I just realized that there seems little difference's between the models aside from cosmetic's with the Pip-Boy 2000 and 3000...

They seem to serve the same exact function, with some differences, so, which would you use, and which do you believe is better?

But lets see the differences that they have:

Pip-Boy 2000: Has animation's that play when Idle, or on holidays (Christmas.), has an auto-map that detects movement (Wildlife, Ghouls and Humans, Robots, Super Mutants), and can record audio and visual feed (Essentially a built in camera), and on a side note; Has 'Clue' feature, like a notepad but the button is damaged and the feature is unusable.

Pip-Boy 3000: Has a built in radio, built in Flashlight, can store and play audio messages (does not have visual capability.)

The Lil' Pip 3000 from Van Buren.

Sorry, no PIMP-BOY THREE BILLION?

Poll is racist.

LOL

I don't really like that we use the 3000 to equip our weapons. It basically implies that we take the time to catalogue exactly everything we pick up. It even gives some people the notion that it actually has our equipment digitally stored on the pipboy, which would be an atrocity if it were made canon. I mean really.


So I like the 2,000. It is a PDA system that doesn't have a ridiculous amount of information stored like the 3000 does. Just seems more plausible. I guess from a practical standpoint I might choose the 3000 in real life, for the built-in Geiger Counter.



For Fallout 4, I'm wondering they could just do no pipboy. Everything could just be selected from a standard menu. Maybe the map would look like paper, and the radio would look like a portable radio, and the stats/inventory and everything else could be in an organized page, kind of like FO1/2. I don't want another Vault Dweller, and I don't want another character that is just given a pipboy. So this would work for that.

If we had to get a pip-boy, I'de just go with the 2000, it looks much more like it's from the 50's.

Pipboy 2000 has a built in light too.

Personally I prefer no pipboy. I already use the "Readius" mod for NV and hope they take the feature out in the next game altogether, or at least make it optional. The developers need to get more in the mindset that -we- choose our characters backgrounds, as opposed to having to be some Courier or Vault Dweller with a blocky TV screen strapped to his arm for the rest of eternity.

The Pip Boy 3000. A flashlight is more useful than animations.

You know.... The Pipboy is a holo-tape reader.... and Holo-Tapes are 4 terabyte discs. :laugh:

Though its unofficial... I always like http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj125/Gizmojunk/pip_boy_2000_renders_by_equilerex.jpg better than the Van-Buren or FO3/NV pipboys (even though FO1's manual describes the Pipboy as wrist worn.)

That's not what I meant, the Pipboy 3000 has tons of detailed information on it which is mostly for gameplay, and the Pipboy 2000 mostly has footnotes and maps. Either the 3000 magically knows what every object you own is called and assesses the damage, condition, etc. automatically, or the character obsessively catalogs everything they come across. Both options are pretty silly. I am hoping that for the future this stuff is purely for gameplay and nothing else in game implies what I just described as canon.