The future is not as bright as we feared!

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I just thought of something. What would happen to communications (roads, phonelines etc) if they don't get repaired for 160 years? They dissapear! In the book "Earth Abides" the writer captured it pretty good. It's like Stephens Kings "the Stand" but more realistic. Only after a few months without maintanse the roads were almost undrivable. The book's hero, a guy named Ash, is desperatly trying to maintain a civilaztion in his little village. When his yougest son who's very bright and techical dies he gives up. The book describes what happens to the sons and daughter of an Apocalypse, how superstition and "old" childrens tales turn into life. The children of the survivors don't know about money and stuff like that and take a lot of things for granted. They don't understand why they should be able to read and write. The book ends with Ash dying of very old age but not before he sees how things have changed. His great grandchilds have returned to being more uncivilazed. In the epilouge it's described how different people in different places adjust to their new life after the world has ended.
That's how I think that the Fallout world should be.

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"Call me a vagabond, and I'll smile. Call me a thief, and I'll laugh. Call me a liar, and I feed you your liver."
 
[font size=1" color="#FF0000]LAST EDITED ON Mar-29-01 AT 12:05PM (GMT)[p]Stopp right there.
No scattered roads and ruins?
That is what fallout is all about.:(
That was what was i disliked the most in F2 the "new" cities the new towns.NCR and so on. I like ruins.
Keep the ruins and the wrekked roads. that is what fallout is about. A dark and crushed world.
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The ruins of former town should stand for at least a few centuries. In Earth Abides the San Fran bridge stands for over a hundred years. What I want to say is that the Fallout world is destroyed enough! I think it was Xotor who said that society should have been rebuildt in 160 years but think about it: If your little town in the middle of nowhere just survived a nuclear war, is your first concern figuring out what happened to Washington DC or whatever the capital of your country is?

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"Call me a vagabond, and I'll smile. Call me a thief, and I'll laugh. Call me a liar, and I feed you your liver."
 
I HATED Fallout 2 for its rebirth of civilization. That and new, shiny weapons, and the way they butchered Enclave idea, and for F2 not being retrotech

I totally agree with this. But i don't really care about that retro thing. It's good as long as they keep it under leach. In apocalypse they went a bit too much for retro, and it wasn't so funny anymore :-(
 
What do you mean that FO2 is not retro? I agree that they could have gone further on the retro ideas presented in F1. It's the off-topic content that I, anyhow, found irritating (e.g. "The Brain" and Animaniacs.) I mean, it's funny when they have little references to other productions in random sentences over the heads of unimportant NPC's, but when semi-important characters are making you remember silly cartoons instead of a wasteland, they've gone too far. On the other hand for the retro content,they did have Tommy Guns :)

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That's one of the problems - Tommy guns are not retrotech. Retro, yes, but not retrotech. Retrotech is "Future of the Past - Today". Holodisks instead of DVDs, 10mm instead of 9mm... Fallout universe is only tangently connected to the real world, you can't put mobsters and real-life weapons in it (with nifty exceptions, of course, for the purpose of niftiness).

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Yeah, how come everyone's literate, huh? How can your characters use books? I can understand a vault dweller learning so, but a Tribal?
 
RE: 8-ball has a point here, folks (N/T)

Well... it's simple. The reason is... He's the son of the vault dweller. Okay, descendent. Or whatever. Point is, he's like the village's next chief.
 
RE: 8-ball has a point here, folks

I was agreeing with "Yeah how come everybody is literate" line. In short, why so many people practice slavery, but are literate despite the fact that books are centuries old, and no new ones have been written?

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