The New California Republic: Fallout's Most Powerful Faction

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  • čas přidán 11. 03. 2024
  • Join me in covering the New California Republic. Starting at its humble beginnings to its domination of pre-war California.
    Credit to Kentuckles for thumbnail art.
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Komentáře • 999

  • @Sire1510
    @Sire1510 Před 3 měsíci +351

    5:10 yooo i made that map on reddit.

  • @lachezartashev4827
    @lachezartashev4827 Před 3 měsíci +740

    Bold of you to assume there is a more powerful nation than the Republic of Dave

    • @craykard8325
      @craykard8325 Před 3 měsíci +29

      I voted for Dave's wife

    • @Van_Owen_
      @Van_Owen_ Před 3 měsíci +14

      How ignorant of you for assuming that the Republic of Dave is more powerful than the Little Lamplight.

    • @craykard8325
      @craykard8325 Před 3 měsíci +16

      @@Van_Owen_ Littlelamp light is unstable. The children are inexperienced mushroom eaters who eventually move on. No continuity, no experience!

    • @Ruby_Eve
      @Ruby_Eve Před 3 měsíci +2

      *Gary pops his head up*

    • @user-ly6pl5ot9m
      @user-ly6pl5ot9m Před 3 měsíci +3

      I wonder which of these powers shall prevail in war, Republic of Dave or Petoria.

  • @RobHouse.69
    @RobHouse.69 Před 3 měsíci +449

    “Fallouts most powerful faction” obviously you haven’t seen my inventory

    • @dottietyre9062
      @dottietyre9062 Před 2 měsíci +9

      That and the other factions ya know I wonder if a player made faction will ever exist one you can equip with armor and weapons on a whim

    • @richard-qd3kn
      @richard-qd3kn Před 2 měsíci +4

      ​@@dottietyre9062 like a better version of the minutemen?

    • @lunarketchup8829
      @lunarketchup8829 Před 2 měsíci +5

      @@richard-qd3knmy head canon for FO4 minutemen is when Nate wakes up, he rebuilds the commonwealth with the Sim Settlements 2 quest line and mod, builds up a professional military of the minutemen, equipping them with the gear from Militarized Minutemen. That’s my head canon. 😀

    • @dottietyre9062
      @dottietyre9062 Před 2 měsíci +2

      @@richard-qd3kn I guess so

    • @miraak2213
      @miraak2213 Před měsícem

      Obviously you haven't seen my vault tec

  • @admiralgeneral321
    @admiralgeneral321 Před 2 měsíci +250

    THEY KILLED IT THEY KILLED MY BEAUTIFUL BOY WHYY

    • @Galland780
      @Galland780 Před měsícem +34

      Relax, Todd Howard just confirmed that the NCR is still going strong in other parts of California. Watch the recent IGN interview.

    • @mms1938
      @mms1938 Před měsícem

      After watching the new interview i dont think the ncr is dead,Keep in Mind They controlled the entirety of California And Shady sands was prob Changed as the capital

    • @Kaosi
      @Kaosi Před měsícem +62

      Todd Howard also said that Starfield would be fun

    • @RedHairedWarlord
      @RedHairedWarlord Před měsícem +13

      @@Galland780known truth teller Todd Howard

    • @iceomistar4302
      @iceomistar4302 Před měsícem +7

      @@Galland780 Yes the same Todd who said fallout 3 had 200 endings

  • @Nishi-wx2fm
    @Nishi-wx2fm Před 2 měsíci +224

    They fucking off-screened NCR.

    • @sercravenmohead3631
      @sercravenmohead3631 Před měsícem +8

      They’re in the show

    • @TheSundayShooter
      @TheSundayShooter Před měsícem +43

      @@sercravenmohead3631 They're _mentioned_ in the show

    • @sercravenmohead3631
      @sercravenmohead3631 Před měsícem +27

      @@TheSundayShooter In the last episode the NCR fights the Brotherhood, they’re in uniform and waving the flag and everything.

    • @TheSundayShooter
      @TheSundayShooter Před měsícem +61

      @@sercravenmohead3631 They look like Raiders wearing the uniforms of long since fallen Troopers, occupying the ruins of an HQ, subservient to Moldaver, echoing the first episode. In neither form nor function are they NCR

    • @sercravenmohead3631
      @sercravenmohead3631 Před měsícem +11

      @@TheSundayShooter Explain the charging scene of the NCR flag, or the fact that there is an NCR banner in the fusion room. How about the Ghouls living with regular people which is unique to the NCR most factions or independent cities don’t allow. It’s heavily implied they’re NCR and as for the end credit animations it shows NCR vertibirds and other NCR iconography, what you’re arguing is essentially these are raiders who are friendly supporters of egalitarianism with NCR flags waving around. The depictions of these fighters is probably the realistic interpretation of what an NCR soldier looks like considering it’s post-apocalypse and they rely on scavenged equipment albeit somewhat standardized. Everyone appears to be in an NCR styled uniform wearing the same colors as if in an organized faction.. they’re clearly the NCR.

  • @archdornan8013
    @archdornan8013 Před 2 měsíci +92

    Me after watching the fallout show: what did they do to my boy

    • @JohnDoe-sl6di
      @JohnDoe-sl6di Před 2 měsíci +3

      It gets nuked by some old guy

    • @Wanderer08
      @Wanderer08 Před 2 měsíci +2

      ​@@JohnDoe-sl6di By Vault-Tec because somehow they're in the Heartland of the NCR.

    • @sercravenmohead3631
      @sercravenmohead3631 Před měsícem

      NCR deserves it, mfers tax people in the apocalypse. Hold this L bozo.

    • @basedsneedclave175
      @basedsneedclave175 Před měsícem +6

      Todd couldn't except any fallout that wasn't his own so he cleaned the slate with everything done with fallout 1/2/nv

    • @bad-people6510
      @bad-people6510 Před měsícem

      @@Wanderer08 Because we never could have guessed that the true masterminds were Vault-Tec all along! ...especially because Fallout 2 directly establishes them as underlings of the Enclave.

  • @gladiatorone9023
    @gladiatorone9023 Před 2 měsíci +204

    I love how 3 games show us the history of NCR. In the 1st Fallout we may see a little town fighting with scorpions and bandits, while in the 2nd game a little town grew up in the capital city with laws, advanced technology and army! And in New Vegas NCR is a huge country, which, despite lots of problems, is still trying to develop!

    • @PrivateDoge
      @PrivateDoge Před 2 měsíci +46

      And now the fallout v show will bring all that to an end cuz bethesda has to ruin everything.

    • @gladiatorone9023
      @gladiatorone9023 Před 2 měsíci +7

      @@PrivateDoge I really hope they won't ruin it!

    • @PrivateDoge
      @PrivateDoge Před 2 měsíci +20

      @@gladiatorone9023 I hope so too, but the most recent trailer has kinda already sealed the NCR's fate.

    • @JohnDoe-sl6di
      @JohnDoe-sl6di Před 2 měsíci +16

      And now it’s literally a crater

    • @ootboot3487
      @ootboot3487 Před 2 měsíci +6

      @@gladiatorone9023 They ruined it ☹

  • @f.b.l.9813
    @f.b.l.9813 Před 2 měsíci +62

    Eastern BoS is somehow gonna find itself, a massive army and unlimited vertibirds on the NCR's doorstep.

    • @JohnDoe-sl6di
      @JohnDoe-sl6di Před 2 měsíci +16

      Yeah that literally happens lol

    • @harmonlanager2670
      @harmonlanager2670 Před měsícem +3

      @@JohnDoe-sl6diIn the show, the BoS only have one base. It’s not like they dominate the area.

    • @twat9192
      @twat9192 Před měsícem +1

      @@harmonlanager2670 they literally do dominate the area

    • @DiscothecaImperialis
      @DiscothecaImperialis Před měsícem

      these were spoils of war, some may be their own makings, while others were loots, back then they've fought the Enclave. and learned one good aspects of Chivalry; protect the weak, to earn their harvests.
      and these knights and squires of these generations were mostly came from eastcoast wastelanders. something begun with Lyons Family and perfected with Arthur Maxson (who himself treated as the crown prince by the Brotherhood when he was a kid)
      The Brotherhood got more vertibirds from Enclave, and even studied these VTOL aircrafts so they could design Prydwen.

    • @harmonlanager2670
      @harmonlanager2670 Před měsícem +1

      @@twat9192 Not really. If they did, they wouldn’t have to fight local towns to establish a foothold or rely on vertibirds and tactical strikes to get anything done. They don’t patrol, they don’t have connections to the towns, and they don’t exact tribute from locals. All of which are common practice from BoS dominated territories

  • @generaladr7836
    @generaladr7836 Před 2 měsíci +59

    After the series, it became sad that the best faction in the game was treated this way. The Republic will live.

    • @DiscothecaImperialis
      @DiscothecaImperialis Před měsícem

      hopefully. but not as superpower as it was. it might be a vassal to the Brotherhood. the may not even permit to live like modern peoples prewar. but live like medieval peasantry without electric power, without pipeline waterworks, and without motorized transportations of any form.
      they became very much like Adeptus Mechanicus in Warhammer 40k settings now. originally they were no less different except that they were more of Knight Templars and less of Church. The TV Series made them also church that's not so much different from Admech.
      Seasons 2 is TWO years away. who knows if the Republic remnants did found their provisional government elsewhere? maybe even in Arroyo, where they can count upon Vault 13 Dynasty. their benefactors.

    • @Dungeoneer710
      @Dungeoneer710 Před měsícem +1

      Literally the worst most boring fsction in the entire series. Just cooking cutter copy of pre war America. Wow so cool

    • @randommangofan5737
      @randommangofan5737 Před měsícem +3

      @@Dungeoneer710thats why people loves the NCR because they are the only faction focusing on developing and rebuilding civilization not like the Enclave and BoS killing each other for god knows why

    • @Dungeoneer710
      @Dungeoneer710 Před měsícem

      @randommangofan5737 while they would probably be the best faction out of them all in real life. As a video game faction I find them incredibly boring

  • @jasondouglas6755
    @jasondouglas6755 Před 2 měsíci +275

    Who else is here to remind them selves what the NCR actually is after watching the fallout show

    • @flawlessgamer7549
      @flawlessgamer7549 Před 2 měsíci +72

      The faction better than all east coast factions

    • @CyberController-
      @CyberController- Před měsícem

      Lol, bear f**kers go boom

    • @waterboi4846
      @waterboi4846 Před měsícem +7

      @@flawlessgamer7549 fine bethesda storytelling lol

    • @QualityPen
      @QualityPen Před měsícem +10

      What is the NCR? Unfortunately “nothing, anymore” is the answer.

    • @evelynbrocious
      @evelynbrocious Před měsícem +18

      @@QualityPen By Fallout: NV The NCR are an over extended and starving nation locked in a losing war where their best troops are busy defending Brahmin barons due to political corruption, or chasing ghosts in Baja, according to Chief Hanlon

  • @admiralgeneral321
    @admiralgeneral321 Před 3 měsíci +458

    If they kill the NCR in the show I am gonna be pissed

    • @filthycasual8187
      @filthycasual8187 Před 3 měsíci +26

      Even though they were on the verge of collapse in New Vegas?

    • @Fusseliko
      @Fusseliko Před 3 měsíci +256

      @@filthycasual8187 The Mojave Campaign was on the verge of collapse, not the entire NCR. Keep in mind that they control a vast territory from Baja in the south all the way to Arroyo in the north, and that we never enter the NCR proper during the course of the game. The collapse of the mojave campaign would certainly cost the NCR, probably causing Kimball to resign and creating a political shift towards consolidation away from their current policy of expansion, but you can hardly take the instability of the literal frontier and project it onto the entire nation. The NCR proper is going to be much more stable than what we see in-game.

    • @nickkennedy9034
      @nickkennedy9034 Před 3 měsíci +87

      @@filthycasual8187 After the events of New Vegas they would have probably reallocated resources to fill gaps left over from the war. Caesar was going to die sooner or later given the amount of powerful enemies he made and brain cancer. Without Caesar, the Legion would most certainly splinter and disband much of their forces. Fascism tends to not be very stable when a change in leadership takes place. NCR on the other hand has more grounds for stability and House being a smart businessman is quick to recognize that business with the NCR means he can further achieve his goals so House would most likely side with the NCR either as a state or an allied city-state. If they are on the verge of collapse, then Caesar's Legion is already dead.

    • @todd2.08
      @todd2.08 Před 3 měsíci +22

      @@Fusseliko Nah it’s actually screwed. Hanlon tells you their natural water supplies are all drained up like lakes and Hildern says there will be a famine soon after a decade if they don’t get the information from Vault 22 (which in of is very dangerous). No Mojave means no new water supply from Hoover Dam/Lake Mead and not to mention an NCR loss would cause the same cultural shift in the mainland that you would see after America lost Vietnam

    • @theo1170
      @theo1170 Před 2 měsíci +11

      @@nickkennedy9034 Yeah, I personally don't think that the Legion will actually fall apart with the death of Caesar. Definitely will lose a huge amount of it's momentum with the loss of his administrative capabilities when it comes to pushing the NCR. Legion already kind of carved out a decent territory in the east of the Colorado river to rule over if it had to. Definitely room for a civil war or two, but that is kind of fitting for a faction that tries to act like Rome.

  • @Kaosi
    @Kaosi Před měsícem +25

    Man, I loved the NCR because it was the symbol of the resilience of the human spirit. Even in the face of Armageddon, the NCR still thrived and prospered. It sucks that Bethesda way of dealing with it was to nuke it.

    • @DiscothecaImperialis
      @DiscothecaImperialis Před měsícem

      most updated narrative is that the reformed Brotherhood of Steel took what supposed to be the Republic's last bastion.
      Iron Plague based on one of the two Brotherhood bad endings is set in motion.
      but who knows. so far only Prydwen hovers above what's once was L.A. but not norh of it.
      New Reno and Vault City may declare independence. but B a s t a r d Bishop who his real father later became a 'prince' of New Arroyo still rule Reno. and Bishop Family is pro-NCR. Vault City.. not sure if they simply break away.
      The only possible yet another Last Bastion of the republic should be New Arroyo. especially since Vault Dweller Dynasty has always been a benefactor to the Republic. The Dynasty would take charge as a new leader.
      Still the Brotherhood would blackmail the Dynasty claiming that their ancestors were once also their benefactors. they even offer an Elder Council position to leader of Arroyo in exchange of absolute support to the Brotherhood and dissolution of the Republic.
      End of Season 1 would be the Brotherhood finally conquered NCR and replace the Congress with their quasi-monarchy. Arthur Maxson himself is so ambitious to the point of naming the Brotherhood prideful airship Prydwen. after King Arthur's ship. no doubt this Maxson kid saw himself The King. and ideologically incompatible with NCR federal republicanism.
      The Western Brotherhood. which the very organization itself originated, welcomes Eastern Chapter with open arms.
      and so Mojave chapter will soon follow. news of the Republc downfall would please them and reaffirm their faiths in the Brotherhood and more importantly, to Arthur Maxson. something Mojave Chapter is long for after Elijah's blunders and eventual betrayal.

    • @patrickmonahan5272
      @patrickmonahan5272 Před dnem

      Isn’t it as much arrogance as it is resilience? It thrived, then it died.

  • @basicsimp8798
    @basicsimp8798 Před 2 měsíci +66

    I wish Fallout 5 would not feature the Brotherhood so extensively. There are other interesting factions than the Brotherhood.

    • @sercravenmohead3631
      @sercravenmohead3631 Před měsícem +12

      That’s like asking Gamesworkshop not to feature spacemarines

    • @jamesvarela233
      @jamesvarela233 Před měsícem +3

      ⁠@@sercravenmohead3631tbh it’s not like Bethesda can Enclave can come back other stuff can happen. They’re not gamesworkshop though they don’t got a grip on anything

    • @user-ly6pl5ot9m
      @user-ly6pl5ot9m Před měsícem +2

      Joining the Enclave will be *unique.*

    • @DiscothecaImperialis
      @DiscothecaImperialis Před měsícem

      Back Isles did set a brand tradition to have BOTH Brotherhood and Super Mutants. though story did progress. where Player doesn't neccessaryr begins in the Vault (Fallout 1 player began as Vault 13 residents who's sent on a mission to find a working water processing chip, Fallout 2 player began as his grandchild, a tribesman but no longer lives underground. New Vegas, player's past is very vague and subjected to player's freedom of choice through dialogues and character creations (one might add Wild Wasteland perk at the beginning, but not with level ups), no mention that he/she might come from any Vault-tec Vaults. but likely a californian. and was once a caravan guard (dialogue with someone who remember player character), and his / her previous job is the deliver a package without being informed what it is (but is related to the Enclave, their sworn enemy. too bad the NCR chose to sacrifice an entire battalion to prevent Legion's capture, in the end the package destroyed an entire city, and crated what's known as The Divide, and this angered Ulysses so much so he wanted the Courier dead, it is possible that he even informed Benny about who carried the Platinum Chip.).

    • @DiscothecaImperialis
      @DiscothecaImperialis Před měsícem

      @@user-ly6pl5ot9m Fallout 5 should now focus on Enclave. as player faction, and player has to decide its future.

  • @DippKlippGuy
    @DippKlippGuy Před 2 měsíci +67

    Imagine winning so much you push deep into Arizona only for it to backfire when a fleet of vertibirds in a armored zeppelin make a beeline for your heartland.

    • @Voltboy1449
      @Voltboy1449 Před 2 měsíci +2

      The B.O.S is taking a page from the SS book I see

    • @misterpotato427
      @misterpotato427 Před 2 měsíci +1

      @@Voltboy1449 No because the BOS are the good guys

    • @Voltboy1449
      @Voltboy1449 Před 2 měsíci

      @@misterpotato427 hey you can use blitzkrieg and not be a bad guy

    • @NS_Voice
      @NS_Voice Před měsícem

      ​@@misterpotato427the bos has literally become a cult full of head hunters. With good guys like them who needs bad guys...

    • @jamesvarela233
      @jamesvarela233 Před měsícem

      @@misterpotato427fallout 4, the BOS aren’t they suck now just like every other faction on the east coast now after New Vegas.

  • @godstop3688
    @godstop3688 Před 2 měsíci +56

    It’s gone guys, BUT BY GOD WE SHALL MAKE IT RETURN!

    • @fancymercenary7213
      @fancymercenary7213 Před měsícem +4

      Its not gone only the capital was nuked bro

    • @arawn1061
      @arawn1061 Před měsícem +2

      ​@@fancymercenary7213the NCR nation spanned all of California. Where is the civilisation?

    • @RandomVidsforthought
      @RandomVidsforthought Před měsícem +4

      ​@@arawn1061Todd Howard it's still going strong apart from shady sands

    • @arawn1061
      @arawn1061 Před měsícem +4

      @@RandomVidsforthought Todd howard is doing damage controll. Doesnt matter

    • @RandomVidsforthought
      @RandomVidsforthought Před měsícem +5

      @@arawn1061 No

  • @prezmeji5641
    @prezmeji5641 Před 3 měsíci +80

    The NCR is my favorite faction in the fallout universe, I just worry about how they will be portrayed in the Fallout Tv show, as for the most part the NCR is rebuilding the wasteland they control, in the fallout tv show it looks like they haven’t had any progress in doing so

    • @filthycasual8187
      @filthycasual8187 Před 3 měsíci +8

      1.) It's the Boneyard, which we never saw in Fallout 2 so there's no telling what its aesthetic state was at the time. Realistically it was probably still a shithole.
      2.) The NCR is in a sorry state in New Vegas, on the verge of collapse. While I too don't want to see it fall, I have to admit it kinda makes sense that it would given how quickly they overstretched themselves.

    • @prezmeji5641
      @prezmeji5641 Před 3 měsíci +9

      @@filthycasual8187 it is true that it is the boneyard and I don’t expect it to be in first world country conditions all the way but it would have been nice to see more progress especially as the NCR had been rebuilding to some degree since the boneyard became part of the NCR in 2189, as to the second part, no the NCR was not on the brink of collapse, it was stretched thin yes especially in the Mojave but not on the brink of collapse

    • @filthycasual8187
      @filthycasual8187 Před 3 měsíci +2

      @@prezmeji5641Again, considering how overstretched they were, and how corrupt the government was, the NCR basically WAS on the brink of collapse in FNV. No matter how the game ends, the NCR's not in a good place.

    • @baneofbanes
      @baneofbanes Před 3 měsíci +15

      @@filthycasual8187they were overstretched but hardly on the brink of collapse.

    • @Thagomizer
      @Thagomizer Před 3 měsíci +18

      @@filthycasual8187 The Mojave campaign was on the verge of collapse, not the NCR itself.

  • @themalibumessiah4596
    @themalibumessiah4596 Před 2 měsíci +79

    This aged like milk sadly, damn Bethesda. I hope the House always wins then

    • @friedrice9848
      @friedrice9848 Před 2 měsíci +13

      Looking at the strip, house in fact did not win

    • @QualityPen
      @QualityPen Před měsícem +40

      @@friedrice9848With Bethesda Fallout only the junk merchants and radroaches win, because its writers and artists refuse to write anything other than people living in trash huts.

    • @bufferly5595
      @bufferly5595 Před měsícem

      Ave, True to Caesar.

    • @MinecraftKarol2005
      @MinecraftKarol2005 Před měsícem +1

      @@QualityPen not true. There are also supermutants everywhere. Even though they should not exist on the east coast

    • @dominator1914
      @dominator1914 Před měsícem

      @@MinecraftKarol2005Why not exactly? Is it so inconceivable to imagine that Mariposa wasn’t the only facility experimenting with FEV?

  • @crowsdontcry8258
    @crowsdontcry8258 Před 2 měsíci +44

    From what we can guess i highly doubt the NCR “are gone” this was most likely a splinter cell of what’s left of the shady sands area, we still have the hub (second largest NCR city) and many other locations in other states, I’m sure we will see plenty more of them.

    • @volatile_gaming9475
      @volatile_gaming9475 Před 2 měsíci +5

      God i hope so.

    • @alexloponte7056
      @alexloponte7056 Před 2 měsíci +15

      I don't think Bethesda knows that

    • @crowsdontcry8258
      @crowsdontcry8258 Před 2 měsíci +3

      @@alexloponte7056 im sure they do

    • @BobLoblaw223
      @BobLoblaw223 Před 2 měsíci +23

      @@alexloponte7056 The showrunners don't know that though. They probably just assumed the NCR was a city state and Shady Sands is just postwar LA. It's pretty clear to me that Nolan has a very surface level understanding of the lore given how he completely misinterpreted Vault-Tec as being some sort of postwar shadow government (that's the Enclave's role, all the games have made that very clear. The Enclave has always been shown to be completely in control of the vaults) as well as turning the western BOS into the Commonwealth BOS but with lore inaccurate religious elements. Anyway I still have faith that things could improve in the second season, but that faith is pretty miniscule at this point. In terms of official content this series is nearly dead, just look forward to the excellent content being made by modders.

    • @alexloponte7056
      @alexloponte7056 Před 2 měsíci +1

      @@BobLoblaw223 They are butchering the ncr on purpose

  • @EnclaveSoldier2201
    @EnclaveSoldier2201 Před 2 měsíci +15

    It seems as if the two headed bear has gone the same direction as the bull fought against.

  • @ontheglo.28
    @ontheglo.28 Před 3 měsíci +195

    A lot of people give the ncr shit but i believe that it is the best faction to live under (as an average wastelander)

    • @Iron_Age
      @Iron_Age  Před 3 měsíci +57

      On average, I would have to agree.

    • @thesneakman8064
      @thesneakman8064 Před 3 měsíci +42

      Just because it's the best place to live in the wasteland doesn't mean it doesn't suck but then again i would take ncr over the legion any day

    • @umbers28
      @umbers28 Před 3 měsíci +9

      ​@@thesneakman8064being a civilian in the legion would be pretty rad as long as youre okay with living without drugs and technology

    • @singles3rvingjack
      @singles3rvingjack Před 3 měsíci +25

      @@umbers28not even fully either, limited tech is allowed and soft drugs like alcohol and tobacco IIRC are legal, I’d say it’s probably safer on avg than NCR, but NCR has a lot more freedom, it’s really just a matter of security v. liberty

    • @umbers28
      @umbers28 Před 3 měsíci +6

      @@singles3rvingjack i mean, personally if i had the choice it would be like
      As a civilian, id wanna join the legion
      As a soldier, id wanna join the NCR

  • @MR.LMR1996
    @MR.LMR1996 Před měsícem +13

    At best the NCR is still standing but weakened in 2296. They just lost their first capital in the TV series. And given the loses the NCR endured in the Mojave Comapign 15 years earlier, they probably don't have the manpower or recources to resecure the LA area as it stands - especially with a resurgant Brotherhood of Steel making gains in the lands around the Shady Sands Crater - and are probably focusing on rebuilding from either The Hub, Dayglow, or Vault City. These 3 cities being the most likely settlements the NCR are reorganizing from.

    • @dominator1914
      @dominator1914 Před měsícem +2

      I wonder if Season 2 will introduce a new “main” character to follow as they help revive the NCR. Cuz, with Lucy and Ghoul together in New Vegas and Norm presumably becoming a popsicle. We will only really have Maximus’s perspective to switch to when not on Lucy&Ghoul.
      Season 1 had us follow ~4.5ish different perspectives , so It’d be strange for Season 2 to have 2 different perspectives.

    • @DiscothecaImperialis
      @DiscothecaImperialis Před měsícem

      @@dominator1914 New Vegas canon ending is not answered yet.

    • @DiscothecaImperialis
      @DiscothecaImperialis Před měsícem

      Didn't you forget Arroyo? Vault 13 Dynasty is an NCR benefactor.

  • @alphabromega859
    @alphabromega859 Před 2 měsíci +71

    It’s crazy how so many of us called it. Todd would not accept any faction stronger than the brotherhood, or one that had indoor plumbing, or lore that is longer than a small wiki entry. Ironically, the NCR was so powerful that only writer’s fiat could get rid of it. And before somebody copes about how “muh hub” “muh shady sands isn’t all ncr” keep in mind that Bethesda/Amazon either don’t know or don’t care about any of that. If there is no Boneyard, and Shady Sands is for some reason near LA (formerly boneyard) then you can discount the rest of it as well. Just accept old Fallout is gone forever and that’s it.

  • @buddyman7941
    @buddyman7941 Před 2 měsíci +19

    AND NOW THEY FUCKING GONEEEEEEEE

  • @kelsiel6147
    @kelsiel6147 Před 2 měsíci +81

    If they get clapped in the show I'm gonna be mad

    • @donotcareatall
      @donotcareatall Před 2 měsíci +6

      They’re not in the show it’s the bos that’s why it’s gonna suck

    • @kelsiel6147
      @kelsiel6147 Před 2 měsíci +5

      @@donotcareatall haven't you watched the trailer ? You can see them battle against the bos at multiple times

    • @donotcareatall
      @donotcareatall Před 2 měsíci

      @@kelsiel6147 have you seen the trailer? That’s not NCR there’s videos covering this

    • @kelsiel6147
      @kelsiel6147 Před 2 měsíci

      @@donotcareatall but it is

    • @jordanworton7003
      @jordanworton7003 Před 2 měsíci

      @@donotcareatall at 2:25 czcams.com/video/V-mugKDQDlg/video.html

  • @SpongeXtermiat0r94
    @SpongeXtermiat0r94 Před 3 měsíci +140

    aand now bethesda is going to send the NCR back into the stone age from the looks of these trailers….. :(

    • @SpongeXtermiat0r94
      @SpongeXtermiat0r94 Před 3 měsíci +31

      also the video is really good, good job making and editing it. the intro is obnoxiously long though. youtube is a format split between people actively watching and passively listening. to the passive listeners, the intro is completely useless and almost convinced me to stop watching/listening from how annoying the song was and how long it dragged on. the rest of the video is pretty much perfect though.

    • @Iron_Age
      @Iron_Age  Před 3 měsíci +34

      Thanks for the constructive criticism, debated on shortening it or removing it for a while. I probably won’t do something that long again.

    • @baneofbanes
      @baneofbanes Před 3 měsíci +14

      Tbf the NCR wasn’t exactly in the best state in NV either. Societies that severely overstretch themselves can and do collapse.

    • @SpongeXtermiat0r94
      @SpongeXtermiat0r94 Před 3 měsíci +1

      @@baneofbanes This is always, in my opinion, the worst counter argument whenever I bring up the NCR collapsing making little to no sense (at least in the way bethesda will probably write it out to be). The United States was arguably very overstretched during Vietnam, has it collapsed? Britain was overstretched while it had the 13 colonies and India, has their whole society collapsed now? Further, the way the Mojave was portrayed in NOT the way life seems to be actively inside New California. Despite its problems, it seems relatively livable compared to somewhere like the Capital Wasteland. What would it take for the people of the Boneyard to revert back to Mad-max style savages (as we see in the trailer) we haven’t seen on the West-Coast since Fallout 1?
      Countries collapsing rarely looks like they’ve been turned back to monkeys, especially when talking about this vague notion of “being overstretched”, unless they’ve had a whole few thousand nukes dropped on them or they’re already really primitive to begin with. The NCR obviously isn’t primitive so it looks like from the trailer (especially the bombed out shady sands) it seems like Bethesda will have the East Coast BoS join back up with West Coast and drop a nuke or heavily bomb the NCR. Just all around slop-tier writing seems like. But hey, I could be wrong and this could totally be Westworld season 1 all over again! right?
      But it seems like though that Bethesda is just trying to colonize some beloved lore from the three greatest games of all time, Fallout 1, 2, & NV and consolidate it with the new quirky post-apocalyptic themed disneyland ride they’ve created with Fallout 4.

    • @todd2.08
      @todd2.08 Před 3 měsíci

      NCR brought this on themselves since they began expanding eastward. The East is a trap that the bear is stuck in

  • @nowsmile790
    @nowsmile790 Před 2 měsíci +27

    This video to me is very sad because there are a lot of people out there, including myself that the fallout TV show is going to show the NCR pretty much completely wiped out, if not barely standing. Which would be incredibly disappointing to see.

    • @alexloponte7056
      @alexloponte7056 Před 2 měsíci +11

      "BUt tHe BOs iS sO gooD, thEY HaVe POwEr ArMor"

    • @dragoncat5412
      @dragoncat5412 Před 2 měsíci +3

      ​@@alexloponte7056 and to that I say no war has been won with just tanks

    • @alexloponte7056
      @alexloponte7056 Před 2 měsíci +1

      @@dragoncat5412 Yeah

    • @JohnDoe-sl6di
      @JohnDoe-sl6di Před 2 měsíci +12

      Yup that’s basically what happens. Some old guy. Not the master, not the enclave, not caesar, some old white from vault 33

    • @nowsmile790
      @nowsmile790 Před 2 měsíci +10

      @@JohnDoe-sl6di Yep just found that out binged to the entire series until 2 AM I’m pretty pissed.
      !!!(Spoilers)!!!
      Every single faction from new Vegas is basically fucked now.
      The people from California as a revenue source. Same goes with yes man. Caesars Legion should basically be able to take over Vegas with to no problems.
      All of the other places that were built up in fallout one and two aren’t even referenced not a single hint that they’re even active anymore. They’re just gone.
      The most out of the blue thing that nobody could’ve expected from 200 years later after vault techs complete annihilation. Coming up out of nowhere to completely annihilate the California Republic that we’ve actively witnessed in participated in the birth of in three games all of those different multiple endings all of those choices all of the things that we got to do and see they were all meaningless. They did nothing. They all didn’t matter.

  • @sethx1327
    @sethx1327 Před 3 měsíci +50

    Watch the Fallout show make this video "how the NCR USED to be the most powerful faction"

  • @galacticknight55544
    @galacticknight55544 Před 3 měsíci +23

    I believe the NCR is the best of the four main factions in New Vegas. They're far from perfect, but they can do more for the Mojave in the long run than any of the others.

    • @someguy9293
      @someguy9293 Před 2 měsíci +2

      Legion, House, and Yes Man are dead ends or have limited sights.
      While House has a long-term plan to revitalize New Vegas, he's cocky, assuming he wouldn't be corrupt or the people he puts in charge wouldn't be corrupt.
      The Legion is ass backward. Sure, Roman was great at one point in time. But throwing all collective knowledge and history off a cliff is a good way to ensure your society ends up in an early grave.
      Yes Man ensures that New Vegas is free but remains in an anarchist state, with no rules, no gods, no one leading it. Vegas will remain stuck post 2nd Battle of Hoover Dam.

    • @JohnDoe-sl6di
      @JohnDoe-sl6di Před 2 měsíci +1

      Ncr is now dead per the show. They show Vegas at the end but it also looks dead so house most likely didn’t win. Most like an independent Vegas win or a caesar legion win

    • @Wanderer08
      @Wanderer08 Před 2 měsíci +1

      ​@@JohnDoe-sl6di More likely Mr House. I mean after all they probably hired the actor for a reason.

    • @Wanderer08
      @Wanderer08 Před 2 měsíci +1

      ​@@someguy9293 It's not necessarily the Ceaser's Legion's Backward system of government. After all, the Brotherhood of Steel's government seems to be close to feudalism. The problem is Ceaser's Legion doesn't use technology and, in fact, reject it (refusing modern medicines, for example). The ones who will win is one that embraces technology and millitarism.

    • @DiscothecaImperialis
      @DiscothecaImperialis Před měsícem

      @@someguy9293 nah. the Yes Man ending narraves said after a big chaos. it will emerge. but under whom if Courier is not interested with governance or ruling over? (it is assumed The Courier has no memorires of 'New Vegas', he/she might have been there in their respective youth but as a ruined cities full of tribes and a rather successful Khanate) but later became an overlord of Big Empty. (and later a target to the Brotherhood as of this TV Serires).
      1. Kings? well with popular support (fueled by the Followers of Apocalypse, Kings are their ally) and without troublemaking Pacer. (i'd like him to die out of Psycho needle prank)
      2. Three Families? probably not Omertas (either NCR or Securitrons would kill them off, they're ally to the Legion without knowing what will they do to them next. having roots being denizens of long lost Roman Empire doesn't help either), the Chairmen or White Gloves Society might be.
      so far I don't see anyone else fittings to rule Free Vegas. and surely Fiends will be out of power structures. they may not be easy prey but their leaders will eventually be flushed out if The Courier didn't. but with so much loss of life and too many plunders Fiends did.
      But how will the government of Free Vegas be? Monarchy may not be possible despite that Kings are very much nominally associated with that system. it might be Directory made of leaders of so many main factions. similiar to French Directoire before Sieyes invited Napoleon to stage a Coup d'Etat at the end of 18th Century.

  • @doggiethepug
    @doggiethepug Před 3 měsíci +119

    brahmin barons get slavaged power armor troopers as guards, back home, a region with little to no raider presence, yet recruits are sent to fight the legion with 2 weeks of training, no armor just fatigues, and a service rifle
    the ncr's doom is corrupt officials while the good hearted little man pays the price

    • @EA-wr2xg
      @EA-wr2xg Před 3 měsíci +34

      Hardly a doom, more likely to end up as a stalemate, I doubt most factions could actually invade the NCR's heartland because of said Brahmin Barons (Not saying it isn't corrupt, but what nation isn't in Fallout)

    • @singles3rvingjack
      @singles3rvingjack Před 3 měsíci

      so they’re REALLY gunning to emulate old american values, eh?

    • @zondazerda2230
      @zondazerda2230 Před 3 měsíci +6

      Shhh, the fanboys may hear you.

    • @scpfoundation2040
      @scpfoundation2040 Před 3 měsíci +10

      ​@@EA-wr2xgthe Republic of Dave

    • @JuliusCheeser223
      @JuliusCheeser223 Před 3 měsíci +4

      ​@@scpfoundation2040Strongest republic in the wastes!!!

  • @iazy47
    @iazy47 Před 2 měsíci +65

    Can't believe it Bethesda literally killed most beloved factions by the fans

    • @nyxi6689
      @nyxi6689 Před 2 měsíci +5

      The most beloved faction is by no doubt the Brotherhood. It's the OG faction.

    • @bobskywalker2707
      @bobskywalker2707 Před 2 měsíci +21

      @@nyxi6689not really. Id say the NCR is much more popular. At least among more hardcore fans.

    • @kaiserwilhelm8029
      @kaiserwilhelm8029 Před 2 měsíci +1

      @@bobskywalker2707you got to remember that their are a lot more fallout 4 fans, than NV fans.

    • @bobskywalker2707
      @bobskywalker2707 Před 2 měsíci +2

      @@kaiserwilhelm8029 but new Vegas fans are one of the most dedicated parts of the fandom.

    • @kaiserwilhelm8029
      @kaiserwilhelm8029 Před 2 měsíci +1

      True

  • @pinknolan
    @pinknolan Před 3 měsíci +81

    Here before the Fallout Show has some stupid scene or something in which the Brotherhood of Steel wiped out the NCR and took over control of the east coast!

    • @russianoverkill3715
      @russianoverkill3715 Před 2 měsíci +16

      Never mind the fact, that NCR steamrolled BOS.

    • @youraveragescotsman7119
      @youraveragescotsman7119 Před 2 měsíci +5

      @@russianoverkill3715
      After getting their teeth kicked in at first because the BoS did their best to attack small, poorly defended locations because even they *knew* that getting caught by the NCR military was a quick way to literally get slaughtered by weight of numbers an a fuckton of EMP grenades.

    • @suckassmork2972
      @suckassmork2972 Před 2 měsíci +9

      I bet FNV isn't even canon in the show.

    • @insertsomethingfuni2617
      @insertsomethingfuni2617 Před 2 měsíci +8

      @@suckassmork2972 we see the NCR flag in the trailer, but im not optimistic considering theres a crater where shady sands used to be

    • @filthycasual8187
      @filthycasual8187 Před 2 měsíci +6

      @@insertsomethingfuni2617That's not Shady Sands. The sign may say "Shady Sands," but it's not Shady Sands; Shady Sands wasn't anywhere near an urban center of any kind and you can clearly see the Boneyard (which is supposed to be 200 miles away) in the background. My guess is that the library you see is actually the one the Followers operated out of and the crater's what is left of the Master's cathedral, since they were right next to each other.

  • @thatguy-rk3ns
    @thatguy-rk3ns Před 2 měsíci +12

    Nobody
    Some fucking 200 year old human popsicle 💥💥💥

  • @thevontheonly303
    @thevontheonly303 Před 2 měsíci +15

    Big oof moment right here after the show

  • @qwefg3
    @qwefg3 Před 2 měsíci +9

    NCR... The nation that grew with us.
    Legion - how a bunch of Roman coaplayers proved that a Post-Post Apocalypse can still have teeth, world, setting... And a bunch of lunatics less armed than you, but still be a major threat to people.
    House - a fast talking, smart con artist that still can convince you that he is a better choice than everyone else when he has made the worst choices.
    It is these three banners that I look up to... And the dread I feel fearing the Fallout Live Action show.
    As the Brotherhood of Steel shall be made into big bad government and everyone acting as if the bombs just fell as the NCR never existed.

    • @DiscothecaImperialis
      @DiscothecaImperialis Před měsícem

      eventually they will do.
      and this is what 'Iron Plague' is. literally the Brotherhood doesn't like wastelanders to have the same hitech amenities they have. the don't like wasteland people to have electricity, pipeline waterworks or motorized transportations.

  • @funrun07haan50
    @funrun07haan50 Před 3 měsíci +59

    If bethesda destroys the NCR i will need to check my self in to a mental health hospital probely had a rought year cant handle seeing my NCR boys amd gals die 😢

    • @MrPikaGammer
      @MrPikaGammer Před 3 měsíci +10

      The show appears to have destroyed the N.C.R.

    • @Spongebrain97
      @Spongebrain97 Před 3 měsíci +3

      ​@MrPikaGammer the NCR will probably still appear but weakened. Maybe due to the failed Mojave Campaign

    • @mofopeolaleye8187
      @mofopeolaleye8187 Před 3 měsíci +12

      ​@Spongebrain97 maybe the lonesome road dlc actually happened and the ncr got nuked. That would take balls, though, and good-ass writing.

    • @Alex-pj8nz
      @Alex-pj8nz Před 3 měsíci +4

      @@mofopeolaleye8187The courier probably has a grudge against the NCR…. Hold on since this is an Amazon show does it mean that the courier will show up as a black women ????

    • @funrun07haan50
      @funrun07haan50 Před 3 měsíci +1

      ​​@@MrPikaGammer o in that case check me in boys not gonna lie The NCR is my favorite an my all time best thing i ever have wittnest if they ar ruind may rest their Brave soul 😢

  • @nyteR
    @nyteR Před 2 měsíci +103

    Sorry, but Bethesda just nuked NCR into waste...thanks Todd Howard.

    • @enclavesoldier8370
      @enclavesoldier8370 Před 2 měsíci +16

      Such a shame too

    • @oolooo
      @oolooo Před 2 měsíci +6

      BASED BETHESDA
      Also , it was just one city , dude

    • @lonestarranger833
      @lonestarranger833 Před 2 měsíci +23

      @@oolooo it's only the CAPITAL

    • @elcouz503
      @elcouz503 Před 2 měsíci +6

      Chris Avellone litterally advocate for this to happen 10 fucking years ago lmao

    • @thomaspaine7098
      @thomaspaine7098 Před 2 měsíci +4

      @@elcouz503ncr was already crumbling during New Vegas, Tandi was their Caesar and when she died the ncr began to crumble

  • @randomgreek5682
    @randomgreek5682 Před 2 měsíci +12

    Rip NCR

  • @blockofstalequeso9485
    @blockofstalequeso9485 Před 2 měsíci +16

    Thank you Todd Howard for ruining everything about the NCR

  • @user-fg8ml5jd4g
    @user-fg8ml5jd4g Před 3 měsíci +938

    Watch Bethesda destroy decades of decent writing and lore by making the BoS a whole major faction in the east coast

    • @vh4990
      @vh4990 Před 3 měsíci +14

      😭

    • @garadak7.
      @garadak7. Před 3 měsíci +183

      they haven't been the brotherhood since fallout 2
      they became the bethesda of steel from 3 onwards because their audience has the thinking capacity of an 8 year old

    • @awestruckcardboard3431
      @awestruckcardboard3431 Před 3 měsíci +93

      ​@@garadak7.The Brotherhood and Power Armored factions have always been Posterboys for the Fallout franchise.

    • @doggiethepug
      @doggiethepug Před 3 měsíci +155

      Obsidian literally set them up for a slow descent by the time of New Vegas. The NCR dollar's value plummeted after the BoS war when their gold reserves were destroyed, in New Vegas the exchange rate is 100 NCR Dollars for 40 bottlecaps.
      Corruption runs rampant among politicians and the ruling class. NCR is hard at work to expand their territory, but this results in them being stretched thin in those areas being unable to deal with relatively small issues such as the escaped convicts at Primm, or the NCRCF.
      The NCR's biggest goal as of New Vegas is to take full control over Hoover dam for it's electricity and to absorb the city of New Vegas under their nation.
      Should they fail at both, they have suffered an immense loss or resources and people at their campaign, meaning they'd have to pull further back and regroup to gather their strenght. Leaving a lot of newly acquired territory.
      If Bethesda is canonizing the Mr. House ending (not unlikely) then by the TV show, 15 years later, the NCR will be considerably smaller.
      Should the East Coast Brotherhood send reinforcements to the West after their success in the Commonwealth, I can see the reignition of the NCR BOS war happening, in which case the small tidbits we've seen from the Fallout TV show trailer, is a correct.
      Being built on the pre-war government, the NCR is destined to fail the same. Because war, war never changes.

    • @Pigness7
      @Pigness7 Před 3 měsíci +66

      @@doggiethepug Indeed, idk why people love to ignore all the lore in NV hinting at their incoming collpase.

  • @Surepeacooler
    @Surepeacooler Před 2 měsíci +4

    My personal headcanon is that House wins in new vegas & the ncr shrinks back into California, but because they aren't as spread thin they avoid collapse.

  • @ethanmcfarland8240
    @ethanmcfarland8240 Před 2 měsíci +81

    Well….this aged like milk

    • @enclavesoldier8370
      @enclavesoldier8370 Před 2 měsíci +26

      RIP the NCR, it was good while it lasted

    • @barzap6190
      @barzap6190 Před 2 měsíci +1

      What happened did something bomb there way

    • @human.rationally
      @human.rationally Před 2 měsíci

      😢

    • @tacticalbarista7986
      @tacticalbarista7986 Před 2 měsíci +4

      I mean, we can’t speak so soon since it only said Shady since the FIRST capital of the ncr meaning they probably moved elsewhere

    • @John1045
      @John1045 Před 2 měsíci +2

      No, just Bethesda being incompetent. The NCR writting is fine, it has been for 3 entire games.

  • @admiralgeneral321
    @admiralgeneral321 Před 2 měsíci +13

    If the NCR is dead can we all just disregard the show as canon

  • @Turfy2
    @Turfy2 Před 2 měsíci +6

    WAS Fallout's Most Powerful Faction

    • @jasondouglas6755
      @jasondouglas6755 Před 2 měsíci

      Until Todd decided he hated them

    • @Turfy2
      @Turfy2 Před 2 měsíci

      @@jasondouglas6755 no theyre by far the most popular, they were just narratively too strong. they already controlled the west coast, had means of production, infrastructure, & functional goverment/ society. only option was to have them sucseed and rebuild america at which point fallout ends, or knock them back down to nothin and thats what they did

  • @kara5929
    @kara5929 Před 2 měsíci +5

    Love the use of the state song at the start! Really fits better than something like California dreaming.

  • @hozic9929
    @hozic9929 Před 3 měsíci +20

    fallout essays my beloved

  • @AwkwardHypernerd413
    @AwkwardHypernerd413 Před měsícem +3

    Vault tec: THE FUTURE IS NOW, OLD MAN! ☢️

  • @prestongarvey5668
    @prestongarvey5668 Před 3 měsíci +9

    The NCR settlements make me jealous

  • @BuckySeifert
    @BuckySeifert Před 2 měsíci +6

    I choose to believe they are still around just weakened.

    • @Wanderer08
      @Wanderer08 Před 2 měsíci +1

      I doubt it.
      The HQ of the NCR, Remnants of the NCR, etc.
      I'm guessing that they're 'wiping the slate clean.'

  • @dillpickel6767
    @dillpickel6767 Před 3 měsíci +14

    We already lost the enclave. We cannot loose the NCR to the Brotherhood too

    • @moggtheboss3087
      @moggtheboss3087 Před 3 měsíci +5

      To be fair, the enclave came back so the NCR might too

    • @baneofbanes
      @baneofbanes Před 3 měsíci +1

      The enclave was always meant to be destroyed.

    • @Wanderer08
      @Wanderer08 Před 2 měsíci

      This aged well

    • @dillpickel6767
      @dillpickel6767 Před 2 měsíci +1

      Yep… well I’m happy about one thing. The enclave is back I guess

  • @kurgee
    @kurgee Před 3 měsíci +14

    Everyone is talking about the ncr and whether its the best faction or not, but i want to point out how good this editing is, especially for a channel your size. Keep it up and i think youll eventually get big. Good luck man.

    • @Iron_Age
      @Iron_Age  Před 3 měsíci +1

      Thanks man! Really appreciate it

    • @kurgee
      @kurgee Před 3 měsíci

      Np

    • @kurgee
      @kurgee Před 3 měsíci +1

      ​@@Iron_Age where did u learn to edit, cus this is really impressive

    • @Iron_Age
      @Iron_Age  Před 3 měsíci +1

      @@kurgee self taught, just downloaded DaVinci on an off day and started from there

  • @russianoverkill3715
    @russianoverkill3715 Před 2 měsíci +5

    When Legion meets the REAL NCR, not just some undersupplied frontier Mojave force, they will meet someone they can only wish to defeat

    • @youraveragescotsman7119
      @youraveragescotsman7119 Před 2 měsíci +4

      The Divide getting nuked literally saved the Legion from getting curbstomped. Imagine an NCR that doesn't need to worry about the I-15 and it being a logistical bottleneck.

  • @MrShavrgo
    @MrShavrgo Před 2 měsíci +6

    Shady Sands be like:

  • @guardsman-against-the-chaos
    @guardsman-against-the-chaos Před měsícem +6

    Look how they massacred my boy

  • @Frankie-xu6sr
    @Frankie-xu6sr Před 3 měsíci +5

    The quality of this video is amazing man, I love these "documentary/historical" types of videos, keep it up

  • @mattfox2716
    @mattfox2716 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Absolutely love this lore breakdown. Thanks for the video, awesome work. Really great in all parts.

  • @Aisenhelm
    @Aisenhelm Před 2 měsíci +4

    I feel like it would be cool and interesting if we could go back to California in a future fallout title and possibly help them by being a secret agent for a future president, or a detriment.

    • @JohnDoe-sl6di
      @JohnDoe-sl6di Před 2 měsíci

      It’s on the tv show and it got wiped out by some old guy

  • @bastiisalive
    @bastiisalive Před 2 měsíci +20

    so the spoilers are true.....god damn

  • @marcelluswallace2689
    @marcelluswallace2689 Před 3 měsíci +15

    Didnt dr hildern at OSI in mccarran say that ncr was facing a pandemic level food shortage and thats why they sacrificed so many mercs at vault 22. The more i think about there is no right answer to fnv

    • @zc8673
      @zc8673 Před 3 měsíci +19

      He said they're not facing food shortages yet, but that they're looking to the future and attempting to get ahead of the probability of that happening in the future.
      Sharecropper farms was struggling, but that was more because of the situation with the pump station and the pressure from the legion at the damn than because of a shortage, perse

    • @allenaju1856
      @allenaju1856 Před 3 měsíci +3

      The NCR by the time of Vegas are walking in thin ice on having a crisis on their hands. Dust is fan made but honestly is the closest to what I think would go down in NV the NCR simply are following old world mistakes

    • @CommunistHydra
      @CommunistHydra Před 3 měsíci +6

      The shortage was predicted in the next decade or so. Actually, thats around when the tv show takes place...

    • @MrPikaGammer
      @MrPikaGammer Před 3 měsíci +9

      ​@@allenaju1856the creator of Dust is a self admitted Legion fanboy, it's a heavily biased mod that slanders the N.C.R. pretty hard.

    • @allenaju1856
      @allenaju1856 Před 3 měsíci +3

      @@MrPikaGammer okay and a NCR fanboy any different *cough* Frontier. I wouldn’t even call it slander as it’s not completely within character but it’s not something they wouldn’t do. For example taking back the Mojave and labeling Courier 6 a terrorist of the NCR. The ONLY slandering thing I can definitely say is how the NCR as a whole would treat civilians but at the same time NV had cut content making the NCR a lot more imperialist than they are currently. The NCR in canon aren’t even the good guys just a group that has been able to bring some form of stability with the price of loosing some freedoms and you only can experience the full NCR benefits by living closer to the mainlands of the NCR unlike Mojave which is the frontier but the issue is that going to the frontier of the NCR is the ONLY option anyone in the NCR has to make a good living tycoons run the economy on the NCR and the political game. The NCR make similar old word mistakes they are known to try to weaponize tech from the old world. The whole Sierra Madre thing doesn’t sound to far off.

  • @fankgaming7753
    @fankgaming7753 Před 3 měsíci +6

    Dude I'm loving your style of video craft. Keep it up. Super informative, long form, to the point.

    • @HermSezPlayToWin
      @HermSezPlayToWin Před 2 měsíci

      Yeah? It's not even his script. He literally just ripped off the entire NCR article at the Fallout wiki word for word without attribution.

  • @mpalfadel2008
    @mpalfadel2008 Před 3 měsíci +14

    Long live the NCR!🫡

    • @erfan6322
      @erfan6322 Před 3 měsíci

      NCR sucks

    • @ShadowWolf-nk1gz
      @ShadowWolf-nk1gz Před 2 měsíci

      This aged well...

    • @Wanderer08
      @Wanderer08 Před 2 měsíci

      Very well.
      By the way, they're probably going to destroy every faction other than the Brotherhood of Steel. Which includes Mr House and Ceaser's Legion.

  • @flintson2268
    @flintson2268 Před 2 měsíci +36

    Bethesda:
    I ain’t reading all that
    Here’s BoS just being the stereotypical soldier faction

  • @MrPikaGammer
    @MrPikaGammer Před 3 měsíci +21

    I do not look forward to the series confirming that the N.C.R. fell just so that the West Coast can match the East's desolate ruins.
    Because we can't have society progress in Fallout y'know, everything HAS to be as if the bombs just fell a few decades ago.

    • @todd2.08
      @todd2.08 Před 3 měsíci +1

      Yes, following the same path as the old world will lead to the same end. NCR and Pre-War America both fell into the same trappings

    • @mappingshaman5280
      @mappingshaman5280 Před 3 měsíci +1

      ​@todd2.08 i mean i could buy that but the plot would have to be more developed. It could be that the east coast bos continued their spree of conquering the east coast until they got to the stage of being comparable with the ncr and the ncr and east coast bos eventually nuked eachother. But this would all have to be at the very end of the fallout franchise.

    • @todd2.08
      @todd2.08 Před 3 měsíci

      @@mappingshaman5280 More likely that East BOS reconnected with West BOS and helped them fight the now weakened NCR

    • @arawn1061
      @arawn1061 Před 2 měsíci +1

      ​@@todd2.08 the westcoast bos is almost wiped out

    • @MrPikaGammer
      @MrPikaGammer Před 2 měsíci

      @@todd2.08 Vault-Tec nuked the NCR it's downfall had nothing to do with their own problems.

  • @benjaminagorio675
    @benjaminagorio675 Před měsícem +1

    I really love the introduction. You have allowed me to see the quality on CZcams.

    • @Iron_Age
      @Iron_Age  Před měsícem

      Thank you, and nice pfp

  • @someguy9293
    @someguy9293 Před 2 měsíci +4

    I love the NCR. I didn't play Fallouts 1 or 2. I only played New Vegas. I immediately fell in love with the NCR. Sure, they aren't perfect, and they can be Imperialist and aggressively expansionist. They tend to fix more problems, treat strangers with kindness, and at times help people who aren't part of them.
    Sure, they got tons of problems. But who doesn't?
    The NCR, in short, may be, not be the best. But they'll do far more good for the Mojave than the Legion, Mr. House, and Yes Man.

    • @Michael-du2fv
      @Michael-du2fv Před měsícem

      It's worse if you played them in order, because the first town in F1 is Shady Sands and it's a little dirt village that you help by killing giant rad scorpions for, then find it again in F2 and its grown into a real town and your like. I did that.

  • @battmar3859
    @battmar3859 Před 3 měsíci +4

    Great video love the break down. For the Republic!

  • @InsanityorNothing
    @InsanityorNothing Před 2 měsíci +19

    Sooo... this did not age well. You, err, might want to redo this video my guy. Poor NCR, you did your best, only to be killed off by bad writing. The Fallout TV series is officially considered canon. What worries me now is what they're going to do with the rest of New Vegas considering the show will be heading there for season 2. They WILL have to decide who wins at Hoover Dam.
    Fun times ahead.

    • @sibit1
      @sibit1 Před měsícem

      no fuck tod coward i refuse to bow to his vendetta against obsidian

    • @dominator1914
      @dominator1914 Před měsícem +1

      “Bad writing.” Or maybe you just don’t like the direction it went with? Cuz it sure as hell isn’t bad writing. The NCR was headed to extinction one way or another.

    • @legend-rx9ik
      @legend-rx9ik Před měsícem

      @@dominator1914 Not because of a old fucking white guy who was mad at his fuckin wife nuked their capital

  • @VINTAGE1959
    @VINTAGE1959 Před 2 měsíci +2

    This is such a great video! I love the "I love you California". Very nice touch. I've never heard of your channel before, but I'll subscribe if you continue to do banger Fallout videos like this, with lots of great oldies music thrown In.

  • @DrNefarious-rw1dm
    @DrNefarious-rw1dm Před měsícem +1

    Fallout Series never indicates all NCR has fallen guys.
    All we know is that Shady Sands is gone and the capital was moved to another city, and NCR is no more IN THAT AREA of southern California (the ones we see are just remnants), we're never told "NCR is completely destroyed".

    • @DiscothecaImperialis
      @DiscothecaImperialis Před měsícem

      at this timeline Bishops still rule Reno. this family is Pro-NCR. and this Bishop leader is born out of adultery.
      (too bad this fam didn't reform Reno to fit with NCR standards. too many illegal activites still running even this city is inside NCR proper and even with Bishops support NCR)
      and Fallout2 endings narrative (one of many) said he lives for 70 years. as of TV Serires he would still be alive as middle aged man.
      the mroe likely new capitol might be Arroyo. Vault13 Dynasty has alwasy been benefactors to the Republic since its foundings.

  • @falloutbigiron2251
    @falloutbigiron2251 Před měsícem +3

    It is sad to say that our NCR brothers are no longer the strongest

  • @_crimson_982
    @_crimson_982 Před měsícem +5

    If it makes everyone feel any better, the NCR being nuked wasn't out of the picture. In fact, Van Buren (the original Fallout 3 planned under Black Isle) would have featured the NCR facing a losing war against the Brotherhood of Steel. Chris Avellone (lead designer for all the NCR DLC) hated the NCR and he felt like Fallout was becoming too post-post apocalyptic. He was always looking for a way to wipe the slate clean (hence stuff like the fog from the Sierra Madre and Tunnelers).

    • @justusvontropfstein8605
      @justusvontropfstein8605 Před měsícem +2

      I think it's a bit of an exaggeration to say just because two guys might have planned that it's a less bad thing

    • @_crimson_982
      @_crimson_982 Před měsícem +2

      @@justusvontropfstein8605 It was just Chris (who had been working on Fallout since Fallout 2). Van Buren was the project name for the original Fallout 3 before Bethesda bought the IP. Point Im trying to make is that one of the OLD SCHOOL Fallout lead developers had planned to disintergrate NCR at some point. People are acting like Bethesda is doing something new when the old developers had already planned it long before Bethesda even bought the IP.

    • @justusvontropfstein8605
      @justusvontropfstein8605 Před měsícem +2

      @@_crimson_982 I already understood that, what I'm saying is that it's irrelevant what they might have done and what not since we see in Fallout NV that the NCR still has problems but nothing that justifies a collapse and the game is from the original developers My point is it may not be a new idea, but it is a stupid idea which is probably the reason why they didn't destroy the NCR in NV

  • @shawnradcliffe3514
    @shawnradcliffe3514 Před 2 měsíci +2

    Y'know me an a buddy were actually talking eariler today about what might be explained in the Amazon series before I found this vid. We speculate that due to the failed expansion into the Mojave, the NCR might have collapsed in some form or fashion, leaving a power vacuum that the BoS would jump at the chance to fill. I guess this is why we only got one look at NCR troops in the trailers which depict them as being no more than just a militia cell.

    • @alphabromega859
      @alphabromega859 Před 2 měsíci

      that's just fanfiction though, the real reason is that Bethesda genuinely hates the original games and that there could be anything more to fallout than the brotherhood and bottle caps

    • @420_blaise_it6
      @420_blaise_it6 Před 2 měsíci

      ⁠@@alphabromega859yeah I mean who is interested in any story that’s not “gotta find my dad/son/overseer”

  • @ethernetmumasmr_3231
    @ethernetmumasmr_3231 Před 2 měsíci +5

    Loved hearing my state’s anthem

  • @TheLionElJonson
    @TheLionElJonson Před 2 měsíci +5

    Not anymore. :(

  • @halofan364
    @halofan364 Před 3 měsíci +3

    Sir this video is gorgeously made.

  • @kentuckles
    @kentuckles Před 3 měsíci +24

    LOOK ITS ME!!!

    • @Iron_Age
      @Iron_Age  Před 3 měsíci +6

      Thanks for the thumbnail!

  • @natebobbybgaming5072
    @natebobbybgaming5072 Před 3 měsíci +18

    I love the NCR!

  • @kukipett
    @kukipett Před 2 měsíci +10

    Well, according the the TV show, the NCR is dead now RIP.

    • @Bigdaddymittens
      @Bigdaddymittens Před 2 měsíci +4

      Makes sense that a government that imitates the old world, with its flaws and all, dies out.

    • @justusvontropfstein8605
      @justusvontropfstein8605 Před měsícem +1

      @@Bigdaddymittens who are you ulysses? or why are you babbling such nonsense

  • @CyberController-
    @CyberController- Před měsícem +6

    This video aged like brahmin milk

  • @lifeofdolly5206
    @lifeofdolly5206 Před 2 měsíci +3

    I think the NCR is the best hope for the wasteland.

    • @BrandonMcCurry999
      @BrandonMcCurry999 Před měsícem

      If only they were on both sides of post apocalyptic America

  • @chrischris-gs2vt
    @chrischris-gs2vt Před 3 měsíci +2

    I like this and all your work. :)

  • @sauce8924
    @sauce8924 Před měsícem +5

    Once Most Powerful*

  • @joshdadirt595
    @joshdadirt595 Před 2 měsíci +6

    rip

  • @allenpate4515
    @allenpate4515 Před 2 měsíci +2

    Dude i love these videos

  • @TheMonkeygoneape
    @TheMonkeygoneape Před měsícem +2

    The NCR lives the bear still has a head!

  • @rattlestormrepublic4874
    @rattlestormrepublic4874 Před 3 měsíci +3

    By the thumbnail I thought this was a Simple History parody.

  • @thelordofcringe
    @thelordofcringe Před 2 měsíci +20

    Well, this aged poorly, now that new vegas isnt canon and the NCR was destroyed.

    • @schizoamerican
      @schizoamerican Před 2 měsíci +4

      Absolutely just lied just seen a scene where it says the NCR was destroyed in 2277. What the actual fuck.

    • @noisydoc6606
      @noisydoc6606 Před 2 měsíci +12

      New Vegas was confirmed to still be canon and the NCR is still alive, although on life support.

    • @thelordofcringe
      @thelordofcringe Před 2 měsíci +9

      @@noisydoc6606 almost all dialogue from the NCR about their internal politics is literally impossible because Shady sands fell four years before they are literally as we spoke in new vegas, having major political meetings in Shady sands. So unless it fell, rose again, and then was nuked again...

    • @420_blaise_it6
      @420_blaise_it6 Před 2 měsíci +3

      @@thelordofcringethat’s my biggest question with the chalkboard. Why would they decide to nuke it in 2277 or 2281? They decided to wait until the ncr became a massive power in the region, why not nuke them 40 years prior when their still trying to get on their feet

    • @schizoamerican
      @schizoamerican Před 2 měsíci +1

      @@noisydoc6606 at least they’re not fully dead I guess, still sucks a lot, makes everything we do in New Vegas to improve the NCR feel kinda useless

  • @brandonwoodrow-oh2cg
    @brandonwoodrow-oh2cg Před měsícem +2

    All hail the New California Republic

  • @tyvonicus3361
    @tyvonicus3361 Před 2 měsíci +1

    I love your use of the actual California Anthem at the begining lol

  • @Thagomizer
    @Thagomizer Před 3 měsíci +3

    Wait, weren't Redding, New Reno, Vault City, Modoc, and Arroyo incorporated into the NCR as well, as states?

    • @youraveragescotsman7119
      @youraveragescotsman7119 Před 2 měsíci +1

      They're either states or close trading partners. Vault City joining the NCR directly is seen as one of the bad endings, so I assume they remain independent and closely aligned with the NCR,

    • @GayFurryFromSS
      @GayFurryFromSS Před 2 měsíci

      Yep. San Francisco, too, ifi'm not mistaken

  • @alphabromega859
    @alphabromega859 Před 2 měsíci +24

    Not only the trailers but basically every piece of information we have about the show indicates that not only is the NCR gone, but Vault City and Shi won't exist either. Ironically Bethesda's writing did more damage to the world of Fallout than the nuclear war ever could have. The apocalypse is meant to be a background for interesting scenarios, but Bethesda just repeats the same shit over and over. Just pure slop.

    • @JohnDoe-sl6di
      @JohnDoe-sl6di Před 2 měsíci +4

      Vault city and shi are in Northern California. It looks like the bomb was isolated on shady sands which is in Los Angeles for some reason

    • @Wanderer08
      @Wanderer08 Před 2 měsíci +3

      The problem is that they set it in the West Coast where they know nothing about.
      Cough cough, setting Shady Sands right next to LA, cough cough.
      It would be nice if we heard something about Texas, or the Mid United States instead of West (1) West (2) East (3) West (NV) East (4) East (76) West (TV Show.)

    • @kaiserwilhelm8029
      @kaiserwilhelm8029 Před 2 měsíci +1

      @@Wanderer08you mean west?

    • @Wanderer08
      @Wanderer08 Před 2 měsíci +2

      @@kaiserwilhelm8029 Sorry, yeah I do mean Westcoast.

    • @dominator1914
      @dominator1914 Před měsícem

      Why would Vault City or the Shi even be mentioned in the first season of the show? You want to dump all this lore on people who watch the show? That’s not going to be a fun experience. Also, how is Bethesda producing pure slop? Fallout 4, a region has stayed stagnant and paranoid because of a shadow organization. Fallout 3, a divided and reformist Brotherhood must fight to revive the wasteland. Fallout 76, a vile plague has wiped out most life and must be stopped from spreading. These are interesting scenarios made by Bethesda, just sometimes the execution isn’t the best.

  • @RobouteDavid
    @RobouteDavid Před 2 měsíci +2

    Shady sands: 💥☢️💀
    BoS: 👻🫡😹

  • @hetecks1385
    @hetecks1385 Před měsícem +2

    So about that...

  • @gangsterwangsterman8417
    @gangsterwangsterman8417 Před měsícem +3

    damn you todd howard

  • @miraak2213
    @miraak2213 Před měsícem +3

    RIP NCR

  • @aninjaguardian
    @aninjaguardian Před měsícem

    As of 2296, the Brotherhood of Steel is undeniably the strongest faction in wasteland United States. The fact that the East Coast BoS can project their power from coast to coast and reinforce western chapters makes them the strongest of the legacy factions

  • @BilboBaggMan
    @BilboBaggMan Před 2 měsíci +1

    I think game logic clearly shows The Legion is the most powerful faction in the wasteland. At least by the time we hit new vegas, the NCR are nearly in a state of collapse back home with raiders and gangs in the hub again! I cant believe a really strong faction would allow such in one of its main stake cities

  • @lonestarranger833
    @lonestarranger833 Před 2 měsíci +9

    Man the worst timing for this video...

  • @zaatas
    @zaatas Před 3 měsíci +4

    I always read through these comment sections about which faction would be better and i think there are a few points that get repeated and people just accept at face value without really examing what it means for the bigger picture.
    For instance, i see people bring up a lot that the legion is safer, they have no taxes, but they dont ask why things are that way. Its because they kill or recruit all the raiders, pillage all of the supplies in an area and enslave the majority of women. The weak men get enslaved or killed as well. So yes, its more peaceful going through their lands once they have conquered it, but its not a sustainable practice and at what cost. Even if Caesar lives and the legion doesnt implode, it will eventually become more like the NCR, and thats always been his plan. New raiders and taxes willl eventually pop up.
    I also see the point that democracies caused the world to end, and while democracies were present, who fired first is never definitely stated, and the opposing side was not another democracy. And the tensions at the time were from wars over resources, so if you really want to blame anything, its human greed and selfishness thats too blame.
    The roman empire fell as well, and i think thats what exactly what you would get if the legion assumed control but sped up dramatically. There would be small periods of peace, but it would eventually become too big for one person to manage and it would just devolve into infighting and splinter. This has happened to every big empire in human history, and while i dont think the ncr is perfect or 100 percent secure in its success its the faction everyone would have a chance to work and make better, and the one i would want to live under.

    • @theo1170
      @theo1170 Před 2 měsíci

      Might be a little semantic to one of your points, but I am not even sure if the US by the point of the nuclear holocaust or even the resource wars would have been an actual democracy. It gave up on a lot of principles surrounding freedom of speech for one thing to the point of rounding up naysayers to the wars and sending them to be experimented upon at least in Big Mountain as one confirmed case. Also the fact that what became the Enclave was already very well established in the government to be pulling the strings behind the scenes.
      In short, democracy was not the cause of the great war that brought humanity to ruination, it was two authoritarian nations pushed to their limits by an unquenchable thirst for energy sources.

    • @zaatas
      @zaatas Před 2 měsíci

      @@theo1170 It's fair to call them more authoritarian, but l think it still qualifies for the label of a democracy as long as the elections were fair. The freedom of speech thing is problematic but not necessarily a deal breaker.
      People consider Athens one of the first democracies and only men that completed military training were eligible to cast a vote and people considered the US a democracy when it experienced the same limitations (only men can vote and slavery).
      So while I agree that the future fallout democracy was dystopian before the crash, it was still more free than living in Athens, or the early United States.
      Also hard agree on the energy/resource argument, even though it feels like the world should have pulled through with fusion power and the other technological feats like bio engineering and robotics. Like think about how far the Institute got with one little base. Humanity was on the cusp of post scarcity and they chose death.

  • @HistoryMonarch1999
    @HistoryMonarch1999 Před 2 měsíci +2

    I can see why people cling to the stories of the first 2 fallouts and new Vegas, they actually has something to say and actual nations being made in the aftermath. Bethesda tries but it keeps resorting to those apocalyptic factions even hundreds of years later.

  • @Ai-Sure
    @Ai-Sure Před 3 měsíci +1

    I wonder what a fallout game based in Minnesota would be like because it’s close to Canada I kinda think because it’s Minnesota and it’s colder usually here I think it would be interesting if it was a nuclear Winter