...but the customer's perception IS always right and it would be easier to put a filter on the TV broadcast to turn the green to whatever color was "trending" that moment....

Said it better than I did.

There do appear to be darker areas.

http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/fallout/images/d/df/DeathclawFO4.png/revision/latest?cb=20150609010940

That could be the bloody http://www.uesp.net/w/images/thumb/a/a7/MW-place-Molag_Amur.jpg/800px-MW-place-Molag_Amur.jpg. I'm all for variety even if I do like the brighter colours. Like Morrowind, the contrast will make the darker areas feel grimmer and the lighter areas will be like coming home from a gruelling trek.

Me in November: *playing the game, singing along with the radio and blowing stuff up*

Hype...validated.

Sounds like a player made mod...

The whole Glowing Sea and the radioactive storms, which i believe deathclaws travel, is pretty rough.

We have a picture showing the outside of the Memory Den, where a shadowy figure is walking the street, with a robotic hand hanging down. It looks pretty seedy to me. Is seedy close enough to being considered dark and/or gritty?

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Aside from locations and color palette, though

We have what appears to be a defective/obsolete (abandoned) replicant horde adversary in this game. Where when you shoot them, their parts fly off, but they may just keep coming. Super cute.

Deathclaws will now pick you up, and hug you and squeeze you and call you George. Adorable

Feral ghouls may just swarm you, flooding out of a building to attack as you pass by on the street. Rainbows and unicorns.


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This is the best answer. And a worldwide nuclear war is going to put so much radiation, cold, and extinction everywhere so long, that 200 years is being generous.

Well, I don't know - the wasteland (while still not as inviting as the world today) has evolved (after all there's governments coming back, like the NCR, which while corrupt is much better than having slavers and raiders around) and I like it.

Quite frankly: I am tired of grimdark games/movies/books and tv-shows -.- (give me the comedy, the absurdities etc. of recent Fallouts any day over bleakness like say in Battlestar Galactica (the new version...though I've got other issues with that as well))

Darkness for darknesses sake is not cool at all and I wouldn't want a game where the only thing the protag has to look forward too is a hard harsh short life without any hope of it getting better (why would I want to play that? - What's there to enjoy? To laugh about? To be excited about? -.- RL would be a great alternative to that and that's saying something (after all: games are a form of escapism - just like books!))

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Aside from BIG MOUNTAIN dlc, which was the worse DLC ever with it's poor storyline and excessive comedy that ruined the whole dark theme of Fallout, the rest of Fallout never went overboard with the silly jokes. It's a dark game and yes, sometimes, you will walk around and find some skeleton on a couch with a dozen of empty beers and a teddy bear in its bony hands. Just a few smirks here and there, and it's enough to be fun without ruining the atmosphere.

Except BIG MOUNTAIN dlc of course. Yuk. Horrible, horrible dlc.

Many would say (and have) that F2 was over the top, it had so much humor.
I believe that's why NV had Wild Wasteland as an optional trait; as to not force everyone to delve into the less serious stuff.
But, when it comes to it, Fallout has always had comedy in it.
For the Big MT DLC, I try to think of it like this: These people are complete spazzes at heart, and with time and the burden of unethical experimentation weighing on them, and realizing they are essentially stuck as floating eye robots forever, they are out of their ever loving minds- All while isolated from the rest of the world. They should, for all intents and purposes, be different that any other place we see in FO.