I think the idea is something that has been around for a long time and, in general, I like it. I personally would like to see the ability to Marry another PLAYER in the game world, but from there, things just get silly... What are they going to have, a pregnancy mini-game? The idea of having a family and developing human life in the wasteland could be a very powerful story-telling element and a compelling addition to gameplay, but, ultimately I don't think it really has a place in V13. I DO NOT THINK IT WOULD BE UNETHICAL AT ALL!<--Just to clear that out of the way. One of my favorite things in the Fallout universe is the ability to attack ANYONE. I think V13 should function the same way. In WoW, a Horde character cannot attack a Horde Auction House Auctioneer, but I think V13 SHOULD allow a player to attack ANYONE, just like in the old Fallout games. This ability to attack ANYONE would mean that if they are going to include a "raise a family" possibility-element the game, in my opinion, to make it as true to the original Fallout way (and as fun as possible) they would also have to include a "raze a family" possibility-element.

I'd have to agree especially think of each NPC being under your control cause technically you created them. Now let says you have a family as big as five. Now others go into this route and then you have more NPCs than you do players eventually which starts wasting hardware and makes the world uneven.

I also greatly agree that if children are put in the game that they can kiss the ground just as easy as an advlt. Not saying that everyone would kill them. I mean in Fallout during the my battle with the Church in the Hub, I'd always piss off the boy handing the flowers so he'd run out the doors, I close them, fire the place up. That way the boy is safe. Sometimes though it didn't work that way and the boy would start attacking me.

You attack me, you die. Sorry but that's realistic thinking in an already dead world.
I told the Overseer of Vault 13 I'd give everything to save everyone, and so I did, I saved them all. Since then I've felt loneliness.

Why the hell are you people so KILL KILL KILL about everything? In case you had missed it, the meta plot of the Fallout stories is about saving humanity. NOT about just killing and burning everything you see.
Raiders do that, that's why they're bad guys.
The Enclave do that, that's why they're bad guys.
Slavers do that, that's why....

I really enjoyed Fable 2s take on family life, and don't see why a similar system couldn't work in Fallout. STDs for unprotected six, marry NPCs, have kids. Make sure they have a secure house to live in, visit them regularly, and eventually you get to see them as kids running round whatever town you settled in.
Would be fantastic!

I don't mind either way.

Here is how I see it working out.

You can have either have a NPC or PC wife - there will be benefits and problems with such unions.

The kids can be NPCs until you find someone (PC) to fill in the shoes of one of your kids. Then one of the kids can disappear and either have one remaining or you know - pump another one out. If the wife is a PC, then the pumping process will be quick so they can play and not be out of commission for up to 10 months or more. An NPC can go through the full gambit. If your house or faction guild city\fortification comes under attack, then yes everything may be killed. Perhaps if the attackers leave the children behind, this can either be another life for you or your re-roll (perhaps the kid is advance and you do not necessarily have to start from the true beginning).

A little six and mature themes is Fallout canon.

It can not get too crazy, or you people need something in RL.

Fallout does not need to be like Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards or that C64 orgy game I saw in high school (yes, a long time ago ... lol). Fallout 2 and NWN2 was perfect. If you need anything more my friends, you need to detach yourself from the computer for a little while and venture out to a club or something. Don't be getting the keyboard sticky, it may interfere with combat.

LOL

I think that is a problem, maybe a bit off-topic but, the ratings doesint seem to represent the same as they did when original fallout games were made... Some stuff in those games seems like a kind of taboo things nowdays. Maybe an idea for a new topic? (although maybe too early for that, like with everything else acually...)


Please, allow me to finish this one..

Raiders do that, that's why they're bad guys.
The Enclave do that, that's why they're bad guys.
Slavers do that, that's why you can join them.

The Sarmatians

Though I think having a family and such in game could be pretty fun, I think it would just put unnecessary stress on the developers and just add to much stuff to the game that really doesn't matter.

The fact of killing the children or them getting killed doesn't really bother me and brings more realism to the game. I was kinda mad when I couldn't waste the kids in F3 with my evil character.

Actually no, the story was about choices. There were a couple times when the Vault Dweller could easily tell his people to go to hell and move on. I've done it many of times myself after I beat the game the first time
I told the Overseer of Vault 13 I'd give everything to save everyone, and so I did, I saved them all. Since then I've felt loneliness.