The intro they speak of is the phrase “War. War never changes”. That article could have been a single paragraph.
His turns in Fallout are especially interesting because they’re his most iconic videogame work, and yet it’s only four simple words: “War. War never changes.” The intro to each Fallout game spins off differently from there, but those four words are an essential pillar of the series, every bit as thematically foundational as power armor or Nuka Cola.
I’m so jaded these days I can see a writer doing a few paragraphs, and asking an LLM to fluff it up.
Spain built an empire from its lust for gold and territory.
Hitler shaped a battered Germany into an economic superpower.
But war never changes.
In the 21st century, war was still waged over the resources that could be acquired. Only this time, the spoils of war were also its weapons: petroleum and uranium. For these resources, China would invade Alaska, the US would annex Canada, and the European Commonwealth would dissolve into quarreling, bickering nation-states, bent on controlling the last remaining resources on Earth.
In 2077, the storm of world war had come again. In two brief hours, most of the planet was reduced to cinders. And from the ashes of nuclear devastation, a new civilization would struggle to arise.
A few were able to reach the relative safety of the large underground Vaults. Your family was part of that group that entered Vault Thirteen. Imprisoned safely behind the large Vault door, under a mountain of stone, a generation has lived without knowledge of the outside world.
The intro they speak of is the phrase “War. War never changes”. That article could have been a single paragraph.
I’m so jaded these days I can see a writer doing a few paragraphs, and asking an LLM to fluff it up.
I mean, he says more than just the single phrase.
He narrates the entire intro and outro, all of its possible variants, various lines for ways you can die, etc, for the original Fallout.
Here’s the actual whole intro:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=VvRW46pyKCY
(Pearlman’s part starts at about 1:35)
Writers were turning sentences into full articles long before LLMs, though
True, but that at least took some time and effort. Now the production of slop has been automated.