The Torturous Process of Turning Feral 

I think ghoulification and the potential of turning feral is largely genetic. That’s why Billy’s entire family is non-feral and why Oswald at Nuka-World is a non-feral glowing one. It could also explain why so many others are instantly vaporized instead of being ghoulified.

I have always found feral ghouls fascinating, what draws them together to form a pack, do they actively seek out glowing ones because of their healing powers.

Let's all take a moment to respect that the Vault-Tec Rep was able to take care of his suit for over 200 years in the Wastelands of post-war America.

The fact that some ghouls would rather kill themselves than turn feral is so horrifyingly sad

Just to clear something up, it's not the turning feral that kills a ghoul it's the bullets from the big iron on my hip.

Thank goodness for the Ghoul Mask in Fallout 3. It saved me from having to fight so many feral ghouls. Sometimes I would just walk among the ferals and observe them up close. I’d often walk up to a feral and stare it in the face. It would stare back at me, tilting its head and look at me inquisitively. They’re quite peaceful among other ghouls. It made me feel real sorry for them. It’s too bad that they’re instinctively hostile to humans and other creatures.

In Fallout 5 Bethesda should go back to original concept of radiation zombies, and expand upon it. Feralization could be explained as post-death fate of humans (and regular ghouls) who die in heavily irradiated areas. They biologically die and their bodies undergo natual decay, but at same time they remain functional by FEV still trying to "save" them, by delaying, completely halting, or even in wild ways "repairing" decomposition. After all, FEV is in every living being in Wasteland. "More Feral Ghouls. A Zombie Mod" for Fallout 4 caught that idea perfectly. Ghouls there look like decaying human corpses, which is enhanced by them wearing regular human clothes. Way more creepy than standard leathery humanoids in rags.

Spongiform encephalopathy and tertiary syphilis also share some similarities

I'll be quite surprised if the horrifying story of hasashi ouchi isn't mentioned

While the Bethesda games typically do not go into it ghouls will eventually develop all the aches and pains of old age. Also OG ghouls in the 2D era looked much more gnarly: look at Set's talking head in 1 or the ghoul recruit head shots in Tactics. They didn't just look burnt but melting while being held together with straps and pins and screws. My personal head canon which has no actual support in the games: only a small portion of the population can become ghouls due to a cytogenetic expression (I'm not sure if that is the correct terminology) brought out by preservatives in prewar foods. So that's why there were no ghouls decades before the great war but that would also mean after the centuries old Salisbury steak and the like run out the ability to turn into a ghoul will cease to be after a few generations.

I still remember the time I was playing Fallout 76 with a friend, and lamented how there were no non feral ghouls, and then literally 10 seconds later, I walked into a non feral ghoul. I really wish the later two games did more with non feral ghouls, instead of just increasingly turning them into generic zombies to fill an area with

Good rest of my day?? This has to be one of the most depressingly grim fact videos you have made about the series, it made me reflect on the Ghouls you meet over the series and the communities they form, the ones who are already slipping or even poor Herold losing his memory of his adventures.

Me staring at the microwave while it cooks

I've always hypothesized that ghoulification is caused by three factors. Genetics, Radiation, and exposure to either FEV or the New Plague. My theory being that in certain individuals a certain combination of all three factors results in ghoulification. While nobody ever brings up the New Plague and its potential role in mutations, it's worth remembering FEV was a result of research on the plague in the pan-immunity project.

A lot of ghouls in fo4 have hair, but they shouldnt. Wasnt there a ghoul barber in fo3 who said ghouls cant have hair anymore?

I wonder if ghouls feel pain from turning or is it normal as a human having regular skin. Basically does their skin hurt to the touch. Any thoughts on that.

I think people in the series Really underestimate how amazing a mutation the Children of Atom's radiation immunity is.

Could probably listen to N_orte talk all day, dudes sounds chill af

That makes me wonder: what if ghouls had some innate disease markers in their alleles that didn't express themselves before they were overdosed with radiation. Feral ghouls might have dementia or the higher dementia form of Alzheimers disease. I can see normal ghouls (I call them Lucid Ghouls,) may have something that isn't a neurological disease but certainly something chronic and/or genetically encoded. I was thinking either Lou Gherig's Disease, Parkinson's, or even Lupus. Lucid ghouls _could_ eventually develop some form of demenetia after being alive for a few centuries. The ones that escape going feral are probably those that find some sense of purpose that they can maintain for quite some time without losing their minds. Like Calamity, from Fallout New Vegas, who keeps switching professions from time to time and finding new ways to be productive wherever she walks. I can't imagine her taking up neuroscience when she was still a mundane human but after two centuries of walking amongst the desolate ruins of America, she might become the "old dog learning new tricks."

I always feel sorry for a feral when it says something before or as I am killing it, poor thing still has a pang of humanity left.

Great video and really good way to tackle some big topics. I really enjoy all your videos

Great content as usual

I feel like you'd make a great true crime channel with your voice

Don’t know what to comment other than glad to watch another great video

Your videos make me want to play fallout so much more than I already want to. It would be fun to watch your video while playing (since it’s still gameplay with the voice over audio)

Don't forget syphilis. It rots the soft tissues, such as the nose, as well as the brain.

I imagined feral ghouls existing because of the necrosis affecting their brain

I wish ghouls looked more rotten in Fallout 4. Most of the nonferals still have lips.

1000 ways to die in the wastes is pretty great

Friend your channel is extraordinarly entertaining and your newst last months videos topics and content are amazing and getting better maybe only critique is the slowliness of your voice or at least you narrate in much less enthusiastic voice but everything else is super duper perfect

Hey n_orte love the content! Can’t wait to see more of these ones! I don’t think you have to be TOO child friendly but I appreciate the warning

I feel like there is a need for a wise old ghoul! Like a kung fu master whos had centuries to hone skills. Imagine if some institute folks turned ghoul soon after the war & spent the whole time learning, theyd be formidable. That ghoul lady getting them nuke satelites back online in the capitol wasteland sat com arrays got me thinking

Ghoul Together Strong

Nice

Lepers also unknowingly severe segments of fingers. It's truly horrifying, but thankfully treatable!

I've always wondered the ins and outs of ghouls

A torture made possible only by the fallout of the Great War. Dark, sobering thoughts indeed. 😔

I hope they show the full Ghoulification process in the tv show. I also hope the show doesn't suck.

You have become my Mr new vegas 😴😁

Holy cow

Same

Now that they can live like this, is it possible for ghouls to reproduce offspring? Like if it’s possible, would the offspring come out radioactive and deformed with the radiation, or would the radiation kill their ability to reproduce?

Didn't realize I was a feral ghoul lol

Why do feral ghouls have such thick necks?

thing with ghouls is that they do not live that long normally according to tim cain they were supposed to either die or live short times but few will live long long lives

Isn’t it just further rotting of the brain in non feral ghouls that cause feralisation?

My favourite ghoul might be that jerk dean domino, what a patience he had to raid the casino. Also the one in point lookout was cool and of course hancock.

Do more legends of the wastes

Not the best video to watch on lunch. Maybe later.

how about a fallout game in the classic style where you play as a ghoul, and are to do something important before you become become feral with a time limit

Bruh i haven't watched in like 6 months I missed you fr

I’d rather be dead than be feral

Female ghouls, smash or pass?

NOOOO we got kicked out of Dimond city now we have to make ot to good nabor

Figured out if you put him at 1.25x speed its a hell of alot better then...the....slow...af...speech...pattern...he has.

Doesn't it kinda defeat the point to keep this PG-13?😂 Really cool disclaimer btw, unlike a lot of YTers, it actually sounded genuine.

Raul, keelie, charon, and gob are the only ghouls I ever really liked

So it’s basically spicy Alzheimers disease.

What's more shocking is your aim 🤦🏻‍♂️.