Fallout 3 is the only Fallout game I have played other than New Vegas, though I have watched a friend play Fallout 1.

My complaint with this game so far, not talking about bugs or anything is it's beginning. While it would be stale to start in "another vault," the problem I have, especially in my first play through is this idea that your character has no idea about the world around him. Never heard of the NCR? The Legion? So many dialog options imply your character doesn't know anything about the world around him. In FO3, you grew up in a vault. You shouldn't know about the world outside, but in NV you have been living and working in this world.

I guess the one positive aspect of his is replay value. In your next play through you don't have to ask the "newb" questions. You can just get to the point. "Who shot me? Where did they go?"

I just really enjoyed the beginning to Falout 3 and Morrowind. I wasn't a big fan of Oblivion or New Vegas' beginnings. What do you think?

Its more for people who haven't played any fallout game. They are not going to know who the NCR, BOS, etc are or anything else in fallout universe.

Yeah, I know what it's for... that wasn't the point.

Maybe your character doesn't remember anything prior to getting shot in the head...

Actually, I think you have a good point. It's not rare for a game to introduce the player into the game with a character whose backstory takes into account that neither player nor PC are familiar with their surroundings. (Elder Scrolls famously tends to start you off as a newly-freed prisoner, for example; Fallouts 1 and 3 begin with you emerging from a Vault. Even Fallout 2 began with you having grown up in an isolated tribal village.)

This is what I thought as well.

It's a good point, and one I hadn't considered - but I think for the sake of roleplaying we can write it off as amnesia.

You get shot in the head, it is natural that you lost some memory as well.

I don't remember the "Doc" saying anything about possible memory loss though, at least in Mass Effect 2 you're given an explanation to the typical memory loss/new character scenerio, so it sort of makes sense there, you don't have any definate proof that your character lost any memory in New Vegas.


Just going to have to roll with it I guess ;P

Well, who's to say where the protagonist comes from?
Sure he's a courrier but we're not told where he actually came from.
He could've just entered the southern region, gotten his assignment+package and then shot.

I suppose you have a point, they could have given you amnesia or something so it would have made more sense. But I wouldn't worry about it.

How about shot in the head TWICE.

PS


People, there's a reason for all the vagueness regarding the character... It's so YOU can CREATE the character you want to play without being burdened by someone else’s story.

If YOU want the character to have amnesia, then he DOES. If not, that's okay as well.

Don't complain because the developers were generous enough to allow you so much creative freedom.

He's probably experiencing a wee bit of amnesia, usually a side effect of being shot in the head.
Haha.

Getting two bullets in your brain dose that to people

Edit: Correction