# Fallout 3 faults. **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [September 10, 2009, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-3-faults/509622 "2009-09-10T23:56:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-3-faults/509622/41 "2009-09-14T21:11:59Z")
> [@Mekhazzio](#): > > These are the guys terrorizing the Wasteland? :dubious: Only to the ones who don’t stand up to 'em. They’re terrorized by the Muties. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-3-faults/509622/42 "2009-09-14T21:28:57Z")
> [@Mekhazzio](#): > > As a matter of fact - you’re not. You take something like 1/10th the damage you otherwise would while VATS is active. Considering you can also do things like reload during the slow-mo, strategic use of VATS can actually make you substantially LESS vulnerable than you otherwise would be. You can even point-blank mininuke things in VATS and walk away from it, while the same shot in real-time would decorate the landscape with your bits. > > Second the complaint about lack of interactivity. I had a suspicious feeling the moment I arrived in a place with interactive controls, that weren’t used for the immediate task at hand, that it would eventually wind up hosting the major climax of the game, or perhaps the ending, and had an idea of what would happen. The simplicity of the rest of the game world spoiled the plot for me. > > My personal beef is that it winds up feeling too gamey. Sure, sure, it’s Fallout, but c’mon. You wind up with ten times the stats of anybody else, simply for being the Player Character. Fresh out of the vault, armed with a leather jacket and a baseball bat, and it’s -easy- to clear out a Talon Company base. These are the guys terrorizing the Wasteland? :dubious: The first and only enemy I wasn’t able to bludgeon into submission with a Power Fist was a deathclaw, and it wasn’t too much later that I was one-shotting _those_ with their own claws. Kind of silly. The way I saw it was: The point of the story is that you’ve been born as a particular person, who’s father happens to be something of a Hero, so it’s inevitable you’re going to be the next Hero (or anti-hero if that’s your choice). I agree that there should be a select few people who are as badass as you, to add a bit more of a challenge. I agree that you being the ONLY ‘super’ character is bad. But I don’t think the place should be littered with players as good as you. It should be the case that you work your way up to being one of the select few really-good characters. On the VATS thing. OK it’s good that you’re not so vulnerable, but your partner _is_. While your character is blisfully watching his or her handiwork, your mutt or (rubbish, with the exception of Fawkes) partner is still being attacked. I know you can send dogmeat back to 101 to wait for you. But there’s a strange part of me that doesn’t feel right doing that. I have this image of the dog sat waiting (if you don’t have Broken Steel) forever for a master who will never come back. ---
**Author:** ![Lunchy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Lunchy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lunchy)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2009, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-3-faults/509622/43 "2009-09-22T09:24:06Z")
You realise they made VATS like that for a reason , they called it semi-turned based! Meaning, you really had to plan your attacks! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-3-faults/509622.md?page=2)