Sure is. I wish I knew the name of the actor they chose for this. He's really good at that 1950s educational film charisma. Where even nuclear holocausts and potential death can be taught about with humorous cartoon mascots and catchy slogans and songs.
My head canon is that your Pip-Boy neurally connects with your brain and heightens your reflexes so much that it looks like time has stopped. Same with the HUD, the Pip-Boy neurally connects to your brain and gets it so that can see that. Lol, I overthink stuff too much.
They also offer Gunslinger, Commando, Sniper, Concentrated Fire, and Paralyzing Palm training with VATS. And if you're one of the lucky ones, a stranger with a .44 magnum will give you a hand!
@iamraveneight A point worth noting - vacuum tubes have issues when used at high frequencies, the colour component on analogue tvs is produced using a high frequency component added to what would otherwise be a very low frequency waveform (this by the way is how a colour broadcast is to this day able to be viewed in monochrome on a black and white TV set)
@zionjt Basically, even the improvements in technology done in the Fallout Universe all used the parts generally available in the 1950's. So they never discovered integrated circuits for example, thus the vacuum tube 'computer chips' they use. So they probably never felt a need to discover color pixel technology, also explaining why all the computers in FO3 are monochrome green.
So the people of retrofuturism can invent a time-stopping targeting system, but not color television? Haha its all good though, I love the retroness of fallout :)
@Raneko It has to do with the storyline of the Fallout universe. After WWII the Fallout universe diverged ftom our own. They developed better technology in things like the mass production of robotics for home use, and advances in nuclear power, but severlt lagged behind in things like cumputer science and electornics miniturization. For this reason things like PC's and television technology never advanced much beyond 1950's era tech.
@Ellegion10 It's an alternate future, just because WE made color displays, doesn't mean that they did. Maybe they put different research to the forefront of technology, like lasers, robots, and the like.
the reason this is 50s is because in the 50s the cuban missle crisis and duck and cover and that stuff if you go into the spring vale school theres a picture saying duck in cover :) i read all the posters and stuff
@bluepickle15 Fallout takes place on an alternate development timeline - certain technologies were never developed or developed much later than in our world. Also, cats are extinct.
@tearsofdespair1 The Fallout games are based off of a book written in 1946, & the author's interpretation of what the future might be like. Also, much of the music is from the 40's & 50's.
thats exactly why they chose the 50's its a perfect concept, using what people thought of an Nukelear Armageddon and at the same time joking bout' the 50's american culture.
Ah yes my close ranged ally... but unfortunately for VATS i don't use him so much as i like to follow the small guns bobble head "Because it's easier to have courage from a safe distance away"
@tearsofdespair1 Uhhh... If you read the instrustions of Fallout 3 it says in there... It says after WWII, the timeline splits into ours and then the fallout timeline. Where technology progressed at a much faster rate but American society was locked in the cultural norm of the 1950's. That's why all the 50's and earlier music was played. And why Three Dog doesn't know what a disc is.
thats just what i was thinking. because its not like you could ACTUALLY slow down time or else the whole world would have to, then it would get kinda annoying.
I have a question, now maybe my Fallout lore isn't up to speed but, why are the commericals made in a 1940's style? The latest technologies should be around just before the bombs dropped, I think 2070 or so? You'd think there'd be modern commercials in that era. I do admit the 40's style theme to everything is pretty hilarious :)
I have a 0% chance of...oh, I don't know..- 1. Aceing a Math test 2. Playing the original Super Mario Bros. without raging 3. Dodging a train 4. Watching through ALL the commercials in one recording of a TV show 5. Ever throwing out my Xbox 6. Eating the creal part of Lucky Charms 7. Killing a Cobra Chuck Norris style 8. Getting my letter to Hogwarts 9. Ride in a car without music 10. Not die of dehydration in a baseball stadium in the summer Shall I go on..?
The weird thing is everybody in DC is still acting like the bombs only went off 10 years ago.I mean seriously 200 years later and someone has JUST thought of writing a survival guide.
Ha! Goodbye, Mister Scary! With this, people need little to no real combat experience. From my POV, it's as if the Lone Wanderer were cheating... Ah well, it makes brains, jaws and eyes fly into different directions. I suppose we can allow a bit of cheating.
wait so they have the tchnology to slow time down for you, but they still only have black and white tv and projectors? (and yes i know its 1950's style but they could of least gotten colour.)
Everyone needs to look at the manual that came with the game...it explains everything. the reason its 1950's-ish is simply because it is a alternate reality. War took place in 2070 and Fallout 3 takes place 200 years later. If you don't believe me look at the manual yourself.
