You must have missed the enigmatic voice during the intro : "They have taken you from the Jefferson Memorial. First by carriage, now by foot. To the West, to Vault 101. Fear not, for I am watchful. You have been chosen."

They have taken you from the Jefferson Memorial. First by carriage, now by foot. To the West, to Vault 101. Fear not, for I am watchful. You have been chosen

So I guess my question is, lore-wise, how is the Lone Wanderer able to achieve all this?

Maybe in future games you'll need to study more gun manuals and such, hopefully even be able to disassemble them, and actually put those targeting dummies to use. That would be an interesting game mechanic.

His father told him everything in his sleep with a hypnotic head device.

For the sake of gameplay, they arent going to make you read a bunch of manuals in order to shoot. Most players would be bored before the gun game even picks up, and would quit. But, I am also annoyed by the fact that the Lone Wanderer all of a sudden knows how to use Plasma and Energy Weaponry effectively. Guns, not so much since guns are always your straightforward pull the trigger type of deals. But, if you throw me a lazer rifle, and I had never heard of this series, I wouldnt know what it was in the first place, nor how to properly operate it.

There are not any gun jams, clearly no way to just simply clean the weapon instead of replacing parts (which means the actual gun makers made [censored] products), and the guns are still able to work after 200 years without rusting out or anything. But, whatever, its just a game.

Actually, the guns DO jam if they get really low on condition, but it's just a minor inconvenience.

Plus, Laser rifles and plasma guns are pretty straightforward, despite their exotic damage type. There's a thing that looks like a grip and trigger on what would be the "underside" and a stock at on end, so that must mean the *other* end points to an enemy. After firing the weapon a few times (against some radroaches or on a static target), you should be able to at least use the weapon at an "average" raiting... provided, of course, you have good hand/eye coordination, and have had previous experence with small guns (which is almost always a given.)

Well, loading/cleaning would be an issue if you just picked one up. Still, go to, say Flak & Schrapnel's (or any weapon trader) and they should know how to do it.

After all; if they know people will be using those weapons, than that means they have another person who will spend their caps on spare parts for those things as well as E-Cells and MF cells.

A major problem I see with a lot of video games such as Fallout 3 (and The Elder Scrolls) is that the protagonist is put in situations in-game that would be near-impossible to survive in real life. The first problem is how is some vault dweller able to become good enough in combat in such short times to be able to take on professionally trained Enclave soldiers, for example. If lore-wise the Lone Wanderer takes months or years to train (which still wouldn't make sense considering how urgent the story is in Fallout 3) the problem is he still performs super-human feats such as escaping a high security Enclave base. I mean, come on, no matter how good someone may be in combat, there's basically zero chance you would be able to fight yourself out of dozens of professionally trained, very well equipped, soldiers and robots.

So I guess my question is, lore-wise, how is the Lone Wanderer able to achieve all this? Unless what is seen in-game isn't a very accurate depiction as to what happens in the lore.

A major problem I see with a lot of video games such as Fallout 3 (and The Elder Scrolls) is that the protagonist is put in situations in-game that would be near-impossible to survive in real life. The first problem is how is some vault dweller able to become good enough in combat in such short times to be able to take on professionally trained Enclave soldiers, for example. If lore-wise the Lone Wanderer takes months or years to train (which still wouldn't make sense considering how urgent the story is in Fallout 3) the problem is he still performs super-human feats such as escaping a high security Enclave base. I mean, come on, no matter how good someone may be in combat, there's basically zero chance you would be able to fight yourself out of dozens of professionally trained, very well equipped, soldiers and robots.

So I guess my question is, lore-wise, how is the Lone Wanderer able to achieve all this? Unless what is seen in-game isn't a very accurate depiction as to what happens in the lore.