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Post by SwobyJ on Apr 26, 2024 19:11:15 GMT
Anyone else disturbed by the implication that there isn't any way forward in the setting? Looks like there's no way to make progress; anything you preserve or build is just going to get blown up sooner or later. In the grand timeline after the 1990s games, its not like nothing progresses - it does. But to me, there's the constant feeling that this will take at least centuries further, likely beyond any consideration of your lineage, and it won't end up anything quite like any single faction expects to accomplish. Like The Walking Dead I suppose, there will be groups, communities, regions, and nations that can still grow in the Fallout setting now and into the future. There's at least the potential of individuals to live out a full, relatively peaceful life. And there's the potential to create that future for more people. Even if a settlement/vault/nation that you save as a protagonist, ends up being 'blown up' decades or a century later, that's still some happier lives that may spread their more peaceful influence down the line. I believe that's why they included that community later in the season, and its one that plays the 'Fallout theme' the most clearly. Fallout 76 takes place MUCH earlier in the timeline, decades before the first game even, but if we include it in the worldbuilding, then even if whatever happens in this setting ends up 'failing', it'll still end up canonically providing the pieces for something perhaps more wide and sustainable in say a FO5 or later seasons of FO show etc. But again, it takes centuries, and narratively, probably ought to include a lot of lessons to their society of what not to do with war afterward. But its a bit like Elder Scrolls - presumably its about the Elder Scrolls and I think the scrolls play a role in every game and the vague overarching story, but .... but.... the series will never REALLY get to some big 'end point' of a climax and conclusion to the whole matter. Fallout will never get peaceful. Like it'll go outright multiverse and we'll have quests or an expansion in an alternate peaceful world even, before we'd ever have a widely peaceful main world Fallout setting.
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Post by Walter Black on May 4, 2024 17:27:26 GMT
Anyone else disturbed by the implication that there isn't any way forward in the setting? Looks like there's no way to make progress; anything you preserve or build is just going to get blown up sooner or later. Unfortunately, that's pretty much the norm with franchise storytelling. Most companies are unwilling to take that kind of risk with their brands, prefering endless reboots. Even when the tale does move forward with new characters, it's often a rehash of the past, like Disney Star Wars. We fans are equally guilty, wanting clear cut expectations of what we think a particular story should represent. Just look at the opposition to Thedas experiencing any kind of industrial revolution on this board alone.
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Post by AnDromedary on May 6, 2024 14:28:03 GMT
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on May 6, 2024 19:24:44 GMT
They need to at some point have Lucy imagine a scenario happening then cut back to right when she began imaging it. It would be an awesome way to reference this.
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