This has to be asked. Why am I seeing so many people who say the Fallout universe is full of culture, clear government, and architectural styles? Some people are also claiming they could easily survive in that Universe and some even want to. I am not picking on anyone, but I don't understand how the Fallout Universe ceased to be a living hell. Please, enlighten me.

Didn't one topic get closed because this kind of thing started being discussed? I'd be careful...

But yeah, I would not want to live in the Wasteland. I mean, I am not a wimp or anything, and I'm emotionally stable, but I'd be so nervous of everything around me that I'd likely suffer from paranoia. I doubt I'd stand much chance against the Wasteland creatures, either - I have only ever shot a gun once or twice when I was quite young.

However, if you did well in the Wasteland and you have no remorse for anyone (Eulogy), maybe you'd not find it too bad. Realistically, though, I imagine things would be hard: lack of food and water, radiation and all that jazz.

I believe that the Wasteland would be hell (I mean a real life version) for most people because no one is a god like the Lone Wanderer... but there would be a select few who would survive; they would likely be very tough and have weapon experience, or be very intelligent. But for the regular Joes like me who have a few skills? Not much of a chance. I'd probably stay safe and live in a town or city, but I'd still likely die young.

Personally, I think that if anyone wants to living in a post-apocalyptic land, they're insane.

I think it's not so much insane people who would want to live in a wasteland, but those who have such a crappy life that it would be exciting to some extent.

I still find it very odd, but I guess I can see that as a possibility. Maybe it's because I'm used to having a very safe, comfortable life that I wouldn't want to risk losing everything, whereas others just want to do something different. :shrug:

I still can't imagine a worse life than living in a nuclear wasteland. If someone has internet and is able to tell me through the internet that they want to live in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, than they must be sacrificing quite a lot. I hope world leaders don't think like that. It is within their power to make it a reality.

That's the thing, though. There could be a guy who lives in an extremely poor country, isn't very intelligent and pretty much everything is going wrong for him. However, he knows how to handle a gun (somehow) and is a pretty tough guy.

Then the bombs fall. If this kind of guy was to survive I'd imagine he'd do pretty well because he knows how to handle poverty and can fight.

But how does such a person frequent the forums often? I'm imagining that that kind of person isn't the one who says, on these forums, "I want to live in a post-apocalyptic wasteland". If a person's life truly is that bad(I believe it can be), then they probably don't have access to the internet and probably don't even have enough free time to play a Fallout game, therefore, they wouldn't even know about the Capital Wasteland.

Oh, right, you mean someone on the forums. Well, if someone here were to say they'd want to live in the Wasteland I think they're either a little loopy or trying to sound tough. However, if people say they think they could survive the Wastes (not exactly WANT to live there), I think that is possible for some.

Those ideas are okay, but I have seen people say they want to live in the wastes.

Then I believe they're being silly. I'm not using this as a generalisation, but they must have loved Fallout 3 so much that they have been brainwashed by it or something.

But then again, maybe they're just adrenaline junkies or something.

As have I, too many to count actually. "Oh, I'd love to live in the wasteland and hunt raiders. Blah, blah, blah." It's all the same. They think they could survive because they have a rifle and love camping.

But if they had to live in a wasteland, they'd cry like a baby while they tried to sleep on the dirt under a bush.

Not to mention that they'd either get killed by the Raiders due to there sheer numbers or get [censored] scared of them and run away. I mean, c'mon, if you see a bunch of mangled bodies having from a building do you keep moving forward? If you have a brain, I don't think you would.

Depends... Soldiers have to deal with that sort of crap y'know... I think there are a couple of people from the forces here, not many, maybe two, three, but they obviously know how to handle a gun. From what I've seen an okay number of people know how to handle a gun too, which is normal from my kinda point of view...

Well, think about it, if you got put in the Capital Wasteland with everything the same, you know where everything is don't you? ??? Makes life easy to know where to find food, weapons, resources to make caps... See where I'm going? Makes people think they could survive, when they'd just get shot once and probably die of blood loss..

That's another thing. I would say most people on these forums know how to point and fire a gun, most people I know can and go shooting on a regular basis. But being able to shoot is just a small part of surviving in a nuclear wasteland.

Like I have clearly said many times, there are people who could survive the Wasteland, and they'd either be experienced with fighting or very smart. Regular gamers saying that wanna be in the Wasteland would likely not be able to handle 5 or 6 raiders.

But that's the thing, the Capital Wasteland wouldn't be the same because it's not real.

The radiation and thirst would get to a person first. I imagine that there is some disease with all that filth on everyone. Imagine tripping in your house and getting tetanus from it as well. Even if someone has a good aim, would they really be calm enough to keep that aim steady when a deathclaw is charging at them about to tear them apart with a single swipe of its claw?

I agree with the thirst, radiation and disease, but if someone isn't scared of death and is a pro marksman or something, then maybe they'd be able to keep their cool. Not sure if it'd really matter in the end, anyway, but with a very powerful gun maybe you could kill it.

If a deathclaw was chasing me, I think the shock alone would kill me.

Yeah that's exactly my point. Guns are a small part of survival, if they even are a part at all. Some will be dead long before they even need to load a gun.

Yeah, and same for me. But that's us, not everyone else, remember.

But I do agree that guns are not the only thing needed for survival; I think being wise of your surroundings plays a huge role in doing well in the Wasteland.

If shock doesn't kill you, then those suicidal missions the BoS sends you on will.(I like the BoS, but they aren't doing any of the work.)

What's the BoS got to do with anything? :wacko: But yes, if you were to do those missions alone, then it is almost a guarentee that you'd die; especially against the might of the Enclave.

i wouldnt wan to live in the fallout universe, or anything.. but i can see how some people with anarchistic tendancies wouldnt mind something like that.. hitting a reset button of sorts..

Yeah, nobody really lives to old age very often in the D.C. Wasteland. So best case scenario is you live to maybe your 30's or 40's, die of some form of radiation poisoning or cancer, or become a super mutant or ghoul. That's not a world I'd want to live in, I just like escaping this one to go there when I'm feeling ultraviolent and depressed. Maybe if you're a closet anarchist, you'd love a world in which the biological and civilization clock got reset to zero, but I wouldn't want to be anywhere but a Vault, in the Enclave, or in the BOS.