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Bethesda confirming the Fallout 4 protagonist is in fact, the least fascist and least bloodthirsty suburbanite. (hexbear.net)

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[-] porcupine@lemmygrad.ml 28 points 5 months ago

Could someone explain the missing context? I will not be going on Elon Musk's X dot com.

[-] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 39 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

So one of the main devs for Fallout 4 revealed as a fun fact that the protagonist in Fallout 4 was one of the armour soldiers from the intro of Fallout 1 where they execute a canadian prisoner of war, so according to the geneva convention that constitutes a war crime since the protag participated in the execution by not stopping it

[-] Aryuproudomenowdaddy@hexbear.net 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

How does that even work. Weren't they frozen as the bombs were falling, didn't wake up for 200 years and would have missed the events of the other games.

[-] axont@hexbear.net 24 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The intro to Fallout 1 shows an in-universe news program depicting events from the US annexation of Canada, which happened between 2072 and 2077. The dev is saying the male protagonist from Fallout 4 is one of the soldiers in the footage executing a Canadian insurgent.

So at some point the male protag was in the US army sometime around 2072. The bombs fall in 2077, he's frozen, then he's awoken in 2287.