It seems many fans are inclined to believe this view. Some who claim to be "in the know" and say they've seen the original design documents for the first game support this view.
However, I've noticed no such evidence in the Fallout Bible. There's no documentation about exactly how and when it diverged and this will never be addressed in the Fallout Bible - see above , but it did. You will have to take it on faith. Mistake on the part of the developers?
Fictional brands in the Fallout universe don't have to exist only in the branched timeline. There are a lot of NA tribes scattered all over the country -- and plenty individuals who are ethnically NA but do not live in NA communities -- so a fair number percentage-wise probably lived through the war in various ways.
Entertaining gems have been imported from just about everywhere, hence almost everyone will find something about which to reminisce. It reminds me of Mystery Science Theater. So they set out to make a future science that looked like what the Golden Era of science fiction thought that future science would look like if you can follow that sentence. Vacuum tubes, ray guns, mutants, the whole works.
And I think they succeeded quite well. I already had a few books with photos and documentation of the period.
I mean, I'm surprised by some of the things in the game! A lot of adventure ideas were variations on things I've seen in MUD's about 7 years ago at the peak of my playing. As far as books, oddly enough the book "Lord of Light" by Zelazny was an inspiration. Today, we have NATO standards so that allies armies can share ammunition.
But what if you could use the same ammunition type for powering a sniper rifle that you'd use for a devastating close-range weapon e. For a military force in the field, the flexibility of that would be immense.
Anyway, I considered the EWs in F:NV to have reached the point where they were starting to replace conventional weapons, but had not yet completely eclipsed them -- sort of like the early days of firearms, when they were still being used concurrently with bows. You won't find color screens - and certainly no flat-screen technology.
In the United States, a fortunate minority escaped to the safety of great underground Vaults. Only this time, the spoils of war were also its weapons: Petroleum and Uranium. For these resources, China would invade Alaska, the US would annex Canada, and the European Commonwealth would dissolve into quarreling, bickering nation-states, bent on controlling the last remaining resources on Earth. The war with China had finally reached its cataclysmic conclusion. After shipping several people asked me why China and not the old standby, the Soviet Union.
I made the choice when I remembered experiences with Oleg, a Moscow developer I worked with months before when I was assistant-producing a typing game. The setting is like this because this was how people in the 's thought the future would be like.
With atomic cars, robot helpers, and ray guns. People in the s never thought of transistors which is why there's no advanced electronics in this version of the future.
Originally posted by Bobs :. Last edited by Brownstone ; 20 Nov, am. The 50s is also when people thought atomic power would be the wave of the future - they even envisioned each house having its own little reactor - unlimited free energy. That's why things like cars and radios in Fallout are nuclear-powered. I guess the generators are, too. Originally posted by isengrim :. Amigo View Profile View Posts. Probably because it's a fiction. You can make whatever you want.
No real life weapons, cars, brands, etc. Originally posted by Mr. Bumblefoot :. Geoff View Profile View Posts. Fallout is an alternate univserse to our own. They did not invent the transistor in Fallout univserse until We invented it in in our universe, which has led to the computing technology we have today.
Were these records just around because the US never grew tired of them? Was "new" music produced in the style of 40's swing, and these tapes were kept around for reference? Or, the most drastic idea, were all of these singers born much later around in Fallout and thus had their peaks and primes around ?
But my overarching question is: how 50's-esque were the original Fallouts trying to be? And did New Vegas and 3 take that theme too far?
Indianajoneszilla , Feb 8, Pretty sure it was never meaned to be as retro as Fallout 3 made it. Me personally, before Fo3 was released, I did never thought of it like that, with all the 50s music around and such. It had all these style elements, but in the same time it also had some 80s stuff, like metal armor with spikes on the shoulder plates. Lexx , Feb 8, The fifties music in Fallout New Vegas gave the game a certain "vibe" for me.
Definately a different vibe than Fallouts 1 and 2, but I very much liked the New Vegas soundtrack. To me, I guess those songs are an important part of the game - even though others mute the radio as soon as they start the game.
I never gave it much thought beyond that though. Last edited: Feb 9, Censor , Feb 9, A very good question indeed. Like you said, the first two games gave us little information on what the world was like before the great war, leaving us to make our interpretations, and personally I rather liked that. It seemed to fit the theme more, the 'Old World' being sort of the 'lost civilization' in Fallout, with only scraps and remnants here and there.
Even the Enclave had a rather warped idea of what it was like, partly because of their own limited view. And yes, Fallout 3, and in part Fallout New Vegas took the theme to far though I don't blame Obsidian, they simply went along the route Bethesda had set out , with this obsession about the Great War, the Anchorage Reclamation, some people acting like they are in the 50s well at least the idealized version of it , Ghoulified Chinese soldiers, as if it only happened years ago.
I found it rather annoying sometimes as Fallout 1 and 2 had given me the idea that the world had moved on since, people remembered there was a nuclear war that had a severe impact on the world but for the rest they did not care much about it or what it was fought for as they had other priorities. The Dutch Ghost , Feb 9, Atomkilla , Feb 9, Though, if you ask me, yes, FO3 took it too far. I always considered the Pre-War era to be a mixed world.
From all years. But oh no! Apparently, the World was stuck in a loop. Mohamed , Feb 10,
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