When I played Fallout 3, there was a mission to help the rangers, with a special armor as reward. After finally playing New Vegas this year, I discovered the rangers are the elite troops of the NCR. Loosely related, in Wasteland 2 you also play a ranger.

Why are the rangers so present in post apocalyptic worlds now? Is this a cultural thing?

If I remember correctly, Fallout 1 and 2 didn’t have any rangers.

On a side note, I think someone at Bethesda has a kink for rangers because they are also in Starfield 😁

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Why are the rangers so present in post apocalyptic worlds now? Is this a cultural thing?

    Fallout was inspired by Wasteland and took a bunch of elements from it (and that’s why I’ve recommended the Wasteland series to people who want more isometric-style Fallout).

    If I remember correctly, Fallout 1 and 2 didn’t have any rangers.

    kagis

    https://old.reddit.com/r/falloutlore/comments/j0vbrr/the_difference_between_rangers_and_1st_recon_i/

    So, the initial Desert Rangers in Fallout existed in the form of a single companion in Fallout 1, Tycho, who was a Desert Ranger from Arizona. The devs confirmed this was a reference to Wasteland, the predecessor to Fallout which followed a group of Rangers keeping the peace in the post-apocalyptic deserts of Nevada and Arizona.

    https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Tycho

      • SSTF@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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        2 months ago

        As for the connection to Fallout 3, really it’s just because Fallout 3 transported a lot of content from the first two games regardless of how tenuous the connection was.

        In New Vegas, the Rangers obviously are a more natural fit to the game and as a continuation from the reference in the original. In FNV the Rangers were an independent group which has been absorbed by the NCR, though they still have a lot of autonomy. That’s what that big statue at Interstate 15 is about.

        I’m actually a little shocked there aren’t (to my knowledge) any Roger’s Rangers references in Fallout 4, given that the are Minutemen LARPing around.