No single location made sense and all the locations put together made no sense at all. Fallout 3 did not show so much as a glimpse of building a realistic, breathing world. Are we going to take Fallout 2's reconstruction level on board? If so, does a town that thrives not on trading (Hub), looting (LA Boneyard) or agriculture (Shady Sands), but on entertainment industry become more viable? Is there any way in which New Reno's parastic nature can become more realistic? Should we add more traders? Slavers? Fallout 3's world is both more and less recovered than Fallout 2's, but this is set closer to Fallout 2 than to Fallout 3 location-wise. Let's hope it's still on board for New Vegas despite the limited design time. Quest-design wise, you can't beat New Reno, and from Van Buren's design look it grew on this principle. It's an important lesson to learn, since both F2 and F3 suffer lack of direction to a lesser or greater extent, and it's an important lesson to take on board. That doesn't mean its individual locations were bad, just that they fit together poorly.

Fallout 2 was as bad as Fallout 3 when it came to inconsistent world design. I donвЂ™t think there was a strong genre policeman overseeing Fallout 2, and it suffered for it.' Oh yes. 'Overall, I think Fallout 2 is better scope-wise but poorer aesthetically. I sometimes wish the criticism of New Reno had been more clearly aimed at the setting, because we don't want to mix setting and quest design judgements and get MCA completely in the defensive.ДЈ. Here's the stickler: this has always been a sensitive point to MCA. Probably one of the most controversial locations prior to Fallout 3, we've debated this to death, and I do feel the consensus is that it does not do well within the setting. New Reno is a big dump on the Fallout setting. This point is debatable of course, but not a lot of people will deny New Reno does the whole open-ended varied intelligent quest design really well.Дў. New Reno is the best-designed town in the Fallout franchise in terms of quests and sandbox gameplay. I donвЂ™t think there was a strong genre policeman overseeing Fallout 2, and it suffered for it.вЂќДЎ. Overall, I think Fallout 2 is better scope-wise but poorer aesthetically. IвЂ™m proud of Vault CityвЂ™s design, too вЂ“ I added a lot more quests there, along with little touches here and there. вЂњIвЂ™m very proud of New Reno,вЂќ Avellone says, вЂњas I think thereвЂ™s a lot of fun sandbox things to do there. Chris Avellone (no, he's not directly tied to this title, but he's one of the Obsidian heads), discussed New Reno recently, here:ДЄfter the critical drubbing Undermountain received, AvelloneвЂ™s contributions to Fallout 2 вЂ“ most notably the entire, Mafia-controlled city of New Reno, with its bountiful side-quests and other distractions вЂ“ were warmly welcomed, even if some Fallout zealots considered them tonally out-of-step.

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