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Sephiroth_C_Ryu posted...

I can only speak for myself, but it annoys me because of how much Fallout just perpetuates bad myths about just how bad nuclear stuff is.

Because unless there is some lore I am missing from just watching people play the games, the world is still mostly a brown wasteland over a hundred years after the nukes fell. Even Chernobyl basically became a wildlife paradise less than 20 years afterwards since it is apparently more detrimental to wildlife to have humans nearby than it is to be in an area made radioactive by the worst single nuclear release in history. The ones that take place in what used to be a desert like Vegas have an excuse because its still a desert.

There wasn't tons of radioactive dirt thrown into the atmosphere with Chernobyl the way there would be with a global scale nuclear war. There was some, but nothing on the scale of a fullscale nuclear war.

The bombs dropped in Fallout, based on cold war weapons, would be between 10 and 33 times the size (cold war nukes were ranged between 250 and 750 kilotons) of what was dropped on Japan. Each. Chernobyl was single blast of roughly 225 kilotons (if my math is correct) There was also significant work put into trying to mitigate the damage caused by Chernobyl as opposed to the fallout world where nothing was done because of the world was completely devastated.

Things still wouldn't be as bad as the Bethesda Fallout's brown color pallet would have you believe, but it certainly would look nothing like Chernobyl does now.