the weird thing about the fallout world before and after bethesda acquired the franchise is that the world before was like “yeah there was a massive nuclear war a few centuries ago but now civilization is unsteadily rising to its feet in the wake of a massively changed world and there are many examples of large civilized cities with electricity and amenities in factions filled with thousands of people vying for dominance across the continent” and after bethesda acquired it todd howard was probably like was like “Nah. How About Empty Crumbling Buildings. No One Does Any Cleaning Or Repair. 10 People Live In A Town And 3 Of Them Are Mutated Cows. Put A Skeleton In That Armchair, Don’t Let Anyone Acknowledge It”
and raiders in the Bethesda fallouts are like “YES we will live in this house, YES it is missing two walls and a roof so it really barely qualifies as an actual building, YES it has a basement filled with ten glowing ghouls and a deathclaw, YES there is only a flimsy wooden door separating us from that basement, YES we will not acknowledge any of this, YES we are doing just fine,”
