The Fallout world

TowerWizard

First time out of the vault
Because of the 50's/60's athmosphere in the fallout games i always figured that (while playing fallout 2) the fallout world was a kind of parallell universe where the cold war turned not-so-cold.

Now i read that the bombs went off in 2070-something, so now i wonder why the 50's feel in the games? Should'nt it be more futuristic?
 
Coz it's set in an alternate future, where the world developed otherwise. This is called RetroFuture.
 
Fallout's world has an alternative timeline from a period estimated to be somewhere around 1948-1953 (the "Freeze").

The basic concept is that the year 2077, the year of WW3, in Fallout's world looked like people in the 50s imagined it: 50s society structure still exists, technology is nuclear-powered and vacuum tube-based technology with huge computers, but also with functional robots and wrist computers.

It's not meant to have a "logical" development from the 50s to 2077, the timeline doesn't bother with that. The year 2077 is simply how a Sci Fi Pulp writer could've imagined it in 1954. It's the World of the Future from the 1950s. It's that simple.

"Our" cold war has nothing to do with it.
 
Well, I think it's obvious from the games it's not totally seperate from what happened with us. Personal Computers on desks and things still look the same. Certain modern design conventions are present too in other ways, such as the Vertibird in F2 (extremely similiar to modern experimental VTOL craft).

Personally, I always interpreted it as our future, except simply things culturally swung around to a 50s vibe. If it where really just the 50s continued wouldn't the war have happened with the Soviet Union? That was my reasoning anyways. Given all the docs and general consensus I'd imagine it is that it's supposed to be an alternate reality.
 
El_Smacko said:
Well, I think it's obvious from the games it's not totally seperate from what happened with us. Personal Computers on desks and things still look the same. Certain modern design conventions are present too in other ways, such as the Vertibird in F2 (extremely similiar to modern experimental VTOL craft).

Personally, I always interpreted it as our future, except simply things culturally swung around to a 50s vibe. If it where really just the 50s continued wouldn't the war have happened with the Soviet Union? That was my reasoning anyways. Given all the docs and general consensus I'd imagine it is that it's supposed to be an alternate reality.
Yes it is. Because there are no transistors (and hence no microcomputers) either. The USSR also still exists, and there are a dozen other examples. It isn't just our world with a 50s vibe, it's an alternate reality.
 
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