I have lived in WV. all my life, the hotel is the Willard Hotel it sits next to the train depot/ station so it was also known as the B&O hotel. When I started playing Fallout 76, if a quest told me to go to a certain location or town it confused me to no end as nothing was where it was supposed to be. LOL
You remain one of my favorite fallout lore channels.. criminally underrated. I've just gotten back into 76.. fresh character and all.. and it's amazing how different and better this game is from just two years ago.
Just found the channel and I’m shocked how criminally underrated it is as well! This channel is one of the best lore channels on TH-cam, and should have 100x the subscribers it has. I’m just happy to have stumbled across the channel, and hope at least a few videos get shared enough to alert everyone to its presence! If people were at aware of the channel I’m sure subs and view would skyrocket.
Around 3 minutes in LOVE the (real world and Fallout world city and rivers/lakes, know that took homework. Few actually DO IT for Videos) THANK YOU Funny how Michigan and Virginia have atleast Basic vibes regarding: Rivers, the Steel Industry. I REALLY Felt the Robots taking a lot of jobs vibe: steel, manufacturing, and mining.
Grafton and the Toxic Valley had some of the most interesting side stories in the game. I spent hours looking for kidnapped kids and escaped prisoners, learning about the Black Bear Lodge and its most dangerous game, a picnic gone wrong, and farming possum and tadpole badges. My biggest disappointment was that Wavy Willard didn't exist in the real world!
5 polling places! I'm not sure the population of the entire mapped area before the war would have warranted 5 polling stations! One thing is for sure they wanted to create the illusion that the peoples vote mattered. Getting spooky how much the series is starting to echo real life!
There are a crazy number of ballot printers in Helvetia. It feels like there are a few towns were they went hog wild with the election, and towns were it practically didn’t exist (i.e. Clarksburg). One has to wonder if it was the unrest that kept them from setting up the polling places in some cities, or if that was a convenient excuse to avoid unhappy people voting in the election.
Found your videos on accident through autoplay on fallout lore, realized I didn't recognize the voice but the lore was extremely well presented and narrated. Been binge watching a bunch of your videos, and only now realized I forgot to sub. Now I am though, keep up the good work, you've got the best lore channel I've found so far!
As a person who lives in WV near grafton this game does a pretty good job with its locations. I wish they would have made Philippi an actual town though like grafton.
I love these real world comparisons, these are so well researched! I have never been East of Oklahoma, and presently live overseas, so the chances I'll ever see any of these real world locations have declined sharply. So I'm very grateful for these videos.
Dang, in game West Virginia is all kinds of scambled, and I thought the Alamo Sea in GTAV was out of place. (The real world Salton Sea is southwest of Los Angeles, near San Diego)
Before Video thoughts: Grafton gave me a vibe of: North Michigan, Petoskey or Travers City if industry was ALLOWED to make the Lakes and environment a NIGHTMARE, even before the bombs. Live/ lived 30 minutes from Detroit, but logged with my dad there and a bit in Michigan's Upper Pennsylvania, USA.
The high school ingame looks like every other high school built in the early 60s in the appalachian area. Pretty sure grafton has built a new high school recently.
@@IrresoluteCartographer it actually favors the high school I went to in the late 90's in Eastern Kentucky, so I'm just postulating, but their high school seems to be in that impersonal gvt building style everything around here is going to, too.
My curse is I can't not take everything at face value. Like if I find a house with 1 bedroom then it had one resident or at most a couple. It leaves me thinking a "protest" at Grafton steel assuming no workers participated could only have been about 34 people If every resident from the affected area was present. Makes it hard to imagine protest would have lead to anything.
My view is that what we experience in the Fallout games is only a gamified version of the Fallout Universe. If we were to experience the world at scale, there would be way more walking, way more inconsequential content. In this specific context, “real” Grafton in the Fallout Universe would contain hundreds to thousands of houses for its population in the thousands to tens of thousands. The best examples we have that were not experiencing the full Fallout Universe, is that places are mentioned that do not exist. There are supposedly vehicle scales in Morgantown, a police station in Morgantown, a super duper mart in Grafton, there’s mention of a university in Watoga, etc.
@@IrresoluteCartographer no it's not. Just saying, don't read too much into it, there aren't actually any answers to that one. That said, a few of the devs have implied that they haven't given up on using it some day, but it needs to be repurposed into something that works for what the game actually became.
Funny how "Switching to Robits is effective at Mass Production, but Very BAD at quality. Ford Everything has RUSTED Steel Paper since they switched from HUMAN Painters. (I understand health and safty Extra costs... funny how prices are still Higher then ever "grumpy 35 year old")
I have lived in WV. all my life, the hotel is the Willard Hotel it sits next to the train depot/ station so it was also known as the B&O hotel. When I started playing Fallout 76, if a quest told me to go to a certain location or town it confused me to no end as nothing was where it was supposed to be. LOL
You remain one of my favorite fallout lore channels.. criminally underrated. I've just gotten back into 76.. fresh character and all.. and it's amazing how different and better this game is from just two years ago.
Just found the channel and I’m shocked how criminally underrated it is as well!
This channel is one of the best lore channels on TH-cam, and should have 100x the subscribers it has. I’m just happy to have stumbled across the channel, and hope at least a few videos get shared enough to alert everyone to its presence! If people were at aware of the channel I’m sure subs and view would skyrocket.
Seriously agree
Around 3 minutes in LOVE the (real world and Fallout world city and rivers/lakes, know that took homework. Few actually DO IT for Videos) THANK YOU
Funny how Michigan and Virginia have atleast Basic vibes regarding: Rivers, the Steel Industry. I REALLY Felt the Robots taking a lot of jobs vibe: steel, manufacturing, and mining.
Grafton and the Toxic Valley had some of the most interesting side stories in the game. I spent hours looking for kidnapped kids and escaped prisoners, learning about the Black Bear Lodge and its most dangerous game, a picnic gone wrong, and farming possum and tadpole badges. My biggest disappointment was that Wavy Willard didn't exist in the real world!
😢wait Wavy Willards isn't real?? Damn
5 polling places! I'm not sure the population of the entire mapped area before the war would have warranted 5 polling stations! One thing is for sure they wanted to create the illusion that the peoples vote mattered. Getting spooky how much the series is starting to echo real life!
There are a crazy number of ballot printers in Helvetia. It feels like there are a few towns were they went hog wild with the election, and towns were it practically didn’t exist (i.e. Clarksburg). One has to wonder if it was the unrest that kept them from setting up the polling places in some cities, or if that was a convenient excuse to avoid unhappy people voting in the election.
Are you referring to the "conspiracy theory" that over 110%+ of registered voters voted in a certain election cycle?
Found your videos on accident through autoplay on fallout lore, realized I didn't recognize the voice but the lore was extremely well presented and narrated. Been binge watching a bunch of your videos, and only now realized I forgot to sub. Now I am though, keep up the good work, you've got the best lore channel I've found so far!
As a person who lives in WV near grafton this game does a pretty good job with its locations. I wish they would have made Philippi an actual town though like grafton.
I have been loving these videos, they're so well done!!
I love these real world comparisons, these are so well researched! I have never been East of Oklahoma, and presently live overseas, so the chances I'll ever see any of these real world locations have declined sharply. So I'm very grateful for these videos.
I really enjoy your videos. Thank you.
Dang, in game West Virginia is all kinds of scambled, and I thought the Alamo Sea in GTAV was out of place. (The real world Salton Sea is southwest of Los Angeles, near San Diego)
Before Video thoughts:
Grafton gave me a vibe of: North Michigan, Petoskey or Travers City if industry was ALLOWED to make the Lakes and environment a NIGHTMARE, even before the bombs.
Live/ lived 30 minutes from Detroit, but logged with my dad there and a bit in Michigan's Upper Pennsylvania, USA.
I live in grafton, such a small town. Never expected it to be incorporated into a big game lol
I spent a week in Grafton one weekend when I was a child. That would have been in the mid 1960s.
The high school ingame looks like every other high school built in the early 60s in the appalachian area. Pretty sure grafton has built a new high school recently.
Thanks for the information, it could well be that the devs based the high school on an older version of the school on purpose
@@IrresoluteCartographer it actually favors the high school I went to in the late 90's in Eastern Kentucky, so I'm just postulating, but their high school seems to be in that impersonal gvt building style everything around here is going to, too.
_Fantastic, as always!_ I love Grafton the the Toxic Valley.
Love these. I learn so much about my own country. Thank you so very much!
You and me both! These videos have given me a reason to study parts of the country I hadn’t in the past.
Of course I did my own research with G Earth about this area. Was a bit confused 🤔
I lived in grafton from 1996-2001, other than the flags it looks about the same as I remember it
ngl thought they put new hampshire's grafton into fallout and only got corrected when a friend said it's in west virginia
My curse is I can't not take everything at face value. Like if I find a house with 1 bedroom then it had one resident or at most a couple. It leaves me thinking a "protest" at Grafton steel assuming no workers participated could only have been about 34 people If every resident from the affected area was present. Makes it hard to imagine protest would have lead to anything.
My view is that what we experience in the Fallout games is only a gamified version of the Fallout Universe. If we were to experience the world at scale, there would be way more walking, way more inconsequential content. In this specific context, “real” Grafton in the Fallout Universe would contain hundreds to thousands of houses for its population in the thousands to tens of thousands. The best examples we have that were not experiencing the full Fallout Universe, is that places are mentioned that do not exist. There are supposedly vehicle scales in Morgantown, a police station in Morgantown, a super duper mart in Grafton, there’s mention of a university in Watoga, etc.
I go swimming in tygart lake erry summer
The presidency paper work referenced cut content where players would be elected president.
I’ve always assumed it had something to do with it, but until that content is released, it’s not canonical
@@IrresoluteCartographer no it's not. Just saying, don't read too much into it, there aren't actually any answers to that one.
That said, a few of the devs have implied that they haven't given up on using it some day, but it needs to be repurposed into something that works for what the game actually became.
Yes
Funny how "Switching to Robits is effective at Mass Production, but Very BAD at quality. Ford Everything has RUSTED Steel Paper since they switched from HUMAN Painters. (I understand health and safty Extra costs... funny how prices are still Higher then ever "grumpy 35 year old")