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Original Fallout co-creator Tim Cain says 'critique of capitalism was never the point' of the games and if anything they're about how 'war is inevitable given basic human nature' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 117 points 3 months ago

VaultTec being evil wasn't really part of the first game, but the evil megacorp exploiting (and encouraging) disaster to put profits over human lives, that's an obvious critique of capitalism. Maybe he didn't set out to make it a critique of capitalism, but that became part of the foundation in later games.

[-] Ledivin@lemmy.world 45 points 3 months ago

Eh, does Vault-Tec care about profits or science? Almost everyone died, and the ones that didn't aren't paying anymore.

There are certainly some critiques of capitalism - the vaults being paid at all - but I think you're overselling it

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 52 points 3 months ago

Of course it cared about profits. Profits right then. That's one of the key components of capitalism. The complete and utter lack of an ability to put long-term profit ahead of short-term profit. I can think of nothing more quintessentially capitalist then destroying the world in an effort to make a lot of money today.

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

It needed the profits for even more radical science!

[-] Forester@yiffit.net 32 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Except for they don't care about profits at all.

The entire stick with the enclave/ valtek is they want to rebuild society from the ground up in an image that they deem to be correct and perfect. And the capitalism was just an end to a means

That would only be further reinforced by the slides from the X8 research facility in Old world blues if you complete all tasks.

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