like oh wow ur game about exploring an untouched world where the punchline of every "joke" is that you're being exploited by an unfeeling corporation? man that's so unique that nobody who read that sentence realized I was talking about Journey To The Savage Planet because there's so fucking many of them
You know what I want? Universal jail time for all gamers
But if I'm not gonna get that, I want games that take place in a world we'd want to live in where the objective is to help it remain as such.
If someone pitched to me a GTA game set in a horrible word not worth living in the way they all are, I wouldn't care what city it's set in. It's been done. If someone said, "hey we're gonna make a GTA game except it's set in a nearly post-capitalism world and your objective is to try to protect your city from incursion by the forces of reaction" I'd buy that shit up so fast.
TLDR; why doesn't an inherently reactionary industry just pander to me? :/
That's because Fallout is the end stage of everything. Hyper-consumption destroyed the world.
I think one of the more interesting places in Fallout is the Ash Heap in 76. It's littered with protest camps because the state and corporations automated everything with no help given to people who lost their jobs, because of these protests many of the hazards left over are killer strike-breaking robots.
The air is poison, the ground is black and almost nothing is alive. Fires rage because they started burning mines because the smoke it created was able to be extracted and converted into a valuable resource.
An entire town was bought out and evicted because they wanted to mine underneath it (nuclear strikes underground synthesise a valuable ore) and once again provide no further assistance outside of that.
Above it all are giant mansions on stilts that belong to the millionaires who own the same corporations destroying this area.
There were no nuclear strikes here, there was no invasion or weird disaster. They already killed the world before the nukes even hit.
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Well that's the real tragedy of the Fallout universe. They had incredible technology that could have saved the world but they just didn't.
But yeah good point about the mixing of government and corporations. In the Nuka World DLC you can find out that the theme park doubled up as a military R&D department solely because the CEO was chummy with the government.