If FO3 and FNV are any guide, we'll see affiliates/subsidiaries/branch offices of familiar brands, whose part in the rich tapestry that is Fallout lore has always been there yet never revealed until now. I've seen at least one picture of what looks like a Nuka Cola Quantum bottle in-game, so Boston may well have been one the "test markets" mentioned in FO3.

>Personally (and I may have noted this in an earlier F4 thread) the
>thing I'm most intrigued about in terms of setting the game in the
>Commonwealth is how they're going to follow up the plotline implied by
>the Replicated Man quest in F3.

Considering the Revolutionary War vibe that's cropping up, as well as info about the "underground railroad" that helps synths escape, I think we're going to have one of the major story arcs being an allegory for slavery in the US. With a bit of Red Scare mixed in, i.e. "Synths are among us, look like us, but are really against us!"

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CdrMike, Overwatch Reject