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Starbug (Banned) Dec 16, 2015 @ 7:13am

Why don't you start in a vault?

The much preferred, traditional Fallout opening that was reinstated in Fallout 4.

Why was this omitted from this game? What were the developers thinking?

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Tomdroid

Dec 16, 2015 @ 7:18am

Well, i wouldn't say traditional. Fallout 2 didnt have you start out in one. And, storywise, it wouldn't make much sense.

Vassago Rain has Fallout: New Vegas

Dec 16, 2015 @ 7:19am

Because you're not a vault dweller, and the vaults ceased to be of relevance some 100-150 years prior to NV. Even the faction that could potentially control them (the enclave) is long since gone.

Starbug (Banned) Dec 16, 2015 @ 7:20am

Originally posted by Tomdroid:
Well, i wouldn't say traditional. Fallout 2 didnt have you start out in one. And, storywise, it wouldn't make much sense.

Vault Dweller leaves his hole to save / damn the world. That would have worked.

Vassago Rain has Fallout: New Vegas

Dec 16, 2015 @ 7:21am

Originally posted by Tomdroid:
Well, i wouldn't say traditional. Fallout 2 didnt have you start out in one. And, storywise, it wouldn't make much sense.

Neither does tactics, or that console one.

The only games that start you in vaults are 1, 3, and 4. It's debetable that the F4 cryosleep facility qualifies as an actual vault, and the plot twist of 3 is that you were never actually a vault dweller. It was just a ruse. So only one guy came from a vault, and actually was a vault dweller.

Ladez

Dec 16, 2015 @ 7:26am

Because vaults are insignificant at this point in the universe. People have abandoned them. And it's hardly a traditional opening when it's been used in one out of two Fallout games before this one.

Delta 1038 has Fallout: New Vegas

Dec 16, 2015 @ 8:21am

I would argue that it's iconic but it's not traditional. It's just not in the story, nothing much to it.

The Police has Fallout: New Vegas

Dec 16, 2015 @ 8:37am

Originally posted by Starbug:
The much preferred, traditional Fallout opening that was reinstated in Fallout 4.

Why was this omitted from this game? What were the developers thinking?

you didn't start off in a vault in FO 2, FONV, and Fallout 4, what were you thinking when you made this post?

Starbug (Banned) Dec 16, 2015 @ 9:15am

Originally posted by the police:
what were you thinking when you made this post?

That Fallout games that start off in a vault are better.

Tomdroid

Dec 16, 2015 @ 9:19am

Originally posted by Starbug:
Originally posted by the police:
what were you thinking when you made this post?

That Fallout games that start off in a vault are better.

Thats purely an opinion.

Last edited by Tomdroid; Dec 16, 2015 @ 9:33am

hghwolf

Dec 16, 2015 @ 10:06am

Sigh...

No Fallout games start in vaults.

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Starbug (Banned) Dec 16, 2015 @ 10:15am

Originally posted by Tomdroid:
Thats purely an opinion.

That's exactly my thinking too.

Originally posted by hghwolf, making statistics:
Sigh...

No Fallout games start in vaults.

You mean no "true" Fallout games? If so, I'd imagine that was open to interpretation.

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Tomdroid

Dec 16, 2015 @ 10:17am

Yeah, even if you DO consider only the "true" fallout games to be canon, fallout 1 starts in a vault.

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hghwolf

Dec 16, 2015 @ 10:21am

Originally posted by Tomdroid:
Yeah, even if you DO consider only the "true" fallout games to be canon, fallout 1 starts in a vault.

Well no. It starts just outside of a vault.

Originally posted by Starbug:
You mean no "true" Fallout games? If so, I'd imagine that was open to interpretation.

It really isn`t. Fallout 1 sets the gold standard for "what is a Fallout game", being the first one. Noone could possibly argue that FO3 is in any significant way similar to FO1.

Last edited by hghwolf; Dec 16, 2015 @ 10:23am

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