I'm having some fun with Mad Max and wonder to what extent you think it is a pleasant appetiser ahead of Fallout 4.

I think it's different enough not to spoil the Boston wasteland, though your experience may differ....

It has similarities and dissimilarities:

Similar

• Post apocalypse
• Raiders
• Looting
• Dog

Dissimilar

• Linear plot (no branching)
• More arid environment
• A lot of driving

To make this thread relevant, I request we keep in mind the relationship with and to Fallout 4, it's not simply a discussion about Mad Max.

not at all if you ask me.

mad max and fallout feel totally different, alternate apocalypses if you want - wouldn't wanna go into fo4 with the mad max feeling (like, no humour or irony whatsoever etc

I'm inclined to agree with this person. I played Mad Max for about 4 hours last night and it's nothing really like Fallout in anyway other than they're both post apocalyptic.

oh boy, stupid me - i thought this was about the MOVIES.

just took it from your "i played..." that there's a game , just watched the trailers

---> i want that game! )

Haha Well my previous statement still stands. There's nothing really similar about the two other than both are post apocalyptic. Fallout New Vegas would've had more in common since both would be a desert setting.

The original Fallout's borrowed some asthetic elements from the old Mad Max movies, most notably the leather armour design as-well as some of the punk raiders.

Touché. I was thinking strictly in gameplay mechanics and game environment.

They're actually really similar. Mad Max was one of the main influences for Fallout 1, and has been since. Dogmeat exists because of Mad Max (and A Boy and his Dog).

fallout 4 and mad max have nothing in common except they are both a type of post apocalyptic world, lots of movies, games and books have a type of post apocalyptic setting and aren't even remotely similar, rage is prob more like mad max if anything

Agreed.

Just saw Mad Max Fury Road.

Great movie.

But I think it just made me want to play Fallout 4 more.

I think the first 50 years after the Great War, the Fallout universe would be very similar to Mad Max except for the robots and ray guns.

Vehicles would still have been working and it would have taken a while for vegetation to grow back.

Especially the Fallouts taking place out West.

Now 200 years later and on the East Coast, not as much.

But Dogmeat was straight out of Mad Max so Mad Max is still inspiring Fallout.

Wonder if there will be any Easter Eggs paying homage to Mad Max?

You can have his outfit, his gun, and a dog with a bandanna. There's three things in common.

What? The dog wears a bandana? I missed that...

Yeah he has one on in the montage while in the vertibird. Concept art too.

yep, mine too.

MM makes a dead serious impression from what i've seen from the trailers -

while fallout IS and HAS BEEN pretty humorous throughout and more the feelgood apocalypse type , even if some people can't or refuse to see that

i think the main influence for fo1 was wasteland.

but of course, in matters of apocalypse, there's no getting around mad max.

hell, max kind of INVENTED the apocalypse, the apocalypse as we know it anyway

Tom Hardy's lips bother me.