They really need to cool it, not everyone gives a [censored]. The Lincoln outfit was a fun easter egg but this whole minutemen/hancock really feels out of place. Is every American city just a collection of civil war museums? It made sense for the capital since Washington has nothing of interest but ffs. Even the robots have an anachronistic boat.

Dude. There is a ton of historical sites in Boston IRL. If you don't like it....than play a different game. Besides. Boston has a lot of history with the revolutionary war....Minutemen....Boston tea party.....Siege of Boston.

where are you from?

What is with all this sand in New Vegas, I mean really! Enough with the damn desert theme in New Vegas! Why all the cacti?

I don't recall seeing any Civil War museums in FO4.

I think he mistook the Museum of Freedom for civil war.... where you start out in the beginning. Thing is....it has things with World War 2 and red coat mannequin's from the Revolutionary War. Nothing to do with the Civil War.

Person who hates America plays a game made by an American game company. Feels offended.

News at 11.

Keep in mind that the United Stated in the Fallout World was extremely focused on American Superiority and hyper-patriotic. It makes sense that major historical sites would be a major focus of the pre-war culture.

I'm not American, but for one thing I love learning about actual history (he, who they calleth reader of all the plaques); as much as I love to chuckle about the Fallout-typical fake history.

Speaking of Fallout-typical: The borderline cynical portrayal of the pre-war US is so embedded within the formula, I dare say it's practically part of the franchise's art design at this point. A Fallout without 1950s Americana style simply isn't Fallout - that also means exploring real history at times, too.

And the game takes place in America in an area that has a deep history with the American Revolution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolution

Fallout 4 is in America, what were you expecting? African history?

These parallels between future and past makes great setting for this type of game and it newer hurts if player actually manages to learn something out of game he is playing.

It's Boston.

You cannot walk down the streets today without being enveloped in it's history. It wouldn't be Boston, otherwise.

Boston is one of the most historical places in America. That's like complaining about too many slot machines in Las Vegas.

Also one of themes of the series is war never changing and history repeating it's self.

It's almost like Fallout is set in America.

Yeah, it's Boston. It's kind of a historical city. Because a lot of American Revolutionary events happened there. I can understand why they took certain approaches.


Although I may question the need for there to be a faction based on an actual historical one just because the setting, especially since that faction turned out as dull as a rock. I only hope if a game takes place in the southeast they don't also feel inclined to "DURH THERE NEEDS TO BE A CONFEDERATE FACTION BECAUSE THERE NEEDS TO BE".

An American developer making an American game set in America in 1950s' making fun of American culture taking place in an apocalypse world in Boston... you guess it, America. It's like saying why Japanese games are so Japanese.

On a serious note, it's more about the location, Boston, is more of a historical place where many historical events happen. This is why a lot of quests also have historical references like the Battle at the Bunker Hills.

there were cacti in new vegas...?

uhm did it ever occur to you that one of the genres fallout belongs to is "alternative history"?

no alternative history without history....

(and no, i'm not american)

If this bugs you, then you would probably be annoyed with Bioshock Infinite, which has a fictional floating city that's based entirely on the Americana theme. More alternate history/universes, woo!

Though I won't deny that I am an American who can get annoyed with over-the-top Americana in games, TV shows, or movies, but it really depends on how it's done. I see Fallout 4's world as being in such a distraught state that Boston reverted back to some aspects of the old days. The Minutemen do make sense in this post-apocalyptic world, even if the way Bethesda implemented them (go help this settlement...again! And again! lol) could have been better.

I feel your pain, and am overjoyed and tickled pink.

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Barrel_cactus_fruit

Must remind the OP of school or something.

I love the history themes in FO3 and FO4.

That said, I hope the next one is in Florida. I mean, it's nearly Fallout there now, so converting it over would be pretty easy.

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same here from a european. i'm cool with americana, as long as it's justified by the story

(the only thing that sometimes strikes me rather odd is a certain us-specific type of patriotism pathos. bos-style, if you will