He settled at Goodsprings Junction, which was later renamed for his wife Jean. ' George Fayle moved to Southern Nevada from Calico, California, in 1904. The in-game saloon sign is a simple nameplate the IRL one's got a bit more detail to it. Shambling wooden shacks and oxidised rooves dominate the town, their browned corrugations a strange mirror of the landscape. The whole town's a good match for biker culture: low-rent with an outlaw/frontier feel. Note the rusting motorcycles outside? It's a biker bar IRL, and I saw several Hogs parked outside the day I was there. The game's designers have put in a few in-jokes. First, the Prospector Saloon (called the Pioneer in real life.) It isn't - quite - a ghost town there are people living there. But it plays hell with your framing.Īnyway, onto Goodsprings. This isn't a complaint of course it adds to the gameplay. The drama of the game's landscape is exacerbated by the forced sightlines note how much tighter the z-axis is in the game shots, with distant terrain much smaller although closer by foot? The game's played through a fisheye lens. This makes the camera angles very different for my in-game and IRL snapshots rather than side-by-side shots, my pictures are going to look more like before-and-after hair loss advertisements, where the first shot's kept deliberately pale and wussy to make the B look good. your character isn't very tall - a candidate for the Little People of America, in fact: I'd guess only a metre or so.

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