That story is more US patriotic (it's very clearly a game made in a different america), more family values oriented, more... well, more tons of stuff which doesn't appeal to an average Fallout fan. Probably does to a wider audience though.
Well, what is the most "patriotic" era/decade (decade being the more suitable word here) of American civilian life you can think of? Please don't say after 9-11. American's were prepared into invading Afghanistan in order to prepare them for the subsequent invasion of Iraq. I'm not saying the oval office were the ones behind 9-11, but I also know they wanted Iraq and Hussein real bad, and why not erase some of America's own historical bone-head fuck up's while you can at the same time? By this, I mean helping out Osama and the Mujahadeen (later taken the name of Al'Qaeda) in fighting the Soviet's in the 80's, and then that guy using the weapons we gave him to fight us. I mean if that doesn't look like stupidity in it's own essence I don't know what does. But DESPITE THAT, going back on task.
What was the most patriotic decade in the United States, besides after 9/11 (for reasons stated above), and besides after the American Revolution (since the Federal government started imposing taxes of their own on the states, which was the whole reason the states fought the revolution was to escape tyranny (taxes) imposed on them by King George and the British Parliament in order to pay for the War of 1812 (French-Indian War), a war the Americans not only didn't want, but fought and died in anyways). So in disregard to the two things I stated above, what is the most patriotic decade of American history. Well, kind of you to ask. It was the 50's. We had just won the World War, our troops (most of them anyways) were coming home, and we were able to prove American superiority and that we have a place in world affairs, instead of those in America who exercised the idea of American isolationism (an idea very popular in and before World War I, and before World War II and it's beginning years. Once the press started to produce all of that propaganda though (which was produced on levels which hadn't been seen since the Civil War), the isolationist idea slowly died down, and isolationists were slowly being called fascists. We've dealt with a lot in our short life-time, America's short life time I mean, not the members of NMA.
• Colonization of the America's
• Native American tribes attempting to starve out our first (British-American) settlement Jamestown which even led our colonists to cannibalism
• The British make us help them fight the French in the French-Indian war/War of 1812, something they still TO THIS DAY justify (no offense)
• fighting the British, a world superpower,
• fighting the Native-Americans (who as a half-Native ((Sioux tribe in case you wondered)) the US probably shouldn't have fought at all, but worked together)
• fighting eachother (the Union v.s. the Confederacy),
• fighting Trans-Atlantic Imperialism
• fighting ourselves again, this time in the political/diplomatic arena against whether we should be involved in Europe's affairs (fighting Isolationism which at the time many politicians were in agreement with)
• fighting European Expansionism-Imperialism-Superpowers, a little war known as The Great War or World War I ("double-ya double-ya one", as the old-timers from the baby-boomer era would say)
• AGAIN fighting European forced-expansion, this time in the form of Fascism
• Fighting Japanese Imperialism-Fascism in a Naval-Air war which was bigger than any man who ever lived on this Earth had ever seen (this is stacked with what I posted above me)
• A very short time of relative peace for our civilians, in the meantime the American-British allies were planning another possible war against the Soviets
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The American people are happy, and very patriotic (Fallout's essence) after the second World War and in light of our new technological gains
• A long battle against communism (real wars being: Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan)
• Communism falls (kinda) and we're in peace and all patriotic again
• Another long battle with terrorism
• Fighting the economy
• And finally we hit the modern-world
So, do you get what I mean? The 50's was one of the only real moments of American superiority and pure-patriotism. Not just Jack is a patriot but Sue isn't, but EVERYONE loved America. Even the Brits and French (who were still kind of holding a grudge for not stepping in sooner in World War I to save their country from being taken by the Germans, which we pulled the same shit in World-War II) were growing fond of us. NATO becomes a reality. The United Nations replaced the United League (which we refused to join after WWI). We are now actively working over BOTH seas in the affairs of others. Isolationism had been stomped on (for better or worse). But a new, maybe even bigger enemy was rising over the horizon. Communism and the possible threat of world-wide nuclear war. It can't even be called a war since it's more like a rock fight. The moment someone gets pegged in the head with a rock it's over, but not before that person pegs the other guy back. Both go home with a relatively bad headache, and deciding a rock-fight was a relatively bad idea to solve their problems.
I find it difficult to roleplay when the setting borders on outright parody.
