Fallout Lore | Minutemen vs institute? |
- Minutemen vs institute?
- Ghoul differences between games
- What exactly is a tribe in Fallout lore?
- The ACTUAL divergence
- Why is Boston so funky looking?
- Why is the strip so, green?
- I finnally understand Ceasars legions motivations
| Posted: 12 Aug 2020 05:00 PM PDT So I randomly was watching a fo4 playthrough and Desdemona said "and there's only one army that ever beat the institute: the minutemen". This was obviously before the end of the game. Can someone explain to me how the minutemen beat the institute at any point at all? I know the minutemen used to be stronger but still [link] [comments] |
| Ghoul differences between games Posted: 12 Aug 2020 04:39 PM PDT Title. Why are ghouls (both feral and non-feral) so different between the games, specifically 3/NV and 4/76. I understand maybe Bethesda wanted to change the design like they do with a lot of things, but is there a lore reason behind it? Google "Fallout 3 Ghoul" and "Fallout 4 Ghoul" and compare the two. What gives? edit: I don't mean behaviorally, but more so visually. Check this out to see what I mean. [link] [comments] |
| What exactly is a tribe in Fallout lore? Posted: 12 Aug 2020 07:05 AM PDT This has always been unclear to me. The word "tribe" has a very wide, unclear definition as is, and the way Fallout universe uses it makes me even more blurry. I suppose the default idea of a "tribe" that people have are hunter-gatherer groups in the likes of those that live in Zion. Nomadic and not a part of wider "civilization" (I really hate to put it like this, but that's how Fallout frames them). There's also the whole Sneering Imperialist perk where you have some speech options that are, well, implying of what I already said: tribals as uncivilized, primal groups. But then we hear of New Vegas tribes that transformed into families running casinos or even the Kings (I think I remember right that the King was a tribal?) which seem pretty "civilized." Perhaps I'm generalizing it because as I said, this is a complex subject and the fact that you wear a suit and run a casino or whatever doesn't exactly make you civilized (depending on the definition), but there's definitely a difference between them and, let's say, the White Legs. Then again, a tribe might be classified as a civilization, so y'know. You could call everything a tribe. The question is then how does Fallout classify tribes and tribals since they're clearly a separate group in-universe? Do they classify them based on kinship? Language? Ethnicity? Culture? Tradition? And why does the universe draw this distinction between tribals and non-tribals? If you think of it, any group that survived the apocalypse and formed a small society could be called a tribe yet that's not the case in-universe. You don't hear people calling the Enclave or BoS a tribe where they could as well be "tribals" based on the fact that "tribe" has such a wide definition. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 12 Aug 2020 07:42 PM PDT People seem to think than the divergence of the fallout timeline happened around the Korean War but I think it happened centuries earlier with the introduction of aliens to the earth. We know from mothership zeta that the aliens have been taking people since there were samurai running around but people insist that the divergence happened after WWII. It's very possible that the timeline was mostly the same as ours until after world war 2 but that doesn't mean that's when the divergence happened, I think that the dominoes that led to the post WWII divergence were not started after WWII, but were started when alien interference messed up the worlds timeline. They may have made minuscule changes to the past but those minuscule changes manifested themselves after WWII [link] [comments] |
| Why is Boston so funky looking? Posted: 12 Aug 2020 05:32 PM PDT I recently replayed all of the 3D Fallouts and while FO3 and FNV have the clear markings of the famous Fallouty retro-futurism, the architecture by large looks like it does in our world. Maybe it's not as visible in the Mojave (because the only big city we see is New Vegas) but Capital Wasteland's architecture (especially in the downtown D.C.) just looks like what we would see in real life. I'd say the ratio of regular architecture to funky stuff is 80:20. But Boston's architecture is just... outlandish? It's very colorful and the shapes are all off which gives it a bit of a cartoonish look I guess. Is this an artistic choice by Bethesda or is there a lore explanation on why Boston looks like this? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 12 Aug 2020 06:02 PM PDT I know that the strip was saved by house but the radiation from the glow and warheads that got through still wrecked the place where did they get all of those plants? [link] [comments] |
| I finnally understand Ceasars legions motivations Posted: 12 Aug 2020 08:57 AM PDT For the longest time playing the game I assumed ceasars legion was just an archetypal villain . But upon much closer inspection I think I finnanly understand them. Ceasar isn't building a state out settled farmers like the NCR is. He is building a single monolithic empire out of the savage tribes around him. Yes his methods are savage also, by anyone's estimation, but what I overlooked is how harsh the environment he lives in is, the desert after a post apocalypse. Perhaps their is some sense in the idea that "desperate times require desperate measures" The NCR pretty much has slavery in their practice of share croppers, bounded to the land of Brahman farmers, so they don't have much moral highground over ceasar. And when you look at the products of ceasars work, they are effective. No raider tribe will ever attack any caravan or settlement bearing the banner of ceasar, becuase they understand the retribution will be swift and brutal. Whether you approve of his methods or not, he has taken 86 tribes living in near stone age conditions, and formed a nation, an economy, a culture, a peaceful existence for its members. Something which the ends may just justify when the alternative is multigenerational tribal warfare and no societal progress. Personally I would still rather live under the NCR. But I have a new found respect for the motives of the legion [link] [comments] |
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