are there any official explanations for the major continuity errors?

[babyeatingdingo]

like for instance, there still being a ton of radiation on the east coast 200 years later, when there wasnt nearly as much on the west coast even 80 years later?

 

 

 

or the "nuked" city being so lightly damaged, when in the first games the nuked cities were basically completely gone?

[Fonger]

considering how old this game is

 

and the fact that if such an "official" explanation existed it would admit to being a design problem

 

it would seem to be answered as

 

no.

 

besides for a pure continuity issue

 

we only have to look to Bakini Atoll to see how plant life thrives after a nuke.

[loopz]

Or Mururoa for animal life.

 

"It's GODZILLA!!!"

[phoneyLogic]

The explaination would probably be: it's a game, it's fiction, etc

 

But yeah, there are logical issues between the games as well as between fiction and reality. Personal I dont care much about the issues between fiction and reality, if they are not too plain. But if you have continuity errors in the fiction, then it is realy desturbing.

 

I think you could have made a "real Fallout 3" with all the money and the effort which has been taken in hand. But there are more than 10 years between F1/2 and F3. The game mechanics etc has changed ...

[evilneko]

As in all things, TVTropes has the answers.

 

RuleOfCool - Bombed out cities > Flattened ones

RuleOfFun - Firearm, Ammo availability (or did you really WANT to play Oblivion in a wasteland, with a dumbed down melee system?)

AcceptableBreaksFromReality - The radiation. Would it still be a Fallout game if there were no... fallout?

 

;)

[yugimawa]

ever wonder how AFTER project purity water in the "pure" lake w/e is STILL RADIATTED

[falloutperson416]

Well, even though it is 200 years after the nuclear war, people still through grenades, use mini nukes, blow stuff up, it's not like there is not possibly a way to make the radiation stop - also, the city's werent hit right on, either, so you cant expect them to be completely demolished, but I understand the point your trying to make

[50piecesteve]

The explaination would probably be: it's a game, it's fiction, etc

 

But yeah, there are logical issues between the games as well as between fiction and reality. Personal I dont care much about the issues between fiction and reality, if they are not too plain. But if you have continuity errors in the fiction, then it is realy desturbing.

 

I think you could have made a "real Fallout 3" with all the money and the effort which has been taken in hand. But there are more than 10 years between F1/2 and F3. The game mechanics etc has changed ...

 

i have to agree its just a game, the only thing that really bothers me is the water is still iradiated after project purity i mean really how could they miss that?

[Sinophile]

I was a bit confused as well. I poisoned the water with the FEV virus, as per President Eden's Instructions. If I understood correctly, the FEV virus was supposed to kill off the Ghouls and Super mutants, yet they still roam around.

 

the only thing that really bothers me is the water is still iradiated after project purity i mean really how could they miss that?

From my understanding, it wasn't all automatically purified at once. Project Purity is essentially a giant Brita filter. I believe the scribe guy even commented that they had to manually scoop the water manually using buckets into the purifier. Think about it, if the whole lake was purified, then they wouldn't need to bottle it the way they do. They could simply ask everyone to simply walk down with their jugs and get their own water.