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Two hundred years later (when most Fallout games take place) the landscape is littered with abandoned tech, 1950s-style propaganda, hollowed out buildings, and no shortage of dangerous creatures and people. But more importantly, the Cold War escalated, and in October 2077, the world erupted into nuclear war. Also, 1950s sensibilities and aesthetics remained popular, for some reason. The Fallout series takes place in a universe where nuclear technology advanced after World War II, becoming our main source of energy and technological innovation. Or maybe it’s the fact these take place in a world that isn’t all too foreign. They’re incomplete snapshots that the imagination can fill in, disjointed narratives that players can piece together with enough terminal hacking and rummaging. Perhaps there’s something intimate and engaging about the diary and epistolary style of most of these entries. Most of these stories are told in the forms of journal entries, scientist logs, transcripts, and occasionally recordings. Yet for some reason, I love the stories revealed by the terminals in Fallout 4 (which is also a Bethesda game). I tap them, possibly gain some XP, and type the “back” button as quickly as possible. I don’t really need songs about medieval Christ figures, fables about heroic dwarves, or textbook entries on the universe’s metaphysics to be invested in a game’s immediate story. It’s cool that there’s supplemental text to this debate in the game, from traditional texts to revisionist histories, but it never catches my interest.Įven the lore in Skyrim fails to compel me, the history and religious beliefs too convoluted and distant and niche, especially for someone new to Bethesda’s Elder Scrolls series. It doens’t matter too much to me how this power scheme came to be - the fact that it’s vaguely religious, based on one ambiguous proverb, suffices. I usually just need a general premise, enough to form opinions of the world my avatar explores.įor example, mages are oppressed and at risk of demonic possessi on in Dragon Age, and usually I’ll play as a character who supports their equality (the game gives you the option to support their oppression).

I’m not always interested in the background of open world role playing games.