But some people are either 'Memento' type thinkers, or, more importantly, going to want to use an existing NV character that they know and love to play through all of the Fallout 3 stories. Obviously most people (including myself) are going to want to start out in Vault 101 because we like our stories linear.
I dunno, I think I covered all of those issues with a very simple (probably too simple heh) backstory in my 'proof of concept' mod (and it's easy to change too). It is easy to implement a start menu, but hard to really bind the two wastelands together properly if you choose to start in NV. With the way everyone introduces themselves, it implies that the courier must have crawled out of V101, ignored the whole missing dad thing, and went west straight off. The quest Trouble on the Homefront can NEVER be done because the courier doesn't remember growing up in, or escaping from, V101, so doesn't remember Amata's name. Who is Dad and why are you suddenly looking for him. Three Dog refers to you as the kid from vault 101 repeatedly. If you start in NV and head to DC, there are a lot of plot holes to cover. Because they designed FNV in such a way that your backstory is yours to invent, this works perfectly.
The only plot holes in that scenario is that FO3 and FNV take place only 4 years apart and I, personally, got the sense that the courier spent longer than that in the Divide. The lone wanderer grows up in a vault, escapes, and then does stuff in DC, at some point he finds his way west spends some time in the Divide, accidentally blows it up, gets the platinum chip, shot in the head and forgets everything that happened between heading east and getting shot. From a design and storytelling perspective, starting in Vault 101 really is the easiest for us to incorporate.
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