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  • @blakekoch1299
    @blakekoch1299 2 ปีที่แล้ว +429

    Fun fact: the narrator for many of the intros is Ron Perlman

    • @DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames
      @DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames  2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      😯😀 Nice!

    • @virtualatheist
      @virtualatheist 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      @@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames He's also the news reader in the intro to Fallout 4.
      Also, the voices were probably altered to avoid a copyright strike.
      The dog is Dogmeat, a companion character that has appeared in several of the games and is iconic.
      As to who fired first, that is intentionally unclear, but there is evidence to suggest that Vault Tec (the company who built the vaults) were in some way responsible for the war.

    • @Spikebhaal
      @Spikebhaal 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@morgothable He is the bestes of boys. I always have a Mod to have Dogmeat and one other companion. And one Mod the makes Dogmeat survive more just love the good boy.

    • @jthomp97
      @jthomp97 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I just love that fact. He’s Slade in Teen Titans

    • @Skyliner03
      @Skyliner03 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames in Fallout 3, the survivor's father is played by Liam Neeson (Taken film trilogy, The Commuter and other great films)

  • @ellisjahfinelcraddock
    @ellisjahfinelcraddock 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    17:05 Fun Facts: River the Real-Life Dog was best known for her role as Dogmeat for Fallout Series. Sadly she's tragically passed on June 26, 2021. Her death was announced by her owner & Developer for Fallout Series, Joel Burgess on Twitter. It really reminds me of my pet dog Man(Mandingo) who died on December 2020 due to his old age. Rest in power River. 🙏🏿😭🙏🏿

  • @Jaimethepanda
    @Jaimethepanda 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    I’ve always loved Fallout’s artistic meshing of 50s Americana with Mad Max.

  • @Tantalus010
    @Tantalus010 2 ปีที่แล้ว +139

    The "Great War" was mostly between the US and China and obviously, it did lead to mutually assured destruction in 2077. The core idea behind the Fallout series is that when the US discovered nuclear power, it was waaayyy more powerful than it is in real life and somehow very easy to miniaturize, so it led to a whole host of technological advancements in the 50s, like nuclear-powered cars and AI household robots like the Mr. Handy. Essentially, technology advanced while retaining the 50's aesthetic. This led to a golden age until fuel supplies started dwindling, which was the cause of the war, as the trailers point out.
    The Fallout games themselves are spread out both in where they take place and when they take place. Fallout I takes place in 2161 in what's left of California. Fallout II is its direct sequel, taking place around 2241 and is also set in California. As you may have gathered from the Fallout II intro, in Fallout II, you play as a villager from the village that the protagonist of Fallout I founds after his exile. Fallout III was sort of a reboot in that it doesn't follow the story of the protagonist from Fallout I. It takes place in the ruins of Washington, D.C. starting in 2277. It was also the first Fallout game made/published by Bethesda, which is why the series switched from an isometric, tactical game to a first/third person action/tactical hybrid. Fallout New Vegas is obviously in and around what's left of Vegas, and Fallout IV takes place in Boston in 2287. Fallout IV is also notable in that you play as an original vault dweller: the house that Dogmeat (that's actually his name, I swear) is sniffing around is the player's house, and one of the people standing on the platform when the bomb goes off in the distance is the player. You barely make it into the vault with your family, then you emerge 210 years later.

    • @DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames
      @DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames  2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Thanks for giving us more info on the games 😀

    • @Scarabswarm
      @Scarabswarm 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      That was a very succinct and thorough explanation. Well done.

    • @hackerx7329
      @hackerx7329 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      To add to that, technology developed wildly differently because they kept developing electronics based on vacuum tubes and transistors didn't get developed. Hence why the "advanced computers" from the future all still looked like stuff our world used in the 1970s and early 1980s. Making smaller more powerful electronics is really difficult with tubes and so they continued down the path of stuff mostly being centralized mainframes that people connected to with terminals that had monochromatic CRT displays. And yet the proliferation of nuclear powered everything meant if you could solve the problem with brute force it was done that way because nobody cared about energy efficiency or practicality or safety and the world ended up with plenty of plasma and laser weapons and stupid things like sledge hammers with rocket engines so they could hit harder.

    • @-Luna-tic.exe-
      @-Luna-tic.exe- 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames history in the fallout universe stays the same until it diverges in 1950, in this universe the microprocessor is never invented, that's partially the reason why everything has a 50's diesel punk aesthetic. But factions in the games you hear about the most is The brotherhood of steel, the enclave, and NCR.
      The brotherhood is derived from remnants of the United states armed forces. Capt Rodger maxson formed the brotherhood of steel 2 days after the bombs dropped, but before he and all of those under his command went rogue when he discovered the US Army was using FEV (forced evolutionary virus) on prisoners of war to try and make super soldiers at mariposa(end result was the super mutants you see in game).
      After the bombs maxim formed the brotherhood of steel to go forth and help what's left of the people rebuild. Unfortunately this devolved into "help the people by preventing the destruction of humanity through technology" so they "assist" by killing mutated abominations from fev or mutations from radiation and collecting and preserving (not using) technology. If a technology is thought to even REMOTELY be a threat to mankind's existence the brotherhood will pursue that technology's complete and utter destruction and anyone who sought to use it will also be destroyed.
      The enclave are not exactly remnants as they were remnants of the us government, but not the good parts. In this universe what we refer to as "the deep state" and all the evil negativity we associate with that term is reality when its dealing with the enclave. They want control of everything and will destroy anyone who gets in their way. Alot of prewar members of the enclave also funded vault tec. Vault tec in turn sanctioned alot of twisted experiments in 50% of the vaults ranging from hallucination gas, periodically execute a vault member or everyone dies, what would happen if a vault was comprised of 100 women and one man, and the opposite one woman and 100 men, to simply an entire empty vault, one guy and a box of puppets.
      The NCR or New California Republic is closest to a new "government" originating from the village Arroyo you visit in the first fallout and operates like the real worlds government of 1850s, as they are opportunistic expansionist that cause alot of friction with towns or tribes that do not want to conform to NCR law.

    • @StormerWindfall-qz5tn
      @StormerWindfall-qz5tn ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you for a quick explanation of the games and a fairly accurate one too. Nice job lad!

  • @tonysalm8402
    @tonysalm8402 2 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    Lore wise most Vaults were used to test stuff on the dwellers without thier knowledge and it was some twisted stuff.

    • @DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames
      @DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames  2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      We’ve been told some of the twisted stuff 😨

    • @raifthemad
      @raifthemad 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      That bit of lore, iirc, was added in after the first game, maybe even after second. It didn't start out that way.

  • @themainman2827
    @themainman2827 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    This games series makes me fall in love with 50-60s music.

  • @Fettman89
    @Fettman89 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    " Super happy fun times" honestly as someone whose played most of the games, I do get a super happy fun time feeling watching these intros haha, you just don't know until you've played them, it's not all doom and gloom and the games do well at poking a bit of fun at themselves, or presenting you with situations so incredibly wild, you can't help but laugh lol.

  • @annareifer2249
    @annareifer2249 2 ปีที่แล้ว +95

    One of my favorite game series.
    Btw, the games are actually very funny, and sometimes don't take themselves too seriously. At the same time they are also depressing and philosophical and packed with action and interesting characters and places :)
    Would be cool for you to watch the S.P.E.C.I.A.L videos of Fallout 4, you get to know the humorous vein of the games well :)

    • @andyme3541
      @andyme3541 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      It's very much a series that knows 'Our premise is pretty dark... here is some funny to lighten your experience'

    • @koraegi
      @koraegi 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Except fallout 1

    • @tofu_golem
      @tofu_golem 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      There's a lot of really dark humor in the series.

    • @realkorti
      @realkorti 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      "drink. some. water." is my favorite, i recommend sarcastic jerk videos from F4 :D

    • @DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames
      @DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames  2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      We can get behind some dark humor 🙂😈

  • @TuanMinh-qc6hr
    @TuanMinh-qc6hr 2 ปีที่แล้ว +261

    You guys missed Fallout 2,3,4 and New Vegas intro i wish you guys can watch it. The intro contains a lot of information about the game and the plot. Will there be a part 2

    • @DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames
      @DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames  2 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      We can for sure check out more for Fallout. This was just an intro to the series for us 🙂

    • @ProGamerboy-lw7jo
      @ProGamerboy-lw7jo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames did not look like your reaction was a 🙂, more like a 😦

    • @RK-zf1jm
      @RK-zf1jm 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      no they didnt fallout 2 intro was there fallout 3 and new vegas intros are missing but the game trailers are there plus i think fallout 4 game opening is easily the weakest of all of them they should of never gotten rid of ron pearlman

  • @ThatBucketLife
    @ThatBucketLife 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I'm so glad you are doing Fallout! I heavily recommend checking put all the trailers and intros for more lore and there are plenty of lore channels to check out. The lore for fallout and the stories of people in the world is a really interesting thing to hear about!

  • @maarek71
    @maarek71 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    "Who is dumb enough to do that?" Some people would see the entire world burn if they can't get what they want.

  • @alexcorous9240
    @alexcorous9240 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    3:22 his sigh explains how terrifying humans can be

  • @ericmartin8870
    @ericmartin8870 2 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    I came on the scene with Fallout 3, and I gotta say it STILL holds up to me in all ways other than the fact that the graphics are pretty outdated. I feel like the thing they do SO well with these games is the atmosphere, the feeling of picking through the ruins of the old world and discovering what came before while trying to use the pieces to build something new. It's grim for sure, but there's enough levity through the INCREDIBLY charming soundtrack and the generally casual nature of a lot of the characters to keep it from being hopelessly depressing. It kinda has an air of taking something that you find in the garbage can and making the best of it. Yeah, it all sucks but you gotta keep going somehow.
    Fallout 4 is a lot in the tradition of FO3, though it does take a few steps back with the ways it tries to move forward. The main story, while compelling at its base concept, isn't handled terribly well and it suffers a bit from some weak writing. The world to play in, and some of the side quests and stuff, is a HECK of a lot of fun though. There are some pretty entertaining DLCs too.
    Fallout 76, which didn't get featured here unfortunately, was a perhaps overly-ambitious attempt by a company that was starting to half-ass stuff kind of a lot lol. The first multiplayer Fallout adventure, it's kind of a sandbox RPG set in a world that's only loosely tied together by any real questlines. The whole idea of it was that the PLAYERS would flesh out the world...instead of needing NPCs to drive things forward or sell supplies etc, all of those functions would be done by the actual people playing the game and role-playing the parts. Some bits of it worked, but honestly the game was kind of a shell that COULD have been filled with something really neat...but it made too many mistakes and tried a little hard to just kind of "be there" and make money off of people lol. There's good stuff to be had, and some updates/expansions did good things for the game...but it never really got exciting again after the initial exploration and experience.
    Fallout: New Vegas, on the other hand...is freaking perfection IMO lol. Came out after FO3 and uses the same basic generational hardware, so they're largely comparable in a lot of ways. It takes a great game (FO3) and innovates on what it built to create a whole new adventure in a completely different part of the country, with a whole other feel. It's the least "Fallout-y" of the titles IMO, because there's not as much emphasis on US history and that feeling of haunting nostalgia that the series is so strong with...but it has its own flavor and style and I think it absolutely shatters what might otherwise be expected of a Fallout game. It also pretty much holds the standard for quality when it comes to DLC expansions, with every new bit of content being a contained and fully-fleshed story filled with new areas, adventures, and gear...all tied together somehow into a comprehensive story that both meshes with the main game's overall narrative and the subplots of each individual DLC. Honestly a masterpiece IMO.
    Glad you guys got to check these out! Even though the game studio behind them has been steadily declining and it's a little too much to hope for that we get another GOOD Fallout ever, these games hold a special place in my heart. At their best, they're essentially post-apocalyptic Skyrim filled with dark humor and raw mayhem.
    Oh, and congrats on hitting 140k! You guys deserve all that and MORE! Y'all are easily in the upper ranks of my favorite YT creators, and I'm always thrilled to see you guys post something new! I love getting to follow along on your journey. :)

    • @aregulargamer1
      @aregulargamer1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      NV is honestly one of the greatest games ever made.

    • @ericmartin8870
      @ericmartin8870 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@aregulargamer1 I wholeheartedly agree, I desperately hope that it one days gets a well-deserved cosmetic overhaul remake/rerelease. I wouldn't want them to change much of ANYTHING (other than stability updates), but an edition of it that looked as good as modern games do and played exactly the way it did back in the day? And is far more easily available? I'd pay full next-gen price to get that on my PS5. Sadly, modern Bethesda doesn't seem to give much of a crap about anything but Starfield and NV wasn't even technically THEIR baby anyway...so odds are pretty slim it'll ever happen. So I mostly just file it under "Happy Memories" lol.

    • @MrMeddyman
      @MrMeddyman 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yeah though the trailers are depressing because they are made from the PoV of Ron Perlman before the war it's not the case in game, the people of Post-War America don't have much to be depressed about because they don't really have a frame of reference for what came before and you wouldn't know it from watching the trailer, but the world is capable of being bright and absurd more often than grim or oppressive due to that 1950s flair and classic Americana. Fallout is post-post apocalypse, it's about rebuilding and finding a path forward, not wallowing in the destruction like most post-apocalypse universes like Mad Max, The Road and it's other inspirations

    • @robsilvester6213
      @robsilvester6213 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      A fun overview of Fallout New Vegas:
      UNSTOPPABLE MORON MAKES NUCLEAR WASTELAND NOTICEABLY WORSE | Fallout: New Vegas
      th-cam.com/video/VKoki--fSvU/w-d-xo.html

    • @DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames
      @DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames  2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Always appreciate you sharing your experience with the games we check out. Seems like New Vegas was a big hit! Have only seen people gushing about it in the comments so far 😀

  • @cyclone8974
    @cyclone8974 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I am pretty sure the voices are messed up so the video isn't removed from TH-cam for copyright violation.

  • @UltimateGamerCC
    @UltimateGamerCC 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Fallout is an amazing yet DARK game franchise, i personally love 3 and New Vegas the most, the modding community for the latter is INSANE.

  • @Skyliner03
    @Skyliner03 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Ken, enemies play a major role in Fallout: Supermutants, ghouls, raiders, gunners, various mutated animals, humans. And then there are friendly and enemy factions, companions, various weapons: firearms, laser, plasma, ballistic and grenades or knives. Simply Fallout is absolutely amazing and at the same time scary approaching reality

  • @poslednisoud
    @poslednisoud 2 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    I suggest digging more into thise series. The lore is really interesting and the whole theme of combining depressing situation with this sunny 50s style makes it super memorable. If you want to know where to start I suggest looking into videos about major factions namely NCR, Brotherhood of Steel, Cesar's Legion, Enclave, Vault Tech (let's just say Vaults weren't just build for the rich), New Vegas, The Institute.
    Or if you are really interested there is whole series about Fallout lore from ShoddyCast that is simply amazing.
    th-cam.com/video/nvqm_pPD-aQ/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=ShoddyCast
    Love your content guys. Keep it up ;)

    • @realkorti
      @realkorti 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      well they weren't build for the rich either - the rich were just better baited into it with their funds (and ended up as experiments sometimes)

    • @DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames
      @DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames  2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Thanks for the suggestion on more Fallout material to check out 😀

  • @Skyliner03
    @Skyliner03 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I'm Fallout 1 for the first time in 15 years and I immediately fell in love with it, I have all parts of Fallout 1-76 and I think it's 1.2, New Vegas and 4 (which I still play). I think Fallout is closest to the reality of today's world and the situation in the world.

  • @arthurhucksake2665
    @arthurhucksake2665 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    The intro for Fallout 4 is another wonderful piece, even if the vanilla game is not the best. I'd recommend a watch on that one.

    • @aregulargamer1
      @aregulargamer1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Honestly, if it just had the leveling and dialogue of New Vegas, it'd instantly be a ten times better game. Like, how the fuck do you look at what Obsidian created, and then decide to go with the shit fallout 4 ended up with.

    • @arthurhucksake2665
      @arthurhucksake2665 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@aregulargamer1 Exactly, this is the main issue I have with the vanilla Fallout 4 experience. That being said, Im done with vanilla, and I'm really enjoying the mods that are out there.

    • @titanhades4331
      @titanhades4331 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Ignore these guys. Fallout 4 is amazing and the majority agree with that Majority always trumps the small number of neighsayers,

    • @arthurhucksake2665
      @arthurhucksake2665 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@titanhades4331 I should have prefaced that by saying that it was only my opinion. And I should have said that while it is not the best, it is far, far, from the worst of the Fallout games.
      It wasn't my intention to come across as a naysayer, and for that I apologise.

    • @aregulargamer1
      @aregulargamer1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@arthurhucksake2665 Maybe 76 qualifies for "worst fallout ever", but damn does it have stiff competition for the spot, between Tactics and Brotherhood of Steel.

  • @gorgeouszan
    @gorgeouszan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Fallout is a series I very much enjoy. There's something oddly....beautiful in the depressing ruined world left behind. As there's nothing left but Hope, and you are given the opportunity to make things better as much as you can. The Vaults are one of the more shocking aspects of the lore. The vaults were built to survive nuclear war....but they were never intended to serve that actual purpose. The company, Vault Tech, assumed that any war that broke out that resulted in people going to the vaults would be resolved in a few years, they never expected a complete wipe out of society. So the vaults were all built to have different social experiments conducted in them to test how people in a confined space would act under various stimuli and pressures; usually to horrifying results. One vault was made where all the residents assigned were recovering alcoholics and drug addicts in rehab with stockpiles of drugs and alcohol in secret compartments to be discovered over time...one vault was designed to test viruses on the inhabitants and observe how they handle pandemics in an enclosed space.....one vault had the residents hold elections to sacrifice a resident every few years under the threat if they didn't everyone would die...the trick being they were all supposed to refuse to sacrifice anyone and if so they would then be let out; they didn't discover this until everyone in the vault was dead except for about 4 people when they finally decided to give up.
    As for how it all happened, it's never quite been said who shot first; just after one bomb was fired everyone started firing at everyone else and the actual gameplay takes place a few hundred years later (varying from game to game) in what arose from the ashes.

  • @wolfranger5526
    @wolfranger5526 ปีที่แล้ว

    16:59 man this took me back to sophomore year of high school and watching Josh Scorchers live stream to the Bethesda E3 conference.

  • @swanchamp5136
    @swanchamp5136 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm not sure if you have seen it but for the marketing for Fallout 4 they hired Dan Bull to write a song for them and he made one called S.P.E.C.I.A.L based around the game characters attributes system and it's impressively good.

  • @agentmaryland1239
    @agentmaryland1239 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I found out about Fallout when 3 was still in its hay day, never really got into it, but I did play 4 and it's a lot of fun imo. Also, that thing that was flying along the road that was getting shot at, that's an Eyebot and they're typically kind of annoying xD

  • @SatomiForward
    @SatomiForward 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Fallout New Vegas was probably one of my favorite games. Had several amazing plot driven DLCs too.

  • @Lobsterwithinternet
    @Lobsterwithinternet 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    If you really want to dig into the lore of Fallout in an entertaining way, I’d suggest you guys react to The Storyteller series from Shoddycast.
    Really fun.

  • @JKSSubstandard
    @JKSSubstandard ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The basic summary of Fallout: "the vaults were never meant to save anyone"
    The vaults were ways for the rich to perform human experiments to prepare themselves for leaving earth behind.
    The fallout games deal with the aftermath of the nuclear war the government unleashed. How people survived and rebuilt in a dead and mutated world

  • @Prax97.
    @Prax97. 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    That was a pretty good collection of stuff, I just wish that it included the intro's for the games, I personally think Fallout 3's and New Vegas's intro's are really good, so I hope you get round to them as well at some point :)

  • @reeceballin8637
    @reeceballin8637 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This video is amazing; watching you guys react to Fallout was a real treat since I love the games and you guys. I really liked the part when, despite all the explosions, gunfights and irradiated beasts, Ken says “Oh you can gamble” 😂. Fallout is a very important game series for me since it explores in depth the morality behind all sorts of situations. Your decisions have a positive or negative effect on the characters/environment around you, which I feel other games need to do. The characters (most of them) are memorable and loveable. 4 is probably my favourite simply because of the companions you can travel with. I greatly anticipate your future videos guys, you rock 🤘

    • @DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames
      @DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Glad you enjoyed our first reaction to Fallout. 😀 and yes, inbetween the blood and beasts you have to take the scenery in like gambling 😜😂

  • @Ironoclasty
    @Ironoclasty 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    One thing the Fallout series excelled at was locational story telling. You'll come across a location where things are situated strangely, and the dawning horror (or amusement) of what transpired there will occur to you as you sift through the clues left behind. Sometimes the clues aren't so subtle, but it's engaging to piece together the events of the past.

  • @lazymansload520
    @lazymansload520 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    8:40 and this is the game we all try to forget. *shudders* in game advertisements…..

  • @Harrison11106
    @Harrison11106 ปีที่แล้ว

    Your reactions during the Fallout 3 portion were quite interesting. Here's something that makes those headshots seem tame, in Fallout 2 you could shoot foes in the groin.

  • @Solgath
    @Solgath ปีที่แล้ว +1

    late to the party here, but each vault had different missions, and entry varied from vault to vault, some actually had specific objectives of overfilling or underfilling to see what would happen, Vault-tec and the enclave are so twisted, not sure what the entry requirements were for vault 13, or 101, but in fallout 4 the protagonists family got in because the male protag did time in the army. For me, fallout 1 will always have a special place in my heart, was the first one i played way back when it came out on a demo disc, and it featured a small part of the game in Junktown, the turn-based RPG style and story really got me hooked, and there was a line, not sure what game it came from but it was something like: "the end of the world wasn't the end many thought it would be, it was just another beginning."

  • @ShingenNolaan
    @ShingenNolaan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Fallout 1 & 2 are a must play just for its atmosphere.

  • @HellaGust
    @HellaGust 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It's a goddamn crime that y'all ain't got the Fallout: New Vegas intro. Ain't nothin' like getting shot in the face by a post-apocalyptic Matthew Perry to start an adventure!

  • @dirzz
    @dirzz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Let's celebrate by watching the most depressing video 😂 The contrast between your happy faces in the beginning and when you've been watching the Fallout trailers is so funny 🤣

  • @YhokoCaeda
    @YhokoCaeda 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    yep need the intros for the games as well, especially new vegas, because like fallout 1 is only shortly after the bombs fell but like fallout 3 and such is like hundreds of years later

  • @KingKP96
    @KingKP96 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Fallout New Vegas is one of those rare games that's in a complete league of its own. Easily one of the greatest games ever made in my opinion.
    It is peak open world RPG without a doubt. The amount of options and open ended gameplay that you have to work with is just the perfect amount without it feeling like a slog like a lot of other games, AND your choices actually matter. The world and the people in it change and react depending on the choices you make and the end is very different depending on what roads you decide to go down. There's so much room for creativity when it comes to how you play the game, and the way you make your character build, as the dozens of perks you can pick from have drastically different effects on you. There is a nearly endless selection of weapons for you to play around with so you can find a collection that works best/feels the most fun for you. Tons of secrets are sprinkled all throughout the game that really incentivize exploring everything and interacting with everyone. Maybe if you go to this crater in the middle of nowhere you'll find a fun cosmetic item in it, or once you finish exploring some hidden cave you'll find a one of a kind weapon guarded by a unique super boss enemy. There's so much to experience that it's almost impossible to see it all.
    And there's no way I can't mention how fantastically all of the dialogue in the game is written. Even the story itself is really fun, but the characters in New Vegas absolutely sell it. Mr. House, Benny, Cesar, Ulysses, Joshua Graham, Arcade, Boone, Raul, heck even non-speaking characters like ED-E give the world so much life and charm. Even outside the major characters, just one off random NPC characters have so much to offer to your experience it's insane.
    Even crazier is the fact that they managed to make four incredible DLC packs for the game that genuinely feel worth the price tag. Each one of them offers something unique for you to experience and whether it be more amazing characters, interesting lore/worldbuilding, fun new weapons and armor, or something completely new you are guaranteed to get your moneys worth.
    I bought this game on New Year's Eve 2010 my Sophomore year of Highschool and I can still vividly remember getting home and playing it for the first time. Over a decade later, I've had to have done at least 15-20 playthroughs of various completions levels, and I will probably do plenty more. This is a game I recommend everyone at least try once at some point in their life.

  • @tarrker
    @tarrker 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm sure someone's said it by now but, if you're curious about the dog in these videos look up Dogmeat. It's actually a rather touching story. :)

  • @Ferdawoon
    @Ferdawoon 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The way the story is told in the Fallout games (especially 3 & 4 which is when Bethesda took over) is very much down to reading the scenery and doing some detective work.
    You can come across a skeleton in a bathtub next to a toaster, heavily implying that someone couldn't take reality and decided to just off themselves. You can find what's left of someone's picnic on the beach. You can find a stroller and a teddy next to a car on a parking lot showing how someone was about to pack or unpack their kids while going shopping (they have a hard rule that there are no "small skeletons" but instead imply what have happened by placing toys and other things in places where whoever might have been playing with them did not survive).
    There are a lot of stories told like that, the world-building team is pretty good at telling these "silent" stories by only using decorations.
    On the other hand you can enter office buildings, power plants, factories etc and find handscribbled notes, audio recordings and find internal company emails. You can read about how a team is stuck dead with a project while they lie to management and saying they are close to a solution. You can find emails about how someone is pissed about people smoking at the ventilation intake (and if you go outside you can find a bunch of cigarettes there so they try to keep things consistent) or you can find creepy pasta about how they heard about the bombs hitting, now they hear monsters, they are scared. You can find rooms with desks flipped to block the doors and a skeleton hiding behind the sofa with a crate full of alcohol and a handgun, implying that maybe they numbed themselves before taking their life. Or you can find some dead monsters nearby showing that the person didn't go down without a fight.
    Sadly there's not a lot of InGame cinematics and cutscenes, mostly trailers and promotional material.
    But if you want to venture deeper into the Fallout Universe (and if you dont mind some depressing dystopian with a pinch of sarcasm and dark humor then there's a LOT of material out there. For example, look into the various Vaults that were made (you saw some of the promo made to look like advertisement for one of the Vaults). There's some nasty stuff going on there..

    • @Ferdawoon
      @Ferdawoon 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I personally like WiseFish videos. They are a bit longer, 35-40min each but well chaptered so you can probably do some editing magic to bring it down to chunks that better suit your channel! They are not deepdives of each Vault, but still deep enough to get a proper feeling for the stuff going on there. A lot of summary-videos gloss over a lot of stuff or only mention it briefly. Each Vault story could probably be an hour long to tell it properly,. but I think these vids have a decent middleground.
      The Vaults Of Fallout - Vaults 3 - 43 | Fallout Lore
      th-cam.com/video/dvCNhKpiGG0/w-d-xo.html
      The Vaults Of Fallout - Vaults 51 - 95 | Fallout Lore
      th-cam.com/video/JDC56Ppwh6E/w-d-xo.html
      Vaults Of Fallout - Vaults 96 - 118 | Fallout Lore
      th-cam.com/video/6NaApopX-zg/w-d-xo.html

  • @BerishStarr
    @BerishStarr 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Fallout, Mass Effect and Dragon Age are my top three game series ever. I've been playing Fallout since the late 90's, and still do. If you feel like trying it, I'd recommend starting at Fallout 3.
    Also, congrats on milestone! 🤙❤️

  • @truec0re193
    @truec0re193 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Congrats to the 140K! I cant believe i wasnt subscribed to either of your guys' channels, considering how much i watched them and how much they showed up in my feed, Course Corrected!!!

  • @JBMystwind
    @JBMystwind 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Definitely some of the best soundtracks ever, and one hell of a unique style. Hands down one of the best franchises out there.

  • @leroyjenkins4115
    @leroyjenkins4115 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    That Brotherhood of steel trailer was lit! 🔥

  • @kevingalvan1905
    @kevingalvan1905 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Pretty sure you guys watched a edited version of the trailers, the higher pitched voices. Still nice seeing you guys react to Fallout!

  • @TheSmokingSkull
    @TheSmokingSkull 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I think some of the trailers were definitely edited to be slightly higher (probably to avoid some copyright? No idea), the voices definitely weren't as... nasally and high-pitched in the originals, haha.

    • @DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames
      @DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Good to know. Seemed like an odd choice and little jarring 😆

    • @TheSmokingSkull
      @TheSmokingSkull 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames Yeah, especially on the last one, Fallout 4, where it sounded like the main character had ingested helium at the very end... these kinds of compilation videos are usually ok, but this was definitely out of the ordinary. Maybe you need someone to vet videos for you ahead of time, haha.

  • @iamhuffman
    @iamhuffman 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    the dog is named Dogmeat and hes an icon in most of the games =0

  • @enriquesaenz3574
    @enriquesaenz3574 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Fallout is one of my favorite worlds in all of fiction. It's so scary and cool because it's simply alternate history: "What if the Cold War went into the 21st century?" I had a conversation with a friend and I described the story behind how the war started, he had this dreadful look on his face when he said this
    "This feels waaaaayyy to real, especially now."
    Keep in mind, it took the world of Fallout until 2077 to destroy itself and my friends are already calling this game too close to home. I also like that it's beyond the common zombie or pandemic apocalypse, the nukes messed up the world so much, that it created my favorite virtual playground.

  • @AngelStuff3
    @AngelStuff3 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Idc man the way I literally cried watching the fallout 4 trailer on initial release. I was literally so excited for it.

  • @adrianvulpes9509
    @adrianvulpes9509 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    “Do you get to play as the dog?!”
    No- …ot yet… (MODDERS!!! GET TO WORK!!!)

  • @Ferdawoon
    @Ferdawoon 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "I always wonder who dropped the bombs"
    Bethany is so on point here with this comment!
    Throughout the game they have never made it clear who exactly started it. We know from the "tutorial" of Fallout 4 with the news talking about nuclear detonations in big american cities, but were those in retaliation? Or were they even "Friendly Fire" with it being american bombs hitting american targets?
    In Fallout 3, the first town you encounter has a dormant nuclear bomb in the middle. You as a player can choose to disarm it (or to detonate it killing everyone in town) but if you look at it there's a plaque about it being from Vault Tec (the company making the Vaults).
    In Fallout 4 they introduced a computer program that was ment to try to anticipate China's next step but feeding more info into the program made it realize that it could never properly account for the randomness of "the human factor" and so players speculate that the software decided to try to remove that randomness by nuking the world, Skynet-style.
    The War inGame had been going on for years, and intel suggested that it was more a question of When, not If, the bombs would drop. There are a lot of fan-theories, but it is still a mystery who started it. Nothing revealed by the devs.
    We do however know exactly when it happened, as all calendars in the game end on that date, and pretty much all clocks (that are not inside settlements and villages) all show the time that the bombs dropped.

    • @Zappina
      @Zappina 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      From what i gathered from the games, China dropped the first bomb as a desperate move when the US powered armor devisions reached Beijing.(According to the fallout 3 DLC, the chinese submarine Yangtze was the first sub which launched nukes). However the game also suggest it was actually the US shadow government, the Enclave, which is responsible for the nuclear war or at least for the events which lead to it.. There is also Skynet in Sierra Army Depot, which could responsible, although its probably just a movie reference.

  • @rydercurtis3995
    @rydercurtis3995 ปีที่แล้ว

    Bro shaded a tear for that murican bacon and eggs

  • @MajCyric
    @MajCyric ปีที่แล้ว

    It was Vault-Tec btw.. It was them that "ended" it all..(A a self fulfilling prophecy regarding the "need" for the vaults).. A good Fallout series to watch is called "The Storyteller: Fallout" by ShoddyCast... He really dives into the Fallout world/lore..
    As for Fallout 76.. Well "Internet Historian" (name is his YT Channel) said it best about that game.. Would love to see you two react to his video(s) btw.. His humor in his videos are next level..

  • @TheNexDude
    @TheNexDude 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I remember watching New Vegas' trailer over and over and over again when i first saw it.

  • @pwpqwq7648
    @pwpqwq7648 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nice to see how much your channel has grown. Way to go!

  • @pelinalwhitestrake3367
    @pelinalwhitestrake3367 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Ahahaha! I am on-lline once again! Tremble, world, before my electric heating coil of doom!

  • @alexhodges8729
    @alexhodges8729 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Without spoilers. Each vault had a specific reason for being built. The people chosen to enter the vaults fit those reasons. The dog is named Dogmeat.
    I love seeing people react to Fallout as it is one of my favorite game series and I hope you check out the intro to each game because they set up the story for them.
    As always I really enjoyed the reaction

  • @Drescher1984
    @Drescher1984 ปีที่แล้ว

    Not all vaults was there to save people, some were "just" labs for experiment's on humans

  • @MandalorianRevan
    @MandalorianRevan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    If you guys are interested in learning more about Fallout, try "The Storyteller: Fallout Lore Series" by Shoddycast.

  • @fluffyfoot2917
    @fluffyfoot2917 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    One of my top channels celebrating a milestone with one of my top game franchises!!! Yes! Congrats, you guys! ❤️

  • @iamhuffman
    @iamhuffman 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    also teh teacup can be picked up and used to craft or make other thigns so lots of clutter everywhere to use

  • @Bemix666NUCLAR
    @Bemix666NUCLAR 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Finally!! I've been waiting months to see you guys react to Fallout!

  • @donovandelaney3171
    @donovandelaney3171 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The notion that it was a world wide World War 3 has been retconned by Fallout 4. Fallout 4 tells us that the war was only a small war.

    • @banziattack1354
      @banziattack1354 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yeah and no. Europe and the Middle East in the fallout universe we’re already going at it with WMDs before China and US squared up

  • @iamheavyweaponsguy2831
    @iamheavyweaponsguy2831 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    My favorite part about Fallout 4 is that it's not a hero story like every other fallout game, you're just some random pre-war guy/gal who happened to survive the nukes and now you're trying to find your kidnapped son.

  • @jtom8326
    @jtom8326 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I assure you, you will not Fallout of this Franchise, cause Fallout never Changes

  • @jefthereaper
    @jefthereaper 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So as some info: about anyone in the population could get chosen for an application to join a vault.
    They had to, as the vaults were in secret not meant to actually ensure humanity's survival in large numbers.
    Nearly all vaults were instead testing grounds (unbeknown to the residents)
    Hence why nearly anyone regardless of status could be selected to join, as they needed a very broad range of types of "test subjects".
    The results for those experiments would be used by the elite who would use the data to improve their own future.
    Tough I don't remember if this was the Enclave or just Vault Tech themselves.

  • @Skyliner03
    @Skyliner03 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Otherwise, I would add that the soundtrack to Fallout 1 and 2 was created by Mark Morgan, an absolutely great ambient meditation music, I just love that soundtrack.

  • @soulessyokai1123
    @soulessyokai1123 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Bethany,s facial expression starting at 17.05 made me feel very sad

  • @krewl1252
    @krewl1252 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    getting back into the fallout mood for no real reason other than the Thursday get together with you 2 and....maybe another reason

  • @teepat5487
    @teepat5487 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    In the first Fallout, you can beat the final bad guy through dialog, if you are a skilled enough smooth talker.

  • @ex-navyspook
    @ex-navyspook 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Yeah...you didn't necessarily get into the vaults because you were rich (although there ARE vaults like that...Sierra Madre in Fallout: New Vegas, and the hotel vaults on Far Harbor in Fallout 4 come to mind), but because of proximity, or some other factor. In Fallout 4, our protagonist gets in because he's (or she's the wife of) a veteran.

  • @huhusmremre
    @huhusmremre 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    If you want a look at the less depressing side of the series I recommend Criken's "Wild Wild Wasteland" and "Crazy Crazy Commonwealth" videos!

  • @NameNobody247
    @NameNobody247 ปีที่แล้ว

    Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter

  • @biometalix
    @biometalix 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    There is a bit of commentary on who drops the bombs first in Fallout 3. The response was "it does not matter who shot first, everyone lost in the end"

  • @spajas8092
    @spajas8092 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Check out the new “scorn” and “high on life trailer” from the Bethesda conference.

  • @trythis2006
    @trythis2006 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    you guys are so much fun! you deserve every bit.

  • @Duskwalker68
    @Duskwalker68 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    This series was truly fantastic, it's gone downhill pretty steeply in the past few years but the old games will always stand the test of time! They've got the best post apocalyptic setting I've ever seen and New Vegas is one of the best RPGs of all time.

    • @dre27321
      @dre27321 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      How has it gone downhill? I saw nothing wrong with fallout 4 and people seemed to love it. the only bad thing was fallout 76

    • @TheUkchiller
      @TheUkchiller 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Fallout four was an improvement on some things. But the actual rpg side and story was pretty terrible

    • @Duskwalker68
      @Duskwalker68 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@dre27321 Fallout 4's main issues for me were the story/dialogue and factions, the gameplay is the best in the entire series though; to me it's a great game, but not a great Fallout game. Fallout 76 on the other hand is an absolute embarrassment to both the series and the developers of the game, it pretty much killed my interest for any future title published by Bethesda. It had the single worst launch I've ever seen in all of gaming and the monetization is both predatory and egregious, IMO it's left a huge stain on the Developer's reputation and if they're willing to put out garbage like 76 while screwing numerous customers over I have no faith in their future titles.

    • @Duskwalker68
      @Duskwalker68 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@TheUkchiller my thoughts exactly, 4 wasn't a bad game it just wasn't really Fallout to me due to lack of RPG mechanics. Mods help a lot though, with a fully modded game my only major issue is the dialogue/story.

    • @RimshotKiller
      @RimshotKiller 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Fallout is one of my all time favourite franchises, so believe me when I say that I -really- wanted to love Fallout 4. However, it was so incredibly boring that even with multiple attempts over the years I never got any further than Diamond City. 4 just lacked soul. The story was boring (and honestly, stupid). Now, 3s story wasn't exactly great either, but somehow it still managed to hold my attemtion a lot better than 4 did. And New Vegas was just absolutley fantastic. Damn, I think I'll have to start a new run starting with Fallout 1 now...

  • @merowinger4802
    @merowinger4802 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    One of the weirdest storys i heard about games in general is around Fallout 4. The currency to trade items in game is bottle caps. So one guy decided to collect over 2000 of them and send them to the dev's including a summery how much he liked Fallout 3 and became a fan. To make it short the idea was so unique that Bethesta honored it by giving him a free copy of Fallout 4.

  • @davidosclay852
    @davidosclay852 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Have you seen cutscene of old PC game called Armoreds and Dangerous? By the way the Fallout series is based of movie Mad Max. And the game have so many reference. Like Nuka Cola is for Coca Cola.

    • @DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames
      @DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Haven’t heard of that old pc game before 🤔🙂

    • @davidosclay852
      @davidosclay852 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames Armoreds and Dangerous PC has some funny scene, and the charcters are british talk I remember.

  • @bwehhueh5135
    @bwehhueh5135 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Fallout 3 is the game of my childhood lol

  • @QtAsteri
    @QtAsteri 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I think you'll enjoy the massive amounts of quotes you get in Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor and the newer Middle Earth: Shadow of War when you encounter an Uruk captain, always these small little dialogues that truly makes a story between the Ranger of Gondor/The Gravewalker (possesed by an Elf prince named Celebrimbor) and the Uruk captain/Warchief/Overlord, lots of different titles and personalities with every Uruk!

    • @QtAsteri
      @QtAsteri 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Every Uruk is different, scars, face, body type, there's even Ologs in Shadow of War, with just as many quotes!

    • @DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames
      @DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Looking forward to seeing more from that game. Played the first game and really enjoyed it 😀

  • @expressodepresso5909
    @expressodepresso5909 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    *spurrs in Jingle jangle jingle*

  • @ShaddyDaShadow
    @ShaddyDaShadow 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Not sure why the audio of the trailers was all high pitched and chipmunk voices, but thats not what they actually sound like, might be something that the uploader of the trailers changed to avoid copyright claims possibly?

    • @DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames
      @DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Believe that is what others have said 🤗 though the music gets copyright claims anyways so not sure what the point was 😂

  • @notgoodmusic123
    @notgoodmusic123 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Friendly Eddie goes down the highway and then gets kaboom!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @daddynitro199
    @daddynitro199 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fallout has always been darkly hilarious.

  • @Rampage0303
    @Rampage0303 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I got into Fallout relatively late. Fallout 3 was my first.

  • @seff6533
    @seff6533 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    There's really no answer to who dropped the bombs first. The games strongly suggest that it was China, but there's also hints that it could've been vault TEC that did it themselves

  • @casslane3932
    @casslane3932 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    congrats iv always enjoyed your channel you guys deserve it :)

  • @justindehart4121
    @justindehart4121 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The lore of this world is so in depth i only started at fallout 3 but it is such a rich story

  • @soldiermedic45
    @soldiermedic45 ปีที่แล้ว

    I played fallout 3, new vegas,and fallout 4. My favorite one is fallout 4 because I love creating settlements. In those 3. Fallout 3 you grow up in a vault,new vegas your out for revenge at first, fallout 4 you get in the vault because of your military background

  • @sayascarlett3187
    @sayascarlett3187 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "Who dropped the bombs".
    Literally the biggest discussion point in the whole Fallout series, as there isn't *much* info on *who* launched the first nuke during The Great War (which lasted minutes to hours).
    It *is* alluded that it was China and there's even a Chinese sub somewhere near the coast of Boston in FO4.
    But we don't *know*, really..

    • @DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames
      @DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That’s pretty cool they leave it vague and open for debate 🙂

    • @sayascarlett3187
      @sayascarlett3187 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames It's the holy grail of Fallout 😂

  • @phoenixsr6828
    @phoenixsr6828 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Congrats ^^ you earned it ..
    I rly like the chemistry between you is so much fun to watch your Videos ^^

  • @Fsindu
    @Fsindu 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I think the answer of for your genius question about who does it first, the Movie G.I. Joe 2 answers this question freaking well!

  • @psychozombieproductions7739
    @psychozombieproductions7739 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You should of watched the nuka world dlc. Also fallout 4 takes place when the bombs first fall

  • @99batran
    @99batran ปีที่แล้ว

    the voices were set higher probably to avoid copyright

  • @jesussantos7380
    @jesussantos7380 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The Vaults were actually not that expensive. There were Vaults that had wealthy socialites and the "best of us," but most of them were affordable enough for most people to live. This wasn't to secure as many lives but to experiment on as many of them as possible. As you play the games, you learn that each Vault had a different "theme" based on an experiment that the US government was running at the time. There was a handful that were designed solely with the purpose of saving lives. Still, even those had a twist to them - some would do this by cloning residents which led to malfunctions that caused the clones to become psychotic and murder everyone. In contrast, others cryogenically froze survivors but had no failsafe to wake them up. One thing about the Fallout world is that literally, everything sucks. There are rarely any 100% good people, but there are rarely any 100% bad people either.
    As for the bombs dropping, there's a lot of conflicting info on who dropped the bombs first. It could've been the US, the Chinese, an accident, a conspiracy against their own people, or even aliens (yes, aliens exist in Fallout - sometimes they're interesting, sometimes they're a joke). A major theme is about letting the past go and trying to rebuild. It's why the games take this retro-future aesthetic. The major difference between our world and Fallout's world is that the transistor was never built, which allows electrical charges to amplify with small parts. This is why technology is smaller and smaller in the real world, but in Fallout, everyone uses big, bulk vacuum tubes to keep that Jetson's-like aesthetic. As a result, even though the bombs dropped in the 2070s, technology seems dorky and similar to the original Star Trek series. Furthermore, American culture stayed transfixed with the 50s, seeing it as the golden age of progress. Now everyone listens to 50s music, dresses in the fashion, and advertising follows the same models.
    If you want to know more about Fallout you should watch some lore series. The games aren't designed for a straight-up summary or playthrough as a lot of the choices are based on what the player decides, including what order to tackle each area, who lives and who dies, what communities thrive, the endings, etc. Fallout New Vegas is the best in the series and is considered to be the true Fallout 3 since it was developed by most of the original dev team. Bethesda Fallout is different, focuses more on traditional good vs evil stories, has a horror twist to things, stays set in the East Coast like DC, Appalachia, and Boston, and includes a lot of that alien/Lovecraftian influence. The original Fallout by Interplay, Black Isle Studio, and Obsidian focuses on the West Coast, particularly Northern and Southern California and the Las Vegas area.
    New Vegas is one of the best games of all time (as well as Fallout 1 and 2) because of the many choices you can make. People still regularly debate whether or not the New California Republic (basically America) is a better choice than Caesar's Legion (a tribalistic army of roving maniacs modeled after Ancient Rome) with good points on either side. Sure, the NCR wants to bring us back to the old style of living, but the old style of living is responsible for imperialism, crippling bureaucracy, social inequality, prejudice, and led to the world being destroyed by nukes. The Legion is a group of women-enslaving, civilian crucifying, murder hobos, but their territories are the safest, they have rapidly expanded over the short time they've been active, and their people are loyal to one another and caring. Once you meet their leader, you realize he's a philosophical idealist who believes himself to be committing a necessary evil as all great civilizations began with murderers and scoundrels who built safe places for the people to prosper - he'd rather have his descendants be alive to hate him than to have never existed because of civil infighting. Then we get to Mr. House who runs Vegas and wants it to be an independent state similar to Singapore, with a dictator allowing free-market economics to give people freedom of wealth and privacy in exchange for freedom in government. It may suck to have a robotic overlord who could potentially watch your every move like Big Brother, but he also has proof that he can develop space colonies, clean drinking water, advance the human lifespan, and take humanity beyond the peaks of the old world. And yet you can still choose to reject all those paths and let Vegas and the surrounding areas be independent of any ruler - giving people the chance to live as they please with their own rules for their groups, but can you live with the chaos that comes with that? Is it possible for classy cannibals to live alongside vigilante Elvis cultists and xenophobic tech hoarders descended from US military veterans? How will people get their basic needs attended to without an overarching government, whether it be based on the flawed US system, an extremist primitivism ideology, or a dictatorship run by a borderline sociopath Tony Stark? As you can see, there's no easy answer to these questions, even if your gut outright rejects or accepts one of the above approaches. And that's just one of the many choices that matter in New Vegas. Everyone should play that game even though it's about to be 12 years old.

    • @DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames
      @DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks so much for the breakdown of Fallout games and especially New Vegas. Definitely seems like a must play game and we will try to look more into the lore for this series 🙂

  • @annareifer2249
    @annareifer2249 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    FINALLY!!! Fallout, this made my day thank you for this Q3Q

  • @rangerscorpiorac2383
    @rangerscorpiorac2383 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You have no idea the rabbit hole your going down with fallout lore, both canon to the series and to players, like the inside jokes and memes. "Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter"

  • @peternash7104
    @peternash7104 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I think the largest appeal is because it's a twist of the wild west. It's open and full of choices where the smallest choice matters, why? Because nothing much is left. The old grandma you help matters. But then begs the question, to any rational thinker, how did she survive? Then find out you helped a 'villain'. To make a home or a fresh start from nothing but junk and see human resilience. Also mods...mods help. It's why many people want to see Starfield. Because if even the exact same mod support happened but with a 64 but system and newer engine, you can see creation of players make their own universe and stories much like movies or full games.

  • @alecmeden6325
    @alecmeden6325 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wild fact: the clip of a large towed artillerypiece firing a nuclear warhead in the third trailer is real, from a weapons test of the M65 atomic cannon.

  • @jfernandez7098
    @jfernandez7098 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    While I’m very mixed on the game itself, the animated fallout 76 trailer was pretty damn good to be honest