"The Skill Checks Don't Come Into The Game Until Quite A Bit Down The Line" ~ MATN

MATN falsely claims there are "no skill checks" before the OPTIONAL Sunny Smiles tutorial, but in reality there are no less than 4 skill checks even before you leave Doc Mitchell's house for the first time. I would also throw lockpicking the safe in Goodsprings Schoolhouse as a 5th skill check someone would very realistically come across before the optional Sunny Smiles tutorial, since both Sunny herself and Easy Pete (whom you encounter before even entering the Saloon) mention it, and of course one could find it on their own exploration anyway.

I'm addressing this very same misinformation in Part 2 of my response to MATN's "FO3 Is Better Than You Think", but since I had all this relevant footage recorded anyway, I decided to make this video to show how wrong he was in an alternate way. Hopefully this is both entertaining and enlightening. It goes to show that he doesn't really have a clue about these games he portrays himself as being an expert on. All of this stuff you can get through these Skill Checks -- the SMG, the chems, Stimpaks, and of course the Stealth Boy -- are all things that can make going north of Goodsprings past the Cazadores very doable at level 1, though MATN says it is impossible in his video.

My question is, if MATN is oblivious to so much about these games, then how can be possibly be viewed as some sort of authority figure on what is "better than we think"? Despite the fact that he is a colossal youtuber, he really knows no more about these games than any random Joe you might run into on the street. Clearly, perception is his dump stat. He is about as oblivious as Mr. Magoo. At least Oxhorn pulls up the Fallout wiki to pretend like he has a clue about "Meer-Non" and so forth. Why can't MATN do the same?

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