In the wastes a those "real men' are usually also dead men.....

Yeah I slipped up but it's the same gun

Honestly I prefer energy weapons in fallout mostly because ammo is not such a *****. If you ever play hardcore mode you will thank that 1 ammo type = X guns. MF cells are the most useful and EC Packs second. My favorite Energy weapon....that would be tough....

• Euclids C Finder is a gimme
• Tesla Beaton Prototype Cannon
• Alien Gun (forgot it's official title)
• AER-14 is pretty badass but you can't scope it
• Multiplas Rifle is kickass
• Plasma Caster is fun fun fun.

Would be so hard to choose. So I won't.

I have 3 characters:

Doc Holliday - Guns, Medicine, Melee, Repair, Lockpick, etc.
Dr. Zin - Energy Weapons, Science, Survival, Repair & Medicine Minors (because they work good with science)
Betty Boom - Explosives, Sneak, Barter, Speech, Unarmed

And I can't play favorites

Go unarmed or Melee during hardcore runs. Then you won't need any ammo at all!

I honestly dump any ammo types I don't need into my storage containers and carry a moderate amount. In hardcore mode it's imperative to have a safehouse for just that reason.

Also I'd rather not get in melee battles with Cazadores.

And who needs to sell things to earn caps? Luck 7, casinos all day. Double your money in Black Jack and with good enough luck even the slot machines pay out.

Well YOU would be dead, since you're a weak baby who needs their gun crutch. But soon as you're out of ammo or your weapon breaks you're as defenseless as a newborn baby radroach.

Meanwhile I'm tiger driving ghouls all day and making millions selling off all that ammo I don't need.

A gunslinger never fights alone.

They are Ka-tet, we don't miss, and we deal in lead.

I have two characters

John Chambers- Gun's, Survival, Repair, Explosives, Sneak
Callum Locke- Energy Weapons, Unarmed, Survival, Speech

Gunslingers by nature fight alone. What are you talking about. The ranger with the big iron on his hip didn't roll into town with an entourage of his homies.
Stop mixing lore you turbo nerd.

I've made around 8 different characters between the two versions I have on PC and PS3. 'Cause I bought both.

I'm going to have to side with Guns here, mostly because of weapons like Ratslayer. Sneak Kills are the best kills. However Throwing Spears and Throwing Knives do excellent sneak damage, but you almost always have to use VATS :(

A Gunslinger never fights alone.... what the hell are you on about.

Six shot users require cover while they reload. Six shots, six kills, covered, six shots, six kills.

A ka-tet stands as one from many, round they may roll say thankya, and of the White to stand against the Red.

Either way I always write a decent back story to my characters and John Chambers one is really good. A decent fallout party always has two strong gun fighters.

I'm going to have to side with Guns here, mostly because of weapons like Ratslayer. Sneak Kills are the best kills. However Throwing Spears and Throwing Knives do excellent sneak damage, but you almost always have to use VATS :(

I really wish throwing knives weren't the rarest weapon in the world.

I wish you could pick them up when you miss

But yeah I always had to go and buy them

I see we are talking about New Vegas now. I'll let you in on a secret... the best weapon in the game. Hands down.

Laser Rifle+ Focus Optics+Beam Splitter+Meltdown.
That's it. You could literally not even use any armor and easily beat the game on Very Hard+Hardcore easily. Its that goddamn powerful. It one shots almost everything, and is pinpoint accurate, with a decent RoF, and it uses super common ammo, allowing you to have a large supply of 1000+ MF Cells at all times. It's even easy to repair, even without Jury Rigging.

The weapon itself has a huge critical hit ratio, and the Beam Splitter multiplies the already large ratio by 3, up to like 90%. Also, Critical Hits = Instakill Plasma Explosion with the Meltdown Perk, which can cause a chain reaction of More Instakill Plasma Explosions. Let's just put it this way, I once killed 5 Deathclaws, including the Mother and Alpha Male... with a single Microfusion Cell. That's a 4 cap investment you won't ever regret.

The only enemies I ever had even a small challenge with was the Giant Bloatfly (most HP in the game by a wide margin) and Ullyses (the Second biggest baddass in the Mojave), and Ullyses was only a problem because I didn't get a Sneak Attack on him. He took 2 shots, the Bloatfly took 3. Even Legate Lanius was a OHK.