It was 1979 but still ==> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwuy4hHO3YQ

How about this? Anyone who wants 80's music, or whatever music they want, playing while they travel the wasteland kicking mutant ass, they can just mute the ingame music and then turn on their music in the background. How's that for a slice of fried gold?

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mhmm, I don't even listen to the radio in the new games, I don't know why people make such a big deal about it. Just give me great ambient background music please, that is all.

Agreed. I don't listen to the radio in Fallout 3 or New Vegas. I only like it because it makes the game more real when I walk into a room such as a bar and the radio is on.

More orginal music such as the songs J.E. Sawyer wrote and preformed for New Vegas.

I think some of the blues/rock from the 60's and 70's would really go well with wasteland

Things like:

Bobby "Blue" Bland ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2vCAqdFx1s
David Coverdale ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10WcB0w-YGY
Deep Purple ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ5quMAjfs0

I think music should be bad for the player. You can enjoy your tunes, but with negative effects.

For example you are walking through a cave with some super mutants. You approach them and they hear:

"Wasn't long before the story was relayed to Texas Red
But the outlaw didn't worry men that tried before were dead
Twenty men had tried to take him twenty men had made a slip
Twenty one would be the ranger with the big iron on his hip
Big iron on his hip"

And they just are supposed to ignore that... I don't think so.

true, it should affect stealth, or does it already?...heck maybe you can even make it affect NPC reactions in certain situations, or maybe make it part of a quest to play the radio or a certain song to someone at a certain time, who knows.

80's muisic is [censored], there i said it.

Everyone has their own opinion

also, what's a Palidin?

a palidin is a soldier in BOS

I could be wrong, it's been a long time since I last played Fallout: Tactics - but wasn't the intro song Jimi Hendrix? (If so - time-wise, it was only about a decade off. )

As far as the Fallout universe is concerned, I've always tended to go along with the rationalization that their universe went through it's own cultural shifts and evolutions, and that the world in 2077 was seeing a time where 50's Americana styles and attitudes had made a come-back.

By that theory, as far as we know there very well could exist music recordings from Fallout's punk period, or 80's electronica or pop movements.

However, I do feel there's a difference between what fits logically within the lore of the franchise - and what fits stylistically. And I don't think more modern music is a fit for the specific and unique aesthetic that we're working with, here.

Paladin*

From what I could find out the intro song to Tactics is Orginal music created for the game. It still has that early 1950s blues rock sound to it IMO.

BADASS MUSIC. I know i keep spamming this threat, but BETH ATLEAST SOMETHING BADASS LOVE SONGS DONT FIT IN A WASTELAND FILLED WITH MUTANTS RAIDERS CURROPT POWER MANIACS AND DICTATORS (and hokers lets not forget them )

This!


It's some original piece written for the game, because you can't really find that song anywhere and that's the only thing I've heard, that it was made for the game. And it doesn't sound too modern, I wouldn't mind of some more of that music was to be in Fallout 4, like some radio station that plays a bit "harder" stuff, but still something not too far away from the 50's, I'd say 1965 wouldn't be a bad limit? Of course it could be implemented in lore that pre-war, this music was frowned upon by many parents hehe.


That's why it fits Fallout so good, it's so cheerful and happy, or a sad love song, while the wasteland is not cheerful and happy and people don't care about petty love problems. It's the huge contrast between the two which is so great and fitting. Then of course there are some lyrics that do fit with the setting, like "Maybe" for Fallout 1 and "I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire" (for obvious reasons) for Fallout 3.

What should be fitting with the dark, gloomy, scary, depressing and not-so-cheerful wasteland is the ambience and ambient music. Sounds like the creaking electric towers, music like the Necropolis soundtrack from Fallout 1.... those are good and creepy stuff that fits the wasteland, but the actual music played on ingame radio should be that cheerful, "the world is so beautiful" 1950's music which contrasts with the whole setting. And mostly for, as Styles said, enhancing the atmosphere when walking into a wasteland bar and there's music playing.

[censored] (not serious just something you say, dont report me) please. i would rather want to hear a BADASS song in a junk fortress while aiming my bigass... ''GUN'' at some raiders that are trying to [censored] with me. my opinion, songs that are about the exact oposite as the game, style or watever dont fit the game, no they disfit it (or something like that idk what word fits in there)

What exactly is badass a song?

Sounds like you should go play Fallout Brotherhood of Steel if you want 'badass' songs.

Music that totally fits a wasteland is either sad music like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gT6AnrDwew, intense music like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMnVp4p0ns4&feature=relmfu or creepy music like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtBgcnV8Ztw. Oooh, guess why I picked those three. Music that does not fit Fallout or a wasteland setting is songs like Drowning Pools "Bodies".

TBH, it all depends on the wasteland.
There was modern(ish) rock music in Tank Girl. Cartoonish movie, sure. but it was still set in a wasteland.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY21sgDnCrU is another movie that has wasteland music thats from the 80's and doesn't really fit the catergory of Fallout or The Road if you want to take the "ambient" music route.

Welcome to the jungle would be a fun ambush tune in some wasteland. But not a Fallout one, i dont think..

Yes, and the Fallout wasteland is a place where there's cheerful 50's music and gloomy ambience like Fallout 1,2 and The Road I don't see where BADASS music fits into that, I like the contrast how it is now. And if someone doesn't like the 50's music (which also is kind of ambient music like when you walk into some place and they have a radio playing a nice tune) then that person can just mute the ingame music and have his BADASS playing in the background? Not hard at all.

Lets just throw some of that Lil' Wayne stuff in there, aye?

But seriously, The beginning of November Rain would make me cry if it was in Fallout.

agreed when it applies to fallout..

But not when it applies to wastelands in general.


And of course (with the mute and self play tunes). As
ive said in this thread, I play some Gen Patton VS X-Ecutioners pretty regularly...
Sometiems even some Melvins.....

OHH OHHHH, I got it!
What about Fantomas doing music for a Flallout game??? Ambient (and not radio station) music of course.
oh... that would be, as the chilluns say, teh awesomesauce.

Devs, I hope you're taking notes.
I know Buzz would be on board. He will do anything that gives him a commercial outlet.
Mike Patton.. Hmmm... I knw he did some voiceover work for Darkness and digs making "soundtracks" so, I bet they would do it.

*ring Ring*
Answer the phone, its an awesome idea on the line!

Still not seeing how Johnny Guitar fits into a nuclear torn wasteland filled with war and mutants. Well like Mcdonalds always say: HAVE IT YOUR WAY. (or was that burger king?)
Anyways i like i dont want to set the world on fire (until that [censored] cowboy starts talking the lyrics like some fake ass wannabe) and the song about the tower on the strip (cant remember the name) and i think i heard a song that sounded like rock in tabithas radiostation once (Look idk what maybe i was hearing things, but it sounded like rock, and it was a long time ago)