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I feel like the exotic argument is a bit weird considering Fallout's flamethrower looks like this. It's a far cry from 3's generic M2 Flamethrower.
and the laser pistol is very much ergonomically a regular semi-auto pistol and the laser rifle is literally a sniper rifle with some wires.

as seen in >>3849021
Obsidian was already starting to want to ditch the Big Guns skill when making Van Buren. It wasn't necessary to keep in New Vegas because of Sawyer's listed reasons.