Why is the music in fallout 3

[Pjanoo]

All 30's - 50's?

I mean, the nukes did fall in some futuristic year. So why is there only 50's music?

[Warforger]

Well if you notice pretty much all of the technology is primitive, I mean not one computer has a mouse for example and seems to be one step above having to use hole punched papers to read data.

[Jester]

You couldn't be more wrong there, buddy.

The Fallout universe is parallel to our own up until the 30's-40's, when it splits into a different timeline in which we apparently quickly develop robot and advanced military technology and America gets into a nuclear war with China and shit gets fucked up.

Or something like that, it might not be exactly right, but you get the jist of it.

[SevenSeize]

At 6/25/11 12:11 AM, DirtyMeatball wrote: You couldn't be more wrong there, buddy.

The Fallout universe is parallel to our own up until the 30's-40's, when it splits into a different timeline in which we apparently quickly develop robot and advanced military technology and America gets into a nuclear war with China and shit gets fucked up.

Or something like that, it might not be exactly right, but you get the jist of it.

No, you're pretty dang close. It's supposed to mimic the war propaganda that overwhelmed America during WW1 and WW2, but the technology is either more or less advanced in certain areas.

This game is what the creators think would have happened if the bombs did go off and how the world would have adapted in the post apocalypse. Like you said, an alternate timeline.

It's a bit strange, being retro and futuristic at the same time, but I love the combination.

This link explains how the game took 40s and 50s science fiction and used that in some of the worlds' creations

[phrozonfire]

The music is stuck in my mind.

I shouldn't have left GNR on while travelling.

[MiroDK]

From what I've remember reading, the game is set on a different timeline. Although they are more advanced than us in nuclear fission and such, they are far behind on computers and such, and the setting is on the 40's 50's mentality, like how they, at that time, imagined how the future would be.

Also, the game is set much into the future, but the records and such are all played by what was able to be salvaged from the nukes.

[SevenSeize]

At 6/25/11 12:41 AM, phrozonfire wrote: The music is stuck in my mind.

I shouldn't have left GNR on while travelling.

Now it's in my head too if it makes ya feel any better

At 6/25/11 01:14 AM, MiroDK wrote: From what I've remember reading, the game is set on a different timeline. Although they are more advanced than us in nuclear fission and such, they are far behind on computers and such, and the setting is on the 40's 50's mentality, like how they, at that time, imagined how the future would be.

Also, the game is set much into the future, but the records and such are all played by what was able to be salvaged from the nukes.

And you're right too good sir. I found a post on another forum (no mutants allowed--another fav of mine)

"Fallout is set in an alternate timeline that diverged from ours in the 1950s. In the 21st century, it looked like the future as imagined in the 1950s pulp science fiction. E.g. instead of transistors you have huge vacuum tube-based computers with artificial intelligence and monochromatic terminals, robotic servants, a pseudo-utopian society based on 1950s values, black and white TV, music from the 1950s considered all-time classics, and most modern musical genres never appearing, etc,. Weapon development was also different from ours and thus plasma and laser weaponry was introduced, 10mm became the most common ammo type, etc. The modern high-tech weapons were never created - instead, weapons based on how people in the 1950s thought 21st century weaponry would look like are used."

Sci fi from the 50s was used a lot in the creation

They even went as far as to make a timeline

but if you get too deep into it, you wind up discussing a ton of politics. And then it's just no fun for anyone. It's just a game.

Hope we could help you OP.

[MrPercie]

This is why I was getting angry with fallout new vegas

if the game is supposed to be 1930's-50's then why do we get modern guns like the assault carbine (m4 carbine), the berrata 50 calibre and other weapons

so music stays the same for 50-100ish years after 1950 till when the nukes hit but all gun designing and making just so happens to stay the same.

[IrishGun]

At 6/25/11 06:39 AM, MrPercie wrote: if the game is supposed to be 1930's-50's then why do we get modern guns like the assault carbine (m4 carbine), the berrata 50 calibre and other weapons

Sorry for being picky, but the weapons you're thinking of are the Colt Model 733 and the .50 version of the PGM Hecate.

so music stays the same for 50-100ish years after 1950 till when the nukes hit but all gun designing and making just so happens to stay the same.

Check out the links that the mod posted above. They should fill you in on enough of the Fallout lore that you'll understand. In the Fallout universe, sometime between the 40's and 1961, their timeline and the events that occured within it start to differ from ours, but the culture and music from that period stays the same.

[MetalBox]

The Fallout world exists in an alternate timeline that split away from the history of the real world following World War II. Up until the Great War in 2077, the Fallout world was dominated by the distinctively American culture of the 1950s, though with a far more advanced technological progression. The Fallout world's setting is heavily influenced by the science fiction anthology Worlds of Tomorrow, which was released during the Golden Age of Science Fiction in the 1950s.

[Cyan60]

Butcher pete is choppin'

that meat!

[Danavers]

At 6/25/11 06:39 AM, MrPercie wrote: This is why I was getting angry with fallout new vegas

if the game is supposed to be 1930's-50's then why do we get modern guns like the assault carbine (m4 carbine), the berrata 50 calibre and other weapons

Yeah Fallout 3 did a good job with having the Chinese Type 56 but not any AR-15 variants.

[camobch0]

The culture and fashion remains the same as it was in 30's to 50's.