Why is the sky red on the cover art?

[TheHouseAlwaysWins]

I don't really ever remember this happening in the game itself even though it would probably look pretty cool in it.

 

[Vergil]

It's the glow from the Strip being projected onto the night sky.

 

[Dr Fallout]

Sierra Madre cloud anyone?

 

[Brahmin Noodles]

Must be the Illuminati...let's see…red is three letters, as is sky...three is the number of points on a triangle! Illuminati confirmed! So, to answer your question, I don't know.

 

[Vergil]

Because you touch yourself at night.

 

[Izak]

Could be a dust storm being lit up by Vegas, this is a dust storm being lit up by a sunset and it kind of looks similar.

 

[Spacemunkey]

When you use a BGS game engine to make a game you only get to choose 3 colors for the environment or the game crashes all the time instead only most of the time.

 

[TheHouseAlwaysWins]

When you use a BGS game engine to make a game you only get to choose 3 colors for the environment or the game crashes all the time instead only most of the time.

The ambient lighting changes in several areas of the game so I don't think that's entirely it.

Is the sky red for dramatic effect or was there going to be some kind of duststorm feature?

 

[Vergil]

I can't believe theres is more thought being put into the meaning of the red skyline on the cover of New Vegas in this thread than the entire writing team at Bethesda about the whole of FO4.

 

[Brahmin Noodles]

I can't believe theres is more thought being put into the meaning of the red skyline on the cover of New Vegas in this thread than the entire writing team at Bethesda about the whole of FO4.

I think you're underestimating how much thought poor Emil had to put into the big twist of FO4's plot...this time, your the father searching for his son! Or the even bigger bombshell: Shaun is really the leader of the big bad Institute! 10/10! Best writing EVER.

 

[Risewild]

Fallout New Vegas had a orange tint filter just like Fallout 3 had the green one. By this I imagine that the devs were trying to say that in Fallout New Vegas most outside areas have this red/orange desert dust particles, which in turn means that what @Izak posted is probably the reason:
It's a red/orange dust storm being hit by the New Vegas lights.

 

[Dr Fallout]

I can't believe theres is more thought being put into the meaning of the red skyline on the cover of New Vegas in this thread than the entire writing team at Bethesda about the whole of FO4.

Not hard, I put more though into how I pee.

 

[Vergil]

Not hard, I put more though into how I pee.

You say that but there are those tricky moments that every man has to face every once and a while.

 

[Dr Fallout]

Like deciding how to sleep? That's tough man.

 

[TheHouseAlwaysWins]

Fallout New Vegas had a orange tint filter just like Fallout 3 had the green one. By this I imagine that the devs were trying to say that in Fallout New Vegas most outside areas have this red/orange desert dust particles, which in turn means that what @Izak posted is probably the reason:
It's a red/orange dust storm being hit by the New Vegas lights.

Oh, thanks, that makes sense.

 

[Atomic Postman]

It's the colour palette of the game.

 

[Knight In Leather Armor]

Because the Sky Gods bled into the sky.

 

[Millim]

It's to symbolise the end of a good IP and the fact that Bethesda is opening up Hell and sucking Fallout in.

 

[Knight In Leather Armor]

It's to symbolise the end of a good IP and the fact that Bethesda is opening up Hell and sucking Fallout in.

This post is the answer to OP's question.

 

[Lexx]

I am not an expert, but I think the artist just painted something that looked cool.