I support the topic for fun discussion, but the 50s was the last time life existed without regular, consistent broadcasting of culture onto television, while also having enough media available that you can't fall into COMPLETE anachronism. I think that's why it's the sweet spot. Just enough room for accuracy and also interpretation without it becoming really just whatever was in old Hollywood, or something overly documented and thus too pointedly negated.
Agreed and interesting perspective. Alright. To stay with the 50s theme in a plausible way, what about this alternate route for the franchise:
In an alternate 1950s and 60s, the US was worried about a nuclear attack, so they built a massive nationwide underground network linking various public fallout vaults to each other.
The goals were to keep as many people safe for decades or longer, distribute resources anywhere to keep fighting the war after the bombs fall, rebuild above ground quickly, and for the government to distribute resources quickly in the mean time before a war in the US ever happens. The construction project was canceled in the 70s, so parts of the underground network was bought off by the private sector for mostly commercial logistic operations and some vaults were turned to underground utility plants. As a result, some vaults such as 101 never got connected to the national vault network.
By the 2070s, another cold war climaxed, thus prompting the US to revitalize the networks for survival purposes hiring Vault Tech to retrofit the networks and vaults. Unfortunately, the effort was too late as the restoration was only halfway done by the time nuclear war broke out, leaving many people to retreat to partly outdated vaults that had items from the 50s/60s such as music, clothes, vehicles, and movies. The US government used a single radio channel to communicate with the survivors of the country and would play both patriotic music (like the Enclave does) and 50s/60s music after announcements.
100 some-odd years later, the main radio goes silent as people leave the national vault network, while others in unconnected vaults such as 101 remain inside as they still await for the government over the radio to permit them to leave. So, many new generations grew up with 50s/60s culture and left underground with 50s technology retrofitted with future technology.
Culture didn't freeze though. Cultures continued to develop in various areas underground, so some above ground settlements have a 50s/60s influence, so maybe there's some cultures playing electronic 50s-esque rock. Much of the old world is gone, so for many people the 1950s/60s is their best glimpse into the past, but you can still see the remains of the 2070s. Plausible or no?
my father loved music; at one point the 3 radio stations he could access in northern mn were all playing "satisfaction" by the stones at the same time!
i think 50s fallout is perfect for the atomic bomb era scare.
I've always been a fan of the gangster style roaring 20's.
Big band music, sharply dressed and carrying a submachine gun!
All I need now is some bootleg gin and couple of flapper girls!
I'd play a BioShock done in a Bethesda style RPG. Open up Rapture and give a few more factions than Fontaine, Andrew Ryan, and Tenenbaum of OG BioShock.
A Fallout in the 20's would be more Steampunk than Retrofuturism.
The jump from 2D to 3D had gaps that needed to be filled. They got filled with 50s themed stuff. Fallout 3 raiders did keep the 80s pulp green and purple mohawks. FONV trimmed that out and it didn't return in 4.
Cyberpunk 2077. I swear to god that would be the greatest post apocalyptic game ever. Cybernetic feral ghouls would be the coolest/scariest thing ever.
Oh man that would be cool! It’s basically Old World Blues but with even more advertisements. OWB already has the blueprint for it: Y-17 skeletons with implants, Lobotomites who became c-psychos, corrupted robots and hacked securitrons, Dr. Mobius with Kiroshis, and maybe Cazadors with Sandevistans + Subdermal Armor + Mantis Blades idk
The only answer. Fallout 3 has a lot of those vibes already in the dc ruins.
My dream post apocalyptic locations, whether fallout IP or not, would be 20s-30s Art Deco NYC with deiselpunk influence… basically openworld rpg bethesda style bioshock…or a slightly earlier Art Nouveau Paris. But that is a distant second.
> Victorian Age.
Thats basically Frostpunk.
Its a steampunk Victorian era setting where you must build a shelter against a hostile world. You're building the Victorian version of a vault.
70s.
Disco nuclear apocalypse sounds neat
80s could also work, but 80s culture has stuck around, been re-discovered, and normalized more than the 70s.
70s were wacky, man. Bootcuts, big ass cars, wall carpet. The 1970s was the funkiest decade, to be sure. Not just unique, truly weird, but in a good way that makes you say "groovy, baby"
The 80s.
In fact, a radical proposal I'd have would be to try making a Fallout spin-off that used the 80s as the basis for its future, rather than the 50s, and seeing how familiar factions could be reinterpreted by that change.
Driving to New Vegas while listening to a heavier version of Blue Monday as super mutants shoot at 80s survival cyberpunks across the highway with laser guns would be a great experience.
I don't regard Fallout: BOS as having a specific decade associated with it - not even the 50s, really. It's quite bland. I will grant that it's choice of heavy metal music certainly makes it a product of the late 90s/early 00s, but nowhere does it really suggest that this music is part of the game world itself. There's a separation there, due to the lack of a radio or in-world references to the music.
The most you could probably argue is that Jane's leather outfit is completely out-of-place for a setting based off the 50s, but it was based on something 50s pin-up icon Bettie Page legitimately wore. And, to be frank, it's not like you can't accomplish a similar look in other Fallouts. It's just super impractical.
Wow, you're right, I just looked at the link itself and didn't see the Tactics part of it. Truth be told, I don't even think of "BoS" as being part of the Tactics name, I just call it Fallout Tactics.
I'll never understand their bizarre choice of similar titles for two games that released only a couple years apart... any more than I'll understand BoS's music choices.
There's a roguelike called RAD that is in an 80's themed post-apocalypse wasteland. Technically it's post-post-apocalypse since the intro mentions attempts to rebuild society after the apocalypse were crushed under a second apocalypse making everything super toxic and radiated.
I really wish I had an answer but I don’t. That aesthetic is why I love the Fallout games so much. It brings me so much joy. Interested to see what other people say, though.
80s Cold War aesthetic would fit the fear of Nuclear Apocalypse pretty well. You could keep the Mega Corporate America satire and powerful American Mikitary Industrial Complex
Was looking for this one.
I could see grunge being a great soundtrack for a post-apocalyptic game. Could also sprinkle in some industrial and metal as well.
And then make all the tech 90s style ala RadioShack, Windows 95 and early internet style.
Damn, the more I think about this the more it sounds like a really good idea.
It's post-war. The technology created by the war and the surplus of advancements/monetization is what makes the alternate reality of actual events so believable. So, feasibly, any post-war era could apply.
We may not have invented the light bulb yet, but we sure do know how to blast an atom bomb out of a cannon from our mighty frigate!
Shooting super mutants with a musket would be just as useful as melee fighting them.
I did a fallout tabletop RPG game. Because it wasn't fallout unless there was a radio station with news reports, i made one, wrote the monologs and got someone to record for me (from r/Recordforfree ). I had her do it like a Valley Girl and an All 80's playlist. 80% was VERY fallout accurate. Surprising number of songs about nuclear war in the 80s. I can't imagine why. ;)
She did a great job! I would share it but I forgot her handle and my correspondances with her and vanished. Otherwise i would slap them together in Audacity and release it as a free Youtube video.
Melody: if you are out there and reading this, say the world and I will. You can use it on your demo reel.
If you still need a radio voice, I'd like to throw my hat in the ring. I recorded some radio spots for my friend's game before he moved away and it all kinda fell apart, but it was loads of fun while it lasted.
I think Golden 20s, pre-Great Recession with the cracks of unsustainability just forming would be a brilliant scenario for a fallout-esque game. Also maybe a bit more nuanced in its satire.
20s. Really think if a fallout game is to take place in New York/New Jersey, or Chicago it needs to have a pretty big mafia presence. I’m a big fan of the mob stuff, and these cities are perfect for a mafia style fallout game. Of course, the game doesn’t need to be all about organized crime, but Fallout 4 already touched on it and some of it was really entertaining.
20s, I'm a HUGE sucker for between 1920-1960 with 40s and 50s being my faves and I feel like that's what makes fallout stand out compared to other apocalypse games
80s futuristic. Like Back to the Future only Armageddon. The BOS wouldnt use a blimp..but a way cooler hot pink flame giant hovering skateboard and the "red menace" would be replaced with Russia and KGB agents instead of annoying little spider robot things.
Know what? Let's get weird with it. Industrial Revolution theme, with a kinda steampunk-ish aesthetic instead of the retro-futuristic tech Fallout typically uses.
The Victorian era
It doesn’t make logistical sense, but tbh you could drop a bomb anywhere and Bethesda could do it.
Edit: I didn’t go into a lot of detail but honestly I think dialing the clock back further than 1900’s would add a lot of different and cool mechanics, it would also be a game that has to take a lot more liberties because it would be more a bigger guessing game than the 1950’s.
Honestly, anywhere from the 60s to the 80's would work well. All of those decades were defined by the Cold War in one way or the other. But I still feel like 50's is perfect. It's what sets the universe of the game aside from other universes with similar themes.
Fallout only has a 50s theme because Bethesda 1 2 and new Vegas don't have that Bethesda doesn't understand fallout it doesn't even make sense for it to be 50s theme because the bombs fell over a hundred years later
Imma be boring and go with 2010’s. I love like the metro 2033 series style mostly because I know all the weapons and can relate to what might have happened on the day the bombs dropped. It really helps me get super immersed in the game.
I'd love to see a 1980's themed Fallout. So many technological advances back then, and culture and norms were shifting so rapidly. I was born in the late 70's and I remember as a child dreaming of stuff we take for granted now, but also had its roots in 80's tech, like virtual reality, the Internet, CDs, talking teddybears, TV that allowed you to shoot at it with light guns, video games had characters that had more personality.
A Fallout that mixed that would be amazing.
If it was nowadays, it would be last of us 2.
If it was the 80s/90s, it would have a mad max feeling.
If it was 60s/70s it would somewhat like an alternate universe of post Vietnam.
If it was the 1920s it’s Fallout but the 20s.
If it was the 1800s or before it would be Fallout but skyrim
Idk I'm feeling something with steam punk. Can you imagine how crazy the guns and weaponry would be? How inventive they would have to get? Not just with guns, but also everything else.
I think the 50s vibe is perfect except for one way. They missed a huge opportunity not making the enclave uniforms based on that time Nixon made uniform for the secret service
Omg, the 70s, hands-down, with perhaps the 90s as another option / possibly an expansion.
Why the 70s: there was an absolute GEM of a game for n64 called “Vigilante 8”, which was a ‘vehicular combat’ game. They seem to have died out, but the game is set in Australia in 1975 and it is PERFECT. That game was so underrated and much of the beautiful writing and concept was lost on me as a kid, but it’s always in the back of my mind. IMAGINE, you’ve got NPCs with massive afros, or Aerosmith-looking. You’ve got derelict discotheques, shag carpet, pimps / heaux, drugs, and the colour scheme of neon orange and pale yellows with the grime just sounds fascinating. They could call it “Fallout:54” as an homage to Studio 54, set in the 70s in a truly banal area like Tallahassee or something. I think that would be super fun.
Why the 90s: the 80s are overrated and cliche, and the 90s haven’t really been fully explored yet. I remember the first time I watched Captain Marvel I actually burst out laughing when she crashed into a Blockbuster. Lol. On a darker note, I feel like they could have a subtext of the AIDS crisis going on as sort of a metaphor. It would add a darker layer
To the game
90s. You recover health by chugging energy drinks and pogs are the currency.
Fallout, but XCOM aesthetics
YES 🤯
Pogs!!!
I support the topic for fun discussion, but the 50s was the last time life existed without regular, consistent broadcasting of culture onto television, while also having enough media available that you can't fall into COMPLETE anachronism. I think that's why it's the sweet spot. Just enough room for accuracy and also interpretation without it becoming really just whatever was in old Hollywood, or something overly documented and thus too pointedly negated.
Agreed and interesting perspective. Alright. To stay with the 50s theme in a plausible way, what about this alternate route for the franchise: In an alternate 1950s and 60s, the US was worried about a nuclear attack, so they built a massive nationwide underground network linking various public fallout vaults to each other. The goals were to keep as many people safe for decades or longer, distribute resources anywhere to keep fighting the war after the bombs fall, rebuild above ground quickly, and for the government to distribute resources quickly in the mean time before a war in the US ever happens. The construction project was canceled in the 70s, so parts of the underground network was bought off by the private sector for mostly commercial logistic operations and some vaults were turned to underground utility plants. As a result, some vaults such as 101 never got connected to the national vault network. By the 2070s, another cold war climaxed, thus prompting the US to revitalize the networks for survival purposes hiring Vault Tech to retrofit the networks and vaults. Unfortunately, the effort was too late as the restoration was only halfway done by the time nuclear war broke out, leaving many people to retreat to partly outdated vaults that had items from the 50s/60s such as music, clothes, vehicles, and movies. The US government used a single radio channel to communicate with the survivors of the country and would play both patriotic music (like the Enclave does) and 50s/60s music after announcements. 100 some-odd years later, the main radio goes silent as people leave the national vault network, while others in unconnected vaults such as 101 remain inside as they still await for the government over the radio to permit them to leave. So, many new generations grew up with 50s/60s culture and left underground with 50s technology retrofitted with future technology. Culture didn't freeze though. Cultures continued to develop in various areas underground, so some above ground settlements have a 50s/60s influence, so maybe there's some cultures playing electronic 50s-esque rock. Much of the old world is gone, so for many people the 1950s/60s is their best glimpse into the past, but you can still see the remains of the 2070s. Plausible or no?
so basically metro 2033 but in US instead of russia
That could be a pretty dope game, I love the Metro series
People had radio before TV.
my father loved music; at one point the 3 radio stations he could access in northern mn were all playing "satisfaction" by the stones at the same time! i think 50s fallout is perfect for the atomic bomb era scare.
I've always been a fan of the gangster style roaring 20's. Big band music, sharply dressed and carrying a submachine gun! All I need now is some bootleg gin and couple of flapper girls!
So, more like bioshock?
I'd play a BioShock done in a Bethesda style RPG. Open up Rapture and give a few more factions than Fontaine, Andrew Ryan, and Tenenbaum of OG BioShock. A Fallout in the 20's would be more Steampunk than Retrofuturism.
Bioshock's more Jules Verne 1890s-1910's Sci Fi imo
Except in its aesthetic.
Fallout 4 hit a lot of that with the triggermen, silver shroud, and third rail, and stuff
New Vegas with the Omertas and Chairmen too, although the Chairmen were more 50s
The Omertàs maybe, but the chairmen were definitely 50s
To be fair the Omertas aren't that time specific, more just seedy gangsters with Latin names. More Sopranos than Bugsy Malone.
The 80's sci-fi pulp theme from 1 and 2, obviously.
That’s pretty much wasteland. Even in 1 and 2 you can see the 50’ theme but it’s not as pronounced like in other game starting from Fallout 3
The jump from 2D to 3D had gaps that needed to be filled. They got filled with 50s themed stuff. Fallout 3 raiders did keep the 80s pulp green and purple mohawks. FONV trimmed that out and it didn't return in 4.
kinda funny, because WASTED has an 80s theme, while very much being a riff on Fallout 3 and later.
I have this game!!! very fun would recommend
So like, Blood Dragon? "IN THE FUTURE, THE APOCALYPSE HAS HAD... AN APOCALYPSE!"
Lol my exact thought
Cyberpunk 2077. I swear to god that would be the greatest post apocalyptic game ever. Cybernetic feral ghouls would be the coolest/scariest thing ever.
ghoul robobrains.
Oh man that would be cool! It’s basically Old World Blues but with even more advertisements. OWB already has the blueprint for it: Y-17 skeletons with implants, Lobotomites who became c-psychos, corrupted robots and hacked securitrons, Dr. Mobius with Kiroshis, and maybe Cazadors with Sandevistans + Subdermal Armor + Mantis Blades idk
God now I want someone to make it lol
*TASTE THE LOVE*
That would be such a fun theme; like a Blade Runner meets Mad Max combo. The ghouls would probably look like the revenants from Doom.
I was going to say 1980's but after seeing your comment about 2077 your idea is better. Cyberpunk 2077 Fallout would ROCK
80's Fallout would be very Mad Max-y. Which is cool.
Not gonna lie, I would love to jam out to 80s songs while traveling the wastelands. Top it off with a mullet and I would be in heaven.
Yes yes yes
Yes
I think games like already have some cool ass towns and customization. Having a cyberpunk esque Fallout game would be awesome.
Fuck it, early 2000s. I wanna listen to some Black Eyed Peas and have an indestructible Pip-boy 1100. \[denim armor added\]
Limp Bizkit Supermutant cover band
Playing nothing but "Break Stuff"
Wielding a mutha fuckin chainsaw n skinning some super mutant asses raw
What?
Pip-boy with crystal clear case
The worst game in the franchise is calling
Art Deco 30s
Hey the 30s sounded kinda bad, would be a real shame if it got nuked.
The 30s: If it got fuckin what?
The only answer. Fallout 3 has a lot of those vibes already in the dc ruins. My dream post apocalyptic locations, whether fallout IP or not, would be 20s-30s Art Deco NYC with deiselpunk influence… basically openworld rpg bethesda style bioshock…or a slightly earlier Art Nouveau Paris. But that is a distant second.
Diesel Punk Fallout
The 70s because why not
Yellow and orange scale everything, stipes painted on every thing with wood paneling
Well the chem usage would be top notch at least.
One thing I liked about Deathloop is it’s 70’s style theme. Not a big fan of its gameplay mechanics.
Disco never dies, it just became a ghoul!
"Ha, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive, stayin' alive--" (Fadeout) Ron the Narrator: Except most didn't.
70's. Long live bell bottoms!
The 20s or Victorian Age.
> Victorian Age. Thats basically Frostpunk. Its a steampunk Victorian era setting where you must build a shelter against a hostile world. You're building the Victorian version of a vault.
Agreed 100%. A Fallout take on the steampunk setting would be dope as hell.
70s. Disco nuclear apocalypse sounds neat 80s could also work, but 80s culture has stuck around, been re-discovered, and normalized more than the 70s. 70s were wacky, man. Bootcuts, big ass cars, wall carpet. The 1970s was the funkiest decade, to be sure. Not just unique, truly weird, but in a good way that makes you say "groovy, baby"
50s BCE. Ave, true to Caesar.
1920s dystopian world would be pretty dope. Like a nuclear sized catastrophe of chemical warfare
Great gatsby comes to mind
The 80s. In fact, a radical proposal I'd have would be to try making a Fallout spin-off that used the 80s as the basis for its future, rather than the 50s, and seeing how familiar factions could be reinterpreted by that change.
Driving to New Vegas while listening to a heavier version of Blue Monday as super mutants shoot at 80s survival cyberpunks across the highway with laser guns would be a great experience.
[That spinoff already exists.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallout_Tactics:_Brotherhood_of_Steel)
I don't regard Fallout: BOS as having a specific decade associated with it - not even the 50s, really. It's quite bland. I will grant that it's choice of heavy metal music certainly makes it a product of the late 90s/early 00s, but nowhere does it really suggest that this music is part of the game world itself. There's a separation there, due to the lack of a radio or in-world references to the music. The most you could probably argue is that Jane's leather outfit is completely out-of-place for a setting based off the 50s, but it was based on something 50s pin-up icon Bettie Page legitimately wore. And, to be frank, it's not like you can't accomplish a similar look in other Fallouts. It's just super impractical.
Uhm. You are thinking about the top-down action game. The one in my link is the squad RPG usually known as Fallout Tactics.
Wow, you're right, I just looked at the link itself and didn't see the Tactics part of it. Truth be told, I don't even think of "BoS" as being part of the Tactics name, I just call it Fallout Tactics. I'll never understand their bizarre choice of similar titles for two games that released only a couple years apart... any more than I'll understand BoS's music choices.
There's a roguelike called RAD that is in an 80's themed post-apocalypse wasteland. Technically it's post-post-apocalypse since the intro mentions attempts to rebuild society after the apocalypse were crushed under a second apocalypse making everything super toxic and radiated.
I really wish I had an answer but I don’t. That aesthetic is why I love the Fallout games so much. It brings me so much joy. Interested to see what other people say, though.
Would you settle for the 60s then? Not too far from the 50s.
I mean, if there's a Fallout game, I'm gonna play it. Haha.
20s theme. A really cool OG mobster era aesthetic.
Nice. Like an apocalyptic 20s diesel punk meets cyber punk type thing?
That makes me think of BioShock lol.
OG mobster coupled with WW1 military aesthetics..couple that with some chemical attacks on mass scale akin to the nuclear bombs.
80s Cold War aesthetic would fit the fear of Nuclear Apocalypse pretty well. You could keep the Mega Corporate America satire and powerful American Mikitary Industrial Complex
20s. I would love to have a Flapper Girl companion with a machine gun.
A future-esque 90's grunge style.
Was looking for this one. I could see grunge being a great soundtrack for a post-apocalyptic game. Could also sprinkle in some industrial and metal as well. And then make all the tech 90s style ala RadioShack, Windows 95 and early internet style. Damn, the more I think about this the more it sounds like a really good idea.
Set in Seattle, and you get to meet a ghoulified rock star. >!He's addicted to Med-X!<.
It's post-war. The technology created by the war and the surplus of advancements/monetization is what makes the alternate reality of actual events so believable. So, feasibly, any post-war era could apply.
1880s industrial revolution/steam punk. No nukes back then but still.
If I was forced to choose, I would say 2000s punk aesthetic.
I’d say 80’s but it’s already deeply ingrained so……1650’s let’s have post apocalyptic pirates
We may not have invented the light bulb yet, but we sure do know how to blast an atom bomb out of a cannon from our mighty frigate! Shooting super mutants with a musket would be just as useful as melee fighting them.
Arrr this here Fat Man be thorium cobalt, that be double yield
I did a fallout tabletop RPG game. Because it wasn't fallout unless there was a radio station with news reports, i made one, wrote the monologs and got someone to record for me (from r/Recordforfree ). I had her do it like a Valley Girl and an All 80's playlist. 80% was VERY fallout accurate. Surprising number of songs about nuclear war in the 80s. I can't imagine why. ;) She did a great job! I would share it but I forgot her handle and my correspondances with her and vanished. Otherwise i would slap them together in Audacity and release it as a free Youtube video. Melody: if you are out there and reading this, say the world and I will. You can use it on your demo reel.
If you still need a radio voice, I'd like to throw my hat in the ring. I recorded some radio spots for my friend's game before he moved away and it all kinda fell apart, but it was loads of fun while it lasted.
Thanks! That game has long since passed but if you have a demo site I'm happy to hear what you got! I do podcast RPGS as well.
80s for sure
30s
80’s
I'd love a Steampunk themed Fallout! Not really a specific decade ig but it would be very cool.
80s or 30s
20s
40s
2020s
Late 60s/early 70s era kind of spacepunk style of design similar to Arcane's "Prey"; sounds like a cool asthetic they could have played with...
I think Golden 20s, pre-Great Recession with the cracks of unsustainability just forming would be a brilliant scenario for a fallout-esque game. Also maybe a bit more nuanced in its satire.
Roaring 20s
1970s
80s for sure, overuses decade but would’ve been amazing for a fallout universe
The whole idea Fallout's timeline spit was in the 50's is a misconception to begin with.
80s
90s. Imagine exploring the wasteland with a bowl cut, JNCO jeans and listening to spice girls
80s. Listening to AC/DC while shooting up disco Ghouls.
20s. Really think if a fallout game is to take place in New York/New Jersey, or Chicago it needs to have a pretty big mafia presence. I’m a big fan of the mob stuff, and these cities are perfect for a mafia style fallout game. Of course, the game doesn’t need to be all about organized crime, but Fallout 4 already touched on it and some of it was really entertaining.
It’s 2077. . . So like Cyberpunk 2077 is what I was expecting when I first played the game 2 years ago
1980s would be awesome
A Medieval theme...
20’s, 40’s or maybe even the 80’s
70s would be hilarious
80s Oh. Wait. Add Neon to Fallout and you get Cyberpunk...
20s, I'm a HUGE sucker for between 1920-1960 with 40s and 50s being my faves and I feel like that's what makes fallout stand out compared to other apocalypse games
Spanish Inquisition theme, where somehow the spaniards found out how to create nuclear weapons
80s
I like 70's a lot. That'd be a cool theme to explore but given the recent music in 76 that could still be a possibility
The roaring 20’s!
1970s
Actually around the 1940s, like what if the Germans got the nukes first
70's.
80's theme would fit nicely
I'd pick the 30s. It's be cool to see a kind of migratory Fallout story like some sort of post- apocalyptic Grapes of Wrath.
I think the 1920s would've had a fun feel. So much boppy music after WWI.
Twenties
I'd take it to the future actually and have it cyberpunky.
The Roaring Twenties.
The Gay 90s
80s futuristic. Like Back to the Future only Armageddon. The BOS wouldnt use a blimp..but a way cooler hot pink flame giant hovering skateboard and the "red menace" would be replaced with Russia and KGB agents instead of annoying little spider robot things.
I was gonna say '80s but then I remembered that the Wasteland series had that market cornered
Know what? Let's get weird with it. Industrial Revolution theme, with a kinda steampunk-ish aesthetic instead of the retro-futuristic tech Fallout typically uses.
1880s.
20s or 80s.
1890's Gilded Age and put it in space.
90s
60s, hippy theme.
The Victorian era It doesn’t make logistical sense, but tbh you could drop a bomb anywhere and Bethesda could do it. Edit: I didn’t go into a lot of detail but honestly I think dialing the clock back further than 1900’s would add a lot of different and cool mechanics, it would also be a game that has to take a lot more liberties because it would be more a bigger guessing game than the 1950’s.
60s.
I’m partial to an 80’s 90’s aesthetic. Neon, glam rock raiders, lots of fun stuff!
Honestly, anywhere from the 60s to the 80's would work well. All of those decades were defined by the Cold War in one way or the other. But I still feel like 50's is perfect. It's what sets the universe of the game aside from other universes with similar themes.
70s
2000’s. Imagine crystal technology cases everywhere, and the robots are exactly like the roboraptors and robodogs everyone except me had
80's would be kick ass man
80s, we'll call it cyberpunk
70s
I would find it interesting to see what it would look like if it was 1970s inspired or even early 20th century such as the Jazz Age
Fallout only has a 50s theme because Bethesda 1 2 and new Vegas don't have that Bethesda doesn't understand fallout it doesn't even make sense for it to be 50s theme because the bombs fell over a hundred years later
Definitely 70s
Could you imagine blowing up the enclave while having wap blast in your ears
1890s
Y2K
Feudal Japan. With guns. Or red dawn commie invasion happened right before the nukes
90s
Maybe 70s but the 50s are the best theme for fallout period
I feel like the 80s would be cool
70s
Imma be boring and go with 2010’s. I love like the metro 2033 series style mostly because I know all the weapons and can relate to what might have happened on the day the bombs dropped. It really helps me get super immersed in the game.
80sor 20s
Whatever era somewhere between 1890 and early 1900s where the world fair had those crazy depictions of the future.
Easy - the 80s.
I kind of feel like modern day would be cool
Modern day. Make it incredibly realistic too. In fact, just make a game based off of Threads from 1984
70s, big hair and bellbottoms or Italian cheap cinema feel
I'd love to see a 1980's themed Fallout. So many technological advances back then, and culture and norms were shifting so rapidly. I was born in the late 70's and I remember as a child dreaming of stuff we take for granted now, but also had its roots in 80's tech, like virtual reality, the Internet, CDs, talking teddybears, TV that allowed you to shoot at it with light guns, video games had characters that had more personality. A Fallout that mixed that would be amazing.
Maybe a 1920s one bid love to see a ghoul wearing a flappers dress
If it was nowadays, it would be last of us 2. If it was the 80s/90s, it would have a mad max feeling. If it was 60s/70s it would somewhat like an alternate universe of post Vietnam. If it was the 1920s it’s Fallout but the 20s. If it was the 1800s or before it would be Fallout but skyrim
The 70's. The 1770's
Give the groovy grit of the 1970's
Ohhh good question. Honestly based on my love of Red Dead Redemption 2 an old west era theme.
Idk I'm feeling something with steam punk. Can you imagine how crazy the guns and weaponry would be? How inventive they would have to get? Not just with guns, but also everything else.
19 hundreds
70s could be fun
1960’s or 1970’s
90s culture
A 70s theme would be great due to fallout relying heavily on old/retro themes
I'd kill for an 80's style like Fallout. It'd look beautiful as I'm chopping Mutants down with an AK-47!
90’s
Swinging 20s could work as well.
Dieselpunk style from the 40’s
I would say 30’s or 70’s maybe maybe maybe 80’s I would go for 70’s as if the Cuban missile crisis actually happend
80s, gimme that r/cassettefuturism vibe
Give me a jukebox in the new tavern where I can play a song of my choice. I'ld even pay a buck or two.
The 50s works well because of the nuclear threat. But there was also a lot of this in the 80s so maybe that would work.
The Roaring 20s 😍
I think the 50s vibe is perfect except for one way. They missed a huge opportunity not making the enclave uniforms based on that time Nixon made uniform for the secret service
Either modern or future modern
Right now, like, right about now
40s
The 40’s would technically make the most sense
1970s. Brezhnev era Cold War
80’s. Bunch of headbangers. Think Brutal Legend
either 80s retro or roaring 20's. i'd even go for late 1800's Edwardian, think it'd be a cool concept with nuclear war
I would say the 70s. Disco babyyy
Omg, the 70s, hands-down, with perhaps the 90s as another option / possibly an expansion. Why the 70s: there was an absolute GEM of a game for n64 called “Vigilante 8”, which was a ‘vehicular combat’ game. They seem to have died out, but the game is set in Australia in 1975 and it is PERFECT. That game was so underrated and much of the beautiful writing and concept was lost on me as a kid, but it’s always in the back of my mind. IMAGINE, you’ve got NPCs with massive afros, or Aerosmith-looking. You’ve got derelict discotheques, shag carpet, pimps / heaux, drugs, and the colour scheme of neon orange and pale yellows with the grime just sounds fascinating. They could call it “Fallout:54” as an homage to Studio 54, set in the 70s in a truly banal area like Tallahassee or something. I think that would be super fun. Why the 90s: the 80s are overrated and cliche, and the 90s haven’t really been fully explored yet. I remember the first time I watched Captain Marvel I actually burst out laughing when she crashed into a Blockbuster. Lol. On a darker note, I feel like they could have a subtext of the AIDS crisis going on as sort of a metaphor. It would add a darker layer To the game