Fallout 3: Difference between revisions

* [[Amusing Injuries]]: It is possible to get blown ''across town'' with a broken leg and a concussion if you stand in the right place when a nuclear-powered car goes up.

* [[Anal Probing]]: The ''Mothership Zeta'' DLC sees the [[Player Character]] abducted on board a spaceship and probed.

* [[Another Man's Terror]]: One vault in ''Fallout 3'' will put the PC through a lot of this.

* [[Anti-Mutiny]]: The East Coast Brotherhood of Steel decided to work to eradicate the East Coast variant of Super Mutants, instead of solely pursuing technology. The West Coast (the leaders) allowed this, but subsequently refused them supplies, back-up, or other tech, and a group of Brotherhood members left to form the Outcasts, which stay true to the original BoS. They're not evil, just rude, elitist jerks.

* [[Apocalypse How]]: Class 1 and class 2, depending on the area. Events in the story lead to the possibility of a class 5.

* [[Arbitrary Maximum Range]]: [[Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale|And it's fairly short by real life standards.]] Can be very annoying to sniper-type players who could easily make the shot in certain games, never mind what an actual sniper could pull off.

* [[Arc Words]] and [[Arc Number]]: "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely." [[The Bible|-Revelation 21:6]]

** The Xuanlong Assault Rifle also qualifies. It not only carries 12 more rounds than its stock version, but deals more damage. Combined with its abundant ammunition and the relative abundance of Chinese Assault Rifles later in the game, this makes it one of the top-tier weapons for players.

** The Gauss Rifle, pending you get it out of the Operation: Anchorage simulation using a very specific and kinda tricky [http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Operation%3A_Anchorage_bugs#Exploitable_Bugs glitch].

* [[Badass Bystander]]: It is quite surprising how many NPCs will run in and start attacking you if you provoke them, even picking up weapons lying around to gun you down. If you're on an [[Escort Mission]], your escort may pick up the rifle of an enemy you just shot and help you take out the rest. If there's an NPC you want to survive, you can also reverse-pickpocket better armor and weapons onto them and they will use them, even if it's power armor and a plasma rifle.

* [[Base on Wheels]]: The Enclave's massive Mobile Base in the climax of the ''Broken Steel'' expansion.

** At the gates of Megaton, Tenpenny Tower and Rivet City are beggars asking for purified water. Giving them water gives you an instant karma boost. With enough water and some patience, you could boost your karma to Very Good in just a few minutes. This can result in a player with a history of being a lying, cheating, thieving, enslaving, murdering bastard becoming a saint in the eyes of the people, [[Disproportionate Reward|all because they gave a hobo a drink.]] Or you can donate a few hundred bottle caps (the game's currency) to one of the in-game churches for a huge instant karma boost.

* [[Behind the Black]]: Despite the [[Warp Whistle]] effectively being a "skip journey" option rather than a true teleport, half the time you'll appear at your destination standing bang in the middle of a mercenary squad out for your blood.

* [[Big Brother Is Watching]]: The Vaults were actually advertised in a museum exhibit as such.

{{quote|"Concerned about security? Our eye-on-you camera allows the Overseer to watch your every move. You'll never be alone again!"}}

** Even then, you can pretty much guess what he's saying and you will more than likely be correct. It's mostly variations upon "Where am I?", "Who are you?", and "Where is my sword?"

* [[Bishonen Line]]: The mirelurks are mutated crabs and look crustacean with shells and pincers. Mirelurk kings however are implied to be mutated from turtles, and have humanoid heads, fingers and toes with no shells.

* [[Black and Grey Morality]]: Many of the sidequests, although the [[Karma Meter]] will often have its own ideas about Good and Evil.

** Professor Calvert is a [[Card-Carrying Villain]] who has a bevy of mindless cultists at his disposal and should you choose to serve him, {{spoiler|tries to kill you}} while Desmond is simply someone from before the Great War who has scores to settle. He's also a [[Jerkass]] master of the [[Cluster F-Bomb]], so pick your poison.

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Once you first behold Liberty Prime, you know that he's going to be kicking some ass by the end of the game.

** "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely." -[[The Bible|Revelation 21:6]] {{spoiler|That is to say, '216' is the code to activate the purifier at the end of the main story arc.}}

* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]: Both in [[NPC]] dialogs as well as [[Enemy Chatter]].

** In particular there are Mayor MacCready of Little Lamplight (particularly striking since [[Troubling Unchildhood Behavior|he's eleven at most]]) and Desmond Lockheart from Point Lookout. Neither of them seem capable of forming a sentence without swearing.

* [[Collection Sidequest]]: Finding all of the Vault-Tec Bobbleheads in the Capital Wasteland; collecting all 100 steel ingots in ''The Pitt''; finding thirty Nuka-Cola Quantum for ''The Nuka-Cola Challenge.''

* [[Color Wash]]: The entire game is overlaid with a very noticeable green color filter, which can be disabled via modding.

* [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard]]: Certain weapons have a special effect of dealing additional damage per hit that ignores damage resistance. The catch? This only activates when an enemy NPC is using it against ''you''.

* [[Continuity Nod]]: At the end of the ''Trouble On the Homefront'' quest, {{spoiler|Amata's informing you that you must leave the vault forever now}} intentionally mirrors the ending of the first Fallout.

* [[Cool Plane]]: The Enclave's Vertibirds.

* [[Cool Shades]]: Lucky Shades

* [[Cool Versus Awesome]]: Mothership Zeta. A samurai, a cowboy, a wastelander, a soldier two centuries out of place, a [[Plucky Girl]], and you versus hundreds of little green aliens.

* [[Crap Saccharine World]]: Tranquility Lane, a computer simulation in {{spoiler|Vault 112}}, where a little girl (who's actually {{spoiler|Dr. Braun}}) forces you to perform a series of increasingly evil acts before letting you leave {{spoiler|with your father.}}

* [[Crapsack World]]: The entire ''Fallout'' series takes place [[After the End|after a nuclear war between America and China.]] Which actually makes the world ''better'' in a lot of ways, oddly enough—the prewar world was pretty Crapsack-y to begin with if the little tidbits of history you can find are any indication.

* [[Creepy Child]]: Betty.

* [[Creepy Cleanliness]]: Vault 112. [[Lotus Eater Machine|There's a good reason for that.]]

* [[Cruel and Unusual Death]]: See [[Gorn]] and [[Ludicrous Gibs]].

* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: The ''Take It Back!'' quest.