Forum:Were you impressed of the history of Fallout

Were you?I were because its long and cool i think there arent many games with this long history if any at all.Half-Life has somekind of histoy.

I loved the deep detail of events in the ulternate universal history of the Fallout series. even though the history is of the U.S. and it's immediate aggressors, i don't see how that would stop with not knowing what the rest of the globe went through and is going through at this time. what their precaustions were. The Gauss rifle is of german design. So after hearing about the nukes going off first in the middle east and then all of europes countries reforming to city states i wanted to know more about their feud before nukes went off in the region. and of course the latter events of the post-apocalyptic mess in the region as well. Reading the time-line was still enjoyable and gives you a greater understanding to the World at that time as a whole. 98.134.235.188 04:14, December 8, 2009 (UTC) Döpef-king

Eh, it's okay. Mothership Zeta ruined it by twisting the Divergence from the 19th century to the 17th, unless an actual Andrew Endicott disappeared from Salem. Nitty Tok. 04:18, December 8, 2009 (UTC)
 * Well, if you'd really like to 'nitpick', then the Divergence would have occurred around 13.5-14 billion years ago, since the physics of the Fallout universe differ from how physics work in the real world, at least according to this. That's not something that could have changed at any point in history other than during the 'big bang'. So, really, I suppose it would be safe to say that it's a 'fantasy world' and not the 'real world' at all. :^P Airos the Tiger Talk 05:35, December 12, 2009 (UTC)
 * What if aliens seeded the world with alternate reality physics crystals around the same time that it diverged before, and humanity learned ho to make more of these crystals so they used them for all the unreal physics like lazers and stuff? --24.72.49.251 17:08, December 14, 2009 (UTC)
 * I suppose that if mankind could create 'alternate reality physics crystals', we would have created an alternate reality that didn't involve the total destruction of the planet, ala 'our bombs work and yours don't, our guns work and yours don't, our tanks/boats/planes work and yours don't, our troops breathe oxygen and yours breath chlorine, our land mass is stable, yours floats off into space'. Seriously, that's kind of a lame excuse for why the physics of Fallout differ from the real world, and isn't supported by anything. I'm just saying that if we're going to rip apart the DLC and talk about how BethSoft screwed up the divergence timeline because of some random puritan on a space ship, then I think it's fair to just throw away the entire idea of a 'divergence' all together and say it's an entirely alternate reality from the beginning. Airos the Tiger Talk 05:31, December 15, 2009 (UTC)
 * The whole divergence concept is flawed, throw divergence out with the alternate reality seed bathwater. Ishotamaninnewreno 09:20, December 15, 2009 (UTC)
 * The developers stated that the World of Fallout diverged from ours in the 1950s. That is final and I can't really comprehend how you could debate something that was already answered by the developers of the original games. http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/fallout/images/thumb/4/4a/Naglowaa_se.gif/11px-Naglowaa_se.gif Tagaziel (call!) 21:45, December 30, 2009 (UTC)
 * Well, Airos made a pretty good point above re: SCIENCE! v science. If you are having trouble comprehending something, feel free to ask. Ishotamaninnewreno 23:49, December 30, 2009 (UTC)
 * No, he did not. It's a minirant on a subject he doesn't understand. http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/fallout/images/thumb/4/4a/Naglowaa_se.gif/11px-Naglowaa_se.gif Tagaziel (call!) 02:35, December 31, 2009 (UTC)
 * So how do you reconcile divergence with SCIENCE! v science? Ishotamaninnewreno 04:46, December 31, 2009 (UTC)
 * It's a part of the setting? One, the world developed pretty much the same as ours but diverged in 1950s. Two, the diverged world acts differently than our world, much like sci-fi of the 1950s thought science would develop. All there is to it. http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/fallout/images/thumb/4/4a/Naglowaa_se.gif/11px-Naglowaa_se.gif Tagaziel (call!) 08:05, December 31, 2009 (UTC)
 * So the laws of physics changed in the 1950's when the divergence occurred? Or are you saying that the FO universe always had different physics? Ishotamaninnewreno 09:47, December 31, 2009 (UTC)
 * It's irrelevant. Do you nitpick the technical validity of Star Wars starships too? http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/fallout/images/thumb/4/4a/Naglowaa_se.gif/11px-Naglowaa_se.gif Tagaziel (call!) 10:13, December 31, 2009 (UTC)
 * How exactly is it irrelevant? If you don't want to discuss something, you should probably just stay away from the conversation. Also, if I was a Star Wars fan I would engage in a healthy discussion about their universe too. This is a forum to discuss the FO world. Ishotamaninnewreno 11:07, December 31, 2009 (UTC)
 * It's irrelevant, because it has no bearing on the Fallout universe. The physics simply work differently, allowing for radiation-induced real time mutations and portable energy weapons. http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/fallout/images/thumb/4/4a/Naglowaa_se.gif/11px-Naglowaa_se.gif Tagaziel (call!) 11:37, December 31, 2009 (UTC)
 * So really, the world has been different all along? Thought so. Ishotamaninnewreno 02:11, January 1, 2010 (UTC)

And despite all of these scientific advancements, they still never made geiger counter keychains. Dang. Thanks for the link to that slightly kooky website, Grizzly. Metalfrenchtoast 18:31, January 2, 2010 (UTC)

I like it for the most part, but so many different people have had their grubby little hands on it that it kind of seems hodge-podge at this point. Battletech was pretty freakin' consistent with itself until' later on (That shitty Mech Warrior game they made for the Xbox... Oh god...). That's like... 500 years of game history, something like that? Same thing happened though, once Wizkids got a hold of it, they turned it into a friggin' Hero Clix game. Go figure. Most cool original ideas are eventually perverted into an easily palatable retarded shit amalgam for the masses. That kind of applies to any art form, not just games. Metalfrenchtoast 20:28, December 30, 2009 (UTC)