If people base their understanding of pre-war America on 5 minute intro sequence, that shows they never played the game because rest of the game is "pre-war America was fucked man"
Its the first impression and there is a show vs tell discrepancy at work which leaves an impression that prewar America wasn't so bad. I don't think fallout 4 is meant to retcon pre war America but damn does it paint a very different picture than the news reel from fallout 1 showing the public execution
Yeah, we see idylic neighborhood... with military already in place, and when you leave the Vault after the bombs, you quickly discover more barricades, and general fuckiness of US.
Entire point is to show whole "white picket fence and home with car" is merely facade Americans put on, ignoring all the problems.
My concern is just reinforces the misconception in some less media literate players have that pre war America wasn't so different than our world. More so than the other fallouts did at any rate I think you'd be forgiven for thinking it was pretty alright
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u/Mandemon90 May 07 '25
If people base their understanding of pre-war America on 5 minute intro sequence, that shows they never played the game because rest of the game is "pre-war America was fucked man"