what if fallout wasn't retro-futuristic?

[Frongosmeme]

what would the music be like? what would the factions be? would their be more advanced technology? type your answer to what you think it would be like.

[Spooky Cat 🐾💕]

Fallout without retro-futurism is literally Metro. I assume Metro Exodus is what Fallout would be like if it wasn't retro-futuristic.

[Freak4Leeks]

it would be be boring

The whole retro-futurism of Fallout is awesome and fun, it has humor and such because of it's tone it's simultaneously dark while being light hearted

Even the original series has some retro in them although i would say it was less pronounced

[The Inept European]

Dull, bleak and humourless.

[Langkard]

Originally posted by The Ex-ept European:

Dull, bleak and humourless.

Pretty much every Monday in real life.

[FauxFurry]

Mad Max. It would be Mad Max.

[Incunabulum]

Pjedlord 2.0

[sebirez]

Originally posted by Incunabulum:

Pjedlord 2.0

lmao I thought it was Pj when I read the title.

[DouglasGrave]

Originally posted by FauxFurry:

Mad Max. It would be Mad Max.

Or what Mad Max would be like if you removed all the scenes with running car battles.

[Fumo Bnnuy n Frends]

Originally posted by Spooky Cat 🐾💕:

Fallout without retro-futurism is literally Metro. I assume Metro Exodus is what Fallout would be like if it wasn't retro-futuristic.

or Stalker


Tbh there are a handful of zombie games which sorta do the whole fallout schtick without ghouls instead they use zombies. Sorta the same thing.

So yeah just imagine another game with mutants or zombies like the suffering or Dead Frontier. Same concept different genre. Since fallout has mutants and ghouls which act like zombies. They also got overpowered enemies with gear and raiders. Just imagine the power armor ones are pvp players with high end gear guns and armor. There that's a zombie apocalypse without the retro feel.


I can actually see fallout as a sort of metro or stalker mod without the stuff like robots or aliens or 50's futuristic atom punk / ray punk feel. I actually would've liked it more since no real game comes close to it. Like a game with based on irl locations. 3 on it's own just the destroyed washington was immersive enough without the other assets added as a post nuclear apocalypse game.
new vegas too since it felt like a planet of the apes / resident evil vibe of just desert and tougher enemies. Just remove the main factions and retro stuff and keep the raiders khans and boomers and it's basically mad maxish style of a game. Or a very wild west red dead type of game experience.

[FauxFurry]

Originally posted by DouglasGrave:

Originally posted by FauxFurry:

Mad Max. It would be Mad Max.

Or what Mad Max would be like if you removed all the scenes with running car battles.

A Boy and His Dog.

[The Inept European]

Originally posted by DouglasGrave:

Originally posted by FauxFurry:

Mad Max. It would be Mad Max.

Or what Mad Max would be like if you removed all the scenes with running car battles.

Touché :-)

[DouglasGrave]

Originally posted by FauxFurry:

Originally posted by DouglasGrave:

Or what Mad Max would be like if you removed all the scenes with running car battles.

A Boy and His Dog.

Dogmeat does already have a near-psychic ability to locate objects of interest. I guess he just needs a voice and the ability to locate "companions".

[no1schmo]

Well, if it wasn't retro-futuristic, then it could just be retro, like if nukes were dropped in the 60's, so no, there would not be more technology. Or it could be, like, Mass Effect levels of technology if it happened 500 years from now. You really have to ask more specific questions to get useful answers.

[globefish23]

It would by Deus Ex high up on top, and Mad Max on the bottom.

[Blind]

Metal Max.

It's the same post-apocalyptic open world where you help factions... only you drive around in one of the few working tanks.

...

And it was on the NES