A Tribute to Fallout
This franchise - despite its obvious specific post-apocalyptic theme and overall tone - gave us many colorful depictions of itself thorough the years describing itself from different perspectives since its existence. The Black Isle Studios, Bethesda Game Studios, Obsidian Entertainment explained their description about what Fallout means to them in their own visions. Now, I am not gonna elaborate more about the perspectives, visions these different teams had about the franchise. What I am gonna tackle here is the soundtrack, and especially of the two first games; Fallout 1 and 2.
Mark Morgan is the name of the composer who made the soundtrack for these two installments, and had a huge impact on the overall presentation the games presented to the auidence, music and the soundscape being one of the main elements of the products just as the gameplay itself; communicating the desolateness, hopelessness, the post-apocalyptic tone of that present the little percent of humanity lives in the future with sounds reflecting the "now" forgotten tools, items of then everyday life: typewriter, alarm, michrophone, all kinds of electrical machinery worksounds from factories and such. All these elements of the past appearing in the distopian future kinda helps describing the state of the future and what the past consisted compared to it... life, system, society of rules, the hegemony of living the everyday life in our civilisation that has optimistic future, the everyday mechanics we encountered with and could base our life and plans upon.
And now all this is gone...
Mark's soundtrack helped me through difficult times, had a job I hated to have, a workplace I despised to go to every workdays with minimal off-days to take for 3 years. The music of these two games was my soundtrack of my everyday life, and that in itself is both positive and negative at the same time. Positive that some artform, a creation you can resonate with wholeheartedly can get you through difficult times. The negative is that such negative times can occur for such individual living in a society with abundance of possibilities to choose from daily. But that's how it was, and I survived.
The other reason I have listened to this soundtrack is that I helped a project that is remastering Fallout 2 to 3D world with retro graphics but set to a first person perspective, which project is still going on, and you can check here for more information. I have helped the project a little by translating the top-view 2d textures to normal 2d textures so that they could be used for any 3D modelling procedures. I wish the team all the best to finish the project sometime in the future.
Now, since I have been totally surprised how good the Fallout series also turned out to be my enthusiasm towards the whole franchise got ignited again, and with that I created this tribute highly inspired by the work of Mark Morgan. I hope some of the fans of the franchise or just individuals who appreciate atmospheric, ambient music in general will enjoy this work of mine.
Tracklist:
Mark Morgan is the name of the composer who made the soundtrack for these two installments, and had a huge impact on the overall presentation the games presented to the auidence, music and the soundscape being one of the main elements of the products just as the gameplay itself; communicating the desolateness, hopelessness, the post-apocalyptic tone of that present the little percent of humanity lives in the future with sounds reflecting the "now" forgotten tools, items of then everyday life: typewriter, alarm, michrophone, all kinds of electrical machinery worksounds from factories and such. All these elements of the past appearing in the distopian future kinda helps describing the state of the future and what the past consisted compared to it... life, system, society of rules, the hegemony of living the everyday life in our civilisation that has optimistic future, the everyday mechanics we encountered with and could base our life and plans upon.
And now all this is gone...
Mark's soundtrack helped me through difficult times, had a job I hated to have, a workplace I despised to go to every workdays with minimal off-days to take for 3 years. The music of these two games was my soundtrack of my everyday life, and that in itself is both positive and negative at the same time. Positive that some artform, a creation you can resonate with wholeheartedly can get you through difficult times. The negative is that such negative times can occur for such individual living in a society with abundance of possibilities to choose from daily. But that's how it was, and I survived.
The other reason I have listened to this soundtrack is that I helped a project that is remastering Fallout 2 to 3D world with retro graphics but set to a first person perspective, which project is still going on, and you can check here for more information. I have helped the project a little by translating the top-view 2d textures to normal 2d textures so that they could be used for any 3D modelling procedures. I wish the team all the best to finish the project sometime in the future.
Now, since I have been totally surprised how good the Fallout series also turned out to be my enthusiasm towards the whole franchise got ignited again, and with that I created this tribute highly inspired by the work of Mark Morgan. I hope some of the fans of the franchise or just individuals who appreciate atmospheric, ambient music in general will enjoy this work of mine.
Tracklist:
01 - Marooned for Life
02 - Green sky and empty streets
03 - Dry Ocean
04 - Thumbs up!
05 - Nuclear sleep
06 - "Yeah, yeah, another hero"
07 - Ground 'R'
08 - Billions of glows
09 - Sons of Icarus
10 - Transmission to... anybody
Music and sounds created with FL studio/Premiere Pro
***Images from the game itself and some made by deepai
- Simon
***Images from the game itself and some made by deepai
- Simon
