If Obsidian or former BIS writers wrote Fallout 3's story?

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Sn1p3r187

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Let's say it takes place in the same old Capital Wasteland we all love and hate with a passion. How would Obsidian or BIS go about re-writing the story of Fallout 3 to make actual sense and reflect upon what was done in Fallout 1 and 2 without going about reusing the two games stories for Fallout 3's story? And maybe even actually include a great deal of moral dilemma that was present in the previous Fallout and New Vegas?
 
Knowing Chris Avellone?
He's an existential sorta guy.

Falls-from-Grace is a succubi who remains chaste and instead prefers intellectual and social intimacy to physical intimacy, her name being symbolic of the traumatic divorce from the natural state of succubi. She's an intellectual prostitute. Chaste and Victorian and thoroughly ironic.

As with Joshua Graham, Kreia, Ulysses and Veronica, their break with the conventionality and the "party-line" is always traumatic. The same with Marcus and the Enclave Remnants, who had to watch their ideologies fade into obsolescence, no matter how important their movements seemed to be at the time. They were beaten and broken and made less naive.

The Think Tank are stuck in their past without any real comprehension of it, stuck in a never-ending and Kafka-esque cycle of habit.

I expect that Lonesome Road and Old World Blues was a lot of what Avellone would've made Fallout 3 in tone, if he could.
People would emulate and idolize Old World America, without any real comprehension of it. Stupidly and reflexively. The capital is a place of powerful symbols that still leaves its legacy on the present. Like a malignant ghost people can't quite ignore.
The more thoughtful characters would know, by personal trauma or some mad wisdom, that this is self-defeating.

"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Not suitable as a party member.-- Whoever thinks much is not suitable as a party member: he soon thinks himself right out of the party."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
 
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I think DVL probably got it right, there are probably people who have a deep reverence about the past (probably a lot of them being Vault Dwellers who during their isolation were taught during their formative years about how great the USA was before the evil Chinese started the nuclear war to destroy it in order to eliminate freedom) including its culture/ideology/customs, and want to recreate that.
And then there are people who basically want to move on because they either don't remember the past, or only know about it from items such as books or holotapes that are still readable but see no point in trying to emulate it. "The old world was incapable of dealing with its own problems so why should we try to become like them again?

Needs and dangers of course also would shape local society and politics, I wonder if democracy would actually work in a world suffering a lot of scarcity.
And with all the dangers out in the wasteland a militaristic or feudal society/settlement would probably be a lot more common, situations in which often the most powerful reap the most benefits and see any change as a possible threat to their rule.

I hope they would have at least done what we fans would expect of a Fallout version of Washington DC, turning most of the capital into a collection of radioactive glass craters.
 
The Dutch Ghost said:
I hope they would have at least done what we fans would expect of a Fallout version of Washington DC, turning most of the capital into a collection of radioactive glass craters.
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While there would be more than a few glass craters, a majority of the explosions from nuclear weapons would be an air-burst to maximize casualties. Ground bursts soak up too much of the blast. I suppose knowing that is why I didn't mind the landscape of the Capitol Wasteland as much as other people did.

I would have loved to have seen the BoS make a move towards becoming the new Enclave. The story would revolve around absolute power corrupting absolutely. It makes sense that their ideology becomes twisted more as they make their way East, losing their original motives. The NCR, a huge power in the West, have no real presence in the East and cannot stop the BoS. The BoS claim the former United States as their own, proclaim themselves the supreme power in the New United States and hilarity ensues. ;)
 
I think we would have gotten a new military faction that came about similar to the Desert Rangers in Wasteland as opposed to the BOS and a more established American government lineage coming from descendants of rank and file politicians that survived the initial blast. Basically Battlestar Galactica in DC.
 
I would totally be on board with a brand new faction! I also loved in BSG that Roslyn was the 45th or something in line of succession to the presidency and then BAM she's the new president.
 
I think it should have been all complete new factions, with the only reference to the West Coast be perhaps stories or rumors and the occasional Super Mutant migrant.
 
I would expect that a lot more realistic factors would have been present, such as people coming up with ways to survive harsh winters. Let people try to live in those trash made hole ridden shacks then. Radiation shouldn't be a problem with their water, but the fact it is salt water. high ground settlements cause of flooding, or workarounds.
 
I think if they wanted it to be more realistic they'd have a hell of a lot more settlements settling in and around D.C to show progress. And I think the Washington monument wouldn't be standing either.
 
I like the idea there being all these small settlements surrounding the Washington DC craters, and perhaps a few on the spots that are not as affected by radiation than most of what used to be the government center.
The inner settlements would have been towns which economies are driven by salvage while the settlements on the edge of the city produce food and water. There would be an active trade between the two going on.

Places like Capitol Hill would be full of claim jumpers competing with each other.
 
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