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The classic combat armor looked more like something the colonial marines would have worn in Alien
Sci-Fi Tech Combat Armor Aesthetics and Utility In Fallout and Science Fiction
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The classic combat armor looked more like something the colonial marines would have worn in Alien
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I think the newer stuff dumb, like part infantry fighting vehicle part poor bastard who has to carry it.
The classic combat armor looked more like something the colonial marines would have worn in Alien
Which is, IMO, the problem with it. It looks like every other suit of generic sci fi body armor, there's nothing actually distinct or notable about it.
I mean the game came out in the late 90's, aside from Aliens (the staple of space marines), what other sci fi was running around with that look? 40k has flak armor but 40k while popular within some groups is still pretty obscure on the whole.
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Its not even a 1950s look it's more like a 1910s diesel punk aesthetic. That could be okay but they also put a really cartoonish aesthetic on top of that which I can't stand.
The classic combat armor looked more like something the colonial marines would have worn in Alien
Yeah still looks distinct enough. I really wish they stuck with that version of Combat Armor. It added a lot to its uniqueness. The combat armor of current Fallout games is okay, but just feels so modern-generic looking.
BattleTech used a similar aesthetic for their renditions of non-powered combat armor, and arguably the 90s and early 00s was the height of BattleTech's popularity and especially would have been known in video gaming circles of the time due to the success of MechWarrior 2.
There's also the Doom Marine, which is somewhat similar as well, and Doom was HUGE in the 90s, having had three games published before Fallout 1 came out.
So there was other SF properties using combat armor in a somewhat similar style, and they likely would have been known to the company.
Definitely not dieselpunk look. To many rounded things.
I'd prefer Classic Combat armor over this god damned abomination.
50's is like...M47 tanks, M14 rifles, early weird body armor prototypes and bazookas.
FO4's style is more like insane dieselpunk crossed with WW1 and a few drops of 1960's.
What is diesel punk and ww1 about the newer series?
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Well the Dieselpunk element has always been around in the series. As for the WW1 stuff, I really can’t think of anything. There’s the Chinese pistol which is a Mauser Red 9 C96…but Mauser pistols were in the series from the very start. Gizmo in Fallout 1 had one for example.
That's about the only dieselpunk aspect I can remember.
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It looks a heck of a lot better than this goofy aesthetic. Part of the problem is the layered system makes it impossible to not look fat the other issue is that it's just too cartoony looking.
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Wait you actually think that goofy looking armor looks good?
It actually looks worse to me on closer examination because the guy wearing it kinda looks like Steven Seagal. The fat version of Steven Seagal. And now I can't unsee it. So now it looks twice as bad to me. And twice as bulky.
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It gets way fatter if you wear anything other than the vaultsuit too. Probably because bethesda really half assed the layering system.