Fallout 4: 10 Lessons It Must Learn From New Vegas

3. Address The Fact It's Been 200 Years Since The War

While the beating heart of Fallout is its setting in a post-apocolyptic nuclear wasteland, the vibe and decor starts to make less and less sense the more you think about. It's been 200 years since the war that decimated the country, and yet the vast majority of buildings and interiors still look as if the bombs have dropped over the weekend. Furniture is falling to pieces, there are broken mirrors on the walls, and most houses have rubble in at least one room. Has nobody been around with a dustpan and brush in two centuries? While the population of this world has, obviously, had some slightly more pressing issues to deal with - battling off mutated animals, dodging warring tribes, and trying to stave off the effects of radiation - the consistent aesthetic of destruction probably shouldn't be as rife as it is. While recourses and replacement material will be scant, Fallout 4 needs to either begin to show more signs of redevelopment or explain why nobody seems to care.