I was too busy looking at

-The actually transparent glass objects

-The actual lighting engine

-The actual weather effects

-The actual semi-dense foliage

To notice the buildings really, but now that you mention it..... yeah, they do look cool.

I think in one of those rumours they said that the people of The Institute pretty much saved the City of Boston by using their highly edvanced technology to create some sort of shield or defense system (like House did) to prevent most of those nukes ever landing on surface. House afteralll was from Boston, MIT aswell if you didn't know!

http://fallout.wikia...i/Robert_House?/a>

Due to his knowledge he gained at MIT he was able to "save" most parts of Vegas, so thats why there is no doubt that The scientists from the Institute sort of saved Boston aswell....mostly but definitely not entirely.

In those rumours/leaks/whatever they also say that Boston is pretty much controlled by forces of the Institute and the two main factions are going to be MIT and Androids (which MIT created). Androids get sort of treated like lesser beings and sort of wanna be free I guess from their ancestors.

We will see The institute as the big baddie who controls an entire city...or atleast parts of it. That is what the trailer sort of indicated in my opinion. You know...when that huge flying ship is flying over the city with it's search lights and stuff. Probably to spot out any Androids who may be not allowed to walk at the streets at night or something like that. Or maybe even to KoS them anyways.

I feel like we will see Androids getting treated like Jews in WW2 by the germans, something like that where the main story will fold around this plot.

Sorry for my bad english btw, already 3am and im feeling tired

Edit: If my post somehow turns out 100% correct please make me Mod admins

DC was hit though. DC is a ruin and there are almost no big buildings there, not that there are many to begin with in the first place. Some things on the mall are still intact, which is probably just a way to recognize the area in game. The White House is destroyed and you get radiation if you go too close. As for Pittsburgh they mention the rivers being very irradiated, so it wasn't directly hit. But it's a fairly small city in the real world. About 300k people, though there are a million in the county. There had to be some technology that made the missiles not hit their targets in many spots. At least that was the McGuffin in New Vegas. Could be House was just one of the few to really perfect it.

No tall buildings in DC is because of the height limit there (130' or the width of the street, whichever is shorter), and the damage to that city looked more like that from conventional bombs rather than nuclear.

I get the impression that the dev wants each location to be recognizable, so they come up with a way to make it so in each game.

Obvious statement: a big part of the identity of F3, NV, and F4 are the prewar cities where they take place.

I think it's fairly reasonable speculation actually. Robert House attended MIT and he protected most of Vegas by redirecting most of the bombs. It's possible his technology was inspired by his studies at MIT, or his research was the fruit of collaboration with other members at MIT.

What's with people saying the BoS is doing everything? I saw no definitive evidence in the trailer for the BoS. Why would they have anything to do with the Constitution or the building up Boston again? Just because they apparently had something similar in a game whose specific canon nature (that is, the specific elements of the narrative) are suspect does not mean that every flying zeppelin belongs to them.

Because they don't. BoS keeps to themselves and would never actively help the general folk. They want their technology for themselves.

The people who control Boston/those sky ships definitely are NOT BoS members.

well one hit the white house (-> fo3)

Yeah 100 years and the BOS never is allowed to develop in any direction. Not even some of them who made a big journey from home. Character developing is forbidden because the player demands it.

But I agree haven't seen any BOS in the trailer.

Low yield bombs or a shield--either way, it's a choice someone made to determine the game setting. I guess revealing that the game takes place in an almost unrecognizable post apocalyptic Boston, rebuilt on the rubble of what we today know as Boston, wouldn't have the same appeal as what they are doing.

I fully expect to find a hidden BOS faction member in a Boston bungalow /underground bunker, and have them ask the PC to go on an infiltration mission to steal the plans of the virtibird.

Why not they had Fallout 2's Enclave in Fallout 3, so the Fallout 2 BoS isn't too much worse.

With regards to bomb damage, one has to remember that the "vaporization" zone of a nuke isnt really that big, its the firestorm, shockwave that follows that expands the radius of full destruction, then further out its heat that catches flammables on. DC and for that matter Boston have a great deal of stone structures, many of them heavy, thick stone. It wasnt too unrealistic to see a large number of those structures still standing. When one further applies Fallouts way of nuking . . . well I mean you can mini-nuke a behemoth in GNN square and there is no crater and no radiation 50 feet away. Plus a nuke is not specifically pinpoint, they get close but not precision to the nearest yard. If you dropped a 1 MT nuke on say Bolling Air Force Base east side of the Potomac, you won't even reach the Mall. If you drop it right on the White House, as was seen in FO3, the vaporize zone doesnt touch the Capital Dome, but it gets scorched. Also if we extrapolate on Fallout Lore regarding Vegas' survival and the assumption that Boston may have benefited from that same technology, only an obtuse person would think that some form of this defense would not have been in place in the nations Capital.

check out nuclearsecrecy dot com/nukemap/ (I do not have permission to post links)

But really, its about visible icons. Legitimate. I am a native of the Golden State but lets be blunt, LA doesnt have a lot going for it with regards to icons that might stand up to a wildfire no less nukes. Its pretty much the capital records building, the Hollywood sign and Griffith Observatory. San Fran has way more iconic structures (Golden Gate, TransAmerica Building, the specifics of the rolling hills streets).

Bricks don't require high tech to make