Bethesda confirming the Fallout 4 protagonist is in fact, the least fascist and least bloodthirsty suburbanite.

Oh fuck off with this JK Rowling "Actually, Dumbledore was gay!" shit

The fun thing is I was yelling about this years ago; Nick and Nora are American war criminals and Beth portrays them as a happy little couple in a happy little leave it to beaver suburb instead of actually engaging with the story. Coming out and claiming "akshually we intended this all along!" just confirms that they were cowards who understood what they were doing but didn't have the balls to make the MC a war criminal.
- The War Veterans Hall in FO4 has a document saying "oh we are so eager to hear Nate talk"
  
  So yes, he absolutely was megaHitler
- The intro to Fallout 4 showed definitively that BGS does not fucking understand the meaning of "war never changes"
She really did ruin those kinds of retcons, didn't she
- Like, it could have been something like "Nate was stationed at Anchorage during the actual events of Operation Anchorage" or something innocuous like that
  
  But no, it's literally one of the defining moments of the series
  
  A moment which establishes how fucked up the US is
  
  And just gleefully pointing and being like "That's you", as if that's something cool
  
  Fucking wizards pooping on the floor and teleporting it away

Regardless of who owns the IP, it's fanfiction

I have come around to the rigid and dogmatic belief that all fiction is fan fiction and authorship isn't very important.
- Back in the Star Wars EU days my mantra was "it's canon of you want it to be" because the official thing where different sources had different levels of canon created massive unresolved contradictions anyway.
- Also canon is not at all important when compared to just telling a good story
- Oh bloody hell please just go and tell this to all Dune psychofans untill their eyes start to bleed with ink.
Diagetic Essentialism has entered the chat.

And this is why I play with one of those cute little "alternate start" mods so I don't have to be a war criminal. My wastelander was a regular ass vaultie who just got really good with lasers; and wants to tell Maxson's fascist ass to dance.

I'm a Chinese agent anime girl spreading communism to the Commonwealth every time lmao
- Fuckin based.
I am an emotionless killing machine driven only by my hatred of newspapers

If they weren't cowards they would have had you actually do this in the intro and then pulled the camera back to show Tim Horton's.

Someone drops their bottle of maple syrup in shock.
- Bottle of maple syrup rolling down the stairs in slow-mo battleship potempkin style.

I never play as Nate so all this time I've been saying 'lol lmao' at his dead corpse in the icebox out of heterophobia when I could have been going 'lol lmao' because some dumb fascist war criminal got owned.

People who always pick the female character stay winning.
- Eh, the protagonist is an Amerikan war vet no matter who you choose so either way you're picking a war criminal
  
  Alternate start mods ftw

confirming my assertion that 95% of video game writers are dumb

Also he backed down LMAO

My "Nate is NOT a war criminal!" shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by the shirt
member of US armed forces not a war criminal
Lol the coward couldn't even stick with it.
he got a call from the Toddler.
> guy who writes the games now

>"Not every bit of Fallout info I share is automatically canon!"

Heard it here first, Fallout 3 simply didn't happen. It's just a bit of Fallout Info he shared.
Actually Nate is a war criminal, but it's so stupid that he tried to shoehorn him as the war criminal from the fallout 1 intro

Lotta fash in the replies to the OOOP.

I know they're supposed to be unflattering, but I can't help but love the evolution of smug wojaks
Posting this when he has a groyper pfp sure is something.

this would be an interesting decision if they had actually made it in the game and also if bethesda knew how to write a character.

Nate and Nora are war criminals + Nate/Nora (the player character) is a synth with constructed memories of Shaun's idealized version of his parents could have been something interesting to base the MSQ around

Emil Pagliarulo is so incredibly fucking stupid he doesn't even pronounce his own last name correctly

Emil Clowny

don't you just love it when someone working as a writer is completely incapable of identifying fascism or even war crimes? Wow I love that these people have a stranglehold over an IP I loved dearly. What a cool world where media illiteracy is so rife among the ranks of artists

Only the interplay/obsidian fallouts are canon.

I was going to say "obviously he was joking, I am Emil Pagliarulo's strongest hater but he's not that ridiculous " only to find that he was not, in fact, joking.

I'm willing to accept that he was (poorly) trying to say the soldier from FO1 was the inspiration for one of the types of people Nate could be giving the broad template of "veteran"

I mean this is pretty much Emil though, he is very much an 'improv' or 'yes and...' writer imo, that's why some of the missions he designed in thief 2 are so good because there's just a lot to discover, that style just doesn't work for narratives and stuff like we can see here.

Could someone explain the missing context? I will not be going on Elon Musk's X dot com.

So one of the main devs for Fallout 4 revealed as a fun fact that the protagonist in Fallout 4 was one of the armour soldiers from the intro of Fallout 1 where they execute a canadian prisoner of war, so according to the geneva convention that constitutes a war crime since the protag participated in the execution by not stopping it
- How does that even work. Weren't they frozen as the bombs were falling, didn't wake up for 200 years and would have missed the events of the other games.

Canadiancide?

waow-based

I'm never playing Fallout 4, but is your main character a ghoul or something? Cause he'd have to be like 200+ years old to be that guy. This sounds dumb as hell that he even could be that guy let alone is. Fallout really shouldn't be that fucking hard to write for unless it was the first 2 games, those give you a fucktonne of setting and history to work with. A lot of New Vegas' general setting and frame was really just the logical follow up to Fallout 2. Don't get me wrong, it's fantastically written but the broad strokes of things can be handled by following the ending(s) of 2 in a pretty straightforward unsurprising way. Ya gotta make the details good but there is an historical momentum put in place by the first game and expanded on in the second that does lay put a LOT of potential groundwork for sequels.

I'm never playing Fallout 4, but is your main character a ghoul or something? Cause he'd have to be like 200+ years old to be that guy. This sounds dumb as hell that he even could be that guy let alone is.

Iirc MC (You can choose between the husband or the wife) enters the vault during the intro where China nuclear bombing the US and gets frozen for 200+ years.
- That's a better backstory for an NPC than the main.
- And then they make the genius meta-move of fridging your spouse while inside a fridge
  
  God what a spit in the eye.
  
  I never dropped the third chapter of my playthrough
I'm never playing Fallout 4,

Not the shooter!

liberalism

I'm currently very torn between my staunchly held belief that every single US soldier is a war criminal and my similarly staunch belief that Canadians are not human.

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