What i remember in fallout are aesthetics that as far as consumer-geared designs went, they didn't go far beyond jet age. not really topical beyond where our dystopia fork is bleeding into and how interesting our world is. now angles are involved more but everything still looks like shit. cars were also focused on having that alien look in the 90s too, sleek swooshy, cars had headlights to look like spaceships or sucked-on candies (and suitably looked awful when they showed wear, no wabi sabi, no 'apocalypse awareness'). and you can loot and wear them-despite no genetic manipulation to place my eyes that far apart like a non-apex predator animal.

well maybe the final boss involves dna from some crash site in addition to whatev piles of fev gene manipulation or idek the lore nvm. again i'm not young, it looks like how i rememeber shopping for kids who liked bionicle and how all that stuff looked like to me, like some design from somebody's portfolio made it into fallout 2 when it otherwise would not have, but good in its own right (outside of fallout aesthetics, but sadly not its budget and timeframe) to compensate for the fact that again i think at least half of the non-recycled art that made it into fallout 2 was just bad and begged for revision.ДЄnd yeah it just being a BUG helmet. the bug helmet well, looks like a bug, wearing oakleys, the face sectioned off like a mussle but the space its centring on and taking up space and shape almost like its to mimic a hymenopteran insect. i cant really compare the eyes at all, or the segmented lower face of bughelm (from my perspective.) the sample from the animu before it looks v stylised and with merit in its own right for the sake of that. things fell very fast though iirc in the fallout timeline so it would make sense for the enclave to inherit designs from contractors that still had a dept devoted to making their designs macho, 'sexy', and glossy magazine worthy.Д«ut yeah the gas mask above you have looks very serious and utilitarian, like more purpose-built type of ski goggles that don't go too over the edge. it surprises you to think they'd still be catering in any way to what the grunts felt made them look badass-and they were conscripts not people who chose their line of work with youtube videos of yeah them in their oakleys shooting brown people listening to mastadon on their ipod. they were intended as assholes, albeit less privatised and more the consolidation of everytihing under the crony capitalists and oligarchs who effectively become the government, shifting to ideals of uniform national identity unity that would quickly take precedence over distinct marketing of brands. maybe they're still a thing-could see especially in contracted private military douche culture, which wouldn't be entirely un-enclave'y. and it really did then in the 90s when douchebags in oakleys were a thing, a sleazy unctuous annoying thing. again, tho never gonna feel that way cos some things just rub you the wrong way. I'll likely never agree lol, but it's always gonna be highly subjective. Couldn't have done that, because then it wouldn't have been the bethesdian T-45 look, obviously. So now the PA engineers went back to the obsolete design instead of improving on the T-51 for some reason. They could have just used the T-45 in that section and it would have made perfect sense, and let the T-60 be a BoS-developed improvement over it, but no, 'their' design had to be the best pre-war armour so they could show it off pre-release.

Fallout 4 nailed the power armour, although they had to fuck it up with the entirely pointless T-60 that's only pre-war because they wanted their 'signature' armour to appear in the pre-war section. In general I think NV did a great job on the armour design, although as PlanHex said, the APA looks far too skinny. I like how New Vegas also added the actual classic combat armour: It kinda looks like an armoured evolution of modern military gas masks.Д¬ertainly looks menacing and alien, fitting for the new threat that is the Enclave. Click to expand.I actually like the bug helmet.

Fallout 4 classic combat armor