“TV Town”

This is literally the first I've ever heard of it.

 

I remember reading about this. I didn’t realize it was going to be central to the plot though. Seems like it was scrapped along with the plot about going to the moon or something.

 

Wasn't going to the moon in Van Buren? Or was that a space station?

 

Space Station, B.O.M.B.-01 if I'm not mistaken.

 

Wouldn't TV Town have actual Androids? Its actually kinda funny that FO2 had the idea of adding Androids one decade before FO3 and the first synth.

 

I'm glad they didn't.
If a super computer has to be the size of ZAX then there is no way that they'd fit the processing power of human complexity inside of a humanoid cast.

 

I don’t think these androids would’ve been “intelligent”, just pre-programmed with the personalities of TV characters.

 

Skynet shows you can do it, you just need to go full Wetware AI.
Also they could have been Replicant-style synths, like the ones in FO4. These are essentially printed humans with some cybernetics on their heads.

 

Skynet's an alien ai tho, right?
Also Fallout 4 isn't canon. :v

 

Has alien tech. But I don't think a cybernetic brain like that would be beyond the Earthly technology of the Fallout universe. Just on the top of the tech tree.

I think more traditional "Androids", which are human-shaped robots with a synthflesh covering (or even no covering), would be interesting.
Would actually make more thematic sense within Fallout than the NotReplicants of FO4.

I wonder if this is why Bethesda went from "Androids" in FO3 to the terms "Synths" in FO4 - to make the Synths more distinctive from run of the mill human-shaped bots.

 

I hated it when I had androids. My arsehole would itch like crazy and make me squirm.

 

What were you doing with your androids?

 

I took my doctors advice. I stopped scratching them and applied the cream twice daily. After a week or so the androids went away.

 

Never heard of it.

 

Sounds like something someone made up recently.

 

As recent as April 1st maybe.

 

So apparently this is literally a very early draft that was mentioned in passing on a paragraph of the Fallout Bible and it never went beyond an idea on a storming session at the very begining. Probably with good reason, it would've been a dumb idea.

 

Is there any point to the bible at this point?

 

Insight into the development of Fallout 2 and, to a lesser extent, Fallout 1.