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Editor’s note: This article was initially published in The Daily Gazette, Swarthmore’s online, daily newspaper founded in Fall 1996. As of Fall 2018, the DG has merged with The Phoenix. See the about page to read more about the DG.

Note: I’ll be spoiling portions of Fallout 4 liberally throughout this piece, both in terms of companion relationships and the main plot.

Bethesda Studio’s recent hit, Fallout 4, has received a lot of attention for the way it handles intimacy. Specifically, it allows for same-sex relationships, as good as allowing the player to have multiple carried on “romances” at the alike time. And, so, there are plenty of people hailing it as a great advance for both bisexual and polyamorous relationships, including a recent article on the Daily Gazette by Kyle McKenney.

The difficulty is, Fallout 4 is anything but revolutionary. The way that it has actually handled the presentation and possibilities of entity queer or polyamorous speaks more to developer laziness than actual careful reflection of minority experiences. The haphazard implementation of gender-neutral systems, present in one way but conspicuously absent in the next, hin