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I don't often see this brought up but there is something crucial to role-playing which is blatantly missing from Fallout 3 & 4, and I consider it the reason they come off as generic and shallow in terms of role-playing to so many people. So I created this thread to incite discussion on it...

New Vegas is an amazing city and all, but there's only one place in the Fallout wasteland where you can follow your dreams of becoming a porn star or murdered for having drugged up sex with a mob boss's daughter or wife - and that's New Reno.

It's much easier to justify siding with The Railroad or The Minutemen while keeping your companions around. It's much harder to justify siding with The Brotherhood and truly take in their beliefs at heart while running around with Strong (a super mutant), and Curie or Nick (Synths) without...

There's this sense I get from the narrative, and even the way I hear people talk about it that I was supposed to feel guilty or something for taking the baby away and then killing her mother Sandra (Ashurs wife)? Because I shotgunned her in the stomach right before I left and felt quite good...

Why is it that you can go through droves upon droves of Vault security guards at the very beginning of the game and waste them like nothing, and without any options to converse nonetheless, just to have the opportunity to be nice and consider the importance of human life for the overseer; the...

Do any of you bother to name your Couriers something of significance? Or that pertains to the themes and meaning of New Vegas? Perhaps has deeper religious, philosophical, or historical meaning that fits into the Fallout Universe. I named one of my male Couriers Nemo for instance, which means...

How does that even even make sense? There are 2 survivors who come from that vault. The player character and his/her son.

Out of all the quests which ones made you feel warm and accomplished as The Courier? Could even be the small stuff, like returning a toy to a child. I'd say rescuing Joana from Gomorrah and reuniting her with Carlos in "Bye Bye Love", especially if you do so without asking for any sort of...

The Brotherhood of Steel is vehemently against anything involving Super Mutants, Ghouls, and Synths. Yet you as the Sole Survivor siding with them are utterly unable to kill or even be disparaging and bigoted towards Nick Valentine, Curie, Hancock, and Strong in any way? In fact, you are...

What do you think eventually became of the town known for the mass slaughter of it's citizens by The Legion, and how do you see each potential faction (House, NCR, Legion, Independent) go about it? Each building is actually in pretty decent condition, and for travelers and passerbys it is one...

Fallout 1 - Retrieve Water chip for Vault 13 Fallout 2 - Arroyo suffers the drought. Must find GECK. Fallout 3 - Purify Water for Capital Wasteland. Fallout: New Vegas - Battle over Hooverdam - WATER Fallout 4 is the only one that doesn't seem to fit this theme - to my knowledge. Thoughts?

I just wanted to take the time to talk and create a thread about how awesome the whole atmosphere is in the Fallout universe. One big reason for this is the atmospheric score by Mark Morgan. The soundtrack gives the game a sense of mystery, creepiness, and death around the corner that the...

Which do you prefer and why? I'm speaking of the Fallout protagonist going off on their little adventures outside any influence of the main story, or the DLC more directly connected to what's going on in the original content. Most of the Fallout 3 DLC was completely unconnected to the main...

If you persuade Ricky to leave the Happy Trails Expedition before it begins, he will become angry, saying he hopes they all get ambushed and die. In "One for My Baby" Boone trusts you to help him find out and kill the person who sold his wife into Legion slavery because you're a "Stranger"...

In all of the endings she is either very unhappy or has an ambitious fate. The only somewhat ok ending for Li is if you leave her in the Institute and side with the Institute, as she is far more pissed off after re-joining BoS. Of course if you're going to blow up the Institute like The...

I thought this DLC added quite a bit of lore and a new Scenic location to explore with engaging tribal politics. Wandering the landscape of Zion almost gave vibes of per-Colonial United States or a bit after Europeans arrived as opposed to the Wild West of New Vegas which was pretty well done if...

Occurs when a more minor character or plotline is suddenly dropped for no apparent reason, without any real explanation for what happens, and without any sort of resolution to the character or plot. Ex. Fallout 2 - We never do rescue Sulik's sister or find any trace of the slaver group whom...

Ayn Rand's self-declared purpose in writing her fiction was to project the "ideal man" - the man who perseveres to achieve his values, even when his ability and independence leads to conflict with others. Mr. House is an exceptional individual in the Fallout universe and for anyone who's...

New Vegas has only 5 named characters that are categorized as "Very Evil": Mortimer, Cook-Cook, Duke, Philippe, and Vulpes. Is there any one else in this territory that should have made this list? How is someone like Jeannie May Crawford who sold Boone's wife into slavery classified as "Evil"...

The Legion as we're shown in New Vegas are vehemently misogynist and see males as superior and consider women only for breeding, and throughout The Fort you see women just as slaves. You'd expect a wasteland leader of Caesar's stature to have assembled a harem of sorts. Mr. House has Robot...