I dunno about others but a single Fallout spinnof game using 80s music would be nice. I think most of us were born in the 80s so nice fit.

What do others think of the idea.

BTW: i didnt use search so forgive me if this has been asked to death already.

Fallout Tactics uses rock music in the intro and that pissed alot of people off. Still and awesome game and everyone should play it

The Burned Game also had more modern music in it and that really pissed people off..

So it is a bad idea to have 80s music in Fallout. If you want 80s music in Fallout play the music in the background or get a mod.

Ooooh, 80's music, love that [censored]! Then I can have my http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XdL1QAil9U in my Fallout!

But no, just because I listen to music of the 80's-90's (and born '92) I don't want that in my game. I never listen to 40's-50's music in my sparetime, but I love that [censored] in the Fallout games, it's much more fitting. The lyrics and the music is so cheerful, but have you seen the landscape you are walking in? Some lyrics even fit! And of course it fits the whole 1950's American Dream culture going on before the war.

And btw, when people say 80's music, I always think of music like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCuMWrfXG4E&ob=av3e or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ&ob=av2n


Fallout Tactics had a cool old-school rock riff in a very fitting scene, I don't think that music was too un-Fallout but it was kinda as "modern" it gets. I don't have anything against that soundtrack.
The Burned Game on the other hand hand frikkin heavy metal in it! No hate against chemical elements, but that was just... no. Along with the rest of the game.

But as you said, people want different music, play it in the background or get a mod.

I wouldn't really like it, but to each his own!

The only 80's /70's song that would fit qould be the rocky song or sympathy for the devil/rolling stones

It wouldn't fit the universe, though I am slowly working on a post apocalyptic game where the war happened in 83, so 80's theme and music everywhere.

80s music would be odd coupled with the 50s Americana aesthetic. If a PA game was going to do the music justice I think it would need a setting tailored to that. Actually it would work quite well, you could have the Sino-Soviet split escalate in the late 80s instead of peter out, get the whole world on high alert, set off a nuclear war in the early to mid-90s and there'd you go.

But then, that wouldn't be Fallout.

I love my metal but it wouldn't do to well in a Fallout world.

80's music would fit more with its predecessor http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWIvEZUn_xQ.

If "rock music" pissed people off... then maybe they should recognize that rock and roll came about in the 40s and 50s. Chuck Berry, is 50s. You have Littke Richard, Buddy Holly, Fats Domino, etc etc etc.

Now, 80s music...well personally I wouldn't care, cuz I can understand some things remaining retro, but creative expression? I never understood. But there plenty of 50s and 60s Rock n Roll that I see no problem, and how someone could be pissed about that, I wouldn't understand.

For rock music similar to 80's it depends on what you want to count as being in the fallout universe, some people consider some 60's stuff in it, like early 60's stuff. So The Rolling Stones could possibly fit into fallout, their early songs at least. They could probably fit the beatles in there. But both of those bands copyrights are definately more expensive than the stuff they use.

Please don't think it pissed me off. Like Savage said Tactics had that old-school feel to its intro music. I don't mind that at all, but there were people upset with it. I am not one of them. I think there should be more 1950s era "rock music."

I understood what you meant, which is why I said people.

But I am one of those people. >_>

I am no music expert but the music used in the intro sounds like 1950s Chicago blues type music. Interesting to note, Inon Zur did the music for Tactics, Fallout 3 and New Vegas.

Brain Fargo was the guy running Interplay when Fallout, Fallout 2 and Tactics was made. Not sure why I brough that up lol. Pre- Herve Caen coming in a screwing things up.

I don't think so, that sounded more rock and blues fusion. I prefer that classic Americana style. I think the Fallout universe Pre-War worked like Groundhog Day (The movie with Bill Murray), the cultural norms kept at that bordering a 'new idea', Elvis was still VERY big apparently, long after his death, hippies and counter culture was in it's infancy. But the prevelant attitude of an American were 'classic' 'normal' behaviours, more so in an era of an overly hostile America who was willing to throw anyone even SUSPECTED of Communism to the wolves.

The 1940s and 1950s had rock and blues, so a mix of both.. what is wrong with that?

Because A. Rock music didn't see REAL advances until the end of the 1950s more or less. And Blues was more prevelent in the South and black concentrated populations. But my real problem is that the Tactics song ISNT a 1940s/50s style of blues. I'm from Memphis, I've lived around Blues music most of my life, I know that isn't era friendly Blues.

I'm from Cleveland, Ohio. That does not make me an expert on all things rock 'n' roll. In all actuality however, I am quite familiar with 1950s culture. During the mid-late 50s, the formation of a group known as the "beats" or "Beatniks" occurred. The beatniks were primarily white expressionists. There were a lot of them, and they typically listened to blues and early rock. the beatniks were what caused rock to become increasingly popular throughout the 50s, and even slowly evolved into the hippies of the late 60s. The thing is, once the year changed to 1960, rock did not magically change into another style that "isn't era friendly Blues." The transformation was slow, just as the transformation from beatnik to hippie was. Thus, there are late 50s songs that sound more like something from the 60s.

Chicago has a history of Blues music as well. The North is where many black people fled from the South and started communities there. Rock music at the end of the 1950s more or less is still the 1950s. The Electric Guitar was invented in the early 1930s.

Should just say google Jack Karouac. Lol.

I wasn't inciting I'm automatically a scholar of music, I simply meant I've heard enough styles of Blues hear to know that song in the intro is NOT 50's blues. That's a more modern Blues track.

@Styles- It's not an issue of instrument, it's the style used. The style of blues in F:T is something you'd hear in some hard rock/blues band. Not authentic blues.

Well I have been trying to find out if the song in the intro is a real song, but it seems it was just created for the game. But messing around on youtube and playing some songs on there, it sounds like something BB King would have done. Yes I know he is from the south and not from Chicago.

Depends on what you define as "Blues Music." Again I am not a music guy but I am sure there was a rock/blues type music alot like the intro to Tactics in the 1950s.

I know a guy thats really great at IDing music just from playing a small part of it. All types of music from the last 100 years or so, he has crap loads of albums. Next time I see him I will ask him to listen to it, see if he can find anything that matches it.

Myself... I don't think they'd be playing 1950's music in 2077 onward (except by styled "chance", for some dramatic in-game cutscene).

I look at the series prior to #3 and can only assume that they had their 60s, 70s, and 80s era culture ~always influenced by their 50's aesthetic... but only as an approach to design.
How would a Ipod be in their future (as opposed to "They can't have Ipods! They didn't exist in the 50's!").

My (private) assumption is that 'Lawrence Welk' and 'Ed Sullivan' didn't get cancelled, and Woodstock got raided before it started to rain; but that groups like Cameo and Toto would have had their altered equivalents; perhaps keeping to 50's beat patterns, and never losing aspects of 'Swing' as a crowd-pleaser. IMO the 50's aspect of Fallout (while real and entrenched in the core setting), has been a bit misconstrued in later years, by uninvolved developer teams... I really wish one of the original crew would go on record proving me wrong or somewhat right.
They invented the setting from scratch after all... In terms of origin, their opinion is the rule, no?; (and I don't mean Chris & Josh).

**As for an 80's choice... Nothing would beat http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1tTN-b5KHg while using a super sledge; or (70's) playing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1mV_5-bRPo in some mad science lab fighting FEV reanimated zombies (or "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXyFy7ixr10" while fighting robotic snipers in the same lab).

Or (lastly... and this ones' really bad); playing "I'll stop the world, and melt [with] you!"

You do know who Chuck Berry is, right?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0HmFr7mPsk&feature=youtube_gdata_player

And of course Memphis, written 58 or 59

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msOCFqpVLBY&feature=youtube_gdata_player

And Memphis again, not in sync but netter quality sound, imo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Rrtdt1iko4&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Now may not be a perfect match, but similar to what they aiming for in the intro, I think.