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BenRG:

--- Quote from: mikmaxs on 09 Jun 2015, 00:29 ---I'm pretty sure that the guy talking to the dog is a stand-in for the player's character, since they're wearing a vault jumpsuit (traditional starting garb, and something that a survivor who didn't make it in the vault wouldn't have,) and because a dog companion is another staple.

All Fallout games take place well over a century after the apocalypse. Even if the people on top survived, it wouldn't really be relevant.
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Read the beginning of my original post and you'll understand my reasoning.
(click to show/hide)There has been a leaked transcript of the Protagonist's dialogue on the internet for a few weeks now. In that, it's confirmed that the inhabitants of Vault-111 were put into suspended animation shortly after the bombs dropped and they did not awaken until some time after the Lone Wanderer's adventures in the Capitol Wastelands.

What appears to be the Protagonist's underlying angle is that he is a pre-war soldier with pre-war attitudes and values suddenly dumped into the mid-reconstruction post-war society. I suspect that they're going to play up the whole 'I was fighting in those suits before your great-grandparents were born' angle whenever he encounters Steel Legionnaires. Hence my use of the pseudonym 'The Old Soldier' for the Protagonist character.

Think of him as being a bit like Dylan Hunt in Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda: A knight of the Old Times suddenly dropped in the middle of a much more ethically and socially nuanced society. How he'll react to female soldiers or racial desegregation, given that pre-war society seemed socially similar to the 1950s in America, is anyone's guess!

Neko_Ali:
There are multiple problems with the assumption that the character is one of the people who was standing on top of the vault entrance when the bombs fell. Setting aside for the moment the idea that the character is a survivor from that time period who has been in suspended animation, there is no reason to think it's not one of the people who was already in the vault. It's certainly a possibility that the leaked script could be true... The technology exists. We saw the one vault in Fallout 3 where people were trapped in those VR pods for 200 years.

We have seen force fields plenty of times in Fallout, but they have a distinctive visible blue glow, always. We didn't see that in the trailer. And even then I've never seen evidence that force fields block radiation. So even if the people on top of the vault had been protected by the blast, they would have received a massive dose of radiation. Probably enough to be lethal or ghoulify them.

I also don't really see the idea that the trailer indicates we will see part of the game in a pre-war setting. The first part, with the dog walking through the house and it switched between time frames looked to me like it was a pre-rendered cut scene, along with the very last shot "Let's go pal." Probably it was made using in game assets as the base, but the movements look to smooth to me and to unique for in game animations. At a guess, I would say all of that will be part of the opening cut scene.

LeeC:
The leaked script seems to have a lot of holes in it.  I'd break it apart but I'm at work and maybe will when I get home.

I've been playing a new play through of FO3 what with getting a new computer.  This new play through has been really different from all my past ones.  I ran into some really random stuff and I am not that far into it. 

*I found a dead Chinese ghoul soldier in front of the Super-Duper Mart

*I was attacked by a heard of "Mad Brahmin" outside of Farragut West Metro station

*Near the greener pastures disposal site I was attacked by "the Roach King" and a squad of rad-roaches.  There was also a throne for him with a mini nuke in it.

*Giant rad-scorpions chasing un-named wastelander NPCs

*Ghoul Wastelanders near the Citadel trying to get to underworld but are afraid to pass the raiders I just murdered.

Neko_Ali:
Ah, the random encounters. I missed that in New Vegas. You could have some crazy things happen, like getting an alien blaster right near the start of the game.. Or one my favorites.. Getting jumped by Talon mercs who want to stop my do-gooder ways immediately after leaving the vault. Before anyone even knows about me, or I've been to Megaton.

Thrillho:
But New Vegas had Wild Wasteland!

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