To be fair though, it’s only been within the past two hundred years that we’ve seen progress like this. Before that, there really were generations between significant advances.
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Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoFunnily enough, that was one of the major complaints fans made about Fallout 3. For some unfathomable reason Bethesda decided to set it generations after the first two games, yet the Wasteland hasn’t changed at all despite it now being centuries since the bombs fell.
Come to think of it, they did the exact same thing with Skyrim.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Gwyntale@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
While I would argue that that’s untrue - societies have had huge shifts over for atleast 4000 years - we’re not neccesarily talking about big societal changes here.
The people in Fallout 4 STILL live in completely wrecked houses. Holes in the ceiling, shattered windows, debris on the floor. Are you telling me no one has cleaned up here in over 200 years?
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Are you telling me no one has cleaned up here in over 200 years?
Can’t argue with that. There’s no excuse for leaving all these 200 year old scraps of paper all over the floor.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
I’m not sure how well that comparison holds, though, when there’s fragments of tech everywhere for survivors to tinker around with
grue@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s one of the things that annoys me about Fallout: it’s just so unrealistically barren. I mean, we have real-life examples in places like Hiroshima and Chernobyl, and the reality is that pretty damn quickly after the bombs, they’ll be just as green again as normal. Don’t get me wrong, obviously there should still be mutated creatures and ruins and stuff, but it should all be super-overgrown, too.
Not to mention, centuries is plenty of time for civilization to at least clean up a lot of the debris and such, and even make decent progress recovering. Realistically, the state of the world in Fallout is more appropriate for a setting a decade or less after the war.
LucidNightmare@anarchist.nexus 2 weeks ago
There was a mod for Fallout 4 that made it all green and full of forests. It was awesome to me, because after awhile, the barren wasteland gets old to look at!