This is also reflected in the storylines of slavery and abolition, as a repetition of what many consider to be one of the nationвЂ™s greatest sins points to a sort of cyclical nature of man destroying himself and then fixing it before doing it over again, similar to the children of Israel in the Old Testament.

These are not things lost due to the war, they are direct causes of it. This idea is further pushed by flipping 50вЂ™s culture, a period seen as idyllic and idealistic to most Americans as a point of great prosperity and joy, into a reminder of the excesses and ignorance that cause tension with other countries. In this aspect the game also leans on the tradition of the American Gothic, which uses the faded architecture and symbols of hope and liberty and flip them into shadowy areas where people seek to hurt their fellow man, opposite of the American spirit of brotherhood. The setting of the nationвЂ™s capital drives this point further, as the ruins and piles of debris of symbols of a world superpower show what is reaped by the things the pursuit of power sowed. Humans and their trivial pursuits of power and wealth are the cause of the apocalypse in the first place, choosing themselves over the вЂњwater of lifeвЂќ initially through the Great War. Throughout the story, humankind and the wasteland itself become the two central character in the story symbolically. (Satan) In between the two is to be a regular human, whose utter depravity and boundless potential for good are explored over and over again through the various factions of people one can run in to. In this, you choose to become an embodiment of hope and truth (Christ/Messiah figure) or an embodiment and manifestation of evil, seeking to kill, destroy and steal. Then, from each point and major choice in the plot, you can choose whether or not to create life or death for various groups of downtrodden people across the wastelenad, literally choosing between being alpha or omega. To the thirsty I will give freely from the spring of the water of life.вЂќ This points to a loss of this innate hope in the form of your mother, and while your father tries his best to raise you and force you into the same path, eventually he has to leave and in order to fulfill this verse and mission, and you have to follow in order to find him. Your father raises you, and the only remaining memory of your mother passed down to you and taught to you by your father comes in the form of a quote from scripture, in the book of Revelation: вЂњAnd He told me, вЂњIt is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. This establishes from the get go a world devoid of innate affection, tenderness and love. From the moment your character is born you are greeted with blinding light within the safety of the vault, followed immediately by the death of your mother. The strength of the Fallout games as storytelling comes from a few points of strong tradition as far as literature goes. So the other day my friends and I were discussing what we all think is the best story in all of video gaming from a storytelling/writing perspective, and while my friends contended Far Cry 3 and Red Dead Redemption, I explained why Fallout 3 has the strongest story of any game I've ever played and figured I'd share my explanation with you all to get your ideas about it.

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