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Hey stagemonkey its possible that the Washington Monument was reinforced in this timeline considering FALLOUT 3 DOES NOT TAKE PLACE IN OUR TIMELINE. And this is the one thing i dont get: Rivet City is built on the Potomic in an aircraft carrier. My confusion is: How the heck did an aircraft carrier fit in the Potomic?

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Lovesmasher - 11 months 21 days ago

The tiny changes aren't inaccuracies. The first page of the manual has the story of the game which explains this is the future of an alternate version of earth. Small changes in archetecture, street names and art, in my opinion, were great ways of reflecting that.

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Skykid - 11 months 21 days ago

Good job with the article. I was just in D.C. last year. Very realistic, but could you at least put a picture of the Jefferson Memorial, or did I skip that.

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Urbansamuri47 - 11 months 17 days ago

I think the fountain stands for the begging and need 2 live. the women on the fountain are on their knees like they are begging for somethn. (water) they are holding up the basins like they need it and if you play the game you know ur tryn to restore water 2 Washington D.C. So it kinda makes since. also i noticed that the water is not running through the fountain and into the bowls. so it kinda makes since if you think outside the box right?

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Cwf2008 - 11 months 16 days ago

Lovesmasher...my guess is out of the 45 people who commented on this only you, me and 5 others actually read the manual

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-FABLExFAN- - 11 months 15 days ago

haven't played the game, (getting it soon) but is there some sorta fire fight that happens near the statue? it might purely be for cover because the one in the game is sticking out, and the one in real life is almost flat compared.... I don't know, just a thought.

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-FABLExFAN- - 11 months 15 days ago

Uhm, I bet LoveMasher is right, and CWF2008, I read manuals too XD

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wuzzleoqt - 11 months 11 days ago

This is an alernate reality thats why the fountain is different.

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madmanhulk - 11 months 9 days ago

mabye the change in the statue is that we must sit and contimplate what we must do next (girls sitting) and cleanse ourselves of wrongs in the past (basins). and that is presisely what fallout is all about

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Anonymous93 - 9 months 12 days ago

Id say they changed it because the history in the game is different to real history so they are trying to show the difference it would have on the architecture

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killemall - 9 months 12 days ago

maybe changing the fountain was just to emphasize the little differences in the timelines between reality and the virtual world... or something profound like that...

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CABride - 9 months 12 days ago

cant wait to see what Pittsburgh looks like

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crossed23 - 7 months 22 days ago

Great article guys.... Maybe they just did that on purpose to see if anyone could find the differences that they through in, hell I put 130 hrs in and I didnt see the whole map.

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jjrocks - 7 months 10 days ago

Am I the only one to realize that the actual Metro train is wrong? And they rarely care about Arlington too.

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dlimbach - 4 months 29 days ago

I don't believe this is the Dupont Circle fountain. It looks more like the Bartholdi Fountain outside the Rayburn House Office Building and across Independence Avenue from the Botanic Gardens. Not the same -- but at least the figures in that fountain are female!

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PandaGhost - 4 months 10 days ago

I don't think they thought about the idea that the game is set in year 2277

So minor differences might have been changes over the years

Idk thats my idea

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Trg564 - 2 months 7 days ago

If everything wasn't falling apart, it would look exactly like the real thing

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onewingedantista - 2 months 6 days ago

You guys should do a Fallout 3 vs. Conduit vs. Reality comparison. It'd be friggin' sweet!

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Rex_Maztar - 2 months 1 day ago

Just think about it, the fountain's statues are changed for a symbolic and poetic reason. They are holding water basins, do you remember the verse your father reads to you at the start of the game? "I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely," They personify the action of giving clean water to the wasteland.

That's just my theory, but it seems to make sense

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