Fallout 1 Soundtrack - Desert Wind (The Wasteland)

This is probably what hell sounds like

I GM Fallout2d20 the tabletop RPG game, mostly in and around New Vegas, and I use this whenever the party enter anywhere that has been isolated and frozen in time, with many many years passing before the last person to find the place. It fits isolation and loneliness so well, it's both intriguing and also ominous, and at least twice have my players said they felt dread exploring in an area with this soundtrack, and couldn't wait to get back to the sunlight of the Mojave

I want Fallout to be more of a horror story like it's meant to be.

It truly makes you feel like you’re in an apocalyptic wasteland where the withered souls of the damned still wander the barren irradiated landscape.

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the atmosphere .. the barren dead world.. in fallout 1 .. becomes a crowded noisy world of fallout 4 . well indeed after 200 years people should increase .

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The cartoonish elements (nuka cola, pip boy) of the first games added to the eeriness of the desolation because they existed as relics of a world that destroyed itself. It's too bad bethesda doesn't understand fallout's tone.

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Frank Horrigan murdering an innocent family, and then coldly sparing the player character truly was something else.

Fallout 1 and 2 were grimm nasty games. I love them , hope that 5th will be like that, 3 was ok, but 4 was too shiny.

"The island has been irradiated by an unknown wave of energy.."

fallout takes place in 2161 and there are already civilizations being made. fallout 2 is in 2241 and they have basically whole ass citys built back up. Meanwhile fallout 4 is in 2287 and people there still live like they did back in 2161. Thats my main issue with the bethesda made titles. They keep the development of civilization to the bare minimum. Hell, New Vegas takes place in 2281 and they have power stations, huge, developed factions than span across multiple states, and Vegas ofc. Meanwhile the settlers of fallout 4 are living in buildings still cluttered with debris and dead people. The only fully developed faction is the BOS and the Institute. I wanna see how society has moved on but its difficult when bethesda is keeping them in a sort of primitive form.

This track sounds like whistling death like tortured ghosts screaming in the wind

It feels cold and empty. I can imagine a vast desert which isn't by itself very dangerous or threatening, but it's devoided of life and comfort, you can walk for months without ever feeling a sense of warmth and humanity, and the ominous wind is harassing you, reminding you that there is no "you", you either live in a desert haunted by the wind, or in decaying human societies, but there is never a sense of self.

Moo, I say!

Hmmm. Horrors beyond my comprehension.

Listening to this and looking at pictures of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is beyond surreal.

I wish Todd Howard would go back to this time, he could learn a lot.

I find it quite curious that this sound - what I presume to be violin played distordely - is still used to this date in Fallout games to represent a nuclear blast wind. It was there in the opening sequence to Fallout 4 and I'm pretty sure it's in 76 as well.

God, i love classic Fallout games.

“It is said you could still hear the agony hundreds of years after the bombs fell”

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This was the perfect ambience to put on the lonesome road DLC. New Vegas may have been rushed but the DLCs, particularly lonesome road, were amazing.

I feel like the original Fallouts were more horror themed than the newer ones. I have fun playing each and every one, but the originals are more gritty and not as, dare I say, light hearted as the others.

You've walked for hours in this dry heat. You haven't gotten comfortable with the wasteland air yet. You find yourself thinking of the ice dispensary back home as the warm wind howls.

Looking ahead you spot a lone tuft of grass. It blows freely as you get closer. You smile as you note similarities between yourself and the enduring patch.

The wasteland wants all things to die. It does not discriminate.

You take out your trusty canteen and pour some water on the surviving grass.

Movement causes a dust cloud to form in the distance. You grip your gun. Something approaches.

You sure this is a desert wind and not the screaming of the pre-war citizens watching how they death was imminent upon the nuclear blast and heatwave?
Like for real, this really reminds me of the Half Life 1 Horror Ambience.

Bethesda had better get this franchise back to its roots. This is how you depict life after a nuclear war destroyed the entire planet. Hopeless, barren, and full of unknown horror in the hell that awaits you outside the Vaults.

use these OST while playing project zomboid. makes the game even scarier outside of fallout games lol

This is what i imagine the sound of being trapped in a wasteland full of nightmarish creatures and desperate raiders sounds like. You know that you are trapped in your worst nightmare.

I lost my virginity to this song

This is fallout, not whatever the fuck bethasda has been doing the last seven years

- What kind of music do you listend to ?
- It's complicated...

Fallout 1’s title screen uses the desert wind soundtrack as the wasteland does in game.

This is definitely the most disturbing track in fallout when you really focus on the individual sounds that comprise the song we hear

Would have been nice to hear this play occasionally in the Mojave.

Such a nice track to wander in nothinginess

This is world war 2 in sound form

Fallout 76: Well hay thar friend! Welcome to Appalachia, West Virginia. There’s so many funny and cute emotes and stickers to buy in the atom shop, and don’t forget to grab your friends for some fun in our battle royale mode!

Fallout 1:

It has been roughly 84 years since nuclear hellfire reigned down on pre-war America. Anything that existed before is now gone and burnt to ash like a fading memory

You are given the daunting task of obtaining a working water chip for your vault, without it they will all surely die of dehydration

Entering the cave, cold fills your bodies veins as blood rushes to your core as you are only armed with a pistol, knife, and 4 stimpaks.

Rats scamper about, squeaking and chittering their teeth.

Scared for your life and that of the vaults, you run towards the light and don’t look back

The intense rays of the sun hit your body for the first time, it is a warmth that you have never felt in your life.

The sun basks over a blue sky, no clouds perfectly orange. It would be a perfect day had it not been for the context of your mission

What was despair now turned into determination as you check your Pip-boy 2000 for your co-ordinates.

You set for vault 15, leaving the cave and embracing the sun. You feel you will change the wasteland in some way or another but you are unsure how.

walking in the desert you begin your journey, unknowingly starting the events that would change the Californian wasteland forever

and so begins the story of…

THE VAULT DWELLER

This is exactly how I feel day to day. Probably not a good thing, lmao.

I love Fallout's soundtrack because it makes me think. This one makes me think of how... dead the world is. There is nothing left but scraps of humanity and the unfortunate mutants that have survived.

Fallout used to low key be a horror game.

Moo I say

On my first playthrough of Fallout, and all I can say is Fallout 1 has my favorite soundtrack of the series. Really gives you this sense of atmosphere that you're in a dead world and you have to watch ever step you take because it's kill or be killed. From now on the soundtrack is being modded into any playthrough I do on NV or 3.

and thus, civilization was set back by thousands of years due to humanity's future technology.

Sam Hyde brought me here 🤙🏻

Fallout 4 on nuclear war: "Pretty lights. Let's go underground"

Fallout 1 on nuclear war: "Their souls screamed in agony at the world that was to become"