Fallout VIII: Another Thread Needs Your Help General

[Mechalich]

The Capital Wasteland being an unusually devastated area has been the case since at least New Vegas, if not before. The Mojave, despite being a desert, is significantly more fertile, and the Boston area has significant amounts of ongoing farming, in with some farms recovered to the point that the are multi-generation concerns. 76 merely confirms that DC was unusually devastated.

Probably the high level of bombardment the DC area received led to a much greater level of groundwater contamination than in other areas, enough to reach a threshold that, rather than triggering a massive FEV-enhanced evolutionary response to develop a new ecosystem as seen elsewhere, everything just died off instead.

[factotum]

Well, one of the main plot points of FO3 was the attempt to clean up the Potomac River because there was so little potable water in the Capital Wasteland...not that you'd ever have realised that from any other part of the plot, mind.

[Caelestion]

I doubt that such considerations ever flitted across Todd Howard's mind, to be honest. F3 was an engaging-enough game, but the MQ was pretty terrible in every direction.

[Triaxx]

I mean DC being the capital meant it was a primary target, and was thus more heavily bombarded. It was mentioned, though only in interviews I believe.

[Spore]

I doubt that such considerations ever flitted across Todd Howard's mind, to be honest. F3 was an engaging-enough game, but the MQ was pretty terrible in every direction.

I assume they picked the area which was most heavily bombed to explain why the map is quite empty (they made Cyrodiil in Oblivion pretty hilly to cover the poor draw distance). So they didn't pick Washington and THEN decided it was bombed heavily. They thought about where the new game would make most sense.

Besides a single person does not decide something so big on his own. Not in an ongoing franchise.

[LibraryOgre]

The Mod Wonder: That's how this thread ends. Not with a bang, but with a whimper.