To be honest guys, I get a laugh out of the observations some of you guys make.
Nothing is realistic in this game. A rotten tree will not last two hundred years, let alone still be standing.
None of the buildings would still be standing. There would be little to no resources for you to scavenge, as others would have scavenged it all a long time ago. People would
not have foreign accents, like Cait. Hard for people to travel to another country when the planes and boats stopped running, and the accents aren't programmed into someone's DNA. Since we aren't in Ireland, not exactly sure how Cait would have developed the accent, she would likely talk like everybody else as she was born here, and has been immersed in American language.
The roads would have been destroyed long ago from growing overgrowth. And overgrowth would be happening already, all the plants wouldn't just be extinct.
It goes on and on. I could list things all day.
Now, consider this. Look at all the silly ass crap in New Vegas. Nobody blinks an eye at the fact that the Courier is nuking every damn thing in sight. Traveling in Lonesome Road, you blow nuke warheads up, like it's a past time. But everything is okay??? No biggie, just detonated a nuclear war head, now I'm gonna sit here and eat some Fancy Lad cakes.
Yet, I've heard people claim New Vegas was much "more realistic". New Vegas I say! The game with the robots at Big Mountain that can
remove your brain without killing you. New Vegas, the game where the main enemies are wearing FANCY LEATHER FLAPS, yet when I shoot them it show they have an
armor rating.
Yeah...........very realistic.
I mean, let's face it. It's never gonna be a seriously real game. It'll always carry with it the silly 50's sci fi themes with it, and those themes allow for some imaginative story telling. I personally would love to see a serious, realistic post apocalyptic type game, but Fallout isn't it.
I learn to live with, even enjoy, some of the stupid little things that you can riff on F4. It's when you start screwing up the lore that I get sour..................
I mean, Bethesda would never do something like that, right?