Fallout 3 Riddle me this

[the wako kid]

go ask the story writers to set it in a different theme unless of course you think that black metal or even R&B fits very well in a 50s environment.
it's fine to say "it's bland" then you are also saying the 50s environment also is bland.

It's rather ironic, whenever I make an augment that the Starwars tech is getting bland like yours. other people think otherwise.

Grrr... I'm saying that the ambient music is bland and tasteless.

...Bland like mine what?

do you mean all three songs of the ambient music? i kno them word for word.i could listen to enclave radio i guess but i could also shoot myself in the face. the fact is,i have the radio turned off most of the time anyway,and if they used music from the fifties they could have tried for elvis at least.

 

[NewYork_Comedian]

Silly, of course they did.

Not only did they make new music, but they re-invented a rocket capable of launching into the stratosphere. Once they accomplished that, they shot wireless speakers up all over the country. In case you were wondering, they also had to cobble together materials to create all these speakers. I believe the schematics called for Nuka Cola Quantum, 4 irons, 6 vacuum cleaners and a microfusion cell.

Once they did this, they then worked on re-building orchestras. It took some time, as they had to work with the scraps they had in the wastes. But then, oh the magnificence of it all!

They began composing some of the most brooding music ever heard, and piped it over the airwaves. If you listen closely while you travel the wastes, you can hear its haunting melody.

*applause*
You are the winner, good sir. My hat goes off to you.

UNfortunatly sir, thats the ambient music , and by seeing the rage going on here, a lot of people thought it sucked.

 

[AVATAR_RAGE]

I'm pretty sure it's mentioned at some point that the songs that are played on GNR are the only songs that are played because the rest of the music collection was damaged and unusable.

that was infact the reason, New Vegas actually will have different types of music

 

[BlindTom]

You sound like you are implying that Interplay are behind fallout 3's writing. Fallout 3 is responsible for the misonception that the apocalypse happened in the fifties.

It is? I guess it's also responsible for the misconception that there weren't two other Fallout games that occured in the same universe.

Fallout 1 should be responsible for the 'misconception', not Fallout 3. What with the "BUY WAR BONDS" on the TV intro while Maybe is playing in the background and all.

You're both lacking in reading comprehension and visibly upset!

 

[Wedlock49]

Yes but before the war, no new music?

If you listen 3 Dog mentions not knowing what a disk is. Nukes send out an EMP when they go off, wiping most media. The only thing that survived the nukes music-wise were LP's. Leaving you with only 1950's era music.

 

[Nitpicker of the Wastes]

You're both lacking in reading comprehension and visibly upset!
*snip*

How am I lacking in reading comprehension? People have been getting confused about the time frame since before Interplay lost the franchise.

 

[NewYork_Comedian]

Yes but before the war, no new music?

If you listen 3 Dog mentions not knowing what a disk is. Nukes send out an EMP when they go off, wiping most media. The only thing that survived the nukes music-wise were LP's. Leaving you with only 1950's era music.

Hmmm, how convenient can you get?

 

[Korey Von Doom]

I more think of it as the advance of technology was offset with the progression of culture and style. Like they had WW2 Technology during the civil war, and so on.

 

[expwnit]

Yes but before the war, no new music?

If you listen 3 Dog mentions not knowing what a disk is. Nukes send out an EMP when they go off, wiping most media. The only thing that survived the nukes music-wise were LP's. Leaving you with only 1950's era music.

I believe this is your answer, OP.

 

[Half-BloodPrince]

It wasn't Bethesda's writing actually, it was a company called "Black Isle," look it up, they made Fallouts 1 and 2, before Bethesda bought out Black Isle, and the rights of all Fallout materials, thus they made one of the best games ever made, with, in my opinion, the best writing I've seen in a game.

 

[BlindTom]

You're both lacking in reading comprehension and visibly upset!
*snip*

How am I lacking in reading comprehension? People have been getting confused about the time frame since before Interplay lost the franchise.

If you have to ask...

 

[Sinful Tyrant]

All they had were old records more than likely stored in Vaults when people left they took the records with them they didn't know how to make electric guitars and crap like that.

 

[Woodsey]

The apocalypse didn't happen in the fifties despite the impression given by Bethesda's pitiful writers.

They tell you several times when the nukes went off in FO3, and wasn't the 50s style created by Black Isle anyway?

 

[The_ModeRazor]

I... think I heard somewhere that there is actually mention of a rock-kinda band in one of the Fallout games. I could be hallucinating, of course.

 

[Snowalker]

Its an alternate reality. imagine if the way things turned out, jazz didn't come around until right before the war. thats what happened.

This is about the only accurate answer. Guys they were not... listen WERE NOT.. in the vault since the 50s. Secondly, why the fuck would it matter if all the instruments were destroyed from the bombs? Three Dog is not playing those songs himself, they're recorded, you know, the way most people listen to music. Thirdly, Ok, yeah it might make since saying all of the other music was destroyed, but its never stated and its heavily implied that its fifties culture, not just fifties music. So, it'd make more sense to say, the music just started rolling around right before the bombs fell.

Finally, its neither Bethesda's nor Interplay's fault that most people believe that the bombs fell right after the fifties. Its the fucking peoples fault, dammit folks, if you wanna know something about the story, either pay attention or look it up. Don't just assume you know it.

 

[Kalabrikan]

People just continued recording different albums within the same genre up until the bombs fell. Other genres like rock were probably around; they just never caught on with mainstream radio, and the destruction of civilization had the dual effect of the destruction of indie music.

 

[BlumiereBleck]

Doesn't new vegas have some now times songs?

 

[Wedlock49]

Yes but before the war, no new music?

If you listen 3 Dog mentions not knowing what a disk is. Nukes send out an EMP when they go off, wiping most media. The only thing that survived the nukes music-wise were LP's. Leaving you with only 1950's era music.

Hmmm, how convenient can you get?

LP's and CD's work differently. LP's would survive an EMP because of the way they store music, also it's completly plausable that they found a cache of them in a collectors house, all of them sealed in air tight packages, people don't do this to CD's. people who collect LP's do this to them.

 

[Huxleykrcc]

...It's also satire, guys...the fifties thing is a poke at consumerism...

 

[JLML]

I think the main reason to why they don't have any "new" (that is, after the "apocalypse") music is because... people had more important stuff to care about. Like, you know... Surviving?

And then the fact that pretty much everything was destroyed, likely including any facilities for mass-producing music of any kind. Not to talk about the fact that instruments seem to be a bit... Hard to get a hold of.

If you ask me, the reason to the old music is that they were the only records found intact/not too damaged to play.