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The level of effort BGS seems to have put into FO4 is beyond words for me right now. This is absolutely amazing and I look forward to roaming the wastes while blasting the game's music!

Damn that song is really good.

I like the song

Though I find it hilarious that thier celeb voice cameo is the wife of Zenimax's CEO. Bet they got her to do it for free,

Or for very cheap at least, considering it seems like they also gave her full creative and ownership rights (she's considering using it in her band's shows/future albums).

And ya, Good Neighbor is amazing.

Nice! Listening to the old tunes in FO3 (and previous installments) really puts you in a state of mind of what the world was like before it went to Hell.

Can't wait.

The era is halfway into their second millennium. The music should not be 1950's tracks. The Fallout series used those tracks to allude to the golden age before the war, but not in their present day; for that they used music indicative of the emergent [non-50's] cultures of the wasteland.

The 50's sound is fine, but actual tracks from the 1950s are as inappropriate as playing 'actual recordings' of 1700's music on commercial radio in 2015. These original 50's recordings should not exist except as [incredibly rare] artifacts from the past. These would be magnetic reel to reel recordings ~possibly erased by EMPs; with few (if any) surviving players to play the tape on. Kids in the Fallout world may love the 50's beat, but would they actually love their parents music? (or want their own, from their own generation ~of 50's beat.) It would have been better IMO to have contracted 'new 50's music' that alluded to Fallout's politics and world events... 50's pop songs that mention ghouls; or a pop-singer that was a ghoul. Battle of the green Berets re-written for the power armored infantry. Such a missed opportunity ~again.

You mean Wonder Woman? She also did a voice in Oblivion I believe.

There are radio stations that play all of that now.

And how do you know that there wasn't a retro revival before the war? You don't.

They are on records IIRC, which is why they have survived the war, while basically all music from immediately before the war didn't, since they were on magnetic tapes/holotapes that got erased.

Yes,

Great song.

The music she produce is in current era music,pay attention to the lyrics.

I bet there be a some kind stage where the NPC is singing it too beside the radio.

I didn't read the who article.

EDIT:

I just read the part she is indeed in the game.

Alas... Records are even less hardy than tapes... at least tapes are armored. Records would be mostly ruined after 350 years.

Do have even heared the original song (there are 4 more) doesn't seem so.

Seems that you haven't used records and tapes in a long time. Vinyl is pretty durable if stored correctly. Tapes loose their magnetism over time about 3 years they keep the inital magnetisation (but also don't care about a EMP that much).

And radiation shouldn't cause giant mutant animals and ghouls, and there shouldn't be any *magic* virus one can get dipped in to turn into a super mutant, and a lot of other stuff shouldn't happen.

Its a game based on scifi b-movie stuff, realism doesn't apply, never did.

I have just spotted the other thread, and it could be a good thing (if they did commission native tracks); we'll have to see [hear] it when it's released.

You can already hear one of them on https://bethesda.net/#en/events/game/facing-the-music-in-fallout-4/2015/11/02/42

You know you've made it when you're CEO of a major software company and marry Wonder Woman.

I have old Chess label records (and others) that have been through a hurricane and subsequent looting, and know what happens, and what you are left with.

This is a mistaken point of view in this context ~IMO. "It's magic" should never apply to the Fallout setting. The game has a reality within its context. No Deathclaw would suddenly turn into papa-smurf after stepping in radioactive goo.

Liking the song, we really should get more original music, the one's we had in NV were great as well.

And they REALLY want to make sure we know we're in a post-apocalyptic world given some of those song titles.

I'd mentioned End of the World by Skeeter Davis on an earlier thread and it looks like it's in!

EDIT: Ooops, it was actually Robco Protectron that suggested it; I agreed in my post.

I love the music of the 50's. I've even a 50's station on Pandora that I listen to often. Of course, growing up in that era helps I'm sure. And when it comes to Fallout games, I think it's important to the "feel" of the game. It creates a feeling that could not be accomplished by any other era of music. And while Fallout is not set in the 50's like many think, it is an alternative timeline based upon what people in the fifties though the future would be and having lived then, I can tell you that we sure did love our music and thought it would never die. I assure you we never thought it would become what it became in the 60's or 70's and Rap would have never crossed our mind.

Yeah, I can't wait to hear the rest. Since Lynda Carter's song has that jazz feel which it timeless, it too will fit well in the mix.

So they where stored correctly then ?

But sorry for your loss seriously all cynism aside.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws

1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

The GECK is magic, FEV is magic, radiation is magic, its all "magic" within the context of the setting, because it was "magic" in the movies they borrowed the ideas from.

And if its so mistaken why did the devs of the older games find it ok to do it in NV? Or is this just another example of the devs having lost their way from the perfect visionary game that is Fallout 1?

No no... I have them, and they are mostly fine ~but show signs of damage; including having been soaked and Sun-dried [bonded to the paper labels]. Some warped by the heat.

Proper storage would not matter if the house was destroyed, and or looted afterwards. The records were subject to harsh conditions for weeks/months... But in Fallout ~it was for centuries. Pristine records would only be found in a vault; one that was kept by an eclectic collector... for who could bring their record collection to a Fallout shelter during an evacuation? Just imagine the FO4 scene; the run to the vault... carrying three crates of vinyl LPs.