When i first exited the vault, went home and talked with Codsworth, he let me know that it had been 210 years that I had been gone. I did see my spouse murdered and my son taken but I was placed in a cryogenic state again. For all I knew that could have been 100 years ago.

I may have missed something but I did not have any thoughts that he may still be alive. As far as I knew when exiting the vault, everyone was dead. Gone. The world was a different place. My character also assumed Shaun was long gone....

I actually forgot about him!

Well, they didnt bother to create any sense of relationship between you and the other characters. I mean hell in fallout 3 I cared more about Amata then the family in fallout 4.

I don't think any parent would just his child was dead without seeing a body.

Nope. I figured he was dead after everything I'd heard. Nice to meet the

I had no son. I had an incredibly fake doll that my husband insisted was a child.

There are some things that really surprised me about how people perceived this whole plot line.

Because of this, I wasn't really in a huge hurry to find him.

which son?
The only thing I care is to collect scrap for my settlement.

Dont know about you but most people I've met assumed the opposite including myself. Its a cryogenic pod afterall and most people have seen plenty of Sci-Fi movies to make the correct assumption...

Maybe we just hang round different crowds?

Back to OP I think Bethesda handled the main plot pretty poorly. Particularly with regards to how your character, even if you wanted to, would never promptly attempt to find their son, the space between Sanctuary and the next location Diamond City is too large. If they wanted this sort of main questline it may have been more appropriate to swap Vault 111 and Vault 81 in positions to allow that quick approach to the main quest.

There was a son? I thought that he was one of those Japanese Tomaguchis.

Rabbit

No,

What ever gave you that idea OP?

I saw quite the opposite really. I saw a ton of people who were absolutely shocked when they made this discovery. There were also plenty of people who saw it coming, so it wasn't as if everyone thought this, but it seemed to me like a surprisingly high number.

Codsworth: "...a bit over 210, actually..."

Once he said that, I knew this much: Either Shaun had died long ago, or he was a ten-year-old boy in the care of someone else. For the latter, I knew that Shaun would not see me as anything but a random stranger with a strange delusion that he was my son. Who he considered his parents would've been whoever raised him. Really, the only mystery to me was whether Shaun was either a young boy, a teen, or somewhere between young advlt to elderly, and that was assuming he didn't die in the 210 years that passed.

Interesting.

But yeah as HeroofKvatch99 points out one of the first post-vault comments is that you are 200 or so years older. That, and the many Sci-Fi movies which include freezing someone in one way or another, should have been the biggest two clues for most people.

Should also say that my comment about 'different crowds' sounds a little dike'ish, incase it did come off insulting I wasnt trying to be, sorry!

It's nearly March in one of my games.

No worries, it wasn't taken in an insulting way.

I think for many people it was simply an assumption that Shaun was taken like 198 years after being frozen and then the Sole Survivor got out of the pod at 200 years. I think the game provides fairly solid reasons to not necessarily assume this, as you pointed out.

I did at first, but then when I left and got through a few convos and discovered how weak it was, I went with the games strengths and went exploring

Those other people who are dead in Vault 111 ( and not refrozen according to Kellogg ) don't look like they died long time ago ... so Beth cheated here to some extend.

I had decided long before getting to Codsworth that A LOT of time had passed. Seeing the deterioration of Vault 111 from what it had looked like when we first entered told me a lot about the passage of time. I, personally, me, am aware of how cryogenics theoretically work, so for all I knew, it could be a thousand years later. (I wonder if they had H.G. Wells The Time Machine in that Pip-Boy alternate Reality?) So I may know that Shaun was kidnapped, but haven't a clue as to When that happened. Personally, I tend to think I would have a greater likelihood of finding Shaun's grandchild than of finding Shaun himself. So I'm in no great rush to find what became of Shaun.

That's true, but there also skeletons all over the place in the Vault. Reading the terminal entries further reinforces the idea that the Vault went downhill a long time ago.

I've never thought about the condition of the bodies in the cryochambers. I have a feeling that this wasn't really an 'oversight' as much as it was 'liberal storytelling' or something along those lines. I think waking up to find a skeleton in your spouses cryopod may have made things somewhat less compelling because you wouldn't be seeing 'them', as such.

Unfortunately, since this game was written by the award-winning literary team at Bethesda, I knew Shaun was still alive. Surmising this is a cheesy plot line, extra heavy on the cheese, I figured he'd either be older than me or part of an artificial matrix.

I didn't even finish the game on my first character. Once I saw the story play out, I cursed the writing team at Bethesda for their idiotic knock off of Fallout: New Vegas and lack of originality, then started a new game and didn't, and never again, will give a damn about the "son". I even choose dialogue options that don't refer to the son, if possible.

Despite having the same outcome, it does make a little difference in the game play.

Didn't give him much thought after I met Piper..........and Cait....................and Curie

Maybe the apocalypse ain't so bad after all.

hg wells wrote that back in the 1890s

the fallout world is exactly the same as ours until sometime after ww2 it splits (never stated exactly what date after ww2 our timelines split but before that split it is our world)

so therefor yep they had it