Though confirmation of NPCs - or the lack thereof - is still yet to happen, Howard's presentation did hint that they may not feature in 76 at all. Every survivor, supposedly, will be an actual human, so how can Fallout keep the world interesting without a supporting cast?
While there's a lot to be said about the charm of Fallout's world, a lot of that charm stems from each title's cast. 4, for all its faults, had a stellar character in Nick Valentine, and New Vegas managed to make everyone forget about Matthew Perry's performance with an immaculate cast of heroes, villains, and just plain old passersby.
Compounding this glaring omission even further is the fact the game won't have the same amount of history as previous Fallouts did, with the game set just twenty years after the bombs first dropped.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
