Appearance - Fashion or Practicality?

[ChrisPharmD]

Soooo... my character looks so silly. I have a weird looking helmet that boosts armor and 2 SPECIAL and then I have glasses on that make it look worse. Then I have random layers of Legendary equipment on along with the Vault 111 suit.

I mean, coming after Skyrim, I was hoping to look more badass. I'm only level 20 and I haven't really gotten too far into the game, but... I haven't seen anything special in videos or pictures.

I know this is a wasteland, but... there is truly no synergy going on with my gear.

[Jirki88]

They probably reasoned "since you're going to be in power armour 95% of the time, gear looks dont matter".

[ChrisPharmD]

Oh... Power armor doesn't really impress me that much. :/ I have only used it once aside from the beginning of the game.

[morph113]

Well you can combine the gear you want to make it look badass. Are you wearing those fashionable glasses which look like they were a left over from Elton John? No wonder your character looks bad (or fabulous, depends I guess). The stats on armor aren't really that important in Fallout. You can also kick ass naked even on higher difficulties. Just wear the armor which you think looks best.

[Simpson3k]

wait for the modders..hotpants with 100 armor, energy and radiation resistance :P

[ChrisPharmD]

Nah, the glasses are fine. They're just black. I like glasses actually. It just doesn't look right with this helmet thing I got going on.

[Internet Boy]

I wear the Minutemen outfit because it looks cool.
And everyone knows that cool=good stats.

[Simpson3k]

With my helmet i am not really happy myself. Its that simple protection helmet, the blue one..kind of fits to the vaultsuit..but thats it. the police glasses look cool though. I looted at helmet from a died diamond city guard..but..i dont really like to wear it, because it looks silly in dialoges.

[Reirue]

I can understand the dissapointment of looking kind of lame, but I have to admit I'm sort of digging the ragtag/junkyard look most characters seem to get when just going for pure stats.
Still, given the potential for modding, maybe someone can add in a 'vanity mode' or something, allowing you to wear items for stats but choose a second set for appearence?

[leftharted]

when mods allow armor over the plethora of "outfits" that cant currently be worn with armor, this will be a moot issue.

I love the layered armor system; and the modifications.... but I find it extremely odd that there aren't more choices for "under" clothes. Most of the outfits are just pure stats anyhow, so I don't really understand the reasoning behind disallowing them to be equipped with the layered armor...

Like, a suit. Id love to wear leather armor over a dirty suit.

But, to the point of the OP: Fashion. I switch a lot between third and first person, and I like to RP my playthrough's real cinematic-like with a fair bit of Walking and enjoying the set pieces. So, I keep the glasses on usually for the per/cha; but rarely a helmet.

I play survival; RP-ing a early retirement military scientist with little combat experience; hence why I had priority to get into the vault. Mostly use my power armor; but I usually wear a mechanic outfit and goggles underneath; and have a dirty suit/hat/glasses for my CHA gear when I go shopping =P I think the mechanic outfit along with the welding goggles is very "I do Power Armor" look. =P