing factor that allows them to regrow a foot or a hole in their neck...

A lot of it is nit-picky (as one expects from any YouTube movie or TV commentary), but largely it's agreeable and good points.

Phipps probably meant to say 85, as that is the exact amount of time the game is set (well 84-85 years, don't care enough to do the math exactly).