Cabot House and Kid in a Fridge are not easter eggs like FO2's secrets and New Vegas's Wild Wasteland trait. Cabot House takes it to a whole new level, incorporating multiple locations, people, paths, and so forth, for some of the most dumb stuff I've ever seen in a video game.
It's actually one of the few quests to have more than a single railroaded path. Kid in a Fridge is fairly long and even has 3 ways to complete it, despite being the 2nd worst quest in the whole game. Meanwhile in Fallout 4 you have entire, LONG quests dedicated to the most stupid shit. Everything in Wild Wasteland is non-canon and just meant to be silly fun. New Vegas had aliens, but only 3 of them, and even then you had to have the Wild Wasteland trait to even see the aliens. I can't speak for the "time travel" part as I haven't gotten there yet in the game. Sure there's a ghost in Fallout 2 but that's a very short side quest that you could completely miss unless you take the correct speech paths at this one particular museum. Some might argue that Fallout 2 had some silly stuff, but it was still somewhat vague and out there compared to Bethesda.
In Fallout 1 we only found a crashed alien ship, and even then that was just meant as an easter egg, like the super rare encounter where you find a man trying to sell destroyed cars at an old car dealership.
I would say aliens are out of place, yes. The odd reference or "They're out there" tier sighting would actually be a benefit to the setting in my book. UFOs are an absolute classic pulp sci-fi story, and Fallout draws a lot of inspiration from that genre. Now, as a disclaimer I will say that regardless of what my thoguhts of aliens in Fallout are, Mothership Zeta was an awful DLC and the idea that aliens began the Great War is quite possibly the worst idea since placing a sex offenders clinic next to a school.īut yeah, are aliens really that out of place? I actually feel they're quite appropriate, what with the sci-fi craze of the 1950s with bulbous headed little green men being the most prominent among sci-fi images from that era. Now that Fallout 4 has released and we've been exposed to exasperated sigh inducing lore about Lovecraftian cults/horrors and ancient civilizations buried underneath the Earth, it's got me thinking that perhaps little green men in UFOs aren't that out of place in Fallout.
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