The Fallout TV show and all the hype around it kinda got me interested in Fallout again. It’s been a while since I really got into any of these games, so it was nice to be able to explore the world again. For all the negativity the game gets, they really did knock the environmental design out of the park. Bethesda always gets that. Well except for Starfield, but we don’t really talk about that one…
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Music Used:
Intro – Way Back Home (Bob Crosby and the Bob Cats)
00:40 – World Map 3 (Legend of Dragoon)
07:57 – Mining Town (Final Fantasy VII)
13:48 – Forest of the Nopon (Night) (Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition)
18:15 – interspace garden (Yakuza 0)
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I knew you’d Get me with one of these eventually you fucker
To be fair, society probably hasn't advanced much in those 200 years because of the massive groups that are so constantly battling over who rebuilds it all, and the people in this universe just really seem to love sabotaging each other overall…
"i havent spent 10 hours here like i did megaton"
…yet?
I was not suddenly expecting Xenoblade music
At first look the globe is not accurate. Czechoslovakia is split into Czechia and Slovakia. Which didn't happened till the 90
the globe is weird, because the baltic sea doesn't exist. I tried to look at the central/eastern europe part and saw a few things:
– Poland exists. At that point, Poland was not an independant country, gaining back independence in 1989. Actually, it should've all been Soviet Union
– Also Poland is landlocked by a country between Scandinavia and Europe that doesn't exist
– That country is… the baltic sea? So I guess the sea doesn't exist in fallout.
Edit: Also it's worth noting that Diamond City feels much like a lot of today's rural villages in Africa or South America, with the wavy plates of steel covering the walls. I actually can fully believe that in 200 years this is what the city looks like. Fallout 4 does have this problem where it doesn't do timescale much, but on the other hand DC looks actually realistic. It's not like Concord, where the decorations from 200 years ago are still there, this is a place that people live in. Of course it's going to have trash. And clutter and mess is from a design perspective how you communicate that someone lives here.
You know I just now processed that the workshop house turns from blue to yellow after the bombs drop
With the globe, internal USSR borders were sometimes shown, just like some maps show internal US borders these days. But the big indicator this is not the 1950s is that is has a unified Germany.
It's all a moot point anyway. Fallout's pre-war does not take place in the 1950s, it takes place in an alternate 2050s that has the style of the 1950s. IIRC Fallout 4's opening takes place in 2077.
your point about how the people of the post-apocalypse would want better / cleaner living + how it's an issue with the art direction of the series hits especially hard looking at how cleaned up + advanced a lot of places are in fallout 2 especially. seems like bethesda just doesn't like the idea of post-war society changing and moving on from living in nothing but wreckage and it makes me sad.
Fallout’s world design is really fun and quirky until you start to think about it too much. I still love the series though.
loved this! you should do garreg mach from fire emblem three houses, it's a really weird little environment. so much of it is barren but then there's all these little details in the characters' rooms. also, changes pre and post timeskip
It's been said before, but in a post apocalyptic, depopulated world, the negative connotations of trash become replaced with positive ones.
Refuse is full of scraps. Objects. Materials that can no longer be manufactured.
When monsters constantly try to eat you, civilizations that fuss about things like refuse die, and those that keep junk they can later use within their walls thrive.
this is so fucking weird i love it tho
The globe is internally consistent with in game lore country and land wise.
the thing with the globe is that althought fallout 4 looks like the 60's it is actually in 2077.
One thing that bothered me about most of the interiors is they're all horribly dirty… even though you live in a metal shed, you can still pick up the scattered papers and beer cans off the floor?
Regarding if they have concrete
They did in new Vegas. And there is a quarry in Fallout 4 iirc. They could have used it technically
Should the globe in the fallout universe not have a line between america and Canada because they annexed it?
This games a fucking masterpiece fuck you if you think otherwise
BRuh how did you not notice when analyzing the map that they accidentally colored in the entire Mediterranean ocean as if it was land lmfao
Its the 2077s when the bombs fell . The 1950s culture never left and tech went differently.
Its a retrofuturistic fiction post apocalypse future
11:53 bricks are actually relatively easy to make, just take straw (from grain and corn) and mix it with mud before shaping the mixture into rectangles.
Hey this was a super cool video, I loved it!
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
Honestly, in the post apocalypse where the sturdiest lock seems to be only a mere suggestion
Having a fully dressed mannequin that is just out of view enough is probably a good defense against potential burglars.
You see what you think is a person in a poorly lit room to the side, you gtfo because you think your cover is blown
Pretty sure ‘76 was in a hush hush dev state around the release of FO4.
As an expert historian for the time period of 2077 I can tell you that map IS entirely inaccurate
fort condor sound track from ff7 love it
Light house
Nate's house is NOT where the workshop is located. That is across the street ! 🤣
Not only did he get the date of pre war wrong but he missed on the map that the entire Mediterranean and red seas have been completely drained
Regarding that globe, Fallout isn't set in the 1950's or based off the 1950's. It's inspired by Retro-Futurism from the 1950's, set in 2077. So the globe wouldn't be entirely accurate to the 50's, especially considering the global conflict of the Resource Wars at the time before the bombs fell.
What can I say? I enjoy that lighthouse. Don’t judge me.