Maybe it's just years and years of games like Fallout and Dying Light and Metro, plus a few decades of movies like Mad Max that take place after some civilization-shattering calamity… but I'm just a bit burned out on post-apocalyptic wastelands. Bleak, barren landscapes. Ruined buildings and rusted metal. Grubby survivors wearing tattered clothes. I've got wasteland fatigue, big time.
I think that's why my favorite places in Fallout games are the Vaults, places untouched (usually) by decades of rot and decay, and why my favorite parts of the Fallout show were the pre-war flashbacks, when the world was bright and colorful and alive (though still a dystopia).
