Fallout 4: according to the design director the protagonist is a war criminal, then he recanted

Emil Pagliarulo, the design director of Fallout 4shared a controversial piece of information online about Nate Q. Falloutfour, the hero male standard of the game: it is a war criminal. According to what was said, he participated in the execution of Canadian partisans during the illegal occupation by the United States in 2070 and was one of the two soldiers seen in the introductory film of the first chapter, apparently not the one shooting (go to 0:50 to see it).

Pagliarulo shared this curiosity to participate in the renewed success of the Fallout series, made possible by the launch of the TV series on Prime Video. He simply wanted to make known a connection between Fallout 1 and Fallout 4 that few would have imagined, as he himself declared: “Given the great vibes of recent times and the millions of fantastic Fallout fans (I'm talking about you!), I feel like it's It's time to share an unknown connection between Fallout 1 and Fallout 4. Remember the opening cinematic of Fallout 1? The annexation of Canada.

Fans are fans

Since he was talking about the character of a fictional universe destroyed by a large-scale nuclear war and characterized by very strong tones, we imagine that Pagliarulo did not expect the response he received from the players, some of whom were literally shocked by the revelation and immediately raised the pitchforks and lit the torches. He just wanted to share one curiositybut many didn't take it well and began to offend him, so much so that he was forced in some way to retract with a subsequent post: “I wanted to share what I consider to be a nice curiosity about Fallout, but I didn't understand how divisive it could be. I should have. .. Not all Fallout information you share is automatically part of canon.

The hope is that Pagliarulo does not suffer too many backlashes from what has been revealed, because after all we are talking about a detail linked to a character that can even be modified with the game editor. Furthermore, it is probably a link created internally, for use by the writers and designers of the series (so much so that it cannot be learned in any way by playing Fallout 4).