NOTE: Using certain commands, such as tgm (God mode) will temporarily disable your ability to earn achievements (though there are mods available that work around this). It will open on the main menu, pause menu, and in-game, but not during loading screens. The console can be accessed by pressing ~ on your keyboard. Naturally, the console has plenty of illegitimate uses as well, such as giving yourself infinite health and ammo, spawning weapons/armor/aid/money, skipping quests. The console can be used to do a plethora of actions, notably to fix broken/bugged quests and case-by-case situations that are frequent in the Fallout/Elder Scrolls games (eg. The console used in BethSoft games (such as Fallout 3, New Vegas, the Elder Scrolls series) is an in-game debugging tool that can also be used as a cheating tool.
