Eumesmopo
Learned to love the bomb
In forethought, I think that two of the things we saw in the gameplay trailer for Fallout 4 could be considered 'plot holes'.
One thing is that the main character wakes up 200 years after the nuclear war and when he gets back to his old house his Mr.Handy is still active and functional, so this would mean that a robot was simply capable float around on his jetpack for 200 years without running out of fuel or batteries and without getting destroyed by the nuclear blast and subsequent radiation and electromagnetic pulses and without getting disabled and dismantled for spare parts by scavengers and without simply getting short circuited due to staying active for such a long time.
The other thing is that when the main character meets Dogmeat he immediatly acts totally friendly towards him despite him being a total stranger. When you look at the rest of the Fallout lore the post-apocalyptic world is painted as being a though place to survive in and people are almost never too picky about what they eat. In Fallout 1, there is a stand that sells iguana meat and even human meat. In Fallout 2, the entire plot revolves around saving your village from starvation and it is also established that the housecat became extinct due to people hunting it for meat after the war. In Fallout Tactics, the raider gang of Macomb started out with starving people raiding caravans to look for something to eat. In Fallout New Vegas, the denizens hunt rats and radroaches for meat and are highly dependent on the NCR for their nourishment. So, when you look at the rest of the Fallout lore, it becomes clear that a dog that acts as friendly towards strangers as the one we saw in the Fallout 4 trailer would very likely be killed and eaten. Even in real life most adult dogs aren't that friendly towards strangers. Dogs that survived the war would very likely be living in feral packs that are scared of, if not downright predatorial towards, humans and the ones that would remain domesticated would more likely be trained be aggressive towards everyone.
One thing is that the main character wakes up 200 years after the nuclear war and when he gets back to his old house his Mr.Handy is still active and functional, so this would mean that a robot was simply capable float around on his jetpack for 200 years without running out of fuel or batteries and without getting destroyed by the nuclear blast and subsequent radiation and electromagnetic pulses and without getting disabled and dismantled for spare parts by scavengers and without simply getting short circuited due to staying active for such a long time.
The other thing is that when the main character meets Dogmeat he immediatly acts totally friendly towards him despite him being a total stranger. When you look at the rest of the Fallout lore the post-apocalyptic world is painted as being a though place to survive in and people are almost never too picky about what they eat. In Fallout 1, there is a stand that sells iguana meat and even human meat. In Fallout 2, the entire plot revolves around saving your village from starvation and it is also established that the housecat became extinct due to people hunting it for meat after the war. In Fallout Tactics, the raider gang of Macomb started out with starving people raiding caravans to look for something to eat. In Fallout New Vegas, the denizens hunt rats and radroaches for meat and are highly dependent on the NCR for their nourishment. So, when you look at the rest of the Fallout lore, it becomes clear that a dog that acts as friendly towards strangers as the one we saw in the Fallout 4 trailer would very likely be killed and eaten. Even in real life most adult dogs aren't that friendly towards strangers. Dogs that survived the war would very likely be living in feral packs that are scared of, if not downright predatorial towards, humans and the ones that would remain domesticated would more likely be trained be aggressive towards everyone.
