Retro Futuristic!

I am a loyal & loving followers of the Fallout franchise. Nearly every single title I've played, completed and loved every minute of it. Many people question why the Fallout titles are so popular, in most recent times: Fallout 3 & Fallout: New Vegas. Fallout 3 started it off back in 2008 with the developers of the popular Morrowind & Oblivion, Bethesda Studio, picking up the Fallout series and they decided to recreate it to their own liking which was EXTREMELY different from the previous titles on the PC released in the late 90's.
Creating a first person/third person RPG shooter fused a combination of g
enres that people loved, put them all together and created a title that intrigued thousands, many of which had never heard of Fallout until this point. The title received prestigious awards including "Game of the Year 2008" from numerous gaming review sites. It was praised for it's unique combat system of a first person shooter with a unique new system known as the V.A.T.S.

A topic that appears and is a major contributor to many loving the Fallout franchise, including myself, is it's Retro Futuristic feel & look. It's the 21st century but society has stuck with e

verything from the 50's in terms of furniture, architecture, music etc and have furthered research into the atom and engineered robotics instead of environmental friendly appliances and advancements in other things just like our own world. After the Great War in which the world was devoured by a nuclear holocaust, MANY remnants of the Pre-War world still exist, many still assisting and helping the new world thrive.

In Fallout 3, we are given the perspective of this on the East Coast, in the Capital Wasteland around Washington D.C. However in Fallout: New Vegas we are given a perspective from the West (as in past Fallout titles) but this time in New Vegas, formerly known as Las Vegas, where a man named Mr House practically saved the city and surrounding area's from many nuclear war heads but accurately predicting the war 15 years before hand. It is very interesting seeing a fully functional community revolved around the ways of Pre-War society in a Post-Apocalyptic war world.

I guess the whole point of this post is that more & more titles seems to be following the whole "Retro Futuristic" path, games such as Bioshock I & II and I have a strong love that is ever growing for this new genre of style for gaming, please developers... keep it up!