Tonamel on 22/1/2010 at 06:26
I'll be first to admit that it's been ages since I've played the original Fallout (never got too far in 2), but I guess I was always under the impression that the Fallout 1 wasteland looks like the Nevada desert because huge chunks of the game take place in the Nevada desert. DC's a pretty different climate from the Sierra Nevada, so I guess I was expecting it too LOOK like a different climate, too.
It's a minor quibble, though. I don't mean to sound all RAAGH RUINED EVERYTHING about it.
june gloom on 22/1/2010 at 07:29
Quote Posted by Tonamel
I'll be first to admit that it's been ages since I've played the original Fallout (never got too far in 2), but I guess I was always under the impression that the Fallout 1 wasteland looks like the Nevada desert because
huge chunks of the game take place in the Nevada desert.
Wrong. Fallout 1 takes place almost entirely in California, with the Glow being south of where the Mexican border is in reality.
Fallout 2 is more debatable; The entire northeast portion of the map is squarely in what we would consider to be Nevada, but the towns in that area are all referred to in game as being in California. And anyway when the US was split into 13 Commonwealths, Nevada was incorporated into the same Commonwealth as southern California, whereas northern California was a separate Commonwealth entirely.
Tonamel on 22/1/2010 at 07:41
Quote Posted by dethtoll
Wrong. Fallout 1 takes place almost entirely in California
Huh. So it does. Of course, after comparing maps, it looks like most of the locations are somewhere in Death Valley or the Mojave Desert, so that doesn't really dissuade me from the whole "it looks like a desert because it's set in the desert" idea.
