Fallout is a lot of things, but it is, at its core, satire—a long and exhaustive example of where cold war-era browbeating could've led us: A world blasted, irradiated, and filled with Deathclaws. The furries might be excited about that last bit, but I like my insides un-gouged out, thank you very much.
Speaking to PCG's own Elie Gould, executive producer at Bethesda, Todd Howard—who you might know as the guy responsible for The Elder Scrolls and later entrants in the Fallout series, sans New Vegas—says that the dystopic, serious elements are "key to how the world of Fallout became what it is."
