I was watching i am legend earlier and noticed that even though its not the sure story line or contrast at all, i feel the ideas have been shared between the two? as in the lone wanderer and dogmeat alongside will smith and his dog?

Because I am Legend was the first thing to have a lone wanderer and his dog? did you forget about The Road Warrior, A Boy and his Dog? or even Fallout 1?

No.

I Am Legend has a viral outbreak that makes everyone go bananaz.
Fallout has a nuclear holocaust that created an outlaw wasteland where raider tribes formed, mutants were created and humanity rebuilding.

That they are both post-apocalyptic doesn't mean they're any similar at all.

And him and his dog?
Fallout and dogs has been a nod towards Mad Max.
I don't think that I Am Legend is a nod towards either. I think it's to show that everyone around him has died and all he has left is a dog to keep him companion.
Sure, he isn't, technically, alone, but he still kinda is.

whoa whoa sorry didnt want to cause an argument, i know theres plenty of other books,movies etc that point in the direction that the wanderer and dogmeat are designed.
What im saying is that the feeling of being alone, with close to nothing left, and only having a dog companion/best friend at your side is shared between the film and the game

I see more Road Warrior, A Boy and his dog, Book of Eli & The road in Fallout 3 than I do of I am legend

Anyone suggest any good sites to watch a boy and his dog? really wanted to see it for a while

I am legend is based off of its book from 1954. There were 2 other movie adaptions before the 2007.
The last man on earth 1964 and Omega man 1971.

The movie your looking for can be found on the Youtube presently.
Sorry cant give you a link ... thats against the rules.

okay man, thanks anyway

You could PM it. Although I think if its on Youtube its pretty much fair game.

Anyway, I Am Legend is post-apocalyptic and that's about it.

Or you could buy the dvd like I did, totally worth it for a classic movie.

What I don't get from Fallout 3 is people saying "it has the feeling of being all alone." I never got that feeling. There are people everywhere in the game. Can't swing a cat without hitting a raider. The only reason why we are called "The Lone Wanderer" is because Bethesda's original idea for the game was to have no companions. Hence why all the companions are poorly thought out and they have no affect on the ending. Can't send them to turn on project purity. They were put in the game last minute.

I get more feeling of being alone in Fallout.

Too many raiders, mutants and wow-random-stuff-exploshuns and behemoths every few meters to be considered I am Legend-esque and desolate.

But I am seeing more Road Warrior connections though.

Fawkes is an companion though?
And im sure you can make him turn on the purifier?

You couldn't in the original game. Had to buy the Broken Steel DLC to let your ghoul or mutant companion turn on the purifier.

Yea, Fallout 3 definitely channels Mad Max! I mean a lot of stuff is based on "The Road Warrior", Leather armor, Dogmeat, the arena in "The Pitt"... I also think it as some similarities to "The Book of Eli".

Mad Max combined with 40's/50's music... what a combination eh? LOL LOVE IT!

Think of will smith as the lone wanderer and the monsters (Fred! How the [censored] did you get out here!) as ghouls.

Now that you mention it, some of the cityscape and medical lab equipment kinda reminds me of parts of I Am Legend.

Off topic.... sort of...
They cut out the original ending of "I am legend" (in fact they shot the ending in at least three different ways)
The most interesting one was imho, cut after test screenings... in this case... the "monsters" turn out to be intelligent and just attack Will Smiths compound because they want the female back..
Now that in my book would have made such a better ending.

Back on topic... I thinl your premise should be..: I am legend reminds me of Fall Out (or other Post apocalyps entertainment). Appart from the ending... they butchered the original story and made into a generic... NYC after men picture..loaning heavily from other post apocypse titles..

You do know I am Legend came first right? It's an "old book" where the Will Smith movie is the third adaptation of it. The Omega Man with Charlton Heston was the second. I have never sen the first. It pre-dates Mad Max and others. When did the post-apocalyptic theme start? How recent or ancient is it?

I gotta say...Fallout 3 reminds me more of "The Book Of Eli", simply because...

1. The Book Of Eli's setting is almost an exact copy of the Fallout 3 setting. Wasteland. Post-Apocalyptic, and merky.

2. Eli is seen as a lone-wanderer type person, just as Fallout 3's main protagonist is the Lone Wanderer.

3. Both Eli and the Lone Wanderer's motive is to make the Wasteland a better place(Lone Wanderer, with Project Purity and Eli, with reviving the Bible)

So out of any movie, i'd have to say that the Book Of Eli, is the most similar movie, out there to Fallout 3. Honorable mentions to both, I Am Legend & Road Warriorr, too.

Did I miss all the 50's culture, energy weapons, monster mutants, giant insects, dark lulzy humor and Power Armor when I watched Book Of Eli or something?

In the way that most of the world is a big take-all buffet of free stuff laying around for the main characters to scavenge over, yes.

In the way of being desolate, I suppose being out in the wastes minus being around raiders, yes for portions of the game. NV does better than that though.
Not to the level of I am Legend however.

Both have hidden dangers lurking around in dark corners that want to eat you.


I don't think than any ideas were shared. It's just very roughly in the same genre theme.

In no way, shape or form does NV do "desolate" better than FO3 (IMO). If there's anything that FO:NV doesn't do better than FO3, that's it. Sure, you're alone in the Mojave, but it completely lacks the emotionally desolate vibe of FO3.

And I am Legend is just a different animal altogether. The movie is all about Robert Neville, a sort of character study. From the player's perspective, the Fallout games are about the wasteland and its inhabitants. You can't really say that the Fallout games are driven by the character of the protagonist, since he/she has no more substance than the player gives them. The wasteland is the star of the show.

And the NYC of I am Legend isn't just desolate, it is devoid of intelligent life.

1. The Book Of Eli's setting is -ALMOST- an exact copy of the Fallout 3 setting.

I'm not saying that it is a complete copy(Obviously that would be copyright anyway). But you can't tell me that the Book Of Eli's bandits don't remind you of Raiders, The landscape doesn't depict the wasteland, Or deny the broken bridges, which are seen everywhere throughout Fallout 3. Sure there's cars, that work, in Book Of Eli and not in Fallout 3. Sure, they don't necessarily base off of 50's culture, as Fallout 3 does. All that, just supports, to why I said "Almost".

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