Have you seen Nick Valentine? He’s hideously ugly (in a cool way) and poorly dressed (in a cool way). People don’t want to bang him because he was made to be sexually objectified, they want to bang him because of his great personality, tragic backstory, and killer voice.

Yes, I very much agree: It seems like Bethesda didn’t want to even acknowledge F:NV’s improvements over F3 (like the Companion Wheel, or the marker on the map showing where your companion is, or the companion-dismissing terminals, or the skill-based speech checks, or Hardcore Mode, or special melee/unarmed moves). But…

After I went to the Combat Zone I totally had the feeling of “Is that all there is?” to the point that I checked a wiki to see if I hadn’t accidentally missed a quest there.

The best bug/glitch I’ve encountered so far (and I haven’t encountered many) is when I fast travel to an area and the enemies that respawn there act as if they were already dead from the last time I visited and killed them. Meaning, they’ll be laying on the ground not moving, but you can target them in VATS and attack…

It’s annoying that because of the way the (non-power) armor mechanics work, you’re pretty much pushed into wearing Army Fatigues and a Fedora for combat. Army Fatigues are the only* under-armor that (1) Provides a +2 SPECIAL bonus, (2) allows you to wear all five external armor pieces, and (3) can be upgraded with…

I ran into this issue, and was able to find this non-console solution on a forum: Make sure you’re not building the reflector platform on any kind of floor structure or carpet. The reflector platform is on a thick base that needs to sink into the floor to be aligned properly with the beam emitter. In my case, I just…

That was way, way, way better than I was expecting! And it’s good to know you can do that—I figured if you ate everything you had at once, most of it would just go to waste and have no effect as you were already at maximum health.

Having finally watched this, I was a little disappointed... I’d hoped it would be 6 minutes of this GIF, with added Deathclaws and Radscorpions and Bloodbugs joining in the race, right up until he reached Virgil’s door. Maybe I’ll reproduce this feat wearing only speed-boosting armor and see how much of an entourage I…

Yeah, I only use Power Armor on very limited occasions. I do however have around ten sets of it standing around my workshop in Sanctuary Hills taking up space.

Yeah, I wouldn’t call it “easy mode” so much as “fun mode” since now you can do silly things like... run through the Glowing Sea naked.

Here ya go. (Drawn by Patrick Alexander for the now defunct eegra.com back in 2009.)

Went looking for this at level 50—I’m just getting around to the Glowing Sea now, and wanted to have the best Power Armor for it, even though I have a couple of T-60s. Strangely, the armor looked like a T-60, causing me much disappointment, but it was labelled as X-01 Mark III. When I got in the armor it suddenly…

What’s that guy doing in the power armor? He died, like, five minutes into the game while trying to protect my baby.

I heard about this glitch, and that’s why in my playthrough MacCready is still wasting away in the Third Rail. I love using VATS and automatic head shots would take all the fun out of it.

Here’s the original photo he was working from, for reference.

Yeah, in previous Fallouts I always wound up super-wealthy from selling looted weapons, armor, and junk. Now all that stuff gets scrapped in my workshop and I hardly sell anything, so I’m only just now getting to the point where I am financially comfortable. (Not comfortable enough to buy multiple legendary items, I…

I have a question for someone who has watched these videos:

I found the Grognak Costume pretty early on, which gives you a +2 Strength bonus, so I’ve been wearing that all the time since my character is an Unarmed specialist with only 4 Strength. (I am definitely not min-maxing here.) It’s got the highest ballistic and energy defense of any armor I’ve found so far that you can…

If only they made that ringing sound that Nirnroot makes in Skyrim! I always loved that sound. So soothing.

Well, there are zero now that I’ve lobbed three mini-nukes into it to kill Swan.