Heh.
Also being able to kill kids. Or kids appearing at all.
One of my fondest memories of FO2 is shooting the brains out of the kid who pickpockets you.
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Maybe I shouldn't say fondest.
Also selling your shotgun wife / husband to slavery. Hehehehe.
*Miria misses yet another shot with her SMG*
BEHOLD THE PRICE OF FAILURE.
But that's why I got the Miria mod, she actually gets some skill in small guns so she's not just a pretty face/meatshield/convenient source of money.
Also, if you want those kids in the Den to stop pickpocketing you, just punch one in the face. Restraint, son. Or reverse pickpocket a live bomb into their inventories.
I was quite young when I played it. It really is one of my fondest memories as it was my first playthrough of the game and since this was back when the internet wasn't a real thing (at least where I was) I had no clue what this game was about.
All I knew was that it was an RPG with guns.
Until I reached that point the game was fairly standard. Other than the fact that you could get washed at a bathhouse if you know what I mean (I had no clue what was really happening back then. I was wondering why you'd pay people to wash you).
Then I got to the Den and one of the first thing that happens is some kid runs up and steals your shit. I go apeshit and shoot him. Then he dies. Then inevitably I have to kill everyone who saw this.
So I basically killed everyone in the Den and continued the game as usual. Even beat the game and the ending credits told me how the Den got owned. I missed out on everything that happened in that town because I murdered everyone.
It might not seem like a big deal to the modern day gamer but this was a massive deal to me. I'd never played a game where I could do that before and the game even accounted for me murdering everyone. So much freedom. If it was a JRPG it would probably have been something where I would chase the thief down and eventually she (it's always a she) would join my party. Here I fucking killed him. Then I had to kill everyone else. The epilogue was especially important as it emphasized to me how much I fucked over that town. Even today I struggle to think of other games where this can happen naturally without scripting.