Real Life Fallout Environment : Fallout: New Vegas

» Sun Dec 14, 2008 8:32 am

Here are a few quite amazing pics from the town of Pripyat, near Chernobyl, which has been a ghost town for the past 25 years.

http://totallycoolpix.com/2011/01/chernobyl-25-years-later/

Kept expecting to see a bobblehead or a garden gnome.

» Sun Dec 14, 2008 10:52 am

You know this place was in Call of Duty right?

» Sun Dec 14, 2008 12:00 am

Pripyat was a significant location in STALKER before CoD, just so you know...

Can't wait for STALKER 2

» Sun Dec 14, 2008 6:41 am

Cool pictures.

» Sun Dec 14, 2008 3:17 am

Pretty exciting to see how fast decay sets in.

» Sun Dec 14, 2008 3:54 am

You know this place was in Call of Duty right?

It's a real place dude, it's abandonned.

» Sun Dec 14, 2008 2:17 pm

It's a real place dude, it's abandonned.

I'm aware it's a real place, I've read the articles.

I didn't know it was in Stalkers though.

» Sun Dec 14, 2008 3:05 pm

google hiroshima victim for real life ghoul.

mods delete if you think its bad taste.

» Sun Dec 14, 2008 12:06 pm

very interesting, and sad, too...

The Art Dept. at Bethesda/Obsidian really nailed the peeling paint look, and the light inside the buildings. I'm sure they must have used a bit of this as reference material for modeling and painting.

There wasn't a pic of this specifically, but I saw some other Pripyat pics a few months ago that had big sodden piles of plaster or sheetrock, and they got those down perfectly.

It kind of helps that the industrial design of pre-90's Ukraine was a lot more similar to 50's and 60's design than ours was in the west. Like the trucks, bumper cars, ferris wheel, and diving board kind of look like the retro-futurist designs of FO3.

» Sun Dec 14, 2008 2:42 am

I recognize that hotel, took a guys arm off at 1000 yds with a M82 Barrett from there. :tongue:

» Sun Dec 14, 2008 9:17 am

I'm aware it's a real place, I've read the articles.

I didn't know it was in Stalkers though.

Oh, I thought you were saying it was a fake place, sorry lol.

» Sun Dec 14, 2008 12:35 pm

I guess the Ukranian government has opened the area to limited tourism from what I have been reading.

» Sun Dec 14, 2008 1:39 am

lol, yeeeah, let's see, honey... should we go to Hawaii, or New Zealand, or -- no, wait, take a look at this!

» Sun Dec 14, 2008 7:12 am

I guess the Ukranian government has opened the area to limited tourism from what I have been reading.

They have indeed. There are also people living illegally inside the forbidden zone, mostly stubborn old people or temporary scavengers.

» Sun Dec 14, 2008 6:21 pm

lol, yeeeah, let's see, honey... should we go to Hawaii, or New Zealand, or -- no, wait, take a look at this!

I think it would be interesting to see the aftermath of 50,000 people up and leaving overnight. If you were touring around Europe it would be an interesting stop along the way.

» Sun Dec 14, 2008 3:47 pm

Thanks to this post, I want to play STALKER again, they really did a good job with the enviromnet, (friggin zombies with guns)

» Sun Dec 14, 2008 5:14 am

It's very interesting. A town of Soviet era completely preserved and abandoned. A ghost town.

I found this some time ago. Take a tour through the Land of the Wolves.
http://www.kiddofspeed.com/

» Sun Dec 14, 2008 5:26 pm

They have indeed. There are also people living illegally inside the forbidden zone, mostly stubborn old people or temporary scavengers.

Get out of here stalker!

EDIT: It's quite an interesting sight isn't it. Plants have reconquered the entire city.

» Sun Dec 14, 2008 8:09 am

Is it just me or does that faris wheel looks like it has bottle caps for its seats?

» Sun Dec 14, 2008 8:03 am

I'm aware it's a real place, I've read the articles.

I didn't know it was in Stalkers though.

You mean, "Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl"? And "Stalker: Call of Pripyat" (the town next to Chernobyl)?

» Sun Dec 14, 2008 6:14 am

Man, this is damn fascinating. Thanks for posting this.

The walls look even more derelict than in Fallout and it's just been 25 years.

» Sun Dec 14, 2008 4:45 pm

Apparently, it's a really creepy feeling being on a rooftop, looking out over that town, a town that during normal circumstances would house 50,000 people, but all you hear is... the wind. Everything's quiet except you and whoever you travel with. Maybe a bird here and there, but... it just doesn't feel right with such a silence in a bigger town like that. I'd like to go there someday.

» Sun Dec 14, 2008 11:59 am

the perfect place to film a low budget terror film. well maybe not that low of a budget, they would need lots of...RAD-X and RAD-AWAY!

sry couldnt resist

» Sun Dec 14, 2008 6:02 am

Apparently, it's a really creepy feeling being on a rooftop, looking out over that town, a town that during normal circumstances would house 50,000 people, but all you hear is... the wind. Everything's quiet except you and whoever you travel with. Maybe a bird here and there, but... it just doesn't feel right with such a silence in a bigger town like that. I'd like to go there someday.

Creepy isn't how quiet it is. Not by a long shot. Creepy is hearing the wind for hours and hours during a photo shoot or a research expedition and as you reach the center of town...far from any possible clear and fast egress...hearing something OTHER than the wind. A warning siren tops my list of absolute pants-crappingly terrifying unexpected sounds (like in silent hill). Groaning or shuffling or dragging isn't any better. Pripyat is where they keep the undead remains of H.P. Lovecraft....bet no one knew that did ya? It used to have a different name a few aeons ago...R'lyeh.

ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!!

» Sun Dec 14, 2008 4:37 am

I find it quite fitting that the works of man are what is most effected by Cherynoble. Nature seems to take it all in stride.