This is where you should look at the plight of the people and say, “My gosh! I’ve got to do something about this water shortage!” But these people already have two machines that can give them water: Their existing purifier, and Mr. In fact, they don’t seem to notice or care when their water pipes leak water all over the place.Īnd this is the first town you run into, when you would expect the writers to establish the stakes and motivate you to action. Megaton has no reason to exist, except some writer thought living around a still-live nuke was a very “Fallout” thing And to be fair: It would be, if the town itself had SOME justification for being there.ĭespite huddling around the bomb and radiation water all day, nobody in town seems to have any problems with radiation sickness, cholera, or dehydration. Or maybe move into the perfectly good abandoned town directly adjacent to their home. Megaton is built in a filthy crater and there’s no reason these people couldn’t improve their lot in life by moving their homes a hundred meters in any direction. They’re along the coast, or on roads between major cities to facilitate and profit from the mutual trade. They’re often on hills or in places that are easy to defend from attack. They’re near rivers or farmland or valuable natural resources. In the real world, cities exist for a reason. I guess everyone else in town is too busy with their non-existent jobs to take part in maintaining the only machine keeping them from dying of thirst? Also it doesn’t seem to be at risk of exploding or releasing massive levels of radiation, which is a problem Dad’s machine has.įor some reason, only one old guy in town knows how the dang thing works And given that you can wander into town and repair the thing for him, he must not be terribly good at his job. It works, it’s conveniently located, it’s smaller, it’s not filled with supermutants, and it doesn’t require any further super-science to make it work. Maybe it turns their raw sewage directly back into drinking water Vaults MUST do this to be able to operate for so long, so clearly this technology must exist in this world.? If so, then it’s more useful than Dad’s stupid gizmo. There’s a water purifier in town, although it’s not clear what water it purifies. There is no food, no source of water, and no valuable resources. The town of Megaton is built around a single puddle of irradiated water and an un-detonated nuke.

So now we have to get by on the strength of the relationships in the game. So the themes and premise of Fallout 3 are wrong.

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