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They don't care about the theme. They care about ease of conveyance; the easy elevator pitch. IE. It's easier to have it be the future obsessed with the past, than to have it be the future as anticipated by the past, whose very physical laws are bent to the populace' fear and misunderstandings...

Indeed. It was 2077; though it could easily have been a typo.

The intro to Fallout [1] was entirely pre-war—and was the last mention of it in the game, but NPCs do recount pre-war memories in Fallout 1 & 2. Memories (in TV format) are usually flashbacks. I'd certainly not expect (or want) an obligatory flashback in every episode, but I'd not want the...

That usually implies someone remembering it... That's the perfect use for it, also to add contextual details, like an ancient memory that proves useful in their current situation—less implausible that a pure plot contrivance.

I can agree to everything but this. The Ghouls in Fallout are the only ones who remember the pre-war era first hand¹ —they are effectively the Fallout setting's anti-elves; immortal, stiff, slow, and ugly. They are really the only way to show pre-war scenes, aside from holo-tapes. ¹:At least...

Except that it was known about in Fallout 2, and should probably not have been copied into a later series title—or kept once the former event was learned about.

What's not obvious is that not everyone knows what 8.3 filenames are, or that they were ever necessary. In today's world, you can mention having a tape collection, and odds are that the other person assumes it's rolls of adhesive tape; no idea what a tape collection is; some have no concept of...

It's a repeat from Fallout 2; in Broken Hills there is a treasure buried long ago, by Typhon the ghoul—it's bottle caps; it's worthless by that time. The region having shifted to Dollars.

At what point (post war) was he not evil? Being amicable to someone (when they are useful) is not evidence of goodness; it's pragmatism.

Cooper is temporally split between post and pre-war; a man of two extremes, and foreshadowed by Wilzig's comment about still being/wanting the same after adapting to the new state of the world; becoming entirely different. Everyone else has a good and a nasty side to them.

Fallout (1) is a must. Fallout 2 is a maybe; everything else is hard pass.

I think that they went a little heavy handed with having every character be morally gray and ambiguous; almost as if it was a policy for the script writers.

I disagree. IMO [:smug:] the opinion from anyone who was a part of something has more weight on that subject than an observer after the fact. For sake of argument, only those men and women of the Moon mission (both capsule and ground crew) have the opinions that matter; among them at the top...

The principle reason that Fallout chugs along even today, is the overhead of loading all of those sprites; not just the characters, but the ground, roofs and interiors... not to mention that NPCs are limited to what sprites of them exist. Even a 3D remaster on the level of Temple or Arcanum...

It would be ironic to have the re-master done with the Unity engine.

I did a concept of that in FO3: Sesom's was an actual map level with the overland map on the ground, where the [thousand foot tall] PC would walk from tile to tile before returning to the regular game view.

Which is it then? Did he mean FO3+, or did he include Fallout and Fallout 2? Todd Howard has often backhanded the fans of the original Fallout games. If he meant FO3&4... then I am probably mistaking his intent, but I certainly read it as equivalent to, "You actually played Fallout!? :shock:".

That's a backhanded slap at the IP—again; unless he meant only the Bethesda sequels...which is sadly worse IMO.

The problem is that these companies (Bethesda & Amazon) want to strip mine an established IP for markets that are unlikely to appreciate the material. They then alter that material to the point of near unrecognizability, and in some cases utter contradiction of premise. It's like reformulating...