Fallout 1: Yeah, things suck, but there’s a couple small towns and small factions where there’s relatively less rads I guess.
Fallout 2: It’s been a few centuries since the war, so we’re doing okay. We’ve got quite a few large sized cities, factions, and emergent forms of entertainment, though these large raider gangs are still Trouble with a capital T, they’ve got understandable reasons and cultures.
Fallout New Vegas: We’ve recovered enough to start having major wars between factions again, as one of them has become a corrupt democratic nation with many issues Pre War America had, as a neo reactionary patriarchal slaver nation/tribe opposes them and won’t stop until either they or the nation they’re fighting are dead. You can talk to or negotiate with almost everyone, though-
Bethesda Fallouts: this is my home and it’s made out of sheet metal. i’m the only man within a 20 mile radius that won’t just kill you. there is a 3 way war between 6 super mutants, 10 raiders, and 4 insane cultists 5 feet from my rickety tin shack. there’s a rotting ghoul corpse on my floor. he’s called steven.
It’s true but you shouldn’t say it
God, this is why I wish my ideas for Fallout 4.5 / 5 were put into practice
well i guess this is it 