It takes place in a fictional universe where the (United States)pop-culture ascetic never changed. The bombs fell in October 2077. This should just be a giant flashing message at the start of any Fallout game.

Thank goodness you cleared that up for us.

Has anyone of note said otherwise?

What!? Seriously!?

All these years I had no idea!

Damn, and here I thought the protagonist was frozen in 1750.

Well there are several recent threads that don't seem to realize this.


I didn't see anoyone jumping into their threads correcting them so why not take your snarky posts there?

some people feel this strange need to correct others.

whether they need it or not.

i hav a strange need for cookies.

Oh holy hell I rang the really devoted fan bell?


Whatever shall I do?

Wow... Hey now, I remember being a little kid in the 1950s, and one night Dad fell asleep at the wheel of our fusion powered Studebaker and wrecked it. I was glowing in the dark for months. And then that Vault-Tec guy kept coming around, said it was because my dad was veteran (Saipan, not Anchorage), but Dad told him to buzz off, he'd dig our own vault in the backyard. Yep, he brough home a backhoe and dug it out, dropped a train car in the hole and fitted it up with a fusioncore power generator, and put a spare Mr Handy in it before he covered it up again. Too bad he didn't leave an entrance, but he said when the bombs fell we'd all just burrow our way in like little mole rats...

I din't know what a mole rat was ( I was only five, after all), but I thought maybe it was like the beatnik next door who was always talking about "digging it"... At least he kept telling my Mom "I really dig you baby!"

You telling me all that didn't really happen in our universe?

Circlejerk to your hearts content.

Oh, hey dude, I was just kidding and having some fun with it. I really was a kid in the 1950s, eh? I didn't mean any harm.

This thread is weird.
You guys are weird.

Nothing wrong with being weird.

I'm still trying to understand the point of the first post.

Like there are players out there who don't realize FO4 takes place in a "fictional" time?


Of course, we're all living in someone's mmorpg anyway. some of us are player characters and some of us are NPCs. We just don't realize it. And we're not quite sure who is what...or which...or....

I was unaware people believed the game took place in the 1950s

Obviously not.
I'm just stating the obvious. Is that weird?

You actually have examples? Because I've not actually seen any thread on this forum where they thought the game was set in the 50's.

Yeh...the game makes it pretty clear that the bombs fell in 2077....so...

No and that is part of the problem. I see plenty of posts where it is assumed that the popculture and style should have progressed. It is often very nuanced and even less so on these boards than in it community as a whole.

I would think the floating robot and the guys in power armor gave it away.

Like I said circlejerk away.

I don't know what that means, but ok.

It is a good thing that pop culture and style hasn't progressed in this game. We are not subjected to the horrors of Justin Bieber and Miley Cyrus and we get to experience music that lots of us haven't heard before. Who among us has actually heard Atom Bomb Baby, The End of the World, and Call Out Through the Fallout before playing Fallout?

That did very little to clarify.

Closed for review.