Fallout 3 world

[The Eggplant]

My friends and I have determined perhaps small areas in Europe, some islands, and the poles should be okay. But other then that...nah we're done for

How do you figure the poles? It's assumed that when China and the U.S. began their all-out nuclear exchange, Alaska would've been one of China's foremost targets...possibly even their first, given their previous occupation of the region. So if we're going to assuming that their initial strike was as overcompensatory as the rest of the exchange (as it would've had to be to reduce so much of the world to ashes), wouldn't the fallout have reached at least the North Pole?

[sub]Yes, I'm a fanboy. So sue me.[/sub]

 

[AMMO Kid]

It only takes the radiation of ten nukes to destroy the whole world, so even if it started in America, it would quickly spread worldwide and destroy Eastern countries.

 

[LarenzoAOG]

In the begining Ron mother fucking Perlman kind of hints at total destruction when he says that they weren't able to completly kill all the humans.

 

[spectrenihlus]

i agree with all your answers but I pose one conundrum:

In Fallout 3, Allistair Tenpenny claims he came from England to make his fortune. How did he get to the US? The only way one could live long enough to have access to a working plane or a boat with enough supplies to go solo from england to the US would have been to be a pre-war ghoul.

Also what confuses me is Moriarty's accent.

After 200 years I don't think anyone will have an accent that thick.

I've also read somewhere that Bethesda's intention was to have the game take 20 years after the bombs drop. Which would make lots of things in the game make more sense.

200 year old boxed food thats still edible? Yeah, I don't buy it.

fallout 3 is not canon and its best to pretend it doesn't exist.

why cant fallout 3 be cannon im not trying to sound like an ass i just really dont understand

Those dumb as fuck super-mutants, thats why. They were just thrown in to be enemies, and never properly expanded upon....well, thats just one reason on a big list.

Didn't you do the main quest? It was pretty much explained were they cam from.

 

[cheese_wizington]

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

Everything you need to know.

 

[The Eggplant]

i agree with all your answers but I pose one conundrum:

In Fallout 3, Allistair Tenpenny claims he came from England to make his fortune. How did he get to the US? The only way one could live long enough to have access to a working plane or a boat with enough supplies to go solo from england to the US would have been to be a pre-war ghoul.

Also what confuses me is Moriarty's accent.

After 200 years I don't think anyone will have an accent that thick.

I've also read somewhere that Bethesda's intention was to have the game take 20 years after the bombs drop. Which would make lots of things in the game make more sense.

200 year old boxed food thats still edible? Yeah, I don't buy it.

fallout 3 is not canon and its best to pretend it doesn't exist.

why cant fallout 3 be cannon im not trying to sound like an ass i just really dont understand

Those dumb as fuck super-mutants, thats why. They were just thrown in to be enemies, and never properly expanded upon....well, thats just one reason on a big list.

Didn't you do the main quest? It was pretty much explained were they cam from.

Yeah, but to be fair (and I say his as someone who has played and enjoyed ALL of the Fallout games, and who considers them ALL to be canon), what ISN'T really explained is how the super mutants, who were by and large solely a product of the first Fallout's Master, managed to spontaneously show up on the East Coast. They were in the third game largely as a nod to fans of the series rather than for any canon-sensible reason.

 

[Danny Ocean]

Is it ever made clear whether or not the entire world is effected by the nuclear death of the US or if the rest of the world is dead too. If the world is still alive, why is no one helping us?

Even if the rest of the world was fine, why would we help?

 

[Sronpop]

The Irish would still be there, we can survive apocalyptic amounts of alcohol. A bit of nuclear fallout is nothing to us. We are used to shit weather too. In the end of days only cockroaches and the Irish will survive.

 

[ShakesZX]

fallout 3 is not canon and its best to pretend it doesn't exist.

Says who? From my understanding, and by all records I have found, Fallout 3 IS canon. That "Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel" game, and it's sequel, are the only confirmed non-canon games I have found proof of.

OP: Everywhere's been decimated.

Also, Tenpenny could've found a boat to bring him here. After all, there was a boat to take you to point Lookout, and it seems that New Vegas has been doing alright for itself.

 

[Orcus The Ultimate]

Is it ever made clear whether or not the entire world is effected by the nuclear death of the US or if the rest of the world is dead too. If the world is still alive, why is no one helping us?

"the ENTIRE WORLD WAS REDUCED TO CINDERS" - intro of fallout 1. there is your answer. /thread.

I disagree not the entire world....

 

[spectrenihlus]

i agree with all your answers but I pose one conundrum:

In Fallout 3, Allistair Tenpenny claims he came from England to make his fortune. How did he get to the US? The only way one could live long enough to have access to a working plane or a boat with enough supplies to go solo from england to the US would have been to be a pre-war ghoul.

Also what confuses me is Moriarty's accent.

After 200 years I don't think anyone will have an accent that thick.

I've also read somewhere that Bethesda's intention was to have the game take 20 years after the bombs drop. Which would make lots of things in the game make more sense.

200 year old boxed food thats still edible? Yeah, I don't buy it.

fallout 3 is not canon and its best to pretend it doesn't exist.

why cant fallout 3 be cannon im not trying to sound like an ass i just really dont understand

Those dumb as fuck super-mutants, thats why. They were just thrown in to be enemies, and never properly expanded upon....well, thats just one reason on a big list.

Didn't you do the main quest? It was pretty much explained were they cam from.

Yeah, but to be fair (and I say his as someone who has played and enjoyed ALL of the Fallout games, and who considers them ALL to be canon), what ISN'T really explained is how the super mutants, who were by and large solely a product of the first Fallout's Master, managed to spontaneously show up on the East Coast. They were in the third game largely as a nod to fans of the series rather than for any canon-sensible reason.

It may have been a nod but it was still done in a fashion that made it believable

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Super_mutant#East_Coast_mutants

 

[octafish]

Those dumb as fuck super-mutants, thats why. They were just thrown in to be enemies, and never properly expanded upon....well, thats just one reason on a big list.

Feral ghouls are what bugged me the most, they undercut the whole ghoulism pathos. Why are you so mean to those ghouls? Oh they invariably go feral and eat people? Kill 'em all, damn zombies. Stupid move.

 

[Guitar Gamer]

I say since Australia (though no doubt a great nation) doesn't really get that involved in giant wars............well look at this I like to think that Canada would be drastically different due to the different climate and wildlife.............and all that fresh water would provoke someone to purify it...........I mean if project Purity was the first time I'd be kinda disappointed.

 

[llafnwod]

It only takes the radiation of ten nukes to destroy the whole world, so even if it started in America, it would quickly spread worldwide and destroy Eastern countries.

What? The number of nuclear weapons tests that have been conducted to date exceeds that figure by two orders of magnitude.

As has been stated, and as cursory research will quickly reveal, the entire world was heavily affected by the war. Some places may have received less fallout than others, and some are making major strides towards rebuilding (the best known example being the NCR), but no power is in good enough shape to help or threaten anyone outside their immediate sphere of influence.

 

[Jfswift]

Is it ever made clear whether or not the entire world is effected by the nuclear death of the US or if the rest of the world is dead too. If the world is still alive, why is no one helping us?

Remember the android from the commonwealth? There are other colonies however technology is in such bad shape that communication is difficult at best. (that's a good point though, who knows maybe they'll expand out if the next fallout sells well)

 

[NEVRINx54]

you have to realize that (i wld assume) the world split during the "war" ... the democratic nations verse the communist nations, so... once one nuke went off it cause a massive chain reaction...

 

[Kurokami]

Well, China did not invade after it and no other nation came to aid the people effected by WWIII so It's safe to assume all nations were wiped out.

Incidentally, I played the game in Russian originally, gave it a completely different feel from "US got fucked" to "Holy shit, Russia invaded the US!"

It was excellent.

 

[spectrenihlus]

Don't forget Colin Moriarty who moved to DC from Ireland.

 

[TheGreatCoolEnergy]

i agree with all your answers but I pose one conundrum:

In Fallout 3, Allistair Tenpenny claims he came from England to make his fortune. How did he get to the US? The only way one could live long enough to have access to a working plane or a boat with enough supplies to go solo from england to the US would have been to be a pre-war ghoul.

Not nessecarily; the Enclave have the vertibirds afterall; he easily could have just lucked out and found some old English tech