I’m very excited that Fallout 76 takes place in West Virginia. I’ve never been there. I don’t plan to. But it looks like a crazy, creepy place. Perfect for a new post-apocalyptic Fallout journey.
I don’t know much about West Virginia. Actually, I know almost nothing other than that on the map, it’s like the armpit of the Northeast…the South…or wherever it’s geographically considered to be. Eastern Midwest???
And I don’t plan on looking it up on Google or doing any kind of research on it. I want to maintain that cloud of prejudice, until at least I finish the game.
Because I have a lot of myths about that place.
First of all, you have the Appalachians inhabited with in-bred hillbillies who’ll eat you raw.
And also in those mountains are nasty monsters equally as vicious.
Then there’s the ghosts of the Civil War. Bones still left in them hills, crying to return north or south.
If any of these myths are even close to fact, imagine the place after a nuclear war…. And not too long after — Fallout 76 takes place only a few years after the big hurrah, and not centuries as in Fallout 3 and New Vegas. So, whatever crazy was in West Virginia will still be crazy when 76 is opened.
Yep, West Virginia, that sweaty smelly armpit on the map, is perfect for Fallout.
