Poll: Fallout 3: Energy weapons or Small Guns?

[ConcreteDonkey]

both... it's not so difficult to max almost everything, and generally after repair these two are next in the list ...

and if you think that the A3-plasma rifle is godlike , just wait for novasurge and the atomic pulverizer

 

[carpathic]

Start with small guns, finish with energy weapons.

Occasionally break out the terrible shotgun just for fun!

 

[Kenko]

Honestly dont care about wich weapon type I use, prefer small guns, but in the end it doesnt matter. Its all in how you've built yer char really. Nothing is inherently bad anyways.

 

[Sodoff]

small guns..
Can't help it, Im a sucker for sniper rifles.

 

[GTA Guy]

Once I picked up my first Alien Atomizer, I didn't touch another weapon in the game. Plenty of ammo laying all over the place (assuming you play the DLC for it). I hit the Alien Ship around level 10 and used small guns until I had a monster stockpile of ammo that carried me through the rest of the game with ease.

Ditto. And once I got the unique Atomic Pulverizer, that was it for me. Twenty-something shots in VATS once you get the Action Boy perk? Why would you ever use anything else?

 

[IronDefender410]

Energy weapons ftw! I just which it had a energy shotgun, that would be awesome.

 

[Kais86]

Both, I use the automatic shotgun and the gauss rifle.

 

[Burningsok]

I say small gun. They are much more common to find, but... once you beat the game, and the enclave start setting up posts then energy weapons become just as easy to obtain as small guns.

 

[captaincabbage]

lol the only energy weapons I ever used were the Gatling Laser and A3-21's plasma rifle, since they both rocked tits.
Other than that, I't ssmall guns all the way baby! Lincoln's Repeater FTW!

 

[Adventurer2626]

Energy weapons are fun as hell to play around with but I always found my small guns to be more effective, even with high intelligence/energy weapons stats.

 

[Troublesome Lagomorph]

Small guns. My favorite weapons are in that classification.
I only really used energy weapons to clear gas leaks.

 

[Kranay]

Neither. Go Explosives+Big Guns, only using explosive weapons from the big guns (i.e. missile launcher+fat man, not minigun+gatling laser).

Or do what I've just started: A Pacifist run. I intend to complete the game killing only the bare minimum of enemies: The Radroach at the start, the Super Mutants at the Jefferson Memorial and I might also possibly have to kill the Enclave right before the end of the game but I think I can speech check my way out of it.

I'm on my way to GNR at the moment, and it's a lot of fun. Making a crapload of money off all the guns and ammo I'm never going to use.

What exactly are you going to use that money on, if not guns or ammunition?

 

[Kaymish]

well i maxed out most skills since i got all the expansions i find it fun to use one of the named swords to hack people up and both energy weapons and small guns have their uses

small guns is more flexible since there is a small gun for most uses
but energy weapons fill the assault rifle gap the best

 

[ender214]

I started off using energy weapons but switched to small guns when I got the Chinese Stealth Armor and the Perforator. It let me take out basically any unit without taking any damage.

 

[Rock Beefchest]

Why use either, big guns are just better. Experimental MIRV + mini nukes = easy win, 1 shot kill on everything on every difficulty.

My problem with the MIRV though was you killed one enemy with it and you had to walk for four hours to get enough nukes to reload. The fatman did the same job but was not nearly so wasteful about it.

 

[Amnestic]

Neither. Go Explosives+Big Guns, only using explosive weapons from the big guns (i.e. missile launcher+fat man, not minigun+gatling laser).

Or do what I've just started: A Pacifist run. I intend to complete the game killing only the bare minimum of enemies: The Radroach at the start, the Super Mutants at the Jefferson Memorial and I might also possibly have to kill the Enclave right before the end of the game but I think I can speech check my way out of it.

I'm on my way to GNR at the moment, and it's a lot of fun. Making a crapload of money off all the guns and ammo I'm never going to use.

What exactly are you going to use that money on, if not guns or ammunition?

Booze, hookers and maintaining a healthy addiction to at least three types of alcohol and four types of chems.

Also I have the Owned! mod, which allows me to buy up houses, most of which are easily over 1000 caps each (with some being over 5000 caps) so there's that too.

I made it to GNR and watched the Brotherhood take down the Behemoth. It took them *forever*. For an elite fighting force they are seriously shit shots. Next challenge: Speech checking Three Dog so I don't have to make my way to the Museum of Technology =_=

I'm not just doing the main quest. I've also done four parts of Moira's quest as well - Radiation (easy), Minefield (less easy, but still doable. That sniper doesn't run out of ammo), Super Duper Mart (Kinda tough. I made it to the food without being seen but the medicine involved me dashing around, weaving and bobbing) and Cripple Yourself (easy). Sadly, I won't be able to finish her questline as Mole Rats necessitate killing another creature, an act which I cannot abide by.

I also convinced Leo Stahl to quit his drug habit. Good job Leo!

 

[ParkourMcGhee]

Never used energy weapons, are they any good?

Although to be fair I preferred the good ol' shishkebab.

Nothing says "victory" like the decapitated smoldering corpse of an enemy.

 

[jet1620]

I started with small guns and had Lincoln's Repeater and a sniper rifle, but eventually I ended up maxing Energy weapons too just for the Gauss Rifle (from Operation Anchorage). While it may make a lot more noise than a silenced Reservist's Rifle, it does so much damage that it makes up for it by far.

 

[slipknot4]

Oh man, the named plasma rifle is godlike.

-m

The Plasma rifle i godlike, Ar-21's plasma rifle is beyond godlike and don't get me started on the Gauss rifle.