Fallout 3 Riddle me this

[NewYork_Comedian]

So American culture is locked in the 50's idea of Jazz and the American Dream, i get that. BUT did they just decide that after the music of the 30's-50's that they didn't need to make anymore? Did NO ONE want to make anymore of it? Were the people of the 2070's fine with listening to music from over one hundred years ago over and over again?

 

[EightGaugeHippo]

Most of the insturments where destroyed by the bombs

and if they where not, while the human race was hiding from the radioactive surface in vaults, most of the wooden instruments would have rotted and become useless.

 

[Kiefer13]

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.

 

[Zarmi]

When you find me a guitar, let me know. But no, on a serious note. I don't think they really had any real way to make or publish music after the entire nuclear war. And I guess that some music, even 100 years back, is better than none, yes?

 

[Lust]

I remember their was only one instrument....................that one stradivarius violin.

 

[chieften]

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

 

[NewYork_Comedian]

Yes but before the war, no new music?

 

[Evil the White]

After the 30's-50's music, they presumably recorded more of the same. The only intact records they might have found after the bombings would have been in archives and places that weren't blown up by the bombs. So the hits of 100+ years ago may have been the only records that survived in their drawers. Remember that a lot of the larger museums in DC survived, so if there was anywhere where old hits would have been stored, it would have been there.

 

[BlindTom]

The apocalypse didn't happen in the fifties despite the impression given by Bethesda's pitiful writers. You have a good point there since they would have been making music for a good long time after the fifties. Maybe whatever they moved on to after records (those cassette thing or whatever) were unstable as shit so only records remain. Sure they would have decayed but so would all those beans and fags sitting all over the place. Alternatively you can think of the artists in question as alternative versions of themselves, born and producing at the pinnacle of this fifties style culture. (Just before the war.)



Dunno really :-/

 

[NewYork_Comedian]

ehhhhh i dont know, they could through in some not so well known jazz from the 60's, 70's, and 80's as well.

They could even try to make there OWN Jazz music and but it on a fake band the released in during the 2050's. Or something like that

 

[Echo136]

Most of the insturments where destroyed by the bombs

and if they where not, while the human race was hiding from the radioactive surface in vaults, most of the wooden instruments would have rotted and become useless.

In Fallout 3 there was one vault meant to preserve all the worlds greatest musicians, but they kept pumping in a high frequency sound as an experiment that eventually turned them into those giant crab monsters (forgot their names). You can even find a couple preserved instruments in that vault.

 

[Nitpicker of the Wastes]

It's because Three Dog only likes the really old stuff.

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

Interplay's 'pitiful' writers.

 

[Kif]

Maybe it's just a pain in the arse for Black Isle, Bethesda or anyone making a Fallout game to find a band to write and perform new music in a 1950s style just to convey to the audience that the 50s style was the style of choice from then onwards... especially when there's such a good catalogue of recogniseable tunes already available.

 

[NewYork_Comedian]

Most of the insturments where destroyed by the bombs

and if they where not, while the human race was hiding from the radioactive surface in vaults, most of the wooden instruments would have rotted and become useless.

In Fallout 3 there was one vault meant to preserve all the worlds greatest musicians, but they kept pumping in a high frequency sound as an experiment that eventually turned them into those giant crab monsters (forgot their names). You can even find a couple preserved instruments in that vault.

Yes, i know about that, i beat the Agatha's Song quest as well.

 

[Sebenko]

Fallout is set in a universe where nuclear powered cars don't give you cancer (as far as we know. considering the ethics of companies in the Fallout universe), despite having little shielding, and food survives in an edible condition for two centuries, and you're asking about the music?

Then again, playing the previous games, the "1950's future apocalypse" seems more like a background joke than the crux of the entire game's style.

 

[Jack_Uzi]

I remember their was only one instrument....................that one stradivarius violin.

You can find a special instrument, don't know if it was a violin or a chello anymore but if you find it....

Spoiler

And bring it to an old lady somewhere near fault 101 (as far as I recall), you will unlock another radio station.

 

[mad825]

I would have to say that you are nitpicking and wanting some reason to argue about Fallout 3, regardless what does it matter? the game is not about the music never has been and never will but it just sets the atmosphere very well.

 

[Prince Regent]

Dude it's a fictional universe it does not need to make sense.