Something about the old 1990s graphics just makes it even more unsettling. Some people say the game aged badly, I say the "oldness" adds to the aesthetic.
that scene where it slowly reveals the destroyed city and the music cuts out and you only hear the wind howling against the melted ruins is still such a powerful scene more than 20 years later.
If you didn't know, that's actually Necropolis where Set and his ghouls lived! ...Before the Master sent his troops to destroy it for killing his mutants.
I think what adds to the power of the scene is that after the TV shuts down, there is just...nothing. No scavengers in the backrounds, no explosions, not even animal sounds. There is just nothing.
I kinda wish they'd kept the focus on the bleak, dark atmosphere as the series progressed. Most post-apocalyptic films and games make the apocalypse look like an amusement park where everyone is killing each other for fun. Fallout was unique in that it showcased just how hopeless and terrifying the aftermath of a worldwide nuclear apocalypse would really be, aka something you wouldn't want to experience.
I absolutely love this intro. The first part shows the terror of the wasteland in a somewhat comedic way, showing the content of the screen with post-WW2 music playing then zooming out to show the vast emptiness as the TV shorts out and it fades to black, as you hear those chilling words... "War. War never changes."
Everything in those cut scenes are amazing The Artistic direction the sound the Sadness of war not like the cliche 'War is cool' like in Battlefield 5 plus The graphics were amazing at their times This game is a unique gem no one can surpass except fallout 2 Plus the context With a big touch of sadness very actual though Tim Cain and Leonard boyarsky are an underrated genuis
even though it only runs at like 10 frames per second i'd say it worked fine, it's not blurry and compressed like say system shock 2's cutscene's which would have taken away from it far more
Nora defending nate: your honor “War. War never changes. In the year 1945, my great-great grandfather, serving in the army, wondered when he'd get to go home to his wife and the son he'd never seen.”
+Ivan Ivanovsky Ivanovich a old an worn radio starts up and plays "i dont want to se the world on fire" (which bethesda stole the idea of using the song) while the camera zoom outs to see that the radio is inside a bus and to later reaveal the ruins of washington... the intro was the most memorable thing in the game...and gary. outside that is a trainwreck since the start.
As Ron Pearlmen speaks i can't help but feel despair and hopelessness for the people who emerged from the vaults. No society, no law, no safety just a broken world with broken people. That is war i guess.
+Dragonaut111 No psychopaths who can hide perfectly in the society with no way for you to even recognize them before it's too late. No law that forces you to give up fundamental human rights in the name of "safety". Broken, brainwashed people who actually WANT to give up more freedom, create even scarier police states and pay even more taxes even though they can see it every single day that the whole idea just does not work. There is something to be said for a world where the enemy is easily recognized and can be dealt with as opposed to the mess we currently live in.
This is what I like the most about fallout 1. It’s the most serious and dark of all the fallouts, of course it has a bit of humor but it’s the one that takes itself most seriously. This intro still gives me chills every time I watch it, not because it’s cool but how unsettling it feels, the war propaganda, the soldiers brutally killing a man, with his body twitching, as they wave to the camera. The camera then pans out and you see the destroyed world. Before you even know what the story is, you know some heavy shit went down. Truly a masterpiece
Every time I hear "Life in the vault is about to change" I imagined it as a nature documentary about prairie dogs or something: "This is dweller, he's the runt of the family. He's emerging from his hole for the first time."
I remember playing Fallout for the first time when I was 13yo. The weird mix of 40's music and footage of "dedicated boys keeping peace i Canada" shocked me. Nothing was the same after that moment. Pretty much the gratest intro for videogame ever!
lol Exactly. I still remember how shocked and disturbed I was by that scene where those guys shoot the prisoner and then wave at the camera. And how confused I was of all that retrofuturism where you get people in power armor and vaults but somehow there is black and white TV broadcast and old computers and old music. This game and sequel are awesome.
@@FluffySylveonBoi New Vegas je super. Já mám svým způsobem rád i Fallout 3, ale s 1 a 2 se co se týče atmosféry, příběhu a možností nemůže srovnávat. Na 4ku jsem už neměl sílu, to radši wasteland 2/3
What’s crazy is that this is way more effective than any other of the series intros. This intro’s atmosphere has that unexplainable element that puts it leaps and bounds above the other introductions in my eyes.
It's also great because it implements a certain feeling of hopelessness through lore. Usually, apocalyptic events in movies and games are about destroying a "normal" world. You know, the zombie outbreak that wipes society. But here, we learn that the world had already gone to shit before the nukes were even dropped. Without much other context, just with what you know living in the 90s, you already know how horrible everything is. Can you imagine how bad the state of the world has to be for China to attack the US in Alaska, the USA to annex Canada and the EU to dissolve? Everything was bad and then it got much worse. That is the world you as the player enter. Which hammers home the feeling right from the get-go that you won't fix any of these problems. It's not your goal in the game to do that.
"I dont want to set the world on fire" just dosen't have the same ring as this song. The first feels somewhat comedic; like a nuclear war was unintentional in the same way as saying "oops, my bad!", whereas this song conveys the overall feeling of regret that the war destroyed the world. "Maybe... you'll think of me..."
maybe also just seems very reminiscent and gives off the perfect vibe for fallout people look back at the pre-war world in wonder but they ultimately don't care, their focus is here and now
The song “I don’t want to set the world on fire” was originally intended to be in this intro but the licensing was too expensive so they picked another Ink Spots song. Honestly I’m glad that they made the change for the reasons you said
Overseer Jacoren wow you shown your face around here after you kicked me out of my vault well at least one of my grandchildren got to go to New Vegas he was a courier I believe
It's really too bad that Bethesda didn't put in any effort with the enclave in the next gen update. They absolutely could've salvaged their bad reputation by making Nate able to join the Enclave in Fo4 instead of just making them generic enemy type 5 but with power armor
I don't understand why so many people are taking the bait, Nate doesn't appear in this Fallout, whoever said this theory must be laughing in their faces for believing that.
New Vegas kinda feels like a horror game to me with the Pipboy radio off... Unless you're in the Strip or sided with the NCR/Caesar's Legion/Mr House/My boi Yes man
We need a DLC where Nate just randomly gets flashbacks of his time in the war and you get to play through the flashbacks. (I just want Nate to be a war criminal)
@@poilus There's a mod i think titled 'Nate's PTSD' or something like that changes the names of the NPC's in accordance the shit he did in Canada, it's as close as we are to getting the full Nate the warcriminal experience as of now 😭
I get the joke, but if your friend did say that, they did use a different engine. Fallout 3 and NV used the Gamebryo engine, while Fallout 4 used the Creation engine. Even an idiot can see the differences.
the echoing of a song from the past, slowly fading as the once prosperous past humanity experienced now slowly decays, just like all its surrounding ruins and structures do as well
@@user-yf9ku1tl6b When you hear the echoed "Maybe" it makes you think "Maybe things didn't have to turn out like this", "Maybe things could've been different". That's the vibe I get from it.
It's so well done. At first you think the record is just stuck but as it begins to fade you realize that it's an echo and it slowly sinks in that this is probably the last time that music will ever be played and that nobody is even alive to hear it. The last gasp of the old world before it's gone forever.
1:38 I always get goosebumps when this happens, when the TV slowly turns off, forever. Just like the Old World, lost forever. And the wind, making the environment so damn silent, it feels like a graveyard, a silent hell
For me, it was slowly noticing the camera was panning away from the TV, showing the blasted skyline behind it. The echo from the song ending hits it home, highlighting how tragic the end of a civilization and its potential can be.
A small destroyed room hundreds of feet up in a ruined building, probably impossible to access, forever isolated, with the last cries of the prewar world echoing, unheard
So THATS why I can craft power armor like it’s a Lego set. Makes total sense now. If only they’d included his old power armor in the garage, complete with Canadian stains.
Did you know ? That intro (up to 1:50) was realized by a guy named Gary Platner (credited at 2:20). The same Gary is now lead environment artist on World of Warcraft.
Tell me how inaccurate that is? I mean, we just got over covid which is no different than the new plague in my opinion, we got China being a dick in One direction, we got Russia being a dick in another, gas prices going up, nuclear missiles pointed at us, and every dick head in the political sphere is looking to cover their own ass. I've been saying for a while now our world was turning into the fallout universe, I didn't realize it was accelerating in that direction. We're not going to make it to 2077.
I would say it echoes the thoughts of mostly sane people in this nihilistic, lawless world they now live in due to these atomic wars. "Maybe" implies that soon, life would go back to the way it was before and perhaps be even better, even when it's clear it won't. Unlike in 3, New Vegas, , Fallout Shelter, and 4, which actually do something to make their own paradise out of nothing, there's no way to make a paradise when you already know it's fucked. Call it delusion or learned helplessness! Playing this now, I can understand the appeal of the "Obsidian-Era" Fallout compared to "Bethesda-Era" Fallout, as it focuses on grittier, darker tones instead of making it like "Mad Max" and "Apocalypse Now." I better get started and play this game that I held off for quite some time, pronto!
+Fallout Theorist No they had a social experiment they wanted to see what would happen if they were released 200 years after a atomic war but you're right on one thing the water chip was a mishap and that for the experiment would be botched so in order to save the experiment the overseer sent YOU out to get the water chip to make sure the experiment goes that's why he exiles you out of the vault because if you stayed others would have left before the 200 year mark and the experiment would have failed.
Blank Blank Yeah, that was weird. The GOG release makes sense as that's more of a preservation thing, but you'd think they'd wanna plaster their name all over it with the Steam release.
Playing this game in 1997.. haha without internet, those were the times. This game freaked me out so much i didnt dare to play it during night. I spend my whole holidays playing at :)) I lived in the wasteland for weeks, i don't think new players will understand that old feeling.
Damn, an OG Fallout player, must be awesome seeing how far this series has come haha. Must've been annoying during that 10 year gap between Fallout 2 and 3.
@@VEE0034 More power to you if you like eating bethesda slop bro. I just wished Emil didn't backtrack on the only cool idea he ever written for a game in which nothing ever happens story-wise.
IAssassinII As soon as this is a mod, i'm fine. But if Betsheda makes a remastered of a game that i have ALREADY played just to let some kids who weren't smart enough to keep their old consoles play it... well, fuck it
0:49 The lead writer of fallout 4 confirms be laughing soldier on the left hand side in the power armor is actually Nate the protagonist from fallout 4
@PolarisStargazer fair enough. Sure I guess , but still this tidbit of info is half based half funny asf to be honest. That or you could always keep playing based nate in the BOS
When I first played Fallout and this intro played my first thoughts were "There is no way that someone can live in the wasteland It's to quiet and lifeless" and then when "Maybe" started to repeat I was a bit scared and lost in thought, so I come up with my head canon explanation for the "maybe" repeat I tried to explain to myself that the first scenes of the intro are happening few minutes or hours after the Great War ended and this would explain why TV is still turned on and commercials are still playing. (Sorry for my English I'm Pole)
Your English is almost flawless. The only constructive criticism I can point out is the usage of “to” instead of “too”, and how you said “it’s to much quiet” instead of “its much too quiet” is Other than that, I don’t see any issues with it.
The TV is actually explicitly shown to be unplugged, if you look at the wall socket and the cable, the TV isn't actually playing anything, it's just silent amidst the desolation of the ruined world. Leonard Boyarsky talked about in one of his talks, it's on youtube.
That Canadian freedom fighter being executed on live television, while the soldiers in power armor laugh and mock him, has always stuck with me. War is cruel.
Where was it said that's Nate? Edit: oh apparently a tweet just within the last few hours for anyone else wondering. I was just in the mood to re-watch the intro. Making Nate officially the Canadian murderer is....a choice haha
The Walking Dead used the same song in a recent episode, and that scene also had a slow zoom-out like this. Very cool game for Walking Dead to reference :D
Starman, this is 4 years old, stop trying to ressurect comments, you aren't jesus, second, he said that it was a cool game for Walking Dead to make a reference, he stated that Walking Dead made a reference to *this* game.
Something fun to think about is this intro in relation to fallout: new vegas. In it, The romans wage war for slaves and wealth. The NCR builds an empire for gold and territory. And Mr. House shapes Vegas into an economic superpower
Gotta love how you can clearly see two types of people talking about the whole Nate stuff. The type who take it way too seriously, and the ones who just laugh at it lmao.
Something about the old 1990s graphics just makes it even more unsettling. Some people say the game aged badly, I say the "oldness" adds to the aesthetic.
good comment, agreed completely. Games visuals aged perfectly especially with the dark soundtrack and general oppressive nature of the game.
Dude same. If Fallout was remade with 3d graphics the game wouldn't look half as good
Bad President bruh
Me too, 1990s graphics make it more... alien and disconnected from our time and it's really creepy like the game is foreshadowing the world
@@WeeaboosHunter that's what made fallout Fallout now it's just a child's game this is the stuff that we used to get
63 years to go, guys. Tell your children and grandchildren to pre-book a Vault spot early.
fuck i might just be alive by that time FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCKETY FUCK FUCK
Lol Ikr
No thank you, I'd rather not be part of a Vault experiment
Less than 60 years now 😭
if i live ill b 74 years old
imma play all fallout games again then
that scene where it slowly reveals the destroyed city and the music cuts out and you only hear the wind howling against the melted ruins is still such a powerful scene more than 20 years later.
The 50s aesthetic somehow makes it extra creepy.
If you didn't know, that's actually Necropolis where Set and his ghouls lived! ...Before the Master sent his troops to destroy it for killing his mutants.
@@DaShoopdahoop So there is a chance that one of Set's past times was watching tv?
@@wheatlycrab4868 I don't think the TV turning back on should be taken literally.
I think what adds to the power of the scene is that after the TV shuts down, there is just...nothing. No scavengers in the backrounds, no explosions, not even animal sounds. There is just nothing.
I kinda wish they'd kept the focus on the bleak, dark atmosphere as the series progressed. Most post-apocalyptic films and games make the apocalypse look like an amusement park where everyone is killing each other for fun. Fallout was unique in that it showcased just how hopeless and terrifying the aftermath of a worldwide nuclear apocalypse would really be, aka something you wouldn't want to experience.
It was played straight, instead of mocked.
Metro.
@@BrandonLeeHD Even the first fallout game is set 85 years after the bombs dropped. I image that some form of a state/society would start to form
New Vegas kept to it imo, Fallout 3 looked bleak too but wasn't as unsettling
@@BrandonLeeHD Yeah, compared to, for example, the world of Kenshi, Fallout 1 is a nice fairy tale. Although Kenshi is specially hopeless.
I absolutely love this intro. The first part shows the terror of the wasteland in a somewhat comedic way, showing the content of the screen with post-WW2 music playing then zooming out to show the vast emptiness as the TV shorts out and it fades to black, as you hear those chilling words...
"War. War never changes."
Basically, the echo represents everything whole is empty, no noise but just the cold radiated wind. I love gritty stories.
The Vault door opening is also great,feel like a hero starting...
Remember Fisto from New Vegas, Robosexual :)
The music that plays was made in the 20s
I’m sorry, what did you just say? “The first part shows the terror of the terror of the wasteland in a somewhat comedic way?”
What a likable character Nate is! laughing at the dead canadian!
Just like their healthcare system
Based
Based and Natepilled
How dare you americans!
Nate the rake
Really impressive pre-rendered graphics in the cut-scenes for its time, I must say.
Cyborg Rox their beautiful
They look pretty good, yes.
And damn if this one doesn't look much of a more realistic nuclear war portretization!
Everything in those cut scenes are amazing
The Artistic direction the sound the Sadness of war not like the cliche 'War is cool' like in Battlefield 5
plus The graphics were amazing at their times This game is a unique gem no one can surpass except fallout 2
Plus the context With a big touch of sadness very actual though
Tim Cain and Leonard boyarsky are an underrated genuis
even though it only runs at like 10 frames per second i'd say it worked fine, it's not blurry and compressed like say system shock 2's cutscene's which would have taken away from it far more
The overseer looks like a sloth.
Ikr
Sid is that you?
Looks like an old caveman to me lol
Sid wouldn’t have kicked out the Vault Dweller.
yea
Ah yes, another fine example of just how eerie 90s CGI looked.
Thank to clay motion capture,really make us feel real.
I really hope this kinda style makes a comeback! PS1 style horror has made a comeback, after all!
I like it
@Robo Redneck tormented souls for ps5
@@CowboyLuigi Look up Olympus 2207
Nora defending nate: your honor my client is just being a sillygoose
Nora defending nate: your honor “War. War never changes. In the year 1945, my great-great grandfather, serving in the army, wondered when he'd get to go home to his wife and the son he'd never seen.”
And then they went to the park to celebrate Nora's court victory!
@cosson1348 the opening was just the trial🤣
How could it be a hate crime if my client loved doing it?
It's not him
4:18 Lol, looks like Vault 13's overseer was marking maps way before Preston came along.
lmao
what was that
+Preston Garvey Hey gotta give Preston credit, At least he did not kick me out after saving all the Settlements!!
+Preston Garvey bitch you thought!
+Preston Garvey Hello, me!
No wonder Nate married his lawyer there was no way he could've afforded her
No other fallout game has had a better introduction
+Ivan Ivanovsky Ivanovich a old an worn radio starts up and plays "i dont want to se the world on fire" (which bethesda stole the idea of using the song) while the camera zoom outs to see that the radio is inside a bus and to later reaveal the ruins of washington... the intro was the most memorable thing in the game...and gary. outside that is a trainwreck since the start.
Well if you want to be positive... the game is ok at best.
Fallout 4 has the best intro but the shittiest story.
Crin9
For some awful reason i think its a tiny bit creepy... the ship flying around the world like that makes me feel weird
I think of Fallout 2 with the vault dwellers opening up the door to machine gun fire from the Enclave.
As Ron Pearlmen speaks i can't help but feel despair and hopelessness for the people who emerged from the vaults. No society, no law, no safety just a broken world with broken people. That is war i guess.
+Mr Streakman xD and super mutants carrying nukes as suicide bombers
+Dragonaut111 Even heard about movies called The day after (1983) and Threads (1984)? Those are depressing ! And its both nuclear war as well
+Dragonaut111 holy hell that was deep.
+Dragonaut111 Nuclear war...
+Dragonaut111 No psychopaths who can hide perfectly in the society with no way for you to even recognize them before it's too late. No law that forces you to give up fundamental human rights in the name of "safety". Broken, brainwashed people who actually WANT to give up more freedom, create even scarier police states and pay even more taxes even though they can see it every single day that the whole idea just does not work. There is something to be said for a world where the enemy is easily recognized and can be dealt with as opposed to the mess we currently live in.
This is what I like the most about fallout 1. It’s the most serious and dark of all the fallouts, of course it has a bit of humor but it’s the one that takes itself most seriously. This intro still gives me chills every time I watch it, not because it’s cool but how unsettling it feels, the war propaganda, the soldiers brutally killing a man, with his body twitching, as they wave to the camera. The camera then pans out and you see the destroyed world. Before you even know what the story is, you know some heavy shit went down. Truly a masterpiece
Beautiful description
The echo as "Maybe" cuts out still hits the same way after all these years.
I prefer this than any other 3d fallout
Because this song is in fallout 4 I get like Vietnam flashbacks to this
@@imavoid4239bro doens't want to ser the world on fire 🗿
Every time I hear "Life in the vault is about to change" I imagined it as a nature documentary about prairie dogs or something: "This is dweller, he's the runt of the family. He's emerging from his hole for the first time."
Lets take a closer look at that VAULT
and here is the dwellers mating call
no one came
The Dweller is now an outcast from his vault... Oh look! hes doing his sad call... MAYYYYBEEE
Mercat manor
The dweller found cait
The dweller is doing hus matibg rituals towards cait
I remember playing Fallout for the first time when I was 13yo. The weird mix of 40's music and footage of "dedicated boys keeping peace i Canada" shocked me. Nothing was the same after that moment.
Pretty much the gratest intro for videogame ever!
lol Exactly. I still remember how shocked and disturbed I was by that scene where those guys shoot the prisoner and then wave at the camera. And how confused I was of all that retrofuturism where you get people in power armor and vaults but somehow there is black and white TV broadcast and old computers and old music. This game and sequel are awesome.
@@sssummmak Rozhodně jsou to hry, které miluju víc než Fallout 3 a výše, i když NV není špatný, stejně mám nejradši dvojku :)
@@FluffySylveonBoi New Vegas je super. Já mám svým způsobem rád i Fallout 3, ale s 1 a 2 se co se týče atmosféry, příběhu a možností nemůže srovnávat. Na 4ku jsem už neměl sílu, to radši wasteland 2/3
I kinda wish the look of the T-51b power armor from 1 was in fallout 4
I mean in fallout 4 the limbs look too big and the chestplate is too small
@@johnnycruelty5195to be fair, Fallout 4 went with a different way of implementing Power Armor in gameplay, so it’s no wonder it isn’t perfectly same.
What’s crazy is that this is way more effective than any other of the series intros. This intro’s atmosphere has that unexplainable element that puts it leaps and bounds above the other introductions in my eyes.
Sounds too real
The power of the ink spots melancholy
You know what else is crazy? The soldier laughing at the Canadian partisan being executed is the protagonist of Fallout 4
It's also great because it implements a certain feeling of hopelessness through lore.
Usually, apocalyptic events in movies and games are about destroying a "normal" world. You know, the zombie outbreak that wipes society. But here, we learn that the world had already gone to shit before the nukes were even dropped. Without much other context, just with what you know living in the 90s, you already know how horrible everything is. Can you imagine how bad the state of the world has to be for China to attack the US in Alaska, the USA to annex Canada and the EU to dissolve?
Everything was bad and then it got much worse. That is the world you as the player enter. Which hammers home the feeling right from the get-go that you won't fix any of these problems. It's not your goal in the game to do that.
War... War never Changes...
But Fallout has...
+KuroBlackWarrior cod, cod never changes
+Op1e true
+Op1e
Except when it does.
Pascal And everything is terrible TV Cartoons Videogames Movies and everything we know and love from our Childhood.
Fallout 76 is a complete train wreck.
"I dont want to set the world on fire" just dosen't have the same ring as this song. The first feels somewhat comedic; like a nuclear war was unintentional in the same way as saying "oops, my bad!", whereas this song conveys the overall feeling of regret that the war destroyed the world.
"Maybe... you'll think of me..."
maybe also just seems very reminiscent and gives off the perfect vibe for fallout
people look back at the pre-war world in wonder but they ultimately don't care, their focus is here and now
The song “I don’t want to set the world on fire” was originally intended to be in this intro but the licensing was too expensive so they picked another Ink Spots song. Honestly I’m glad that they made the change for the reasons you said
It’s a sort of “May we never forget” kind of vibe. The opening song for this game plays on Diamond City Radio in 4.
As a kid, I thought the singer is a woman.
It’s heartbreaking to hear.
This seems familiar
Overseer Jacoren A H H H
Overseer Jacoren wow you shown your face around here after you kicked me out of my vault well at least one of my grandchildren got to go to New Vegas he was a courier I believe
Overseer Jacoren WAIT DID HE JUST SAY ANNFRANKLY !!!!! (TRIGGERD)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ($orry that joke was bad)
+Overseer Jacoren You look like a sloth.
EMP Mapping The Narrator and intro would be a great idea for a movie.
Our boy Nate could have been a pretty outstanding soldier of the Enclave.
More likely BOS , Enclave were only Top brass and High Ranking Politicians , hence the name.
It's really too bad that Bethesda didn't put in any effort with the enclave in the next gen update. They absolutely could've salvaged their bad reputation by making Nate able to join the Enclave in Fo4 instead of just making them generic enemy type 5 but with power armor
Back when the phrase "War...war never changes" was more than an edgy marketing slogan.
It had some meaning back then.
Like, even the song maybe was relevant to the plot. It isnt just thrown in because it has something to do with bombs, uranium or the end of the world
NV was smart in that they turned it into “War never changes, men do.”
@@acidicali7776 it evolved more than bethesda or any of the creature they made.
If you’re ever wondering what the meaning of Fallout is/should be, just remember
War…. war never changes
Apparently the soldier that laughs after the other soldier executes the prisoner is Nate from Fallout 4.
How did you know that!?
@@nightmuffin937 One of the lead Bethesda devs tweeted it.
@@atriggeredsjw8532now that’s a retcon i like, bravo nolan
Bravo, Vince!
@colonel1003no no it makes sense, now nora will defend him in court and then they will meet
After so many years, we find out that the guy from that TV, those two in power armor, one of them is the protagonist from Fallout 4
K I N O
I don't understand why so many people are taking the bait, Nate doesn't appear in this Fallout, whoever said this theory must be laughing in their faces for believing that.
"Our dedicated boys keep peace in newly annexed Canada"
so that's where he got the idea from
Heard a crumb of the news over the radio the other day and needed to come here
"Buy war bonds"
"By gamers for gamers" I wish that were still the case today. :(
Nintendo?They still aim at that way right?
@@annoying_HK_guy no
@@annoying_HK_guy fuck no
Not bethesda.
By mindless producers for mindless consumers
Our dedicated boys keep the peace in newly annexed Greenland...
Amazing how a single tweet turned Nate into the greatest Fallout protagonist
nah dont get it twisted , courier still better . but nate is officialy better than the lone wanderer cause of that tweet
NATE THE RAKE
"You can't spell hero without warcrimes!!"
- Emil Pagliarudo 2024
OK, I’ve got to ask what tweet?
@@americantitan2190 they made it so the dude on the left in the Power Armor during the annexed Canada segment of the news is Nate from Fallout 4
remember when fallout felt like a horror game
Dead Money and Point Lookout were creepy too I think.
New Vegas kinda feels like a horror game to me with the Pipboy radio off... Unless you're in the Strip or sided with the NCR/Caesar's Legion/Mr House/My boi Yes man
@@firuzmajid4780 yeah the ambient music with the pipboy off legit gave me the creeps
Yeah, now it's just mindless shooting at whatever kid cared enough to pay for fallout 76
@@phalanxHH lonesome road with the burrowing mutants was terrifying
Our dedicated boys keeping the peace in newly annexed Greenland!
so nate from fallout 4 canonically is a war criminal
So when are we getting a DLC of Nate defending himself in the court?
How he meets Nora.
How I Met You Mother: Warcrime Edition@@Boarbatrice
We need a DLC where Nate just randomly gets flashbacks of his time in the war and you get to play through the flashbacks. (I just want Nate to be a war criminal)
@@poilus There's a mod i think titled 'Nate's PTSD' or something like that changes the names of the NPC's in accordance the shit he did in Canada, it's as close as we are to getting the full Nate the warcriminal experience as of now 😭
What I love about this intro apart from the others is that the narrator (Ron Perlman) sounds deeply depressed cause of why the Wasteland came to be.
friend of mine complained that fallout 4 didn't use a different engine for it. to which I responded to.
Bathesda...Bethesda never changes
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) I get it
Jack Maness yeah see what I did there :D
+The Arkham Knight does it matter? It's still a great franchise either way.
I get the joke, but if your friend did say that, they did use a different engine. Fallout 3 and NV used the Gamebryo engine, while Fallout 4 used the Creation engine. Even an idiot can see the differences.
+malcolmmorin Creation is based on Gamebryo.
Just like that Nate becomes the most based fallout protagonist
Everything based about killing leaves
until it wasn’t anymore because emil is too much of coward
@@nhan27.no take backs!!!!
@@nhan27.he might have taken it back but the entire fallout community didn’t
"The spoils of war, were also its weapons"
I love that line!
so true....
@@whynot5498 It's ironic because nowadays we mostly use nuclear weapons for energy production.
1:38 This echo gives me goosebumps every time...
@Renáta Kósa Imagine if it became distorted.
@@kidz4p509 It does though? I mean, kinda.
the echoing of a song from the past, slowly fading as the once prosperous past humanity experienced now slowly decays, just like all its surrounding ruins and structures do as well
@@user-yf9ku1tl6b When you hear the echoed "Maybe" it makes you think "Maybe things didn't have to turn out like this", "Maybe things could've been different". That's the vibe I get from it.
It's so well done. At first you think the record is just stuck but as it begins to fade you realize that it's an echo and it slowly sinks in that this is probably the last time that music will ever be played and that nobody is even alive to hear it. The last gasp of the old world before it's gone forever.
Tim Cain tried to warn us
My man Nate came with the rake and took no prisoners.
Based Nate participating in the Day of the Rake
1:38
I always get goosebumps when this happens, when the TV slowly turns off, forever. Just like the Old World, lost forever.
And the wind, making the environment so damn silent, it feels like a graveyard, a silent hell
For me, it was slowly noticing the camera was panning away from the TV, showing the blasted skyline behind it. The echo from the song ending hits it home, highlighting how tragic the end of a civilization and its potential can be.
A small destroyed room hundreds of feet up in a ruined building, probably impossible to access, forever isolated, with the last cries of the prewar world echoing, unheard
Nice to know that Nate is a war criminal
Reseeing this gave me goosebumps... One of the best intro to a videogame universe.
Wow never noticed that the TV is playing separate audio from the song, it's hard to make out but you can hear it
All these years and I've never noticed it, mind blown.
Precision they just talk about Galaxy News, the Corvega and Mr. Handy before it goes off
Oh damn, you're right...
It is, you have a good Ear, I can hear it too
So THATS why I can craft power armor like it’s a Lego set. Makes total sense now. If only they’d included his old power armor in the garage, complete with Canadian stains.
0:55 Say hi to Nate, everybody!
It's crazy how much lore you can put in a single intro.
Ok who's here because one of the writers said Nate is the guy laughing at 0:49 ?
I can’t believe Nate Fallout was complicit in war crimes, I guess war never does change
Do it again, Nate the Rake
When ever i hear that old man speak about the water chip/drinking water I get REALLY REALLY REALLY Thirsty
then drink some water, its good for you.
+Jaime S Smith Lol I thought I was the only one xD
Jaime S Smith You take a sip from your trusty Vault 13 canteen...
Powerful, made me tear up a bit, there's probably no better Way to introduce this series.
It's so nice to see Nate showing respect to Canadian healthcare system
Did you know ? That intro (up to 1:50) was realized by a guy named Gary Platner (credited at 2:20).
The same Gary is now lead environment artist on World of Warcraft.
+invock That's really awesome. Way to hustle, Gary.
Gaaaaary. GARY.
+invock Wha? Gary?
+Captain Obvious aahhhhhh Gary!
+Captain Obvious Gaaaaaaaaaary
Hey look is Nate from Fallout 4
YEAAAAH EVERYBODY COME TO THE VIDEOS AJAJAJAJA
I cant believe nate did that
Fr, i just saw a video about it
Probably It was made so players didn't feel that it was out of character the making evil choices
Low-key I like that tho.. his past in the war is always kept as something he didn’t want for his son. Now we know why.
Look at the way Nate massacres everything/one on his path just to get his child back. Not a surprise!
Nate what are you doing man
1:46
I always wanted an HD sized screenshot of this moment to use as a wallpaper, it just looks so damn good.
Lol, absolutely read my mind.
I'm gonna try some ai remaster things I'll get back in like 5min
nvm
@@aaronexdee2024
Thanks for trying
This intro almost makes me cry because its creepy and beautiful at the same time
Ikr
It's so cool that we're getting a live-action remake really soon.
the amazon series? if you want to see the fate of modern fallout look out the windows
@@notfreeman1776 fr
Bet it's gonna fuck up the lore or just be bad
Tell me how inaccurate that is? I mean, we just got over covid which is no different than the new plague in my opinion, we got China being a dick in One direction, we got Russia being a dick in another, gas prices going up, nuclear missiles pointed at us, and every dick head in the political sphere is looking to cover their own ass. I've been saying for a while now our world was turning into the fallout universe, I didn't realize it was accelerating in that direction. We're not going to make it to 2077.
@@ImpetuouslyInsane ur like 10 bro chill
The errie atmosphere at the end when the tv shuts off and all you hear is wind makes me feel unsettled. Anyone else?
I would say it echoes the thoughts of mostly sane people in this nihilistic, lawless world they now live in due to these atomic wars.
"Maybe" implies that soon, life would go back to the way it was before and perhaps be even better, even when it's clear it won't. Unlike in 3, New Vegas, , Fallout Shelter, and 4, which actually do something to make their own paradise out of nothing, there's no way to make a paradise when you already know it's fucked. Call it delusion or learned helplessness!
Playing this now, I can understand the appeal of the "Obsidian-Era" Fallout compared to "Bethesda-Era" Fallout, as it focuses on grittier, darker tones instead of making it like "Mad Max" and "Apocalypse Now." I better get started and play this game that I held off for quite some time, pronto!
Try it on weed. It's a nightmare.
Tv is not plugged in
@@CowboyLuigi
Obsidian was staffed by people who worked on the first two games, so they knew what Fallout was supposed to really be.
@@CowboyLuigi *Interplay Era
0:49 Oh hi Nate.
Now we can say that Nate is a morally complex character
Nothing to see here, just my boy Nate having the time of his life committing war crimes in Canada.
the dude in power armor laughing at the guy getting executed is Nate, I don't know how to feel about that.
I feel great!
Nate did nothing wrong
Supposedly but considering fallout 4 never happened idk
No its not?
Never ask Nate what happened in Canada
Nah, I'm asking him to tell me again, because I can't get enough of it 😍
0:58 Nate and his best friend waving his hand to us after execution. They are nice guy
still wondering why they couldn't send a team of, like, 5-6 people...
because it was one of vault techs sick experiments because the original experiment failed due to the faulty water chip.
+rice worker Sending only one person alone to get the chip was an experiment? Don't make me laugh.
+Fallout Theorist Uh yeah that's how stupid, absurd and cruel vault Tec was back in the day.
+rice worker That wasn't the experiment, vault 13 was a control vault. There was no social experiment for it. The faulty water chip was just a mishap.
+Fallout Theorist No they had a social experiment they wanted to see what would happen if they were released 200 years after a atomic war but you're right on one thing the water chip was a mishap and that for the experiment would be botched so in order to save the experiment the overseer sent YOU out to get the water chip to make sure the experiment goes that's why he exiles you out of the vault because if you stayed others would have left before the 200 year mark and the experiment would have failed.
Honestly, most humanizing part of Nate's story. F4 was just "waaaah wife dead baby gone"... at least now we know why he was so numb.
I found it funny how we go from where's my son to Lord death of murder mtn now I know why 😂
What are you talking about he dies in the intro
@@morganalabeille5004 all fallout main characters are male CANONICALLY hope this helps
@@blob6602 okay this is the funniest reply I’ve ever received why are you yelling why are you so mad
@@morganalabeille5004 yell is crazy i just highlighted it lol
Ahh, Interplay... How did they face bankruptcy with 2 great games that should have won Game Of The Year, specifically Fallout 1
possibly due to half life
because the shit CEO Herve Caen cancelled Fallout 3 so he could make more edgy Fallout: BoS games for the "cool kids"
+GingerSwan
THE BROTHERHUUUD IS LAWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
Eric Harris The strange thing is that if you buy the game on Steam or GOG it still has the Interplay intro
Blank Blank Yeah, that was weird. The GOG release makes sense as that's more of a preservation thing, but you'd think they'd wanna plaster their name all over it with the Steam release.
i cried when that poor canadian got shot
rip nameless fictional freedom fighter
But... but those soldiers were very nice... they waved at camera and all...
*that's what makes it even more disturbing*
I got chills when the TV turned off and the music glitches out to reveal the wasteland and how alone you are suddenly.
# Ai life's matter more then black lol
Its somewhat scary or disturbing to me, when after he shoots the guy, it's shows a closeup of his helmet. Idk why, but it makes my skin crawl.
Crazy now that it’s confirmed the guy in the T-51 beside the shooter is Nate from FO4
0:52 Emil pagliarulo just announced the soldier to the left is the fallout 4 protagonist.
Nate: I dont know what it felt like to kill anyone, I only ever raked leaves.
Wtf I love Fallout 4 now.
Playing this game in 1997.. haha without internet, those were the times. This game freaked me out so much i didnt dare to play it during night. I spend my whole holidays playing at :)) I lived in the wasteland for weeks, i don't think new players will understand that old feeling.
Damn, an OG Fallout player, must be awesome seeing how far this series has come haha. Must've been annoying during that 10 year gap between Fallout 2 and 3.
You were there when this began. That must mean you've watched the franchise follow the path that lead it to Fallout 4.
I'm so sorry.
+Poe Ghost Lol what is possibly wrong with Fallout 4?
anthony antonacci A lot. Quite a lot.
+Poe Ghost Lmao please be specific, every game has flaws, but Fallout 4 is one of the best games ever.
That Corvega could go 0 to 60 in half a second...
Alex it’s better than Tesla already
Something tells me that wouldn’t be good for the people inside.
@@matthew8153 lol true
@@matthew8153You see one pull up next to you and you open the door to find pasta sauce splattered everywhere
If we assume constant acceleration, that is 53.64m/s^2 or 5.47g
This hack of a Bethesda writer accidentaly gave Nate a better backstory than anything actually wrote in Fallout 4.
Based Nate the Leaf Blower.
Hahahaha
Durr fallout 4 sucks durrr cool off the chems kid
@@VEE0034 More power to you if you like eating bethesda slop bro. I just wished Emil didn't backtrack on the only cool idea he ever written for a game in which nothing ever happens story-wise.
@@VEE0034 it does suck. You picked the wrong Fallout video to try and defend Bethesdaslop on
@@VEE0034this videos for OG’s. Keep eating ur ‘76 DLC’s
their is something about games from the late 90s that just feels right
Atmosphere.
@@Orange_Swirl And immersion.
Fallout remastered would be awesome for people like me who suck at everything but like new things
***** Remastered would be awful, they'd trim it down would 'dear' Bethesda.
TheMarkedOne Pretty sure he was ironic
***** Well do I have a surprise for you then: facebook.com/pages/Fallout-1-The-Story-development-diary/551016521590582
IAssassinII As soon as this is a mod, i'm fine.
But if Betsheda makes a remastered of a game that i have ALREADY played just to let some kids who weren't smart enough to keep their old consoles play it... well, fuck it
Yeah, shit like that's okay but if they make it again on some shitty ass engine i'd be flipping my shit.
The one in the left, with the servo is officially stated that is your character in f4 if you chose the male option of course, very interesting.
Who’s here after Emil Pagliarulo confirmed Nate from fallout 4 is the guy next to the shooter @0:53
Wait that actually happened??
Thought that was deemed not canon@@Justarandomtexantumbleweed817
0:56 I can’t believe Nate from Fallout 4 laughed at that Canadian getting executed 🤯😱
Absolutely based.
0:49 The lead writer of fallout 4 confirms be laughing soldier on the left hand side in the power armor is actually Nate the protagonist from fallout 4
Bruh...
He then retracted it.
@@billjacobs521no take backs! Nate the Rake is now your MC
What a great game...
THAT'S WHY NATE'S THE GOAT. THE GOAT 🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥
lmao ,all the pacifist fallout 4 nate players. they playing him wrong bro, hes sillymaxing ,he just goofy like that
@@marineduard6901 Nah, they could just play it off as a repentant war criminal.
@PolarisStargazer fair enough. Sure I guess , but still this tidbit of info is half based half funny asf to be honest.
That or you could always keep playing based nate in the BOS
@@marineduard6901why not playing as him being pacifist guy with a severe ptsd that makes him extremely violent
America Rising 2 is now canon.
THATS MY PROTAGONIST!
When I first played Fallout and this intro played my first thoughts were
"There is no way that someone can live in the wasteland It's to quiet and lifeless" and then when "Maybe" started to repeat I was a bit scared and lost in thought, so I come up with my head canon explanation for the "maybe" repeat I tried to explain to myself that the first scenes of the intro are happening few minutes or hours after the Great War ended and this would explain why TV is still turned on and commercials are still playing.
(Sorry for my English I'm Pole)
_Your English is pretty good, honestly_
Your English is almost flawless. The only constructive criticism I can point out is the usage of “to” instead of “too”, and how you said “it’s to much quiet” instead of “its much too quiet” is Other than that, I don’t see any issues with it.
I never thought of this only being like an hour after the bombs fell, it feels weird to think about
The TV is actually explicitly shown to be unplugged, if you look at the wall socket and the cable, the TV isn't actually playing anything, it's just silent amidst the desolation of the ruined world. Leonard Boyarsky talked about in one of his talks, it's on youtube.
That Canadian freedom fighter being executed on live television, while the soldiers in power armor laugh and mock him, has always stuck with me. War is cruel.
And then they just smile and wave to the camera…
Man.
And then Emil reveals tye guy mocking him is Nate from FO4.
Alright i will play FO4 again but make my Nate bad guy.
But... He already is...
@@youtuvi7452 i always sympathy him and avoid mean interactions in every my playthrough.
The TV shutting off and the echo that follows gets me every time
I played this game I think 20 years after it came out, but I still get crazy nostalgia from it. Fallout 1 and 2 were truly an experience
lmfao ,all this time nate was the one that laughed at the execution of that poor canadian sod . based nate . superior mc . nora could never
Where was it said that's Nate?
Edit: oh apparently a tweet just within the last few hours for anyone else wondering. I was just in the mood to re-watch the intro.
Making Nate officially the Canadian murderer is....a choice haha
@@occono3543 Nate isn't the shooter, he's the guy belly laughing at the unarmed canadian POW being summarily executed.
@@jomckellan Oh. Well either way 10/10 trolling, I love it
@@jomckellanlet's not be sad for it... The shooter will be the MC in Fallout 5
Nate laughing at the deaths and misfortunes of Canadians. He just like me fr.
Now that’s my main character
Hello
Most terrifying thing is the silence after the tv goes out and the wind howling.
The Walking Dead used the same song in a recent episode, and that scene also had a slow zoom-out like this. Very cool game for Walking Dead to reference :D
Grizeus more like walking dead did a fallout reference cause this came first
Starman, this is 4 years old, stop trying to ressurect comments, you aren't jesus, second, he said that it was a cool game for Walking Dead to make a reference, he stated that Walking Dead made a reference to *this* game.
Why are you responding to a response to a 4 year old comment? All you are doing is resurrecting it even more.
STAR Man yo y’all are still watching this trailer? Me too lol
Yall fucked up good lmao
We're annexing Canada before gta 6 💀
Good luck
Something fun to think about is this intro in relation to fallout: new vegas. In it, The romans wage war for slaves and wealth. The NCR builds an empire for gold and territory. And Mr. House shapes Vegas into an economic superpower
Hey, i didn't notice that. Good observation.
New Vegas was made by people who used to work on the first two games at Interplay.
Goes to show war never changes.
One thing that stuck out to me about this intro was that the car’s selling point was “no electronics”. I wish I could buy such a thing today.
Good catch, this line was probably the inspiration for the new factions
Gotta love how you can clearly see two types of people talking about the whole Nate stuff.
The type who take it way too seriously, and the ones who just laugh at it lmao.
What do you mean? It IS the lore now, and I fully stand behind that decision. It just makes Nate more based and explains his sarcastic remarks