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<blockquote data-quote="dragonlordofpoondari" data-source="post: 4603442" data-attributes="member: 42088">Fair enough. I grant that &quot;astonishingly good&quot; may have been straying toward hyperbole in regarding the story, but I do believe it to be an astonishingly good game. That's why I was saying that I enjoy the world more than the story. I should have changed the word &quot;astonishing&quot; to &quot;engaging.&quot; Oh, I just did.I admit I have not completed the main quest yet; I am only about 30 hours in and have been in post apocalyptic heaven thus far. I was warned/spoiled by some friends about flaw near the end you allude to. Hence, I've spent a bunch of time pursuing as many side quests a possible and just exploring the expansive world, which is gratifying in and of itself. It doesn't hurt that I visit family in DC every year, so it is a real kick to see my familiar capital turned into a beautiful PA wasteland.I also noticed the Lucy West thing, but I was impressed how they covered continuity in countless other instances [spoiler] (3 Dog's replacement, rescued adoptees in the right places and displaying the appropriate gratitude, etc). [/spoiler] As huge as this game is, I can personally forgive the designers overlooking one character's lack of gratitude. She does seem happy to see me on occasion, though. Let's face it, the much vaunted Fallout 2 game was a lot worse in that regard. Continuity issues were so bad and buggy that we called it the &quot;Fallout Disease.&quot; [spoiler] After slaughtering every raider in the world, people in town would still complain and insist that &quot;something would have to be done about these raiders.&quot;[/spoiler] Fallout 3 is much less buggy in dealing with continuity issues.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="dragonlordofpoondari, post: 4603442, member: 42088"] Fair enough. I grant that "astonishingly good" may have been straying toward hyperbole in regarding the story, but I do believe it to be an astonishingly good game. That's why I was saying that I enjoy the world more than the story. I should have changed the word "astonishing" to "engaging." Oh, I just did. I admit I have not completed the main quest yet; I am only about 30 hours in and have been in post apocalyptic heaven thus far. I was warned/spoiled by some friends about flaw near the end you allude to. Hence, I've spent a bunch of time pursuing as many side quests a possible and just exploring the expansive world, which is gratifying in and of itself. It doesn't hurt that I visit family in DC every year, so it is a real kick to see my familiar capital turned into a beautiful PA wasteland. I also noticed the Lucy West thing, but I was impressed how they covered continuity in countless other instances [spoiler] (3 Dog's replacement, rescued adoptees in the right places and displaying the appropriate gratitude, etc). [/spoiler] As huge as this game is, I can personally forgive the designers overlooking one character's lack of gratitude. She does seem happy to see me on occasion, though. Let's face it, the much vaunted Fallout 2 game was a lot worse in that regard. Continuity issues were so bad and buggy that we called it the "Fallout Disease." [spoiler] After slaughtering every raider in the world, people in town would still complain and insist that "something would have to be done about these raiders."[/spoiler] Fallout 3 is much less buggy in dealing with continuity issues. [/QUOTE]

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