Fallout 1 did the best describing the wasteland. You can hear the agony of the souls who once roamed before the Great War. Screaming. No life around, only you, and you only. Alone, scared brave or "content". The Wasteland awaits you Vault Dweller. What will you do now?
@@mado-wh4jv Sorry to dissipoint you, it is canon in Fallout 1 that Ian dies a horrible death in a skirmish against the supermutants in Necropolis. Dogmeat also ends up dying in a forcefield, in your battle in the Mariposa Military Base. It is unknown if any other companion survived your travels in Fallout 1.
Just imagine. A gun and a vault suit is all you have, and once you step out of that vault, all you see is nothing but a dustbowl. No sign of life, no civilization for miles, and realize what horrors are coming your way.
Actually, it's the LACK of realization of what horrors are coming your way that makes it so awful. There's nothing out there for miles... or so it seems. But some part of you, some creeping sensation, tells you there's things out there alright. Hungry things.
Need another fallout game that feels like this. The commonwealth was a refreshing change but it got too "optimistic" at times. Would kill for a chance to get a game with the lonely, somber, western atmosphere again
As much as i love 2, its gameplay and its open-ended world, 1 is still superior in terms of atmosphere and how urgent the story feels. Every day counts, do not waste them.
@@Laevateinn98 And it had a bit of a weaker story/plot in comparison to Fallout 1's, though still a good game in general with some quality of life improvements(pushing NPCs from blocking doors)
Besides water chip, days don't really count. Yes there is second counter which counts days before super mutant army destroys settlements, but 1) it isn't shown in most online store versions of this game anymore and 2) it only affects towns endings (again only in modern releases of this game) 3) It's more generous (I think like 300-400 days compared to 100 days for water chip) and finally 4) Not all towns can get bad endings due to some coding error(unless you install mod to fix it) Don't get me wrong, the first time you play Fallout 1, it DOES feel phenomenal and probably #1 Fallout game, but after playing F2 and replaying F1, the effect wears off. Even now it's one of the best Fallout games but I personally prefer NV and F2 for roleplayability(see what I did there?)
This feeling is exactly what Bethesda's Fallout misses. Death, pain and suffering is all the wasteland has to offer, to whomever steps on it. nothing more, nothing less.
@@Cnw8701 and this confronts direclty with the original intent of the series, even though Obsidian did incorporate many of the elements of the first two entries (even some of the cancelled game, Van Buren) as the team had some of the Black Isle's devs, it is still nowhere near the original premise. Loneliness and hopelessness, with a grain of dark humour is what the series was about, there was no glimmer of hope, not even after you finished the game obtaining the supposedly good ending.
@@Glori4n That's because the first two games took place centuries earlier, when humanity was basically fucked and had no real hope until The Institute and Project Purity came along.
Fallout 1 had probably one of the best soundtracks in gaming. It sets the mood of a desolate, dead world with hidden horrors and isolation waiting in the radioactive wastes.
* You see two centaurs standing by * -You missed -You missed Centaur hits you for 18 dmg Centaur 2 hits you for 70 dmg for a critical hit, the bruises will look nice, and will be good in party talk. "not even the carrion masters are interessed in your irradiated corpse."
you fail to unlock this door. you fail to unlock this door. you fail to unlock this door. you fail to unlock this door. you fail to unlock this door. your lack of lockpicking skills has jammed the lock on this door. the lock is jammed.
Dear lord. The best part about this track is that at points it's like I can hear the events of the bombs dropping in the background. Like there's an echo of what once was screaming in agony around me as I wander around the wastes. The past screaming in terror as the world comes to an end.
It's sad to see that the Fallout series has gone in a more light hearted direction with Fallout 4 and 76. I wish we still had the gritty, haunting, atmosphere we had previous installments.
This music had a lot more impact when I decided to whimsically walk around, walked into the Glow, saw that I was being irradiated, thought to myself "Huh, that doesn't seem to have any meaningful effect." Then when I left I died an hour later while travelling. Oh. So the radiation sickness is realistic. That would have been the last thing I expected. My mind immediately went to a documentary I watched about Chernobyl where the poor souls who were sent to clean up that mess often had their organs failing within 30 minutes to an hour.
The creaking of old metal constructions, the howling of wind as it passes through deserted buildings, the drumming of debris falling in the distance and the feel of hungry eyes observing you from the shadows.
Fallout 4 on nuclear war: "Pretty lights. Let's go underground" Fallout 1 on nuclear war: *"Their souls screamed in agony at the world that was to become"*
I would argue the ost used in fallout games is basically how our heroes view the world. Vault Dweller and Chosen one see the New California as a nightmarish hellscape, where death rules, and only few survive.(I mean if you go kilometers and there are barely settlements, yeah you get it.) Warrior accepts the harsh nature and continues to fight Lone Wanderer is fascinated by the capital wasteland, is curious about the world before his vault For Courier, Mojave is a dangerous place full of dangerous animals and dangerous people. Sole Survivor remembers the previous world, and mourns for it.
@@AxenfonKlatismrek It works for FNV because it is set well after the bombing, and civilizations have flourished, the atomic war looks almost distant. For Fallout 4, Bethesda did a sht job, the war is very distant in time, yet the world looks like the bombs fell a year earlier, dude lost his son and his wife, the world should feel as (if not more) hellish as it feels in FO1, I haven't finished FO4 because I hated it but the world building makes no sense.
@@widepootisyou're not wrong because the current Bethesda writer who writes fallout does a terrible job at telling a post apocalypse story and cannot see past "oooh cool 50's era oooooh" without putting much thought into it The gun models shows this
I would say more dread than despair. Despair implies sadness and while this music does have an element of that, I think it’s more “Oh god this is terrifyingly eerie and empty and vast” than “Oh this is so sad and emotional”
Talsedoom I just looked it up, and it says despair means the loss of hope. So yes I guess that does fit this music, you’re right! Also it’s amazing you replied after 3 years from commenting this!
My summer on 1998 entirely spent on Fallout 1. 20 years later, the music still haunts me and although I finished the game about a dozen times I still go back every few years. The Fallout series is truly special
You've walked for hours in this dry heat. You haven't gotten comfortable with the wasteland air yet. You find yourself thinking of the ice dispensary back home as the warm wind howls. Looking ahead you spot a lone tuft of grass. It blows freely as you get closer. You smile as you note similarities between yourself and the enduring patch. The wasteland wants all things to die. It does not discriminate. You take out your trusty canteen and pour some water on the surviving grass. Movement causes a dust cloud to form in the distance. You grip your gun. Something approaches.
I love Fallout 4 but I have to admit the Commonwealth looks far too "nice", and even though the Mojave in New Vegas is better at depicting the harsh reality of the Fallout universe, playing those games, you don't get the sense of residing in a post-apocalypse. But the world of Fallout 1 & 2? Christ alive there's nothing else in all of fiction that evokes such overwhelming feelings of despair & hopelessness. The minute you come out of the cave after leaving Vault 13, the realisation hits you: there is *nothing* left of the world gone before...now, there is only Hell on Earth. As if life in the desert wasn't tough enough on its own in the pre-war era, the environment of the first two Fallouts is the purest distillation of bleak. For hundreds of miles, there is nothing but the scorched wastes of the Deserts, unyielding in being devoid of all life except for savagely violent monsters like Deathclaws, Scorpions & Centaurs, gangs of raiders who will murder you on sight, and Super Mutants carrying out their Master's plan of human genocide. The land is barren of life and the scant resources of water & food that do exist in this nuclear hellscape are the subject of relentless competition between people scrambling to survive. Even in places like Shady Sands & the Hub where a semblance of 'normality' exists, life is still nothing but a ceaseless grind of survival, fraught with violence, death and perpetual suffering, never knowing if you'll make it to see the light of the next day.
In old Fallout, the wasteland felt like it was a character itself, a constant, eerie presence following you around like a shadow. The haunted graveyard of a civilization. In new Fallout, it's a sandbox.
This track in particular gave me nightmares as a kid when I watched my dad play. I would always run away when he died because I was afraid the Vault Dweller's horrifying skeleton would get me
@@InhabitantOfOddworld I simply farm a hell load of XP by stealing, also I read books in Hub until all of respective skills are 91. And when I get Hardened Power Armor and Turbo Plasma Rifle the rest of a game is a breeze. Sure, you can get Advanced Power Armor right after leaving Arroyo in FO2, but I've never tried it.
Fallout 1, more than the other games, really nailed the reality of the world you're in. This song alone shows you the hellscape you're in. No upbeat music, nothing to sing along to, just...bleak emptiness.
That's why I added a mod for Fallout 4 that replaces the Ambient music with this. Infact, I'm pretty much just modding Fallout 4 to be as depressing as Fallout 1 was in general.
My theory: The soundtrack changed to reflect the view our protagonists have on the world. It started as Vault Dweller anD CHosen one seeing world as terrifying place, where death runs everything smoothly, they are afraid of going outside their community. Vault Dweller was glad he had been done with world outside, but vault exiled him. When he goes out, he is sad, but life goes on. Chosen one becomes the chieftain of new community, bringing light to dark place. Lone Wanderer is is fascinated by the world outside Platonic cave. He has no choice but to leave Vault behind Courier views Mojave as a dangerous place, where every corner has a dangerous animal behind. He is put in political world, where everyone murders each other for some reason. Sole Survivor mourns for the old world, but cant do anything to revert it. SS misses the old days before the war started, but life continues. My issue with Bethesda's Fallouts is that they make no sense in both context of the universe and logic. I mean why is there no immunity against radiation in Capital wasteland? 1. Radiation is natural and 2. 200 years is enough to develope immunity against it! And why doesnt Capital wasteland get covered by Green nature? Its really boring exploring wastes, when there is no variety of nature
Daniel 786 Hell always made more sense as an endless, impenetrably dark abyss than the fiery subterranean complex that pop culture regularly portrays it as. This song is what I’d imagine to be the sound of staring into that abyss. I believe Nietzsche had a few choice words about this matter.
I always thought you could hear voices and screams of long a long forgotten civilization just whispering in the wind, nothing but echoes, what was once a mighty empire, now reduced to dust, rust and ruins, skeletons buried in the sand, nuclear shadows forever burned onto walls that slowly turn to dust in the sandstorms and an environment so hostile to life that even just the idea of trying to rebuild is idiotic. If the people in the fallout series somehow survive, than they will never rebuild to their previous glory, they would instead only exist in small pockets of life, surrounded by the wasteland we created. This will be the final stage of humanity, trapped in a small coffin of life in the vast, endless ruins of our own making, of our foolish and idiotic desire to wipe each other off the face of the planet… Well, we succeeded. Now all that’s left to do is to wait, and watch, as our bubbles slowly fall apart over time, until they too are buried under the radioactive dust of the wastes. The Old world was wrong, it’s not just War that never changes, … humans, people, leaders, they don’t change either.
Really gives you the unmistakable impression that you better methodically assemble your character or risk certain death every step of the way. On that note, always invest points into Agility and choose the Gifted trait.
I think Fallout 3’s art design effectively conveyed the desolation and cataclysmic destruction of the games world. Only trouble is that virtually every other element of the F3, from the writing to the gameplay, largely belied its apocalyptic setting.
Played the series on from Fallout 3 and only just last year picked up the first 2 games and went in almost completely blind, other than knowing the first two games were isometric RPGs. I couldn't have imagined a more stark contrast in atmosphere between the games than what this music gave me. This track is so... Subtly unnerving. It's a perfect match for the setting, it conveys this feeling of complete despair, like you really did just experience everything you knew fall apart around you. It's really rather scary, in that sense, it was almost too much for me. My hat's off to the composer.
Fallout 76: Well hay thar friend! Welcome to Appalachia, West Virginia. There’s so many funny and cute emotes and stickers to buy in the atom shop, and don’t forget to grab your friends for some fun in our battle royale mode! Fallout 1: _It has been roughly 84 years since nuclear hellfire reigned down on pre-war America. Anything that existed before is now gone and burnt to ash like a fading memory_ _You are given the daunting task of obtaining a working water chip for your vault, without it they will all surely die of dehydration_ _Entering the cave, cold fills your bodies veins as blood rushes to your core as you are only armed with a pistol, knife, and 4 stimpaks._ _Rats scamper about, squeaking and chittering their teeth._ _Scared for your life and that of the vaults, you run towards the light and don’t look back_ _The intense rays of the sun hit your body for the first time, it is a warmth that you have never felt in your life._ _The sun basks over a blue sky, no clouds perfectly orange. It would be a perfect day had it not been for the context of your mission_ _What was despair now turned into determination as you check your Pip-boy 2000 for your co-ordinates._ _You set for vault 15, leaving the cave and embracing the sun. You feel you will change the wasteland in some way or another but you are unsure how._ _walking in the desert you begin your journey, unknowingly starting the events that would change the Californian wasteland forever_ _and so begins the story of…_ *THE VAULT DWELLER*
I found it quite jarring to go from THIS to always having a radio that plays "How much is the doggie in the window" and crap like that.. FO1 and 2 was a desperate struggle for survival in a dead post-nuclear wasteland, FO3 was more like "My fun happy adventures in Nucleo-Land theme park!"
I think that's a problem with all of the fallout games that came after 2, fallout 1 and 2 used those old ass songs to make an unsettlening intro, but after that you're on your own on this horrible wasteland, now the music is used just for comic effect when you kill someone, not gonna lie, without the radio in fallout 3 I'd say the game would have a much darker atmosphere, since bethesda, (when they still gave a shit about their games) atleast in my opnion did a good job with the level and world design.
@@jeremiasestevam4624 Yeah. It wasn't until 4 that the series _really_ went full theme park. In 3, one could at least make a case that the cognitive dissonance between the cheery soundtrack on the radio and the horrors of the wastes is interesting, even though you'd never really think about that while actually playing it.
Never played Fallout 1 or 2.First time heard this ambient in Fallout New Vegas,while completing Dead money,oh my desperetion when i have only knife and 3 bottle of water on hardcore(very hard).P.S i manage stole all gold and sealed father elijah in treasure room
I love Fallout's soundtrack because it makes me think. This one makes me think of how... dead the world is. There is nothing left but scraps of humanity and the unfortunate mutants that have survived.
This is one of my favorite classic Fallout tracks. I think it's neat how each soundtrack fits each game. I tried a Fallout 1 and 2 music replacer for Fallout 4 and it does not fit.
Only new vegas can compare to fallout 1 and 2. The atmosphere, the feeling of being alone in the ruins of what used to be a nice place. The horrors that hide just out of sight. Death loomed around every corner. This is the wasteland, hell on earth. You have little hope of surviving.
@@BSBSDerivative well new vegas was made with the scrapped elements from black isle studios canceled fallout 3 van buren. Obsidian did fallout right and my little monologue was a summery of fallout 1 and 2. Not necessarily just new vegas
@@BSBSDerivative The Lonesome Road DLC managed to capture the spirit of Fallout 1. A certain feeling of unease and tension amidst pervasive devastation. Artistically and tonally, that add-on was an excellent approximation of what Fallout 1 would’ve looked and felt like had it been produced and released about 15 years after its actual release date. Dead Money also had a similar unnervingly desolate setting and fatalistic tone that designates it as a sort of spiritual and thematic successor of the first installment. That aside, NV was very much a continuation of F2, but even lighter in tone.
It's even in the title. It's like you can't escape wasteland, ever, and it put you in the mood for what you're getting into before you even start the game. Genius. Fits Fallout 1 better than Fallout 2 though.
The cartoonish elements (nuka cola, pip boy) of the first games added to the eeriness of the desolation because they existed as relics of a world that destroyed itself. It's too bad bethesda doesn't understand fallout's tone.
@@somethingfunny4332I never use the radio. It completely ruins any artistic integrity that Interplay had by using old world music in the *intro* cinematic and nowhere else. It was used a juxtaposition to the horrors of the wasteland that were slowly revealed to you throughout the video before cutting off to show that the old world is dead. Now, it's just another piece of the puzzle that shows how Bethesda treats Fallout like a theme park.
You sure this is a desert wind and not the screaming of the pre-war citizens watching how they death was imminent upon the nuclear blast and heatwave? Like for real, this really reminds me of the Half Life 1 Horror Ambience.
I GM Fallout2d20 the tabletop RPG game, mostly in and around New Vegas, and I use this whenever the party enter anywhere that has been isolated and frozen in time, with many many years passing before the last person to find the place. It fits isolation and loneliness so well, it's both intriguing and also ominous, and at least twice have my players said they felt dread exploring in an area with this soundtrack, and couldn't wait to get back to the sunlight of the Mojave
Clearly one of the best soundtrack for a game ever created .. Fallout 3 got nothing like that , its sad but true .. The fallout 1 and 2 atmophere is one of the best .. Cant compare any of that EDIT : After played Fallout 4 and didnt finish it , i am not a fan of Bethesda no more .. What a real disgrace
+Massakers Can you believe Mark Morgan offered to do the music in FO3 and they FUCKING DIDN'T HIRE HIM?? Good! We don't need his genius tainted with the soulless theme park that is the Bethesda "Fallout" games.
+Dallas Van Winkle Soulless theme park? Look, it's one thing to say that Fallout 1 and 2 have better original soundtracks, but it's another thing to outright lie and misrepresent the Bethesda Fallout games, as RPG's and game in general, because of this. Though, believe you me, if Todd Howard decides to completely remove skills from the Elder Scrolls games, there's going to be a jihad, because that is the primary issue with Fallout 4, even if Fallout 4 with its hacked off RPG elements is still a stronger RPG than the every single Deus Ex game ever released (even though those games are neat too).
+VunderGuy Dude, what are you smoking? Do you seriously think skills are the primary issue with Fallout 4? And are you seriously comparing Fallout 4 (or any other Bethesda crap) to Deus Ex? What a world to live in.
Shook s Sorry dude. The soundtrack might not be BAD but compared to the originals yes it is bad. Listen to "City of the Dead" and find me a fallout 3 track that can begin to compare.
I hope in a future fallout game the environment is more reminiscent of that featured in the original. You step out of the vault only to be greeted by a flat barren wasteland. Completely lacking vegetation, just dust, rock and sand for miles.
While I do tend to edge more towards the newer games, I will say that I like the originals' soundtracks better, with the exception of maybe one or two songs, like Dominant Species from the Fallout 4 soundtrack
Thank you for admitting that. Although Dominant Species is a good track (for a Bethesda Fallout game) it cannot compare to Mark Morgan's genius. Mark Morgan's music IS Fallout itself.
I find it quite curious that this sound - what I presume to be violin played distordely - is still used to this date in Fallout games to represent a nuclear blast wind. It was there in the opening sequence to Fallout 4 and I'm pretty sure it's in 76 as well.
The banging at 1:18 makes me imagine hearing nothing but the wind for hours, then suddenly some sign of life. Never knowing if it's hostile, but if it's out here, it probably is.
Honestly Fallout 1 and 2s ost absolutely NAILED the desolate post apocalypse vibe. It shows how dark and eerie the world is now that it's been reduced to ashes in the post nuclear age.
i dont even think the fast travel system on fallout 1 would've even put you on edge without this sound track. It was also hearing this soundtrack in some of the wasteland's truly most deserted places that gave the most immersion i've felt in a video game and that was for fallout one made in 1997.
At this point, I wonder if Fallout would be better off handled by the Stalker devs, they capture the same feeling of desolation and horror of fucking around with science too much that I haven't seen any other dev handle these days...
"Man I wish the apocalypse was like fallout!" mfs when they dont specify which game (its fallout one, they are gonna be yelling in agony even after they perish in a now lonely desolate desert)
This is what i imagine the sound of being trapped in a wasteland full of nightmarish creatures and desperate raiders sounds like. You know that you are trapped in your worst nightmare.
You're right fallout 4 is very nice and sweet , where Fallout 1 and two , and also New vegas which was the better bethesda made , those games are Fallouts , Fallout 4 is just a bad try , but at least a try . Shame on you Bethesda !
MrJason005 Fallout 4 is decent, yes it doesn’t have the feel like the older games, but it’s still way more enjoyable if you want to waste time and have more fun compared to 76
Anton Vaedak The reason Fallout New Vegas is great is because it wasn’t made by Bethesda, it was published by them. Bethesda let Obsidian entertainment make New Vegas and guess what, Obsidian was comprised of men who formerly worked on fallout 1 and 2.
I use this when my Cyberpunk TtRPG group has finished a gunfight in the badlands or combat zone I like the strange unsettling silence after the killing
Ahhh pretty sure this is the song that plays in Fallout 1 when you first enter the cave after leaving the Vault. That song that first began that nightmare. Gives me the damn chills.
I grew up with the Bethesda games and when I first launched the classic fallout 1 recently I was just in shock of how creepy the main theme was. When you boot up fallout 4 3 and even new Vegas your greated with an inspiring theme that hypes you up like you’re about to go on an awesome adventure. However when you launch fallout 1 the music is very eerie and quiet telling you that this place is not modern day America but a very evil and corrupted world that humanity will never recover from. No bs, your not a super hero saving the people of the wasteland, your trying to survive in a world where your species isn’t welcome anymore. isn’t it fun? Don’t you just want to live in the fallout universe? This is the exact type of music I’d think of when I think of the apocalypse.
I grew up on Fallout 1-2, later become a Morrowind fan and when New Vegas came, I was in Wasteland heaven! I miss those games like the originals, because those days you were playing one game for so much longer, since there was maybe 1/10th of game developer studios and that wasn't as a huge industry as nowadays. So you cherished that 1 or 2 games that you've got for 1 year, then Christmas brought maybe one more game for the next year. Games dared to be hard and more complex with steeper learning curves.
On my first playthrough of Fallout, and all I can say is Fallout 1 has my favorite soundtrack of the series. Really gives you this sense of atmosphere that you're in a dead world and you have to watch ever step you take because it's kill or be killed. From now on the soundtrack is being modded into any playthrough I do on NV or 3.
fallout takes place in 2161 and there are already civilizations being made. fallout 2 is in 2241 and they have basically whole ass citys built back up. Meanwhile fallout 4 is in 2287 and people there still live like they did back in 2161. Thats my main issue with the bethesda made titles. They keep the development of civilization to the bare minimum. Hell, New Vegas takes place in 2281 and they have power stations, huge, developed factions than span across multiple states, and Vegas ofc. Meanwhile the settlers of fallout 4 are living in buildings still cluttered with debris and dead people. The only fully developed faction is the BOS and the Institute. I wanna see how society has moved on but its difficult when bethesda is keeping them in a sort of primitive form.
I think that's the least of the issue with Bethesda's titles tbh. I really liked the desolate feeling of Fallout 1 and I wish we would get more like it. My issue is that Fallout 3/4 don't capture that same feeling despite being so empty. They're too cheerful for the environment they take place in. Fallout 2 had this same issue at times. Fallout 1 knew when to be funny and when to tone it down so you could appreciate that the world was truly dead. People rebuild, but the world is just a shadow of its former self even ~85 years later. The intro of the game really captures this.
I played all the bethesda's fallout and i love them, but Jesus, this is totally a different matter. A depressing and dead world, no funny or strange charachters and no pip boy music to keep you company. It's just... fucking terryfing
