The skill leveling system from Oblivion. Gaining master skills by practicing the respective skill over time. :read: :flamethrower: :gun:

Obsidian is essentially the Remnants of Black Isle. Also keep in mind that Bethesda isn't the only one eying on the remains of Fallout when it was "auction". Safe to say, if Bethesda wasn't there, someone else would have bought the franchise.

Also, Black Isle "failed" because they were laid off by Interplay when they were making Fallout 3 :Van Buren. Interplay laid them off just so they can use the resource to create this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-Xs1tm-9-U&feature=related. This abomination lead to the said bankruptcy and lead to a trail of event that lead the Fallout Franchise to being bought out by Bethesda.

*Sigh* If only EA had bought Fallout, it'd be perfect. :whistling:

I hate to be the bearer of bad new but your beloved Black Isle and their Fallout series died sometime back in the 90's. It was Bethesda's engineering of the game that brought it into the modern day, revived the series and put the marketing money into it. Without Bethesda's help the series would have ended and Obsidian wouldnt have been able to even think about making New Vegas. Clearly there was a reason Black Isle failed and something tells me trying to do a comeback tour would result in a lot of lost investment from whoever were to produce it.

Well, EA might've gotten BioWare to develop it...

:goodjob: No one has even modded it for Fallout 3, but an XP system was modded for Oblivion :shakehead:

Becoming better at lockpicking by shooting a bandit in the head just doesn't make sense, unlike becoming better at archery by shooting enemies with arrows.

*Sigh* If only EA had bought Fallout, it'd be perfect. :whistling:

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but do you know how many former Black Isle employees work for Obsidian? There's a reason New Vegas "feels" so much more like the old Black Isle Fallouts, and it's not because of Bethesda's influence. :rolleyes:

Now, as to your "lost investment" claims- you mean like all the money they're "losing" on New Vegas? I'd bet many companies wish they could produce such losses.

Also, Black Isle "failed" because they were laid off by Interplay when they were making Fallout 3 :Van Buren. Interplay laid them off just so they can use the resource to create this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-Xs1tm-9-U&feature=related. This abomination lead to the said bankruptcy and lead to a trail of event that lead the Fallout Franchise to being bought out by Bethesda.

Yep, and the track record for Obsidian is...

wait for it...

Not that good.

Fallout 3 was clearly a better game.

Well, EA might've gotten BioWare to develop it...

O_o How?

I love sarcasm! Seriously, I was being sarcastic. Both Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas are great games.

It doesn't have to make sense, it just has to work. The XP by doing system only works with restriction ~else you have PC's that hop everywhere, and sneak down the main streets in broad daylight. This form of leveling is something I would definitely not like to see added to Fallout (which never had it to begin with).

Si.
While I didn't like the leveled enemies system in FO3 and that there were too many dungeons I really think that New Vegas could have used some leveled random encounters and a couple of more lengthy dungeons.

Wanamingos

Sorry Xarnac but I even need to go after you.
Wannamingos, extinct.

To be honest, they're my favorite mutation in the entire series and I hated that they put the nail in their coffin and declared them extinct.
If it was possible (which it most likely isn't) I would also like to see them again.
But that would most likely be in a game set in 2239 to 2242 in the west coast.

I wouldn't say they were extinct. The Chosen One killed off the ones in the mine they were inhabiting in Fallout 2, but that doesn't mean that there couldn't be more somewhere else.

The eggs you see in Fallout 2 are the last generation of Wannamingoes to exist in the wasteland; the young Wannamingoes seen in F2 will perish in five years, and their parents a few years before that - an internal genetic clock will simply stop ticking, and they'll fall over dead. The Wannamingoes are a vicious mutant breed that had their moment in the sun, and now their sun has set.

To put the tombstone on their extinction, the largest known nest of Wannamingoes were wiped out when the Great Wannamingo mine was reclaimed by Redding with the help of a traveling tribal. The mother was killed, and the last remaining eggs were hunted down, stepped on, and then the remains were examined by local scientists and doctors who came to the extinction conclusions mentioned above.

As a final note, this is strictly a personal decision on my part. If you want them to live for fan fiction, pen-and-paper role-playing campaign purposes, or for your own peace of mind, feel free to have some of them survive the stopping of their genetic clock – in the Black Isle universe, however, the little buggers are already dead and their irradiated shells are scattered along the floor of abandoned mines throughout northern California where they make nice crunching noises when you step on them.

-Deathclaw Control. :wink_smile: