Ehhh... kind of? It's pretty heavily implied throughout the series that the Vaults were never actually intended to survive a nuclear war. Neither the government nor Vault-Tec really thought nuclear war was going to happen, so the Vaults were built more for social experimentation. Sure, there were a few control Vaults... but the majority of them came with some kind of catch meant to test its inhabitants' ability to adapt to harsh situations.Redlin5 said:For those who haven't, in the world of the games a private corporation and the government collaborate to build a number of blast and radiation proof shelters in which people can survive a nuclear war in.
Ugh. Assuming they were following the same path as the fictional U.S. government and Vault-Tec, they'd probably still be mostly for experimentation... and I have no doubt in my mind that the real-life government can probably come up with significantly more sickening ways to test people than the Fallout universe government.What got me thinking was what if our real world governments built vaults in co-operation with a private corporation as in Fallout?
Hell no I couldn't trust them. I have a hard time trusting that the government has the people's best interests at heart as it is. I'd rather take my chances out in the world. I live in pretty much the middle of nowhere with no major population centers or important military/industrial/infrastructure locations nearby, so my chances of getting killed in the blasts is pretty low. Whether or not I'll be able to survive out in the wilderness, who knows? On the up-side, I'm close friends with a few people with military training that live in the same area and probably have better-than-average wilderness survival odds. A former Army Airborne engineer, a former Air Force pararescue jumper, and two Marine riflemen (one of which a relative).Could you trust them after playing the games? Even if everything was perfect with them, would you be okay living the rest of your days in one? That's a long time to be in close proximity to other people and (presumably) with great restrictions on your freedoms for the good of the collective.
I also have a large collection of real-life bottle caps that I'd actually been collecting prior to playing any Fallout games. So I've got that going for me.
So yeah... screw being a lab rat in a Vault.