Someone lost their father. again.
He slipped into the wasteland, beyond the safety of the shelter. He left one place, was trapped in his own little time bubble, and walked into another place and—as with a lot of things we’ve encountered in Fallout over the past decade or so—it feels like it Basically fell into the same situation.
Even now, a full 219 years after the bombs dropped and the world burned, it’s still essentially a charred mess, sparsely dotted with the small scars of a struggling civilization, like one of its residents from 13 in 2161. Same as when the shelter appeared. Just like the capital city of 2277, the specter of apocalypse hangs over the city. Long before that Superman DIY nut thawed in 2287, there was that same sense of hopelessness around Boston that still exists today.
This is a Hobbesian nightmare. The wet dream of those who enjoy a dirty, brutal and short life. The reason for this is because – as Bethesda and Amazon, now under the former’s watch, keep telling us – “war, war never changes”.
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It’s certainly a catchy slogan, and to a certain extent, it’s true. People literally refused to go quietly into that wonderful night. They continually beat, scratch, scrape, scratch each other, arguing their arguments through acts of devastating cruelty and violence. But with Bethesda’s Fallout – for better or worse – looking and feeling like Amazon’s Fallout TV show to me, the way proceedings proceed is starting to feel a bit, well, the same .
There’s also the Brotherhood of Steel, who are as powerful, well-equipped, and connected to the entire wasteland as they were in Fallout 3 and 4. This was despite their isolationist tendencies and obsession with pursuing an often deeply conservative tinge of preservation of antebellum dogma. technology, rather than using it to help people. There’s also the Enclave, which despite being smashed to pieces and hunted like a dog after its failure in Fallout 2 and 3 has somehow been allowed to maintain the facility and conduct experiments as usual .
And then there are the residents of the Vault, some of whom are still trapped underground, mostly so they can enter the wasteland for the first time at their convenience and gaze upon a world that never stops, just like it will be after the dust settles in 2077 . The NCR appears in the show, but this version is portrayed as a pale shell of the power that dominated the region about a decade ago.
I’ll be honest. I don’t particularly care that a guy blew up Shady Sands, he was a Vault Overseer and former lackey for Vault Tech, he had to be incredibly knowledgeable and resourceful to find a way to wipe out an entire city. That he’s alone on the map means—or doesn’t mean—for the canon of the series. It’s a vague concept that doesn’t really matter unless you decide it does matter. It’s always changing and it always will. In fact, in erasing the progress of one of the groups that was actually trying to move the world of Fallout forward in an attempt to enhance an already interesting story, the story could have been told without something so cartoonish. Drastically, we ended up back at square one.
Perhaps the NCR’s wildland plan will lead to such disintegration and fragility so quickly, even at the heart of its California power base. Strangely, no one new has stepped up to fill the power vacuum. No one is busy researching new ways to reshape and redefine this wasteland. As the saying goes, everyone wants to rule the world, but few seem to be allowed to do anything other than survive.
All we have are people who vaguely want to return to the old world in some form, whether it’s the Brotherhood, the Enclave, or the damn militia, and groups that seem to lack a broader idea of how to rebuild society. The institute’s vision of redefining humanity is largely limited to building robots and turning on reactors so they can continue to live underground, with no guiding principles other than continuing to make gadgets meant only for humans. Help them do this. The Railroad exists only to fight back, determined to try and free those robots.
It feels a bit like they are both Ned Flanders’ parents. They tried few and had no new ideas. Therefore, the world they live in is like a mirror universe version of Mr. House’s Snowball. Even as time moves forward, everything remains essentially the way it was before the bombs dropped.
That’s not to say I’m looking forward to Amazon funding the first season of a TV show – the main goal has always been to present Fallout in a way suitable to appeal to a mass audience, many of whom enjoy watching Fallout. Introducing the series for the first time – and fundamentally changing Bethesda’s current course. This desire is childish and to a large extent foolish. I’m actually quite happy with the show, I found it entertaining for the most part, and it seems to have achieved its main goal of bringing a whole bunch of new people to this weird and wonderful thing we all love fan.
I’ll be interested to see what steps its creators decide to take with future series, now that they’ve got the initial hard parts out of the way and we’re on the road, with a series we can point out for newbies who don’t like being bogged down This is a good starting point. Hopefully it will – like I hope Fallout 5 will – build on the foundations of the world, rather than continuing to revert to the first act and play out a lot of the same type of story and a similar cast. .
To me, the best thing about Fallout is that it uses its unique world – freed from the established structures and strict hierarchies of real life – to show us things we’ve never seen before. Not just one person setting up settlements everywhere because they fancy themselves Bob the Builder of the post-nuclear era, but emerging civilizations with unique and different ideas about how our species should wander into the future, picking up the pieces. , aesthetics and vision. Broken world. And, in the process, sometimes these pieces are thrown at each other’s heads.
Because, to paraphrase Fallout 3’s introduction, while it’s true that “war never changes” and “the end of the world is just the prelude to another bloody chapter in human history,” it doesn’t mean people will stop Come up with new reasons to give away the war. Blood. After all, progress is hard, especially when a species that has recently reverted to the Stone Age really needs and wants to make radical progress without conflict. It’s not just about pressing a big button to turn on a water purifier, blow up a city, or fire up a cold fusion reactor and then everything will be fine.
The world has been set on fire, but it will take more to extinguish the fire of inspiration in the human heart. I just hope that, in Bethesda’s version of the series, the fire burns brighter in the future.
Even though our family may never be allowed to stop walking.
