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| Fallout 3 Canon? | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Aug 9 2013, 09:27 PM (339 Views) | |
| ClassicGamer102 | Aug 9 2013, 09:27 PM Post #1 |
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So if anyone here has ever been on the NMA-Fallout forums you'd most likely have seen that everyone there despises Fallout 3, to the point that they would prefer it not be considered canon. What do you all think of this? Personally I really like Fallout 3, Fallout New Vegas is a great improvement in my opinion but Fallout 3 is still a great game. I've heard that it breaks canon in a lot of ways. One major complaint being the Super Mutants existing on the East Coast and Vault 87 being a BS excuse for Bethesda to use something from the first two Fallout games. Another complaint being that the game is on the East Coast at all. Why though? Why can't something be happening on the East Coast? In the first two games is it ever said to be uninhabitable? Why can't Vault 87 have an FEV chamber? Tons of Vaults did fucked up things! So again, what do y'all think of this? |
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| Warden of Wisdom | Aug 9 2013, 10:11 PM Post #2 |
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent. -Carl Sagan
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If two or more valid sources, in this case, the Fallout games, conflict in canon, one usually does not override the other, rather, there exists a confliction of canon. If resolved, it is usually overridden by an even greater and universally excepted canon, or the owners of the material simply choose a form to consider canon. 3 and New Vegas are the only Fallouts I've played, and 3 is my favorite. As far as I'm concerned, it's canon. |
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| Kagurodraven | Aug 10 2013, 02:14 AM Post #3 |
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There are several other issues with the Canon. One of them being the fact it's mentioned in previous games that the Capital/North East has its' own equivalent to the NCR during the Fallout 2 portion of the timeline, whereas in Fallout 3 it's just a series of unconnected small towns which takes place a roughly thirty-five(give or take a couple) after Fallout 2. Another being the way the Brotherhood acts in Fallout 3. Now personally I accepted the handwaved explanation they gave, but I can understand why it annoyed people that a traditionally Isolationist, and to be honest jerky, group turned into Knights in Shining Armor. I like Fallout 3, and am willing to accept the retcons, but the dislikes for it are understandable for longtime fans. |
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