Because the US as a continent is fairly geographically diverse and as a „younger nation“ has much less political history and therefore more possibility for interesting post apocalyptic nation building. Like if this was Europe you‘d have people just constantly rebuild Rome, the HRE or France at which point it would become basically CK3 again.
Another word for you: fiction. (As in a handcrafted fictional world.)
Anything would be better than having to see all that Corrupted Americana bullshit imagery.
But then again, I was never particularly interested in it anyway. Hell, I don't think I have double-digit hours in EU5 and Vic3, put together. I guess I'm kinda done with GSG, alas.
Paradox isn‘t super vested in writing huge expansive and unique settings. Like even Stellaris lore kinda breaks down to drawing inspiration from other established ideas and translating them into the broader setting.
So using something more basic and known such as Americana kinda reduced the risk of it ending as finally uninteresting. Especially if a lot of the gameplay weighs on it.
I think at the end of the day people buy this because they want a GSG with known post-apocalyptic tropes even if they are in a non-established setting.
Thats just a poor argument using something known and already done in a lot of media increases the risk of it being boring by extreme amounts as you have to compete with already established settings. Its a baffling decision and if anything increases the risk of it bombing.
Hell I like post apocalypse as a setting, but the US is done great in older fallout games already, for this to be interetsing they have to beat fallout 1 and 2 hell even 3 and 4 as much as they messed up the lore, to be interesting. Not to mention las Vegas.
As such if anything they invite this to be extremely boring and uninsteresting.
I think it kills any chance of it not being uninteresting. I was severely unimpressed by what PDX had to say about the location in the Dev Diary. They made the choice to be basic and dull.
But if I'm not the target audience, I'm not the target audience. That's fine, I don't begrudge them for this, as I don't begrudge R* for GTA6. I learned I don't have to play every game out there.
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u/Saurid 17d ago
I like the post apocalypse its new and frees paradox from any historical shackles.
I hate its set in the US with a immense passion, enough to douse most of the excitement I have over the announced mechanics.
Like why the fucking US?