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“It’s very very hard to come up with a name for a game.
Could Fallout 5 be built by Obsidian?
The cover art of 1997’s Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game, the first game in the series.
But Cain soon realized that Vault 13 wouldn’t cut it.
Vault 13…2?
More Vault 13?'
The cover art of 1997’s Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game, the first game in the series.
It was a bad name,” Cain said.
“So that’s when I said that we need to come up with something better.”
“I asked people to come to the conference room and just throw out ideas,” Cain said.
Among these names, though, was Fallout.
I don’t think I mentioned Fallout.
My programmer brain back then was like, ‘Fallout?
“Brian came back the next day and said, ‘Why don’t you just name it Fallout?
Great name, it’s a word, probably won’t even be shortened.’
I suggested it to the team…boom.
Fallout is a nice short name.
Captures the essence of the game,” he continued.
“You say ‘Fallout,’ and you immediately think, ‘Well this is probably a post-apocalyptic game.
And it’s probably not a happy post-apocalyptic game.’
So Fallout fits perfectly.
And that’s where the whole series got its name.”
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