Hope comes from trying to not just live in this awful place, but thrive. On one hand, you have a role-playing game set during a horrific future in which nuclear war has decimated the population, forcing humans to become scavengers, fighting to survive alongside mutants and monsters. The Fallout games are collision points of two disparate forces. A radioactive scorpion could attack at any moment, sure, but when Billie Holiday is in your ears, the end of the world doesn’t seem so bad.
There’s nothing quite like listening to “Crazy He Calls Me” as the sun rises over an abandoned highway.
