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All good points, just want to add: Ironic that Vault-Tec blew up the only society that was actually building a capitalism that they could have inserted themselves into and leveraged their knowledge of historical development to get on top of. Unless the Stockmens' Association was a front for...

Whether or not they were LOSING is actually highly disputable. While we learn from Hoover Dam that things are going poorly back in California, we learn the exact same thing at Maxson Bunker for the Brotherhood. Both are struggling, cut off from supplies, and don't know exactly what's going on...

This is a really great point... I mean sure, anyone would want cold fusion tech and I suppose it would be helpful if you wanted to re-build any given society, but it's really not the narratively appropriate plot device, at all. It is as you say just a vague MacGuffin that doesn't really fit in...

Again, we can imagine any number of candidates. Could have been some planned salvaging expedition from Ronto, could have been someone in the Brotherhood looking to get info without risking scouts' lives, could have been someone in the Outcasts doing the same, could have been Calvert making some...

Not what I said, Phipps. A mystery box can be a legitimate tool in a writer's kit, it would be silly to say that it's always bad writing. I do think in this specific case that probably it was deployed due to a paucity in the rest of the setting's worldbuilding, but that is an inferrence on my...

No idea. And the fact is, I don't think Bethesda had any real idea either, they just threw this in to explain how the fuck Reilly's Rangers made money in the nonsensical economy they had built. They just passed the buck as it were of nonsensical economics to an unseen, unknown third party. The...

Pretty sure these latter two are pure fanon, not even strongly implied.

Yeah you're right, I think Vulpes did mention that.

You're totally mistaken here - There's like 4 NCR troopers who were killed in the motel office on the northwestern side of town, there's the guy with the laser rifle who vaporized a Legionnaire in the trailer park, and at least two houses with dead legionnaires. And of course the Town Hall...

I don't think it's JUST an issue of multiplayer. Bethesda likes to bombard players with vasty quantity, as we see in the overwhelming number of settlement locations in Fallout 4. I wouldn't be shocked in Fallout 5 will have the CAMP "Build anywhere you like" system. More is better, amirite?

Yeah. The building and management of settlements is just so far removed from the sort of game/RPG that Fallout is ostensibly supposed to be that the mechanic fundamentally does not work. The idea of building housing a la Hearthfire, while somewhat dissonant with the rest of the game, does...

While I agree with your overall point, love Fo2's economic worldbuilding and Vault City specifically, though one thing always irked me re:it's population is how small it was. It's established in one holotape that the citizen is a mere 103, which is stupid given that the default Vault population...

Which is to say, if you are a human male Legionaire or merchant, life is very good. Which is fine, that's worked for plenty of cultures throughout history. We shouldn't just overly pretend life is good if you obey, though. As Isaac Asimov said, "I don't like fantasy because in the Middle Ages...

I agree, as I said it's a huge problem in itself. It's a bad show. The Brotherhood when they're sending Titus out specifically mentioned that the target is escaped from the Enclave I think. The word was definitely mentioned.

You're right, I'm just giving vague impressions. But I think that's rather the point: We don't get into depth with any of these characters or with the faction enough for me to feel like we can really level this particular critique.

I think this is a very valid criticism that can be applied to a lot of media titles in portraying religion where no body believes that crap and the entire enterprise is purely cynical or sinsiter, including the Fallout franchise, but I'm not sure if we can really level it towards the Brotherhood...

Van Buren was going to imply that due to the NCR-Brotherhood War things were going very, very poorly back west, to the point where supply caravans from core NCR to Hoover Dam had ceased almost entirely and no one at Hoover Dam was exactly sure how things were going back there. I don't think...

Even if there were more women scattered around that I missed, I do think that the decision to cast mostly men was intentional. These are the kind of things that casting directors and extra wranglers have to think about, and given how tipped in favor of men things are there must have been some...

Directors cuts or re-releases are a little different from just changing and overriding the thing itself. Partly because (at least theoretically) directors' cuts come from a place of genuine artistic expression, not bucking to popular pressure - quite the opposite, in fact, given that directors'...

Apples to oranges: There's some method to the Legion's madness, and while most characters will side against it, the fact is that there is some logic to it and it's a fairly reasonable (or at least justified) organization to exist in the world, which makes it interesting to side with. Again -...