When I first started playing FO3 I though it would a big futuristic game, which it is in many cases, but then while it was loading I seen those slides that advertise things and I thought isnt this 2077. Adding to my dissapointment I turned on Galaxy News Radio and heard the music. Surely if this was meant to be 22 something it would have a more futuristic theme...... right?

It's based on the nuclear paranoia of the 1950's, after WW2 and when the first nuclear weapons were used on the Japanese.

So, basically...the Fallout universe is what the people back then imagined the future would be.

Its '50s Americana continued through the new millennium and beyond

Heh your username isn't going to make you a lot of friends here.

Anyways (IIRC) history deviated in the fallout universe after WWII, and the 50's "feel" remained, though tech progressed into the nuclear stage. The bombs fell later, and the rest, as they say, is history.

It makes it unique. We already have half a million futuristic games. Retrofuturistic is awesome.

Welcome to the Wasteland, here's your http://www.nuka-cola.com/images/Nuka-Cola-Ad1.jpg.

If it was a futuristic game it would svck immensely IMO. I love the 50s setting.

read the introduction in the FO3 manual....

The retro-future style is one of the things that makes the FO series special and memorable.

Also, this info was out there in virtually ever review of not only this game but also previous FO games. There is no reason anyone should be surprised at the style or content.

I second this opinion, and further think that the theme is Very unique among the hundreds of FPS games and Adventure games going through the same old scenarios and themes over and over again.

I think Bethesda got it right.

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Indeed. Suggestion: do some research into the setting if you buy a game, don't assume anything. It is common knowledge that Fallout has a '50s background theme, and there is no reason to be suprised by it.
Personally I love the '50s feel and the old music on GNR. It makes the Fallout series so unique.

I'm just glad there is no "rap" music.

I agree, but I must also point out that the whole 50's theme was not Bethesda's invention, although I too think they did a splendid job in following the style.

Indeed the theme is what makes this game and thi series unique, there are countless scifi or futuristic rpg's out there, and barely a handful retrofuturistic ones AND perhaps but one post-apocalyptic-retro-futuristic game and series.

But I somehow know what you are thinking (or I think I know). One of my friends also never liked the music (but the Fatman bought him to this games side. Heh). I never asked him about the 50's style though.

To underline the key meaning: You can't please everyone, but you can damn well try. I conclude.

RAP svckS!!!!!!!!!50's AMERICANA FOREVER LOL(:

In our time line the cold war ended so a nuclear holocaust is just that much less likely

But if you give credence to the Everett-Wheeler Hypothesis from quantum physics there are timelines out there in the multiverse where the cold war continued

It's in one these that FO is set

The science is controversial but it's become a staple of sci-fi writers nonetheless

The Fallout universe was a pulp 1950's camp-science universe.

Then it got blown up.

This is what we got.

Fallout is set in an alternate timeline that diverged from ours in the 1950s. In the 21st century, it looked like the future as imagined in the 1950s pulp science fiction. E.g. instead of transistors you have huge vacuum tube-based computers with artificial intelligence and monochromatic terminals, robotic servants, a pseudo-utopian society based on 1950s values, black and white TV, music from the 1950s considered all-time classics, and most modern musical genres never appearing, etc,. Weapon development was also different from ours and thus plasma and laser weaponry was introduced, 10mm became the most common ammo type, etc. The modern high-tech weapons were never created - instead, weapons based on how people in the 1950s thought 21st century weaponry would look like are used.

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Divergence
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout_world

I guess you've never heard rap music that didn't consist of the words [censored], ho, [censored], and follow the same old contrived storyline of revenge.

ehm... he just stated that he's glad there was no rap music in the game? Ehm why're you jumping to conclusions?

Im big into modern rock but found the 50's era theme opened new doors

I want Bethesda to release the soundtrack.

Do people read their instruction manuals anymore?

Or, y'know, look at the retro-looking art on the back of the box?

To be fair, the only thing that was retro-looking on the box was Vault-Boy and the people going into the vault.

But those slide ads should've shouted "It's Retro-Futureistic!"

That's what I meant. If that doesn't hint that the game has some sort of retro-futuristic theme going for it, I dunno what does.

"My Prayer" is available on iTunes and contains both Maybe, and I don't want to set the world on fire.... I prefer Whispering Grass myself.