When Fallout 4 Fooled the World
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 มิ.ย. 2024
- After watching the Fallout TV show, I remember when Bethesda gave us a "real" show to watch...
thesurvivor2299.com nuked the Fallout community leading up to the release of Fallout 4. Was this a marketing ploy? Was it all a troll? Did Bethesda create the biggest oopsie ever seen?
Leaked Trailer Audio: puu.sh/5q8L3.mp3
(you will have to put this link in the way back machine for it to play)
Music (In order):
Sunny Day by: Reed Mathis
Down by: Joey Pecoraro
Cubic Z by: Diamond Ortiz
Gaiety in the Golden Age by: Aaron Kenny
Funky Disco by: Biz Baz Studio
Professor Frankly's Theme-Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door
Not for Nothing by: Otis McDonald
80's video game death by: Sir Cubworth
Voyage by: Density & Time
Honky Tonkin' by: Doug Maxwell/Media Right Productions
March Grandioso by: The U.S. Army Band
Baila Mi Cumbia: Jimmy Fontanez/Media Right Productions
The Curious Kitten by: Aaron Kenny
Ether Oar by: The Whole Other
Heaven and Hell by: Jeremy Blake
9th Symphony, Finale by: Beethoven
Long Live Death by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. creativecommons.org/licenses/...
Court and Page by: Silent Partner
Ether Oar by: The Whole Other
Dream Lagoon by: Chris Haugen
Age of Empires 2 - Credits Theme
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The fact that the guy behind it did a Reddit AMA and IMMEDIATELY received the flair *"Villain of the Wastes -9999 points"* has me on the goddamn floor, good lord
Reddit mfs are so cringe
Too many virgins not going outside , looking for a girlfriend , touching grass , feeling the sun's light on their skin , damn !
@@ZeroMat1projecting much?
@@crackerjack2303 nope,you maybe ?
@@ZeroMat1 Overdosed on a blend of projection, self-hatred, and copium. Sucks to see.
Bethesdas marketing team had some guy do their job for free
I mean, is that so surprising? the modding community has been fixing their games for free for decades.
@@UbinTimornah I paid them myself all of them I made sure they’re work was paid correctly
This had to be somebody with connections to Bethesda I'd think
How did he get Boston setting, Institute faction and Sole Survivor as the character correct if not
@@kringlez4801guesswork
@kringlez4801 ironically enough Survivor 2299 sounds better than Fallout 4 was
BUT HOW DID IT GUESS THE DETAILS OF THE GAME DOWN TO A TEE
He gave mama Murphy jet lmao
He was a dev at obsidian most likely
@@Leboobs22 Eh, I think the theory offered by “randomrubster” is more plausible, it was probably Mama Murphy on jet.
not to mention the Berkeley building is also known as old John Hancock building
I remember there was a bunch of leaks during the early stages of Fallout 4's creation, he may have taken some of that info and added it to the web site. Possible.
Imagine how to creator of survivor 99 felt when fallout four came out with the main character being the soul Survivor set in Boston with one of the main fractions being the Institute. I mean, the man called it.
Inside job. I imagine it was originally supposed to come out then and they wanted to leak it, but it turned out not being ready (as if any Bethesda game is ever, or ever becomes ready).
My Nuka World slaves still walk around in their undies after being freed…
Pretty sure he knew. "I hope you'll get a real Fallout 4 one day". That guy was forced to say so because the cease & desist lmao
I highly doubt it was a dev, since I don't think anyone would risk their job like that. But maybe a friend of someone at Bethesda who spilled a bit more information than he should have.
@@dwagin6315 Never talked about a dev. I think he was that kind of figure that now we call “leaker”
My favorite part of the survivor 2299 story is a very real fallout 4 leak happened right after and everyone just ignored it because of how burned out they were
I'd love to see this myself.
Jeez I remember this
What was the leak?
@@Knights_of_the_Nine the kotaku script leak
Not to mention how he actually predicted Fallout 4 was coming, well the release trailer was coming, within a day of the stream being dropped
The real Fallout were the enemies made along the way.
I love your pfp
Brilliant
Yap😊
Hope this interaction doesn't lead to any fallout between us...
Fallout: New Vegas.
Always gotta dislike these type of comments
If you missed the survivor 99, there are no words I can use to explain how crushed everybody was at the time.
So it was basically the fallout community's version of 9/11?
@@Foogers_ yes, we even invaded the middle east afterwards.
Seeing this video made me remember the Hype I had when I saw this and followed every bit of news until that crushing day
It was truly glorious and devastating. One of the best internet experience of all time
I legit had NO idea about any of this until now. Some friends bought me Fallout 4 when I was like, I think 16? And I had a hell of a fun time. I can only imagine them (Who were adults and worked in the gaming industry) saw all this come crashing down and real time and didn't want to spoil my fun xDDD
This is funny cause if you call the vault tech number from the show you get screaming then a text saying they get back to you in about 33 weeks
If you text it you get a September date
December 10th IS 33 weeks so that's interesting
Hmmm like VAULT 33??
I didn't get the text when I called it
@@xTalks24you have to text it first
i mean the MIT guy was right so
he definitely was and thats actually kinda impressive lol
@@nomorepartyinlaI mean if he’s an MIT employee, it’s not much a stretch to say that he was likely privy to knowing that Beth scouters were sniffing around
probably saw todd howard and his minions sniffin around for S I X T E E N T I M E S the details
Fallout 4 was pretty clearly going to be set in Boston anyway though. Maybe his story was true, maybe it wasn’t. But either way, Boston was a pretty safe guess.
@@JadaTheSupreme Why?
Optimus Prime: "Elder Falls, Scroll Out."
I laugh
Liberty prime
God this would've been so perfect if you daid Liberty Prime instead lmao. I still laughed
Boston in fallout 4 is less violent than Boston now.
100th like
real shi
that's because a nuclear bomb is less destructive than multiculturalism
@@KegaB3 you celebrate participation ribbons for sure
Really? I had no idea my hometown was that dangerous. You sure you're not just repeating something you saw on Newsmax or read on Twitter?
Imagine driving down the road in 2013 and your radio bugs out and accidently tunes in to this 16:12
I am shitting everything. drawers, my goddam trousers, the seat gon be color shifted brown and I'm driving into the nearest traffic railing that is near a body of water.
"oh hell naw!!"
Today is the day I found out the first ever Bethesda game I played was Ducati Moto. I always thought it was fallout 4
Dam u didn't play fallout 3 or new vegas or oblivion or skyrim first. U picked fallout 4 lmao
@@mikeyblazemy choice was fallout 4 - what a good choice I made. New Vegas is a buggy mess
@@maidframe BOOOOOOOOOO YOU SUCK
@@maidframe lmao keep telling yourself that
@@maidframe dawg I think most Bethesda games are a buggy mess
The amount of info the guy guessed alongside the Cease and Desist order makes me believe he was either an employee or got some genuine info leak from one
Wonder if they'll do something like this for Fallout 5, tho i don't believe i'll live till it's announcement in the year 2369
Release date has been leaked for Fallout 5. It's October 24 2077
@@The_Joestarcyberpunk 2
Nah, people had been speculating that Fallout 4 would involve The Institute in Boston for quite for years at this point.
For fallout 5 Bethesda will nuke the earth.
Fallout community: give us fallout!
Bethesda: releases Fallout 4
Fallout community: could you stop?!
They complain about the writing, yet Capcom has even worse then Bethesda’s, and yet they make masterpieces that would make anyone happy, Leon went from exploring a abandoned village to denying gravity in a hi-tech lab, Chris went from a mystery in an African village to punching a boulder in a active volcano while having a slap fight with a BOW enhanced coworker. What is wrong with Bethesda’s writing now? Just a couple oofs with the story?
@@Aguy522 Resident Evil is Camp while Bethesda games are trying to be taken mostly seriously
@@Aguy522 That feels like a major false equivalency. For one, I think there's a ton of issues with modern Bethesda releases on top of the writing but to say the writing shouldn't matter because other popular series with bad writing (subjectivity aside) is like saying that no one should enjoy any Mario or Zelda title because "Bad man take princess. Guy save princess." , isn't an amazing, captivating story.
Good writing is always good but like graphics, or even gameplay, any given game can rely on it for various amounts, for an RPG like Fallout to be lacking in that way is a much bigger deal than an action game having campy or poor writing.
@Jaffersin I probably should of done Skyrim or some of the other RE games, but still, Skyrim is a gift from Godd and nobody except 4 people play, yet it still is very much a masterpiece, the other RE games still have bad writing, “you were almost a Jill sandwich”. But I get it, have a good day
@@Aguy522bro there is nothing to do in skyrim. you want me to walk around and “explore” the caves?? there is actually fuck all to do
The fact the hoaxer actually got Boston and The Insistute right is alone impressive
It's all spelled out in Fallout 3.
@@Knights_of_the_Nine it’s referenced in Fallout 3. But spelled out? Let’s not get ahead of ourselves. It’s ok to give props to people for making correct inferences. Fuckin idiot.
@@Knights_of_the_Nine You say that now, but at the time it was an unknown
@@jackalexande No, me and all my friends even thought there would be a DLC in the Commonwealth with the Institute for Fallout 3. The quest in Fallout 3 fleshed it way out in a way that just seemed off, like it was definitely meant to be more than a 1 off quest.
@@Knights_of_the_Ninehindsight is 20/20
For those curious about how the leaker managed to accurately predict so many details, around that time the community largely already suspected that Fallout 4 would be set in Boston and involve the Institute. This conclusion stemmed from hints in Fallout 3 suggesting Boston as a potential location, alongside reports of Bethesda employees seen in the Boston area for research purposes, similar to their activities in Washington D.C. before the release of Fallout 3. Bethesda has a tendency to drop hints about the setting or storyline of their next game in their previous releases. If I were a betting man Fallout 5 will take place in San Francisco, I mean it’s pretty obvious you go into Kellogs memory and see that he is from SF, we also see the Hubologist make a return in Nuka world who are from SF, and supposedly Bethesda told Obsidian to not mention SF in New Vegas as well as the writers of the TV show were told to not mention SF either.
U still believe in 5? Even they even let 76 die, im betting on 76-2 Electric Bogaloo
I don't they would plan SF around New Vegas time but yeah I agree, SF might be next
san fran was in fo2
I agree, it will take place in Germany and show the Chinese having rekt the place only for the Dutch having to rebuild the whole of Europe.
Wait isn't san fran where the followers of the apocalypse are from? Wasnt it already mentioned in the first two games?
“What’s on December 11th?”
My birthday? I can’t believe my 10th birthday was that popular.
you are too young
@@justpassingby298Not really? They'd be in their 20s now.
Obviously, what did you think everyone was happy about
Survivor 2299 successfully conducted a enormous hype train with every fallout fan as a passenger, then derailed it at the Tunnel Snakes junction, killing us all
Also, your content is continually great Mr Cheesecake
I was 14 when this happened and it felt like a weird nostalgia trip back into a simpler time.
Same 😂
and now you're a qp of weed wearing a hoodie, oh how the time flies
same lmao
same, how do you fellas feel 10 years later?
@@carboodle610 sad, I wish there was still that mysterious hype around other games, I haven't felt it in a while lol
if it wasnt real how did he know it was in boston and involved the institute
I think Todd found it funny and just did it
From my memory, there were people from MIT and the general Boston area that spoke up publicly about meeting Bethesda employees while they were scouting the locations pre development.
Also there was an oddly detailed side quest involving both institute and railroad agents from the Commonwealth in Fallout 3. I don't remember if Boston was mentioned, but it's possible.
Synths, the Commonwealth, the Institute, the Railroad and the SRB were all in Fallout 3. Then a bunch of different people spotted Bethesda scouting locations in Boston during 2012 which is a year before the fake countdown anyway. We knew Fallout 4 was going to be Boston.
I'm still shocked at how accurate it was. I guess he just zeroed on the hanging thread from Fallout 3 and nailed it, but it's really crazy that he got that.
Man i remember watching MrMattyPlays cover that back in the day. I was devastated after this lol
yup.
I'd come home from school and check his channel religiously. Broke my heart. I also ended up crying when the trailer came out. I was very weird.
The nostalgia just the thumbnail gave and instantly remembers the survivor 2299 days never forget
insane just how funny you are with your editing and style of humour. genuinely keep it up cuz this was informative and really funny
That last comment about how Bethesda uses the same engine is insane but very accurate
I played Starfield and it felt like Skyrim mixed with Fallout and Space.
You forgot that not only did matty blew up over survivor2299 but also yongyea who became the new english voice of kazuma kiryu and lonevaultwanderer who does a lot of stuff. And nowadays well, it went from just a select bunch of fallout youtubers to pop culture and everyone talks about fallout. Also, you forgot the leaked fallout 4 documents that were released when survivor2299 was kicking off and the fake survivor2299 ties like "The Propheteer" and some facebook group that matty reported on but i forgot its name.
Yongyea is a walking L
He mentions YongYea at 26:14 actually
@@BrandonOfJapanI remember when YongYea was a decent creator. Then he fell off HARD. Nowadays, he is a walking L just like you said.
TUNNEL SNAKES RULE!
WE'RE THE *_TUNNEL SNAKES!_*
THAT'S US.
AND WE *_RULE!_*
I can distinctly remember the Quabbin Reservoir and the speculation about it, nostalgic times.
I am SHOCKED you don't have far more subscribers and views. This is really good.
I agree, but to be fair, the algorithm is not very kind to newer content creators.
im so glad someone still remembered thesurvivor2299. This was also when fallout was relatively niche as fallout 4 marked it on the map (no pun intended). Heck i remember that mlp fanfiction of fallout had more reddit traction than fallout itself for a bit... we fallout fans were STARVED even tho new vegas literally came out for 3 years... I remember mrmattyplays getting so upset when it ended up being a hoax. really wish fallout icebergs included it.
Project Horizons was 100+ chapters.
What a strange time.
To be fair Fallout: Equestria is one of the longest written works in human history (this is not a joke)
@@klaykid117 It's made more history than I have.
@@klaykid117 yea i didnt know that til way later lol
To the one "trust me bro" guy's credit (6:00), he was 100% on the money.
Some parts of this video made me blow more air out of my nose than I usually do, well done.
There should be a name for that.
I still believe to this day this was just an elaborate troll from Bethesda themselves and Survivor2299 was a real site made by them, because how the hell would a random guy get three major things about the game right years before the game came out?
Could have been a former employee that was leaking stuff without Beths consent and that was the reason they made him take it down. Seems like the most reasonable explanation, by that point FO4 would have been at least in the creation process.
@@kurtixwarlord3278 Still, it seems very suspicious that site was up for so long with all the attention it had without Bethesda responding until the very last week.
Very possible it was an inside job, it's super easy to just say "no, I'm not with Bethesda" and then have Bethesda actually "do something about it" later on
Some people are just good at guessing
When blizzard announced warlords of draenor, i started telling people how the story would play out, not just for wod, but the following 2 exoansions as well, down to exact details. Everything i said came true, stuff more than 5 years away!
How did i do this?
What was my source?
I had none
I just was in tune with blizzards patterns of storytelling that the moment i was given Any lead, i was able to extrapolate where that would take us. Everything else was just things i either Thought would be cool, or things so long requested that there was little reason to doubt theyd return
Yet had i gone around posting it on reddit or giving it to news sites, guarantee people would walk away thinking i was an inside source from blizzard
We knew Fallout 4 was Boston, Bethesda were spotted scouting locations by a bunch of different people during 2012 a year before Survivor2099 went up. And then Fallout 3 has synths, the Commonwealth, the Institute, the Railroad and the SRB. Even had a line about the Commonwealth being a wasteland and the Institute being sealed away from the outside world.
@14:19 is when I subscribed to your channel. Im from Gary Indiana and spend a lot of time at the state fish and wildlife areas in the region, so this really caught me off guard.
TUNNEL SNAKES RULE!
Lol the Brink mention is iconic. The game had so much potential.
wish there was a 2nd one
Hey man, stumbled across this video because of the algo. Basically a lifelong fallout fan, and I distinctly remember this drama and the ensuing chaos. Your editing and scripting is solid, dude. Excellent video, thank you for taking me for a stroll down memory lane. Best wishes.
I legitimately don’t think I’ve seen someone cover this before, I remember an acquaintance made me aware of the website as it was happening, and I was beyond intrigued. Thanks for talking about this!
This video reminded me that this website was probably the first place I watched the Tunnel Snakes Rule video. Wild. I remember following this story using my school's and my local library's computers, because I didn't have the Internet at home.
Hearing Elderfall Scrollout while not wathing the screen made me think I was having a stroke😭
Man, remember when three to four years between games in a series was considered a long time? Those were the days.
So I'm new around here, does this mean he has to go out and get a slice of cheesecake for every video?
or maybe he is actually just a slice of cheese cake
The elder fall scroll out
Recommending Yong "I am the best voice actor!" Yea in 2024...
all that wait only to realize the real fallout 4 was a post nuclear settlement simulation
The phone dial tones do have a name its just not commonly known, DTMF tones, you can generate them in audacity.
I call the dial tones dial tones.
@@hherpdderpthat’s not a dial tone tho. A dial tone is the beeps you hear as ur calling it when someone hangs up
I'm quite sure some hacks at Bethesda just "came up" with the ideas for Fallout 4 from the speculation of 2299 discussions
Fun part: the date that survivor2299 was set to was 11/12/13
8 thousand subscribers? Seriously??? This is million subscriber+ tier content.
It’s pretty funny how the sites predictions came true so all the effort that went into to deciphering everything became retroactively meaningful.
Also I subscribed, this was a very well made video.
i almost forgot about this, thanks for bring back the terrible memories 😔
This was the Grinch leak before the Grinch leak lmao
YOUR CHANNEL IS SO UNDERRATED???
This is a crazy memory unlocked for me. I shockingly, after all these years, still have a link in my bookmarks bar to the 100+ page shared google doc that was the source of record for new findings. It appears to have been deleted :(
for 5k subs ur editing is insane deserved the sub
this video will 100% his the algorithm one day, good job!
You were right
your editing is so good??? how are you not a bigger creator?
This is a very entertaining and high quality video. Wasn't expecting to see under 2k subs only. Subscribed, wish you more success.
This was a very entertaining and funny video. I was surprised to see you didn't have more subscribers! Keep up the work!
10:58 that’s a banger
Todd Howard looked at that one MIT guy and Survivor 2299 and thought "okay you know what would be REALLY funny"
Good video man, hope to see growth. Thank you for unique and not just summarizing stuff everyone already knows for a video.
In a perfect world they’d hire that 2299 guy as a marketing consultant or something that’s how you do a fuckin reveal
I remember waking up at 4am to screen record the official countdown as it clicked over good times before life sucked… I had hope back then 😂
good video, sh***ed my pants halfway through
i mean.....that "trust me bro" source was dead-on though....... The institute was UNDER MIT afterall.......not a stretch that he'd see someone from Bethesda getting a tour of the campus or something
Ending it with that song and video, is hysterical
This channel unironically has some of the most interesting and engaging videos i've seen. Keep it up cheesecake 👍
i already asked you this on the worst comment section video but how did you get the old-timey audio effect at 16:57 ?
Good question! If you're using Premiere Pro there's a few options that you can mess around with. For that specific effect I use the Analog Delay effect. From there you can adjust the wet and dry out options to see what sounds good. There's also a preset option called "50s slap back" that can help you get started. Also try the FFT Filter in conjunction with Analog Delay, that can really tie the whole effect together. And if nothing else you can always just google it. 9 times outta 10 there is some middle schooler with unregistered hypercam 2 from 2011 that already did it step by step.
Hope this helps!
I remember the ESO beta was going on around the same time and I had just gotten accepted into it, I remember being there trying to decode things myself and this was happening at the peak of my obsession with Bethesda and the strangest part of it all to me is that after the actual Fallout 4 reveal everything seemed to go downhill in how I perceived Bethesda
Damn that MrMattyPlays clip unlocked a core memory
Damn this was a trip down memory lane and very well done, kudos. December 6th is my birthday, and I remember when Bethesda sent that tweet out I was so disappointed lol. Was the worst 16th birthday ever
dude, ten years waiting for one game is normal now, bioware has done the same :(
I was around back when everything was happening the first time. Why does everyone forget is that TheSurvivor2299 actually end up predicting exactly when Fallout 4 was to be announced.
i remember following this as it was happening, i genuinely think something more in the direction of this arg wouldve been better than the fallout 4 we got. also that 2013 mrmattyplays clip was such a throwback lol
Dude, the editing and humor in this vid is just immaculate. Glad someone took a moment to document this period of internet history. Never subbed to someone so fast!
This was deeply repressed memory
This video is genuinely quality, I’ve already watched it multiple times. Hope your channel gets more attention!
Thank you for this retrospective
I was in high school during this, and hype was so high even on the other part of a globe
Og's will remember freshavocado
Seeing that they eventually got fallout 4 makes me have hope for titanfall 3 after the October 27th incident
For having only 10k subs this is a really funny and high quality video, you definitely deserve much more. Keep going man!
Being apart of this lore is so satisfying. It was so much fun trying to decode those cyphers. I remember looking through relay tower KX-B8-11 in game for more clues. Listening to the pirate radio thing and hearing those sounds live gave me an adrenaline rush I can still feel. Then the finale being tunnel snakes was the biggest kick in the nuts. 10/10
Funny how I was actually wanting it to be real as the video went along knowing it wasn't.
Fallout fans not get outraged over stupid shit challenge (impossible)
This was a very good video! Nicely done!
Editing was awesome!
I do remember following this through his channel and reddit. Being a senior high school with nothing better to do, this literally consumed my life like many others. Was literally gutted when it was found to be a trop... though I will say thank you for shouting out MrMattyPlays. This is how I came across his channel and if there's anything good that came out of this, it was that I found his channel and how he's now made a career out of TH-cam.
This video better blow up
this is the most hyped ive seen people be for a 6/10 game
it took me 7 minutes to realize the microphone wasn't a burnt head
"not like that NOT LIKE THAT!" too late. the lab has already found her.
24:04 That's one of the best lines I've heard.
Looking back at this now, its hilarious. But also im sitting here like, fallout 5 is gonna be a decade away... and im sad
Ur editing is really good dude it keeps u interested fr
If this is the content expected from your channel, I'll have notificationa turned up til TH-cam shuts down. Great topic, excellent presentation!
Thanks for bring back this lost memory
Dude these internet historian style videos are great
This content is very high quality from such a small channel, Keep up the good work.
Utterly incredible editing and I was enthralled through the whole 26 minutes. Well done sir.
Oh wow so this is what it was like back then. I remember learning about the game in my last days of middle school. I didn’t know anything about this franchise until the fallout 4 trailer dropped. I remember chatting with my online friends, telling me to try the previous games. So I did. I saved every dollar I had to buy the goty editions of 3 and NV. I’m glad I did because it became one of my favorite video game franchises. I finished 3, but couldn’t play NV that much due to it crashing a lot on ps3. After I played those games, I was so obsessed with it. At that point, I couldn’t shut up about it lol. I yapped my friends ears off about my experiences in the games. I even managed to save up more money to preorder fallout 4. I was so excited for fallout 4, I watched the countdown for its release date everyday. When it finally released, I played it so much during my high school years. Ahhh those were good times :)