Quote Originally Posted by Mark Hall View Post
And Fallout 4 is the same thing. New Vegas did a bit of work, building off Fallout 2, but the core worldbuilding of the game seldom feels like it's supposed to be centuries past the apocalypse.
Fallout 4 has in the background that the Commonwealth was well on its way to building its own version of the NCR. Until the Institute roflstomped that idea.