Why 200 years?

[Hexxagone]

This is my first Fallout game and im confused why the story jumps ahead 200 years. Its not our world (2015) and jumping ahead is the only way to introduce laser guns and robots.

 

They had those things before the war, so whats the deal with the time jump? Are you telling me that in the time America formed into 2015, that nobody went into those boarded up houses and looted the place? Are you seriously trying to tell me that a kid was trapped in a refrigerator for 200 years and nobody walked by and let him out?

 

Especially becuase they set up these skeletons around that show what they were doing when the bombs hit, the whole game would have made more sense if it was 20-30 years after the bombs hit. Thats the world that Bethesda actually created, not one that is 200 years later. When do the other games take place? The time jump doesnt make sense to me.

[TheVampireDante]

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline

[Hexxagone]

A timeline of events leading up to the game doesn't explain why there are houses boarded up all this time with raiders and scavengers walking around, or why a kid was stuck inside a fridge for 200 years without going insane.

[TheOrangeTrain]

I don't think you know what cryogenic stasis is.

 

A timeline of events leading up to the game doesn't explain why there are houses boarded up all this time with raiders and scavengers walking around, or why a kid was stuck inside a fridge for 200 years without going insane.

1. Did you even read it?
2. I don't think you know what cryogenic stasis is.

[Talwyn224]

Houses are boarded up because Bethesda are too dam lazy to actually make all the wasteland look like a wasteland.

200 Years is arbitrary because FO1 was roughly 100 years after the war but again Bethesda, once they got ahold of the intellectual property decided to set FO3 200 years since the great war. No reason, they just thought it'd be cool.

 

Logic & forethought aren't really their strong suits but despite that, I'm still enjoying the game despite the massive plot holes and idiocy.

[Hexxagone]

So the kid was cryogenically frozen for 200 years inside a refrigerator with no power, amazing!

 

I don't think you know what cryogenic stasis is.

Edited December 17, 2015 by Hexxagone

[Boombro]

The kid was in coma from what I understand from the quest. And it not really far fetched, many machines are nuclear in the fallout. If they don't have infinite power, they will last ages.

 

 

Houses are boarded up because Bethesda are too dam lazy to actually make all the wasteland look like a wasteland.

Do you have any idea how tasking it is on machines, time and money by making all houses usable either with own cells or in world space?

Edited December 17, 2015 by Boombro

[ArekkusuStorm]

So the kid was cryogenically frozen for 200 years inside a refrigerator with no power, amazing!

 

I don't think you know what cryogenic stasis is.

 

All vaults are equipped with a generator (why do you think the lights are still on when you exit your pod?), so I don't where you got the idea that there is no power, powering the cryo-pods. The only reason the other pods became coffins was because the Institute turned life support to the other pods (Except yours and your spouse) off when they took Shaun and ordered Kellogg not to turn it back on.

[Hexxagone]

Im not talking about the player character, im talking about the Ghoul boy that was stuck inside a refrigerator for 200 years

[Boombro]

Im not talking about the player character, im talking about the Ghoul boy that was stuck inside a refrigerator for 200 years

It seems to be a reference as stated by fallout wiki:

 

 

Billy being stuck in the fridge may be a reference to real life deaths caused by children being locked in fridges prior to an act passed by Congress in the 1950s.

Also does anyone recall what said? He said he was waking up a bit before you showed up.