ChupathingyX said:
Uhhh, the Fallout series is not stupid, the originals and NV have something F3 lacked, background lore and the fact that they were proper sci fi's. A proper sci fi uses science to create events, people, places and technology without going overboard.
Subjective, and wrong. Background lore is something which would effect F3 given it is in the same universe. And science fiction uses
fictional science. As in not real science. This is why you see energy weapons, hovering robots, in general robots with seemingly human like AI's.
In the originals, the use of radiation and FEV was never a "do-anything" power, like the force from Star Wars. Everything is explained, and simple things like cleaning radiation, are taken into account, because if they aren't, it makes the game's story stupid and pointless, like Fallout 3's.
Then explain to me how radiation creates giant mutated creatures, because that's a do-anything power. Real radiation does
not work like that. Especially the giant insects, there needs to be some serious changes to that insect in other ways than simply growth. Insect were very big in the past, but there's a very specific chemical reason why they aren't anymore. Ghouls? Impossible, especially the long life span ghouls. Forced Evolutionary Virus, impossible, evolution doesn't work like that, you can't get immune to (real) radioactivity either.
Also. That suggestion with sand would create waste product, and not actually make the radiation go away, it would only take the radiated material out of the water. In either case, it wouldn't work, given that it doesn't clean
the water of radiation, it cleans the water of
radiated material. In F3, it is the water, itself. -> H[sub]2[/sub]O <- which is radiated, and you cannot clean that. Well, you cannot clean that
realistically.
Lets put it like this: If I made a game where a government agency created mutants and I had to fight them and kill them. However, the game was realistic and I could be killed in one shot, I had breath, real time injuries etc. However, I can only use melee weapons. Why? Why can't I just attack them from far away with a rifle?
I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. If you only can use melee weapons, why are you then asking why you can't attack from afar? didn't you just answer that? because you can only use close combat? I don't understand this part.
That's what made Fallout 3's story lacking. Why couldn't people just clean the radiation out? Why do we need to put heaps of tech, years and people's lives into something that people could do themselves?
Also I don't hate Fallout 3. I just think the others are better.
They couldn't clean the water, because radiated H[sub]2[/sub]O is pretty much impossible to clean, even by fallout universe standards. it seems to only be the consequences of radiation which is fictional, not the "nature" of radiation. Then again, I'm not seeing why it really needs explaining, I mean people haven't been able to clean it by themselves, which already suggests that it not as simple as you see it. I mean, if you see something and think, "why didn't they just do [whatever]", it doesn't have to be a laps in logic, just because it is unexplained, doesn't mean it isn't explainable. Especially in sci fy, where real world rules doesn't necessarily apply.
It's okay to like the others better, just don't do it because you think they are realistic.
i hate deathclaws so....
