#fallout problems

While Fallout 3 has its issues, and I have my own frustrations with the writing and I'm certainly not about to argue that it's a perfect game (and New Vegas is still my favorite), I do also feel that people often sell the worldbuilding in 3 short, maybe because their disinterest in the setting causes them to not look as deeply at it. I've seen people say, for example, that the game never addresses where people get food and clean water in Megaton and Rivet City, which is a frankly baffling take if you've actually explore those locations and done any of the sidequests. I do think the game itself doesn't do a great job of distinguishing between small-scale water purification (what various settlements already do) and large scale purification of the entire tidal basin (what Project Purity is supposed to do). There's plenty the game doesn't handle as well as it could. There's also a lot of interesting detail to sink your teeth into if you care to explore it.

aka I’m less than 10 hours into a playthrough and it has already broken to the point that I cannot load any of my saves and I’m seriously considering giving up and going back to console where it takes four loading screens to get to my home base but at least I can spend my time actually playing the game instead of trying to fix it.

It’s really difficult and requires a lot of sneaking. Basically you have to get to Davison and Antler without aggroing any of the other nightkin and then negotiate with him. If you do what he asks (which requires more sneaking), you can convince him and the other nightkin to leave.

I’m less interested in crossovers these days--it’s fun to think about and come up with the parallels, but I tend not to be that interested in actually writing them.