Trailer Fallout - Official Trailer

MarkB said:

Actually, this could be another tie-in to Fallout New Vegas. In that game, the crux of the NCR / Legion / Mr House conflict is control of the Hoover Dam, with the NCR planning to restore power cables to redistribute the power all the way back to California. It's possible that in this timeline that outcome was never fully realised, but that the NCR had got as far as restoring much of the local power infrastructure in anticipation of it. Moldaver would then have simply needed to piggy-back onto that existing infrastructure.

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Ruin Explorer said:

God now I think about it we have several 1950s retro-future games in the 1990s - Fallout (1997), obviously, but also Full Throttle (1995), Grim Fandango (1998), and the much-forgotten Grand Theft Auto 2 (1999) - a game with one of the most misleading covers in history! Also in the '80s there was the 1950 retro-future film Streets of Fire - which by the way, whilst I hated it when I was a kid, is kind of an amazing movie, and according to Mike Pondsmith, a huge inspiration for Cyberpunk 2013/2020, which helps explain why they were kind of almost already retro-futures and only became more that way.

Notable that in general of all the arts games have I think engaged with serious retrofuturism most directly and frequently.

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payn said:

Full Throttle was a lot of fun. So was The Dig and Maniac Mansion. For a time, Lucas Arts made some great games.

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payn said:

Full Throttle was a lot of fun. So was The Dig and Maniac Mansion. For a time, Lucas Arts made some great games.

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Ryujin said:

I dug out my copy of "Full Throttle" and passed it on to a friend who collects old games and repairs 'vintage' consoles, just a couple of years ago.

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Ruin Explorer said:

It's the mixing, and also Nolan (not Jonathan Nolan, his brother, the film guy) is intentionally a dick about it, and very intentionally and consciously has mixed his film so even on most cinema setups, you have to strain to hear them clearly, because he delusionally thinks (or thought, he seems to have changed his mind somewhat with Oppenheimer and after the negative reaction and huge mockery for it with Tenant) that this "enhances the experience", rather than just screwing over a large part of the audience who are watching the movies in less-than-ideal theatres, have minor hearing issues which don't cause problems with other films, at home, and so on.

It's a slightly similar issue with high-end TV shows (including BBC ones here) - many seem to be mixed on the assumption that you have a 5.1 or better surround system that is fully and correctly set up. Now, what gets me is - we know that's completely false - almost everyone (I forget the exact figure, but it's very high, like over 80%) is watching TV with the sound coming from the TV's built-in speakers, or on a laptop or tablet or phone with terrible speakers or low-end stereo headphones. On top of that, many people just don't turn the volume up, because the mixing is such that, to hear the speech, "loud" sounds have to be VERY LOUD, and depending on the speakers, potentially even distorted. This is part of why so many people listen with subtitles on now.

If you have good quality headphones, or a proper surround setup, or even just a good soundbar, you probably won't come across the issue.

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payn said:

On the topic if episode 8;

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The lights all coming on thing made some sense to me. Clearly, Moldaver knew about the possibility of getting her hands on the cold fusion. She had a machine ready to distribute the energy. It makes sense the NCR would have prepared for the moment with updated lighting fixtures. At least that’s how I reasoned it.

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MarkB said:

Actually, this could be another tie-in to Fallout New Vegas. In that game, the crux of the NCR / Legion / Mr House conflict is control of the Hoover Dam, with the NCR planning to restore power cables to redistribute the power all the way back to California. It's possible that in this timeline that outcome was never fully realised, but that the NCR had got as far as restoring much of the local power infrastructure in anticipation of it. Moldaver would then have simply needed to piggy-back onto that existing infrastructure.

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payn said:

Full Throttle was a lot of fun. So was The Dig and Maniac Mansion. For a time, Lucas Arts made some great games.

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pukunui said:

Thanks for confirming that it's not just because I'm getting old!



I think my main issue with this is just that the skyscrapers all still look ruined. Like why bother fixing the lighting in them if they're just wrecked structures? I guess I'll just have to accept that it's artistic licence.

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pukunui said:

I remember Maniac Mansion! That was such a fun game.

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