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I initially wanted to say "naif" in my post too but I think that's wrong since 1) strictly speaking naif is masculine and naive is feminine and 2) apparently naive can also be used as a noun just the same as naif (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/naive#Noun)

It is the birth of the Enclave in some sense that it's making itself known to business and manipulating them into joining it, but the show pretty clearly telegraphs with the shadowy g-man watching the meeting that the Enclave already pre-exists as a distinct form unto itself, pulling the strings...

Lucy is a pretty trite character, nothing that goes on with her is particularly interesting. Not a bad character, decently well-executed "Disillusion of a Virtuous Naive," decently well-performed, but nothing that good. Fine to have as your stock protagonist, but you need other characters to...

There have been ICBMs established in the setting since at least Fallout 3, and they were very prominent in Lonesome Road. And there have been nuclear subs since Fallout 2 with the Shi, which I assume was armed with nuclear missiles. Not sure where you'd get the idea that planes were the only...

This is a good point too: The Institute does occupy several locations of technological interest throughout the Commonwealth, I don't see why Vault 111 couldn't be among those. To be generous to the game - Since they got Shaun out of the Vault ~60-70 years ago, it's possible they weren't yet...

I actually did hear a semi-reasonable argument for this: They wanted to preserve someone with DNA similar to their main subject (Shaun). If all of the Vault's resources are split between all of the cryopods, there's a greater chance of system failure, whereas if you devote all of the Vault's...

Really? I think there are only 'feral' ghoul encounters around Necropolis, I don't remember any scavengers.

I think he's just saying that if the map were scaled close to real life, the ruins of New Vegas alone would be so large as to be the entire map.

Yeah, I think the fact that they have a more distinctive aesthetic is good.

Gosh, Broken Steel did have such better writing than the base game. Yes, yes, that's not saying much but still.

lol at the one Outcast immediately accidentlaly vaporizing his commanding officer when an enemy is sighted

You could just manually create a very large number of small "exterior world space" cells and have a player randomly assigned to them in the case of a random encounter/stopping at one point on the map. It would be possible. I like whatever song from Fallout 3 was used for Novac in NV. Sounds...

Sure that's not true. Indeed, if you take a close lens New Vegas, it's world building doesn't hold up perfectly and can be poked full of holes. At the end of the days these are games, not economic simulators. But the fact is that Fallout 1, 2, and New Vegas gave us a "good enough" sense of...

It seems like you're just talking about the Fort/Legate's Camp, but technically there are at least two other locations in Arizona: Deathclaw Promontory is in Arizona, and Dry Wells is assuredly in Arizona (being south of the Mojave, on the left bank of the Colorado, and somewhere in the vicinity...

Ronto, the Erie Stretch, Broken Banks/Crater Banks, Great Lanta, Montana Chapter of the Brotherhood, and yes as you say, the Commonwealth (I wouldn't really count the Pitt since we actually get to see it in the game). Fallout 3 generally did a very good job of throwing out these little hints...

It's the end of the world. A big part of strategy in nuclear war is denial or put another way: "If I can't have it, no one can." Sure, China would like to have that lovely sticky oil, but given they're about to get blowed up they probably won't have the opportunity to get it. And, given that...

Well I said I'm "coping" for a reason. It's a plainly obvious that I'm reading a lot in that probably wasn't intentional, but I'd note that on the one hand it was intentional to some degree (the writers released SPECIAL characteristics for all of the characters and gave Maximus a 4 - he is...

I don't disagree with your general point about the Bethesda titles over-focusing on the pre-War world, and this show especially focusing too much on the pre-War, and in doing so completely cheapening it. I agree that having a scene with a smoky backroom where a bunch of businessmen decie to blow...

Avellone was the lead on Old World Blues, just about peak reddit humor and by far the 'funniest' part of FNV. To my memory Sawyer's writing for FNV is pretty humorless by contrast.

How do you mean? Genuinely, from the way he sounded kind of scared and confused about the idea of sex, I immediately read an implication that he was sodomozied/molested in the Brotherhood. Which I actually liked conceptually, because in the Brotherhood as depicted in the show (with basically...