I rarely post here anymore, but I just had to share these http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2011/02/07/captured-the-ruins-of-detroit/2672/ of the ruins of Detroit: some of them are eerily similar to what we see in Fallout 3.

Enjoy!

Wow. Some of those pictures gave me chills. We have a few busted up houses in the town I'm living in now, and even more where I grew up but I don't have the balls to go in them.

Thank you for showing me this!

Should probably be in the FO universe section, but dude, that is truly chilling. I want that book!

Wow, picture number five looks like the entrance to a vault!

You might want to add Gary, Indiana to the stew. If you've ever driven through that town, you'll know why.

(Ok, serious time here. I grew up near Detroit, and i know these buildings first hand, and this pics are a good example of why i think the Detroit/Windsor Canada area, or the Chicago/Gary area, and the great lakes would make a wonderful spot for Fallout 4, so much urban blight, just imagine what would be waiting in places like these.....) :chaos: :fallout:

I've been staring at these for hours and hadn't noticed that! So cool!

In so many of those pictures, you think that the only thing missing is a horde of Super Mutants or Raiders.

Very lovely, thanks for sharing those with us.

I recall someone posting similar pictures from Detroit in early 2009... I figure Fallout 3's developers had also seen such pictures and got some inspiration.

The melted clock was my favourite, but yeah, truely chilling. That sort of decay doesn't happen overnight! What happened? Loss of heavy industry to China I suspect?

Thanks for sharing.

Although as for the location of fallout 4, surely somewhere which is thriving NOW would be a better location. My heats set on New York, or rather Fallout 4 :Nuk York

That, plus a decades-long history of endemic corruption in the city government.

Nice pictures. Really fallout styles over them.
I cant belive what happen in America. Its the system. It must be. USA is the land where the richs rule and get away, while the poor are left to their own misery. The strongest survive.
"The best democracy in the world", yea right...

Donovan Building instantly reminded me of the Dunwich Building, scary place :sweat: . But anyways these pictures are awesome, and alot of them remind me of somewhere in Fallout 3, and I may sound stupid saying this: but what is Gary, Indiana like?

The Arlington Cemetery looked like The Arlington Cemetery.

:intergalactic: :intergalactic: :intergalactic: :intergalactic: :intergalactic: :celebration:

That is truely chillying and disturbing. The vault like door in picture 5 is disturbing.

Very Fallout 3.

Cass Tech (the place with the melting clock) is actually a pretty good school, or so I hear.

America was built on the idea of the middle class but the gap between the rich minority and the poor majority is growing all the time and the people aren't going to stand for that.

These pictures gave me the chills. I'm really glad the developers decided to lower the saturation and brightness on their ruined areas, as these hi-light and saturated pictures on ruins just give me the creeps. I'm half expecting a feral ghoul to jump out of these! As much as I want FO4 to be in Urban-Texas (Dallas or Houston areas), Detroit would be a great place...

Yup its a terrible thing. Those buildings just going to waste.

The state of Detroit is bad and all... but things look way cooler when in ruins like that, thanks for the pics

I hope so, I really hope so. You did take a good step forward by voting on Obama.

you're lucky to have that stuff in your town, put on set of overalls for a vault suit, grab a baseball bat or lead pipe and go play some fallout in your town. lol

What I find eerie is all the stuff that was just left inside those places. A library full of books, school classroom materials. I would expect that such things would have been sold before they abandoned the place. It makes it look like everyone really was just wiped out all at once.

Before that.....it began with the race riots in the '60s. That started middle and upper class people moving out, which enabled a particular clique in the Democrat Party, led by a fellow named Coleman Young, to take over.....once Mayor he started a deliberate campaign to drive his perceived enemies out of the city by hiking property and business taxes while cutting police protection. Then the Big Three automakers started getting shellacked by the Japanese in the late 70s and '80s, and before you know it Detroit is a basket case. The current Mayor is making a heroic effort to try to turn things around, but I think it's too late. They're actually talking about demolishing entire areas of the city and turning them back into farmland now.