Fallout's "House of Tomorrow"... yesterday?
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- Опубліковано 17 бер 2024
- Today's video is a bit of a departure as I'm going over a specific element from the Bethesda Game Studio's 2015 RPG Fallout 4. Specifically, I'm comparing the "House of Tomorrow" that your character starts the game from with its real-world inspiration and counterpart, the Lustron Home(s).
Fallout 4 is the fourth overall entry in the Fallout computer game franchise and the second Fallout game made by Bethesda Game Studios. Set mostly in a post-nuclear devastated Boston, the character you create must thrive and survive in a world-wide junkyard, filled with monstrous mutants, killer robots and vicious, deceptive human remnants.
The Lustron Corporation made prefabricated, porcelain-enameled steel kit homes between the years 1947 and 1950. It was these homes that inspired the designs for the homes in Sanctuary Hills, where your Fallout 4 adventure starts.
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Special thanks to LDG of FreeTheNet for his assistance... / @ldgfreethenet - Ігри
“And The Car! How do you polish rust?!”
Codsworth
Wait, what about bullet bras?
Poor codsworth buddy trie its best.
You eat it
Tin foil takes rust off quite well, then you can use other products to shine it up. If the rust is really bad you'd cut out the panel and weld a new one on then sand back the weld and polish.
@@Idle_Hands Thats nice and now AI chat had been incorporated to the game, you can tell Codsworth yourself, and im sure it will take the piss out of you.
Wow, imagine people actually satisfying a need for housing! What a time that must have been to live in.
And at reasonable prices that even blue-collar workers could buy!
@@robbie6625 The price of lots and labor plus the red tape are the issues of today, from what I can see. It's entirely possible to buy a pre-fab well built shed from somewhere like Home Depot and retrofit it for habitation but my GOD the amount of paperwork and inspections required to do so are prohibitive.
There are 'kit homes' you can buy for a couple grand still out there. They vary in quality and are generally of simple wood construction - the cheapest I've seen are single bedroom units for around $5,000 (a few years ago). You still need a land lot, a foundation of some description, the water, sewage and electricity are outside the scope of the build ... it gets pricey once you tack on all that. It can be $10,000 just to get connected to a water company. And that doesn't include the multiple construction inspections, the electrical inspection, the plumbing inspection.
Anyway, I'll shut up now.
@@robbie6625 modular and manufactured homes are still available and fairly affordable, as long as you're not trying to live somewhere where they've banned them. A new 4-bedroom 1400 square foot mobile home goes for about $100,000 with full-service instillation, and a 2-bedroom 770 square footer (probably closer to what's being shown here) is right around the $50,000 mark. These are prices for new units directly from the manufacturer, by the way. It's still a good chunk of change, but nowhere near the $400,000-$500,000 range of a lot of newer homes being built.
Prefer the good old days when you can wander out into the wilderness and build your own home wherever you wanted.
@@zer0deaths862 just wait 200 years and you can :)
nah you don't put a dryer in the utility room, this is where you keep your robots box and spare fuel! 😂
And your paper sack full of plutonium for the car.
That is amazing. I would have never guessed they modeled the houses in FO4 after actual houses.
Being inside of one is very bizarre. The best analogy I can give is imagine being inside a mobile home but all the walls are metal. Depending on the wall insulation (one i was in had the walls retrofitted with foam insulation) , the sound inside has a strangely sterile note, but you're basically inside a metal box.
A lot of the "downtown" Commonwealth areas have very decently accurate Bostonian architecture, too :)
@@FluffykunnYeah I toured one during an open house last month. I was tempted to buy it since it was in my price range and I like Fallout, but within 5 minutes of walking around I was like yeah nope, there's a reason these didn't take off lol
@@adamb89If the bank would have loaned me the money on the blue one I toured, I would have snatched it up. It was in perfect original condition, but had the heat upgraded to central air, but the original heat was still in place as well.
Well,set in the future it’s 50/60s style
Imagine buying one of these homes and making it a fallout themed airbnb! That would be so cool:)
That is a great idea!
I own an airbnb and I built it around fallout, but slowly the theme has gone, people dont love it as much as I do
@@yeahboyiiiii222 can you show me? idk if yt lets you link but if not what's it called/where at?
@@yeahboyiiiii222 you should consider advertising it here:) plenty of people here seem to be interested in a Fallout themed stay
Wouldn’t one rather live there?
I'm surprised by the amount of people who didn't know that this (and many other things in Fallout) are based on real things from the 50s.
I love the reimagining of how nuclear power works in the game lol. The world would have been pretty much irradiated long before the bombs dropped.
simply because i believed better in humanity than this bad joke of a house could be anything but a parody xP
pretty sure most know if theyre fans of the game...
It's because you have to be old enough to have been exposed to 1950s popular culture in old movies and stuff like that.
@@BlackRedDead1943 They're not terrible. My grandfather owned one and with some insulation and better heating they're pretty cozy.
The small town that I grew up in must have had a good Lustron salesperson. There are about half a dozen Lustron homes there, and that in a small town that didn't see much development at all in the immediate post WW2 years. They've held up pretty good. Most of them look like new, though I'm sure the interiors have been remodeled several times over. My parents knew the couple that owned one of the homes so I remember visiting them on occasion as a young kid. Winters get pretty cold here so I don't know how well the heating systems worked.
my small town had just one i think. every time my friends and i walked past it we were in awe at how shiny it looked. i was so disappointed when i learned how impractical these houses actually are, i wanted one for so long!
@@1cornicon679 I hear that. I always thought they were nice trim looking houses. Thinking more on it I remember there was one that always had a box fan running pointed at the big picture window. They must have had a problem with condensation.
I live in Dowagiac MI where there are two Lustron homes. I also know of one in Kalamazoo MI
@@xlerb2286That said, that seems more like an HVAC design issue which plagues many homes from that era. If updated with what we've learned (improved HVAC, rust resistant steel, etc.), I wonder if steel buildings could be a great solution for some cases.
@@MRTOWELRACK I'd think they could be. I don't know that it's the best approach with all the alternate options we could explore these days, but it's sure worth another good look in any case. I mean, those houses are ~70 years old and with reasonable maintenance they've held up pretty well.
Love the architecture and style of these houses.
Same
i dont tbh
It's a Lustron home ! Made in Columbus Ohio.
@@edu7979ok who asked
I think it would be cool to have a house like this
I wonder what a modern iteration of a Lustron home would look like? Steel is a lot more expensive now than it was then, so it wouldn't be very competitive, price-wise. But on the other hand, with better modern metallurgy we have types of stainless steel now that are as strong as anything they would have built the Lustron out of, but would never have the rust issue. Now obviously that would balloon the price even further, but I think there might be a solid - if rather small and niche - market for such an inherently durable home. The heating and cooling issue is an easy fix in the design stage, especially with more modern techniques and technologies in play. Modularity would also be a priority, and I think we have the ability now to make a Lustron-style home where the owner has almost complete lego-like freedom to rearrange the floor-plan to whatever is desired. Add in superior modern materials science for the exterior, and I think we could probably cook up something even more durable - and much more flexible where decoration is concerned - than the original Lustron's enameled panels were.
Man, thinking about this just makes me wish I had the money to give something like this a go. You just know it would be a hit with prepper types if you marketed it right. A steel-clad home? One you can transport out and set down anywhere with a concrete foundation? One that takes damn near zero structural maintenance ever, unless someone goes out of their way to break something? A home whose floorplan could be customized and altered almost any way they want (even AFTER its initial assembly)? There's a whole lot of paranoid people who would pay good money for all that...
I'm no expert on construction or architecture, but I think it would be more glass than steel. Like office buildings, with a steel frame and large glass panels. It also matches current-day architecture trends.
@@octavianpopescu4776 Yeah, but I'm not talking about matching current day architecture trends. I'm talking about taking the original idea for the Lustron home and updating it with modern materials and technology, while still being more or less faithful to the core idea of a steel-framed house that requires minimal structural maintenance.
The new version of a Lustron home in concept would probably be concrete 3D printed homes. Cheaper and faster to build than a traditional wood frame house, sold as a kit and assembled on site with a 'futuristic' vibe to it. It would be durable in the short term, but flaws in the construction would quickly start to manifest. Any damage to the structure would be much more difficult to repair than a typical house construction, and remodeling would be almost impossible. A neat idea, and good in concept, but not as future-proof as they might be advertised. Other concrete-based homes from previous decades show the difficulties faced in the future by these new, 3D printed versions.
Makes me think of modular homes that are a thing today. Built of contemporary materials in a warehouse and shipped to the home site to be erected.
I think if a modern Lustron house manufacturer popped up the designs would be modular instead of or in addition to the set floorplans, come in additional colors, and potentially in different architecture styles. The appeal of a strong home that you could assemble yourself would be pretty high I think.
those amazon box houses
Codsworth Approves.
The historical divergence in Fallout can be determined by the Lustron houses, the design of weapons, the Philco Predicta televisions, and the vertibirds evolving from the Hiller X-18... 1959.
Except there is evidence in game, considering it is a fictional universe you can innore these if you want, that the dirvergene actually happend much sooner and was just not a one time event but a cumulative one. I will agree that the Divergence when the Timeline, actually splits from our own universe, is arround that time. But the Divergence is just not a single point.
@@thunderspark1633 True. Example: the X-18 was invented in 1955 not 1959. Example: AK-47 assault rifles were from 1947. I think the developers had to pick a year to reject further advancement. So it is "cumulative".
@@thunderspark1633 true, nuclear fusion was achieved and changed the whole world but the transistor was not invented until they destroyed themselves basically so the timeline is pretty interesting in many ways and open for stuff of the what if?
Comments that happen when people don't realize "The Divergence" is a literary device used by the writers to explain the setting and not an actual event that happened in the game world.
@@RedSiegfried You can't explain a concept like retro-futurism to gamers. They need everything mapped out for them or they start getting rowdy at their local gamestop. So now Fallout has a dIvErGEnCE where everyone eats 200 year old salisbury steak.
Really nicely done presentation man. would be cool to see the lustron reimagined into a concept home today, keeping most of the aesthetic q’s but revamping the materials and amenities.
i just love everything from that period
the style the clothes the cars the houses the music....
It also explains why in Fallout 4 you really wouldn't be able to fix them. Scraping them and building on the cement slab would likely work better. Which we see the desired replacement normally being wood or cement. I normally go cement. Fallout 4 player made wood homes look like some scrap wood made to be a shelter.
Scrapping
Personally, I prefer mixing barn and warehouse parts. That way, you can get pretty reasonable wooden building with metal accents and nice big windows.
All they need are roofs, so I often don't bother giving them walls at all. Other than the defensive wall, which is actually the wooden floor with concrete foundation (it's cheaper per concrete than the concrete walls, and comes with a platform for turrets).
I love the 30s, and the 40s, 50s architecture, home and restaurant design.
And the 60s and early 70s aesthetic.
It looks so cozy, welcoming and inviting to me. Also efficient and spacious…
Really glad someone knows about Lustrons, was afraid everyone is oblivious to those. Thanks for recording this video.
I was really impressed by the depth of research in your video. It's fascinating to see how Bethesda incorporated real-life architectural elements into the game and it made me appreciate the attention to detail in Fallout 4 even more.
If the siding panels were still made it could be a decent option compared to the corrugated steel sheets for the siding.
This was very revealing. I live in Australia, where Lustron homes were unheard of - so much so that I never knew they existed until I watched this video! Now I can clearly see where the designers of Fallout 4 drew their inspiration for the houses of Sanctuary Hills. Being a fan of the pulp sci-fi era and a history buff, I was already well aware of the 1950s influences for many other game elements - the "futuristic" concept cars, the art deco/mechanistic architecture, the in-game billboards and product labels, the retro-futuristic hardware, etc - but this was quite new to me. Thank you so much for uploading, here's a big like!
Had the opportunity to clean carpets at one of these homes, with the same layout in the video, very cool house; Except it was very cold, lots of drafts. 100% metal building isn't the best idea in the cold north lol
And I am wondering if it would be any better in the warm south. I feel like the lustron thermostat settings are either fridge or oven.
Even though I can see all of the massive problems with these homes, I still feel like it would be cool to live in one, at least for a little bit. Though I'm very thankful we didn't end up in a timeline where Lustron homes took off and became the major house type in the country.
I think that the company went out of business, or gave up on the project before they had a chance to work out all the kinks... Had they continued on, and continue to grow the project it would probably be leaps and bounds better by design in the 1970s. But, that being said, the 70s were all about fall colors. Could you imagine those houses coming in Orange and brown?
@@GreymansGoose and Avacado green
Loving the universal Ikea chair and stool at 7:54
I had no clue there was that many mail order homes, I honestly only ever knew of Sears.
Wow I mean it's unfortunate that the Lustron homes had issues but still wow, honestly those homes feel more original than the modern homes of today.
Like what you did here. No idea that Lustron existed. I was a HUGE fan of Fallout 3, played it until I nearly went blind. So glad they made it into a series. Liked, already subbed!
There are a few Lustron homes in my town and I've always loved them. I think they just look so cool and different from boring, traditional, wood stud houses.
I always wondered about the prevalence of steel construction in Fallout 4. This was a very interesting and well made video. It scratched an itch I've had for years. Thanks.
Lol see ya rinsed the Thames TV tune 5bring back memories of me childhood
He seems to be an American too so I'm surprised he'd even heard it before. But yes, brought back a few memories to me too
@@ianbillmorrisBritish TV exists here and has for decades.
It's the first time I ever seen an American use the old LWT title and music in their intro =D
Those of us Americans who grew up in the 70s watching public television knew it fairly well. They used a LOT of British television. I think I first saw it on Monty Python of all places. Forgive me for paraphrasing, but they played the intro, and the announcer said "We have an action packed evenings entertainment tonight on Thames, but first here is a rotten old BBC programme!"
Many Americans should know that intro if they watched PBS. I was born in the late 80s and i Knew of that intro because of PBS. I watch a lot of British TV but mainly from the 90s. Anyways "Fresh Fields" is where I first saw it.
As a old carpenter all I can say is good riddance, a house with no wood is a bad idea, rust, rust, rust. No can fix.
Answer is to build houses out of titanium
@@dukenukem8381 or with bricks
@@dinisfigueira9918 Made from plutonium
As an old homeowner all I can say is a house with wood is a bad idea. Termites, termites, termites, fire!
@@RichSmithifytermites arent much of an issue. Ive never even known anyone to have them. And fire is a pretty rare occurrence. But rust is an inevitability, and it spreads like a rot or disease. Even after you clean rust from something, if you dont get all of it, it just seems to spread from those spots and come back. Itll happen out of sight too, and its more expensive to deal with and replace rusty metal in the framework of a metal house, than bad wood
Really the most interesting video I've ever seen related to Fallout 4.
I'm still fascinated that the Sanctuary Hills houses actually exist.
Thank you.
I've seen a few videos and read a few articles on the houses the Fallout 4 houses were based on but you have gone into much more depth and explored them fully. Very well done.
We need to bring back this kind of house that you can literally put up with three tools
Because we do have pre-fabricated houses but they’re really expensive
And the corporates who owns them are more interested in renting only then actually selling
MIND BLOWN!!!! You have NO idea the chills I got watching this video!! The hours I spent in the Sanctuary area, and then to see such similar house designs!! Shared, subscribed, and what ho! You have some interesting videos tucked away here!!
This was super interesting. I’m glad this video popped up!
A fascinating tour of these houses, thanks!
You possibly have the best profile pic on UA-cam. At least in the top 20.
Yaknow, this actually explains how the houses are still standing and not rotten like timber should - and all the rust. What I thought was a plot hole was just an artifact of fallout being set in another world
Amazing video. More of these types of real world breakdowns of video game things would be watched by me!
Nice use of the UK Thames Television Ident! :D
Fallout 4 still remains one of my favourite games and you can play it in many styles as you like, always changing your approach. Either just to pass time and do nothing, or really get stuck in or just go out on a random shooting spree lol
Oh and thanks for that. The Ident tune sent me on a 2 hour internet troll to find out what ever happened to Rod, Jane and Freddy and who sang the bloomin Rainbow song!
And WHAT was Zippy anyway!
I would buy one of these today if they were for sale. All the problems are easily fixed with products that are readily available, and I HATE painting THAT much. I suck at it. No way I'll ever paint something that looks as cool as a retro 50's house, anyway, so this would be a no-brainer, and it's definitely a step up from container homes. It's not that I'd HAVE to live in these places, mind you, it's just that I refuse to pay more than 150K for a house. I don't care if it's Buckingham Palace, no house is worth that much to me unless I can immediately sell it for more.
Can we please bring back buying properties for $1000 or less?
I mean even adjusting for inflation, 13,290 bucks for a house is damned good
That would require a depression followed by a world war, reduction of population to 1950 level and return to the gold standard after stealing everyone elses gold
Yes please, exactly what I was thinking.
Looked at those prices and couldn’t close my mouth 👁️ 👄 👁️
@@Letizia2810 Honestly this style of mass produced housing should be subsidized and heavily implemented, just tweek the materials and improve the design a bit. That'll never happen though, there's more money to be made with used houses than in building new ones.
@@BallinAndCantGetUp19And far more profit margin in new luxury homes and condos. However, attempts at government subsidized prefabricated housing has been tried in the various communist regimes where everything is centrally dictated with disappointing limited success, with the most recent example being the construction of pandemic isolation hospitals out of prefabricated concrete motel components in China though in truth, most of the out of home isolation occurred in stadiums and gymnasiums... Sure, housing could be made inexpensively on an industrial scale but people simply wouldn't want those homes and companies would always profit more but catering to luxury not affordability.
This was an awesome video! Very informative and engaging!
Great video! Didn’t know about Lustron homes, reminds me of Levittown and the associated homes.
I bet Lustron homes wouldn't have handled 200 years of nuclear fallout though.
Absolutely fascinating video! Thanks so much
This was quite an interesting watch. Thank you
Love that you have brought attention to the real-life history behind the design of the game environment!
Great deep dive, this is investigative reporter quality work. Thanks for broadening our knowledge on this specific detail. :)
Fantastic vid! I worked at a historic preservation office in Kentucky where a fellow intern was doing a project on these
If you ain't been to Greygarden you should go ....whole place is run by Robots .
All I know is that I've gotta get back to Diamond City. Biggest town I ever saw.
Now, that was a great and informative video! 🤘
Great video! I really appreciate this. You were very detailed. You definitely should cover some other Fallout architecture and it's real world counterparts. Perhaps you could make a video on the Lucky 38 and the 1962 Seattle space needle.
Modern day las vegas has the stratosphere, which is based off of the 1950s and 60s space needles of the time. But it was made in the 1990s. There was a much shorter and different looking version of that from the 60s called 'The Landmark'.
Really cool, interesting video, thank you
Great Vid! Found one within driving distance so that's one thing im doing this summer!
Really appreciated this, I always wondered if the houses had a real model.
This is a really nice video, keep it up!
very instructive video , well researched. Thank you.
Fyi, the heating system was actually there to melt snow that might clump on the roof. As the system was built to allow heat to flow through the tiles
And it's radiant heating anyway - it'd work fine on the ceiling. The real problem is just the lack of insulation - you'd need a substantial furnace just to keep up with the rate of heat loss.
Wow, excellent video. Seriously well done, I loved it and you got a new subscriber
Very interesting video! Good job
I love these little bits of history and stories.
You mentioned how these things were manufactured here in Columbus, Ohio, well, there's actually a Lustron on display in the Ohio History center off I-71 by the State Fairgrounds. I visited the museum ages ago, probably not long after Fallout 4 came out, but I didn't realize the prefab they have on display was the basis for the player's home in the beginning of Fallout 4.
Thankyou for this video!! Love it
Need a Plastic Version 😮 That I could believe would actually last 200 years without maintenance.
Sadly, in the case of housing, most plastics don't do well when exposed to air and sunlight. The exposure to the air and sun would over time degrade the material and release a gas (the plasticizer). This is what cracks up plastic dashboards. Monsanto got into a fair amount of hot water over this because as it turned out the plasticizer was also a major pollutant. So the house would just fall apart over time.
Very cool recognition for the Aladdin Home Co.! They were once based out of Bay City, Michigan.
Awesome video, these houses are like the precursor to shipping container homes
Awesome, thanks for this! I absolutely love that house.
Great Game! Best to take your time with every playthrough to appreciate every detail & every story!
I just watched this video 2 days ago, and today I was driving in Holestein, IA and I looked over and there was one right on the main drag. Crazy
Pretty cool I'd say, you sir have earned a subscriber!
First time watching. I love the intro, super 1990s Dateline or PBS
As soon as I heard the intro tune I subscribed.
I know the intro tune. What is it from?
How cool would it be to live, today, in a replica of a video game house based on a real model of house from the mid 1900s.
Minus the Cogsworth, unfortunately.
Great video!
Gratz on 10K in under 2 days!!!
I've seen a few Lustron houses still standing. Always a treat to spot one. That's what a resident of Columbus, OH do.
I really enjoyed this video. Tha nk you for sharing.
Love the Thames theme in the intro
great video!
The Barton County Historical Museum in Great Bend Kansas. Has a Lustron house that is open most all year round. It is one of a few museums that has one. Great Bend Kansas had a dealer. That sold many of them threw central Kansas.
The picture at 3:45 is the Lustron house in the Ohio Historical Center in Columbus
The one that was nearest to me was disassembled and moved to become the Historical center in Whitehall, right beside the factory it was made in ! ( Beside the Columbus Airport )
steel coated walls so you can hang pictures with magnets seems a good idea
I didnt know that, great video!
Just bought a Lustron IRL, thanks for making this!
Awesome documentary.
That little intro had me thinking I accidentally turned on George and Mildred for a second
Looks like you did some research my good man, interesting concept.
fascinating video, good for you
Great video 👍.
incredible film, your created, ty.
I bet a Lustronesque home would make much more sense with 31st century advancements in material science and miniaturization.
I think in 1000 years we'll have different materials science altogether.
@barrymantelli8011 We basically, already do.
Just look at polycaronates.
The one thing that would be hard to find a replacement for is the wood framing.
2076 was such a good year.
Don't ever change your intro logo it's awesome don't let anyone tell you anything different I just subbed because of it
Great video.
Really interesting!
Really interesting, thanks.
Very informative, thank you 👏🇨🇦
Interesting, one thing to note is that how houses back then and even today suffer from mcdonalization. Even suburbs as I heard take inspiration from military barracks.
Such a weird term, cuz the definition is objectivley a good thing. But the actuall outcome it's trying to show isn't necessarily. Like how mcdonalds is an ok place to have, but not eat at all the time. The quality is low even though everything looks nice. Making things as fast and cheep as you can is a great thing for lunch, but not were you sleep is I guess the whole point. lol. and that is very fair.
Though I'd like to point out that low quality is exactly what the fallout universe is missing from its products. There is a lot of documents you can find stressing the main importance beeing quality for almost every company in the fallout games. Documents telling robco that the pip boy isn't up to the quality standards of vault tec. The amount of things that survived the blasts is amazing. lol. It's a weird world because a lot of it was just actually better than what we have. And there is no saying we won't nuke everything by the same time or faster. hahahhahaha
@@jackman5840 I think to mention also is that most of the devices don’t have complex computers or electronics so the fallout world is more immune to EMP strikes. Plus I was trying to say that by trying to be efficient they destroyed the soul of everything.
Levittowns were basically applying the Model T method to home building. all the same and rapidly produceds.
I actually worked in the office building that was once the Lustron factory just near the Columbus Airport. One of these homes is still up right across the street from Lincoln High School in Gahanna, next to a BP gas station.