Allston straddles the gap between Boston College, a suburban Jesuit university that’s responsible for at least one Overthinker, and Boston University, which has a pretty good hockey team.

Once I shook off the cryosleep, my first stop was Allston, a borough of Boston proper. It seems to fit the tone: even the impartial Wikipedia describes Acton as “an affluent suburb”, and 3BR houses are available today in the low $600s.īoston: Acton - note the relative absence of ghouls (and of crane shots).Ī nice place to raise kids, but your author never spent any real time there. Given Bethesda’s need to compress eastern Massachusetts into a walkable distance, I’m going to stick a pin in the map in Acton, MA, a very nice suburb within the I-495 corridor. The Really Lonely Planet Guide to Boston and Environsįallout 4 starts you in the foreshadowing Sanctuary Hills, which lies somewhere to the near northwest of Concord. I decided to recreate my life in Boston within Fallout 4, to see if I could enjoy or improve upon the success I found in the real world. What town would the starting Vault be in? It was obvious what Diamond City and The Institute signified, but what mysteries could be found on the North Shore or outside the beltway? Could we rule over the fictional city that at times rewarded us, at times stymied us? When my friends and I read confirmation that Fallout 4 would be set in Boston, our next step was to map the game to the real world.

Simulated yard work leads to real lower back pain.īut better still, surely, is the ability to do that in one’s own home.

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