I Think the idea of blowing up meagaton , is giving the player a chance to get to grips with the karma interface idea because you can blow meagaton up doesn't mean you should right ? but thats why they did it so that you can decide wether to be good or bad either blow up meagaton or stop mister burke and have prosperity.

i didnt blow up megaton not even once in all the 537 hours i played the game just like i never harvested little sisters in bioshock 1 and 2 and still not going to do it

You never harvested the little sisters?
But... It's fun to tear them open!

yeah i never did lol i dont like harming kids not even in vedio games the idea itself bothers me

Hm, I loved _______ them on ____ in Postal 2 and I got a mod for Skyrim to kill ____ and it's great fun to pierce through the torso of a _ year old ___ with a twohanded sword. xD


Child killing is not allowed to be discussed on these boards.
But nobody said we couldn't play a game of hang man.

The game really, other than cash, never gives any reason to blow up Megaton. Thus making Tenpenny (like many chars in FO3) a [censored] without any background.
It's even used to, misleadingly, put some moral ambiguity in other Tenpenny related quests...
I've had my character blow up Megaton, but always with my own (made up) backstory.. The game itself never allows you to make a "semi-rational" choice..based on the information in the game.. (other than RPing as a complete money lovin' psycho)
FO:NV at least makes you ponder and even allows you to discuss the options with both parties.. and (one might argue) has benefits..other than karma..

Wait... aren't YOU the one who NEEDS a GOOD reason to blow up Megaton? Yet you install mods like that? o.0 Woah, someone has his priorities messed up here! LOL

Anyway, I decided to kill Burke and Tenpenney. I'm not going to blow up my safe haven! I like my junky old Megaton house! It suits me just fine and with the pre-war theme, it's even homey! Now, I just wish the pre-war theme would have changed my nasty old mattress into a nice bed. -.- I never modded anything, so I wouldn't even know where to start, in order to change some small details like that. LOL

I don't think I'll ever blow up Megaton. Well, maybe blow it up once, just to see what it looks like, but then reload my game. LOL

Never going to blow up Megaton ? Thats just sick and wrong. Atleast once is what I recomend. But ya even if your evil , there are reasons not to.

On the mod thing , that would be way easy , once you get a feel for the GECK. But then youll find yourself probably changeing all kinds of things. And thats the beauty of this game plus the GECK.
Once youve had your fill of adventureing in this world(atleast for a moment) Then you can explore all the ways to modify it and be entertained for days (if you like that sort of thing)

I myself have only modded on 2 other games (not real extensively) StarCraft,Novalogic Black hawk down, and now this one. Although it seems to be the hardest of the 3 ... its not insurmountable ... just takes time and research. They do a pretty good job in the tutorials.

If you havent downloaded the GECK yet , you should ... its great for just looking stuff up ... It wont spoiler anything in an obvious fashion , unless you know what your looking for specifically.

LOL I thought blowing up Megaton was SICK and WRONG!! Sheesh people!! LOL

Yea, I just looked over the Geck wiki. It seems all rather daunting to me. I played Oblivion for years with all sorts of mods, but I never personally touched the Construction Set. I may have to try my hands on the Geck. The tuts do look well detailed.

On my first playthrough I did it simply to kill Moira Brown. I hate that annoyingly cheerful [censored] with a passion & if a whole town had to die just so there would be no witnesses to her murder, then so be it. Just a shame she was the only survivor

I actually like Moira, the wasteland needs someone who is cheerful!
But I found no reason to destroy the central hub of the game!

Because you get that feel that you ended a settlement because you wanted. Blowing people.....because you can, and want.

Why would I want to kill dozens of innocent people?

To quote the Persona 4 villain; "I did that stuff 'cause I could. And it got interesting, so I watched.

They aren't innocent, they all collaborated to steal your stash of mentats, those jerks!

*resisting the urge to make an inappropriate comment*

There is no real reason given in to blow up Megaton. No real reason to do it, other than "cause we can."

I just did it so I could watch the explosion, then reloaded to a previous save.

It would make sense if you were Role Playing as this guy

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Kgx0lxuPmwI/Tiw2ohj2ROI/AAAAAAAAAL8/igQAD4mVDT8/s1600/Apocalypse+Toaster.jpg

I told the Sheriff and we put Burke down

What a tattle tale ... JKing

Actually I liked that it has more than the 2 options when I stumbled on to it.
The other one ... by means of the black widow perk. I never waited long enough I guess (lost that save) to know how it was gona play out.

;o!

Remind me not to say any of my plans on blowing up towns near you eh?

Well, I′d be glad if you gave me a heads up so I could

I liked Mr Burke's voice... That's about it.

I dunno about anyone else, but i just blew up Megaton for the fun of it, I saved before making major choices so i could go back...