In Fallout 3, why do most pre war artifacts reflect a 1950's style?
Friday, May 4th, 2012 at
10:59 pm
I am a huge fan of this game, but I can't get my head around the fact that the nuclear apocalypse happened around 2078 and artifacts left over from this day and age mostly reflect a 1940-50's style. Examples of this being the vintage coke machines, jukeboxes and TVs as well as the music played on GNR and the 50's style advertisements.
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In the original fallout, the bombs fell in the 1950′s when nuclear war started with Russia (I think it was russia, it may have been the chinese though)
So civil technology stopped, and all the effort went into building weapons and military things like Vaults, so they were stuck in the 1950′s when it came to anything civilian or culture related – the world literally ended, all entertainment stopped and everything became about survival
hence why they have laser rifles and things like that yet they don’t even have microwaves or any other modern inventions that arent used for military purposes
Thats the old story, but the designers wanted to keep the original 1950′s Fallout theme for the third game, but to make sense to why they would have complicated laser and plasma weapons they changed the time frame a little bit further into the future
third world, like they show in the movies
It’s just a theme choice. Maybe society in 2077 went back to that retro design just because it’s cool (or it will be).
Hey yeah good point, I never thought about that, it’s weird, the whole game seems to be based on that 1950′s style, the old fashioned cars, the hairstyles, the kids in the vault wearing the jackets like they’re out of happy days, but then there are the guards (featured on the cover) lasers etc. I dunno I think it just seems to work well. It’s such a hard game, i’m not very good at it, I keep dying and go back to playing nba 2k9 haha
Because there was no cultural advanced after the 50s, which is when the Cold War begins.
So it stayed the same.