Listening to the ambient soundtrack from Fallout 2.
And boy oh boy, did the newer games (including New Vegas, which is otherwise a masterpiece) drop the ball with music.
"Maybe" is used in the opening/closing cutscene in the first Fallout for ironic juxtaposition. The soundtrack of the first two games is otherwise droning, moody, dark, a bit twangy, with some musical *ideas* from country music.
It's not all cheeky country and old timey tunes. Like, I get what Fallout 3 and onwards are going for, but Fallout 1 and 2 are an actual post-apocalypse.
And it has been too long since the apocalypse that nobody in the Wasteland remembers the old time. Yes, the idea is that the alternative universe of Fallout had a world frozen in the Cold War era culture, but that's how the world was BEFORE the war. Not after. Afterwards nobody remembers the old world.
Like, you can pick up dessicated, basically fossilized pre-war food items in Fallout 1 and 2. And the items' description basically goes "you have no idea what this is".
And Fallout 2 has moved on from the postapocalypse proper and into a new era, a new world rebuilt on the ashes of the old. But while it borrows from it, nobody really "gets" it.
I miss the old direction of the franchise. Fallout 2 had its share of goofy shit, some argue that it had too much of it. But it was not all 1950s wackiness.
No hate to enjoyers of Fallout 3 and 4 and even 76. These games have their own interesting worldbuilding. But they are so desperate to be instantly popculturally recognizable that they lose something in the process.
And the soundtrack is such a perfect encapsulation of that. F1 and F2's soundtrack sounds like it's covered in grime, grease, rust and a heaping layer of dust.
