Poll: you are exploring a post apocalyptic wasteland when you discover a weapons cache.

[zehydra]

Shotgun. In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, there's cover everywhere, I'll wait till the enemy tries to get to me and I'll ambush.

that's what I do in Fallout 3 anyway.

 

[FalloutJack]

some heads ups:
-currently, you are unarmed. you must pick a weapon to survive.
- you can't pick two guns.
- each gun has a fairly large amount of ammo beside it, don't worry about ammo.
-you have to say why you chose what you chose.
have fun with your new gun!

All the other choices are nice, but THIS wastelander has put so many holes in things that the SMG turns out to be the prime choice alot of the times. For openers, it's a great little hold-out weapon that doesn't make you slow down. For another, this is ideal against Cazadors, as I killed hundreds of 'em this way. The fact is, I've gone through ALOT of SMGs in Fallout and thousands of bullets with alot of kills to their names.

 

[Evil Top Hat]

Shotgun, without a doubt.

Video games tend to portray shotgun as being a point blank range weapon, but that's just for balance. Shotguns have a suprising amount of range, shooting clubs used to use/still use shotguns for plate shooting (<-- involves launching a plate tens of meters into the air in a horizontal path overhead/in front of the shooters), to put it into perspective.

Shotguns pack massive punch, actually have decent range, and wouldn't be as dangerous or heavy as rocket launchers, LMGs or anything inbetween. If I'm out in the wasteland, I want to run away from whatever I can run away from, and use my gun in emergences, because the bad guys can get fairly close to me without me being able to escape, making the shotgun a perfect weapon to use.

 

[Bureacreative]

assault rifle or carbine. theyre so versitile

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

If I'm gonna be shootin' things, then I want a SMG because I want my wasteland enemy corpses full of little bullet holes.

On the plus side they are small and compact enough to carry around.