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So this show is adding more to the overall series lore than I expected. I better understand why some fans of certain/earlier games are upset. Wondering why the New California Republic isn't a bigger presence in the show? Apparently some time shortly after [[Fallout: New Vegas]], that society went down in bombs as well. It's a bit of a punch in the gut for things like that to happen, but in several ways it makes sense for the series. It sidesteps the need to choose a canon ending for New Vegas by making it not have lasting effects. And for Fallout as an ongoing series it makes sense that it's stuck as a world of junk and radiation rather than having major ongoing successful society within the continental United States. Maximus doesn't even think of 2077 as the big war, since to him the end of the NCR was the end of society. | So this show is adding more to the overall series lore than I expected. I better understand why some fans of certain/earlier games are upset. Wondering why the New California Republic isn't a bigger presence in the show? Apparently some time shortly after [[Fallout: New Vegas]], that society went down in bombs as well. It's a bit of a punch in the gut for things like that to happen, but in several ways it makes sense for the series. It sidesteps the need to choose a canon ending for New Vegas by making it not have lasting effects. And for Fallout as an ongoing series it makes sense that it's stuck as a world of junk and radiation rather than having major ongoing successful society within the continental United States. Maximus doesn't even think of 2077 as the big war, since to him the end of the NCR was the end of society. | ||
So who bombed the NCR? Left vague intentionally so it could be one of several factions from New Vegas? Oooor we see the Brotherhood of Steel in the area in the immediate aftermath, and we know they're not above wiping out areas they deem too dangerous. Did Maximus accidentally go on to worship the people who took his world away? | |||
The Vault 33 stuff remains pretty interesting, too. As I've said before usually in games we deal with the Vault briefly and then move on with our lives, but here we see the people left behind slowly coming to learn how... staged things are in the way Vault-Tec set them up, with apparently all of 32's and 33's overseers being from 31; and the carnage of 32 being cleaned up before most residents of 33 could see it. It also recontextualizes Hank McLean as one of the "bad guys" or at least "manipulative forces", since he too was an immigrant from 31 who became overseer. | The Vault 33 stuff remains pretty interesting, too. As I've said before usually in games we deal with the Vault briefly and then move on with our lives, but here we see the people left behind slowly coming to learn how... staged things are in the way Vault-Tec set them up, with apparently all of 32's and 33's overseers being from 31; and the carnage of 32 being cleaned up before most residents of 33 could see it. It also recontextualizes Hank McLean as one of the "bad guys" or at least "manipulative forces", since he too was an immigrant from 31 who became overseer. | ||