With Fallout 4 rumors coming and going what felt like every week, it was an incredibly happy moment when people saw this trailer and knew that the wait was finally over.
The person reaches out, revealing the Pip-Boy and Vault 111 suit they're wearing, and pets the dog. The dog sees somebody walking down the road and runs towards them.
This one is more Tears of Joy, but the very end of the trailer. Let's throw ANOTHER layer on the trauma-cake, and think about how Big Mountain's Revolutionary Fission-based psudo-replicator technology was a potential solution for the underlying resource crisis RESPONSIBLE for the war, that came too late. Even more more heartbreaking is that a protagonist who participated in the war that pushed China to launch the nukes actually has reason to feel personal responsibility for the end of the world. Imagine leaving the hell represented in Operation Anchorage to marry and start a family, only for the bombs to fall only a few months after your son is born. Even more heartbreaking is the implication that the male protagonist is a veteran of said war. Then the bombs had to cut that fantasy short. After the oil shortage, riots, plagues, martial law, and a decade of war with China, everyone probably just wanted to get back to their lives and pretend like everything was back to normal. Even more heartbreaking is how it was just a facade. Considering how the world will eventually end up, it's so heartbreaking to see it. How peaceful, how colorful, how lively it was. 
We finally get to see the life before the war. It is now 10 times more tearjerking now that the couple is confirmed to be the protagonists. Just after the flashback with the parents and the baby, we see the dog perched on the crib nosing at the old toy that hovered over it, completely unaware of the life the crib once held. 
Only a few actually make it inside, the rest are left to die as the bombs hit and blow them away.
Before that it shows dozens of citizens (including children) panicking and making a frantic run for the nearby vault after the news broadcast announces the start of the Great War. The pre-war flashback shows a couple tending to their newborn baby in its crib, then later showing all three of them about to be blasted away by the shockwave after they get locked out of the Vault. Props to Bethesda for taking a somber (though still beautiful) song and making it tug at our heartstrings more than the writer of the song ever intended. Especially after witnessing what happens to your wife/husband and son. Skeeter Davis' "The End Of The World" will make you feel sad when it plays for the first time. The song they chose for the reveal trailer? "It's All Over But The Crying" by The Ink Spots. 
Just in the trailer alone, with both the 2077 segments and (likely) Dogmeat.
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