http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/The_Glow Right?

Because. Just like FEV making giant animals - which is confirmed ingame, now way around that-, it's simply "because". MCA was the one to bring in the FEV theory, from which he distanced himself again later. So that leaves only radiation. Harold is still the closest you can get to a ghoul with FEV involved, that is all.

i havent laughed that hard for a long time

Don't confuse the nukes with the mininukes here. We aren't talking about Megaton at all. I don't think the Fat man trivializes the power of a full sized nuke any more than a .22 trivializes the power of a howitzer. It's simply a smaller version of a much more powerful weapon.

I think Megaton is the only thing you could say trivializes nukes in Fallout 3. You're right it is sort of just a "Oh here, blow up this town because you're evil" deal, with not much emotional or moral stock put into it. That and from the distance the nuke went off it should have knocked over Tenpenny tower as well. So I think it's actually good to argue megaton if you want to say Fallout 3 trivialized nuclear weapons. The Fatman doesn't. That's just my opinion anyway, you don't have to agree. I have my reasons and evidence for it though, and you have yours.

There are counterarguments about the megaton blast though, for example that in its old and damaged condition it wasn't as powerful an explosion as it would have been originally. But I don't really agree with those. Megaton's destruction was a beautiful sight but it should have destroyed a much wider area than just that little city.

As for Moira, I don't think that trivializes anything. It's a very visible reminder of what radiation can do. There are plenty of other continuity and verisimilitude problems with Moira's ghoulification though. The FEV thing isn't one of them. Pretty much everything in the wasteland is infected with FEV to some degree. And as others have said the ghoulification process has been said as only really needing massive radiation. The problem with moira is that her transformation was so sudden. It's supposed to happen gradually. Not "Bam, insta ghoul". I suppose you could arge that being so close to the bomb's area of effect, she received a massive dose, but that doesn't solve the problem of why her voice didn't change, like the other Fallout 3 ghouls. Then again, maybe ghouls voices don't have to change. Set for example sounded a little bit raspy but not as much as fallout 3 ghouls, and his voice is not that different from a normal voice with that sort of accent.

I've always said that I wasn't perfectly happy with Bethesda's choices in Fallout 3 but that it gets a lot of unfair criticism that's based on kneejerk reactions and confirmation bias. I feel like this argument of "Fat man is the devil" is part of that.

Yeah I agree with Gabriel. It took me forever to kill reavers even when I was higher powered. Maybe not hillfolks, but definitely reavers and overlords.

I also thought that ghoulds were caused just because of radiation and everything else is FEV since FEV does different things to different people with different doses then no ghouls would be alike. At least the FO3 super mutants had to dip people a certain way to get their super mutants.

(don't kill me, only played fo3 and I don't pay attention much so I could be wrong)

It doesn't really bother me that the orbital laser isn't as powerful as previously thought.

It can still kill a large group of innocent bystanders with no combat experience, thats all I needed to know.

A moderate amount of damage over a wide area with additional fire damage after. So if you consider the orbital cannon the equivalent of a napalm strike instead of a death ray........
a great way to soften a target area and remove the annoyances.

Thanks for the interview, some new info that only makes me want to go forward in time.

where do u even find this lazer

also where can i find the arch 2 ammo

Bump bumpety bump bump.
Use the wikia... >_>
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Lightweight_metal_armor
Here, go nuts.

why fat man nerf?

it's a mini-nuke that's really rare, and they nerfed it?

:flame:

Mods... it's why I play on the PC, because I don't always agree with the devs about weapon balance. Some of us like to rock and roll with explosives when we get tired of sneaking. (On the flip side, it makes things more dangerous as well when the NPCs start tossing grenades, missiles, 25mm grenade shells...)

And it's not like Mini-Nukes are super common or inexpensive... they need to be pretty much the top tier weapon.