There’s a theory that Nate could be the Hero of Anchorage. Which would explain his visit to the Veterans Hall(possibly receiving the Medal of Honor). Love that fan theory. Actually I think it’s true. It would explain why he’s so skilled on the battlefield. Plus, his experience fighting the stealth dragoon soldiers, would give him an edge against the Coursers.
The Dogmeat theory is extremely likely, if for no other reason than the fact that there is only one known dog breeder in the commonwealth. Dogmeat is in great health, has no scars, is the only know dog of his breed, and the dog breeder does not immediately recognize him when you meet him out in the wastes. You know that clingy s.o.b. remembers every dog he's ever had sired.
@@lostbutfreesoulI always feel like Somebody's watching me And I have no privacy I always feel like somebody's watching me, Tell me, is it just a dream?
Much like Deacon’s little shack by 111, there’s a chair next to a tire that has an ashtray with a cigar in it overlooking the Red Rocket and the radio has the classic station on it. My head canon has Kellogg watching you meet Dogmeat 2:17
Rip the ghoul serum lore. Rip to the nuka dlc, The show rewrites continuity and the fallout 4 "free content" that we recently got fixed the continuity from the show and the game. Lazy, and disrespectful to the current lore. All those ghouls that we talked to that knew there was no cure, no longer hold there weight anymore.
"That's only a local thing" I'll bet that's gonna be the excuse for it, so those moments still hold weight. They'll just say "oh, well the cure isn't known on that side of USA" or "it's only in New California territory" something to that effect, so they don't have to rewrite anymore than they already decided to. Or need to, for that matter
Joel Burgess, one of the devs for FO4, has said Dogmeat is "trapped out of time" and "does not belong in 2287” so I always assumed he had been frozen or something like the sole survivor. But idk
Would have been handy if 111 had some terminal entry with a throwaway reference to animal subjects. That'd explain why he looks like Pre-War Dog. And no doubt a Vault-Tec animal being so intelligent and trained wouldn't he the weirdest thing.
@@The_Lucent_Archangel Tbf, in the tv show *(spoilers)* ...cryo sleep seem to be a completely safe procedure/tool/whatever youd call it, lol, which further strengthens this theory that animals, especially *Fo4 dogmeat,* couldve been prewar test subjects etc.
@@ZeldaCDI99 In the part where he tells the player about how his personality and false memories came from a real person who wasn't a synth like him, his exposed wires spark just a little too precisely. Mine don't do that.
I believe a former Bethesda employee has come out and said that Fallout 3 was supposed to take place 50 years after the bombs fell. But they changed it to 200 years. That’s why there isn’t much work to get DC back on its feet.
There's a few things that don't track there. If aspects like Harold and such were always planned, 50 years would have put him still being out West and getting mutated at Mariposa. If he just up and went East then he wouldn't be there to meet the Vault Dweller and Chosen One in Fallouts 1 and 2. I think it just makes more sense to ascribe the lack of something akin to the NCR out East to other factors not explained yet. In light of 76, maybe something yet to occur in that game will help explain why the Capital Wasteland is behind by the time 3 takes place. It wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility, especially considering the entry on Vault 76 that you can find in 3 is redacted.
@@The_Lucent_Archangel”if aspects like Harold and such were always planned…” That’s a big if. Let’s be honest, Harold is pretty much an Easter Egg in 3.
In my own personal opinion, 3 is intended to take place no more than thirty years after the Great War, with “Dad” being a student/graduate of a prewar university… Maybe even the CIT…
@@The_Lucent_Archangel Maybe so. But what if Harold started as an Easter Egg, and then the developers decided to go all in with him. It would mess with their original timeline, so the devs pushed it back 150 more years to make it make sense. A few quick adaptations and changing of a few words of dialect, and it’s covered. DC would still be in ruins, since there isn’t any heavy machinery to move the rubble.
Another note regarding Lanius not being a real, single person: his last legate failed him and he had to make a statement of him. I don't know that Caesar would want to actually share power again with a new legate, but would definitely still want a potential scapegoat if their Mojave campaign continues to undersucceed.
One funny thing about the Dogmeat theory: some people accidentally let slip that they’ve never heard of a dog whistle before, because when Nick uses one they assume it’s some kind of special Synth radio device
@@helmutkok7833 He's supposed to imitate a human in all aspects. Obviously, the design has a number of flaws in terms of passability, but mechanically, they nailed it. Installing a couple of airbags as lungs would be a lot easier than functioning fingers
The range of most, if not all, dog whistles barely hits a mile. It's certainly less of a stretch to say dog meat is a synth than it is that the same dog perched up at red rocket near sanctuary was wandering the mutant infested streets of downtown Boston And that's ignoring the fact that Nick, you know, summons him in a house in the middle of a bustling town
Another piece of evidence for the FO3 theory is that Moira Brown asks you to help with her survival guide. Why is someone just now deciding to make a survival book? Why on Earth would she think a place like the super duper mart would still have supplies after 200 yrs of scavenging? At least in FO4 they can blame the lack of regional progress on deliberate sabotaging by the institute. Imo, the FO3 timeline theory is just a fact
@@theotheyoutubewatcherista Doesn't matter what they call themselves or what cliques they create. At the end of the day they are free XP that all die the same way.
About Liberty Prime. Keep in mind the same people that ignored LP for almost 200 years are the same people that completely ignored Metro Men. How can something that has appeared in just about every Fallout game in way or another be completely ignored by both prewar civilization(there are ZERO references to them in any magazine or computer) and by post war people who are very curious about the past(Piper and especially Brotherhood of Steel).
I’m usually not a fan theory backer but, the Legate Lanius one is something I’ve always wanted to be true. The idea that Lanius’ reputation is fueled by multiple tall tales works well for a group like the Legion.
One origin story has Lanius' face being disfigured. In game if you kill him and take his helmet his face doesn't even have a single scar but does have a bitchin handle bar moustache.
When some one can say that horrific violent tendancies due to prolonged lead exposure is mundane, and not be incorrect, you know the world has gone to hell
You forgot with Dogmeat, another factor is how he looks. No other canine looks good and healthy yet Dogmeat looks like he was cryofroze too in comparrison to all orher dogs. NV had cyberdogs. The institute was known for entering other regions so there's little doubt they wouldn't have found them. Plus the gorillas in the institute kind of play into messing with nature.
I mean, cats and birds (minus seagulls) seem to be pretty healthy. And they appear in places like Appalachia and New Vegas (the birds), so you can't just say "those creatures were synths too".
I think both Dogmeat and the Sole Survivor are synths. I also don't think Father is actually Shaun, he's just some guy. Mainly because this would make the game more interesting, not because it's actually likely.
My theory is that Dogmeat has psyker abilities. Perhaps a type of precog ability like Mama Murphy. Someone does hint that Dogmeat appear at the right time, right place when needed.
The FO3 theory is even more bolstered accidentally by FO76, which has East Coast BOS and Enclave already just a few decades after the big kaboom (which of course has been criticized for putting yet more BOS content in every FO when they dont necessarily need to be there logically).
Fallout 3 being originally set earlier in the timeline would have been very interesting. We get that in Fallout 76, but having a more desolate wasteland with barely any civilization or resources would have been great to really sell the post apocalypse feel of the series.
one of the worst aspects of Fallout is the timeframes presented. Even with a suspension of disbelief and post apocalypse population decline, there shouldn't be a single can of Scram left and the countryside would be exploding with plant life. That level of desolation yet availability of materials and wooden structures still standing in comparatively good state lends itself to 10-20 years, not 200 years. The big hurdle for Bethesda that they copped out of by setting the timeline so far ahead, is having to spend more time writing the thoughts and behaviors of people that can still remember where everything is, what every appliance does, the phone numbers of their neighbors, still having all of their ingrained social behaviors and government propaganda etc etc. Fallout is a post-post apocalypse story with a world that somehow cant manage to get to the post-part.
@@Nope_handlesaretrash Yeah, Bethesda seemed to have completely missed that the country is supposed to have mostly recovered by the time the games take place. The Interplay games usually took place at a time when people had managed to solve their problems of basic subsistence, created organized societies, and were just starting to poke around in the ruins of the old world to find out what was there. If you look at every other major tragedy in human history, that's what happens. The tragedy happens, the survivors solve their immediate problems, and then the curiosity takes over and they start asking questions about what happened before. Medieval scholars, for example, were obsessed with the Roman empire, and finding out if there was anything they could learn from the Romans. Fallout was about the last step in that process. Then Bethesda came along and completely forgot about that
@@Nope_handlesaretrash My retcon theory (i do think the F3 map was made for 10 to 50 year setting) is that DC keeps getting nuked every now and then like how we can launch an ICBM what if per-war weapons in other parts of the world are being set off at random a computer resets; a scaver throws a switch; a repair bot powers on; and the old world reminds us it still is not fully dead.
@@filmandfirearms Sometimes recover. The Mayans for example didn't. There's also a little known theory that the areas that would become North and South America there were giant kingdoms like one would find in medieval Europe and Asia. However something bad happened like a pandemic or regional war or whatever that caused the whole thing to collapse. The survivors eventually become what are known as the Native Americans/Indians and their individual tribes. The closest European explorers got to finding anything remotely looking like a traditional empire or country were the Aztecs and Incas.
@@chadharger9323 If they don't recover, it's because they were replaced by another group. The Bethesda Fallout world is one where humanity doesn't even try to build back
What if Francine didn't really die, but became Miss Fortune, with Mark as the Mysterious Stranger? I still lean towards the Stranger being either a lightly ghoulified version of the human Nick Valentine, or, possibly, Gandalf.
While lead could definitely be responsible, I think it comes down to human nature. You see it in mob situations. And, there is no true governing body in Fallout. Or legal system. So, unchecked and in a really bad situation, I think most people, regardless of how they feel now, would turn to violence to ensure their own survival. As far as 3s time-line goes, it makes sense that is off. Even if you factored in radiation causing lower intelligence, the wasteland should looked far better after 200 years. Even if progress moved half as slow as prewar, that's still the equivalent of 100 years of progress.
I 100% believe the Fallout 3 timeline theory. It makes so much sense. I think 76 was them going back and giving that idea another shot after it didn't pan out in 3.
Bethesda games Timelines have always bugged me, it's like their world can't move forward, the TV show makes it worse by pulling the West Coast back into these scrappy towns instead of the High tech citys from Fallout 2
My problem is that the timeline is too thick with too much information after the Great War. There's actually too much information to make self-contained main plots for the games. Also Bethesda not only won't use the rest of the planet(like London), they won't bother with other locations that can be used at the same time other major events are happening. For example the Chosen One is starting the final assault against the Enclave. At the same time another Main Character in Dallas, TX just discovered a plot to completely nuke the planet again with the thought to completely wiping out humanity or whatever.
In the pre-war opening you can find a dog dish on the floor. When activating it the MC says something about their dog having gone missing. What's the first thing you find outside of Sanctuary? A dog. What was the point of adding the pre-war dog dish and story about a missing dog?
maybe to subtly say how the main character is used to a dog and why dogmeat would come up to him/her instead of any other person, in FO 3 you found dogmeat after the his master is killed which makes it reasonable why he will follow him, but in FO 4 he is just there after who know how long
> _Liberty Prime would not have survived 200 in the Pentagon without being scavenged_ Then the Brotherhood Of Steel would never have discovered Liberty Prime. By the time BoS formed, Liberty Prime would have been found and taken (or taken apart).
Awesome video. I say no to lanius not being real for the simple fact that if you speechcraft him, he has the authority to call off the attack, and a mascot wouldn't have that kind of power.
I think the thing is, not even people in the Legion know about it not being true, some powerful people do sit on Lanius chair, one of them being the one we fight in NV, and he has all the authority that the legendary Legate would have because everyone believes in the tales and is not going to go against him.
Another two big pieces of evidence for the Fallout 3 theory are Pinkerton's story about the Naval Research Institute remnants and the lady in Arefu who thinks she is living in a pre-war town
As much as I like the "Legate myth" theory, Fallout is not stranger to superhuman characters and scaryingly nuts characters. And the Fallout 3 timeline makes absolute sense to me.
With the Dogmeat theory about watching powerful players could he been trained by Decon? I would assume Decon keeps his connections to Dogmeat a secret thats why the Railroad doesn't say anything about the dog
The BoS and Enclave conflict in Fallout 3 would actually make *more* sense if it was a decade or less after the Great War, because that would imply that the newly formed Brotherhood would've gone on a rampage after the Enclave, which is the surviving remnants of the rat-king of elites that makes up the US shadow government. It would've been a much better game, and it would've prevented a few huge plot holes in Fallout 4 - namely, what the hell happened to the Brotherhood of Steel in only ten years?
Ohh, yeah id definitely buy any "substance poisoning" etc as a valid explanation for, well, most things tbh, lol. And definitely combined with radiation poisoning. Mysterious Mark is also an awesome theory tbh! However, is the Lanius really that much different from the player character and their accomplishments? He sounds like some sort of nemesis tbh. (edit: yeah, obv he *is* the nemesis, but only speaking of the feats here.)
lead idea i get but more like joker says when the chips are down these civilized people theyll eat each other. the apocalypse lets people show their true character
My personal one I developed after Dragon Ball Z. The Master isn't dead, just regaining biomass and technological mass. This is thanks to Cell, from Dragon Ball Z. Cell's ability to regenerate off of just one cell. But also hinges on the consumption of others. It's also the same power set and MO as the Master.
Dogmeat: Debunked. However, not fully, Dogmeat is special. What is it? We just dont know, but Dogmeat isnt a Synth. We know this for a couple reasons, Institute is set as an enemy and they dont have any files. This is important because this is where we learn crows, and many NPC are "spies". They dont know of Dogmeat... Lead: Yes, I agree it could have played a part, however, watch movie about what happened to NYC when they lost power for a long period of time. People started turning on each other. Same is happening in Fallout. Survival took over. Marc: Possible and Bethesda could make it so. If I go logically though. Unlikely. Legate Lanis isnt real: Debunked, Fallout: New Vegas debunks it in lore. You even fight him. Fallout 3 was suppose to happen earlier: Possible, because Bethesda decided to use some ideas from Fallout 3 that was never released. However, a more likely idea is Bethesda decided to make Fallout 3 like it should be. A post-nuke world. Remember, the reason they havent managed to rebuild is because the Mutants overrun DC. It wasnt until BOS came that anyone has any hope of survival there. They made survival more possible. Now, to be fair, Fallout 3 is the last true Fallout to the plot of Fallout. New Vegas is to empty, Fallout 4 is to settled and green, and Fallout 76 is all of Fallout 4 plus more. It was a change of how Bethesda saw Fallout. I admit, I never liked New Vegas and Fallout 76 because of all this. I shant give my opinion on Fallout 4, it just isnt a true Fallout plot-wise
See the part with Liberty Prime, i don't think it makes sense it would be easily accessed. A weapon like that i would keep under a lot of secuity lockdowns, not to mention physical lock downs... it could have taken 200 years worth of systems and structure degregation for anyone to even attempt to get at it.
9:39 that's a really skimpy line of thought everyone we know that's been exposed to FEV long enough to get any kind of ''powers'', no longer looks human and the examples of ''exceptions'' you gave, harold and the master, both look like nasty flesh monsters (no offense to harold)
Can you read? That article pictured tell you right there that the stats come from a university study published in an economic journal. The numbers literally *don't* come from internal company sources.
Honestly most of these theories can be explained away by developer over sight/poor game design. or Emil screwing up the lore for the 500th time. I believe that dogmeat theory and lanius though. It makes too much sense.
The kids of Little Lamplight come from multiple sources, including children born in Big Town, orphans from across the Capital Wasteland, and presumably runaways and even “kidnapped” children.
I don't suppose people who live in Fallouts Universe are agressive because I don't know.....Maybe they live in a post.Apocalyptic crap hole and suffer endlessly on a daily basis...??? 😮😅
The Legate Lanius one isn't true - he was a real person. Though none of the backgrounds presented represent his actual origin story, even the one told by Caesar... so there is some myth and legend to him, making him bigger than life.
I think we can lock mark in as mysterious stranger. Both his companions also gained unique mutations and if the hero’s of 1 and 3 hadn’t ended them, Richard and Harold would still be alive too. Chris avalone also hinted at it pretty strongly and all the pieces fit too well.
Fallout 76 began the explanation of the trogs in the Pitt from fallout 3 and Fallout 76. A possible idea for this is that abraxo cleaner which is everywhere - has an extremely toxic byproduct which was never properly tested or contained well, so when a train derailed in the steel mill area before October 23, 2077 - mutants started appearing and the city government (enclave included) began to cover it all up with bogus claims and pay-offs to make sure the war effort wasn’t stopped. Unfortunately, trogs were the result. You find holotapes in the Pitt expedition on fallout 76 that talks about how much of a mess that was and why the military protectrons were deployed too. I’m sure there will be more enclave lore coming up with the next season of fallout 76, so that’s awesome.
Ok I got one for you. My theory is that most people in pre-war America are actually really lower class. Now the reason I say this is because Fallout has vastly different levels of technology depending on what it is. There is technology that borders on magic like the GECK, pip-boys, advanced ai, food that literally lasts hundreds of years without refrigeration or freezing. Then there’s really old technology with low tech like the video games, holotapes, or ballistic weapons. So even though Nate is seemingly well off in Sanctuary , in reality he is actually poor. With Codsworth being the most extravagant thing he owns. And you can see this in other aspects like the cost of something as simple as a comic book being absurdly high. The economy is effectively wrecked with all the best things going towards the government or people with money.
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There’s a theory that Nate could be the Hero of Anchorage. Which would explain his visit to the Veterans Hall(possibly receiving the Medal of Honor). Love that fan theory. Actually I think it’s true. It would explain why he’s so skilled on the battlefield. Plus, his experience fighting the stealth dragoon soldiers, would give him an edge against the Coursers.
Never heard of that one, whats the theory?
Maybe that's why he was set to have a speech the same day as the great war..
@@NarbsTheGreat Basically that he's who you're playing as in the Operation: Anchorage sim in Fallout 3
In fallout 1 he was in the cutscene he was the guy laughing as the other soldier executed the Canadian
Dunno why Emil didn't try to promote that one rather than saying he shot a canadian who surrendered
The Dogmeat theory is extremely likely, if for no other reason than the fact that there is only one known dog breeder in the commonwealth. Dogmeat is in great health, has no scars, is the only know dog of his breed, and the dog breeder does not immediately recognize him when you meet him out in the wastes. You know that clingy s.o.b. remembers every dog he's ever had sired.
Makes me wonder how nick signals him. Maybe they used Bluetooth 😂
The real question is:
Railroad or Institute?
With the way Deacon was watching you....
@@lostbutfreesoulI always feel like
Somebody's watching me
And I have no privacy
I always feel like somebody's watching me,
Tell me, is it just a dream?
Said it better than I planned to.
@@LeigonXhe used a dog whistle remember Nick says he's worked with Dogmeat before so probably ran into him a few times in different cases
Much like Deacon’s little shack by 111, there’s a chair next to a tire that has an ashtray with a cigar in it overlooking the Red Rocket and the radio has the classic station on it. My head canon has Kellogg watching you meet Dogmeat 2:17
As we’ve learned with the TV show. Anything’s possible.
I feel like TV shows or movies should have their own canon.
other than shady sands being moved again, the show seems pretty lore friendly
Rip the ghoul serum lore. Rip to the nuka dlc,
The show rewrites continuity and the fallout 4 "free content" that we recently got fixed the continuity from the show and the game. Lazy, and disrespectful to the current lore. All those ghouls that we talked to that knew there was no cure, no longer hold there weight anymore.
"That's only a local thing" I'll bet that's gonna be the excuse for it, so those moments still hold weight. They'll just say "oh, well the cure isn't known on that side of USA" or "it's only in New California territory" something to that effect, so they don't have to rewrite anymore than they already decided to. Or need to, for that matter
Joel Burgess, one of the devs for FO4, has said Dogmeat is "trapped out of time" and "does not belong in 2287” so I always assumed he had been frozen or something like the sole survivor. But idk
Would have been handy if 111 had some terminal entry with a throwaway reference to animal subjects. That'd explain why he looks like Pre-War Dog. And no doubt a Vault-Tec animal being so intelligent and trained wouldn't he the weirdest thing.
@@The_Lucent_Archangel Tbf, in the tv show *(spoilers)*
...cryo sleep seem to be a completely safe procedure/tool/whatever youd call it, lol, which further strengthens this theory that animals, especially *Fo4 dogmeat,* couldve been prewar test subjects etc.
I think he a leftover test mutt like CX 404 in the show but that whole time thing sounds like a set up for a scape goat if they need it later
I heard a crazy theory that Nick Valentine is a synth.
Impossible. We would be able to tell
@@ZeldaCDI99 In the part where he tells the player about how his personality and false memories came from a real person who wasn't a synth like him, his exposed wires spark just a little too precisely. Mine don't do that.
Schizophrenia
I believe a former Bethesda employee has come out and said that Fallout 3 was supposed to take place 50 years after the bombs fell. But they changed it to 200 years. That’s why there isn’t much work to get DC back on its feet.
There's a few things that don't track there. If aspects like Harold and such were always planned, 50 years would have put him still being out West and getting mutated at Mariposa. If he just up and went East then he wouldn't be there to meet the Vault Dweller and Chosen One in Fallouts 1 and 2. I think it just makes more sense to ascribe the lack of something akin to the NCR out East to other factors not explained yet. In light of 76, maybe something yet to occur in that game will help explain why the Capital Wasteland is behind by the time 3 takes place. It wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility, especially considering the entry on Vault 76 that you can find in 3 is redacted.
@@The_Lucent_Archangel”if aspects like Harold and such were always planned…” That’s a big if. Let’s be honest, Harold is pretty much an Easter Egg in 3.
In my own personal opinion, 3 is intended to take place no more than thirty years after the Great War, with “Dad” being a student/graduate of a prewar university… Maybe even the CIT…
@@The_Lucent_Archangel Maybe so. But what if Harold started as an Easter Egg, and then the developers decided to go all in with him. It would mess with their original timeline, so the devs pushed it back 150 more years to make it make sense. A few quick adaptations and changing of a few words of dialect, and it’s covered. DC would still be in ruins, since there isn’t any heavy machinery to move the rubble.
@@____________838 It’s plausible. But “dad” doesn’t look all that old (late 20s-early 30s) when you were born. He’d have been real young in college.
Another note regarding Lanius not being a real, single person: his last legate failed him and he had to make a statement of him. I don't know that Caesar would want to actually share power again with a new legate, but would definitely still want a potential scapegoat if their Mojave campaign continues to undersucceed.
One funny thing about the Dogmeat theory: some people accidentally let slip that they’ve never heard of a dog whistle before, because when Nick uses one they assume it’s some kind of special Synth radio device
but how do Nick blow air?
@@helmutkok7833hell, how does nick smoke cigarettes?
@@dr.rockso2703 His cool factor
@@helmutkok7833 He's supposed to imitate a human in all aspects. Obviously, the design has a number of flaws in terms of passability, but mechanically, they nailed it. Installing a couple of airbags as lungs would be a lot easier than functioning fingers
The range of most, if not all, dog whistles barely hits a mile. It's certainly less of a stretch to say dog meat is a synth than it is that the same dog perched up at red rocket near sanctuary was wandering the mutant infested streets of downtown Boston
And that's ignoring the fact that Nick, you know, summons him in a house in the middle of a bustling town
Another piece of evidence for the FO3 theory is that Moira Brown asks you to help with her survival guide. Why is someone just now deciding to make a survival book? Why on Earth would she think a place like the super duper mart would still have supplies after 200 yrs of scavenging? At least in FO4 they can blame the lack of regional progress on deliberate sabotaging by the institute. Imo, the FO3 timeline theory is just a fact
"Fallout 4 has plots holes and inconsistencies due to bad writing."
"X Must be a synth."
That could explain why there are just generic raider clans in Fallout 3. They haven't had enough time to develop interesting quirks.
And then Fallout 4 has the same problem, despite it being set even later than New Vegas
@@filmandfirearmsI mean at least in 4 they had dedicated groupings (even though they didn't have names) territory, and what not
@@theotheyoutubewatcherista Doesn't matter what they call themselves or what cliques they create. At the end of the day they are free XP that all die the same way.
They're all raiders the same, there's no real difference between the OG Khan's and the Scorpions
About Liberty Prime. Keep in mind the same people that ignored LP for almost 200 years are the same people that completely ignored Metro Men. How can something that has appeared in just about every Fallout game in way or another be completely ignored by both prewar civilization(there are ZERO references to them in any magazine or computer) and by post war people who are very curious about the past(Piper and especially Brotherhood of Steel).
I’m usually not a fan theory backer but, the Legate Lanius one is something I’ve always wanted to be true. The idea that Lanius’ reputation is fueled by multiple tall tales works well for a group like the Legion.
One origin story has Lanius' face being disfigured. In game if you kill him and take his helmet his face doesn't even have a single scar but does have a bitchin handle bar moustache.
When some one can say that horrific violent tendancies due to prolonged lead exposure is mundane, and not be incorrect, you know the world has gone to hell
Well that and the fact that most of the planet probably has brain tumors
@skeletonbuyingpealts7134 yeah..... yeah...... 🫠yeah
@skeletonbuyingpealts7134 good point
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You forgot with Dogmeat, another factor is how he looks. No other canine looks good and healthy yet Dogmeat looks like he was cryofroze too in comparrison to all orher dogs.
NV had cyberdogs. The institute was known for entering other regions so there's little doubt they wouldn't have found them. Plus the gorillas in the institute kind of play into messing with nature.
Except you can get Rottweilers in F4
I mean, cats and birds (minus seagulls) seem to be pretty healthy. And they appear in places like Appalachia and New Vegas (the birds), so you can't just say "those creatures were synths too".
I think both Dogmeat and the Sole Survivor are synths. I also don't think Father is actually Shaun, he's just some guy. Mainly because this would make the game more interesting, not because it's actually likely.
My theory is that Dogmeat has psyker abilities. Perhaps a type of precog ability like Mama Murphy. Someone does hint that Dogmeat appear at the right time, right place when needed.
The FO3 theory is even more bolstered accidentally by FO76, which has East Coast BOS and Enclave already just a few decades after the big kaboom (which of course has been criticized for putting yet more BOS content in every FO when they dont necessarily need to be there logically).
Fallout 3 being originally set earlier in the timeline would have been very interesting. We get that in Fallout 76, but having a more desolate wasteland with barely any civilization or resources would have been great to really sell the post apocalypse feel of the series.
one of the worst aspects of Fallout is the timeframes presented. Even with a suspension of disbelief and post apocalypse population decline, there shouldn't be a single can of Scram left and the countryside would be exploding with plant life. That level of desolation yet availability of materials and wooden structures still standing in comparatively good state lends itself to 10-20 years, not 200 years. The big hurdle for Bethesda that they copped out of by setting the timeline so far ahead, is having to spend more time writing the thoughts and behaviors of people that can still remember where everything is, what every appliance does, the phone numbers of their neighbors, still having all of their ingrained social behaviors and government propaganda etc etc. Fallout is a post-post apocalypse story with a world that somehow cant manage to get to the post-part.
@@Nope_handlesaretrash Yeah, Bethesda seemed to have completely missed that the country is supposed to have mostly recovered by the time the games take place. The Interplay games usually took place at a time when people had managed to solve their problems of basic subsistence, created organized societies, and were just starting to poke around in the ruins of the old world to find out what was there. If you look at every other major tragedy in human history, that's what happens. The tragedy happens, the survivors solve their immediate problems, and then the curiosity takes over and they start asking questions about what happened before. Medieval scholars, for example, were obsessed with the Roman empire, and finding out if there was anything they could learn from the Romans. Fallout was about the last step in that process. Then Bethesda came along and completely forgot about that
@@Nope_handlesaretrash My retcon theory (i do think the F3 map was made for 10 to 50 year setting) is that DC keeps getting nuked every now and then like how we can launch an ICBM what if per-war weapons in other parts of the world are being set off at random a computer resets; a scaver throws a switch; a repair bot powers on; and the old world reminds us it still is not fully dead.
@@filmandfirearms Sometimes recover. The Mayans for example didn't. There's also a little known theory that the areas that would become North and South America there were giant kingdoms like one would find in medieval Europe and Asia. However something bad happened like a pandemic or regional war or whatever that caused the whole thing to collapse. The survivors eventually become what are known as the Native Americans/Indians and their individual tribes. The closest European explorers got to finding anything remotely looking like a traditional empire or country were the Aztecs and Incas.
@@chadharger9323 If they don't recover, it's because they were replaced by another group. The Bethesda Fallout world is one where humanity doesn't even try to build back
As a child of the 1900-2000. I can confirm that lead and mercury were fun to play with.
As a child of the 70s-80s, we had asbestos.
I like the wall cotton candy
What if Francine didn't really die, but became Miss Fortune, with Mark as the Mysterious Stranger?
I still lean towards the Stranger being either a lightly ghoulified version of the human Nick Valentine, or, possibly, Gandalf.
While lead could definitely be responsible, I think it comes down to human nature. You see it in mob situations. And, there is no true governing body in Fallout. Or legal system. So, unchecked and in a really bad situation, I think most people, regardless of how they feel now, would turn to violence to ensure their own survival.
As far as 3s time-line goes, it makes sense that is off. Even if you factored in radiation causing lower intelligence, the wasteland should looked far better after 200 years. Even if progress moved half as slow as prewar, that's still the equivalent of 100 years of progress.
I 100% believe the Fallout 3 timeline theory. It makes so much sense. I think 76 was them going back and giving that idea another shot after it didn't pan out in 3.
Bethesda games Timelines have always bugged me, it's like their world can't move forward, the TV show makes it worse by pulling the West Coast back into these scrappy towns instead of the High tech citys from Fallout 2
My problem is that the timeline is too thick with too much information after the Great War. There's actually too much information to make self-contained main plots for the games. Also Bethesda not only won't use the rest of the planet(like London), they won't bother with other locations that can be used at the same time other major events are happening. For example the Chosen One is starting the final assault against the Enclave. At the same time another Main Character in Dallas, TX just discovered a plot to completely nuke the planet again with the thought to completely wiping out humanity or whatever.
How many Tandi's weren't saved?
In the pre-war opening you can find a dog dish on the floor. When activating it the MC says something about their dog having gone missing. What's the first thing you find outside of Sanctuary? A dog. What was the point of adding the pre-war dog dish and story about a missing dog?
maybe to subtly say how the main character is used to a dog and why dogmeat would come up to him/her instead of any other person, in FO 3 you found dogmeat after the his master is killed which makes it reasonable why he will follow him, but in FO 4 he is just there after who know how long
Dogmeat is a good boy. How dare you.
Dogmeat isn't a synth, Dogmeat is an immortal spirit of the wasteland.
Could these wild fan theories be true?
Ancient astronaut theorist say yes.
The green tea and avocado smoothie turned out exactly as would be expected.
> _Liberty Prime would not have survived 200 in the Pentagon without being scavenged_
Then the Brotherhood Of Steel would never have discovered Liberty Prime. By the time BoS formed, Liberty Prime would have been found and taken (or taken apart).
The blinking lights of the antenna tower came into focus just as I heard a loud snap.
When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless.
Man I hope this dude gets some merch going. Him and rad king are the highlights of my dad on a long drive or workday
I like the theory Dogmeat is a enclave experiment. I know the Fallout show was made after Fallout 4 but,I'd believe it be retconned as that.
Awesome video. I say no to lanius not being real for the simple fact that if you speechcraft him, he has the authority to call off the attack, and a mascot wouldn't have that kind of power.
I think the thing is, not even people in the Legion know about it not being true, some powerful people do sit on Lanius chair, one of them being the one we fight in NV, and he has all the authority that the legendary Legate would have because everyone believes in the tales and is not going to go against him.
10:07 what is Mark turned Francine into Miss Fortune?
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a persons character lies in their own hands.
Weird, I thought the Lanius theory was true for some reason. I must have just heard the theory one too many times and got it confused, lol.
I like the idea of legate lanius as a walking and ever-growing legend
the mask and armor just make it easier
The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.
Everyone was curious about the large white blimp that appeared overnight.
The Mark is the Stranger theory couldn’t be true unless he is able to travel through time, as he is in Fallout 76, which takes place before Fallout 1.
Another two big pieces of evidence for the Fallout 3 theory are Pinkerton's story about the Naval Research Institute remnants and the lady in Arefu who thinks she is living in a pre-war town
As much as I like the "Legate myth" theory, Fallout is not stranger to superhuman characters and scaryingly nuts characters. And the Fallout 3 timeline makes absolute sense to me.
Compassion and happiness are not a sign of weakness but a sign of strength.
Mark turned into Marcus the super mutant in New Vegas that runs Jacobs town
With the Dogmeat theory about watching powerful players could he been trained by Decon? I would assume Decon keeps his connections to Dogmeat a secret thats why the Railroad doesn't say anything about the dog
N_orte back again with another banger, love the content bro!
I theorize that the mysterious stranger:fallout protagonist::Viktor Reznov:Mason after Vorkuta
The children in Little Lamplight are the children of raiders.
The BoS and Enclave conflict in Fallout 3 would actually make *more* sense if it was a decade or less after the Great War, because that would imply that the newly formed Brotherhood would've gone on a rampage after the Enclave, which is the surviving remnants of the rat-king of elites that makes up the US shadow government.
It would've been a much better game, and it would've prevented a few huge plot holes in Fallout 4 - namely, what the hell happened to the Brotherhood of Steel in only ten years?
Ohh, yeah id definitely buy any "substance poisoning" etc as a valid explanation for, well, most things tbh, lol. And definitely combined with radiation poisoning.
Mysterious Mark is also an awesome theory tbh!
However, is the Lanius really that much different from the player character and their accomplishments? He sounds like some sort of nemesis tbh.
(edit: yeah, obv he *is* the nemesis, but only speaking of the feats here.)
I have unalived dogmeat and eaten it so many times and I have yet to find a synth device.
Dogmeat is one of Rex and Roxies Boston Terrifiers
im pretty sure the mysterious stranger is Fredrick Rivers or one of his students or descendants
Also Dogmeat is the only dog immune to radiation in Fallout 4 💪
you forgot one detail about dogmeat. the dogmeat specific magazine that you find in the Institute.
Who knew dogmeat was the real bay harbor butcher
I do think that the lead poisoning theory is completely canon, save for the fact that literally no-one in canon references it
Mmm, Bittercup
lead idea i get but more like joker says when the chips are down these civilized people theyll eat each other. the apocalypse lets people show their true character
I’ll be honest N_orte, I forgot that Screen Rant does anything other than Pitch Meeting. Fallout Pitch Meetings could be fun someday.
My personal one I developed after Dragon Ball Z. The Master isn't dead, just regaining biomass and technological mass. This is thanks to Cell, from Dragon Ball Z. Cell's ability to regenerate off of just one cell. But also hinges on the consumption of others. It's also the same power set and MO as the Master.
76 ruins the Mysterious Stranger Theory since he exists in 2102.
Dogmeat: Debunked. However, not fully, Dogmeat is special. What is it? We just dont know, but Dogmeat isnt a Synth. We know this for a couple reasons, Institute is set as an enemy and they dont have any files. This is important because this is where we learn crows, and many NPC are "spies". They dont know of Dogmeat...
Lead: Yes, I agree it could have played a part, however, watch movie about what happened to NYC when they lost power for a long period of time. People started turning on each other. Same is happening in Fallout. Survival took over.
Marc: Possible and Bethesda could make it so. If I go logically though. Unlikely.
Legate Lanis isnt real: Debunked, Fallout: New Vegas debunks it in lore. You even fight him.
Fallout 3 was suppose to happen earlier: Possible, because Bethesda decided to use some ideas from Fallout 3 that was never released. However, a more likely idea is Bethesda decided to make Fallout 3 like it should be. A post-nuke world. Remember, the reason they havent managed to rebuild is because the Mutants overrun DC. It wasnt until BOS came that anyone has any hope of survival there. They made survival more possible. Now, to be fair, Fallout 3 is the last true Fallout to the plot of Fallout. New Vegas is to empty, Fallout 4 is to settled and green, and Fallout 76 is all of Fallout 4 plus more. It was a change of how Bethesda saw Fallout. I admit, I never liked New Vegas and Fallout 76 because of all this. I shant give my opinion on Fallout 4, it just isnt a true Fallout plot-wise
Great video, N_orte I’m ready for the spooky videos
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
Counter theory: Dogmeat is a genetic engineering experiment and not a robot.
Could possibly be an attempt to make Scooby level sentience in a dog.
N_orte uploaded a video, my daughter sighs in sadness of what's to come, me getting giddy pressing play on the video:
Damn he abuses his daughter
@@heyli2197 I grew up in a basement, she's watching game theories. Our abuse ain't the same 🤣
@@azorith6779 damn you were role playing as a mole rat for 18 years
Thats though
@@heyli2197 more so roleplaying as "captive" in an upcoming doco featuring Mussolini
@@azorith6779 damn they brought him back from the dead
You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
See the part with Liberty Prime, i don't think it makes sense it would be easily accessed. A weapon like that i would keep under a lot of secuity lockdowns, not to mention physical lock downs... it could have taken 200 years worth of systems and structure degregation for anyone to even attempt to get at it.
The fallout 3 theory makes a lot of sense
I enjoyed this video and have subscribed. I look forward to seeing your new content.
I too believe that dogmeat is a simp
My personal theory is that there was no "Great War". America nuked itself and that was it.
Excellent video as always :3
I'd like to see a theory crafter admit that they were wrong. Since you theory crafted before N_orte, will you do that?
9:39
that's a really skimpy line of thought
everyone we know that's been exposed to FEV long enough to get any kind of ''powers'', no longer looks human
and the examples of ''exceptions'' you gave, harold and the master, both look like nasty flesh monsters (no offense to harold)
Yeah, also is cooler that Fallout has some weird supernatural stuff, the east cosmic entities and the west random wandering spirits.
Lanius is real. He fucking shows up at the end. With insane stats......
4:50 we're supposed to believe stats from oil and gasoline companies?
No shady business going on there 🤷♀️
Can you read? That article pictured tell you right there that the stats come from a university study published in an economic journal. The numbers literally *don't* come from internal company sources.
@@JayStrang1 Jessica Walpow should expire on an oil barge
Never been so early to a Norte video 😭😭
Bruh I can’t be the only one who heard dog meat is a simp😂
Or Dogmeat is an Eldritch Entity instead ooooo! Scary
Legate Lanius isnt real and cannot hurt you
Honestly most of these theories can be explained away by developer over sight/poor game design. or Emil screwing up the lore for the 500th time.
I believe that dogmeat theory and lanius though. It makes too much sense.
About Little Lamplight you are forgetting Teenagers can get pregnant and have kids remember they don't leave till they are 16.
Knowing fallout something as crazy as that would probably be happening
They get kicked out when they're 16 so this is still pretty fucking gross.
Yeah that's exactly what happens. Duh. They're their own community, semi self sufficient.
@@LeigonX Most people think this is really gross and would prefer it not be canon. Hope this helps.
The kids of Little Lamplight come from multiple sources, including children born in Big Town, orphans from across the Capital Wasteland, and presumably runaways and even “kidnapped” children.
0:20 I stg he says dog meat is a simp 😂😂
Nah frrr💀💀
Elder Scrolls is Fallout futue is right there.
I don't suppose people who live in Fallouts Universe are agressive because I don't know.....Maybe they live in a post.Apocalyptic crap hole and suffer endlessly on a daily basis...??? 😮😅
The Legate Lanius one isn't true - he was a real person. Though none of the backgrounds presented represent his actual origin story, even the one told by Caesar... so there is some myth and legend to him, making him bigger than life.
You make sick videos!
Omg Dogmeat and the Sole Survivor are not Synths 🤦. Im so sick of this Theory 🙄🙄
I think we can lock mark in as mysterious stranger. Both his companions also gained unique mutations and if the hero’s of 1 and 3 hadn’t ended them, Richard and Harold would still be alive too. Chris avalone also hinted at it pretty strongly and all the pieces fit too well.
NATE THE RAKE
Fallout 76 began the explanation of the trogs in the Pitt from fallout 3 and Fallout 76. A possible idea for this is that abraxo cleaner which is everywhere - has an extremely toxic byproduct which was never properly tested or contained well, so when a train derailed in the steel mill area before October 23, 2077 - mutants started appearing and the city government (enclave included) began to cover it all up with bogus claims and pay-offs to make sure the war effort wasn’t stopped. Unfortunately, trogs were the result. You find holotapes in the Pitt expedition on fallout 76 that talks about how much of a mess that was and why the military protectrons were deployed too. I’m sure there will be more enclave lore coming up with the next season of fallout 76, so that’s awesome.
Dogmeat is a Jesus Allegory.
They're both good boys who don't judge you?
@@S0ulGh0st Jesus doesn't judge, rednecks do. Regardless, I'm not criticizing or glorifying, just stating.
Is it just me or is anyone else tired of the *insert FO4 character here* is a synth "theories". There so incredibly lazy
1. Dog meat is Synth
2. The sole survivor is a synth
3.The crows are synths
4.The mysterious stranger is a synth
5. The courier is a synth
Ok I got one for you. My theory is that most people in pre-war America are actually really lower class. Now the reason I say this is because Fallout has vastly different levels of technology depending on what it is. There is technology that borders on magic like the GECK, pip-boys, advanced ai, food that literally lasts hundreds of years without refrigeration or freezing. Then there’s really old technology with low tech like the video games, holotapes, or ballistic weapons. So even though Nate is seemingly well off in Sanctuary , in reality he is actually poor. With Codsworth being the most extravagant thing he owns. And you can see this in other aspects like the cost of something as simple as a comic book being absurdly high. The economy is effectively wrecked with all the best things going towards the government or people with money.
Dogmeat theory seems like a bunch of hogwash to explain away poor game design decisions imo