Poll: Fallout 3: Energy weapons or Small Guns?

[GoldenRaz]

I max Small Guns ASAP and then promptly start increasing Energy Weapons with whatever points I can spare. When I start getting a constant supply of Plasma Rifles, I get my hands on A3-21's Plasma Rifle and then I barely need another gun. A3-21 at max Energy Weapons is a valid choice against all enemies in the game, not to mention that by the time you'll get your hands on it, you'll have looted so much ammo that it's ridiculous.

So yeah, I start out with Small Guns, then use Energy Weapons almost exclusively.

 

[GloatingSwine]

Small Guns works with the largest number of weapons, and those weapons have the largest amount of available ammo and are the easiest to keep in repair.

It is, quite frankly, better than Energy Weapons.

Energy Weapons is also nice to have, of course, but SG is better than nice.

 

[bluejet]

I used small arms in the beginning, manly hunting rifle, combat shot gun, chinese assault rifle, and the Lincoln repeater. when I started facing the enclave I used the A3-21's Plasma Rifle, and the fat man.

 

[Hgame]

Why use either, big guns are just better. Experimental MIRV + mini nukes = easy win, 1 shot kill on everything on every difficulty.

 

[Cynical skeptic]

Irrelevant. Theres more than enough skill points in even the vanilla game to max out everything.

 

[Peabob]

The energy rifle you get from the offworld spaceship is awesome. Owns everything.

 

[Outright Villainy]

Small guns, mainly because guns and ammo are so plentiful, and levelling it is a great boon early on in the game. Energy weapons are just the spicy sauce for tough encounters.

 

[Megacherv]

Oh man, the named plasma rifle is godlike.

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I'm so annoyed that I didn't know about that when I did the quest for it, so pissed off. I have the alien weapons from Mothership Zeta though, and a bunch of mod weapons including an M14 with an interesting texture glitch)

 

[Kajt]

Like in all Fallout games, I go for Small Guns in the beginning and later change to Energy Weapons. Works like a charm in all three of them*.

[sub]*I know there are more than three of them, but I have yet to play the other ones.[/sub]

 

[Ensiferum]

Energy. I know they suck at first but they're amazing later in the game. Plus I can't deny the satisfaction of watching enemies melt into a pile of green glow.

 

[SantoUno]

Energy. I know they suck at first but they're amazing later in the game. Plus I can't deny the satisfaction of watching enemies melt into a pile of green glow.

Or disintegrate into red ash.

Cool name btw, well not exactly original but still good choice.

 

[Robert Merlow]

Small Arms early and Energy Weapons nearing twenty. With FWE on, it is more difficult and with the numerous weapons mods out there Small Arms is more attractive, but when I get me hands on FWE's P-94 Winchester Plasma, making things melt into green goo is just wonderful. That, and EVE makes it look so much prettier.

 

[GundamSentinel]

When you've got Ol' Painless, Lincoln's Repeater, the Victory Rifle and the Xuanlong Assault Rifle, you really don't need Energy Weapons. That said, A3-21's Plasma Rifle and the Mothership Zeta weapons are just plain awesome. Just max them both out and Big Guns as well. Should be easy enough.

 

[rockyoumonkeys]

Once I get Lincoln's Repeater, that's pretty much all I use for the rest of the game. I spend the whole game hoarding .44 ammo and Hunting Rifles just for that reason.

 

[The Procrastinated End]

If I can't just use whatever melee weapon I have I usually go with small guns because shotguns are fun.

 

[Mullahgrrl]

I use My Fisks!

 

[superstringz]

I like to run around with a (modded Glock-18c) silenced pistol. Does 13 DAM at 100/100, so its not unfair. And no, I can't kill a behemoth with it. I just run away.

 

[drisky]

Well the character I use the most has a melee focus, because bringing a sword to a gun fight is just fun, but when things get to much for melee I pull out my A3-21 which has can fire thousands of times because of all my conservation and just one shot people, but there are good small guns too.

 

[Vrach]

Small guns. Lincoln's rifle is just awesome.

Only Energy weapon that appealed to me was the sniper out of Operation Anchorage and that has a lot to do with it being the only actual accurate sniper weapon in the game (not needing me to rely on V.A.T.S for it).