Fallout 4 Analysis 

-Heavy Rain SHAUN! SHAUN! SHAUN! SHAUN! SHAUN!

Too fucking good, thanks for sharing.

baby? lake? stealth? you're that ninja... wait

Valleyraven007 Metal Gear?

copy and pasted from a steam review

Wait. What?

And we fucking love it

It feels like an hour passes when I blink nowadays. I remember a 30 minute drive feeling like forever when I was younger

I've been re-watching some of his old videos recently. I think it was his Rise of the Tomb Raider video where he apologised for the length and that one is only 47 minutes.

@@Cleve_Crudgington There are 7 hour analysis videos around now, and its not even that shocking anymore lmao, long form content is the best on youtube & I love it

How can he be... so naive???

he was probably hoping for another developer (Obsidian) making another spin off (New Vegas)... but we got "their biggest project yet" from a small team that hasnt even worked on Fallout.

@@destruction126 "but we got "their biggest project yet" from a small team that hasnt even worked on Fallout." That small team more or less worked on the engine to get multiplayer working on Bethesda's botched engine while BGS main did the world of F76. Between the last DLC for F4 up to F76 release almost all of BGS worked on F76. Otherwise Starfield would have been released already.

Deez nuts

The most amazing thing is that he said that over exploration footage of Vault 75.

I thought the goal was to purifier the lake in fallout 3, not small amounts for bottles

@@AwsomePicklez still doesnt make any sense considering how easy water purifiers are to make in f4, and really just make like a small camp near it instead of going through the trouble with a whole ass lake

@@hoesmad8626 Actually In Megaton, they had a purifier lol.

I always thought that Sturges actually does the construction of those and we are just planning what to construct as he always says that he is the tinkerer everytime you brush by him..

@@RobinSonAr But you can build them before that. I should know its my first priority after leaving the vault

Preston: Hey can you reclaim this settlement? Sole survivor: Options Yea. sure. Ok.

Persuasion attempt failed.....Charisma at 10....

etherraichu LOL!

More like Enthusiastic Yes, Ask For More Info, Meh Yes and Sarcastic Yes.

Halfway through my first playthrough, I decided to start over with a max charisma/agility character to see what I had been missing with all those failed persuasion checks. Turns out I wasn't missing much, so I just went back to my first character. Sneaking didn't change much, either. You don't level up by avoiding enemies, so stealthing rather than brawling my way through just felt like I was avoiding gameplay rather than carving out a unique path. I guess I now know what makes a good roleplaying game. It's more than freedom; it's having consequences from your actions. And the late-game proved to me that I hadn't really changed much of Boston by the end.

Kepler 68 Tbf, he was likely teleported from the vault when he was out of our sight.

@@greasey8695 Doesn't get rid of the fact that the baby, as well as the Mother and Father, stood in the presence of a nuclear blast before being lowered into safety. Sure, they survived it because the blast was far enough away, that doesn't mean the radiation didn't reach them.

@@greasey8695 the telleporter literally works by massive ammounts of radiation that actually makes it way worse.

@@greasey8695 then there could have been an even more impactful intro sequence - instead of kellog and his cronies walking out, they literally vanish in a flare of blue-white lightning. Like, if you know they walked, you can somewhat follow them, but if they just zam zoom out, what in the hell are you gonna do?

@@greasey8695 I genuinely thought you meant they were despawned by the game. that's how much faith I have in fallout

I played fallout 4 when I was 12 and this conversation stuck with me. It’s just so weird? Idk. Not only how in your character reacts (I chose the same dialogue option) but also how it implies that the common idea is that baseball was some sort of gladiator style combat sport. How does information even drift that much in 200 years??? These people still know how to revitalise pre-war era military equipment to fighting form but somehow forgot what baseball is???? BASEBALL??? DID LIKE NO RULEBOOKS SURVIVE THE BOMBS????? Or am I wrong in interpreting it this way and it’s just this guy who thinks that’s how baseball works and he just declares confidently that these are the rules to any passer-by’s? If so why?? What does any of this even mean??? it’s such a weird spot of world building it genuinely baffles me. It’s honestly shocking that in a game series where radiation makes you immortal and there’s a civilisation of Roman Empire larpers that this conversation was the line for me.

​@@zamalamahama4894 what's especially funny about the "no surviving rulebooks or any media whatsoever pertaining to baseball" bit is that the city he lives in is inside a *baseball stadium*. there's really no magazines, audio logs, pictures, or videos lying around??

​@@zamalamahama4894 So it could be that all documentation was lost, or that what does exist some people edited enough for shits n giggles. Some people wanna watch the world burn even as it's currently burning and smoldering.

Tbf the player character lives in Boston, "hey asshole" is a normal greeting

*slow fucking claps*

Isnt everything blocked and only way to leave is the roof tho?

@@winstonchurchill7822 Usually? Yes. Here? Not really. I backtracked all the way to the entrance and left the way I entered since I saw no point in going to the roof. About two weeks later when I started wondering why isn't the main quest advancing, I googled this.

@@andrewmelnikov292 as i sasid thats quite impossible though,the doors are locked.

@@winstonchurchill7822 bug maybe?

@Gerald Churchill How, exactly, are they marking it on your pip-boy map page?

@@hugehappygrin they use a permanent marker to draw it on your pipboy's screen. then you later have to mark it digitally and painstakingly wipe marker stains off of it.

@@hugehappygrin That's....never really explained in 3 or 4,especially if you say no.In 1 and 2 this wasn't a feature of the pip boys at the time,and in vegas it's essentially you giving them consent to touch your pip boy if you agree to help. 3 and 4,especially if you say fuck off,dont really explain it other than Bethesda needing you to find it.

hugehappygrin what you don't think a random wastelander could use a pip boy? In the west coast games they couldn't but this is Bethesda we are talking about.

They never deserved to get the Fallout license. I hate them so much for that. To the point of actual fucking hate for the company and Todd Howard. Fucking greedy bastard. And he think he is like Elon Musk. Fucking asshole.

ok nimi What? It would be 1:23:45

That would be epic yes..

If it's any consolation, sixty minute man play at the sixty minute mark. :/

Damn, you are right.

Yessss

Now explain how she can predict the turn-off code of a Institute Courser.

@@jakespacepiratee3740 time travel!

@@Molotov_Milkshake sure.

​@@jakespacepiratee3740she has the script, and is abusing her metaknowledge to coerce drugs from people

@@Izunundara uh huh.

It's way more likely he had only been hiding there since the gunners took Quincy, otherwise it also wouldn't make sense that he knew his parents were also ghouls and how unperturbed his parents were about the whole ordeal, so occam's razor and all that.

@ultru you are wrong since billy says he hid in the fridge when the bombs fell. Over 200 years he was in their.

@@alyx8815 Plenty of bombs fell when the Gunners took over Quincy. You can't say with certainty he's referring to the nuclear bombs over 200 years ago.

@@ultru3525 Just watch the video by Oxhorn. Look up billy the kid fridge. Billy talks about hearing Sirens before the bombs fell and everything looking different after the world collapsed.

@@ultru3525 lmao, tried so hard to defend shitty writing. For what reason?

And it'd have been such an easy thing to fix.. Just make an alternative cutscene with an actress as the soldier and the dude as a lawyer. Hell the feminists would've *loved* that role reversal. Or: Tell the story in a cinematic cutscene that doesn't actually show your character at all, and instead feature a male or female narrator, and have the woman be a former soldier. I mean, fuck. She could still have quit to go have a family - presumably that's what the husband did. Or or: Don't pump a ton of cash that could've been spent on playtesters into a cinematic cutscene at all, and render the whole thing in-engine, using the character you've just created.

Rakinjo2 any of those would've been great oh my godddd

While I mostly agree, don't throw the feminists any more bones. They'll just see that as validation that their incessant nagging gets them anywhere. That's not a massage you want to boost, if you want another playable Bethesda game. They're never satisfied, not unless the character creator has 67 additional genders with individual pronouns the the npcs damn well better respect! And only straight white men should be killable enemies, of course.

I've always been confused as to why Bethesda didn't make BOTH the male and female characters soldiers on leave, being a military family.

Because that would make sense, silly! Besides, a strong, independent womyn should obviously know how to perfectly handle anything from guns to power armor and melee weapons on the same level as a trained soldier without having receiving any proper training herself whatsoever. I mean, why would there be any difference between a trained soldier with combat experience and a law graduate? You're being sexist, mate!

Country roads Take me home, To the place Where I belong...

Played as in past. Unless your implying he played 76 before 4 was released

@@jaceyb3792 I think you're missing the point of his comment

@@jaceyb3792 Not the brightest are ya?

Jacey Bowen “Little did he know...” Doesn’t mean he had somehow played it before release. Pay closer attention to such things. (Edit: Grammar.)

well yeah, youre not exactly using materials fresh off the production line to make your chairs lol.

@@samurai-butterfly7393 Why not? It's literally just wood.

@@zakhawker344 wood deteriorates, and in the environements shown, it would do, and fast. So, the old look does make sense.

@@miestaslahundokajhundohava4392 No it wouldn't. Furniture and housing has been made out of wood in the real world for millennia for a reason. The oldest wood building still in use (Hōryū-ji) is literally 1400 years old. There's no reason people in the Fallout universe shouldn't be making things out of wood. And if there was why would they be using a material that immediately breaks down in the first place?

Because 50s nuclear familiar sterotype is funny or something. Woman cook and clean.

@@AVerySillySausage Yeah, women weren't liberated enough back in those days to be sent off to war to suffer and die like the men. They had to stay home and take care of the house instead. Must have been that Male Privilege and Patriarchy!

@@avalonjustin it is though. They could not own property without a male co-signer. Same with credit cards, bank accounts, and in some cases, jobs. And women of color couldn’t even vote until 1968. So yes, it is male privilege and patriarchy. You’re just spinning it in a way that while yes, war is bad, it’s the limiting of choice and freedoms are the problem.

@@avalonjustin This isn't the dunk you think it is when a lot of feminist theory is about how patriarchy is harmful to everyone, including the people it supposedly upholds. Kinda like war really.

@@fulldisclosureiamamonster2786 So I previously replied to your comment, and wouldn't you know it, the free speech tyrants at RU-vid removed it (despite the fact I said nothing disrespectful or cursed). In case you didn't see it, I'll summarize that that line of thinking is harmful and unfair, especially to young men who are considered toxic simply based on their sex.

Vegeta!

How about doing a review/ critique on Skyrims total conversion Mod "Enderal"? It's story driven and it got some pretty neatly handcrafted emvironments plus some partially amazing voiceacting. I would love to hear your thoughts on it.

please do Skyrim critique or analysis

It may be inhuman, but its not inSAIYAN

Boyd Cooper its OK to have a lot of hours in skyrim. its OK to like a bad game.

Nope he did not cover us in the past. I am deeply offended by being left out!

6|4 z LPG.

Actually I'm watching from a parallel timeline feeling left out 😪

Plot twist, wastelands only survivors are only here because no bases were left uncovered

Yup

Wait who or why and how did they board up 90% of the commonwealth in the first place.🤯

Every fallout after 2 is not lore *dubs*

@@redbread6852 Tactics is more canon to me than 3.

Well, people are very selective in what they ignore, sugar-coat, or decide to rage against when it comes to their Serious Video Game. I grumbled more about the unrealistic vegetation & almost complete lack of trees than I did about the houses. Then again, I live in a farmhouse which was built over 100 years ago. A couple of centuries without heavy industry would have caused most of Massachusetts to revert to heavy forest. Nobody is producing oil, yet tons of machinery with moving parts doesn't seem to be an issue. I guess they eliminated friction in the Fallout universe as well. Radstag doe is like saying rooster hen, but I'm guessing the guys n gals who make these games don't actually get outside much. It doesn't matter if it is July or February, the weather around Boston never changes with the seasons. I guess they saw the desert southwest of earlier Fallout games & assumed that was the only climate and biome for the entire globe. Some people say the nukes changed the climate & melted the ice caps. Fine. If that was the case, Boston would be underwater. You can get distress calls from settlements in Far Harbor, but you can't build artillery there. Seems the old radio tower on the island would have been useful to take over for the same reason the Castle was important, communication. The game is so slapstick that I made a character named Mac Guyver. Who else can take a few wrenches, some cooking oil, & a bathroom scale and turn it into a machine gun turret, or fashion a handful of loose cigarettes into a sleeping bag?

Look at New Vegas. They’re rebuilding houses, and the trash is (mostly) gone from the floors and they have CITIES and POLITICS and a functional (barely) society to work with

That's because the best option is to help a nearby settlement. Here, I'll mark it on your map.

@@Jo_Josuke me: *starts sobbing hysterically*

I mean you can hardly ask for your faction's help if you've just murdered the one person in your faction... The only reason you have that rank and that people believe you are the General of the Minutemen is because Preston says so and the people seem to trust Preston more than you. You should be able to kill Preston there and then however and just lock yourself out of the entire Minutemen questline (and make Sanctuary (minus Codsworth) hostile to you by doing so).

@@wtr3059 or factions could be built more granularly and your execution of a high ranking member causes a schism, a mini civil war if you will. The faction system is just so bare bones and shallow. You just always become the leader after a handful of missions as if these people haven’t been a working faction for hundreds of years. They specifically needed YOU to the point that they feel completely worthless until you show up.

Basically shes saying "OOH I HAVE A VISION ABOUT YOUR FUTURE..!!" "ITS COMING TO ME.. WAIT NOW ITS slipping AWAY!!" **(Whispers)** **Ya got my cocaine sunny?**

ikr, I hated that old fart

She and the rest of Presto's gang is why I downloaded a killable NPCs mod.

I built a jail and locked most of them up in a Vault cell while assigning them to a pillory (I think that's what it's called, that old school restraining device that was used to place criminals on display) with a window right in front of em for all the world to see. My only actual useful thought out settlement build.

@Yawzheek Nah, I think it was Preston Garvey that ruined the game.

Ordinary Benny they had mario what more did they need?

I can hardly stand Garrus Vacarian speaking to me from every second NPC in the Commonwealth.

@Ordinary Benny that's less than Oblivion! How did they do this?

@@edgarcardiffscpreadermemes366 bethesda. Bethesda never changes.

@Ordinary Benny No i wil not there are litteraly thousands uppon thousands people around the globe . Therefor : No. Hire some dudes or dudettes. I mean if the street fails use the internet. They know that internet exist? Right?

So playing the DLC before initiating the main quest could fuck your entire save? Why am I not shocked

@@infamousgamer767 you should be. In New Vegas you could do any of the content in any order, and kill any character you wanted along the way and the story would adapt to your crazy choices, not break the save.

You made Preston angry probably from Raider quests

@@Blue.cheese42 Nah I just killed the raider bosses after getting powerful enough, couldn't be bothered with all the back-and-forth settlement quests.

@@henrycrabs3497 I mean, sort of a good reason to be a New Vegas fanboy. His comment makes it look good to be one.

75 hours of Joseph Anderson? Would totally watch that!

100*

Lol if that’s the case, it would be the video directly after Witcher 3 with how long he’d work on it

Longer than the game.

*2077 fails to live up to expectations*

Expensive Antique Chair also 'lay that pistol down' just before he kills Father not realizing it's his son

@@stuffandthat157 This is some Kubrickian depth right here.

@@stuffandthat157 Also also at 24:40 "keep a-knocking but you can't come in" is sung. Then he talks about how he feels like he can't take part in the story due to a lack of dialogue options. He's railroaded along, he's there for the story but isn't "let in" to it.

Fallout 1 and 2 are better than New Vegas.

i played fallout 2 for maybe 200 hours and i agree, but i personally prefer the first person view as it allows me to merge with the character more. i dont know why no one made a mod that remakes fo2 in new vegas. a lot of the dessert assets are already there. no doubt it would take time but it would pay off. weapons and armor from 1 and 2 are already made in nv. most perks too.

***** lets hear it!

James well fallout new Vegas is the most similar to fallout 2 so far. I honestly like the first person perspective, as it allows me to merge with my character more. I would honestly like a first person only fallout on a completely new engine that doesn't reek of the early 2000's.

FalloutModReview TV It would be amazing if Bethesda remade fallout 1 or 2 using the fallout 4 game engine so that people now a days could experience its amazing story telling and roleplaying without having to slog through the terrible and wierd UI and gameplay mechanics.

*Dog! Back in the cage!*

I didn't even notice that, thank you for pointing it out!

30th-ish time listening to this and I just now realized it.

New vegas moment

The majority of the fanbase of Fallout 4 has as much attachment to Shaun as they have to a pet rock. It never really made me attached to Shaun, cuz I'm not a father myself. It just doesn't really hit as hard then. No time was spent beforehand that could have made me care for Shaun and therefore I found it more annoying than anything to have my character scream "SHAUN" every 2 seconds. Hell, I was more sad about the fact that Nora died than that Shaun was missing. So I really was in no rush to find him. When I found that he was not an annoying screaming child (keep in mind that some of the most popular mods in Skyrim and Fallout are the ones that allow you to kill children, which really indicates the Fanbase) I was actually relieved I wouldn't have to deal with that shit.

opened fire*

I was about to steal your comment but you put a trade mark on it :)

@@middletonization I was about to steal that slogan for my own evil science base too, GODDAMNIT the water purifiers aren't intact but the copyright laws are

LOL

she actaully admits after that she is 270 years old

Without having watched the video, where is this kid in the fridge located?

Also the kid in the fridge dosen't eat

Do ghouls need to eat?

All of the workers left after fallout 076 except for Todd Howard and he became a one-eyed demon.

And then Microsoft bought them out

@@shadysam7161 "The Strange Tale of Todd Howard, the One-eyed Tentacle Demon"

Schrödinger’s murphy

I’m 5 months late but I HATED that. You can’t expect any reasonable adult to not know where an old military fort is when they are a military man. Same with the satellites, some of which were military. Same with the trail, the park (which your characters both make reference to, being where they bashed their meat pies), Sanctuary itself (why is it not marked on the map, why?!), they’re completely inept.

Top be fair, my dad was raised in New York, but never went to the Empire State Building, nor the Statue of Liberty.

whiterabbit75 But I’d pray he at least knew where it was at, you know?

@@AVerySexuallyDeviantOrange Kinda hard to miss a hundred story tall building, or a 300' tall statue on an island, you know? The Freedom Trail is just a series of landmarks, that are level with the sidewalk. Easy to miss, especially given the level of garbage covering them up now.

whiterabbit75 SHSHSHSSHH shush, point still stands. He should still know what the thing is and where it leads, all things considered. I mean, he’s not stupid. Literally can’t be, with no dialogue changes for his stats.

YOU, are a real genius!

Is there some way that you betray everyone?

@@Drew-hu7hb nop, the game is a shit compared to the other Fallouts

*S N E A K 1 0 0*

1. Ally with the Minutemen, Institute, BoS, and Railroad.2. Destroy Railroad with Institute (and/or BoS)3. Destroy BoS with Minutemen (Just kill a BoS NPC to make them hate you, then the storyline will lead you to kill the BoS with the Minutemen.)4. Destroy Institute with Minutemen5. (Nuka World DLC) Raid Commonwealth and betray the Minutemen.Note: Garvey, Shaw, and Radio guy are still unkillable. I just put Garvey in a pillory, and I have turrets kill Minutemen when they attack my raiders so it's not technically me. I don't know if Garvey would get out of the pillory if I kill a Minuteman myself, but I assume I would lose control of the Castle and he would leave his assigned pillory. He's already giving me the silent treatment, but to his dismay that's exactly what I want.

The thing is, is that , as Valentine says, when they leave the Institute, their memories are wiped. They don't know that they're synths...yet 3 are walking around out there and know that they are indeed synths. Art, Jack, and that dude in the synth uniform. Oddly, the only female synth is Amilia(Covenant).

@@hugehappygrin only female synth? sooo you never met glory or even got far enough to kill the first courser and meet the female synth hes hunting that knows shes a synth?

I choose to side with the institute and minutemen based on the good of the common wealth. The brotherhood might stick around to hoard more tech from the institute and then they could set something up, but what happens to the railroad after all the synths are free? Are the just going to disband and let the Commonwealth keep rotting? With the institute and minutemen working together you can make a huge argument for the Commonwealth actually advancing out of a nuclear wasteland.

@@cryptopsyrin4425 Same, I sided with the Institute, totally advanced and capable of rebuilding the world, non-violent and morally neutral. I don't give a rats ass about synths, they are machines :D The game tried hard to shove the "good moral" that "lopok how bad the institute is, synths are humans too,"!! No they are not :D It's a terrible idea to humanize them

@@aakkoin My problem with joining the institute is how you can't stop them kidnapping and doing shady stuff even though you do lots of work for them and literally the perant of the son.

Cait is also pretty great too, though the scaled back combat zone and restricted freedom in her companion quest hold her back a bit. My favorite companion in NV was Raul and I thought it was cool how you could convince him to either keep working towards being a mechanic or to become a gunslinger again, so when I got my hands on 4 and there wasn't an option to support Cait's psycho addiction (maybe through a speech check or two) I was disappointed. Sure you can just ignore the quest after she gives it to you, but that locks off her companion perk, later affinity talks, and any romance options

I remember while playing multiple Bethesda games, would catch them on reusing some of their own ideas for quests, like almost 1:1. And not as references or throwbacks, just copy paste.

@@smokey3504 how did cait end up in America? Had the world recovered enough for international travel? Im not familiar with fallout lore

@@kingt0295 Boston has a large Irish immigrant community and it only makes sense that their descendents, people like Cait, would still carry on some aspects of their culture. She was clearly born in the Boston area to an Irish family

@@smokey3504 do they still have the accent though?

Dreamer Dawn Chernobyl wasn't even that long ago and its crazy how much plant life has come back

TheCycloneRanger Exactly, I'm guessing that during the Great War, that only lasted 2 hours, most of the places hit by nuclear bombs were high population zones like cities and of course military installations. They wouldn't waste nukes on sparsely populated areas and wilderness. Plants are very adaptive to environmental conditions as long as it's warm enough to grow and they have access to water. There's also the sunflower which can absorb radiation in the ground.

Plant life had returned in New Vegas; there's cacti, flowers and palms in the desert, the forest in the Jacobstown area and not to forget Zion Valley. And in Fallout 2 as well as the original game there was plant life as well, there was just a drought going on during the second game and the first happened to take place in a desert. It's just in Bethesda's Fallout that the ecosystem sorta lacks any basis.

Pascal New Vegas is different. It's always been a desert area. But I'm talking about areas like the Commonwealth, Capital Wastelands and such. Those areas receive a lot of rainfall so they should have a boom of plant growth.

Dreamer Dawn Yes, they should, after all Oregon's forests were alive during Fallout 2 and it rains all the damn time in 4.

Exactly! Thank you! That fucking kid made no sense!

I know this comment was posted 11 months ago but I'll answer it anyway. Billy, kid in a fridge breaks a lot of previously established lore (ghouls don't need to eat, breathe, sleep, or drink). When you talk negatively about the war and US government with Daisy, a Goodneighbor resident she will mention that her husband was killed in the Sino-American war.

@@siemen3606 ive never played FO4, what does the latter point regarding daisy imply?

@@leorickt.9604 if daisy was 10 when the bombs fell how could she already be a widdow during the Sino-american war with was shortly before the great war

I'd probably stop accurately counting my age after maybe 110 years

Thank you for that :D That reply is genius, god damn.

Shrödinger*

oh you said the same thing later on hehe

yeah that was like saying a french person from paris could not possibly know where the tower is

Funny enough I know some games that do similar things granted in these cases they make you get annoyed in a way from trying to steer you away from the result but they still give you that option as the ones making the game seem to be like ''if they are set on that path let it be''

Literally saying "No." to Elijah in Dead Money from NV.

And I believe you can actually die in the beginning if you decide to run in the wrong direction, so it'd be essentially no difference

in super paper mario, when you have the old guy saying "please!!!! you have to save all dimensions!!!!" you can say no, and he'll try to get you to reconsider a few times, but on the third time of saying no he goes "Really? Then we're all doomed... oh no......" and the game just fucking ends its great

Could be annoying if you spend a long time in character creation though.

Jon Krieger Same!

Noah Cadwell-Gervais is the only other PC game RU-vid reviewer of this calibre I've found. Between the two, we are treated to outstanding levels of in-depth, largely objective, critical analysis.

+Tim Braithwaite have you ever heard of MatthewMatosis?

λ N I M A T O R Not yet, but I feel another binge coming on. :) Thanks for the tip.

Tim Braithwaite No problem! He does very long analysis videos of games like these ones. Very enjoyable content.

@@therru5943 How are you both doing?

@@therru5943 I am, it's good to hear. Cheers.

Such an honest and wholesome comment. I agree, they are.

Especially with insomnia and sleep issues. A playlist of just a couple of his vids is enough to fall asleep to without having to switch videos which disrupt your drifting off. I've made it a habit to fall asleep to his videos, it's what I'm supposed to be doing right now. Only I stupidly decided to check the comments... whoops. Perfect mix of seriousness without being bland with some humor and a soothing voice.

Yes. Me too. Exactly.

I mean, you cant really expect people like this to actually understand the game.

​@jakespacepiratee3740 you keep defending this shit game. Please get some standards and eating slop from the trough.

I never gave a single fuck about Shaun. They really dropped the ball with that whole thing, like you're saying basically.

I'm glad i never finished this POS

TBH. the way you worded all that made me realize Bethesda actually had some creative and interesting narrative ideas going there.,t's very twilight zone- esque stuff, I just think it was executed terribly

@@residentraccoon2910 Might aswell be their running theme. Good ideas, terribly exexuted. And riddled with bugs.

@@residentraccoon2910 I think it would be better if Shaun wasn't a baby but someone in his early 20s. Sort of like Ciri in the Witcher 3. Also if you're going to add voice acting then make the main protagonist someone that you can care about. TLDR; make the Witcher 3 with a Fallout skin.

I wish it was 5.6 seconds longer

Meh i liked fallout 1,2 and respectively 3 and 4. but i had a huge distaste for fallout new vegas.

***** i also didn't like it(although the dlcs were INCREDIBLE), the world was boooring

then you never liked the first fallout games if you didnt like nv

TripleM no, i loved the first one

then how do you like nv the least?

That sounds more interesting than the actual story, I'd like to play that game.

Sucks to suck pal

The Caller?

I hated the CoW questline; I wanted to learn spells and stuff not study this stupid fucking ball.

Obsidian said that they would like to work on another Fallout game, so it's possible.

+Searches for Quality Unfortunately, I feel like Bethesda is doing their best to just ignore NV's existence. Kind of sad, seeing as Bethesda could learn A LOT from Obsidian about making a proper roleplaying game... and a proper Fallout game.

There was some rumors that Fallout: New Orlean is happening. (made by Obsidian, off course)

They won't give us fallout new Vegas because it wound cut the sales of fallout 4

*cough *cough someone watched a video called "Fallout 3 is garbage, and here's why" *cough *cough

I couldn't take "The Institute" seriously because they act like fucking cartoon villains doing evil while twirling their mustaches.

Believe it or not, there was a purpose...but it's cut content (seriously Bethesda, why?!). In some promotional material, it was stated that the synth project was made to create immortal, perfect, super human bodies for Institute members to transplant their brains into in order to become truly immortal. I have no idea why the fuck this was removed, since there was no reason to whatsoever to remove it, especially since it wasn't even replaced with another narrative.

@@joshuakim5240 yeah that's really inexplicable, fascinating nonetheless

@Etcetera Weirdly enough, the purpose of that was kept in the game, which was to infiltrate the commonwealth with covert agents. Then again, with the cutting/lack of a end goal, it's still stupid.

@@joshuakim5240 I'm just confused as to why they didn't just, I dunno, copy the look of people from pictures/history and send them in from outside the Commonwealth. They would appear to be people looking for a new start. There's arguments for how long it would take them to infiltrate in that way, but if the protagonists story is anything to go off of, it's ridiculously easy to gain the absolute trust of the populace. Make the synths "talented" (ie preprogrammed) fighters, builders, and/or public speakers and the wasteland is yours for the taking.

Everyone standing on that should've died long before the dust reached them. The only people not affected were the people already in the vault.

Nothing can travel as fast or faster than the speed of light, radiation only effects over long periods of time and in extreme choices. I.e. the people living in Chernobyl only showed signs of radiation sickness after weeks of living in extremely irradiated environments.

Gamma ionising radiation is light, thus obviously travelling at c. Beta, whilst not as fast as light, travels at around 60-80% the speed of light and alpha is like 10%. Most of it disappears pretty quickly because of its speed and penetrating power, but being that close to a nuclear bomb (close enough to see it) you're definitely gonna get hit with a ton of radiation - in short everyone that wasn't in the vault as Logan said would probably be stricken with some crazy cancerous growths. Of course, as you so astutely mentioned, everything around the bomb is also going to become ionised and thus release radiation itself but that's a drop in the bucket compared to the radiation the bomb itself would release.

@Brando Lebean ... wha ... dude. You just said that light does not travel at the speed of light. Are you sure that's what you meant to say? All light is a form of radiation, and how dangerous it is depends on the intensity and frequency of that light. A sunburn is a mild radiation burn brought on from low band, thermal spectrum radiation. Gamma radiation is worse and can kill you faster, but it's the same concept.

Brando Lebean W R O N G :3

I mean, do remember that the purifier in Fallout 3 was meant to purify *the entire* Potomac in one go. The purifiers you can build in Fallout 4 are making ten pints of water a day.

@@JammyD2579 but that's still a working water purification machine, which is the point. All they would need would be more of them and the problem of FO3 is not a problem anymore. The story of FO4 is such a clusterfuck of loose ends and plot holes it becomes impossible to enjoy the more you learn about it. Kinda sucks, really wanted this game to be the next New Vegas in terms of story but it was never gonna happen with Bethesda at the wheel.

@@stonepiper1035 No, that's not the point. They shouldn't have been called 'purifiers', because people kept nitpicking them. In Fallout 3 (and 4, and NV) you could purify water as a recipe. Does that invalidate the Purity Project too? Again, in-game, the F04 purifiers only produce litres per day, barely enough to sustain single settlements. While Joe is almost completely on-point in his Fallout critiques, this point is a misstep, it is a dumb critique.

JammyD2579 the purpose of the purifier in fallout 3 was to remove the vast amount of excess radiation in the water, whereas normal purifiers work to remove bacteria, heavy metals and physical particles from the water. Removing radiation from a substance is practically impossible, hence the Chernobyl dead zone and others like it

JammyD2579 The argument doesn't hold up. Why, because an untrained person can build one of these thing with scraps they cobbled together in less them five minutes. Your right in that oneof them is hardly enough for one settlement, but even that argument don't hold up because you can build more then one without even leaving. The amount of scrap that you find in each settlement is enough to make more then one of these in one go without outside resources and can be done without a single day of training in engineering. And sure,you could make the argument that these "purifiers" are only meant to remove bacteria and such but he water you get from them IS pure. No radiation, so that doesn't hold up either. The fact of the matter is in FO3 people are acting like getting pure water is the hardest thing in the world, and then FO4 shows us that it can be done with the click of a button. No training, no need to learn how to build it, just passively collect junk and boom clean safe water just like that.

Ohhh I didn't even catch that!! Ouch lol!

dead meme is dead.

Police don't just shoot people you guys are dumb af cops help people just a bunch af antifa pu$$ies people get shot for not listening or being stupid why don't you stop being a fat gamer and get a job police are nice yo mama and dad raised you wrong my father is a police officer and they are nice I'm a kid and is smarter than you guys that are stupid and think cops are bad smh

Fuzzy Dunlop well said

@@user-fv3wj2yw6j your name is quite accurate.

I feel bad for everyone who spent an hour customising their spouse just to have them eat a bullet before the game even started

@@NGRevenant lol me

The spouse was killed to test the emotional reactivity of the synth subject, a.k.a. the main character. If they experience loss, it would make someone with a conscience lean heavier on accepting that "Father" is actually their son. There's no way a whole team of people who run The Institute would allow "that kind of person" into a position that allows a complete compromise.

@@SebbyPlaysMusic your head canon is not official lore, don’t present it as such

@@jon1819 What is it that dictates official lore? I can't find writers for Fallout 4 explaining the story anywhere. I know there's a portion of people who agree with me just as there's a portion of people who agree with you. Is official lore valid if it disregards essential details of the story?

SILENCE VERIFIED YOU KNOW NOTHING OF THE SERIES OR OUR PLIGHT

Amazing how exactly? It's literally the same base plotline as in Fallout 3 (male/female family member looking for a male family member)

@@giorgialadashvili4771 if you boil down anything to it's core parts then it's the similar

@@Montanerrr Sure, but in Fallout 4's case, the plot is, at best, just inversion of that of Fallout 3. It's lazy and shows how creatively bankrupt Bethesda truly is.

lol what part of my comment was wrong or incorrect? fucking useless brony trash...

the voice acting is not the problem, the bad writing and meaningless choices are

The amount of lore they break in this game is incredible

It does

@@NastyNick1776 It does

@@ZekeWaters_ it does

Wish I could go back so I could prepare for the piss of 2021.

@@ladylad2763 it does

+Art Vandalay 'Shall we find something to kill to cheer ourselves up?'

so was ur mom

+Art Vandalay it sucks that the game looks so good too. Man, this game really did suck. Barely no role playing, just predictable and overall dislikable story. Just yikes all around.

hhm not really I already have more than a 100 hours and still didn't bored me like the dead world of new vegas.

It depends on what you enjoy about these games. To me Fallout 4 took everything what made Fallout special away to the point that they could have just called it Borderlands 3. There's very few great quests, few interesting and deep characters and very little role-playing in the game. I mean the characters and quests seem like no effort was put into them. Then on top of that the shitty dialogue system and it's a very bland, generic shooter. "Dead world of New Vegas"... Yeah right, there's more interesting characters and quests in a single town in New Vegas than in the whole Fallout 4. But hey, they put that shitty version of Minecraft in, yay!

Holy shit ahahah this game coming out did really cordinate with them coming back into fashion

Broken Mask incedent. That is all.

Where was FC4's failure state? If you stay at the palace, Pagan Min makes Ajay the emperor and leaves.

The RU-vid Phantom Official As in, you can no longer play the game past that point, I should of used different terms.

Your Average Genius. What about the Broken Mask indecent ? I didn't mean how do they know the existence of synths - more that example given in this video has someone coming across a synth he immediately recognised as himself.

Edit It happens to us all (Bad phrasing)

Watching this again years later, I just now noticed

Black person

@@henrycrabs3497 bruh

video is also 1:23:40 long

There are too many triple a titles that can rely solely on the fact that they're part of the franchise to make a profit

Indie titles have become one of the only ways to get a good experience anymore. Triple a studios have realized they don't need to try anymore so they just don't.

And now Rockstar, sad days

except there were plenty of RPGs released around the same time as fallout 4 that had the same commitment to player choice etc. as the original fallout games. you just weren't playing them. wasteland 2 literally launched a few months before fallout 4 and is basically just a modern version of fallout 1 and 2. expand the scope a little and you had pillars of eternity, torment: tides of numenera, tyranny, pathfinder and so on. even more games now as half of these have gotten sequels of their own. there's even a diverse range of first person RPGs sort of like new vegas. even at the time of fallout 4's release. game devs aren't getting more lazy, you are.

@@sadpee7710 did play wasteland 2, liked it, and as for me saying developers are getting lazy... Yeah, they are, the bigger ones, the ones fighting for consumer attention will of course try harder to make a good game, the ones who already have it shit out average garbage year on year, it's the industry... Unfortunately

polarzombies I think it would be cooler if they just did their own things

It'd be even better if Bethesda just sold the rights to Fallout to anyone else.

Apollo Diomedes: no. it really wouldn't.

Edward Harris Yeah like Mighty Number 9--err... Yooka Laylee--well ehh... Hm. Maybe you shouldn't consider Kickstarter as the good guys. Certain indie game devs, for sure though.

Punished Yoko Taro Yooka Laylee was actually pretty good. Like not shovel night good, but not as bad as mighty no 9 either

It could be bc hes a hybrid of some kind

e-cig to the extreme

I dunno man I cringed when I heard it.

Aphex Brain It's a pun wtf do you expect?

Not true.

Reddit moment

@@astrosasha it was 3 years ago i didnt know of reddit and ive grown since then leave me be Still a good pun tho

Well if you're not playing the game even with multiple DLCs that you've not even touched yet, that's YOUR fault. Not the game's.

meepzer what

meepzer Well, if the game is of no interest to me anymore, how is that my fault? Just a huge disappointment to me. Thats not my fault, is it? After all, theres no one to blame, and no need for it. The game isn't very good in the long run, in my opinion, period. I've played Fo3 for over 700 hours, NV over 400 and Skyrim over 400 hours. With this game I will most likely never get much over 200. Now don't get me wrong, I've enjoyed playing this game a lot, and it has been well worth its price and all that, but the aftertaste I have for it now is very unpleasant. It won't be the masterpiece in my memories as the earlier games now are. To me, this game is a big letdown in the series.

Orcidea There is new content that you haven't even touched. How are you going to just assume that you won't like it?

Maybe because those contents are made from the same people who made the disappointing and shallow base game?

I'm from CT and I've been down the freedom trail irl back in middle school on a field trip but I had no idea what the hell they were getting at. I ended up leaving it alone and stumbling upon it by mistake.

Then so should the npc that gives you the quest though, there's just no saving grace for these plotholes.

@@sirjoey3137 In fairness, the Freedom Trail would be wicked old by that time so there's a chance that the average person in Fallout Boston wouldn't know about it. But yeah a Bostonian pre-war likely would know where it is.

Given that fact aside... you still need to look at the rest of this craptastic game. There’s still a mountain of bunk that a single side comment that he made changes nothing whatsoever, except for making you pointing it out look like a prick :)

@@clydenoc2077 so why did the quest giver?

Ferris Newhall I like that aliens that can destroy asteroids with a veritable Death Star laser cannon and have ray guns able to disintegrate virtually any living creature with a single bullet, contained within a battery the size of a rifle bullet, just barely are able to handle teleportation. They have anti-gravity beams, can perform real-time genetic mutation, they can revive cryogenically preserved organisms, but teleporters are shorted out after only a few uses, after damage is done to any wiring nearby, after the ship has power issues, anything. But the Institute? They’re so cool and science-y that they can zap multiple people in and out in less than a second! They can even take human DNA and change it to gorilla DNA, as well as squid (?) and raven DNA, despite them having different numbers of chromosomes. Isn’t the Institute just so cool, being able to do anything but make guns that actually hurt people?

Giving the player character a voice would be fine if the dialogue system worked like 3 or NV. But… that would require bethesda to not only match the quality of obsidian, but take the extra effort to go even further.

@@dymaxion3988 Voicing all those alternate lines would have been prohibitively expensive even for Bethesda.

@@giorgialadashvili4771 So you see, the better choice would’ve been to not add a VA for your MC at all. That would free up even MORE money - maybe enough to get their writers to make a decent story.

guess the institute had other priorities...

@@twinkleihh9675 oh my god

It's annoying since there is no way for the game to ask if you worked it out without giving the twist away for the people who didn't work it out.

I figured that a lot of time had passed since the main character was refrozen and there was this really annoying disconnect between what I thought and what I could convey in the new dialogue system.

If it was obvious, why’d it take you so long to realize it?

ecstasy.apostasy who are you responding to?

@@pickle5666 OP

That legendary-weapons-thing bothered me really more than it should. But in NV it made so much sense: You get this one and ONLY one unique weapon (because it's unique, duh) and it's worth a lot because of that. If you lose it, it's gone. Meanwhile in Fallout 4: A legendary rad-roach had swallowed a minigun that converts normal bullets into exploding ones. But a legendary deathclaw drops a legendary raider leg with +2 luck. Or the mere existence of a radiation-gun that deals extra damage to ghuls (that are immuen to radiation-damage).

TheHeavyshadow Also some of the legendaries were broken as fuck. I got a laser gun with a 20% hands to break an enemies leg. I made it automatic and put a beam splitter on and there was no longer an enemy that could threaten me. Legendary deathclaws went down as easy as radroaches.

That is because all weapon-effects that affect the bullets are counted for all bullets seperately. I found the double-barrel-shotgun, one time with a bleeding effect, one time with an explosion-effect. The bleeding effect killed deathclaws on level 30-something with two shots, and so fast at that that I couldn't reload fast enough to get a third shot off before they were dead. The explosion one was more or less the same, just even more instantaneous and soemtimes the claws survived two shots with a sliver of health. I imagine the same goes for radiation and poison ones, too.

1. why didn't they put this in the robot racing area owned by raiders 2. skills require skill 3. pretty sure this got cut at the last minute. 4. 3's karma system sucked, just sayin' (bethesda cant make a good one) 5. pfft, screw that. 6. couldn't do this in 3 7. why wasn't this implemented 8. i guess nuking the institue puts a hole in cambridge 9. these actually exist, but they're extremely rare (like the cryolator, which has no mods) (bethesda actually do it, again) 10. insert futurama reference 11. bethesda can't do that

@@22haloboy Why do you hate bethesda so much lol? Its as if you hate bethesda more than you enjoy NV. I don't really understand why so many of your types exist. Its pretty sad how NPC like you are.