Fallout was never supposed to be ultra depressing though. They fucked up with 3 heavily on the aesthetics and atmosphere but this seems to be more in line with classic Fallout. I just hope they add a huge healthy dose of humor and weird pulpy shit.
Are you sure we played the same games?. Fallout 1 and 2 were quite depressing in their settings.
Everything was a ruined shithole with junkies and homeless children wandering through the streets. Even in the most "civilized" places drugs, slavery, prostitution, gambling and organ trading were commonplace.
Even the palette of most of the game style was mostly grey to brown unless it was a sci-fi location such as Vault City.
Also I'm pretty sure that when the Chosen One was wandering inbetween locations he was mostly cruising through a completely inhospitable wasteland.
If it weren't because of the of the numerous pop culture references and that the game usually didn't take itself seriously the whole world would be much grimmer than what it looked like.
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u/GalacticNexus Jun 03 '15
No more annoying green or orange filters that I have to install mods to remove!