Could Fallout survive an urban transition?

[WelcomeToNewReno]

You might also like to read the podt that came immeadiatly after the one you quoted

 

[Little Robot]

Yes, no problem. They will probably be vatted and you can move on with your life...

I'm not making fun of you, btw-- I've gotten plenty of similar errors. But people have gotten strikes (basically what they sound like-- as in, three and you're out, but there are some people who have survived with more I think) for simple double-posts or triple-posts and you posted 7x! I know that it was an accident but it was pretty funny to see it.

Sort of like the guy who posted something about "I liked the Kings also..." who was the subject of much hilarity.

 

[Anarchosyn]

Fallout is like an exquisite European film which exists so much in a world of its own definition as to belie sequelization (think Brazil or Kieslowski's Trois couleurs: Bleu).

However, the damage was done back in the classic era. Granted, I enjoyed Fallout 2 and probably would have loved Van Buren. However, things have changed today and now that Fallout has proven to be a reliable revenue stream it won't stop..

Mark my words, it should have died with Fallout 2.

 

[Nalano]

I think you're already seeing it with New Vegas, and to some degree there was that in Fallout 2, although it still begs the question why nobody has bothered to clean up any of those old buildings. Bethesda largely brought the crapsack world back with Fallout 3 in the most illogical way imaginable, and frankly I don't know if they'd have the sense to ever progress from that point. For Bethesda, "ruined world" is basically Fallout in a nutshell.

I'm guessing nobody bothered to fix up those city buildings because such requires quite a lot of labor that could be more productively applied elsewhere.

Most buildings after fifty years of neglect - let alone two hundred - would require gutting and severe rehabilitation with new materials, assuming they're still standing, and that's not counting the damages from withstanding nuclear hellfire, looting, etc.

Furthermore, such labor would require a lot of skilled people, and after you've just nuked everything, the sheer number of people left is sorely limited.

It'd be a lot easier simply to build anew, because slapping together some adobe huts is a lot easier than fixing the brickwork of a large tenement.

And god knows what Bethesda was thinking for making it look like Day One after the apocalypse and saying it's been 200 years: America as we know it was built in 200 years!

 

[thegaresexperience]

I think a gunsling-esque scenario would be the best: A frontier-style world with remnants of the old world rotting away. Like it seems western with small farming villages using their own hand-built tools. But you'll also find relics such as a robot or instead of filling a bandit full of holes with your relvor, you disintegrate him with a plasma weapon you found in an ancient ruin.

Not only do I think thats awesome (being a huge DT fan), it's also logical, I can see, maybe not the whole world, but a settlement or two doing something like that [Fallout 3 or NV mod possibility?]