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In short, Cain says “I like this show.
I like it a lot.”
And he’s not particularly bothered by the lore controversies, either.
Be warned, of course, that somemajor spoilersare set to follow.
That is hard to do - trust me, I know how hard that is to do.
But they didn’t."
That’s what gets me in the feels."
That made me go ‘ooh that’s so Fallout-y!'"
So do I."
I would like to play the sequel now.
I want to know what’s going to happen here.’
Cain asserted in aninterview last year that it was, in fact, China that started the war.
But in flashback sequences, theshow depicts Vault-Tec executives making plans to drop the first bomb.
“Yes, Vault-Tec did talk about nuking first,” Cain acknowledges.
But I don’t think they nuked first.
I really don’t think they did, because Barbara didn’t strike me as a stupid woman.
Would she have sent her daughter to a birthday party on the day Vault-Tec was gonna nuke?
I think they were planning on nuking.
But I don’t think they nuked.
I think they were a bit caught off-guard too when nukes came in."
The other big lore controversy is overhow the timeline deals with events established in Fallout: New Vegas.
“I know people were complaining about the dates being off,” Cain acknowledges.
“Well, you’re right.
Maybe they are off?
Maybe what was taught to the kids was wrong.
Maybe it was deliberately wrong, maybe they were lying to the kids.
They lied to the kids in Vault 33 about other things, why not lie about that?
Cain also posits an even more interesting theory: “Or maybe the dates in the games are off?
Maybe Fallout: New Vegas, some of the characters in that game got the dates wrong?
There’s no master calendar you’ve got the option to refer to.
Maybe people got off.
Maybe people had the years wrong.
Or maybe they’re just unreliable narrators.
“Every single Fallout game changed a little in the games that came before,” Cain says.
“It’s always happened.
The lore’s always drifted a little.
Fallout 2 changed some things in 1.
Fallout 3 changed some things in 1 and 2.
Fallout 4 changed some things in 1, 2, and 3.
Cain readily acknowledges that “I’m not in charge of this anymore.
Basically, anything Bethesda does from now on, that’s canon.
I think it’s fun to talk about this, though.
I don’t think it’s fun when people make personal attacks about it, so cut that out.
