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I honestly never knew about either the hint book OR the almost perfect perk. But then again, I never bothered with FO3 DLC.

Haha, true that! I dunno - wanted to try something different. In every other FO game I've done a combat heavy character. My FO2 character is actually 'afraid' of guns :lol:

I played once on FO3 (didn't try NV) without using fast travel, and personally found it enjoyable. It forced me to plan my trips ahead to minimize time spent trudging the wastelands - and overall, made the whole world feel 'bigger'. Mind you, this was on a third playthrough, so planning...

Yeah I seriously need to quit my bitchin' and download it. To FO2's enourmas credit though, my aversion to combat has been more than accomidated, as I've run into VERY little actual fighting. I've clocked in about 22 hours on FO2 so far (1st time through :) ), I'm lvl 11, and I've had, get...

Does this mean that no faction can be either 'black' or white', morally? Or if so, how does that fit into a 100 % separated reputation/karma system? For NV, I think separating them makes perfect sense. But what about a game that has factions that are more clear-cut good and bad? (Or maybe a...

Well I'll be. As Woo said, kind of pointless though - by the time you get to lvl 30, a lot of the skills you care about will be maxed anyway, and since SPECIAL doesn't do much else other than boost your initial skill values...

Thats a thoughtful post, Crni Vuk. I see where you're coming from. Its a different angle I hadn't considered. And just to clarify, I'm not even saying that the whole water-bottle karma exploit wasn't a 'flaw' (or lets just call it bad content). It is. I just rank it as much less...

If you don't mind spamming fast travel to unload your gear, then STR is also a dump stat, IIRC. :|

Hey, thanks for this recommendation. I've been on the fence about this one for the very things you criticize - typical anti-war movie. I'll go on your opinion that it has something else to offer and check it out.

((didn't have much time to write, so further clarifying)) I wrote: Ie, some people feel like VATS in FO3 is cheating; and are happy to play the game without it. And other people feel like they need to optimize their characters, and so will use VATS. So, for some people VATS is optional...

Just misunderstood - I was pointing out a couple of mechanics I thought could be ignored. Not inferring an overall strategy to get around all of FO3's flaws. (or any game for that matter). Yeah, we might have different opinions of 'optional' - I admit its not black'n'white. True...

Omg....I was pointing out ONE mechanic. Uno! Comprende? And once again, another mechanic (fast travel), entirely unrelated, is brought up. W.T.F. Its stupid to bring up unrelated, totally assanine examples of which I've not commented on, and to just make crap up. I didn't say...

I'm not a tech guru, but a CPU of 2.5 GHZ dual was fine for FO3/NV. Never got to try skyrim on it though. I'd say 2.5 dual GHZ or better and you're probably good to go - assuming you don't mind minimizing settings on Skyrim and possibly FO4. (mine could do FO3/NV on max settings). As per...

Ugh. You don't address the mechanic in question - you instead bring up an entirely different problem in the game thats both unrelated and an entirely different kind of animal. You use induction, but use an example that doesn't apply. The problem you bring up is a limitation on player...

Back on topic for OP, I'm surprised I don't see people on NMA list auto-scaling as one of the reasons they hate FO3. Who cares if you can exploit giving water to a homeless ghoul to reach whatever karma you want? There's a really simple solution to that - don't exploit the mechanic. Thats...

^^ I like FO2's combat better than FO1, despite using the same engine, because you have better companions. (though I hate that you can only control your main character - no, its not a 'tactical' RPG if the computer is making the majority of my risk/benefit decisions for me). I'm not a big...

I'm trying to play a non-combat character who has to rely on her party to handle all of the combat situations for her. Since I couldn't control my party members, its been a lot of, 'watch and hope...' Very rarely did Cassidy block a doorway in New Vegas. In FO2, I don't even -need-...

Does anyone know of a mod that allows control of NPCs 'inside' combat mode? Akin to Baldur's Gate? One of my biggest frustrations with FO2 so far (and FO1 for that matter).[/u]

Thanks Earth, I'll try Dead Money since it seems harder and more horrorish, and I'm in a horror-mood. Just wanted to make sure they weren't total crap.

I actually echo bigboss on this. Even sleeping in a room in Megaton, knowing that under 20 people lived there (about), with nothing more than a cheap barrier made of airplane parts separating me from the mutant and raider infested wastelands, was scary. But it was also my first FO, so...