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Ive finally started properly mapping out the DC ruins in Fallout 3, and once again I am reminded of how dissapointed I am that I couldnt climb over the rubble to transit the city. The Metros can get pretty damn confusing sometimes, and I hope that in future Fallout games if there is a ruined city that its a lot more open than DC was.

New Vegas took that path and it ended being a bore to explore with invisible walls dotted all about the place.

No I would prefer that towns/cities are cleaner and better built while the uninhabited parts of the map (including those infested by hostile creatures) be in complete ruin and disarray. This way you get the feeling that the "outside survivors" are unified and trying to bring back what was destroyed in the great war.

Maybe I should be a bit more clear, since New Vegas was a rebuilt city with government and what not, and that isnt anywhere near the same as DC in 2277.

What I want is climbing over the rubble with the city being one exterior world space, instead of having to go underground to zone through various interiors. I suppose for Fallout 3 the major concern was the consoles of the time not being able to handle it, so hopefully with these new consoles we can be a lot less set back by those machines.

Although I think there would need to be some improvements of the engine to go along with it. Playing with the Open Freeside mod it made my machine struggle more than it should have to render such a large worldspace with NPCs in Fallout New Vegas. So its not just the consoles that are limiting us, since even with the raw power of a modern PC I couldnt brute force my way through all of those NPCs. Skyrim had some pretty big battles in the civil war questline, and although I dont know much about what is going on under the hood there, it seems to handle large areas filled with NPCs a lot better than Fallout ever did.

Of course Skyrim handles things far better, it has an improved game engine.

I would prefer the underground area to be a interesting cell in on it's own worth exploring instead of just being a huge "dungeon" to crawl around in.