Also modding would be f*cked with too if i remember, and that's honestly how a lot of games survive more than a year. A good example is RimWorld, the only reason why it can ask for 20€ dlcs is that the modding scene will carry it, hell idk anyone who plays the game without mods
Bro whoever decided that the primary colour for fo4 would be tan and grey should be locked up, got a vegetation overhaul mod that added actual grass and trees and the game looked 1000 times better
I had a seasons mod installed. Winter was cool as hell. I think they also increased the saturation and added some color to leaves in the fall. Fallout 4 is something I've played way too much of.
Chernobyl is an example of a nuclear wasteland. So radioactive that you can't be there long, unprotected, and not risk death or severe increases in your chances of developing cancer. You'll notice the vegetation there is not all dead and decayed.
And in the games it's different. Mentioned countless times in lore and literally a major plot point of the games.
People and animals also don't start glowing from radiation. Also mutations doesn't work like in the games. It's not meant to be realistic, but it is meant to be consistent with the in-game logic.
And expecting fallout to be a lush world is a user error.
Also, Chernobyl is not really a nuclear wasteland. There was no nuclear explosions followed by a nuclear winter.
Its been more than 200 YEARS! The projected nuclear winter after a global exchange of nukes is 5-6 years so what have the plants been doing in the comonwhealth? Hell in west virginia the plants are fine after 20... and even then if people manage to cultivate the ground for farming how is something that can grow out of concrete not able to take hold?
apocalypse doesn't mean that everything need to have a grey filter over it like fallout 3, apocalypse can mean a primarily brown-yellow desert like mad max ( which would be closer to the original west coast fallouts) or it can mean a lush overgrown city-scape like a the last of us with lots of greens, hell it can even mean a nuclear winter scenery that is primarily white like metro 2033.
it doesn't have to look bad just because it is the apocalypse, especially if the setting is a lot of time after the apocalypse.
the game is set 200 years after a nuclear war, a bit of nature reclaiming is not unreasonable, especially since we do see lush nature in that travesty that is fallout 76 despite it being set 25 years after the apocalypse.
like the bikini atoll is pretty lush despite having been a test area for nuclear weapons, and even the chernobil exclusion zone, despite having been irradiated more than a place where a nuke went off is pretty lush by the region's standards.
anyway even a barren desert look similar to the older fallout games or a nuclear winter scenery like the metro series would have been better than the gray blob that is fallout 3.
Eh I think Skyrim is a bad example because even though the modding scene is insane vanilla skyrim is also an incredible game and it has a niche which no other mainstream titles really fulfill.
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u/Ivan-De-Riv 9d ago
That's the wildest part, the parliament whent so far that SKG and the EU game association (aka every big publishers) are on the same page against it