In 2008, a Fallout 3 player perfectly predicted the story of the fourth episode thanks to a particularly memorable quest from his big brother.
Although criticized for a more limited RPG aspect than its predecessors, particularly regarding the impact of most of our choices, Fallout 4 offered a rather interesting narrative arc involving the Institute and its controversial synthetics in the ruins of Boston. This notably via the conflict between the Institute and the Rail Network, a small group of synthetics seeking to free themselves from the yoke of their creators. However, the framework of the story of the fourth part, its illustrious elder already mentioned it in 2008, and a player then predicted where the sequel would take place, seven years before its release.
Institutional research into the past to predict the future of Fallout
Notice to veterans of the franchise, this should revive memories. Remember, in Fallout 3, in Rivet City, the emblematic city built in a disused liner. In our search for a former colleague of our father, we can meet Doctor Zimmer, who works for the Institute’s Synthetics Retention Office. He can give us the quest “The Replicated Man”, which tasks us with tracking down a synthetic, who turns out to be a member of the Rail Network. You can then choose to listen to either Zimmer or the synthetic.
As a reminder, Zimmer has this particularly interesting line of dialogue referring to the Commonwealth, the setting of Fallout 4: “ You only know robots from these piles of scrap metal. These Mr. Handshake or whatever. Well…that’s not ALL a robot can be…Not in the Commonwealth “. Following this, as noted by Upstairs_Value_5035 on Reddit, a GameFAQs user from 2008 then fueled the debate by wondering if the aforementioned Commonwealth was the same as the one we know, with the United Kingdom at its head.
Further into the discussion, tdpats12 then cracks a surprisingly perfect prediction of the setting of Fallout 4, seven years before its release. “ Several American states are officially called Commonwealth. Depending on which latitude they are referring to, it is either Pennsylvania or Massachusetts. I think Boston would be a great setting for Fallout 4. There are plenty of places that could make interesting “dungeons”like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard, Fenway Park… The city is currently recognized as a center of education and research, so the idea of finding cutting-edge technologies there in the future cannot be ruled out. ».
