no no you don’t get it, Maximus experienced comfort in vault 4 for the first time since he was a CHILD, simple comforts like a fluffy robe and a nice shower that he probably forgot felt like, but he was willing to give it all up and go to war the SECOND he thought lucy was in real danger………
Guys I get that fallout new Vegas is considered the gold standard for a lot of fans but when you’re advising newbies on how to get into the franchise new Vegas is not remotely as accessible as like, 4. Ease folks into the franchise.
it’s like LOTR. Don’t advise newbies to watch the extended editions. Those are fun AFTER you’re in love with the universe. If you start there people get bored and tired and confused AF.
Honestly, if Raul came across Cooper Howard I think within two minutes he’d be like ‘hey, aren’t you that gringo who did all those shitty cowboy movies?’ and then it would just be two old ghoul men fighting. Which is beautiful, but they’re both too old for that shit no matter how many chems Coop takes on the daily. Besides, Raul would win.
i guess my gripe with people who are just writing off the tv show as lore-breaking and bad without watching it is that the show itself actually addresses a lot of the complaints that fandom always makes and people are instead taking information out of context to rage bait about it.
"why isn't civilization advancing" it WAS advancing! shady sands was a beautiful city with thriving crops and a bus system. it got burned down because vault tech is not interested in letting civilization advance on their own terms.
"why can't fallout ever be hopeful" the season ends with infinite renewable energy being implemented into the world so that society can finally start healing and advancing. it's just currently at the hands of the wrong people.
"why does bethesda hate the NCR and have such a boner for the brotherhood" this one makes me laugh because the show portrays the NCR as ultimately the ones who are really trying to help the world in meaningful ways and it portrays the brotherhood as these big cultish losers who are obsessed with the past. the show even points out that their obsession with the past makes no sense.
"why was shady sands nuked in 2277" it wasn't. it started to DECLINE in 2277 and eventually it got nuked at a later date.
"why is everyone on the surface portrayed as savages" because lucy is the POV character and that's how she initially sees them. she was literally raised to be a colonizer and her view eventually gets challenged first with the inhabitants of vault 4 and then when moldaver explains to her the real history of shady sands and her father's involvement with the state of the world.
Let's think about Lucy from the Ghoul's POV. This girl is spewing Vault bullshit, acting all righteous. Then he sells her for parts but she comes back in one piece AND with a new finger. And all of this happens after she decapitated a man, as far as he's concerned. No wonder he offers her to brave the Wasteland together.
I also love my dog enough to start to suspect and spy on my wife if her company wanted to leave our dog to die in the surface, I don’t make the rules but this seems like the normal outcome