It’s a normal sunny day in a Xeroxed house in a Xeroxed neighbourhood
Astaggering eight years ago, Fallout 4 was released. Its developer, Bethesda, made the swap back to the rusty post-apocalypse after having launched what would become one of the most influential open-world RPGs of all time, Skyrim, just three years before. In many ways, Fallout 4 is a sequel to both Skyrim and Fallout 3. It refines the expansive structure of the fantasy setting by rooting it in the familiar, real-world locations of the ruined American setting. And it begins before the bombs are dropped, in an intro sequence that whiffs an attempt to ground your character in its fascinating world.
You’re already awake and staring at the bathroom mirror in the first ten minutes of . This’s male protagonist and the husband of Nora, the female protagonist. You can sculpt their faces into whatever shape you’d like and then step out of the bathroom into a house so idyllic it would be invisible in ’s parody of 1950s suburban life in its Tranquility Lane mission.
