I know in Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas, the character can use a knife or a sword to fight the enemy, but I wouldn't mind having a bow. I know in New Vegas a silencer can be used for your sniper rilfe, but I would like to sneak around using a bow. Customize the arrow to have an exploding tip like in the movie Rambo 2
Yep, they should included bow and crossbow gameplay into post-apocalyptia. You are in a large crowd of those recommending. I've seen this request here, on Bethsoft forums and elsewhere. I would also like to see dual wielding with pistols or pistol with one-handed melee. Probably would be an issue with VATS, but then again if the game read you dual wielding, I don't think it would be all that difficult to make the mechanic switch between hands/weapons.
I would also love to have a bow in the game, with custom arrows. I think it makes sense from a post-apocalyptic standpoint, not sure if it fits Fallout lore though. Bethesda are also quite competent on bow gameplay, it was great in both Oblivion and Skyrim.
They definitely have the chops to do it...the whole slow time perk in Skyrim worked great as an assist if one needed it. Crossbows would be a logical addition for sneak-types, and they proved they could do it in Dawnguard, which was added on top of vanilla Skyrim. Speaking of which, if they aren't going to include functioning vehicles, why not add horses to FO? Yet another add-on on top of vanilla Skyrim. Are they all dead? Mutated into some horrible abomination? Hell, I'd ride a two-headed horse if it meant me cutting some time running over miles and miles of open terrain!