100%. Same here. I remember being so relieved to find Paradise Falls early in the game then being absolutely bummed that they wouldn't let me in so I could get some well needed respite.
I was going through a rough time like a A LOT of kids were in their high school years. Loneliness, angst, and being diagnosed with clinical depression. I was an athlete on the basketball team, I would go to school, go to basketball practice/game and come home, rinse and repeat. Once the basketball off season came, I was more free to do what I wanted. My teammates urged me to got to parties and things with them, but I was a loner at heart. I would come home and play single player games. My cousin let me have Fallout 3 a year or two before, I finally decided to play it, I was absolutely thrilled to find out you had such in depth character customization, including name and skills. I fell in love, it was a new world, a real escape, I was fresh in....it got me through my first two years of High School. This soundtrack has flooded back those memories of solitary nights in my room just exploring and RPing, video games for a teenager , in that particular age range who are depressed and lonely, are magical, they send you away, you are young enough to still not be too jaded to play "make believe" to yourself, and old enough to want to get far away from home. Fallout 3, Oblivion, Bioshock, Fallout New Vegas, really let me escape....Never lose your imagination, never lose the ability to "pretend" in a video game, cause when you do, you lose that little spark inside you, that spark can make a lonely time fun and exciting, we all need that spark no matter how old we are.
Dude I was never depressed but I can see where you are coming from, this game was the start of the PS3 Era, not many games will ever hit with the impact this one did. It will go down as a classic in true gaming history.
This game was so immersive... This feeling of loneliness and being lost was tremendous. I really loved Fallout 3, I finished it twice and I think I'm gonna start again :) Thank you so much for this soundtrack!
21:19 I felt a strongest goosebump I've ever experienced. When I hear this, suddenly I found myself in front of the Vault 87 door which is inaccessible.
rad x,rad away, rad away,rad away,rad away,rad away,rad away,rad away,rad x.. repeat... did something similar when i went swimming in the river under the pitt's burg bridge.
I was in college when this game was released for PC. While I'm playing, my roommate would sit next to me and watch me play. From that point, every evening after classes, he will ask me "adventure time?" which is a hint to play this game. Once I start playing, he will sit there and watch and both of us was transported into a whole different world. He never play it tho (not at that time), he just enjoy the scenery, the ambience, and the screams of raiders. Good times.
@@Alex-ve6ey Another nw fanboi. Good rpg, but worse game than Fallout 3. Fallout 3 had atmosphere second to none along with metro series, better world, soundtrack. Tried new vegas 2 times couldnt finished it. Just 1 of those games that dont have soul.
Coming back years after to listen to this sweet piece once more. Ah, sweet young, teenage blissful memories... I first played Fallout in 2011 when my dad got me 3 and New Vegas when I was around middle school. I couldn't disagree, it was the best gift I've ever gotten. Thank you, Dad, and may your soul find peace.
Absolutely agree! It's so distinct and well fitted in the game! But also, so powerful and touching by it's own, that I believe, it could easily be characterized as classic!
It truly was a once in a lifetime experience and the beauty of it is, it was shared by so many other people on this planet. Words can't describe. We all just "get" it.
It's that perfect combination of absolute depressive hopelessness yet somehow, with that faint glimmer of hope through the darkness. Only the best music of all time manages to achieve such tension and paradoxical splendor.
In 360 me too bro! Even though I always was a pc guy for shooters and RPGs, I didn't have a decent rig at the time, so I played it in 360 as well.It was the ultimate diet- I would only stop playing, only pee and water- I didn't even think of food for more than 10 hours in a raw! It was the perfect burnout!
my dad played the fallout games alot when i was young, dang i remember watching my dad play fallout multiple times in the past. and now i had grown in love with fallout.
There’s so much art to this piece. If you listen you can see the lengths the composer took to really make it feel post apocalyptic. Some of the instruments making creaking sounds like what a building would make as its old, and rusty. So cool.
Paradise lost is amazing soundtrack and it standout form the rest of the soundtrack and it tells the story of fallout as well, notice how the instruments get louder and louder them muffled by a big BOOM of the drums like how civilization was growing and expanding but was destroyed by the bombs. This soundtrack imo is better than the theme if fallout and why I absolutely love fallout 3's ost the music is ambient yet but the use of flutes, bassfluts and pan flute gives it a more esoteric feel to it and it tells a story.
I might be biased, but I think Fallout 3 has the best ambient soundtrack of any of the Fallout games. The quiet flute, strings, and voices are superbly done - small differences can change the tone from apocalyptic loneliness to hopeful discovery.
Its almost like the voices and even some of the instrumentation mimic a ghosts howl so many killed in the great war so many spirits left to wander the wastes
I'd agree with you if not for Far Harbor. It not only has my single favorite Fallout track, but the rest is pretty strong too. It set Fallout 3's very high bar even higher.
@@Alloveck My favourite osts are one of the ones when exploring ruins in FO3 (I can't find its name or find it anywhere on TH-cam though), Vault of the future from the originals and FNV, and the Nucleus from Far Harbour
Fallout 3 was my first proper introduction to the series when I was 10 (I watched my dad play 1 and 2 when I was younger) so it holds a special place in my heart
capital wasteland had such desperation to it. i still remember how incredible it was when i finally found oasis after so many hours i played before, such insane contrast to the rest of the wasteland. it instantly gave me sense of hope in the future. then after i finished quest line there and had to go back to the real wasteland it was such a profound sense of loss.
Yes! 100%. I loved that. Then in FO4 and 76 they made the mistake of reversing it. The entire world was green and lush like nothing had happened, and there was a small tiny section of the map which looked like it had been hit by nuclear bombs. Big mistake. It was too "candy". Bring back the desolate, bleak post apocalyptic atmosphere for FO5. Anything less is dis-honouring the true fans who didn't just play it, but LIVED FO3.
@@shtevcorpse6392 i actually preferred f4 commonwealth. it had proper balance thats actually more realistic - like complete devastation in glowing sea around bomb explosion and milder damage further away u go.
@@schnebot That's a fair call. That's what great about these games. There's always something to love and each of us experience it differently. Yeah, althought FO3 may not have been as realistic with regards to the devastation, I still loved it. It didn't prevent my imagination running wild with the game and living it as though it was real.
@@shtevcorpse6392 all the hours i spent in f3 agree with u on that. and while f4 may not have been that much different, certain changes made it vastly more enjoyable for me than f3 - proper stealth play for example - with an actual silencer unlike f3 where u had none, also weapon and armor modding. and while the settlement system was perhaps bit boring, i loved having a base to resupply when playing survival.
@@schnebot I also agree on the bases in FO4. I, too, liked having a base to come back to. FO4 certainly had a lot of enjoyable aspects to it. There certainly were some improvements from FO3 as you would expect. I'd like to see FO5 go back to the formula that made the FO3 experience so magical.... the feeling of loneliness and desperation with just that glimmer of hope at the horizon... whilst incorporating the best parts of FO4, such as the parts you mention. I reckon we'd have an absolute winner of a game. P.S. Speaking of bases, I didn't mind my old Megaton home. That was pretty good. Before I got that house, I actually set up in the entrance of Vault 106, storing all my stuff in the four lockers there. That was pretty cool and really helped add to that "makeshift" survival at all costs mentality that FO3 fostered so well.
I couldn't exactly tell what it is. But there is just something about Fallout 3 (also the ones from New Vegas) ambient tracks like these that Fallout 4 can't seem to achieve
For me it's all the loud horns and stuff. I get that they where going for the old colonial sound because of the Minutemen, but it's just to loud and in your face.
Fallout NV's ost was more based around the Native American factor of these "tribes" that formed out of the aftermath Where Fallout 3's ost was based on the looming Chinese threat that caused the great war and the existence of the enemy is still present from the sounds and solid evidence in the game itself. But that's just my opinion.
I like all soundtracks they all fit in so well with their respective games. New Vegas really has a great soundtrack especially at faction locations, fallout 4 kinda lacked but was still good and even 76. Fallout 1 & 2 had the same vibe that was amazing and I think even some tracks were added into new Vegas but that could just be me modding my new Vegas too much 😂
I love FO3! More than NV and especially FO4, partly because of the music but mostly because of the world. FO3 has a more..."natural" feel, I love the gloomy sickly green color of the sky, everything is grey and depressing, the feeling of being lost in those vast wastes is just fantastic. FO4 is somewhat too intact, too colorful and DC felt like a huge ruined city, Boston feels like some small town with a few sky scrapers, the whole world of FO4 feels so cramped and a bit too full, I miss the empty quarters between towns where you could sometimes randomly encounter one single individual with his own little story. I really hope for FO5 they change the style back to FO3 and NV and I hope they will use some more epic music like this and/ or parts of the original FO1 soundtrack like in NV. Exploration and City Of Lost Angels really stuck in my mind but these wouldn't work with the map of FO4. FO3 really had it all! Thanks for the upload :)
@Casswury Haven't played it yet, the whole Multiplayer thingy threw me off so far but the world building is the reason for me to eventually try it and hope for the best. Right now I'm in the middle of a extensively modded FO4 playthrough so...I can wait :D
I don't love any Fallout more than NV (and I've played the first two), to me it's just perfect. But I have to admit that Fallout 3 did real good in terms of atmosphere.
FO3 had the post apocalyptic vibe down perfectly. New Vegas and FO4 are post post-apocalyptic if that makes sense - you never feel like you're exploring uncharted territory because there's always a town with settled people.
The feeling of lonliness this game evoked was very powerful. Ide wander through the wastes looking at the desolation and thinking 'wow - we really messed this planet up'
The nostalgia though. I was playing this game way too young lol at just nine. Many memories of getting lost in the Capital Wasteland and dying many times from Mirelurks. Also storming the Capitol Building in this game really hits different these days.
My brothers would find me knocked out asleep to the ambient soundtrack of this, Fallout 4, and Skyrim sometimes, playing through my headphones. Now I let it play through the speakers in my rig at night. Idling Semi + Bethesda Game Ambient soundtrack = Happy driver.
FO3: help we are suffering and the air and water is toxic around us and life is very hard around here to be even sustainable NV: *HEY THERE’S THE HIGH ROLLER*
Ngl the way people say later make me just want to quit nv I like but that later goodness its just horrible even the BOS elder says it sometimes idk y but fallout 3 is my favorite.
Whats weird is it slowly fades away from your mind when listening its still present yet its like I dont even hear it anymore, wow. I always forget how good this OST is.
Was in middle school when I was watching my older bro play this game. And now I'm making mods for it! And my older bro? He's playing Fallout 4 now. Newstalgia strikes again, doesn't it?
Oh yeah, and it strikes hard if things haven't gone so well in the meanwhile... Aaaah, the good old days, when we searched, but couldn't find the White house in the Capital Wasteland and that was our only worry and problem! I miss those days too bro...
@@sues4692 I bought the game at a local store for 3 euros and installed immersive mods on it. It was so fucking good that I had to uninstall it in order to save me from spending too much time on it.
I appreciate this Fallout’s soundtrack the most as I always have the radio on in 4 and NV. This game really encapsulates isolation and creepy atmosphere. It’s perfect 🥹
Fallout 3 got so much hate and I do t understand why? To me Fallout 3 was the best and had the saddest story, you literally leave the Vault losing everyone you ever knew including your best friend Amata, but at least you can have Butch. And you never have a mother because she dies early do to your birth. You have your dad who raises you then leaves you in the vault to nearly die! You’re exiled out into the waste running all sorts of errands to find your father. And after finding him you only have him for a short time before the Enclave comes in and has your father kills him self to try and save everyone at the Jefferson Memorial. Then you ultimately end up dying continuing your mothers dream, but then there’s broken steal.
the writing in new vegas blows it away. i used to live just outside dc is what fallout 3 calls "andale" so i knew the area well and it was cool seeing it, and the world was immersive with little bits of storytelling. but the character writing and decisions just weren't there. blow up megaton or be apocalypse jesus. really not that great.
@@zakariakrapf2444 i mean I guess to each how own man Fallout 3 just felt more really where as New Vegas went a little over the top which to me I didn’t like, but I can respect you for preferring New Vegas, there all in the same Universe my man so we’re ultimately Fallout brothers🤜🏻
The best RPG atmosphere ever, so far! Great game! I can't believe how fast time passes...it's been almost a decade, since I played the game and it feels like yesterday... I miss that time,as I feel I'm growing older and all my life is rapidly and drastically changing... Especially the "explore 1" theme, which I almost always recall in my memory whenever I feel loneliness or desolation... My regards to all fellow Fallout Friends!
This track just wants me to play and explore more of this game , its 2014 , still a an awesome game , The things that I like about it are , The Fallout theme , Also that it was set in Washington D.C , And Of course the tracks , This game deserves all my praise , I would rate the Fallout 3 10/10 :) - So many Memories xOxO
Well said, mein Führer. I occasionally get an urge to go back to Fallout 3, but it's a shame it'll never be new again. Exploring isn't the same when you know exactly what you're going to find.
I think Fallout 3 achieved very nicely bringing to the player, the sensation on loneliness, fear and desth danger. Its places were made with a lot more detail to be apocalitic, something I didn't feel in FO4.
its weird to think that im almost 30, listening to this, and perhaps, just perhaps, the designers that poured their heart and soul into the small things of some game that once was have a lifelong fan listening to their work right now and still remembering the experience they built for us. i hope they at least believe in themselves enough to know that what they made is eternal.
I really like how the music fits in to each fallout games theme, this desolate and lonely music from fallout 3 is by far one of my favourite ambient soundtracks
I had just finished army when I played this for the first time. It was like 2008... Loved it. New Vegas is better in many ways, but I just loved the feeling of actually being alone here. This ambience brings me back to that 2008 young me, and I can't lie, I'm kinda sad I'm not 21 anymore 😁
This soundtrack takes me back to my childhood when my dad used to watch Clint Eastwood-Sergio Leone movies with Morricone's music, his all time favorite western films.
Fallout 3 is a game I've played through so many times just because it's that good. The world/setting is pretty much one of if not the most immersive place in a video game, something about the atmosphere of Fallout 3 compared to all the other post apocalyptic games gives a welcoming sense into a world that is absolute hell. And the music... the music is what just sells it all and brings it home. This music has been ingrained in my memory, even when I'm playing the game and not hearing it I somehow do hear it. It's the perfect ambience to the world of Fallout 3.
Fucking remember when exploring the wastelands for hours... Seen a little city...just a shack...heard the sound of "you found a new place", enter and explore everything
Ten years ago I thought I made a mistake buying Fo3 for the PC when I mostly played on Xbox, that game and it's modding community are part of what made me a PC gamer and I've never looked back since
@@spiderjerusalem8505 So everyone who doesn't hate Fallout 4 is now a Toddward shill? Shame on whatever drugs you were huffing when you posted this idiocy.
@@tgvel8857 Stop lying, that mod is still being developed. Idiots like you are the reason Fallout community gets so much flak for being dumb these days.
Since everyone is sharing their story for this game I thought I will share my own I got fallout 3 a year after its release, my brother gave me a bunch of random games and fo3 was one of them, but I never got around to playing it until the summer of 2015, I played it that year because there was so much hype around fallout 4 that I guess I was curious what the hype was all about... I didn't know it at the time but what really made me love the game was that loneliness feeling to it, and the OST enhanced that feeling, mixed with the aesthetic and the contrasting, happy music from the radio, fallout3 was something unlike anything ever played... after falling for the hype of f4 and finishing the game I was left disappointed and returned to fallout 3 only to be hit with nostalgia from the original soundtrack, it made me realize that all this time fallout 3 was helping me cope with my own loneliness that summer, while I had friends I would spend most of my high school summers alone, and fallout 3 taught me that there's sometimes beauty in loneliness and its atmosphere, to this day is unmatched
seeing this and then thinking about whats going on currently, sends chills, because I live in DC lol we still have 7k soldiers hidden in the city until March
Este ost.... te hace sentir solo, que todo se perdió, que las esperanzas de sobrevivir son casi nulas, pero.... te da fuerza para seguir, siendo sinceros fallout 3 fue el mejor echo por bethesda, y consiguió que aún no estando a la altura en cuanto a lore, en cuanto ambientación y inmersión es el que más me acerca a los originales, ya que sientes la melancolía del mundo, sientes su dolor, sientes que nunca abra felicidad, que todo eso es cosa del pasado y si todo eso lo juntas con su ost, te queda la sensación más cercana que tendrás a vivir en un mundo pos apocalíptico nuclear, es simplemente hermoso
Or that first time you meet supermutants in the subway, that particular surprise is still burned in my memory years later, or a couple hours later getting chased around in a multi-story hospital filled with them, low on ammo, with armor on the verge of breaking. I need to mod up the game for a severe difficulty and try to have at it again, possibly with Tale of two Wastelands so I can enjoy the best of NV along with Fo3
I happened across this game when I was in my secondary years, I'm almost done with college now and honestly playing it again I have realised no game never has or will make me feel the way fallout 3 does
Makes me sad in a nostalgic way. My best friend who’s now dead used to play this ! Listening to this brings forth floods of memories 😢😢😢😢❤❤❤ lovely music
While fallout 3 may not be my favorite fallout I can’t hate it because it still holds a lot of nostalgia for me and this soundtrack brings me back to high school playing this for the first time with my friend back when everything was simple and life was more laid back.
hey i recognize that pic, it's from the collectors edition art work book that comes in the lunchbox. i have it too. my bobble head broke though... suuuucks... could listen to this for 10 hrs... ... wait i have. strange to hear it though with no wind howling past my ears.
Xbox gave me this game for free, and at the time I didn't know what it was, all I knew is that my brothers played it. I was around ten or eleven and I had never played a Bethesda game before then. of course because of how young I was, I didn't understand the instructions and instead of heading to megaton, I went to the center of the DC hellhole. After I had quit for a while and became more wise, I began following the games instructions and immediately fell in love. However, after I had fallen in love with fallout 3, I began to play fallout 4 which let to my eventual disappointment on how they could ruin a game that badly. This disappointment only grew with the release of 76. I am still a fan of Fallout 3 and have just began the Pitt DLC and are about to move on to Broken Steel.
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This game made me feel so lonely that I'd appreciate ANY human contact in the game. It was THAT good
100%. Same here. I remember being so relieved to find Paradise Falls early in the game then being absolutely bummed that they wouldn't let me in so I could get some well needed respite.
This
@Joshua Tree as a kid my first time leaving the vault was terrifying
@Joshua Tree that shit was terrifying 🤣🤣
@Joshua Tree remember the scappers on pointlookout
I was going through a rough time like a A LOT of kids were in their high school years. Loneliness, angst, and being diagnosed with clinical depression. I was an athlete on the basketball team, I would go to school, go to basketball practice/game and come home, rinse and repeat. Once the basketball off season came, I was more free to do what I wanted. My teammates urged me to got to parties and things with them, but I was a loner at heart. I would come home and play single player games. My cousin let me have Fallout 3 a year or two before, I finally decided to play it, I was absolutely thrilled to find out you had such in depth character customization, including name and skills. I fell in love, it was a new world, a real escape, I was fresh in....it got me through my first two years of High School. This soundtrack has flooded back those memories of solitary nights in my room just exploring and RPing, video games for a teenager , in that particular age range who are depressed and lonely, are magical, they send you away, you are young enough to still not be too jaded to play "make believe" to yourself, and old enough to want to get far away from home. Fallout 3, Oblivion, Bioshock, Fallout New Vegas, really let me escape....Never lose your imagination, never lose the ability to "pretend" in a video game, cause when you do, you lose that little spark inside you, that spark can make a lonely time fun and exciting, we all need that spark no matter how old we are.
Amazing comment and I agree 100%. We all need to keep our minds young with imagination :)
That was pretty well put. At certain points in my family life I had this bad tendency to forget I once was this lonely teenager too.
Dude I was never depressed but I can see where you are coming from, this game was the start of the PS3 Era, not many games will ever hit with the impact this one did. It will go down as a classic in true gaming history.
you have no idea how much your story parallels mine.
I UNDERSTAND!
Wow the OST is very powerful for FO3. You can feel the echoes of pain and suffering in the wasteland when you listen to it.
21:00 especially
@@nautikient2151 That tune exactly has been in my mind since the game came out.
Weird how i never realized it does sound like that but already felt it when hearing the soundtrack...
jezus what happend to gaming..
This game was so immersive... This feeling of loneliness and being lost was tremendous. I really loved Fallout 3, I finished it twice and I think I'm gonna start again :) Thank you so much for this soundtrack!
21:19
I felt a strongest goosebump I've ever experienced. When I hear this, suddenly I found myself in front of the Vault 87 door which is inaccessible.
The best 30 seconds of fallout 3
So much rad away and rad x
rad x,rad away, rad away,rad away,rad away,rad away,rad away,rad away,rad x.. repeat... did something similar when i went swimming in the river under the pitt's burg bridge.
Love that part
@@seancairns9749 how far did you get? Lol
I was in college when this game was released for PC. While I'm playing, my roommate would sit next to me and watch me play. From that point, every evening after classes, he will ask me "adventure time?" which is a hint to play this game. Once I start playing, he will sit there and watch and both of us was transported into a whole different world. He never play it tho (not at that time), he just enjoy the scenery, the ambience, and the screams of raiders. Good times.
Kinda how we watch youtubers play games nowadays but instead it's your friend, sounds nice :)
Good history :) ahaha it's cool when someone is with you to do this adventure !!
Thats so cute :) hahaha
Tremenda historia.
That’s wholesome as fuck
Fallout 3 will always have the best post apocalyptic feel to it.
It seems so! Totally agree bro!
Someone didnt play Fallout New Vegas
@@Alex-ve6ey Nope. I' ve played both, I love both, but I think the sense of desolation is superior in fallout 3.
@@Alex-ve6ey Another nw fanboi. Good rpg, but worse game than Fallout 3. Fallout 3 had atmosphere second to none along with metro series, better world, soundtrack. Tried new vegas 2 times couldnt finished it. Just 1 of those games that dont have soul.
Eternal wow you really are fucking stupid, new Vegas is not an apocalyptic game, it's more of a frontier, world rebuilding.
Guys, the Italian voice actor of Tenpenny (and Timmy’s father in Fairly Oddparents) died a few months ago :((
I'll kill some zombies in his name. Rest in peace.
You gotta shoot em in the head
R.I.P
This was one of the first games I ever played, I was 6
I was either 5 or 6 when I played this.
Coming back years after to listen to this sweet piece once more. Ah, sweet young, teenage blissful memories...
I first played Fallout in 2011 when my dad got me 3 and New Vegas when I was around middle school. I couldn't disagree, it was the best gift I've ever gotten. Thank you, Dad, and may your soul find peace.
50 years from now, This music will still put me in the world of fallout. So much time spent listening to this and enjoying the view... nostalgic
Absolutely agree! It's so distinct and well fitted in the game! But also, so powerful and touching by it's own, that I believe, it could easily be characterized as classic!
It truly was a once in a lifetime experience and the beauty of it is, it was shared by so many other people on this planet.
Words can't describe. We all just "get" it.
Fallout 3 really made you feel like it was the end of the world
The music in this game makes you feel lonelier when wandering the waste, on edge at knowing that you can run into anything at anytime.
It's that perfect combination of absolute depressive hopelessness yet somehow, with that faint glimmer of hope through the darkness. Only the best music of all time manages to achieve such tension and paradoxical splendor.
This game was the most perfect fallout game. Every play through brings something new
Just gonna leave my mark here.
My best memories of this game is playing it on the 360 at my grans house.
In 360 me too bro! Even though I always was a pc guy for shooters and RPGs, I didn't have a decent rig at the time, so I played it in 360 as well.It was the ultimate diet- I would only stop playing, only pee and water- I didn't even think of food for more than 10 hours in a raw! It was the perfect burnout!
@@panishirovim2888 its same for no food 10 hours with oblivion and fallout 3
@@panishirovim2888 same for me too
@@tgvel8857 hehehe easily!
That has to be the best fallout game for that console and EVER
my dad played the fallout games alot when i was young, dang i remember watching my dad play fallout multiple times in the past. and now i had grown in love with fallout.
I played Fallout a lot when I was young lol, I was 14 when this came out
starting 13:03 is the best part, brings back that feeling of magic as I explored the wasteland on my own.
Apocalypseguyff I play it on Windows 10. Look up a tutorial on how to set it up, works perfectly fine for me.
There’s so much art to this piece. If you listen you can see the lengths the composer took to really make it feel post apocalyptic. Some of the instruments making creaking sounds like what a building would make as its old, and rusty. So cool.
It’s called paradise lost
I always imagined waking up on tenpeny tower to this
Paradise lost is amazing soundtrack and it standout form the rest of the soundtrack and it tells the story of fallout as well, notice how the instruments get louder and louder them muffled by a big BOOM of the drums like how civilization was growing and expanding but was destroyed by the bombs. This soundtrack imo is better than the theme if fallout and why I absolutely love fallout 3's ost the music is ambient yet but the use of flutes, bassfluts and pan flute gives it a more esoteric feel to it and it tells a story.
I might be biased, but I think Fallout 3 has the best ambient soundtrack of any of the Fallout games. The quiet flute, strings, and voices are superbly done - small differences can change the tone from apocalyptic loneliness to hopeful discovery.
Its almost like the voices and even some of the instrumentation mimic a ghosts howl so many killed in the great war so many spirits left to wander the wastes
I'd agree with you if not for Far Harbor. It not only has my single favorite Fallout track, but the rest is pretty strong too. It set Fallout 3's very high bar even higher.
@@Alloveck My favourite osts are one of the ones when exploring ruins in FO3 (I can't find its name or find it anywhere on TH-cam though), Vault of the future from the originals and FNV, and the Nucleus from Far Harbour
Did you notice that they use a train whistle in the music? A great move considering how important the metro was/ is to any city environment.
not biased at all, it's just an objective fact that fallout 3 has the best open world, exploration, ambience, atmosphere and music.
Fallout 3 was my first proper introduction to the series when I was 10 (I watched my dad play 1 and 2 when I was younger) so it holds a special place in my heart
It's pretty amazing human beings can create like this.
shut up
capital wasteland had such desperation to it. i still remember how incredible it was when i finally found oasis after so many hours i played before, such insane contrast to the rest of the wasteland. it instantly gave me sense of hope in the future. then after i finished quest line there and had to go back to the real wasteland it was such a profound sense of loss.
Yes! 100%. I loved that.
Then in FO4 and 76 they made the mistake of reversing it. The entire world was green and lush like nothing had happened, and there was a small tiny section of the map which looked like it had been hit by nuclear bombs. Big mistake. It was too "candy".
Bring back the desolate, bleak post apocalyptic atmosphere for FO5. Anything less is dis-honouring the true fans who didn't just play it, but LIVED FO3.
@@shtevcorpse6392 i actually preferred f4 commonwealth. it had proper balance thats actually more realistic - like complete devastation in glowing sea around bomb explosion and milder damage further away u go.
@@schnebot That's a fair call.
That's what great about these games. There's always something to love and each of us experience it differently.
Yeah, althought FO3 may not have been as realistic with regards to the devastation, I still loved it. It didn't prevent my imagination running wild with the game and living it as though it was real.
@@shtevcorpse6392 all the hours i spent in f3 agree with u on that. and while f4 may not have been that much different, certain changes made it vastly more enjoyable for me than f3 - proper stealth play for example - with an actual silencer unlike f3 where u had none, also weapon and armor modding. and while the settlement system was perhaps bit boring, i loved having a base to resupply when playing survival.
@@schnebot I also agree on the bases in FO4. I, too, liked having a base to come back to.
FO4 certainly had a lot of enjoyable aspects to it. There certainly were some improvements from FO3 as you would expect.
I'd like to see FO5 go back to the formula that made the FO3 experience so magical.... the feeling of loneliness and desperation with just that glimmer of hope at the horizon... whilst incorporating the best parts of FO4, such as the parts you mention.
I reckon we'd have an absolute winner of a game.
P.S. Speaking of bases, I didn't mind my old Megaton home. That was pretty good. Before I got that house, I actually set up in the entrance of Vault 106, storing all my stuff in the four lockers there. That was pretty cool and really helped add to that "makeshift" survival at all costs mentality that FO3 fostered so well.
Some of the saddest music ever. I frekin love this game and it's music. Oh, I love it soo much.
I couldn't exactly tell what it is. But there is just something about Fallout 3 (also the ones from New Vegas) ambient tracks like these that Fallout 4 can't seem to achieve
For me it's all the loud horns and stuff. I get that they where going for the old colonial sound because of the Minutemen, but it's just to loud and in your face.
Fallout NV's ost was more based around the Native American factor of these "tribes" that formed out of the aftermath
Where Fallout 3's ost was based on the looming Chinese threat that caused the great war and the existence of the enemy is still present from the sounds and solid evidence in the game itself.
But that's just my opinion.
@@BasicallyFrost nail on the head
I like all soundtracks they all fit in so well with their respective games. New Vegas really has a great soundtrack especially at faction locations, fallout 4 kinda lacked but was still good and even 76. Fallout 1 & 2 had the same vibe that was amazing and I think even some tracks were added into new Vegas but that could just be me modding my new Vegas too much 😂
Or any other game anywhere. This is the gravy train.
I love FO3! More than NV and especially FO4, partly because of the music but mostly because of the world. FO3 has a more..."natural" feel, I love the gloomy sickly green color of the sky, everything is grey and depressing, the feeling of being lost in those vast wastes is just fantastic. FO4 is somewhat too intact, too colorful and DC felt like a huge ruined city, Boston feels like some small town with a few sky scrapers, the whole world of FO4 feels so cramped and a bit too full, I miss the empty quarters between towns where you could sometimes randomly encounter one single individual with his own little story. I really hope for FO5 they change the style back to FO3 and NV and I hope they will use some more epic music like this and/ or parts of the original FO1 soundtrack like in NV. Exploration and City Of Lost Angels really stuck in my mind but these wouldn't work with the map of FO4.
FO3 really had it all! Thanks for the upload :)
i'm pickin up what u puttin down
@Casswury Haven't played it yet, the whole Multiplayer thingy threw me off so far but the world building is the reason for me to eventually try it and hope for the best. Right now I'm in the middle of a extensively modded FO4 playthrough so...I can wait :D
I agree 100%. Well said on every level.
I don't love any Fallout more than NV (and I've played the first two), to me it's just perfect. But I have to admit that Fallout 3 did real good in terms of atmosphere.
FO3 had the post apocalyptic vibe down perfectly. New Vegas and FO4 are post post-apocalyptic if that makes sense - you never feel like you're exploring uncharted territory because there's always a town with settled people.
The feeling of lonliness this game evoked was very powerful. Ide wander through the wastes looking at the desolation and thinking 'wow - we really messed this planet up'
21:00 Just Got Out Of The Vault
The best music
I wish someone would create a mod where the OST of Fallout 3 can replace the music of Fallout 4.
That isn't actually that hard to do. Someone already made one that adds the music if you own the OST itself. www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/14667
It really makes you feel alone.
The nostalgia though. I was playing this game way too young lol at just nine. Many memories of getting lost in the Capital Wasteland and dying many times from Mirelurks. Also storming the Capitol Building in this game really hits different these days.
Those mirelurks made me scared of red lobster 😆
I love the concept art to this game
It’s so good looking so unfortunate the technology back then wasn’t the best to implement so much
My brothers would find me knocked out asleep to the ambient soundtrack of this, Fallout 4, and Skyrim sometimes, playing through my headphones. Now I let it play through the speakers in my rig at night.
Idling Semi + Bethesda Game Ambient soundtrack = Happy driver.
I remember my uncle played this when I was in the second grade, I picked up the controller and gave it a try and never regretted it in 2010.
FO3: help we are suffering and the air and water is toxic around us and life is very hard around here to be even sustainable
NV: *HEY THERE’S THE HIGH ROLLER*
Ngl the way people say later make me just want to quit nv I like but that later goodness its just horrible even the BOS elder says it sometimes idk y but fallout 3 is my favorite.
tfw a soldier would gamble rather than defending an area
@@Gamer-ln5we I mean, the NCR Soldiers you see in the strip are kind of on break, for lack of a better term.
Whats weird is it slowly fades away from your mind when listening its still present yet its like I dont even hear it anymore, wow. I always forget how good this OST is.
Was in middle school when I was watching my older bro play this game.
And now I'm making mods for it!
And my older bro?
He's playing Fallout 4 now.
Newstalgia strikes again, doesn't it?
I still have a strong urge to replay this game 10 years later. Never tried the modding scene though. Games like these have great replay value.
Oh yeah, and it strikes hard if things haven't gone so well in the meanwhile... Aaaah, the good old days, when we searched, but couldn't find the White house in the Capital Wasteland and that was our only worry and problem! I miss those days too bro...
@@sues4692 I bought the game at a local store for 3 euros and installed immersive mods on it. It was so fucking good that I had to uninstall it in order to save me from spending too much time on it.
@@panishirovim2888 Those subways made great dungeons :)
Anyone still alive?
Thank you fallout, thank you Three Dog, thank you Moira for helping me find my own way. I love you dogmeat.
Agreed 😇
16:30 steals the atmosphere quite good
I appreciate this Fallout’s soundtrack the most as I always have the radio on in 4 and NV. This game really encapsulates isolation and creepy atmosphere. It’s perfect 🥹
0:40 gives me chills every damn time.
After 3 years, I started playing again, great game, great memories
Fallout 3 got so much hate and I do t understand why? To me Fallout 3 was the best and had the saddest story, you literally leave the Vault losing everyone you ever knew including your best friend Amata, but at least you can have Butch. And you never have a mother because she dies early do to your birth. You have your dad who raises you then leaves you in the vault to nearly die! You’re exiled out into the waste running all sorts of errands to find your father. And after finding him you only have him for a short time before the Enclave comes in and has your father kills him self to try and save everyone at the Jefferson Memorial. Then you ultimately end up dying continuing your mothers dream, but then there’s broken steal.
the writing in new vegas blows it away. i used to live just outside dc is what fallout 3 calls "andale" so i knew the area well and it was cool seeing it, and the world was immersive with little bits of storytelling. but the character writing and decisions just weren't there. blow up megaton or be apocalypse jesus. really not that great.
@@zakariakrapf2444 i mean I guess to each how own man Fallout 3 just felt more really where as New Vegas went a little over the top which to me I didn’t like, but I can respect you for preferring New Vegas, there all in the same Universe my man so we’re ultimately Fallout brothers🤜🏻
I listen to this while I do yoga, very therapeutic and calming 😇 ty BGS and Mr. Zur!
this and skyrim ... something special about these soundtrack suites.
The best RPG atmosphere ever, so far! Great game! I can't believe how fast time passes...it's been almost a decade, since I played the game and it feels like yesterday... I miss that time,as I feel I'm growing older and all my life is rapidly and drastically changing... Especially the "explore 1" theme, which I almost always recall in my memory whenever I feel loneliness or desolation... My regards to all fellow Fallout Friends!
This track just wants me to play and explore more of this game , its 2014 , still a an awesome game , The things that I like about it are , The Fallout theme , Also that it was set in Washington D.C , And Of course the tracks , This game deserves all my praise , I would rate the Fallout 3 10/10 :) - So many Memories xOxO
Well said, mein Führer. I occasionally get an urge to go back to Fallout 3, but it's a shame it'll never be new again. Exploring isn't the same when you know exactly what you're going to find.
Well thats true till they make a remastered version of it...... Ave True to Caesar.
2019 now, I'll never forget how fantastic this game was
Jokes on you it's almost 2020 and I'm still playing it
It’s now 2020! I’m still playing it!!
I think Fallout 3 achieved very nicely bringing to the player, the sensation on loneliness, fear and desth danger. Its places were made with a lot more detail to be apocalitic, something I didn't feel in FO4.
This edition of these tracks is officially so much better than the others! the sound quality is immeasurable
its weird to think that im almost 30, listening to this, and perhaps, just perhaps, the designers that poured their heart and soul into the small things of some game that once was have a lifelong fan listening to their work right now and still remembering the experience they built for us. i hope they at least believe in themselves enough to know that what they made is eternal.
brings back memories
This game made me the man I am today.
Lol right!
I really like how the music fits in to each fallout games theme, this desolate and lonely music from fallout 3 is by far one of my favourite ambient soundtracks
I had just finished army when I played this for the first time. It was like 2008... Loved it. New Vegas is better in many ways, but I just loved the feeling of actually being alone here. This ambience brings me back to that 2008 young me, and I can't lie, I'm kinda sad I'm not 21 anymore 😁
8:58 😭😭 City of Ruins is, in my opinion, the best soundtrack in the game
This soundtrack takes me back to my childhood when my dad used to watch Clint Eastwood-Sergio Leone movies with Morricone's music, his all time favorite western films.
Fallout 3 is a game I've played through so many times just because it's that good.
The world/setting is pretty much one of if not the most immersive place in a video game, something about the atmosphere of Fallout 3 compared to all the other post apocalyptic games gives a welcoming sense into a world that is absolute hell. And the music... the music is what just sells it all and brings it home.
This music has been ingrained in my memory, even when I'm playing the game and not hearing it I somehow do hear it. It's the perfect ambience to the world of Fallout 3.
Masterpiece of post-apocalyptia
This game was my teenhood
If there is one game I wish I could play all over again for the first time.....
Fucking remember when exploring the wastelands for hours...
Seen a little city...just a shack...heard the sound of "you found a new place", enter and explore everything
Just realized how many fallout 3 and Fallout 1 tracks are in New Vegas, it works though, they give off a nice western desert feel.
I went to DC, killed a few scavvers, looted a few bodies, did a few quests. Then I went home and booted up Fallout 3 on my xbox.
Ten years ago I thought I made a mistake buying Fo3 for the PC when I mostly played on Xbox, that game and it's modding community are part of what made me a PC gamer and I've never looked back since
Gotta be honest here, Fallout 4 soundtrack is great but not as epic as Fallout 3's this was just immersive on so many levels.
Gotta be honest here, every retarded shitstain is trying to mask his dumb hate for Fallout 4 behind "honesty" these days.
@@Priyo866, hi Todd, have some plans on fallout 5?
@@spiderjerusalem8505 todd howard, banned the fan made of fallout 3 with graphic of fallout 4 :(
@@spiderjerusalem8505 So everyone who doesn't hate Fallout 4 is now a Toddward shill? Shame on whatever drugs you were huffing when you posted this idiocy.
@@tgvel8857 Stop lying, that mod is still being developed. Idiots like you are the reason Fallout community gets so much flak for being dumb these days.
Makes me miss being 10 again. This game will always be important to me
People can say what they want about this game but the soundtrack does capture that bleak helplessness that a fallout world would bring.
Much better than Fallout 4's ambient soundtrack
yeah fo4 ost sounds so generic. Except some of the Far Harbor and Nuka world ones that had classic fallout vibes
Just restarted a play through, Game Of The Year Edition X Box One..Baby Baybaaay!!👍
Good old times boys... good old times...
21:15 scenic overlookからスプリングヴェールの崩壊した町並みを初めて見たときのことを思い出していつもうるっときてしまう
Since everyone is sharing their story for this game I thought I will share my own
I got fallout 3 a year after its release, my brother gave me a bunch of random games and fo3 was one of them, but I never got around to playing it until the summer of 2015, I played it that year because there was so much hype around fallout 4 that I guess I was curious what the hype was all about... I didn't know it at the time but what really made me love the game was that loneliness feeling to it, and the OST enhanced that feeling, mixed with the aesthetic and the contrasting, happy music from the radio, fallout3 was something unlike anything ever played... after falling for the hype of f4 and finishing the game I was left disappointed and returned to fallout 3 only to be hit with nostalgia from the original soundtrack, it made me realize that all this time fallout 3 was helping me cope with my own loneliness that summer, while I had friends I would spend most of my high school summers alone, and fallout 3 taught me that there's sometimes beauty in loneliness and its atmosphere, to this day is unmatched
seeing this and then thinking about whats going on currently, sends chills, because I live in DC lol we still have 7k soldiers hidden in the city until March
21:18 is why you're here.
It's 21:00
@@sexilatinoboi69 to each their own
Este ost.... te hace sentir solo, que todo se perdió, que las esperanzas de sobrevivir son casi nulas, pero.... te da fuerza para seguir, siendo sinceros fallout 3 fue el mejor echo por bethesda, y consiguió que aún no estando a la altura en cuanto a lore, en cuanto ambientación y inmersión es el que más me acerca a los originales, ya que sientes la melancolía del mundo, sientes su dolor, sientes que nunca abra felicidad, que todo eso es cosa del pasado y si todo eso lo juntas con su ost, te queda la sensación más cercana que tendrás a vivir en un mundo pos apocalíptico nuclear, es simplemente hermoso
If your ever stressed out this is the ost to listen to.
Thanks Zur
The scariest thing about fallout 3 was the subways with the ferral ghouls
Or that first time you meet supermutants in the subway, that particular surprise is still burned in my memory years later, or a couple hours later getting chased around in a multi-story hospital filled with them, low on ammo, with armor on the verge of breaking.
I need to mod up the game for a severe difficulty and try to have at it again, possibly with Tale of two Wastelands so I can enjoy the best of NV along with Fo3
First year I played the fallout games was 2012 when I was in 8th grade. SO many memories of 3 and New Vegas that just bring a smile to my face!
Very beautiful
I wish it was that time when this was just being released 😢😢😢😢😢 rip ppl I miss u all❤❤❤❤
My PS3 doesn’t work anymore and i can’t play this Beautiful game and im hearing this to remember the good times🥺I miss playing Fallout 3
I happened across this game when I was in my secondary years, I'm almost done with college now and honestly playing it again I have realised no game never has or will make me feel the way fallout 3 does
Honestly my favorite game of all time.
Man, it's up there. And it holds up today, still has a style no modern game can match imo.
Makes me sad in a nostalgic way. My best friend who’s now dead used to play this ! Listening to this brings forth floods of memories 😢😢😢😢❤❤❤ lovely music
A man that gives me the Nostalgia
0:09 nostalgia
congrats on 800 subs
While fallout 3 may not be my favorite fallout I can’t hate it because it still holds a lot of nostalgia for me and this soundtrack brings me back to high school playing this for the first time with my friend back when everything was simple and life was more laid back.
21:00 makes me feel like I'm levitating closing my eyes
Pure nostalgia.
the radio is very fun and all but this music is sobering, it makes u realise that the world around u is desolate and lonely
I really love soundthrack of fallout 4 really, but fallout 3 soundthrack are so so better.
Yeah, it's not the same vibe, the soundtrack of Fo3 is better.
Fallout 3 will always be my favorite, it just did the post-apocalypse feeling of loneliness and exploration better
hey i recognize that pic, it's from the collectors edition art work book that comes in the lunchbox. i have it too. my bobble head broke though... suuuucks... could listen to this for 10 hrs... ... wait i have. strange to hear it though with no wind howling past my ears.
If I took every fallout 3 companion with me to the wastes I'd still feel totally lonely. This track really does build the atmosphere
my fav game of all time🖤 one word: AMBIANCE
To me this is just calming, good music. It takes me to a windy desert in my mind.
I love the bamboo flute in a few songs cause it reminds me of China and its impact inside the fallout universe
Bro the desolated feeling while wandering was REAL
Nostalgia bateu forte
Trilha desse jogo é pura loucura, é raro ver um som tão fantástico em um jogo
Can wait for the full mod release of Fallout4 The Capital Wasteland. That shits got me hyped!
Xbox gave me this game for free, and at the time I didn't know what it was, all I knew is that my brothers played it. I was around ten or eleven and I had never played a Bethesda game before then. of course because of how young I was, I didn't understand the instructions and instead of heading to megaton, I went to the center of the DC hellhole. After I had quit for a while and became more wise, I began following the games instructions and immediately fell in love. However, after I had fallen in love with fallout 3, I began to play fallout 4 which let to my eventual disappointment on how they could ruin a game that badly. This disappointment only grew with the release of 76. I am still a fan of Fallout 3 and have just began the Pitt DLC and are about to move on to Broken Steel.
This game’s atmosphere is unmatched