Fallout - An Entire Series Retrospective and Analysis 

That is patently incorrect.

it's worse than that. many of the speech checks, whether they you're convincing an NPC to give you more money or give you information, they often result in you missing out on important dialogue or they prevent you from being able to ask a question that would give you certain information.

@@SvenTviking >says "patently" >no proof given for up to 3 weeks Congrats

@@JohnSmith-op3qj Reckon they'll be back?

@@cptsteele91 eh, worthless comments kinda denote the lack of commitment in the conversation. I'd be surprised if he suddenly comes back after this long

Same bro!

Big same. I think I just love video games and want to hear every little thing about them.

Same haha, I find them super relaxing; they put my brain into rest mode.

because the games are shallow these days

If you haven't yet, check out Noah Caldwell-Gervais. He is the GOAT of long form videogame analysis.

I think the follow up, when he's in a legion controlled helios one and just tells the player "when in Rome..." is even funnier

FALLOUT 3 was a pathetic waste of time. They misunderstood where the Magic was and produced something that made Skyrim look impressive. 🤮. The present franchise is garbage infused with artificial Fallout flavoring.

I’m pretty sure it’s a Steven Wright joke but I’m not 100%

Fantastic was fantastic

@@Addeladle-St-James dude is there nothing else? like arguments, examples or just your toxic opinion after every comment here like a freaking russian bot.

lol so true raiders outnumber non-raiders so it was wouldn't be a lucrative job

They could probably cut the number of raiders by 80%. Make strangers themselves more hostile and slower to trust, so you need to be careful with every encounter. More small groups wandering around without just labeling them "raider." Add in more animals, and you've got plenty of danger between towns.

I played all the Fallout's in order. As much as I loved Fallout 3, when I got to it, one thing that bugged me was how it had so much to explore, but might have been better off concentrating on making more large towns with multiple quests within them, like the originals. Where the world felt more "real" and factionalized.

While valid point indeed and using pure logic I don't have any way to refute this. There are points where logic might sometimes step aside for gamplay. However, I dare to say New Vegas managed to sell the cake and eat it too on that regard, so there is enough enemies to shoot, while the world does not just feel like two million raiders and 400 folks that live off two garden fields raising carrots.

That's within the Fallout lore of scavenging, the good thing about the mutual assured destruction is that a very small population has huge surplus of resources. Plus in FO few groups/factions are actually productive, mostly small societies composed of farmers do something productive excluding humanitarian groups like the followers of the apocalypse and eventually Mr.House or the neo NCR. The point of Fallout is that nearly all factions rely on the past(technology, politics/ideologies) In fact I disagree with the statement in the video "I would like to see the next Fallout more bleak", FO 3, NV, 4 are bleak, not environmentally but humanitarianly because there are lots of resources that very few actually implement for real good purposes, even those who may seem peseudo-good BoS doesn't do that always (techno-nazis) (They have a good ending in FO3 because they help you for project purity), NCR (Corrupt democracy/totalitarians)(NV ending they give free water but remain totalitarian), various micro societies/towns do ain't shit (have you seen any INDIPENDENT researcher/inventor in FO ? because I can't remember). Fallout is meant to be a repetition of human mistakes hence "war never changes" and bla bla, but that sentence is literally everything in the game because war has never actually ended (not the great war). Check this ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DE4EzognsO8.html

And they weren't allowed to fix bugs on the engine.

Just like KOTOR 2.

and it STILL managed to be the best Fallout game. Obsidian are gods, also for KOTOR2

Just replayed Fallout 4 after Outer Worlds. There was way more bugs in the latter than the former. Obisidan is just as bad at bugs as Bathsheba. This is even more clear if you've played Alpha Protocol and Pillars of Eternity (which needed a spell check)

@@nillynush4899 The best after the second installment you mean.

Ahhhhh yes I have played from Fallout 1 to Fallout 4 and I've even played Fallout tactics(its actually pretty good) and one thing always remains constant it is just like you said......... the Damned companions always block the damn door.... yes even in Fallout tactics where you control all your characters...

@Trevor Harris I'd rather have a deathclaw finger my anus then play Fallout 76...

Wouldn’t it be as simple as having a program that every minute or so forces your companions to follow behind or along side you when not in combat. That way they never overcome the player and stay behind them. Or perhaps a pathfinding system that forces them to head through doors, and doesn’t allow them to stay put. In addition increase their accuracy so they feel more helpful. Not so much so that their stealing player kills but enough that they don’t seem like a two year old that’s missing half their shots. Perhaps a system where they lower 1/2 of all enemies’s health to a quarter then move onto the next target.

@Melanie L This. Going to FPS gameplay wasn't an evolution for the series, specially when it's the Gamebryo version of Bethesda. Everything was worse: worse gameplay, worse writing, worse characters, much worse story, pretty much everything was worse. There was next to no improvements. Honestly, i would have prefer if the franchise died after 2, then around a decade or so later some company that actually cares for RPGs would have picked it up and made an actual game that followed what the originals started. ATOM RPG is the closest we got to a true Fallout 3. The garbage Bethesda tries to pass off as Fallout games are not Fallout games.

@@DJ-kp7mf Yes Fallout Tactics is awesome, especially the multiplayer (though super shotguns are op af). Anyone hating on tactics while loving fallout 4 or 76 are hypocrites of the highest degree. Also it could be considered devolution, especially the world building in Bethesda compared too oblivion. Compare Diamond or Rivet City with Vault city or New California in fallout 2 or any of the smaller settlements in 3 or 4 with New Reno or Boulder City.

Right? I may be in the minority here but I literally like EVERY Fallout game (except I haven't played Tactics and I don't plan to).

@@ghostcure3403 same dude, fallout series will always have a special place in my heart

@@ghostcure3403 same bro. I like them all for different reasons. All have pros and cons. But I just enjoy them all as a whole series and each has its place in it

@UCJuiGenFkca6JrCWkv7AFEA asshole, you're a fake fan if you haven't played the god tier Fallout Tactics. God himself has said he couldn't make a game 1% of the quality of Fallout Tactics or BoS. It is a masterpiece that us humans are lucky to see

Most relatable comment I have ever read.

Same!! When I first got it, not realizing it was made a while ago, the graphics are hard to deal with. But after some time and just how much fun I had exploring, I grew to really like it and felt immersed in what is supposed to be a dull endless wasteland. It does have that warmth and with the music, it’s a relaxing time

FALLOUT 3 was a pathetic waste of time. They misunderstood where the Magic was and produced something that made Skyrim look impressive. 🤮. The present franchise is garbage infused with artificial Fallout flavoring.

@@Addeladle-St-James get a job

I love new Vegas and it’s a core part of my childhood, but I’ve never ever seen anyone say they love the orange- tinted everything lol.

Agreed, I also think the fact it's a desert makes it more believable. Don't get me wrong love having a ruined city to run amok in but after a nuke war would def not be this much of Boston or DC left

How DAAAAAARE you put that evil on me. Now its there, stuck in my head.

big iron is better js

And then the game crashes.

I want to like but I’ll keep it at is

Tbh i just kept the radio off...

Laughs in digimon

Literally the entire staller series

@@megamike15 fucking right

disco elisium is really good at it by the way

My real life is cartoony and serious (in the horrifying way) at the same time. You need that to survive sometimes, other times it's the mockery and insanity of others making it BOTH cartoony and serious to an extreme. That's just the way it goes, but I agree that it doesn't make sense. That's life.

He took a respectful dump on Fallout 3. +10 Karma

I feel like a lot of his criticisms boil down to "Not serious or grim enough. We can't have moments of silliness or wackiness in this game since it is P O S T A P O C A L Y P T I C." It's really weird how he just doesn't like any humor or levity and wants to be surrounded by a grim dismal world all the time. Like wtf was that whole rant about how radiation sickness isn't taken seriously?! You don't think that 200 years after the Great War that people wouldn't adapt or have a bunch of radaways and Rad-Xs to ward off radiation? It really feels like he is just complaining for the sake of complaining. This is the main issue with all these video essay guys. They claim to or come off as if they understand people, when they forget basic shit like how people can adapt to their surroundings and maybe have cartoonish levity to be able to function in the wasteland without just completely breaking down. Also saying that a bunch of Bethesda game designers are "incompetent" is downright insulting and disrespectful.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5z8XHe2NoAE.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JQr70sDtxsg.html i have watched these videos over and over again, i love 3 and 4, i think three in a whole is better then new Vegas, but that is just my opinion.

​@@truedarkness4052 100 percent agree

​@@truedarkness4052 The writers for Oblivion were amazing, what 'special' kind of person would mock them?

That’s wild, I’ve always taken care of my settlements and each play through I take literally months to finish and that’s never happened!!!

@Leo Waltz oh I agree. Just making the point that the mountains were put where they were put because they are actually there in the real world. I go to Vegas a lot and Im always blown away how true to life New Vegas is in its geography.

@Manek Iridius He wasn't talking about the walk this road or getfuckedbydeathclawsorcazadors.ncrdollar mechanic of the game. He was talking about the world map and how accurate it is to real life.

@Manek Iridius Yeah, all he said was that they did good job visually representing the real life layout of the geography. Now you look stupid and oversensetive. Well done.

Manek Iridius it’s really not that hard to walk past the deathclaws lmao

I live in Pahrump. can confim. The thing I was surprised at most when I moved out here was just how accurate it was.

He sounds like a politician haha

New Vegas according to Bethesda

@@blingusringus2429 I have never heard Bethesda badmouth New Vegas, but whatever helps you sleep at night.

@@prime_optimus it was a joke cumwad

@@blingusringus2429 Cope.

Took me about till Necropolis... Was quite surprised you could name your character as see fit.

Baby, Ed’s dead

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAGA

@@henrycrabs3497 lul

Hes unidentified until you click on him to get it

@@Taeschno_Flo The joke. *You*

For better or for worst? In my opinion, it was for the better.

@@flowerthencrranger3854 worse, i would happily trade eternal life, no need to eat, immune to radition to look a bit crispy, whearas in 1,2 3 and nv they are scary an di understand the specisim

@@Nick-oj5bh But "highly irradiated" doesn't mean looking like rotting corpses. FO4 din that better, sorry.

@@CousinBellic I'm sorry, what?

You could barely see them in the original

The Pitt DLC is the best idea of Fallout series. They could have made a complete game based on the idea of the birth of a child immune to the radiation of the Wasteland, but they stuck with the premise of searching for a relative.

Fallout 3 honestly gets the short end of the stick so much and I don't get it. It's like people get off on saying it's bad.

@@henrycrabs3497 I think Fallout 3 was just the biggest jump from what a lot of people see as the "good" Fallouts and the "bad" Fallouts. It doesn't help that it somewhat lacks its own identity. There are fewer overarching conflicts in Fallout 3 than in any other game, to my memory. I bet many people don't see the full scope of the decisions in Fallout 3 because they're too often split down good and evil (factions on the same side of the morality split tend not to compete with each other, even if it's feasible to only side with one of them.) There's a lot to love in Fallout 3, but it tends to get more attention for what it lacks than what it has.

The Pitt DLC is the best Fallout DlC ever, of all time. Seriously I will fight tooth and nail over this, even better than Old World Blues.

​@@twinzzlers I really hated Old World Blues.

Same with Fallout 3, can't remember her name but a character will tell you about quests you haven't completed yet

You mean mama Murphy

@Tortillasoup-se7sh nah that's fallout 4.

"My son is missing? No time for that, there's not nearly enough giant dicks in the Commonwealth!"

😂😂😂😂😂

@@megamike15 imagine if we were still all behaving like 80 years ago... that would be jolly mister...

I always thought it was because Fallout 2 re-used Fallout 1's assets which were designed to fit the unique design of each of Fallout 1's locations making their usage seem less special in 2.

@@veganhero1828 Does that means that FO New Vegas is Less Special than Fallout 3?

@@thomasesr It means it suffers from using many assets designed for Washington DC but not by too much since Obsidian did create a lot of new assets.

The shift in tone is there due to inconsistent and incoherent writing stuffed with doodoo and peepee jokes and "cultural references" and brilliant ideas like talking deathclaws and Fullmetal jacket character and indistinct ungrounded antogonist and so on and so on

They even had comedic shows at the concentration camps between inmates. The more dread, the more humor to counter it.

We use humor as a way of aliviating the dread of death, its our species copinng mechanism. Noticed the same thing about the hood as well as trailer parks. Bleak, depressing places where the lowest on the social ladder can live yet they find humor and joy in the most simplest things. Theres also a sense of comradery and homeliness that can't be found anywhere else.

but theres no comedy im f4, just wacky shit ...

What’s that expression that’s like, tragedy is when an old person stubs and breaks their toe comedy is when they fall in a manhole and die

I felt that his summary of the Harold quest was wildly uncharitable to the point where it was bordering bad faith. That thing was a dramatic, interactive deep-dive on the concept of assisted suicide: and Mr. Video essay just dismissed it as one big joke. I get that it's cool to shit on fallout 3 now; but this is getting out of hand.

i mean they have simps too. they're just renamed "the railroad"

No no simps just wrote FO4

My wife has left me for a slavic man in an adidas track suit who uses the same cologne she used to have as an air freshener whenever she took a dump when my wife was little. And upon rescenting the same cologne my wife gets put into a state of nostalgia, getting to experience the same sense of relive whenever she moved her bowels as a child & thats exactly the reason she is so attracted to this man. Whenever she nibbles on his neck, she literally tries to taste the scent of said air freshener. But I advised against it, since its not meant for consumption. So I told her I was paying a renowned group of scientists to extract the scent & put it in food items. So she can eat the scent that made her feel happy back then. And then poop it out afterwards & have a hearty sniff at her chocolate nuggets, holding it in her arm like a warm loaf of bread. And who knows, she may even have a taste. I mean if the scientists did an outstanding job, I bet the strong scent of woodland roses would overpower the chocolatey bitter "After" tones XD But nevertheless, Im very proud for my wife that she is getting married in June. The only way to get her back would be to cover myself in little air freshener trees & present one to her as a sign that I still love her. And which serves as a wedding ring replacement. But what kind of simp would I be if I would diddle my wife myself? No, Im sure my wife will be very happy moving in with Milos & his adjoined donkey stable right next to the house. Living in a 2 bedroom mansion with both his sister & his mother. While they eat deep fried donkey schlongs on a hock swinging in their faces to increase appetite during the candle light dinner. Forgive me Carol for I have simped. I shall head to the cathedral tower & to punish myself with tactical strokes of my whip onto myself.

Ha ha ha ha 😐

@@creamygoodness3828 nice copypasta lol

TeaBoneZombie Dude Ikr

@Tom Phelps he did took more time of FO4 part though... if he got FO76... this video will be longer than all NV NPC dialogs combined + DLCs NPC... which is a lot... well I am exagerating maybe add and extra hour or just affter the FO4 part put a black screen then show "FUCK THAT ONE"

But most of the mines would be empty

@@recreant359 Why?

@@recreant359 empty of gold or miners?

we can even imagine how gold could have no monetary value but instead a enormous religious or spiritual value, being a metal that does not get rusty, a material that does no degrade in the ruined wasteland to the incas and many other cultures it had no value as money but nonetheless it was a precious thing, the sweat of the sun and such

The real reason people started mining gold is because gold fits everything a currency needs. Store of value(gold never deteriorates) coinable(you can divide gold) and has practical value(as a metal you can actually make functional and practical things with it)

makes you wonder how the could have been with more time

@@kingnikolai5799 you get the outer worlds lmao

@@henrycrabs3497 that had no budget though. NV did

@@georgie9303 no, i don't think so. I don't think they really thought out how to make a game like TOW. I actually think they would be better if they can make another fallout.

@@user-ms5tq1dh7i No, they had to cut a lot of content. Some of the cut content was essential content like adding more story behind the characters, which needed it. www.google.com/amp/s/www.gamespot.com/amp-articles/the-outer-worlds-dev-reveals-the-content-it-cut-fr/1100-6476043/ We’ll see how they’ll handle a AAA budget with Avowed.

Thanks man. I've watched a lot of your videos and it means a lot to know that you liked one of mine. Keep up the great work; there's not enough good rpg coverage on youtube.

the Synth reveal would not have just been the obvious (in a good way) twist to add, but encapsulate the player's character extremely well

Looks at Stalker games.

@@admiraltonydawning3847 to be fair the stalker explosion of stalker is explicitly said to be mystical and not boring old radiations. And I think that no one would have complained if they established the magical power from radiation thing from the beginning.

@@yorgo2255 Depends what we are willing to call magic, psychic powers for example were a thing since Fallout 1.

@@brotbrotsen1100 When you proceed to the Master's room, without the nullifier item of course, freaky shit starts happening.

@@hecunt3633 Yes that's what i mean, freaky shit was always part of fallout and some stuff could be seen as "magic" or supernatural in the context of the fallout universe.

Play Fallout New Vegas. It is fantastic. You can get the Ultimate edition for 20 bucks on Steam, hell I think it goes for 5 during the summer sale, it's a great franchise to get into despite the crap Betheada has done with Fallout 76

@@andrewlong9799 or you can download cracked

@@andrewlong9799 better to get it from GOG

lol d fuck, thats so wierd, u hear all these analysis and u never played any fallout games? u must be rly bored :D

@antisocialite they're really not that great tbh, lol. Just whining for a time long past that never truly existed as he remembered. His video is the literal equivalent of those people who think 1950s America was the best time ever in our nation's history with no problems.

Thats what I thought and thats why the gold is shipped to Vault City for production of high tech products

Copper and silver have similar industrial and tech uses as well, but yeah the rarity of gold, especially in a post apocalyptic setting would make a gold backed currency not the worst idea. The only issue I could imagine would be the devaluation that would occur if the NCR found massive pre-war gold stockpiles, but from lore it seems like losing war is a bigger issue for them than finding too much.

@@todo9633 lol "gold backed currency"

@@jimbo5276 It used to be water backed currency with the caps, but NCR dollar is gold backed. What is the funny thing?

@@jamie_d0g978 currency isn't "backed" by anything

Just play stalker.

_"Probably why Fallout 1 is my favourite. I really want a visual work of fiction in a post-nuclear wasteland, with very deep and realist lore and worldbuilding. I want it to be a tragedy. I want it to be bleak and dark. This is all because I want it to be realistic, because I personally really value realistic worldbuilding in art. (...) I want a realistic fallout game with the grittiness of the original that isn't so dated."_ Same, man.

Have you played the wasteland series ?

Same, mate, and that's why I have a strange two-sided feeling about Fallout 4. I never could get into it's narrative system, so I've played strictly with the Frost mod, which basically removes all the plot and cranks danger up to 11. What I've noticed very early is that the environments and the music Bethesda has created, when bare of dialogue, and quest markers, and the power fantasy, are quite somber, touching even. Their message is clear: the old world is dead, it was murdered and it did not go gently into the night, but fought and keeps fighting back with ghoulish tooth and nail. And yet, my eyes catch something among the semi-realistic trashed environment of a supermarket or a highway: a garish 50s style kitchenware or a retrofuturistic, wildly impractical car desing - and I remember that the old world of Fallout was an awful, awful place, a vicious caricature of all things bad about american culture. And it feels really strange when the central visual narrative of the game is about mourning that awful world's self-imposed demise.

@@Loromir17 There are some places in New Vegas that give that feel. Vault 22, The King's building where they believe Elvis must have been worshiped like a god, and a few others. Do you know any mods for New Vegas that really help bring that out more?

"One could literally never have heard about fallout" You don't need the word literally here.

i mean you literally dont need it literally

Someone's never heard of Noah Caldwell Gervais ;)

Hmmm interesting points. But there is money and egos at stake for them not to try. Nice commentary and history. Game Story Identity and Solid Good Lore are important. In context of identity and lore, what can we do if there are major irrational actions, or false stories about the lore of Fallout? Would you help save Fallout, or at least help save the True Spirit of Fallout? KEK KEK - Points of Fallout Game Culture, and related help to MeMes of Freedom; Creative Free Thoughts; Plausible Good Lore; Resistance To Oppression; Self Determination and Survival In Style. ----- We who purse freedom, the Kekistanis (of Kekistan Nation), love many aspects of Fallout, and survival sim tools. But, if the Fallout series becomes watered down in simply cash grab tactics without enough integrity to principles, or to good lore, then it can become corrosive to the mind. In viewing through the eyes of the character / player, the aspects of good lore are part of the problem solving, strategy, simulation, learning and entertainment. For big picture example, are the survivors working on making basic telegraph communications, or radios to better communication with friends, and for coordinated survival? When and where are the basic radio transmissions going to be formed? For a more recent example,in the Battle Royale Mode (of Fallout 76) , there are major lore issues, UNLESS either explained, or by enough plausible possibilities that are imagined. For example, how are players popping up in random places in a plausible way? Were they drugged and placed in locations? Were they sent there by underground tunnels, or dropped by drones? And although the large circle of fire may seem like a natural “perfect circle” of a fire storm, but is it really an environment control by the Vault 51 Computer Antagonist Voice (CAV)? In the game, the Vault 51-CAV shows that it can place items and observe everything, so it likely has other environment controls, such as the fire storm ring. What if the Vault 51-CAV could be simply making deceptions for its greed of attention, and for the distracting of the survivors in fights to death, which can allow the CAV to buy more time in developing its artificial intelligence (AI) and to align with unethical humans to further its control of others. Sometimes it is not just China (communists) that is the enemy. So, can a player / character find a way to take over the CAV or the Environment Controls (likely of the CAV)? Can a survivor create mischief to the CAV to find weaknesses in the whole system of Vault 51? Can a survivor escape the CAV and avoid fighting to the death? Are the survivors basically being told lies, myths, and false hopes by the CAV, for the simple purpose of easily killing the survivors? Can there be an option for survivors / player to overthrow the CAV, and/or to either to disrupt the likely secret environment controls by an Overthrow Campaign, and able to win that way? How can we overcome evil forces and hidden manipulations?

Kralchen by ambition, did you mean expectations?

It was probably because of that I didn't like any of the ''new'' Fallout games. They don't do anything well. The RPG part is barely OKish, the shooter part is broken as hell, and the plot and dialogues are written by some clueless hipsters.

Which is exactly why bethesda can go F themselves.

​@@AmonnyI enjoy them, but agree they are more action/adventure than true roleplaying. The writing has dropped off a cliff as well. 76 and Starfield are pure trash. Sad.

Hang on... is that _praise_ for Ulysses' dialogue??

@@Robert399 Yes.

@@metoxys 😬

The bigger problem lies beneath, as I see it and is hinted at in the video: who (or what) are all these predators praying upon? Just how many caravans must pass through an area and be robbed by all these raiders anyway? The wilderness in the Elder Scrolls and FALLOUT3 progressively gets filled with nothing but apex predators, in synch with the player level progression; also: where do merchants get all that cash to buy loot? "Logical" answers only serve to highlight just how _illogical_ these worlds are for me . . .

I wish Bethesda had let us send settlers to cleared buildings instead of indefensible positions with no infrastructure. The Corvega plant or Saugus Ironworks would be invaluable settlements

​@@vincelang3779 Try thinking, for a moment. Firstly it's for gameplay reasons, so you don't turn the entire open world into a boring graveyard, and secondly the raiders could very easily be preying on other groups of raiders too.

Thats one BIG reason i liked F3 more then NV or F4, also that quest with mystery lane was cool and DLCs were great!

@@milosstojanovic4623 yales the Pitt on your first playthrough was kinda tense especially the ignot mill

A post apocalyptic wasteland should be terrifying and dark as in slaves and evil things happening when humans are left to their own devices. That is something that always annoyed me about fallout. New Vegas almost had it but you should be scared going out for supplies through abandoned warehouses and apartments ànd stuff like that

@@billyferal5558 my favourite section of fallout 4 was the glowing sea that place was freaky.

@Metsarebuff 22 i agree New Vegas had good DLCs also, but much better than Fallout 3, nahh, i thoroughly enjoyed in F3 DLCs

You're welcome, have a seat. Also check out Joseph Anderson and Gaming Pasttime (allthough he is boring imo)

Congrats

If I was going to recommend gaming analysis channels like Shoorf did, I would recommend Joseph Anderson and the king of review content, MatthewMatosis. I can't tell if you're subbed to them, Zyon, but they're great. Also, I see you're subbed to DamePesos and InternetHistorian. Choice.

Because that's important. Waste more time watching more people talk about shit that's been beaten to death. Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉

@@doctordungus7774 sub to all of them. all good content creators.

Side Quest Dory: Who are we looking for again?

Except Oxhorn.

this comment thread is funny

I feel like New Vegas' story was underrated tbh.

KOTOR arguably being the greater of the 2. It is insane the work these two games got.

I didn’t really enjoy kotor2 or new Vegas. Weird as I’m normally a fan of that sort of game

Why are facists always evil? Are there no nice fascists?

Kotor 2 was imo much weaker than the first one

Ja lol der rupty

SILENCE CHECKMARK

New Vegas here, glad it was my first and not FO4.

Butter OnToast FO4 was my first and it didn’t leave a negative impression on me. Eventually went back and played 1, 2, 3, and NV, only one I thoroughly disliked was 3. New Vegas and especially 1 and 2 are better RPGs, but I still like 4 because it appeases my guilty pleasures: exploration, looting, and building shit. The game is a fucking mess, but it’s my mess, lol.

@@KendylTV I can respect that. 4 is still fun. I just felt like it could've been more.

Adam Davenport It definitely could’ve been more, some of that made its way into the Far Harbor DLC, but even it gets too much credit for what is essentially Fallout 4 + some actual choices and a story that’s less shit.

Morrowind was my first bethesda game and its been going downhill from there for bethesda imo. Not saying it would hold up today, but it was genuinly exciting to explore morrowind back then for whatever reason. I did enjoy exploring Oblivion too even tho i thought the setting was less exciting, mods were at its hight in Oblivion imo.

Good point lol

You sir have been inspired me to acquire hearts of iron 4

Tell the makers of that game to balance the Mojave Brotherhood of Steel, Friendly-with-the-NCR route is OP and no other route comes close.

Too bad the economy mod is dead though :(

Can someone link me to the mod download, thats not on steam, please?

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The NCR did something right!

@@zayan6284 It also gave them a convenient reason to keep the ghouls and super mutants far away from them in Broken Hills, since they could run the mines.

I don't get why retards think gold will lose its value

@@ChristianAuditore14 Because gold doesn't have any intrinsic value outside of niche electronic uses and glitteriness, and the only people who think it's valuable on it's own are the same people who buy protein powders from right wing radio hosts.

@@cassandracole4589 sure

Tamara Lynn Chambers it’s a great experience. Only thing I’d warn you of is that it will not hold your hand at all. Also save every time you enter a new area in case you “accidentally” insult an npc and they attack which can turn entire settlements hostile.

There are decent mods in fallout 4 that can completely change the story, to a certain degree. But yeah, I'd stick to New Vegas and the first two.

I wished there had been more things in fallout 4 like the silver shroud, it was weird, but it was also really neat. I liked that you had the option to play it completely straight as the shroud. And really all I feel we as RPG fans want is a compelling story thats fun to interact with.

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Congrats, he did it.

Euan MacDonald where tho

@@cooldude10149804 my mistake, it was by indigo gaming instead, but that video is what you're looking for.

Just watch that 5 hour Oblivion Retrospective. It's basically an ES retrospective and tackles literally every fucking thing

Making an opionated essay doesn't really need research.

Thanks for the recommendation

TKs-Mantis love your vids man!

This guy seems way too obsessed with having everything "bleak" and not realizing that people in universe would adapt to the wasteland after a few generations of living in the waste. And pretty much all the games take it seriously and shows how a power vacuum and no centralized established power/authority can lead to the rise of utter brutality between wastelanders. The slavers of Paradise Falls or the fiends around New Vegas for instance.

Plus theres that the Children of Atom are immune to radiation

Mr Handy can produce clean purified water at a rate of 5 litres a day. There are thousands of these mobile humidifiers in game. You don’t need to drink irradiation laced water at all. In fact, You don’t even need to purify the Potomac. The games writing is utter shite

@@RU-vidcanfuckagoat never heard of that, from were do you have your information?

But it's literally next to the bomb? It would be incredibly irradiated but then you would have to ask yourself why did the people build a city around a bomb that can melt their face with radiation and if the answer is because they are immune to the radiation then what's the point of it being a mechanic in the game or how does it actually work. The real is that they probably did it because it seems cool. I hate it that radiation is treated like sunburns or something.

@@ognjensijak989 the crater of what would become megaton was caused by a bomber plane crashing. There were severe dust/radiation storms that being in a crater protected you from. This and the bomber plane naturally providing a lot of building materials.

He doesn't seem to pronounce ths

THE PHOENIX DZ playing the originals knowing what it will eventually become saddens me.

We'll always have new vegas

cj anon Stop sucking off that game just because you watched HBomberGuy’s video. Go watch “Why Fallout 3 Doesn’t Suck” and get both sides of the story before having a bias.

@@rancidmilktogo6129 “Why Fallout 3 Doesn’t Suck” is a good video. I still disagree with much of what was said. Most sidequests were nonsensical, moral decisions were borderline insane, the combat was awful, and there just generally wasn't much going for it beyond the environments. Don't act like watching a video will change people's minds on games they've already played.

@@rancidmilktogo6129 If you mean a manytrueanerd video, a lot of his arguments are absolute nonsense with no logic behind. He criticizes the roads of New Vegas for handholding, but forgets that the game has trade caravans that need roads to walk on. Says 3 has a better gameworld than New Vegas because the latter is somehow linear due to not being able to go anywhere you want. Completely forgetting why New Vegas world was designed the way it was (hint: it's so it doesn't become a theme park like 3, where you can anywhere with no challenge). Not to mention fucking defending Camp Littlelight because the game's rules are not the same as our reality. Basically, game is unrealistic, therefore it can do everything it wants. And Fallout 3 is still truly bad: no amount of mental gymnastics or making very minor things bigger than they are will change that. There was a clear intention here, he's a Bethesda shill. Clearly at one point he started to get attention from Bethesda, maybe getting sponsorships, or getting invited to parties made by Bethesda. Now he knows if he trash talks Bethesda, he'll no longer get that sweet Bethesda money or attention. At least with Fallout 76 he knew he had to tone it down, because it would be too obvious. But that hasn't stopped him from defending the game at certain points.

Exactly.

what were your thoughts on the darker tone of new vegas

@@somerando925 Good, but not dark enough.

@@chilarius have you played the fallout new vegas mod: fallout dust

@@somerando925 Yes, and was an interesting mod (and of course, was a pain to play, but full of nice details, like the underground Lucky 38 or the Joshua Wéndigo). But just i like it as a mod, not as a fallout game itself, because already had the proper game as a backup.

But