Fallout 4 Artist Explained Why the Game Has Such an Autumnal Atmosphere

At the very early stage of the project, I organized a trip for the art team and the environment teams to Great Falls Park — it actually separates Maryland and the District of Columbia. It was late autumn, all the leaves had fallen, the grass had turned brown, the trees looked bare and dead

This is how our world should look. So we went on a field trip and took a bunch of photos. How the grass looks, what the overall color palette is, and all that stuff.

It was important that the world still felt dead. It should still feel like the height of winter: there is still no life, people are trying to recover and build something, but nature has not yet been able to do the same [...] The world was so destroyed that it simply wiped nature off the face of the earth. And even hundreds of years later, it has not been able to recover. Late autumn became the inspiration for our team on how the wilderness in the Boston area should look.