Does anyone else find it a sad tale?

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Does anyone else find the fallout story line to be rather a sad tale/idea? (especially fallout 1-2)

I myself find the story line sad, which is part of the reason i like the fallout so much, it adds a bit more depth to it...

What do you think?

(By sad, i mean in terms of is that the fate our future relitives/planet may one day be similar...?)
 
i agree but in FOT the ending was the best part it kinda left you to think about what could happen.
 
I think the saddest bits are the ones you can't affect for the better. Like Mrs. Bishop, Broken Hills, etc etc etc.
 
Bear in mind that Fallout is set in an "alternative timeline" that was in the same one as hours, but around about the 1950's it changed.

The 50's & 60's classic advertising methods are there, and even though technology excelled massively - what with Power Armour etc. etc., the TVs are still in black & white and there are old classic cars and what have you.

The 50's was a good style to base Fallout on, because it was back then that people were terrified about Nuclear War, fearing it could happen in their life-time, because of the Cold War Crisis etc. etc. Fallout was based on what people at the time believed a post-nuclear world would look like - mutated critters, ruined cities and miles upon miles of empty wasteland etc.

However, I agree the whole prospect that man could simply destroy itself because of it's greed, selfishness and lust for power is a very sad thing indeed. The intro scene of Fallout demonstrates a feeling of sadness and desolation - the camera pulling back from a flickering TV and showing a wrecked cityscape, only accompanied by the lonely sound of the wind blowing through the empty buildings...

...terribly sad, but a good warning to us all. It's also a hell of a fun game!
 
I reccomend reading a short book called "Brother in the Land" by Robert Swindells...

It's a story about a teenager who one minute is a normal guy in a normal town somewhere in England...and then WW3 happens and he survives by hiding in an old WW2 pill-box a few miles outside of his town where a nuclear missile hits...and the story goes on to how he and the other survivors eke out an existance in this new post-nuclear world...

...but it too is also very sad. Even more sadder then Fallout because it's set in the modern day, not far in the future, and is more realistic on what life would be like.
 
Well, I think it's not a sad but rather terrifying idea. Or maybe ... exciting?
The first time I played Fallout I actually hoped for some a-bombs to drop (of course always being sure I'd survive the war).

Oh and by the way, hello to the people dedicated to Fallout! I just happened to replay it the (imagine-a-huge-number-here)th time and again I could only marvel at how such a great game could exist!

--
If ignorance is bliss
Then knock the smile off my face
 
That also reminds me of a very good post-nuclear book about a young woman who attempts to live after a nuclear bomb explodes, and she's the only one to live in her secluded rural valley. It's a very good book as well. I will look at that book, however. It sounds intriguing.
It is called Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O'Brian. Here's an Amazon link:
[link:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0020446500/qid=1040699121/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/104-5235780-9286347?v=glance&s=books&n=507846|Z for Zachariah]
Also, here's a link to look at the book that Tikitang mentioned:
[link:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0192714910/qid=1040700782/sr=8-2/ref=sr_8_2/104-5235780-9286347?v=glance&s=books&n=507846|Brother in the Land]
However, it should be noted that both the hardcover and softcover are out of print, as well as on Barnesandnoble.com. Fancy that!
 
Bittersweet Endings / Fallout / Lord of The Rings

It makes me sad that the Vault Dweller goes through such great lengths to save Vault 13 only to be cast out to wander the wastes. But the best endings ever written are those that are bitter-sweet. The mixing of joy and pain makes an ending more real. "And they lived happily ever after..." is not real. My favorite bitter-sweet ending is that of the 'Lord of the Rings'.

THIS IS A SPOILER WARNING FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NOT READ 'THE LORD OF THE RINGS' AND DON'T WANT TO KNOW!!!

When Ring is cast into the fires of Orodruin, both Sauron and his tower of Barad-Dur are destroyed. But so is Gollum and any chance he had to redeem himself and live of his own free will.

Aragorn weds Arwen and they live happily for many years. But, when time claims Aragorn's life, Arwen wanders in sorrow to abandoned Lothlorien, until her unending grief finally claims her as well.

Frodo survives his ordeal, but cannot endure the suffering of being separated from the Ring. The knife-wound on his shoulder pains him and his missing finger is a constant reminder of his ordeal. Finally, not wanting to burden Sam with his suffering, he leaves the Shire he worked so hard to save forever, by taking the ship at the Grey Havens, never to return.

There are far too many examples of bitter-sweetness to list here (and after all, this is a Fallout site not a LOTR site).

END OF SPOILER WARNING (AND JUST WHAT EXACTLY DOES ANY OF THIS HAVE TO DO WITH THE ENDING OF FALLOUT?)

I think Frodo's ending and that of the Vault Dweller are very much alike. They both saved their homes, but were forced to depart from them in sorrow.
 
Oh, Mrs. Bishop....
I found that her life tragedy happens at astoundingly high rate in this real world. How many time does a once noble and innocent woman turned to be it's opposite during her later life??? imagine that....

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