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Old habits are hard to kill including economic separation. Definitely brings the low people even further down at times and can sometimes just plainly lead to a revolt. The synth twist of Fallout 4 really surprised me but I think it's awesome. Great to learn more about this iconic city! Well played.
I still remember finding diamond city in my first play through of fallout 4 all those years ago. Definitely one of my favorite places in the game. Great video!
Dam i was just watching some lore from you on fallout then bioshock and noticed the icon changed for fallout and went, "oh shit, new video", caught me off guard lmao. But keep up the good work, once you find the lore on games sometimes you realize how limited it is, but intresting none the less.
I gotta hand it to Bethesda Fallouts for one thing. I love their city designs, and stumbling upon them on the first time is almost always a treat. Diamond City, Megaton, Rivet City. It isn’t a large spectacle but sometimes simplicity is key.
This video was so interesting. I dont even play most of the games you cover but you always make stuff easy to understand and fun even if you dont know the lore. Keep up the good work :)
Honestly it surprises me that the children of Atom don’t like the minuteman which is strange, if this was the children of Atom from far harbor I can understand there concern of them taking over the territory of the island but the ones in diamond city shouldn’t be concern by this at all.🤨🐱
Wow, mayor McDougah came to power in a society going through hard times while blaming a certain group for all of their problems and treating them badly for it. Sounds like a certain mustached guy we know from the 1940s
Anyone else feel like synths just don’t belong? Prewar tech especially robots run on gears and pistons, but postwar they’ve got bio robotic synths that are indistinguishable from humans? That’s like going directly from using record players to iPods, theirs too big of a leap in technology. They should have saved the sci-fi Bladerunner/west world stuff for star-field
Odd question but what gun is that super mutant holding? It looks likes the sub machine gun but its way bigger and the drum mag is behind the receiver so is it a custom mod?
Solomon is effectively how my plug is, he’d prefer people bought from him (obv for profit) but he knows his shit isn’t laced and more often than not if he doesn’t trust shit he just won’t sell it My man is a certified Druggologist
What don't make no sense is there is no prostitution in Diamond City or nowhere lock the old west there would be a ladies of the evening flying their trade
How old was father when that synth lost its shit and started shooting up the bar? If he was already working on synths at that point than there’s a decent chance his synth obsessed ass sent that guy out into the field.
Whenever I look at a Bethesda made RPG I weep. All that potential, all that complexity, all that worldbuilding... entirely removed for a looter shooter experience. With no structure or care to it's worldbuilding. The Institute is just on of it's biggest weaknesses. I firmly believe that someone at Bethesda decided to rewrite them. To turn the old Man into Shaun, for an artificial big plottwist reveal. But by doing so they created only more plotholes. Why didn't Kellog age a day? Why was he the only one to receive "immortality" when it could, should and would be used by the whole Institute personal? Why make such a big deal about child Shaun? It's just a synth, isn't it? And the Institute itself is just so much wasted potential by making them the boogeyman that does evil for no other reason than being evil. It's a shame.
I've always hated how small, empty, and underdeveloped Diamond City is. Characters make it out to be something amazing by calling it the "great green jewel", then upon entering it's nothing more than a few vendors in wooden/sheet metal shacks around a generator. It honestly feels like BGS wanted to the area to be a lot bigger, but console and performance limitations kept them from doing so. i.e. teleporting to the "Diamond City" map marker places you at the entrance, but selecting "Diamond City Market" leaves you down the stairs of where the previous marker places you. Hinting that the area was supposed to be a lot larger to the point it required two fast-travel points. I especially like the line when Nick says, "See that platform out in the distance? Near the city entrance?" when both of you are right next to the entrance, or when Ellie explains that Diamond City security doesn't go to that part of town, when Kellogg's house is right above the security barracks.
IKR?? Diamond City should be waayy more advanced than how its being portrayed. I understand time constraint, engine limitations and all but they could at least have swept up the trash and not make the city look so...dilapidated?? I mean cmon, the Commonwealth is one of the most intact places in the entire wasteland! Skyscrapers are still standing, robots are everywhere, the Minutemen use laser weapons, the gunners operate vertibirds, and even raiders use POWER-ARMOR ffs. And Bethesda is telling us that in 200 years the best people could come up with was one settlement with a buncha shacks, guards with jury-rigged pipe guns and wearing baseball gear for armor? :P
1. Sometimes aesthetics should absolutely beat out "what would be the most logical real life thing"; they are trying to portray a post apocalyptic world, and certainly they aren't going for strict realism. There are supermutants with machine guns, no one cares about trash. And in a way, its realistic; go to some war torn ghetto or whatever, and people dont pick up trash. 2. Moreover, you're saying 200 years as if linear progress actually exists: its 200 years against constant odds, with an intermixing of peaks and setbacks, sometimes major ones. There's no reason that just because time has passed, people should be well off. It could well be the case that 100 years after things were good, but have reverted. 3. Pipe weapons are meant to give a sense of progression: you begin with junk and eventually level up to laser weapons. All of the stuff you're saying is just nitpicks & common talking points of people who like to shit on bethesda@@justarandomcommenter570
I doubt you'll see this because the video came out months ago but I was thinking to myself it'll be cool to see how big cities will be in the next Bethesda game but then I remembered Starfield existed and was like "oh, nevermind."
I personally use diamond city expansion it makes the town feel so much more lively and like an actual city with section and more houses it does put a decent amount of strain on your system but I personally use it all the time
To be fair, for ppl of the Commonwealth it IS the great green jewel because they don’t know any better. It’s also the heart of essentially human civilization at the time with Goodneighbour being an alternative for the sentient ghouls who despite knowing better from their pre-war memories refuse to improve their dwellings. It would have been great to see an overhaul of it (essentially re-building it ground up in either mods that don’t break the game or by BGS themselves changing the look of the city based on the faction you side with.
How big does Bethesda think a baseball field is ? This is one of the reasons i dont like what Bethesda has done to fallout. They are terrible at world building. Its been well over 200 years since the bombs fell. But Bethesda is still hell bent on making every game look like the bombs just fell. They really made it where none of the east coast has rebuilt or progressed at all in 200 years. While on the wesy coast they have built a multi state government with good housing tvs running water public electricity hood clothing wotking mass farms and cattle ranches and other industries.
I just realized how odd it is that its named *Diamond* City, and referred to as "The Great *Green* Jewel of The Commonwealth". I get both names' reasoning, its just a bit odd that both are affiliated with precious stones, but two different ones. Like, if I were to decide the color scheme I would have chose white or something to represent the Diamond aspect better. Just to give it that much more consistency with the name. Idk. lol
@@Cowboycomando54 Meh. Will still stick in my brain forever now. Nobody thinks green when they think of diamonds, or vice versa. Must be Mayor McDonut slackin on literally all things not Institute concerning.
Safe to say that these wastelanders have never seen a diamond or an emerald before, and just associate diamond with baseball and green jewel with the wall
@@codeinecowboy8607 I know. Thats the most ironic part of it. At the same time, isnt it kinda strange you *dont* see *any* jewelery of any kind like ever? The closest thing I can recall is the Spouse Ring at the beginning of the game, or perhaps some quest item to retrieve for an NPC. But we never actually do see pre-war jewelery of really any sort. We see it occassionally as part of certain specific outfits (Cabot daughter, I think). But it seems a bit odd we never find any jewels, or necklaces, or earings or finger rings or literally any form of pre-war jewelery at all. We find gold and silver bullions. But no precious gems or jewelery. Perhaps people simply couldnt afford any kind of jewelery and raw gold and silver was more valuable for production and manufacturing.
Ok WiseFish, where will you prefer to live in? Fallout 4 Boston Commonwealth or Cyberpunk 2077 Night City?😂 Since I want to be nice, you will get a standard hand gun, 2 sandwich 🥪 and a bottle of water.😂
