I've only been to Boston a couple of times, not enough to get a feel for how it's reflected in-game. I remember driving through Primm and Goodsprings and the Nevada desert thinking how well reflected it was in FONV. Anyone from Boston able to give a recount of how it feels to walk the Boston wasteland? =)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Kh32_elixk


http://www.boston.com/entertainment/2015/11/09/explored-every-inch-fallout-see-how-postapocalyptic-boston-compares-the-real-thing/xdZwVnqy6SaVdQ1cIxGENP/story.html

http://www.hardcoegamer.com/2015/11/12/experiencing-fallout-4-as-a-bostonian/176779/

Quite a few things were remarkably accurate, at least to my eyes. College Square is almost a dead ringer for Harvard Square, Trinity Plaza is more or less the same (though Trinity Tower isn't quite where it "should" be), and even Hubris Comics and Proust are close enough to their real-world equivalents that I could find them in-game without much trouble.


A lot of things are "off," but mostly due to scaling issues. To name a few, Boston Common, Faneuil Hall, and the Revere Plaza (where the statue of Paul Revere is) are all way too small. I didn't even recognize the Common for what it was until I saw the State House. Similarly, Concord is way too close to Cambridge, and the Science Center, while recognizable as the Boston Museum of Science, just isn't big enough to hold a T. Rex.


And some things are just plain different. The sprawling brick-and-concrete desert wasteland that is Government Center (I may be biased) was never built in the Fallout universe. Instead, you still have the remnants of Scollay Square in Goodneighbor, and in the tumble of buildings leading to Faneuil Hall. Kinda cool; I never really knew where Scollay was supposed to be until I played the game...


I haven't made it to South Boston or Quincy yet. I used to work in the one and live in the other, so they'll be interesting to see.

I lived on Beacon street for a couple years. As Ted said, I think most things are orientated correctly but are scaled to fit the game. They got the bowling all wrong though, and there are no Dunkin Donuts so its a fail.

HA! i have been meaning to start a thread of this topic. I was wondering the same. I wish they did an Atlanta area i know that city like the back of my hand having been a courier there for years.

Well, the Saugus Ironworks is a quaint colonial village-type historic site, rather than a massive ultra modern foundry. And the people there are slightly less demented. At least now that most of my family moved, anyway

Fanueil Hall. NOT

Quincy. NOT

Charleston and Bunker Hill. Save the famous landmarks--NOT

Freedom Trail. NOT

Nope. Not much of the real Boston exists in Fallout IMO. But the devs made a nice attempt to include much of the existing names and locations in our present timeline.

Cool, thanks for the feedback, guys. I was looking for Mt. Auburn cemetary, which is the coolest place I've been to in Boston, but it doesn't even seem to exist =( That would've been a cool Ghoul hunting ground.

My biggest complaint is that it goes from Copley to Fenway to the reservoir and a huge chunk of back bay, Allston/Brighton/Brookline are nonexistent. I know you can't fit everything in, but it takes place in Boston, at least focus on the main part of it .

I miss the seals by the docks and mimes but other than that the city seems accurate

I wonder which house is Emil's. They said he put his childhood home into the game.

I think Slocum Joe's is supposed to be the Fallout equivalent of Dunkin Donuts. "Your base is under a donut shop? That's awesome."

I saw the Dalai Lama in Boston but haven't seen him in Fallout 4 yet. Maybe he'll be included with the TD Garden DLC.

Most NPC's are complete dirtbags, so they could be descended from people I know IRL.

MIT making robots, that's 100% accurate.

There are quite a lot of mutants in Boston...so they got that right.