Yeah, that was my first choice. Could literally be making the most difference in the Wasteland but they decide to be a bunch of isolationist fuckwads instead.
Yeah it’s suffering what happens with a lot of IPs once the actual creative force that made the thing popular in the first place is out of the picture. There’s no clear, creative vision on where to go with it so you get a churn of content that either is stuck in the same time period or prequels. It ends up turning into a checklist of stuff you have to include with each iteration. Gotta put the Super Mutants and the BoS in FO76 even it doesn’t make sense in the lore because THAT’S Fallout.
You see the same thing with Star Trek and Star Wars - Trek is stuck in the TNG timeline and Wars is stuck in the Skywalker era. Even the good slop like Andor is still wedded to the original trilogy.
And it’s such a shame! Fallout is such an interesting, fun, setting. Exploring how society might redevelop is a big part of what makes it so great; the near-complete shift from Fallout 1 to Fallout 2, the NCR growing from a town into a nation and the development of Caesar’s Legion between Fallout 2 and New Vegas. Having BoS, Enclave, and Super Mutants as a major force in every game diminishes that so much.
The Brotherhood of Steel.
Bethesda won’t let them die and do anything else with the series ⚙️
At least New Vegas tried to sort of give them a phasing out.
But yes, I agree. I really hate how 3 tried to turn them into generic good guys.
Yeah, that was my first choice. Could literally be making the most difference in the Wasteland but they decide to be a bunch of isolationist fuckwads instead.
Yeah it’s suffering what happens with a lot of IPs once the actual creative force that made the thing popular in the first place is out of the picture. There’s no clear, creative vision on where to go with it so you get a churn of content that either is stuck in the same time period or prequels. It ends up turning into a checklist of stuff you have to include with each iteration. Gotta put the Super Mutants and the BoS in FO76 even it doesn’t make sense in the lore because THAT’S Fallout.
You see the same thing with Star Trek and Star Wars - Trek is stuck in the TNG timeline and Wars is stuck in the Skywalker era. Even the good slop like Andor is still wedded to the original trilogy.
And it’s such a shame! Fallout is such an interesting, fun, setting. Exploring how society might redevelop is a big part of what makes it so great; the near-complete shift from Fallout 1 to Fallout 2, the NCR growing from a town into a nation and the development of Caesar’s Legion between Fallout 2 and New Vegas. Having BoS, Enclave, and Super Mutants as a major force in every game diminishes that so much.
The people who made fallout made wasteland and the sequels right? And they have that clockwork revolution game coming out too that looks pretty sick