Would you want to live in pre-war Fallout?

Post » Fri Feb 26, 2016 7:22 pm

You know, before the world was blown to hell. It would be great having Mr handy's serving you coffee, car violently exploding in a mushroom cloud when there is a crash, 60'so music blaring through the radio, and using pre-war brands while they're still fresh. It would be nice living in pre-war (minus the car thing, yikes)
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Tyrone Haywood
 
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Post » Fri Feb 26, 2016 9:52 pm

Sure, so long as I wasn't conscripted to fight in china, or thrown into a detention camp for medical experiments. Or have my brain harvested for robo-brains, because that would seriously svck.

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Juliet
 
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Post » Sat Feb 27, 2016 7:04 am

Hell no.



I remember reading something about gas prices being in the thousands of dollars and whatnot. Imagine how much a bag of groceries cost?



I'd like to play as a spy in the pre-war world though. That'd be some awesome DLC. (Off-topic, I know. :P )

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Kieren Thomson
 
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Post » Fri Feb 26, 2016 9:49 pm



Better hope your spouse is a lawyer then :wink:
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Heather Kush
 
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Post » Fri Feb 26, 2016 7:54 pm

I wouldn't trust ordering around a robot with a personality that comes equipped with buzz saws, flamethrowers and a variety of tools that can kill you in horrible ways. It has a personality, not a heart.

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Phillip Brunyee
 
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Post » Fri Feb 26, 2016 11:15 pm

What? No.



Pre-War America was a approaching a tyranny/dystopia in the decades before the Great War. And by all accounts America and China were the best possible outcomes pre-2077.



Atom help you if you're unlucky enough to perish in the Middle East and European Commonwealth during the 2050s and 2060s.



I'd take the life as a Brahmin rancher or an OSI researcher in The Hub over a pre-War citizen any day.

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Music Show
 
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Post » Sat Feb 27, 2016 5:07 am

Yes, if only for the reason that I get to use cool advanced tech.

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Charlotte Henderson
 
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Post » Sat Feb 27, 2016 8:27 am

No way. Bethesda didn't really touch on it I don't believe, but America was very totalitarian and dystopic before the war.

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JAY
 
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Post » Sat Feb 27, 2016 5:35 am

Most of the cars are pretty cool and I love the style of the trucks, but to live in the pre-war lifestyle? No way.



Call me cynical to believe living in a society paying $30+ for a magazine was quality life.

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Michael Russ
 
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Post » Fri Feb 26, 2016 6:16 pm

Nope, I've read a lot of terminal entries throughout the series and life wasn't great at all under the shiny surface.

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Chris Johnston
 
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Post » Sat Feb 27, 2016 2:06 am

Nah, sound like they're pretty racist.

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Post » Sat Feb 27, 2016 3:11 am

Yes. An alternate reality where Ella Fitzgerald still rules the charts, I'll take that over our crappy Justin Bieber and Drake music nowadays (what's up with Canadian music anyways?).

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Maddy Paul
 
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Post » Fri Feb 26, 2016 11:05 pm

Live in a world full of chaos, war, an energy crisis, countries in turmoil, and to top it all off a plague going around because of governments experimenting with bio weapons? Nah, I don't think so.

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Robert Jackson
 
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Post » Fri Feb 26, 2016 11:00 pm

Nah, but I wouldn't mind signing up to be a vault dweller to get a sweet pipboy before jumping back into our reality.

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latrina
 
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Post » Fri Feb 26, 2016 7:13 pm

"Would you want to live in pre-war Fallout?"



I did. The "Duck and Cover". The Civil Defense siren testing every month. The just plain not knowing if or when. That's why Fallout gives me a special feeling as though all our old fears actually happened.




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Nicholas C
 
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Post » Sat Feb 27, 2016 9:03 am

I don't know. I've always wanted to see prewar America, but living in those times is not desirable imo. I'd say no thanks.

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adame
 
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Post » Fri Feb 26, 2016 9:11 pm

Have you seen the prices at Red Rocket?!



Besides that however yes. I would enjoy that world a lot I think.

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Neliel Kudoh
 
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Post » Fri Feb 26, 2016 6:27 pm

For the Cool technology, yes, i love Retrofuturism.




But lifestyle? hell no.

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Heather Kush
 
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Post » Sat Feb 27, 2016 6:31 am

No. The price of a magazine alone makes it look like a bad place to live. $35 for Tumblers Today? I don't think so!

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roxanna matoorah
 
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Post » Sat Feb 27, 2016 8:17 am

No. It's like Mitt Romney's vision of Paradise.

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