Well, surprisingly, Fallout is hyper realistic. All the tech described is based on known to us science, etc. In this instance it’s very interesting to analyse the lore.
I agree with you, but the prewar era of the game is not the 1950s.
The bombs dropped in 2077. The main divergence of the fallout timeline is that they didn’t discover the transistor until the 2060s or so. Which is why everything has that bulky style to it. The 50s style is also attributed to a kind of cultural renaissance to that era. Kind of like how sometimes hairstyles come back after decades of being out of style, only for an entire time period.
The diversion isn’t just the transistor. From my understanding its that the cold war doesn’t happen after ww2. You get instead 50 years of the collaboration as an entire species.
Things only start falling apart when the oil runs out.
Also Bethesda added Aliens manipulating Earth, with overtones that it was them who started “the great war.” Also they had been manipulating humanity for at least several hundred years.
Fallout is not set in 1950-s. Its setting doesn’t start before 2050-s. We already have goofy robots, exoskeletons and fission nano reactors. Fusion cores are a marketing gimmick, they are not fusion and don’t last long. You don’t understand the Fallout universe at all.
Ah, yes, stim-pacs have saved my life numerous times, and I also experience time dilation at my own whim! And, obviously, a quick hit of Jet has gotten me going at least a few times over the years.
Rapid wound healing doesn’t mean a bullet hole heals in seconds nor does it mean a crushed bone will magically straighten and fix itself.
3 times faster means 1 months instead of 3 months for full tissue heal.
Jet actually lets you perceive faster. Meth gives you the illusion you are thinking faster where in reality everyone looks at you while you stand there grinding your teeth.
Given that it takes a giant room of vacuum tubes to equal the computation power of a cabinet sized 1960’s transistorized computer and neither had anything close to the AI of a small robot shown in Fallout, it isn’t hyper realistic.
Well, surprisingly, Fallout is hyper realistic. All the tech described is based on known to us science, etc. In this instance it’s very interesting to analyse the lore.
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I agree with you, but the prewar era of the game is not the 1950s.
The bombs dropped in 2077. The main divergence of the fallout timeline is that they didn’t discover the transistor until the 2060s or so. Which is why everything has that bulky style to it. The 50s style is also attributed to a kind of cultural renaissance to that era. Kind of like how sometimes hairstyles come back after decades of being out of style, only for an entire time period.
The diversion isn’t just the transistor. From my understanding its that the cold war doesn’t happen after ww2. You get instead 50 years of the collaboration as an entire species.
Things only start falling apart when the oil runs out.
Also Bethesda added Aliens manipulating Earth, with overtones that it was them who started “the great war.” Also they had been manipulating humanity for at least several hundred years.
Quick interjection, fusion cells and cores aren’t actually fusion reactions, they’re fission. The labeling is a prewar advertising gimmick.
Fallout is not set in 1950-s. Its setting doesn’t start before 2050-s. We already have goofy robots, exoskeletons and fission nano reactors. Fusion cores are a marketing gimmick, they are not fusion and don’t last long. You don’t understand the Fallout universe at all.
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We’re not in 2050-2070-s either.
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Ah, yes, stim-pacs have saved my life numerous times, and I also experience time dilation at my own whim! And, obviously, a quick hit of Jet has gotten me going at least a few times over the years.
Considering it’s set in the future and modern studies into rapid wound healing (like this one https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/04/230418011121.htm this one https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-50009-3 and this https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7463929/) it’s fair to say that stimpak like tech is not unrealistic in its nature. It actually follows research trends of the 1990s.
Perceived time dilation.
And Jet is pretty much a variant of meth.
Rapid wound healing doesn’t mean a bullet hole heals in seconds nor does it mean a crushed bone will magically straighten and fix itself.
3 times faster means 1 months instead of 3 months for full tissue heal.
Jet actually lets you perceive faster. Meth gives you the illusion you are thinking faster where in reality everyone looks at you while you stand there grinding your teeth.
It’s not hyper realistic. But it’s extremely entertaining.
All its tech and science is based on our existing tech and science, it’s just fast forwarded a few decades into the future.
They have ai robots where the intelligence comes from vacuum tube circuits.
And?
Given that it takes a giant room of vacuum tubes to equal the computation power of a cabinet sized 1960’s transistorized computer and neither had anything close to the AI of a small robot shown in Fallout, it isn’t hyper realistic.