is fallout 4 a sequel?

[MrBaconChops]

is fallout 4 a sequel to the previous game?
and is fallout 76 a sequel to 4?

[Lady Aeleanor]

No. Each Fallout was at a different time period, and featuring a different main character. Just as Skyrim wasn't a sequel to Oblivion and Oblivion wasn't a sequel to Morrowind.

[MrBaconChops]

none of those games are sequels to anything?

[RadDog]

It is more like iterations of the same event, the end of the world and how to rebuild. Fallout 1 and 2 were in western US when there were things called GECKs (garden of eden creation kits) and were top down point and clicks. FO3 was in DC and you know 4. Each one has given the player more and more to see and do and has come a long way since the 1990's. So no, not really sequels.

[Lady Aeleanor]

Originally posted by MrBaconChops:

none of those games are sequels to anything?

No. There are common factions, like the BoS, and common enemies - but the only thing they have in common is that most main characters came from a vault, and the games take place in different states in the US.

[Playzr 🐵]

I would take it as a sequel, yes. But I may be less finicky about the pure definition of a sequel than you. Some would say it requires a continuation of the same story that takes place after and involves the same characters. Well it does take place after Fallout 3 and refers to the lone wanderer in places. And it has an increment of the number in the title. So yes. This is a sequel.

[Trehek]

A movie equivalent: the Predator series. Each movie carries a common theme and takes place in the same world, but the movies take place in different times and places, and each has a different main cast. Fallout is like that.

The common theme is that there was an alternate history timeline which led to advanced nuclear technology and a huge nuclear world war sparked by a big conflict between the US and China. The world's been destroyed, and each game has you play a character who emerges into the world, usually from one of many sealed underground fallout shelters, knowing nothing of what's going on outside. The first two games take place in the US west coast, about a generation apart. Fallout 3 took place in the Washington DC area, completely cut off from the events of the west coast, and Fallout 4 takes place in Boston, after the events of Fallout 3 and with some event influence. There's also Fallout: New Vegas and The Brotherhood of Steel, which break from the theme more or less but are also self-contained stories within the Fallout world.

[Zekiran]

Technically yes, Fallout 4 as it takes place only 10 years after Fallout 3, has canon elements retained from the end of 3 in it with specific characters having done or not done certain things.

But they're not direct sequels, and only loosely connected most of the time.

[MrBaconChops]

thx

[GoreTiger]

Fallout 4 could be considered a sequel to fallout 3, considering alot of characters from 3 are in 4, Along with us seeing the results of events from 3 in 4.
They are more closely tied together then New Vegas, Where the events of 3 are barely mentioned and that's it.

[UwU Owne]

Originally posted by MrBaconChops:

is fallout 4 a sequel to the previous game?
and is fallout 76 a sequel to 4?

none of the fallout games are tied together by characters or story they are only tied together by the country they take place in
Fallout 4 (2015) - 2287 (the whole intro up in
till your frozen in the vault)
Fallout 76 - 2102
Fallout (1997) - 2161
Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood Of Steel (2001) - 2197-2198
Fallout 2 (1998) - 2241
Fallout 3 (2008) - 2277
Fallout: New Vegas (2010) - 2281
Fallout 4 (2015) - 2287

[Zekiran]

Originally posted by UwU Owne:

none of the fallout games are tied together by characters or story they are only tied together by the country they take place in

Madison Li
the specific Brotherhood questline thereof

Siera Petrovita(?) the Nuka Cola collector supreme
Nuka World's Cappy quest and things there

Dr Zimmer
Institute synth retention and searching for his 'lost property' in DC

Maybe you should pay closer attention to the characters you're claiming don't have connections...

[Bored Peon]

Originally posted by Zekiran:

Originally posted by UwU Owne:

none of the fallout games are tied together by characters or story they are only tied together by the country they take place in

Madison Li
the specific Brotherhood questline thereof

Siera Petrovita(?) the Nuka Cola collector supreme
Nuka World's Cappy quest and things there

Dr Zimmer
Institute synth retention and searching for his 'lost property' in DC

Maybe you should pay closer attention to the characters you're claiming don't have connections...

You forgot MaCready and Arthur Maxson.

Kent Connolly from the Memory Den also has mentions in Fallout 76 in the Mistress of Mystery Mansion.

[Zekiran]

^^ yup them too, mcneedy and his horrible teeth *shudder* it's not like they had lots of sweets at their cavern home when he was little but jeez ...

[GoreTiger]

Originally posted by Zekiran:

Originally posted by UwU Owne:

none of the fallout games are tied together by characters or story they are only tied together by the country they take place in

Madison Li
the specific Brotherhood questline thereof

Siera Petrovita(?) the Nuka Cola collector supreme
Nuka World's Cappy quest and things there

Dr Zimmer
Institute synth retention and searching for his 'lost property' in DC

Maybe you should pay closer attention to the characters you're claiming don't have connections...

+1
Let's not forget also that both New Vegas and F4 make references to the events of f3. (more so F4), With multiple characters claiming to have taken part in the events of F3.

[Stone IV]

No, they aren't a sequel. Same world/universe and events, the nuclear fallout, but they all happened in different timelines.