I don’t blame them for this, nor does it take away from the magnificence that the rest of New Vegas was. The use of the Pip-Boy 3000 in New Vegas was not Obsidian’s fault they were only allotted 18 months to make the game, and making a 3D version of the original handheld Pip-Boy would have taken up precious development time they could be put to better use making the rest of the game as good as it could possibly be. It would be possible to write this off by saying that the new models were introduced fairly early on and that some vaults on the west were also given the 3000 models, but not only is this never established in any of the games proper, but the denizens in Vault 11 are all shown to be wearing the 3000 models instead of the 2000 models. He even states that it was the one he was given back when he was growing up in Vault 21. It allowed allowed this new version to exist without bending already established lore in half…įallout: New Vegas takes place back on the West Coast, and after completing the mercifully short player creation sequence in Doc Mitchell’s house, he naturally hands you a Pip-Boy… 3000. To give credit to Bethesda, they did attempt to fix this by establishing that the Pip-Boys in Fallout 3 was a later model (3000 instead of 2000), and while this still didn’t wash out the sour taste it had left, it would make sense that the higher-numbered (and therefore later built) vaults on the east coast would get the newer models while the earlier ones (such as Vault 13, where the Vault Dweller emerged from in the first game) would get the more primitive models. Hell, the same reason that all of the settlements in Fallout 3 seem to have no crops anywhere near them and yet are somehow able to eat.īut I digress. The same reason that the denizens of Rivet City never cleaned up all the junk in the lower levels even though clearing this junk out would provide ample space for growing crops. The same reason that a gang living in a vault whose doors have never been opened since the bombs first fell somehow has access to leather jackets and custom snake patches.
Why did Bethesda change this? For the same reason that it seems they make all their decisions by: It looked cool.
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