Comment on The Fallout TV show might have answered a decades-old question in the video games
Zron@lemmy.world 6 months agoI 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.
kbin_space_program@kbin.run 6 months ago
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.