you standing on a high clif located not far from the city and looking at a bright light moving down to a city! you see the trees dancing with the wind and the sun moving towards horizon! you heaf the dancing trees in the distance and the wind scretching noice over the edge of the rocks. no birds no animals no humans! just syren in the distance.
The distant sirens. The grinding metal. The dripping water. The static of an old ham radio. The military marching tune. The Morse code. All these sounds come together, and they form brilliance.
This ambient soundtrack was actually so good they decided they didnt need another for New Vegas . The feeling of desolation of this soundtrack is amazing.
***** I've played though Fallout New Vegas about 20 times, I have never hear that song when entering the strip. Must be a very similar song in that case. EDIT: Yes a very small portion of this song is in the loading screen. Can't believe I've never noticed that :/
***** Yeah, I haven't played Fallout 1 or 2 yet, I have them, installed and everything but haven't started yet. But I watched a youtube play through the first one so I know the music. I probably didn't notice the soundtrack in New Vegas because I didn't pay attention, because Loading Screen
good ol fallout. this song creeps me out. the sirens. the electricity buzzing. makes me think of what the people were thinking and doing when the bombs fell..
Jose Ignacio Suarez Fallout 1, fallout 2 and Fallout new Vegas are set in the same place while Fallout 3 is set in Washington DC and Fallout 4 set in Boston
@@JayJay-z4z2p Troika actually wanted to buy Fallout (given as a few of the people literally created Fallout), but Bugthesda offered more money. Fargo the fool.
Bethesda can make a fun sandbox, but absolutely shit at storywriting. If former Black Isle devs were just yoinked and allowed a bit of freedom with how story progresses and structured, while Bethesda does the gameplay, it can pan out.
@@ADHDcisGinger They were literally military. They were soldiers assigned to guard the scientists making FEV. They then proceed to kill pretty much all said scientists once they found out what they were doing. They then proceeded to "leave the union" and decare their Independance days before the bombs fell.
Mark Morgan is the composer of this soundtrack. I think he deserves to be mentioned. He also composed the music for Fallout 2 and Planescape Torment, two of the best RPGs in the history of video games.
@@externalboss9404 That's not exactly true - none of the music by Mark Morgan that was used in New Vegas was composed _for_ New Vegas - it was all reused music from Fallout 1 and 2, so Morgan didn't create anything "with" Zur. They both made music that's in the game, but they didn't work together on the project.
Planescape: Torment is likely my favourite RPG ever, closely followed by FO2, which is likely my most played RPG ever. The biggest shame about FO2's OST is that it didn't have this masterpiece in it.
Man Fallout was lightyears ahead of most modern games in its prime. I love New Vegas for sampling these original Fallout tracks it really adds to the already creepy environment
I played through Fallout 4 for maybe a few weeks. First thing I did was mute all in game ambient and radio music, and had this as Ambient in the background, along with the rest of the OST. Made the game a little more like Fallout.
@@olliegoria It's not SOS. SOS is ". . . - - - . . .", what you hear on 1:58 is "- . - . - - - . - . . .". I can't hear it further, would need to download the track and try to fiddle with audio editor, but brief googling showed a forum thread, where a guy decoded the message into COASTGUARDCUTTERCAMP. From there, on reddit, another guy speculated that this might be a nod to a Cutter class ship named Camp, which has connections to cold war in 1960s. www.reddit.com/r/Fallout/comments/4s4mrz/some_weird_things_i_found_in_new_vegas/
Going thru this playlist is simply amazing. Reading what everyone had to say about the "Original Fallouts" is great to me since I've never played them. I was born in '99 and introduced to this franchise in 2008 in the form of Fallout 3. Before that I was a simple gamer: One story/objective that needs completing (CoD, Need for Speed, Halo, etc). But having to hastily go thru Vault 101 out into the Capital Wasteland with the ability to do almost anything I wanted was new to me. It forever changed my gaming experience. As most new Fallout gamers would, I binged on the lore of F3 and there was one tie that brought me to F1 and soon to F2: Harold. That fucking tree. And when I got Fallout NV with all the add-ons, forget about it. I knew almost everything about 1&2 without playing them (even tho firsthand exp IS best), but from the Enclave Remnants after the Oil Rig Explosion, that one black dude in Novac who came from New Reno (forgot his name), up to motherfucking Marcus the mutant, one of the Chosen One's companions man! Like Wtf!? And how Robert House had a hand in conducting the Vault-Tec experiments, or just all the scattered Super Mutants from the Master's Army (Marcus, Lily, Uncle Leo, Fawkes, Keene, Meansonofabitch, etc). Let's not forget how Obsidian made the NCR a major player in their work, along with the Courier's backstory being told.. mostly thru the add-ons (Ulysses that bastard). I can understand the frustration from the originals to the diluted F3, but IMO I couldn't be any more scared than when I was first going thru the eerie metro to the GNR Plaza (IN FIRST PERSON AT 2 AM) and seeing a hulking figure in the distance.. getting closer.. closer.. "I'M GONNA EAT YOUR ARMS WHEN YOU'RE DEAD HUMAN!!" HELL no my dude. Someone did comment on one of these videos about how Bethesda just reused the whole "Vault Dweller" story scheme, but NV did it right for me. In terms of the Courier's potent journey prior to Goodsprings, I enjoyed it very much! The vibe of the environment is what I questioned. The wild west type feel wasn't doing it, not nearly as much as the wastes of my country's capital (if you really think about it). 3 got me with the dark feels, but I realized 1&2 are the real gems. If you read this, then hell yea! Thank you. We all know that this is just the tip of the post-apocalyptic iceberg tho.. and that's okay :) Shoutout to the homie Dogmeat too.
I recomend you wait up for waste 3, and then play the classic fallouts after playing waste 3, why? Because inxile is more experienced and unity is less buggy, and that means a actualy great wasteland game and a more modern experience of the crpg subgenre. (Without counting waste 1, i still have to play it.)
Honestly, I've just kind of grown more frustrated with these purists constantly throwing Bethesda under the bus, because of creative differences that don't meet their specific standards. Like as if they think Interplay was completely blameless in terms of messing with what made Fallout what it is, despite their mismanagement of the IP, during the early 2000s with Brotherhood of Steel (just look up Black Sheep Game Reviews for more info on that mess), and also shafting the Van Buren project that was originally going to be Fallout 3, for the previously mentioned disaster, which in turn, lead to Bethesda being the current holder of the IP's rights.
@@retrogamelover2012 Interplay didn’t make the og 2, they published them, Black Isle studios made 1&2. Fallout 3 and 4 fucked with lore and made it worse. Why the hell did the Brotherhood abandon their mission to fight Super Mutants? Who the fuck cares you just want to shoot shit with a shitty shooting system. Fallout 4 was even more f a fuck up, they got rid of a good leveling system for “numbers go up” and no intellectual discussion of why the factions do what they do? Like the big antagonist of the game the Institute when you ask them “Hey why do you kidnap people and replace them with Synths?” And the answer is essentially “You wouldn’t get it” it’s shit writing and they don’t know what the fuck their doing with the lore. And then they take a dump on FEV which originally was only known by select members of the U.S government and West Tek but when Bethesda came around it’s now “Everybody knows FEV!” It’s shit writing and people have every right to criticize the game for shit writing and they also have the right to say “You know maybe Bethesda sucks at making Fallout and maybe should go to people who actually have cared and created this series.”
@@rumblemcsquash5488 isn't black isle studios interplay cus there was interplay the devs and interplay the publishing company then they renamed interplay the devs to black isle and I think late obsidian
Weirdly, the most welcoming song in the entire track. The industrial sounds make it feel modern in comparison to all of songs, making you more comfortable than with the rest of wastes. It's the first time you find fellows that give you a home by choice, and it's something you earned too.
I will forever remember this as the Old World Blues theme because that’s where I first heard it (even though it can play anywhere in Vegas.) I literally just broke down crying, it was like hearing the screams of all the Old World people all at once, their fear, their agony of knowing that everything that they know, everything and everyone they ever loved is about to come to an end, only for them all be to suddenly silenced… it still makes me tear up to this very day, but the first time? My heart literally stopped…
Wish the current fallout games had this feel. Listening to 50’s music is nice, but wish the ambient music was like this in Fallout 4 and 3 .Just from what I see the soundtrack really ads to the apocalyptic setting.
I agree. The radio can be a cool gimmick but it really takes the apocalypse feeling out of the game when you’re just like “da-dada-dada blastin 50s music while slaying a group of gangers da-dada-dadaaaa” and then you go to this and you’re like “…. Damn this is depressing” and that’s what it *should* feel like
@@WolfMan-nf4lv Maybe if there were one or two 50's songs sprinkled in with some original Fallout songs, like ones sung by ordinary folk in the wasteland, than that would be fine. However it is a constant stream of old happy go lucky songs while you scour through rubble and dead bodies, as you fight some grotesque mutant, while you witness horrible atrocities. If these post-apocalyptic survivors could find the necessary holotape recordings of these old songs, I'd expect it wouldn't be too hard to record their own music and play it on air, singing about hard times and such.
@@racciacrack7579 I see your point, but it's almost part of it - the overdone fake joy of the 50s amid the fucked-uppedness of the actual world. Nothing quite like a radio playing over an empty wasteland...
I get it too. Sadly with how the ambient tracks sound in the newer ones compared to this, using the radio or a mod 24/7 is a preferable option. At least New Vegas reused most of the tracks and also had some good originals. It's good enough that I don't bother turning on the radio.
It's not SOS. SOS is ". . . - - - . . .", what you hear on 1:58 is "- . - . - - - . - . . .". I can't hear it further, would need to download the track and try to fiddle with audio editor, but brief googling showed a forum thread, where a guy decoded the message into COASTGUARDCUTTERCAMP. From there, on reddit, another guy speculated that this might be a nod to a Cutter class ship named Camp, which has connections to cold war in 1960s. Credit to OkbVinyl for posting the original reply
Thanks to Obsedian and team... they didn't ignore orignal Fallout soundtracks and using these tracks for New Vegas.. that's actually a very wise decision taken by the developers.! Because these tracks has a truly magnificent amount of post nuclear viebs..!!!
Yeah, plus it saved them a ton of time and recourses and that allowed them to focus on other aspects of the game that made it so good 👍 New Vegas is one of the greatest RPG’s of all time
They also need to watch Threads (1984), The Road, and take a leaf out of the First Metro game. Survival after Nuclear armageddon shouldn't feel like "Oblivion/Skyrim with guns".
@@jimmyrustler8983 I think the best description for the West Coast Fallout games is post-post-apocalypse. Sure, theres still some fucked up shit like raiders, slavers, rape, tribals that'll burn you alive and eat your burnt corpse, but aside from that, (moreso in Fallout 2 than anything else) Theres hope, the NCR is really the last shining beacon of hope in the wasteland, and if the Chosen One makes the right choices, then the world is in pretty good shape.
@@theta_clips It's not a doomed world, it's a world picking itself up after the collapse. The east coast Fallouts on the other hand... Well 3 feels like the nuke literally just hit and left everything tinted green. And 4? 4 isn't the post-apocalypse at all, it's a post-apocalyptic themed _theme park_ -- It's entertaining for what it is, but it's no New Vegas :S
@@SomeBlokeOrWhatever apparently during the development of Fallout 3, the idea was to set the game around a decade after the bombs fell. I guess that Todd Howard just had one of his trademark brainfarts and set the clock exactly 200 years after instead.
They kept it in every game except FO3, and that's probably because Bethesda did FO3. I'm pretty sure FO2 uses it since they re-use FO1 music. I noticed it plays in New Vegas, especially in Freeside.
that doesnt explain why they didnt use it in FO3 considering both FO3 and NV are made by Bethesda (in NV it also plays alot in the Lonesome Road DLC and Big Mountain area)
+Klavair89 Bethesda did not make New Vegas, they simply published it. New Vegas was made by Obsidian Entertainment, who had former Black Isle Studios members working on the game (some of them being the original producers of the first two Fallout games), hence why this track is in F:NV.
I never played any Fallouts, I'm not interested in nuclear war or dystopian futures, I wasn't even alive when this game came out, but this song really speaks to me. It's very beautiful!
the first 2 are definetly a required taste but definitely give them a try. I just started playing the OGs and they are the best RPG games I've ever played
@matthewatkinson-quinteros1613 Have you finished them yet? I was 12 when the first game released and got to play it a few months after through a friends copy, and when Fallout 2 came out I used my cousin's computer to download a copy and burn it to a blank disc and got to play it at home. Fallout 2 and Baldur's Gate 2 (which came on 4 discs!) pushed our family computer to the absolute limits haha, hard to believe my phone is many orders of magnitude more powerful than that computer was. Anyway I agree with you, to this day the origin games remain my favorites across all genres. I don't understand why so many feel like they can't get into them due to their age; I mean, I know why, but imagine passing on Shakespeare because his language is hard to get into? It just takes a bit to become accustomed to the UI and controls, but beyond this there isn't anything esoteric going on, it is all fairly self-explanatory. Its a shame someone could miss out on these masterpieces due to some contrived preconceived notions.
Yeah, FO & FO2 are definitely products of their time. If you like tabletop roleplaying, though, you might enjoy them. Regardless, the music was incredible.
Mark Morgan.... I humbly bow before you, sir. What you did in Fallout 1 with your music is nothing short of a work of genius. Without you, Fallout 1 would have lacked a great feeling, as seen in the latter installments.
This song gives you a certain feeling. It makes you understand that you are trapped in a world of chaos and disorder. In a crumbling society, a desolate place where nobody can protect you from the horrors the people from the past created. This feeling is creepy.
I really love the music in Fallout 3 + NV, although i've never been able to play the first two games. Its crazy how i've come to find that most of my favorite tracks are actually from Fallout 1 + 2! Definitely need to get a computer soon so I can play through both originals
Please do, at first you may struggle with the aged controls and interface but trust me, the first two fallouts are still the best ones in terms of story and actual choice.
I'd suggest the GOG versions, too, if you get them. I read one of the first three has issues in the Steam version (I can't remember if it was 1, 2, or Tactics) and I got my copies from GOG and they all work well. They even come with the HD patch preinstalled, which I don't think the Steam versions have.
I spent a lot of time searching for this track because it didn't appear in the New Vegas OST. This song intrigues me so much, it's so surreal, like the wasteland is some kind of otherworldly experience, I can't still name that weird thing that is heard throughout the song
Another great reason for Fallout fans to play New Vegas; the great use of the older soundtracks. Some call it lazy, uninspired, etc. But I think it introduces the "West Coast" Fallout games well with these inclusions. The game can even give you history lessons on the previous games through optional dialogue, should you care enough. A good manner to intrigue newer fans without dropping a slightly unintuitive and dated game and its mechanics on you (As good as they are, F1 and F2 aren't easy to pick up and play).
Rory Snow, the fallout universe Is coming true...somewhat. Trump is definitely going to nuke China. Only difference is there are no fancy vaults, and Russia will be totally fine, since he's all good with Putin.
Эх, Fallout это мое детство, помню как сейчас в 1999 году впервые я увидел этот шедевр и услышал эту музыку. Первая и вторая части пройдены вдоль и поперёк по несколько раз.
I still got shivers, becuse when I first played it, I remember how dark, depressive and without hope feeling I had. And now it returned with full force. Brrrr!
I wish they'd go back to the tone and atmosphere of the first game... How bleak, hopeless and gritty it was, but I really doubt it. I like Bethesda's Fallout games, but they have kinda had a Netflix-effect on the series. I just really want them to go back to the roots... A man can dream.
man, it is just perfect, i had only played fallout 4 and it seemed fairly decent, now that i'm playing New Vegas i realize what i missed, to think that the originals already had this music... Vaya que atmósfera
This is my favourite piece of game music. For the fact it audibly describes the world you're inhabiting. When you finally enter the Brotherhood bunker in FO1, you really do feel hope for the world. That contrasted with the rest of the wasteland you've encountered, and the hopeful and somber tones and sound effects of the music, it is just perfection. I still get goosebumps over twenty years later after first playing.
@@np4231 bro after reading your profile description, you probably idolize the guy in american psycho not realizing that they're making fun of you. get a grip on life 🤡
*A time when the soundtracks used to rival the games =) This ambient piece is extremely* *beautiful and meditative to me, sounds very influenced by Mark Isham's synth heavy The* *Hitcher 1986 soundtrack.*
This entire piece is phenomenal, but I especially love the echoing metallic sounds. It’s like the music is calling out into the wasteland waiting for a response that will never come.
I wonder what would have happened if Fallout 3 went the direction it was originally going to take. But I suppose we'll never know. I've never beaten or have even played most of the games. (1 & 2 I've played and I honestly like the RPG gameplay over the shooter gameplay, adds more depth). But I've always loved the desolate atmosphere, the lore and most importantly, the uniqueness. There has never and will never be a game series quite like Fallout. The fact that there are few games but much of a fanbase is a testament to how good this series is. Thank you and good night.
I remember being ill, 11yr old, not going to school, weekend ahead, winter, dark morning, lighted up a scent-candle, blinds down, dark room, everyone still sleeping in the house, me in another world: Fallout.
I’ve never played original Fallouts but I plan to do so in the future. For me this track is tightly associated with Old World Blues - being alone in a big scientific complex, standing on the balcony on top of the Think Tank and looking at the facility that lives in its own way.
Recently gave a try to the original fallout. It's a bit confusing in the beginning, and the graphics sure are old, but i have to admit it has the best ambiance and soundtrack of all the games. However, for me this track will always be New Vegas' freeside's theme
the sirens gives me this echo of the old world vibe. kinda like how when entering sanctuary for the first time in Fallout 4 plays the classic ink spots motif but its more somber feeling and like a memory. its a distant, fading memory of the old world that still echoes the wastes of california
that siren sound in the distance is just magic
Best part of the song
I too liked the siren in the background
you standing on a high clif located not far from the city and looking at a bright light moving down to a city! you see the trees dancing with the wind and the sun moving towards horizon! you heaf the dancing trees in the distance and the wind scretching noice over the edge of the rocks. no birds no animals no humans! just syren in the distance.
Ah yes
I like the echoing intercom sound as well.
The distant sirens. The grinding metal. The dripping water. The static of an old ham radio. The military marching tune. The Morse code. All these sounds come together, and they form brilliance.
Also the monks channting
Hell yeah
i hate all of them. but together ooohhh yeah love it :_:
what does the morse say?
@@BrightIslandCreative According to reddit (so just rumor) It just keeps repeating "Emergency".
This ambient soundtrack was actually so good they decided they didnt need another for New Vegas .
The feeling of desolation of this soundtrack is amazing.
+Ace IsTheShit This one is in New Vegas? Wut?
when you enter the strip that song plays
***** I've played though Fallout New Vegas about 20 times, I have never hear that song when entering the strip.
Must be a very similar song in that case.
EDIT: Yes a very small portion of this song is in the loading screen. Can't believe I've never noticed that :/
JMPERager no worries man :) I never appreciated fallout 1-2 soundtrack when I was a boy like 9-10 and played them.I looked them after like 10-12 years
***** Yeah, I haven't played Fallout 1 or 2 yet, I have them, installed and everything but haven't started yet. But I watched a youtube play through the first one so I know the music.
I probably didn't notice the soundtrack in New Vegas because I didn't pay attention, because Loading Screen
good ol fallout. this song creeps me out. the sirens. the electricity buzzing. makes me think of what the people were thinking and doing when the bombs fell..
*Shitting themselves is what they were doing*
Steel Fury extreme shittage
we can look at fallout 4s intro and see that everyone shitted them selves
@@GoldenGateNum9 Or they went to a vault first, and this step came after they realized what vault tec is doing
I like how New Vegas has this song too
Jose Ignacio Suarez Fallout 1, fallout 2 and Fallout new Vegas are set in the same place while Fallout 3 is set in Washington DC and Fallout 4 set in Boston
Sipp1 New Vegas is set on Nevada and partially California. Look it up on a map
It was made by the people who worked on the original Fallouts so yeah.
new vegas was made by Obsidian tho
Fabien Destariano Which was founded by people who initially worked at Black Isle Studios, which were the developers of the original Fallout games.
Passing through the IRL Lost Hills in California while playing this.
It's mostly oil fields
That's what the Brotherhood wants you to think 🤔
There extracting the last remaining oil reserves, I sure hope China doesnʻt invade
@@guilhermehank4938 WHERE MAGGOT
Bethesda could never do fallout justice. The dialogue options, music and atmosphere in the first two was so far beyond anything bethsda could muster.
True
You have to give them credit, if they didn't buy the rights brotherhood of steel wouldn't been the last fallout.
@@JayJay-z4z2p fate worse than death
@@JayJay-z4z2p Troika actually wanted to buy Fallout (given as a few of the people literally created Fallout), but Bugthesda offered more money. Fargo the fool.
Bethesda can make a fun sandbox, but absolutely shit at storywriting. If former Black Isle devs were just yoinked and allowed a bit of freedom with how story progresses and structured, while Bethesda does the gameplay, it can pan out.
The drums and the sirens instantly make me think of the last days of the US military before it became the brotherhood and the enclave.
@Valter MarinkovicIn the form of the United States Federal Government.
BOS wasn't exactly military, they were developers kinda like DARPA and Skunk Works
@@ADHDcisGinger They were literally military. They were soldiers assigned to guard the scientists making FEV. They then proceed to kill pretty much all said scientists once they found out what they were doing. They then proceeded to "leave the union" and decare their Independance days before the bombs fell.
@@ADHDcisGinger No, the Brotherhood formed after Colonel Maxson and his men lead a mutiny against the FEV research at Marisposa.
@@ADHDcisGingerwhat? BOS was 100 percent formed from the military lol
In my opinion, this collection of soundtrack used on Fallout 1 are one of the best used on videogames.
Yep
yep
Nah fallout 2 because it has all fallout 1 songs and the epic highwayman theme, Reno theme, redding etc
Amen
Top three: Fallout 1, Colony Wars I, Disruptor.
Mark Morgan is the composer of this soundtrack. I think he deserves to be mentioned. He also composed the music for Fallout 2 and Planescape Torment, two of the best RPGs in the history of video games.
He co created the new Vegas soundtrack with inon zur
@@externalboss9404 That's not exactly true - none of the music by Mark Morgan that was used in New Vegas was composed _for_ New Vegas - it was all reused music from Fallout 1 and 2, so Morgan didn't create anything "with" Zur. They both made music that's in the game, but they didn't work together on the project.
Planescape: Torment is likely my favourite RPG ever, closely followed by FO2, which is likely my most played RPG ever. The biggest shame about FO2's OST is that it didn't have this masterpiece in it.
Man Fallout was lightyears ahead of most modern games in its prime. I love New Vegas for sampling these original Fallout tracks it really adds to the already creepy environment
I played through Fallout 4 for maybe a few weeks. First thing I did was mute all in game ambient and radio music, and had this as Ambient in the background, along with the rest of the OST.
Made the game a little more like Fallout.
This is how it's done.
Make it So!
This track always makes me feel uneasy and on edge, especially the air raid siren
actually thats a nuclear warning siren
More a general emergency seek shelter signal, It's only ever been used to warn of an air raid.. thus far
Drummafolife u know Man U just summed up how the entire soundtrack feels
Am I the only one who hears the Morse code. It's almost like a call for help. A call that no one would ever hear
Ya I heard that also
It actually is a call for help. It's "SOS" repeated five times.
It may have been heard, but the listeners could not respond as they were probably sheltered in place in a bunker miles away...
@@smithjones3548 or it was heard decades after it was sent :(
@@olliegoria It's not SOS. SOS is ". . . - - - . . .", what you hear on 1:58 is "- . - . - - - . - . . .". I can't hear it further, would need to download the track and try to fiddle with audio editor, but brief googling showed a forum thread, where a guy decoded the message into COASTGUARDCUTTERCAMP. From there, on reddit, another guy speculated that this might be a nod to a Cutter class ship named Camp, which has connections to cold war in 1960s.
www.reddit.com/r/Fallout/comments/4s4mrz/some_weird_things_i_found_in_new_vegas/
Going thru this playlist is simply amazing. Reading what everyone had to say about the "Original Fallouts" is great to me since I've never played them. I was born in '99 and introduced to this franchise in 2008 in the form of Fallout 3. Before that I was a simple gamer: One story/objective that needs completing (CoD, Need for Speed, Halo, etc). But having to hastily go thru Vault 101 out into the Capital Wasteland with the ability to do almost anything I wanted was new to me. It forever changed my gaming experience. As most new Fallout gamers would, I binged on the lore of F3 and there was one tie that brought me to F1 and soon to F2: Harold. That fucking tree.
And when I got Fallout NV with all the add-ons, forget about it. I knew almost everything about 1&2 without playing them (even tho firsthand exp IS best), but from the Enclave Remnants after the Oil Rig Explosion, that one black dude in Novac who came from New Reno (forgot his name), up to motherfucking Marcus the mutant, one of the Chosen One's companions man! Like Wtf!? And how Robert House had a hand in conducting the Vault-Tec experiments, or just all the scattered Super Mutants from the Master's Army (Marcus, Lily, Uncle Leo, Fawkes, Keene, Meansonofabitch, etc). Let's not forget how Obsidian made the NCR a major player in their work, along with the Courier's backstory being told.. mostly thru the add-ons (Ulysses that bastard).
I can understand the frustration from the originals to the diluted F3, but IMO I couldn't be any more scared than when I was first going thru the eerie metro to the GNR Plaza (IN FIRST PERSON AT 2 AM) and seeing a hulking figure in the distance.. getting closer.. closer.. "I'M GONNA EAT YOUR ARMS WHEN YOU'RE DEAD HUMAN!!" HELL no my dude.
Someone did comment on one of these videos about how Bethesda just reused the whole "Vault Dweller" story scheme, but NV did it right for me. In terms of the Courier's potent journey prior to Goodsprings, I enjoyed it very much! The vibe of the environment is what I questioned. The wild west type feel wasn't doing it, not nearly as much as the wastes of my country's capital (if you really think about it). 3 got me with the dark feels, but I realized 1&2 are the real gems.
If you read this, then hell yea! Thank you. We all know that this is just the tip of the post-apocalyptic iceberg tho.. and that's okay :)
Shoutout to the homie Dogmeat too.
I recomend you wait up for waste 3, and then play the classic fallouts after playing waste 3, why? Because inxile is more experienced and unity is less buggy, and that means a actualy great wasteland game and a more modern experience of the crpg subgenre. (Without counting waste 1, i still have to play it.)
Honestly, I've just kind of grown more frustrated with these purists constantly throwing Bethesda under the bus, because of creative differences that don't meet their specific standards.
Like as if they think Interplay was completely blameless in terms of messing with what made Fallout what it is, despite their mismanagement of the IP, during the early 2000s with Brotherhood of Steel (just look up Black Sheep Game Reviews for more info on that mess), and also shafting the Van Buren project that was originally going to be Fallout 3, for the previously mentioned disaster, which in turn, lead to Bethesda being the current holder of the IP's rights.
@@retrogamelover2012 Interplay didn’t make the og 2, they published them, Black Isle studios made 1&2. Fallout 3 and 4 fucked with lore and made it worse. Why the hell did the Brotherhood abandon their mission to fight Super Mutants? Who the fuck cares you just want to shoot shit with a shitty shooting system. Fallout 4 was even more f a fuck up, they got rid of a good leveling system for “numbers go up” and no intellectual discussion of why the factions do what they do? Like the big antagonist of the game the Institute when you ask them “Hey why do you kidnap people and replace them with Synths?” And the answer is essentially “You wouldn’t get it” it’s shit writing and they don’t know what the fuck their doing with the lore. And then they take a dump on FEV which originally was only known by select members of the U.S government and West Tek but when Bethesda came around it’s now “Everybody knows FEV!” It’s shit writing and people have every right to criticize the game for shit writing and they also have the right to say “You know maybe Bethesda sucks at making Fallout and maybe should go to people who actually have cared and created this series.”
@@rumblemcsquash5488 isn't black isle studios interplay cus there was interplay the devs and interplay the publishing company then they renamed interplay the devs to black isle and I think late obsidian
@@Bruh-rd2ou Black Isle is a subsidiary of Interplay so technically yes.
very somber and sad, a distant echo of the past and the drumming of the tribal present. truly fascinating
Weirdly, the most welcoming song in the entire track. The industrial sounds make it feel modern in comparison to all of songs, making you more comfortable than with the rest of wastes. It's the first time you find fellows that give you a home by choice, and it's something you earned too.
I will forever remember this as the Old World Blues theme because that’s where I first heard it (even though it can play anywhere in Vegas.) I literally just broke down crying, it was like hearing the screams of all the Old World people all at once, their fear, their agony of knowing that everything that they know, everything and everyone they ever loved is about to come to an end, only for them all be to suddenly silenced… it still makes me tear up to this very day, but the first time? My heart literally stopped…
Wish the current fallout games had this feel. Listening to 50’s music is nice, but wish the ambient music was like this in Fallout 4 and 3 .Just from what I see the soundtrack really ads to the apocalyptic setting.
Raccia Crack just added the fallout 1 and 2 ambient music mod to fallout 4 and it works so well.
I agree. The radio can be a cool gimmick but it really takes the apocalypse feeling out of the game when you’re just like “da-dada-dada blastin 50s music while slaying a group of gangers da-dada-dadaaaa” and then you go to this and you’re like “…. Damn this is depressing” and that’s what it *should* feel like
@@WolfMan-nf4lv Maybe if there were one or two 50's songs sprinkled in with some original Fallout songs, like ones sung by ordinary folk in the wasteland, than that would be fine. However it is a constant stream of old happy go lucky songs while you scour through rubble and dead bodies, as you fight some grotesque mutant, while you witness horrible atrocities.
If these post-apocalyptic survivors could find the necessary holotape recordings of these old songs, I'd expect it wouldn't be too hard to record their own music and play it on air, singing about hard times and such.
@@racciacrack7579 I see your point, but it's almost part of it - the overdone fake joy of the 50s amid the fucked-uppedness of the actual world. Nothing quite like a radio playing over an empty wasteland...
I get it too. Sadly with how the ambient tracks sound in the newer ones compared to this, using the radio or a mod 24/7 is a preferable option. At least New Vegas reused most of the tracks and also had some good originals. It's good enough that I don't bother turning on the radio.
The fact that sos is said in morse code over five times in this is makes it 10× more depressing have to be honest
It's not SOS. SOS is ". . . - - - . . .", what you hear on 1:58 is "- . - . - - - . - . . .". I can't hear it further, would need to download the track and try to fiddle with audio editor, but brief googling showed a forum thread, where a guy decoded the message into COASTGUARDCUTTERCAMP. From there, on reddit, another guy speculated that this might be a nod to a Cutter class ship named Camp, which has connections to cold war in 1960s.
Credit to OkbVinyl for posting the original reply
Thanks to Obsedian and team... they didn't ignore orignal Fallout soundtracks and using these tracks for New Vegas.. that's actually a very wise decision taken by the developers.! Because these tracks has a truly magnificent amount of post nuclear viebs..!!!
Yeah, plus it saved them a ton of time and recourses and that allowed them to focus on other aspects of the game that made it so good 👍 New Vegas is one of the greatest RPG’s of all time
It somehow reminds me of the metro soundtrack.
The cybernetic Doppler and sirens are what really made the hairs on my neck stand. Especially since they suit the Lakelurks so well.
Phone Without Question For me. It was the Morse Code
The sirens in the track, that just screams fallout like no other.
BGS needs to sit in a dark room and listen to the entire fallout 1 soundtrack in the hour before they start writing the next fallout game
They also need to watch Threads (1984), The Road, and take a leaf out of the First Metro game.
Survival after Nuclear armageddon shouldn't feel like "Oblivion/Skyrim with guns".
@@jimmyrustler8983 I think the best description for the West Coast Fallout games is post-post-apocalypse. Sure, theres still some fucked up shit like raiders, slavers, rape, tribals that'll burn you alive and eat your burnt corpse, but aside from that, (moreso in Fallout 2 than anything else) Theres hope, the NCR is really the last shining beacon of hope in the wasteland, and if the Chosen One makes the right choices, then the world is in pretty good shape.
@@theta_clips It's not a doomed world, it's a world picking itself up after the collapse.
The east coast Fallouts on the other hand... Well 3 feels like the nuke literally just hit and left everything tinted green. And 4? 4 isn't the post-apocalypse at all, it's a post-apocalyptic themed _theme park_ -- It's entertaining for what it is, but it's no New Vegas :S
@@SomeBlokeOrWhatever apparently during the development of Fallout 3, the idea was to set the game around a decade after the bombs fell. I guess that Todd Howard just had one of his trademark brainfarts and set the clock exactly 200 years after instead.
i think they should have kept this theme in all Fallouts
They kept it in every game except FO3, and that's probably because Bethesda did FO3. I'm pretty sure FO2 uses it since they re-use FO1 music. I noticed it plays in New Vegas, especially in Freeside.
that doesnt explain why they didnt use it in FO3 considering both FO3 and NV are made by Bethesda (in NV it also plays alot in the Lonesome Road DLC and Big Mountain area)
I mean bethesda JUST took over the series.
and mobile vehichles like a bike or a weaponized car and have a multi=play world (much like GTA 5)
+Klavair89 Bethesda did not make New Vegas, they simply published it. New Vegas was made by Obsidian Entertainment, who had former Black Isle Studios members working on the game (some of them being the original producers of the first two Fallout games), hence why this track is in F:NV.
It's so awesome, like the sirens blaring from the pre-war days. It's so creepy and metallic.
I never played any Fallouts, I'm not interested in nuclear war or dystopian futures, I wasn't even alive when this game came out, but this song really speaks to me. It's very beautiful!
It reminds me of The Gathering Storm from Skyrim in that it's very calming yet sad at the same time.
I think you just have to try. Fallout is not even a game, but a classic of the gaming industry
the first 2 are definetly a required taste but definitely give them a try. I just started playing the OGs and they are the best RPG games I've ever played
@matthewatkinson-quinteros1613 Have you finished them yet? I was 12 when the first game released and got to play it a few months after through a friends copy, and when Fallout 2 came out I used my cousin's computer to download a copy and burn it to a blank disc and got to play it at home. Fallout 2 and Baldur's Gate 2 (which came on 4 discs!) pushed our family computer to the absolute limits haha, hard to believe my phone is many orders of magnitude more powerful than that computer was. Anyway I agree with you, to this day the origin games remain my favorites across all genres. I don't understand why so many feel like they can't get into them due to their age; I mean, I know why, but imagine passing on Shakespeare because his language is hard to get into? It just takes a bit to become accustomed to the UI and controls, but beyond this there isn't anything esoteric going on, it is all fairly self-explanatory. Its a shame someone could miss out on these masterpieces due to some contrived preconceived notions.
Yeah, FO & FO2 are definitely products of their time. If you like tabletop roleplaying, though, you might enjoy them.
Regardless, the music was incredible.
Mark Morgan.... I humbly bow before you, sir. What you did in Fallout 1 with your music is nothing short of a work of genius. Without you, Fallout 1 would have lacked a great feeling, as seen in the latter installments.
This is where the fallout soundtrack really shines with their ambient tracks. They set the tone of the game perfectly
This song gives you a certain feeling. It makes you understand that you are trapped in a world of chaos and disorder. In a crumbling society, a desolate place where nobody can protect you from the horrors the people from the past created. This feeling is creepy.
I really love the music in Fallout 3 + NV, although i've never been able to play the first two games. Its crazy how i've come to find that most of my favorite tracks are actually from Fallout 1 + 2! Definitely need to get a computer soon so I can play through both originals
Please do, at first you may struggle with the aged controls and interface but trust me, the first two fallouts are still the best ones in terms of story and actual choice.
they use the older tracks in new vegas
There's a video on youtube showing how to play it.
I'd suggest the GOG versions, too, if you get them. I read one of the first three has issues in the Steam version (I can't remember if it was 1, 2, or Tactics) and I got my copies from GOG and they all work well. They even come with the HD patch preinstalled, which I don't think the Steam versions have.
Get new vegas on steam or GOG (get 3 on gog not steam but nv runs on both versions) their worth the play
For some reason, metallic monks is a perfect name for the BoS
I spent a lot of time searching for this track because it didn't appear in the New Vegas OST. This song intrigues me so much, it's so surreal, like the wasteland is some kind of otherworldly experience, I can't still name that weird thing that is heard throughout the song
What do you mean it doesn't appear on the OST?
I think they were referencing that since this track was reused for ambience, it doesn't appear on the NV OST tracklist as an original composition
@@nyf3ninj4 exactly
Not that it matters but on pc it's in the game files under fallout 1 and 2 music but yeah, i think it just falls under ambience music.
Another great reason for Fallout fans to play New Vegas; the great use of the older soundtracks. Some call it lazy, uninspired, etc. But I think it introduces the "West Coast" Fallout games well with these inclusions.
The game can even give you history lessons on the previous games through optional dialogue, should you care enough. A good manner to intrigue newer fans without dropping a slightly unintuitive and dated game and its mechanics on you (As good as they are, F1 and F2 aren't easy to pick up and play).
Yeah, it doesn't hold your hand. It WANTS you to feel as helpless, confused, and scared the Vault Dweller must've felt stepping out of the vault
This music prefected the feeling of hearing the ghosts of a past civilization long gone. It's brilliant!
wish all fallout games had similar music. the music is what created the feeling in the first 2. Vegas does have some of these songs in them.
Us humans have destroyed the world and now it will never be the same again
Rory Snow, the fallout universe Is coming true...somewhat. Trump is definitely going to nuke China. Only difference is there are no fancy vaults, and Russia will be totally fine, since he's all good with Putin.
na its all propaganda world will end in a stupid way if it does ;)
@@willsmith4776 At this point I say do it. China ruined the damn world.
Эх, Fallout это мое детство, помню как сейчас в 1999 году впервые я увидел этот шедевр и услышал эту музыку. Первая и вторая части пройдены вдоль и поперёк по несколько раз.
Bethesda really sucked the heart and soul out of this series. Really sad tbh
FO1 was so ahead of its time.
Mark Morgan understood Fallout
Dude everyone who created the Fallout universe understood it.
@@Buzani27 not bethesda
@@Wladeksk8 That's my point. Bethesda didn't create shit.
I still got shivers, becuse when I first played it, I remember how dark, depressive and without hope feeling I had. And now it returned with full force. Brrrr!
I wish they'd go back to the tone and atmosphere of the first game... How bleak, hopeless and gritty it was, but I really doubt it. I like Bethesda's Fallout games, but they have kinda had a Netflix-effect on the series.
I just really want them to go back to the roots... A man can dream.
man, it is just perfect, i had only played fallout 4 and it seemed fairly decent, now that i'm playing New Vegas i realize what i missed, to think that the originals already had this music...
Vaya que atmósfera
Now play the first two, for Fallout 1 use the Fallout 1 et tu mod (for QoL options) and use the restoration mod for Fallout 2
I like that they added this track in New Vegas, my favourite track in Fallout 1
This is my favourite piece of game music. For the fact it audibly describes the world you're inhabiting. When you finally enter the Brotherhood bunker in FO1, you really do feel hope for the world. That contrasted with the rest of the wasteland you've encountered, and the hopeful and somber tones and sound effects of the music, it is just perfection.
I still get goosebumps over twenty years later after first playing.
i wonder why the newer games don't feature this kind of music
the new fallout games will NEVER recapture this FEELING
Absolutley, bro!
Agreed. Well actually New Vegas does cut it pretty damn close.
Man, the feeling of post nuclear world is in this song.
the creativity is unparalleled. effortlessly conveys this sense of desolation.
Я просто тащусь от этой музыки. В ней весь Фоллаут....
that little squeak noise that you hear every 13 seconds into the song gives me chills
This is the greatest fallout series soundtrack imo
I've listened to this 10 times in the last 3 days this is so damn good
Fallout 1 2 and 3 have just outstanding music
New Vegas too.
One of my favorite tracks in the whole ost.
I listened to this at night while being a couple of miles away from any towns. Gave me a really awesome experience
One of the greatest gaming soundtracks. Love how they brought back classic fallout ost into new Vegas as well
I cant believe they used it also in nv. I love fallout
Playing this on repeat after watching the TV series.
Gotta cleanse yourself of that shit.
@np4231 you are aware people in the fallout fan base like it
@@smugfortuneV2 yeah it's great!
@@np4231 bro after reading your profile description, you probably idolize the guy in american psycho not realizing that they're making fun of you. get a grip on life 🤡
I miss when fallout was good.
Ghost of the final moments of the past
To those who have died in the Great War of 2077. This is a tribute and a remembrance. 😪😔
This is the Fallout franchise theme. Without a doubt!
you can just feel that the world is just fucking gone man, this is art
No wonder why they used it in new vegas: it's way too good to stick to one single game.
is it part of the ambience track? i recognize it but i don’t know from what place
@@snxffys6436it usually plays at the front gate to the strip in freeside.
courier's mile
that's what i think
I love this song, it's so nostalgic to me
*A time when the soundtracks used to rival the games =) This ambient piece is extremely* *beautiful and meditative to me, sounds very influenced by Mark Isham's synth heavy The* *Hitcher 1986 soundtrack.*
Isn't this on the Dead Money soundtrack too? amazing, those sirens are creepy as hell.
***** It's in the base game of Fallout: New Vegas, as well as all the DLC. But it often plays in the Executive Suites in the Sierra Madre Casino.
@@Aurik-Kal-Durin that really fits in. Considering the strong BOS backstory in Dead Money
This brings back memories :D
I've been listening to this for 2 hours now
This entire piece is phenomenal, but I especially love the echoing metallic sounds. It’s like the music is calling out into the wasteland waiting for a response that will never come.
I had a mod that plays Fallout 1 music in Fallout 3. Suits the game so much better than Fallout 3's actual music.
The sad part is that Fallout 3's music is amazing, it's just nothing can top Mark Morgan's work, no matter how hard Inon Zur tries.
this sounds very orange and green, with hints of dark red and Vantablack
that’s fitting
this entire soundtrack is perfect. it provides constant fear and reminds the player that the wasteland is cruel and unforgiving
Man dude Fallout 1 through NV were lightyears ahead than most games
Этот саундтрек всё таки лучший из всей серии фаллаут.
This is what the Fallout movie vibe should've been about, instead they went with Marveled out Fallout 4 goofy shit.
Excellence. I remember playing this game to death when I was younger. Elementary school, I think? Was way too young to be playing this. 😂
“Good hunting?”
“Always.”
"Speak properly."
*SLAP*
"You stink of blood!"
Makes me feel sad... Those poor puppies
Joe Bell Are those actually a dog's yelp? I thought it was like radio interference or something.
I wonder what would have happened if Fallout 3 went the direction it was originally going to take. But I suppose we'll never know. I've never beaten or have even played most of the games. (1 & 2 I've played and I honestly like the RPG gameplay over the shooter gameplay, adds more depth). But I've always loved the desolate atmosphere, the lore and most importantly, the uniqueness. There has never and will never be a game series quite like Fallout. The fact that there are few games but much of a fanbase is a testament to how good this series is. Thank you and good night.
I love hearing this when playing New Vegas. Adds a lot to the desert.
I always join the brother hood in fallout 1 each time I play it, power armor rules
I recently bought a collection of old fallouts and despite my age I love these games especially the second one, even though I'm only 17 years old
I remember adding this song to my fallout 3 soundtrack. man this track was great when exploring the metros
I remember being ill, 11yr old, not going to school, weekend ahead, winter, dark morning, lighted up a scent-candle, blinds down, dark room, everyone still sleeping in the house, me in another world: Fallout.
I’ve never played original Fallouts but I plan to do so in the future. For me this track is tightly associated with Old World Blues - being alone in a big scientific complex, standing on the balcony on top of the Think Tank and looking at the facility that lives in its own way.
Recently gave a try to the original fallout. It's a bit confusing in the beginning, and the graphics sure are old, but i have to admit it has the best ambiance and soundtrack of all the games. However, for me this track will always be New Vegas' freeside's theme
Los 7 autos más BIZARROS y ESPECTACULARES de la historia. Puesto 1.
Best soudtracks ever. Need to find the music foldder for fo4 and add these to play randomly for funzy
+David Lalonde hey they mod i can give you link let you have both f04 music and fallout 1 or just have fallout 1
thebadassgamer show That be nice
David Lalonde www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/2990/? here ya go
thebadassgamer show Thank you good sir
I can definitely picture this being the theme for Acadia in Far Harbour.
the sirens gives me this echo of the old world vibe. kinda like how when entering sanctuary for the first time in Fallout 4 plays the classic ink spots motif but its more somber feeling and like a memory. its a distant, fading memory of the old world that still echoes the wastes of california
Freeside
Moechtegernpilot1 the strip gate
Move along
i love how fallout New Vegas used this sound track so much nostalgia.
How does he make a siren sound sad and nostalgic?
reverb
to make a place truely scary does not rely solely on details, it requires ambience that has been perfectly crafted to make you feel scared and uneasy
I wonder if they'll consider remaking Fallout 1 and 2 like New Vegas.
i fucking hope they dont ruin interplay's hard work. New Vegas too
I was looking for it over 10 years .
You were looking for this track for 10 Years? If you have fallout new vegas on pc you should have the sound tracks from fallout 1 and fallout 2..
@@opaqueman5043 I don't have FNV on my pc .
I LOVE THIS FUCKING SONG