FALLOUT™ 

Nope, you are nitpicking and biased. I win, bye bye.

To be fair, Todd really wasn't exaggerating, in the first clip. He was lying. There's a difference.

Fallout 1 just nails it when it comes to tone and atmosphere. Getting gunned down in the middle of the desert while Ron Pearlman tells you of your decomposing corpse and how your vault is going to die a slow painful death is something missing from the newer titles. They took it to this campy atmosphere and completely disregarded the atmosphere from the original titles. Fallout 3 was great in that department but since then it really hasn’t been the same.

A concerned commenter rightfully pointed out that no nuclear war actually happened in STALKER, and it makes no sense for it to be an honourable mention. I have no excuse for this error, I just had a massive brain fart lmao.

If there is a female character wielding a power fist they are probably 100% definitely maybe a lesbian. I don't make the rules it just is

Fun fact: Most of Fallout soundtracks are inspired by Aphex Twin for example Moribund World is literally Window Sill by Aphex but with twists on it the same with LA theme its just another Aphex Twin track Grass.

9:16 Tycho is a desert ranger and the ranger armor in New Vegas is based off of his described appearance.

That Kotaku article "Fallout 76 bug accidentally installs Skyrim" gives me life. It's so ironic.

Fallout 2 deserves better because unlike Force Awakens it was written better than its predecessor and offered much more variety (including CAR and deathclaw companion).

There's something so unique with fallout 1 and 2, something that i can't confidentially say but i might think what it is. The entire atmosphere of the game along with the OST and world building, the entire game looks so different from 3D fallout The atmosphere looks so dirty, depressing, hopeless and agressive. Just like how a wasteland would look like Fallout 4 and especially 76 looks so bright and colorful, sometimes the wasteland doesn't seem to be a big deal too Specifically with the "sarcasm" dialogues from fallout 4, it feels like i'm playing a mad max parody with suicide squad or guardians of galaxy humor

Never knew black yoshie could comprehend and reason unlike the other yoshies.

never knew vault of the future had real words in it,, this game is insanely layered and underrated

"In other words, California got what it deserved." You earned a subscriber.

I had literally never heard of the thief group- Why is that British chad not more of a meme.

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Todd damnit, dude. I'm Russian, and playing Fallout since 2007, and I've never even acknowledged that thing in Vaults of the future. It's always creeped me out, and I never knew why. So thanks for showing what it really was all this time

I don't always upload, but when I do, I always start arguments in the comments.

I've never seen a fallout video before this that was this based, I love it

Mark Morgan's work on the soundtrack for the first two Fallout games are honestly timeless. So memorable. I wish they had him for Fallout: New Vegas as well. Although it's nice they reused some of his work for certain areas within the game.

11:41 I do not understand why STALKER got into the honourable mentions about nuclear war dread. There wasn't even a nuclear war. A nuclear apocalypse for sure, but not a war.

you take ADHD pills for medicinal purposes, I take them for fun. We are not the same.

How to play fallout 1 & 2: 1. minmax your character so you have 10 Perception, 10 agility, and nothing else 2. actually be able to hit your enemies

The soundtrack told so much about the past as much as any peace of exposition you come across in any terminal or old world text, the one where you can hear troops marching thru the street and what sounds like honking car horns of people stuck in traffic trying to evacuate to safe are my favorite

I'm just pissed that Fallout will never be this horrifying ever again

A number of the tracks from both Fallout and Fallout 2's OST were re used in new vegas too which was a great call back

You make me proud of my black yoshi heritage

If Fallout 2 is the Force Awakens then Fallout 76 is the Rise of Skywalker.

>Publicly claims Fallout 1 is better than 2 What a gigachad

My favourite companion is the often overlooked, thick, vulcan minigun droid that you can repair in the military base and keep with you, if you thought the other NPC's were a danger to keep behind you in a gunfight, this guy takes the fucking cake, as he'll turn you or any mutant in sight into a fine red mist.

Don't forget to take the Bloody Mess perk for the true ending

That voice bit in the Vault of the Future is also in Depeche Mode’s To Have And To Hold

I agree. I love Fallout but was never really fond of Fallout 2. I also am of the firm belief that F1 is exactly as long as it should be.

Same people who say "fallout 1 is archaic lol 🤓" will probably be okay with playing DOOM 64 with an absolute torture device of a nintendo 64 controller, because notalgia I guess...

Thank you for saying that the game is even better due to its length and scale. It's not padded with Content™ for the sake of the (nowadays) mandatory 60-hours average playthrough for an RPG. Another cRPG with more or less the exact same average-length-per-playthrough would be The Age of Decadence, another game getting full release in 2015 alongside Underrail that's heavily inspired by Fallout, but not quite there to be the spiritual successor. But the fairest comparison to Fallout 1's length would be a Fallout 2 TC mod called Fallout 1.5: Resurrection. Supposedly an in-between Fallout 1&2, its length and scale is closer to Fallout 1, making repeat playthrough a whole lot easier. For comparison based on my personal experience, I've replayed Fallout 1.5 more times than all of the official Fallout games (yes, including even the modern games) combined. And I've lost count of how many times I've replayed TAoD in the span of 300 hours I've clocked on Steam, whereas Underrail which clocked 400 hours I've only finished three times, due its sheer length and the amount of content it has.

Man really put God tier effort for 2.1k views. In time you shall grow my friend and it shall be glorious.

Some schizo old man lead me here, didn't regret it, subbed

5:18 That clip of guy shooting AK after which dust cover falls off and reaction of marine is pricelss

"the most deranged man in human history" i thought that was gary busey

For me Fallout 2 is the height of the series. But I have to say I give a chef kiss to the The Naked Gun gun fight scene you used. Perfect lol.

I myself feel like Underail serves as a descent spiritual successor to the classic fallout games

8:03, I don't know why, but my day was going pretty bad and that delivery onto the ''terminator'' but got me laughing at the screen for a solid 20 minutes. For that, I applaud you.

thank god for a review that doesn't cry about how hard the game is to get into, bravo

Those Ron Perlman tweets had me in a coma they were so funny

This might be your best video unironically. Good shit.

the one guy complaining about the fact that you have to "read dialogue" has lost before he even got a chance to make a point

Fallout 2 is the greatest game ever made. You can't change my mind.

Fallout 1 and 2 fans when they read a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure book (it was an incredibly well-written 2D action RPG that had a multitude of endings and your actions had an impact on the story)

>Fallout 76 bug accidentally installs Skyrim. Todd finds a way

I absolutely adore the bleak environment that is Fallout 1, from the depressing world to its oppressive soundtrack. It had the perfect ending with "you've saved us, but you'll kill us." I actually liked Fallout 2, particularly with such a menacing villain like Frank Horrigan, but I will admit that the abundance of comedy in Fallout 2 felt like a step backwards.

200 endings is true af Consider this every time you beat the game you can choose how to do quest or not to do them at all also it could be considered a different ending just by having 200 different loadouts lmao

If Fallout 1 had all the extra enemies, items, and ease-of-life functions that 2 added, I’d be able to confidently say that 1 was the better game. It’s atmosphere is unmatched, and its writing top-tier. 2 on the other hand… Well, the game was written by an entirely different team, and it shows. 2’s view on the horrific events in its world and story, which have been “amped up” from 1, is a lot more jovial, and sarcastic. Where 1 would take a moment to comment on the inhumanity of women being forced to sell their bodies to survive, 2 let’s you f*ck them, has your companions congratulate you, and even had a cut stat for losing your virginity. It even goes further, and gives you the option of becoming a prostitute. Like, I love having the option to sell away my ability to clench my asshole to a super mutant, but that’s the thing, when given that option, it kind of makes it harder to think about the dark themes of forced prostitution that are present. Fallout 1 would have given you the option to sleep with a prostitute, but it would have made your karma go down, and probably would have given your character a disease. Fallout 2 has everything cheer for you, for doing it. So, my point is that Fallout 1 has “less” player freedom, but its tone is sold far better, as a result. Like, I prefer playing Fallout 2, because I can reach level 99, either legitimately, or by finishing the main quest and going into the “continue playing” option, and decimate everything, while Fallout 1 caps you off at like, level 20, and once the story is over, that’s it, you gotta start a new save file, no new game plus. But I prefer the world and atmosphere of 1, because it just works together so much better. Like, one of my favorite examples, is that in Fallout 1, if you don’t learn about the secret crippling the super mutants, your character won’t have that information when they confront the master, and will have to defeat them through combat, while if you do have it, you can convince the master, the final boss and main antagonist, to game end themself. But meanwhile, in Fallout 2, the main villain, a super mutant in power armor, something any edgy 13-year-old would have come up with, cannot be defeated without some form of combat. He has no ideology, he’s just a big brute, meant to symbolize the hypocrisy of the Enclave, where they want to genocide mutants, but have the biggest mutant of all, as their attack dog. The Master has very few lines, but from what you learn about him throughout the game from other characters, and from the few lines he does have, you can very clearly see that he has principles, that he believes that what he is doing is the correct choice. He wants to unite humanity, and he views his actions as the only viable way to do so, while also making radiation something no one has to worry about, which is a massive plus in the radiated wasteland of Fallout. But in Fallout 2, again, the main villain cannot be reasoned with. And instead of them slowly building up Frank as a threat, through the words of people who’ve met him, they just have a random cutscene where the player character just stands and watches Frank gun down an innocent family. We have no option, we have to just watch this happen. And then Frank just lets us continue on, even though he’s seen us, and the goal of the Enclave in Fallout 2 is the eradication of all mutants, which we are considered to be, by the Enclave. This scene leaves the impression that Frank does have some kind of a code, where he will not harm anyone he hasn’t been instructed to kill, and it implies that he’s not above reason, but neither of these things are true. Now, normally I’d accept the argument “Well Frank knew you’d infiltrated his base at the end of the game, he has to kill you.” But that’s not true. It’s entirely possible, either by glitching the game, or by having the stats necessary, to activate the self-destruct, and free everyone, and even kill the president, without any singular person in the base being alerted. But even if this is the case, Frank still acts like he knows you’re a mutant invader. He’s not an organic part of the world, you can’t stumble across him while investigating the Enclave base, he’s literally just a road block with a lot of health. And it’s proven that he has no idea what you’ve done, by activating the bases self-destruct, meaning he has no idea that you did that, already. Frank Horrigan is a waste of a main antagonist. Especially in comparison to The Master. In fact, I’m not even sure he counts as the main antagonist. Maybe the president does? But he’s just a boring racist, there’s no ideology there. Frank and co.’s total lack of a real motive just proves that the writers of 2 were just trying to vent their own political frustrations, because instead of making the Enclave a nuanced faction, that a player could reasonably agree with, they’re just fascists. And the fact that they’re so blatantly just the U.S. government, makes it crystal clear what they wanted to say. And if it still goes over your head, the Vice President just says actual quotes from the real Vice President at the time the game was being made. I mean, there’s not even a possible ending where you side with the Enclave. You can’t. Because the developers just assumed no one would, because they’re not nuanced. It’s such a shame. And you can tell they felt that they’d messed up in this department, because many of those same writers eventually wrote New Vegas, and the ex-Enclave members we see in that game give the group a level of nuance that simply was never present in 2. And it’s a damn shame, because I want to like 2, it has so many cool new toys to play with and ways to exploit the game, but its writing just does not hold a candle to 1’s. But anyways, even outside of the final boss, going back to the contextual knowledge thing, there are many instances where the player character has the option to say, or HAS to say, something that they realistically shouldn’t have any knowledge of. With, again, my go-to example being that in the final story area, the player can confront the Vice President, where the writers just forget about their world building, and just overtly insert their own political opinions. The Vice President says “I’m not part of the problem, I’m a Republican”, to which the player character’s only possible response is “Like I said, part of the problem.” Now, is that rebuttal funny? Yes. But it in now way works within the lore of Fallout 2. The player character is canonically a tribal, they would have no god damn idea what a “Republican” is. And it sucks so much, because this could have been fixed so easily. Just change the line to “I don’t know what a Republican is, but I suspect you don’t, either.” There, you still have a joke that takes a pot shot at republicans, and the in-game character, but it works within the lore. The original reply just reeks of the writers, who from what I can gather, were recent college grads at the time, trying to express their world views, and trying to be edgy and funny. Fallout 2 suffers from Marvel syndrome, where it wants to be taken seriously, but then there’s a joke thrown in, that completely undermines the emotional weight of the scene. Like, am I making any sense? I feel like I’m rambling. Look, I’ll end it here with a summary. Basically, Fallout 1 has a consistent tone and world, and from that perspective, it is a masterpiece that everyone should play. Fallout 2 improved upon basically every game mechanic that needed improving in 1, but the new writers were too immature to properly tackle the subjects they wanted to explore, which left the game’s tone and world feeling a bit all over the place. But 2 is still a million times better than anything Bethesda did with the franchise, though. But… I can’t say that I don’t understand why Todd misunderstood what Fallout is, given how 2 does (unintentionally) f*ck up a lot of what made 1 so great.

"-just like any good rpg" *zooms in on the Neraverine* Alright thats a like and a favorite from me.

Best review of Fallout 1 I've ever seen. good information and fits my humor perfectly 🤣 greetings from D.R.🇩🇴

My experience with Fallout 1: >Leave the Vault >Die to the first Scorpion in the game >Last time played: August 2017 To be fair, I love Fallout Tactics, but the first fallout game, it's one of its own for sure.

It took me this long to finally try Fallout 1 and i was confused as hell about everything but after a while and with lots of deaths i now see why these old fallouts are so hyped even pretty good fucking good game now its time for Fallout 2

Quick funny story- due to glorious misunderstanding my dad got his hands on first Fallout instead of Fallout 3 when in my childhood I asked him to get me Fallout. Thanks to that my first ever fallout game (in year of 2015) was Fallout not Fallout 3. Thanks to that my taste was not ruined

One of the greatest reviews for this all time classic. Makes me want to actually go and play it. I'm so sad that I never really got into the controls and can't really play it. I really hope 1 day somebody completely remasters it on to either the fallout 4 or fallout new Vegas engine. Because I don't feel like I could really complete the game. Just too bad for me with controls and everything like that period But thank you for making us review that's a very good. But I do try my best to play it. But it is a lot better than fallout 2. For me fallout 2 his way too wacky.

I can’t believe Winnie the Pooh is the ultimate villain of the fallout series lol

Personally, my favorite RPG ever. No childhood nostalgia either, I first played this 2 years ago after 3 and New Vegas.

Ian has 100% accuracy with that 10mm. Unfortunately the target is your kidneys.

[Speech 100] Tiananmen Square, 1989

I actually just beat fallout 1 for the first time a few days ago and man, I wish the series had kept the tone of the first game. I love each of the fallout games for what they do, but the very first one has a sense of desperation in its world building that none of the others really capture. Probably from time limit of the water chip and mutant invasion, which honestly turned out to be my favorite component of the game since it gave me a serious drive to actually complete the main quest and decide which side quests were worth my time and which weren’t.

People who are thinking about playing Fallout 1: read about how radiation works in this game or you're gonna have a really shitty time

I’m surprised “Acolytes of the new God” wasn’t mentioned. The muttering of prayer and church bells really set the tone of how the Unity views the master.

Great vid. Very generous to give oxhorn a feature in your thumbnail considering his channel is on its last legs

Maser being voiced by the Chinese punisher is without a doubt the funniest thing I’ve ever learned about this series holy shit

Industrial Junk used to give me goosebumps as a kid, but boy oh boy was it atmospherically thick to me as it Is nostalgically to me now

Fallout 1 is my favorite for sure I honestly had trouble getting into the second one there was A LOT going on for someone who had just finished the first 1

I always knowed that raged voice of the master when he says: 'MASTER" sound ne familiar to metallica and you deserve a sub for that meme

Awesome review. The Sseth like editing had me rolling in the floor. I swear the track "metalic monks" can be heard in one of the newer Fallout games.

The game weeds out filthy adhd casual gamers and gives out a slow enjoyable experience

Best game ever, every fallout fan should play it

This video is so much more fun when your name is Ian.

You know a review of a game is good when it makes you want to play something you werent even thinking about before. Thank you.

Absolutely amazing. This is one of the few channels that really let you play the game without playing

I would love a remake of Fallout 1 and Fallout 2 in the style of the Diablo 2 remake. Keep the fundamental aspects of the game the same, just upgrade the visuals and add some quality of life features. Wouldn't be a huge investment and would give these classics some much needed attention

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This is high key one of the best videos ever made on Fallout, goes harder than a deathclaw gauntlet in my [REDACTED]

Imagine surviving horrible mutations, crawling out of virulent sludge, raising an army of giant super men, only to get killed by some jackass with a bb gun.

As an Indian, I liked that Indian joke

>Fallout 2 is TFA of the fallout franchise It’s okay, we all have to be wrong about something, sometimes aggressively so.

0:40 wait, how the hell does that even happen?

Dope video, I like the editing. Thoughtful but also meme. Nice

Ah, when Fallout had actual conversational responses rather than Yes/No/Wacky/Leave

2:44 I know this is pedantic, But that clip is actually in Capitol Hill, Seattle. (That place where CHAZ was in 2020)

It just works !

6:49 Jeebus, they even got Jeff Bennet. Man, FO1 & 2 just roll-in the big 90s V.A.s didn’t they?

Fallout 2 is just Fallout 1 but with more patriotism

I basicly fell in love with older Music because of The Ink Spots and Louis Armstrong in Fallout. The Music in this gameseries makes it so much better, you can nearly taste the radition in the Air, feel the Bulletwound and see the Gecko munching on your leg? The Hell is going on here brb.......

fallout 76 installing skyrim is just the perfect cherry on top

the ron pearlman joke tweets are priceless

Wait a second. You named your channel black yoshi, used a picture of black yoshi, & you're still not taken down by Nintendo copyright system ???? How ? How did you do that ?

Ron peelman sold his brain for a good narration voice

I love this game and it’s sequel!

Fallout 1's game system is kind of amazing apparently because you can actually find pen and paper, tabletop recreations both fanmade and even official if I recall correctly and even on the tabletop it is *absolutely* batshit insane broken and weird. Main thing I remember someone telling me was one of the aim chance modifiers is literally like a -5% or -10% chance to hit because it's like, slightly overcast outside. Apparently the game was originally suppose to use GURPS as a base system but that deal was cut for some reason... which might explain the really weird, almost BRP/Call Of Cthulhu like system we got in the finished product.

Your channel says "low effort content", yet i found this much more enjoyable and educational than 2 hour long videos about Fallout. Where is it? Where's the low effort? WHERE IS IT?!🗿

"Bethesda bad updoots plz"

fallout 1 and 2 - passionate, full of heart, written by competent people and full of compelling stories. whatever the fuck bethesda made - yay apocalypse themed 50's for people with attention span of a gold fish!

Albert's jaw is the most powerful weapon in the lore

At least Fallout 2 was a true RPG. Fallout 4 is more of an FPS with handholding story mechanics. I don't care about how bright or nice they make the wasteland. I love Fallout because it's an rRP that gives you freedom. Fallout now is the exact opposite. I know Fallout 2 is clunky and outdated. But it give a better Role Play experience than any newer Fallout game. It speaks to the problem with most rpg games these days. Too worried about making the game epic and insanely expansive, but taking away player agency outside of checking boxes. No nuanced. Feels heartless.