Fallout 3 Is Better Than You Think

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  • čas přidán 12. 05. 2018
  • Fallout 3 is an utter classic that came out 10 years ago, and some rather unkind words have been said about it in that time. So I'd like to tell you just how good Fallout 3 is, and how parts of it might even be the best a Fallout game has ever been...
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  • @CaIebGG
    @CaIebGG Před 5 lety +9590

    Does anyone else think that stepping out of Doc Mitchell's house should be at night so you could see Vegas' glow immediately?

    • @CaIebGG
      @CaIebGG Před 5 lety +272

      @@user-no3tu9kh3pIt is so maybe like replace the Cemetery with the Doc's House idk

    • @sirmount2636
      @sirmount2636 Před 5 lety +348

      You already see it in the intro.

    • @CaIebGG
      @CaIebGG Před 5 lety +312

      @@sirmount2636Yes but it would then have a better chance to compare with the openings to Fallout 3 and 4

    • @iamaronman
      @iamaronman Před 5 lety +100

      well i dunno every time i play it always seems to play out where i am picking the broc flowers in the cemetary at night or right when it is starting to get night.

    • @BrodyxBrown
      @BrodyxBrown Před 4 lety +85

      I feel that. But fallout new vegas is such a different experience before you get to freeside and Vegas itself it's with the whole caravan card game and the Mojave express it's almost like that section of area has it's own culture systems.. Granted I wish it was waaay more flesh out

  • @bounce2urchest350
    @bounce2urchest350 Před 4 lety +4287

    i was playing fallout 3 the other day, and i overheard two mutants talking to eachother. i was sneaking because i wanted to hear them continue since it was unheard dialogue to me. one mutant said "i was thinking. and it hurt! it hurt my head! but i remember things... from before. i think i knew a woman... or maybe i was a woman? it hurts!" and the second mutant kind of shut him down and said "ha ha! you talk a lot! it sound funny when you talk! like a stupid human! hahahaha!" and it made me kinda feel bad for them :/

    • @jdog7797
      @jdog7797 Před 3 lety +232

      I remember that!

    • @courier6945
      @courier6945 Před 3 lety +400

      That and several other dialogue is just about the only thing humanizing them.

    • @papagrounds
      @papagrounds Před 3 lety +178

      I've heard that dialog! And atm I didn't have a clue about the lore of the whole FO franchise (I started to play the FO3 blind) so I was confused af that are these humans or what are these things 😳 Now I know the lore so I can see your sadness in that situation.

    • @Alex-px9oy
      @Alex-px9oy Před 3 lety +109

      I remember hearing it at the Germantown Police Headquarters

    • @Enderdragon1201
      @Enderdragon1201 Před 3 lety +228

      Yup. Shallow, this game is not. Man, Fallout 3 was fun, my first fallout game.

  • @spenbour16
    @spenbour16 Před rokem +1284

    I remember playing FO3 for the first time without knowing anything about it. Had the biggest holy shit moment leaving the vault and realizing the scale. Immediately hooked.

    • @happyman6271
      @happyman6271 Před rokem +5

      i could not even play it because it takes mods to launch without crashing

    • @brownpleasure9320
      @brownpleasure9320 Před rokem +22

      same here, i got it on ps3 and i bought it cause the outside cover of the game looked cool, and well, its a really really good memory, cant really remember so many distinctive parts of the game, but what i remember good is the rich guys tower filled with undead, the shiskebab sword, the cave with fucking kids treathening me with weapons and that first city that had a nuke in the center. today i have ps5 and i can play f3 on playstationnow, which basicly is gamepass but for playstation

    • @nicholaslake5937
      @nicholaslake5937 Před rokem +9

      I went to the local gamestop to buy a ps3 and they had a full size cardboard display of someone in power armor and I thought it looked cool. I knew nothing of fallout. I had no idea what an open world was. I started playing it and thought it was "interesting" as a 1st person rpg but like you, when I stepped out of 101 and started walking around I was hooked. I had taken a 5 year break from games and as I stumbled upon springvale and megaton I was blown away. If they released dlc for fallout 3 I'd buy it until they stop.

    • @Stalker6622
      @Stalker6622 Před rokem +4

      @SwissCheeze Gaming sadly ,they dont make em like they used to.

    • @rawn9234
      @rawn9234 Před rokem +3

      I wish someone came up from behind and gave me a lobotomy right at that moment so I'd always be in that awe

  • @brilliantape
    @brilliantape Před rokem +531

    Playing fallout 3 as a child I would just replay the vault section over and over again but once I got to the door to the wasteland I reloaded a save and did it over again seeing how scared the guards were to follow me out there and having the door sealed behind actually made me feel fear of what was on the other side of that door.

    • @sethmoneygetter7140
      @sethmoneygetter7140 Před rokem +25

      Bro, I have such a similar experience it’s such a great memory that no other game is capable of making

    • @NigerianCrusader
      @NigerianCrusader Před rokem

      I JUST DONT UNDERSTAND WHY THEY DONT LET U WALK TO CHINA IN FALLOUT 3
      JUST USE RANDOM GENERAFION LIKE IN DAGGERFALL

    • @moogandacasio
      @moogandacasio Před rokem +35

      @@NigerianCrusader
      - would make the game barren, boring, and meaningless for a large portion of the distance
      - would drastically increase the game size
      - simply put, there is no reason to

    • @NigerianCrusader
      @NigerianCrusader Před rokem +1

      @@moogandacasio BUT CHINA IS COOL AND THEY COULD HAVE MADE THE RANDOMLY GENERATION OUTSIDE OF THE CAPITAL WASTELAND SO THE PEOPLE WHO WANT TO GO TO CHINA CAN GO TO CHINA AND PEOPLE WHO DONT WANT TO DO RANDOM GENERATION CAN STAY IN THE CAPITAL WASTELAND

    • @NigerianCrusader
      @NigerianCrusader Před rokem

      @@BareKnuckleBarry BUT DAGGERFALL AND ARENA DID RANDOM GENERATION AND THEY WERE MADE IN 1996 and 1994

  • @bigsmoke8816
    @bigsmoke8816 Před 4 lety +2121

    Hbomberguy: Fallout 3 is garbage (And here is why)
    Many a true nerd: Fallout 3 Is Better Than You Think
    When the 2 smart kids in class get different answer

  • @Xaxares
    @Xaxares Před 4 lety +973

    Random event: I walked out to the Super-Duper mart for the quest as as I see the building, I see a sudden nuclear cloud appear. Once I get there, I find the corpses of a rad roach right beside the corpse of a raider with a fat-man.

    • @jidk6565
      @jidk6565 Před 4 lety +108

      I walked out and there was a giant bone white scorpion
      I screamed and ran

    • @DrakeHunter324
      @DrakeHunter324 Před 4 lety +84

      I often get a Deathclaw, either a dead one or a game over.

    • @Mariodash23
      @Mariodash23 Před 4 lety +57

      First time I played Fallout 3 on PC, I saw a severely injured Deathclaw and lost my shit thinking I was gonna die.

    • @TheWorldPig
      @TheWorldPig Před 4 lety +1

      🤣🤣🤣

    • @serlistogiette4168
      @serlistogiette4168 Před 4 lety

      @@Mariodash23 YOU CAN PLAY IT ON oh wait you said first time so it's probably on something that worked.

  • @unifieddynasty
    @unifieddynasty Před rokem +482

    The first time leaving the vault in Fallout 3 was a huge deal. This was the first time that the world of Fallout was depicted in 3D. And it was beautiful.

    • @NigerianCrusader
      @NigerianCrusader Před rokem +3

      BUT NOT AS BEAUTIFULL AS ESO

    • @IINareik
      @IINareik Před 11 měsíci +3

      Brotherhood of steel on ps2/xbox was actually the 1st 3D game

    • @NigerianCrusader
      @NigerianCrusader Před 11 měsíci

      @@IINareik yEP

    • @unifieddynasty
      @unifieddynasty Před 11 měsíci +17

      @@IINareik While technically true, it would be generous to say Fallout Brotherhood of Steel "was the first time that the world of Fallout was depicted in 3D". Fallout BoS was an extremely limited top-down level-based arcade game. Fallout 3 remains the first time the world of Fallout, true to its roots, was depicted in 3D.

    • @voltagedoesit1136
      @voltagedoesit1136 Před 10 měsíci +6

      @@NigerianCrusaderdid this dude just try to compare a mmo to a real game?

  • @GingerNightDream
    @GingerNightDream Před rokem +193

    Fallout 3 was my introduction to open world games (I was about 12 so my parents were slowly starting to let me play violent games) and it became quickly my most favorite game of all time, I still to this day can't find a game that gives me the same feeling the first time playing fallout 3 gave me

    • @NigerianCrusader
      @NigerianCrusader Před rokem +1

      ESO EXISTS

    • @boxyboy1527
      @boxyboy1527 Před rokem +3

      ​@咕噜 yeah no one wants to play that if your trying to relive memories of fo3

    • @estogaza5827
      @estogaza5827 Před 11 měsíci +5

      Oblivion and fallout 3 were super similar in feeling although totally different settings. But ya, fallout 3 was special.

    • @NigerianCrusader
      @NigerianCrusader Před 11 měsíci +1

      @@boxyboy1527 ESO IS AWESOME

    • @NigerianCrusader
      @NigerianCrusader Před 11 měsíci +1

      @@estogaza5827 OBLIVION WAS AWESOME

  • @appalachianwolf1187
    @appalachianwolf1187 Před 4 lety +4121

    I wish I forgot everything about Fallout 3 and New Vegas so I can both replay them all over again. They both have a special place in my heart.

    • @silent_stalker3687
      @silent_stalker3687 Před 4 lety +76

      Remember your mother’s favorite passage?

    • @appalachianwolf1187
      @appalachianwolf1187 Před 4 lety +132

      Silent_Stalker Is it big iron on his hip?

    • @bettyrose2575
      @bettyrose2575 Před 4 lety +15

      Vegas, is like nostalgia and just perfect content happy nights in a tin for me.

    • @cloudgaming4312
      @cloudgaming4312 Před 4 lety +12

      U are a good man love u no homo

    • @SimoExMachina2
      @SimoExMachina2 Před 4 lety +7

      @@silent_stalker3687" Life is a game, and games have winners and losers"?

  • @normalsaline8913
    @normalsaline8913 Před 5 lety +2895

    Shoot children and they don't die?
    Sounds like a job for myth busters

  • @dannyboy5008
    @dannyboy5008 Před rokem +212

    The whole "you can't kill children" argument is mostly due to a change of time and priorities. Even at the time of fallout 1's release, international versions patched children out all together to avoid the whole child killing dynamic. When fallout eventually came to digital markets via steam and gog, the censored European versions were specifically used. Therefore the only readily available versions of the original fallout have no killable children either. Killable children just isn't something 99% of game devs want to deal with, even New Vegas didn't tackle it.

    • @Duchess_Van_Hoof
      @Duchess_Van_Hoof Před 9 měsíci +31

      It is a misdirection in the video. The actual criticism is that Little Lamplight is obligatory for the main story, and you are arbritrarily denied your main tool for progressing the game.
      Bethesda chose to make the part mandatory, put an obnoxious character at the gate and broke immersion by having the place solely populated by immortal and invincible individuals.
      I call them immortal as narratively the children have lived there for two centuries.
      If the entire area was a hidden discoverable area, and optional, it would interesting and unique.
      As it stands it is one of the many parts of the central plot that the immersion is utterly broken.

    • @nanksm4583
      @nanksm4583 Před 8 měsíci +2

      The part was unfortunately very infuriating.
      As someone who mostly play as an explosive expert. I wanted to blow the whole cave into the ground.
      that wimpsy wooden door shouldn't hold to my fatman bombardment.

    • @tylermcneeley3136
      @tylermcneeley3136 Před 7 měsíci +41

      Is it really that big of an issue?
      Oh no, poor you can't continue a main quest while also killing people when you feel like!

    • @Star-Commander-Vong
      @Star-Commander-Vong Před 6 měsíci +23

      ​@Duchess_Van_Hoof ...They literally haven't lived there for 2 centuries? Where the hell did you get THAT idea from?

    • @snakezase2998
      @snakezase2998 Před 6 měsíci +17

      @@Duchess_Van_Hoofyou can skip the opening to little lamplight with the child at heart perk

  • @D0NU75
    @D0NU75 Před rokem +168

    One thing i always loved from Fo3 is the way you can approach problems from unconventional ways. "Escape from Paradise" has you rescuing the little lamp brats, but one wants to stay behind, Penny who wants you to rescue Rory. When you and Rory have to make it to the exit, you have two options; kill all the slavers or tell Rory to run and hope he doesn't die in the process, which he likely will. However if your skill is high enough you can pick pocket all the slavers' weapons including the minigun from the sentry over the platform (also don't forget the unique pool stick, unarmed slavers will try to use it) once everyone is disarmed you can reverse pick-pocket Rory that very same minigun. When you tell him to make a break for it, all the slavers are going to run towards him with their bare fists, while he uses the minigun. He is going to kill all the slavers in his way and you won't get good karma or lose standing with them. It's basically Butch 2.0 in which you empower an NPC so he can save himself, the game never telegraphs to you this, it is an option you have however because it counts on you being crafty.

    • @Regulo1d
      @Regulo1d Před rokem +24

      Holy shit, that's genius

    • @thegamerfe8751
      @thegamerfe8751 Před rokem +12

      It's not exclusive to Fallout 3, that's all Bethesda games.

    • @slicedtopieces
      @slicedtopieces Před 6 měsíci +5

      Lol. Never thought to do the quest _that_ way. Might give it a go. 😅

    • @kianschoeman6574
      @kianschoeman6574 Před 6 měsíci +3

      ​@@thegamerfe8751I've never really experienced something of the sort in Skyrim
      I don't know if this is a glitch but even when I release the prisoners and give them weapons and healing items they don't use the weapons or the healing and just die
      I know there isn't a real benefit to rescuing them besides role play
      But I'd like to have that memory of awesome things I've done regardless of whether they're useful or not

    • @notjohn100
      @notjohn100 Před 5 měsíci +1

      Can do that in any mission where someone gets involved in combat at some point. But it's fun yea

  • @booker4984
    @booker4984 Před 4 lety +2950

    Unrelated: *But can we talk about how useless the Chinese pistol was?*

    • @Hrodric
      @Hrodric Před 4 lety +578

      Maybe that was the point of it, like a joke about chinese products

    • @Snoogen11
      @Snoogen11 Před 4 lety +393

      @@Hrodric Idk... the best assault rifle in the game is the Xian-Long Chinese AK.

    • @cyemonkey1828
      @cyemonkey1828 Před 4 lety +161

      Bothered me so much I literally made a mod for myself to buff the piece of garbage to be use able.

    • @anon-bo4hg
      @anon-bo4hg Před 4 lety +18

      @@Snoogen11 aks are Russian

    • @Snoogen11
      @Snoogen11 Před 4 lety +155

      @@anon-bo4hg Not in fallout.

  • @kirbs7136
    @kirbs7136 Před 4 lety +891

    Did anyone else realize that if you eat the sweet roll immediately, you get a new speech option for Butch?

    • @justjordan6560
      @justjordan6560 Před 4 lety +94

      I've never known this

    • @kirbs7136
      @kirbs7136 Před 4 lety +62

      Just Jordan I didn’t either, I just ate it really quick and figured this out, he doesn’t attack you and you get some new dialogue from the girl(don’t remember her name at the moment) if I remember correctly

    • @niklasmijer7089
      @niklasmijer7089 Před 4 lety +24

      @@kirbs7136 amata is her name

    • @s.c5714
      @s.c5714 Před 4 lety +7

      @@kirbs7136 what does he say

    • @darinjohnson5365
      @darinjohnson5365 Před 4 lety +29

      I just realized this in my latest play through. Maybe it's missed a lot because you need to eat it before the cake is ruined and Butch comes to talk to you. It seems like one of the better resolutions actually.

  • @trashpanda6885
    @trashpanda6885 Před rokem +49

    "Is mass murder okay if the targets are slavers?"
    Uhh yeah dude.

    • @Duchess_Van_Hoof
      @Duchess_Van_Hoof Před 9 měsíci +4

      It is harm prevention, just like killing Enclave soldiers or predatorial beasts.

    • @spankyjeffro5320
      @spankyjeffro5320 Před měsícem +1

      It's not murder if they're not innocent.

    • @bigjawline9235
      @bigjawline9235 Před 26 dny +3

      hes being very charitable to slavers just to justify his video game opinions

    • @MeadeJ67
      @MeadeJ67 Před dnem

      & you're being very naive to justify yours... They are human beings trying to survive in a decimated world where nothing makes sense anymore. Their reality isn't pretty. Sorry it's a touchy subject for you, but the real world isn't all sunshine & roses. You not agreeing with them doesn't mean mass murder is necessarily right. Get over it.

    • @MeadeJ67
      @MeadeJ67 Před dnem

      ​@bigjawline9235 You're being very naive to justify yours... You're also really cherry-picking here considering all of the other amazing examples given... It still isn't objectively right to wipe them out, regardless of their crimes. Life is rarely that black & white. You not agreeing with them doesn't mean they should be wiped out. They are broken people living in an obliterated world. Some are going to turn to pretry dark things in order to survive. Some may be forced into it based on their circumstances. There always has to be someone like you though. You're just upset that he made a lot of really good points that go against the bandwagon you've hopped on. Try to form your own opinions, it makes life a lot better. Fallout 3 is a fantastic game.

  • @harrybaals2549
    @harrybaals2549 Před rokem +42

    The point about the trickery used to give the DC ruins a better sense of scale really explains a lot. My memory of wandering the ruins when I was a kid so many years ago feels a lot bigger than it actually is upon revisiting while actively thinking about it

    • @PastPerspectives3
      @PastPerspectives3 Před 3 měsíci +3

      Yeah I prefer DC to New Vegas because the Super Mutants of DC provide a much more tangible impediment than the 2000 caps requirement of NV.

  • @greenhowie
    @greenhowie Před 5 lety +911

    You know what? First time I played this, I didn't realise Megaton was a place. I saw a robot next to a scrap pile and stayed the hell away.
    Found the hollow rock first time, though.

    • @SilverDOMO192837
      @SilverDOMO192837 Před 5 lety +81

      I love reminiscing about my noob playthroughs, my first run through fo4 I stopped for a while because I couldn't find the railroad

    • @basedbattledroid3507
      @basedbattledroid3507 Před 5 lety +128

      I just kept lone wandering around the abandoned town just outside of Megaton, searching every single house on the street as much as humanly possible to find someone, it was also the GOTY edition and I had a pretty poor understanding of the map marker and ended up wandering so far off the course I needed to complete Mothership Zeta at level Five, which was a gosh-darned nightmare of difficult hallway fuckery. It was also when I realized how green the wasteland was and how this place wasn't.
      Then I come back and find what I thought was a town but it turned out to be the even more difficult goddamn Deathclaw-ridden Deathtrap known as Old Oney. The rest of the game became such a breeze after diving in head-first like that, I remember doing that main quest when the brotherhood guy freaks out and screams "BEHEMOTH!!!" But I honestly didn't notice, I was so levelled up from my blunders I already killed two other Behemoths.
      And FO4 I thought I did such a great job with the customization system but then the lighting situation immediately changed and my character looked like one of the vampires from Salem's Lot so I recklessly abandoned the search for my missing son, never went near my old hometown and ran straight for diamond city, completely unarmed, because I heard they had a plastic surgeon there. I also never bothered going for Piper's interview, my first companion ended up being Strong, it was also ridiculously difficult scaling that tower with all of the blood bags in it only to find this giant angry Shakespearean booger who hates nearly everything I do. But I became a cannibal and we quickly ascended to being best friends, he routinely told me *"YOU GOOD LEADER!!!"* whenever I ate a group of raiders.
      And New Vegas: I tried to make it to the strip from my grave where I could see it, and I was tag-teamed by giant scorpions, I became more obsessed with revenge-killing them than Benny, also I had sex with Benny.

    • @vhs1984
      @vhs1984 Před 5 lety +29

      @@basedbattledroid3507 the best comment i read in a long time, thanks for a good laugh pal

    • @basedbattledroid3507
      @basedbattledroid3507 Před 5 lety +5

      @@vhs1984 thanks man!

    • @NonstopRam
      @NonstopRam Před 5 lety +5

      @@basedbattledroid3507 Going straight to the strip early in the game.
      The fastest way to find trouble in New Vegas.

  • @tiryxx977
    @tiryxx977 Před 4 lety +1179

    Unpopular Opinion:
    Both 3 and NV are good for different reasons.

    • @CigEconomy
      @CigEconomy Před 4 lety +159

      I agree with this, BUT the things that make FNV good are what makes the Fallout series unique and special. FO3 is good because it does the Bethesda RPG sandbox-exploration formula well. It's weak in the narrative sense.

    • @spiderduckpig
      @spiderduckpig Před 4 lety +35

      NV had good dialogue

    • @KidaMilo89
      @KidaMilo89 Před 4 lety +35

      NV would be better if it wasn't riddled with bugs upon release. I hope Obsidian fixes its engine one day and re-releases it, because I think it would do well.

    • @crackergaming3840
      @crackergaming3840 Před 4 lety +17

      Ones in a city one is in a dessert

    • @spidaxtreme
      @spidaxtreme Před 4 lety +52

      @@KidaMilo89 It's bethesda's engine.

  • @andrewstout5400
    @andrewstout5400 Před rokem +12

    I thought 3 was better than 4 , 4 felt more like a chore, I rushed to beat it by the end. For 3 I had fun reading every letter on every typewriter.

  • @ender4652
    @ender4652 Před 10 měsíci +45

    I loved fallout 3s introduction to the wasteland. It reminded me of coming out of the sewers on Oblivion.

  • @Killerspawn560
    @Killerspawn560 Před 3 lety +1182

    I remember the first time I did the Tenpenny tower quest, helping the Ghouls and then coming back to find all the humans dead, I was so mad because of how much i went out of my way to help them only for them to do go ahead and kill 'em all anyways that I wound up killing all the ghouls, its one of those things in Fallout 3 that still sticks with me.

    • @skinnymann9932
      @skinnymann9932 Před 3 lety +85

      look at the bright side, free housing.

    • @jw5471
      @jw5471 Před 3 lety +20

      I understand. I played it out the same way but on the other hand i blew up megaton before that. So yea no regrets.

    • @Rangerbubbareid
      @Rangerbubbareid Před 3 lety +110

      I did the same, and I could've forgiven all, until I found Herbert Daring Dashwood among the dead, now I just ignore the ghouls

    • @maddlarkin
      @maddlarkin Před 3 lety +52

      @@Rangerbubbareid Same, Dashwoods dead now everyone must pay.
      Weird thing is I think the quest must of glitched on my first play through because I kept coming back and everyone was living there peacefully with the residents making comments about the new neighbours... I wish I could of repeated the bug because if was funny as hell watching them all living in Tenpenny Towers

    • @Rangerbubbareid
      @Rangerbubbareid Před 3 lety +19

      @@DW133_ yes, but the ghouls kill all the human residences anyway

  • @danbull
    @danbull Před 6 lety +10339

    It's my bedtime but I can't stop watching this video. You owe me one bedtime.

    • @personwowgames
      @personwowgames Před 6 lety +179

      I was confused when I saw your name, thought "nah this isn't THE Dan Bull" but then I clicked on your name and boom, it is the Dan Bull... Love many of your video game raps, keep it up :)

    • @stardomswords2054
      @stardomswords2054 Před 6 lety +42

      Dan Bull Same will be extremely tired tomorrow

    • @_Cerb_
      @_Cerb_ Před 6 lety +41

      Wait what? Dan? What are you doing here? xD

    • @caelanb1711
      @caelanb1711 Před 6 lety +63

      Dan Bull I think it's cool that you watch Jon. I think he's one of the most underrated gaming youtubers. He deserves more subs .

    • @Rateus_Johanson
      @Rateus_Johanson Před 6 lety +13

      Only one bedtime, I figured most MATN fans would be in the hundreds by now!

  • @murrayallinger2830
    @murrayallinger2830 Před 8 měsíci +100

    FNV is my favorite Fallout game, no question, but I love F3 as well. I have no patience for people who put down F3.

    • @kosovojesrbja
      @kosovojesrbja Před 7 měsíci +17

      Thank you. This is rhe comment i needed for my sanity

    • @coltonwilkie241
      @coltonwilkie241 Před 7 měsíci +16

      Those people aren't worth the effort. If they think New Vegas is great while Fallout 3 is terrible there's just something wrong with their brains. The game's are too similar to each other for only one of them to be considered good while the other isn't. Makes no sense to me.

    • @HydeKills
      @HydeKills Před 6 měsíci +1

      Same. And New Vegas wouldnt exist if it wasnt for Fallout 3. 3 was an integral part of its creation.

    • @TheBreakingBenny
      @TheBreakingBenny Před 6 měsíci +1

      Well, then I hope you don't necessarily feel the same way about Fallout 4 and Starfield, especially if they do so for _good_ reasons.

    • @murrayallinger2830
      @murrayallinger2830 Před 6 měsíci +9

      @@TheBreakingBenny I was totally unimpressed with Fallout 4. I felt no connection with the game, and found it vastly inferior to either F3 or FNV. I'm not into space games, so it is unlikely that I will ever play Starfield.

  • @javieremoya
    @javieremoya Před rokem +19

    Context is hugely important when starting a game. In NV you arent a vault dweller who grew up in a vault and had no way of knowing what any of the major factions are. Therefore, after your encounter with benny...why would it make sense to get a history lesson from a nearby town as if this is your first time learning of the NCR...or Ceasar's legion...or the wasteland. I can believe there is some expectation of knowing the context of the world you occupy, given that it is your LITERAL JOB to navigate as a courier beforehand. Unless they go with "they were hit with amnesia"

    • @Stray7
      @Stray7 Před 2 měsíci +9

      Being hit with amnesia because someone had to dig a chunk of lead out of your brain seems believable enough to me.

    • @kieranhurst8543
      @kieranhurst8543 Před měsícem +2

      ​@@Stray7but that also doesn't work because there are dialogues for the courier to mention New Reno and Boneyard, so they should know all of this already

    • @Sageflyguy
      @Sageflyguy Před měsícem +6

      Well you don't have to choose those dialogue choice. If you think it doesn't make sense for your Courier to ask about the Factions, then don't do it

  • @Orandu
    @Orandu Před 4 lety +731

    I like pickpocketing power armor into children’s inventory and making them wear it...
    Tiny power armor!

    • @flynn659
      @flynn659 Před 3 lety +53

      God-tier comment.

    • @Orandu
      @Orandu Před 3 lety +40

      Patrick Mitchell as long as it’s higher level than what they are wearing, they will put it on. You may have to reload the cell by leaving and returning.

    • @CorwinAlexander
      @CorwinAlexander Před 3 lety +26

      Too many Sims 3 model stretching nightmares for me to be even slightly interested in trying this ;-)

    • @DOOMSLAYER1376
      @DOOMSLAYER1376 Před 3 lety +28

      putpocketing*

    • @Orandu
      @Orandu Před 3 lety +6

      SLAYER76 exactly!

  • @socialmedia4637
    @socialmedia4637 Před 5 lety +812

    *I still vividly remember those feels when I first left 101 and saw the apocalyptic wasteland on the big screen*

    • @Crusse89
      @Crusse89 Před 5 lety +49

      Yea I remember feeling a bit scared not really knowing where to go or what kind of danger would be out there.

    • @johnseckinger9523
      @johnseckinger9523 Před 5 lety +43

      Same here; man. It’s definitely one of the most vivid images in my memories of gaming.

    • @allrez4157
      @allrez4157 Před 4 lety +10

      It's indescribable. I was 13, had no idea what the game was about and got amazed by it.

    • @ChitenBugMan
      @ChitenBugMan Před 4 lety +5

      I actually remember running into my first Super Mutant in 3 as a kid. It was amazing

    • @alphakennyone8
      @alphakennyone8 Před 4 lety +5

      @@allrez4157 same I was 13 too honestly to me it will always be my most treasured gaming moment

  • @TheRealFAA
    @TheRealFAA Před měsícem +20

    It's so nice seeing everyone else talk about their experiences with fallout 3 in the comments. Fallout 3 was my first fallout experience and i was 11-12 when i played it. The moment that sticks with me the most is my first run to super-duper for Moira, seeing the market with bodies hanging from the street lights and even inside on the ceiling made me feel uneasy. The way Fallout 3 made me actually feel terrified of my surroundings makes me love this game. Currently replaying for the first time in 7 years and I'm absolutely loving it.

    • @TheRealFAA
      @TheRealFAA Před měsícem +3

      I've gone on to play Fallout 4, and 76(at launch 💀)and a little bit of Fallout 1. I own all the main games on steam and plan on playing New Vegas after I finish 3 and it's dlc

  • @hugoandre96
    @hugoandre96 Před rokem +55

    Fallout 3: I love for the exploration
    Fallout NV: For the diverse characters
    Fallout 4: for the weapon customization and ease of modification for even more weapon customization (and maybe outfit mods)

    • @gameprose4293
      @gameprose4293 Před rokem +9

      For me, my love of Fallout 4 is for the settlements. I've been playing it since it came out and I STILL haven't completely the primary main story (although I have done all the DLCs) because I love building up settlements. And then I get a new idea for how to build the settlement so I start a new game.

  • @jamessimpson5676
    @jamessimpson5676 Před 4 lety +620

    1:41:22 ‘Lets be massive nerds for a second’. Jon, we’ve been watching a full review of the Lore of Fallout. I think you’re preaching to the converted

    • @codsworth3996
      @codsworth3996 Před 4 lety +5

      @Andre Lucas Fun Fact: New Vegas was much buggier than Fallout 3 at launch due to the limited development time.

    • @FecalMatador
      @FecalMatador Před 4 lety +1

      zetabyte 27 at launch? It still is xD. It’s only playable on pc due to stabilizers and what not. Camp McCarran, red Rock Canyon, and Freeside will cause you a ton of trouble later on in your save once you’re past 8000Kb, and it’s so much worse on console. Though New Vegas didn’t have many game breaking bugs like Fo3. I remember getting stuck in the Bridge part on the Mothership Zeta dlc because the little girl bugged out in one of the vents and never came back :(

    • @Stiffmiester979
      @Stiffmiester979 Před 4 lety

      @@FecalMatador At least it's playable on console. I tried to fix my Steam version if NV, a complete nightmare of a project it turns out. It felt like for every bug I potentially fixed, two more were added. That game straight up HATES my PC. In fact every Bethesda game ( yes I know NV was Obsidian but it's basically Bethesda considering the assets and time frame they were given) I try to play on PC is straight up broken even upon a fresg install. In skyrim the water physics have taken over and randomly make my character swim when running on land or in buildings. Unfixable as far as I can tell. In Fallout 4 there's a large number of visual bugs and random crashing you just don't get on console nearly as often. Fallout NV would hard crash upon nearly every autosave or transition to areas.
      I have a decent PC at that. Can run Witcher 3 on full settings with mods, Skyrim was the same but for some reason it stopped working even after disabling all mods and fresh install.
      Fallout NV is by far the buggiest of the series, but it also has the best excuse for its flaws and at that IF I COULD FIX IT I WOULD and I'd play the ever living fuck out of it again on PC. But until I buy a new PC or they magically fix those issues NV, and other bethesda like titles are dead to me on PC. They're just TOO broken to enjoy.

    • @monkeman5895
      @monkeman5895 Před 3 lety

      NV and 3 played fine for me on xbox 360

    • @owenmills3517
      @owenmills3517 Před měsícem +1

      Best comment!

  • @pescando
    @pescando Před 3 lety +542

    I wonder if this is what it looked like to argue between Protestantism and Catholicism 500 years ago.

    • @bakingbad2992
      @bakingbad2992 Před 2 lety +95

      I doubt those arguments were as intense as those in the fallout community

    • @mauriciosolano9342
      @mauriciosolano9342 Před 2 lety +62

      @@bakingbad2992 def
      Fallout fans talk about specifics in the quests
      Doubt most people knew the bible as much as fallout fans know every single line of script

    • @Renovartio
      @Renovartio Před 2 lety +11

      Well they literally killed each other, so sadly no.

    • @TheShinyShow
      @TheShinyShow Před 2 lety +10

      500 years ago? Try Northern Ireland or Rangers vs Celtic

    • @martinhorvath4117
      @martinhorvath4117 Před 2 lety +2

      @@Renovartio well, the Catholics started it....

  • @stevenbrown9307
    @stevenbrown9307 Před 3 měsíci +10

    The best thing about fallout 3 is the ability to just pick a direction and just wander. Go see what's happening in that village you can see in the distance or what loot can be had from that empty looking campsite nv is a great story with some great outcomes but if you're bored with the story you can't just turn left (or right) and see what's out there like you can in fallout 3

    • @jakubdzejkob9989
      @jakubdzejkob9989 Před 2 měsíci +1

      You cant? Why? Your mum told you that she wont tolerate wanderkmg in nv?

    • @stevenbrown9307
      @stevenbrown9307 Před 2 měsíci +1

      @jakubdzejkob9989 you can. There's just a lot out there in nv, as the video says there aren't many rewards for going out exploring.

    • @somewhatreallycoolguy7439
      @somewhatreallycoolguy7439 Před 2 měsíci +3

      ⁠​⁠@@jakubdzejkob9989 i always felt nv's world was really bland and empty, so no, i can't just divorce myself from the story and make my own fun like in fo3. you might find new vegas' empty world really compelling, and that's all well and good. but its clear that bethesda actually put some emphasis on exploration and visual storytelling, and its equally clear that obsidian was mostly concerned with verbal storytelling

  • @sleepdeprived4244
    @sleepdeprived4244 Před rokem +111

    The more I play Fallout 3 and the more I learn about it and other people's opinions of it, the more convinced I become that people who complain about Fallout 3 are generally people who just rushed to complete the main quest without ever engaging with the rest of the game.

    • @zapcatzach
      @zapcatzach Před rokem +36

      Fallout 3 was almost universally praised as an RPG masterpiece when it first came out, with only a small minority of purists bickering about it. When New Vegas first came out pretty much everyone saw it as a standalone expansion of the same great game and both were held in high regard. 2007-11 was the golden age of Fallout. To this day I still don't know what the hell happened to the community; We used to be something beautiful.

    • @Notimportant253
      @Notimportant253 Před rokem +18

      @@zapcatzach hindsight is always 20/20. The legacy of a game can change as new editions are made and as the landscape changed. I don’t think fallout 3 is horrible or not worth playing, I just had to approach it a certain way to enjoy it, because I went into it expecting it to have as strong a story and be as strong an rpg as fallout nv had and was, as I played that one first. I was very disappointed with how watered down the story was, how inconsequential your decisions felt, how garbage the ending was, and how stupid the morality system is. Now New Vegas wasn’t perfect either but it’s a proper RPG with some AMAZING characters and a story with endings that over a decade later people are STILL debating. Obsidian really knocked it out of the park, in a way that Bethesda hasn’t really been able too with their entries.

    • @wiwysova
      @wiwysova Před rokem +1

      Ive played the fuck out of it. It's decent. About as good as tactics.

    • @wiwysova
      @wiwysova Před rokem

      @@zapcatzach you're stupid.

    • @kieranhurst8543
      @kieranhurst8543 Před rokem

      ​@@Notimportant253 new vegas? Strong rpg and story?
      The fuck are you smoking?

  • @averageperson8882
    @averageperson8882 Před 3 lety +957

    I don’t understand why there are so many people who think you can only enjoy EITHER Fallout 3 or New Vegas. They’re both great games.

    • @Lunartic_
      @Lunartic_ Před 3 lety +75

      You can enjoy whatever you want. But only Fallout NV is a great game while 3 ranks between mediocre and bad.

    • @Lunartic_
      @Lunartic_ Před 3 lety +12

      @@rileymccreanor6492 That I indeed am.

    • @ScabiousGarde
      @ScabiousGarde Před 3 lety +53

      I don't particularly like Fallout 3, honestly pretty weird to be so invested that you have to hate it

    • @nigelpisswater484
      @nigelpisswater484 Před 3 lety +27

      fallout nv is the best fallout without a doubt but 3 comes in a close 2nd for me

    • @cervenakarkulka69
      @cervenakarkulka69 Před 3 lety +3

      @@nigelpisswater484 lol no, play 2

  • @freedomis4all
    @freedomis4all Před 6 lety +7512

    ...And welcome to Jon's no-breathing marathon.

    • @walkingstash7486
      @walkingstash7486 Před 6 lety +177

      I defiantly wouldn't want to have to wright the script for this 2 hour video, however I assume he just wrote down some general points and eleborated on them.

    • @Shamino1
      @Shamino1 Před 6 lety +265

      Seeing as how you can't spell anything at all, I would not want you writing scripts either, Walking Stash.

    • @walkingstash7486
      @walkingstash7486 Před 6 lety +275

      Shamino Warhen, I do have minor dyslexia by the way, but I get it, my inability to spell gets no end of jokes from my mates anyway lol

    • @walkingstash7486
      @walkingstash7486 Před 6 lety +70

      Exotic Bat, I honestley thought Tuesday was spelt Teusday (The e and the u the wrong way around) until I was thirteen and someone pointed it out to me. I have to use autocorrect for half of the words I type because my spelling is just so bad lol.

    • @Nathan-zl1ve
      @Nathan-zl1ve Před 6 lety +22

      Honudes Gai
      CZcams*
      I know what you're thinking, this fucker has no friends! Well, that's incorrect because my friends are the guys at the bar at Chernobyl, all of my 22 fingers, 5 toes, and 15 arms are my friends. Took me a few years to live in Chernobyl, drink radiation waste everyday, and eat nutritious bugs to get this sexy body I have acquired.

  • @yeetermcgavin2132
    @yeetermcgavin2132 Před 10 měsíci +8

    I cant remember when in the video its mentioned, but in the beginning of fallout New Vegas, it explains everything because realistically you would have known that info before being shot anyways

    • @MeadeJ67
      @MeadeJ67 Před dnem

      You really wouldn't, though. The courier travles all over. He/she isn't necessarily from New Vegas. They were simply tasked with going there. You aren't going to know the ins & outs of every single place you are sent to. Even if the courier did know, they just suffered a head injury. There are many ways they could have gotten around such an exposition dump. It's lazy story telling through & through. I get that it may be your preferred game, but that doesn't mean it's without flaws. This is coming from someone who loves New Vegas. It would have been significantly more impactful to show us rather than tell us.

  • @eiiiotrodger6279
    @eiiiotrodger6279 Před 9 měsíci +17

    If you sneak past the first guard while he's busy with the roaches, he will have dialogue talking to himself and then he will go to butch and refuse to help him and tell butch to go back to his room. Whether or not you helped butch will affect his reply when the guard asks if butch saw you anywhere. All that content from sneaking when normally most people would engage the guard immediately within seconds after talking to amata.
    Fallout 3 is a classic.

  • @arimarino2
    @arimarino2 Před 5 lety +3087

    Almost 2 hours long
    Doesn't have Adds
    Im very proud of this community

    • @user-uf8de5cw7x
      @user-uf8de5cw7x Před 5 lety +70

      Ha oxhorn ruined the community

    • @TheSplitskull1
      @TheSplitskull1 Před 5 lety +52

      @@user-uf8de5cw7x oxhorn would have adds every 3 mins lol

    • @generalmolotovv
      @generalmolotovv Před 5 lety +13

      Ari Marino *ads uwu :)

    • @SunBro_Talos
      @SunBro_Talos Před 5 lety +51

      I am autistic oxhorn makes amazing videos though and the ads help him since he makes money whenever someone watches an ad. It’s his job you can’t be mad at him for making money for spending hours and hours a day making videos

    • @TheSplitskull1
      @TheSplitskull1 Před 5 lety +62

      @@SunBro_Talos yes your right but you dont need to put 50 ads in a 10 minute video

  • @valeria262
    @valeria262 Před 4 lety +1300

    Fallout 3 was my intro to Fallout so it holds a special place in my heart, none of the other games ever captured that fun time of just running from place to place listening to the radio.

    • @soggie7157
      @soggie7157 Před 4 lety +39

      Congratulations. You just played a post apocalyptic jogging simulator. That's not fallout.

    • @valeria262
      @valeria262 Před 4 lety +192

      Ooh edgy, find a nice lady to make an honest boy outta you. 🥳

    • @vitalwzn4550
      @vitalwzn4550 Před 4 lety +7

      valeria262 same

    • @pizzapizza2225
      @pizzapizza2225 Před 4 lety +22

      soggie Opinions are like assholes

    • @clownworldhereticmyron1018
      @clownworldhereticmyron1018 Před 4 lety +17

      @@valeria262 how the hell is that "edgy"? nonsensical reply

  • @Priceinator11
    @Priceinator11 Před 29 dny +4

    Replaying this game for the first time since childhood. Having an absolute blast with it, was really surprised when watching this vid that people have a problem with it??? Guess you'll never satisfy gamers. Anyway thank for a great vid and companion piece to my playthrough

    • @Antonyt13
      @Antonyt13 Před 29 dny +5

      It's just New Vegas fanboys who get their feelings hurt when people enjoy any other game

  • @Stampede21
    @Stampede21 Před rokem +18

    Todd Howard is my sworn nemesis for making me wait so long between fallout games

  • @johanhansson3973
    @johanhansson3973 Před 5 lety +542

    "It's ghouls, I tell ya. Religious ghouls in rockets looking for a land to call their own."

    • @aircoolbro21scndling49
      @aircoolbro21scndling49 Před 5 lety +6

      It is, a side quest in fallout new vegas

    • @KazooieX1
      @KazooieX1 Před 5 lety +51

      @@aircoolbro21scndling49 Hello Captain Obvious! lol

    • @Palaquack59
      @Palaquack59 Před 5 lety +73

      Don't you laugh at me. I know a spell that will make you show your true form. Cave rat taught it to me

    • @user-bc3ss8lp6e
      @user-bc3ss8lp6e Před 5 lety +6

      Commie ghosts

    • @kingkash6441
      @kingkash6441 Před 5 lety

      @@aircoolbro21scndling49 it's actually just radio commentary

  • @umaydoruk4526
    @umaydoruk4526 Před 5 lety +2443

    Many A True Nerd: *makes 2 hour video with no ads*
    Literally everyone: *_not the hero we deserved, but the hero we needed_*

  • @qandayy7100
    @qandayy7100 Před rokem +44

    This was not only my first fallout game but also the first game i got for the ps3 and it absolutely blew my mind being 12 years old at the time. Fallout 3 will always be in my top ten games. Absolute masterpiece!

    • @michealjaymurphy
      @michealjaymurphy Před 11 měsíci +2

      Except the ending was so bad they need to replace it

    • @astartes3280
      @astartes3280 Před 5 měsíci

      Well, the previous games in the Fallout series, despite their old age in graphical terms, are much more action-packed, events and options for the development of these events compared to Fallout 3. Therefore, I would say that this game is definitely not bad, but not just as good as you imagine.

  • @jackmaney4276
    @jackmaney4276 Před rokem +11

    Holy shit, this video is almost five years old. Time has become near-meaningless.

  • @imeprezime4764
    @imeprezime4764 Před 4 lety +708

    Fallout 3 is one of the defining games of my early teen years. My first fallout game. Spent probably at least 300 hours on it

    • @LensToHorizon
      @LensToHorizon Před 4 lety +26

      Ime Prezime same bro. Once I was done with oblivion I heard about this game being made by the same company and the rest is history..

    • @wind2536
      @wind2536 Před 4 lety +28

      @@LensToHorizon it was the opposite for me. Played 3 first, blew my fucking head for hundreds of hours, then found out the same company made games like this, except fantasy themed? I was so fucking there. These very my first open world role playing games and the scope was just mind boggling to me at the time.

    • @howardmoon3075
      @howardmoon3075 Před 4 lety +23

      @@wind2536 Same, fallout 3 was my first Bethesda game then I played oblivion a couple years later. Fallout 3 will always be my favorite game. Maybe it's because I was a kid but no other game has brought me the feeling of sheer joy that fallout 3 did.

    • @360Dominator1
      @360Dominator1 Před 4 lety +1

      Me too. I actually couldn't get into it the first time but then I came back a few months later and that's when I started to love it.

    • @suddenpersuasion8375
      @suddenpersuasion8375 Před 4 lety +10

      i got FO3 a month or so after it came out and have played it consistently since. my last playthrough was 100 hours last year. its easily my favorite game of all time

  • @reallyhertv4566
    @reallyhertv4566 Před rokem +1063

    "But then is mass murder ok if the targets are slavers"
    As someone who wiped out Caesar's fort repeatedly: Yes

    • @theseus0467
      @theseus0467 Před rokem +173

      "It's not mass genocide if they're cringe."
      - Son Zoo, the Art of Vore

    • @ryoga8170
      @ryoga8170 Před rokem

      Or Democrats...they're literally new-wave Nazis.

    • @devinstreater1763
      @devinstreater1763 Před rokem +6

      Ave

    • @reallyhertv4566
      @reallyhertv4566 Před rokem +43

      @@theseus0467 Is it mass genocide to wipe out a faction that considers me beneath them for BEING?

    • @theseus0467
      @theseus0467 Před rokem +4

      @@reallyhertv4566 The Enclave isn't cringe
      ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

  • @zuulmeister8409
    @zuulmeister8409 Před měsícem +2

    I'll never forget that time I got attacked by mirelurks. Used my last shotgun shell and ran. I was frantically trying every door, desperate for an escape. Finally found a door that opened. I was safe!
    Imagine the sheer whiplash I felt when it turned out to be Dukov's Place.

  • @humungus3
    @humungus3 Před 7 měsíci +4

    One of my fondest memories from FO3 was being in the wasteland, picking a map marker, and just going for it.

  • @jeremydandeneau7704
    @jeremydandeneau7704 Před 3 lety +360

    I really liked Fallout 3 but one of the biggest problems I had with the game other than a low level cap was that unique weapons looked EXACTLY the same as normal ones.

    • @colerichardson20
      @colerichardson20 Před 2 lety +6

      honestly!!!! boils my fucking blood! so lazy holy shit. did they not want to make fun variants????

    • @donovanlocust1106
      @donovanlocust1106 Před 2 lety +5

      @@colerichardson20 the Xuanlong Assault Rifle is a darker color and has a bigger magazine.

    • @Happychickennug
      @Happychickennug Před 2 lety +1

      For me the biggest problem was random crashes on the main story that I have to get to. For example at the satellite station on the mobile base crawler

    • @saurelius5217
      @saurelius5217 Před 2 lety +7

      Except for Lincoln's golden repeater rifle.

    • @ajflink
      @ajflink Před 2 lety +5

      Oblivion had the same issue from what I heard as well as Skyrim.

  • @Manawolfman
    @Manawolfman Před 6 lety +220

    I love when enemies start infighting in games. It really helps the world feel more alive, the idea that you aren't the center of everything, and not everyone is out to get you.

    • @enzodriver
      @enzodriver Před 5 lety +3

      Manawolfman Thats why Life (the game where in now) is one of the best games you'll play

    • @whiteknight5137
      @whiteknight5137 Před 5 lety +43

      Life has shit gameplay and characters tbh there's even a bug where you can't respawn

    • @whiteknight5137
      @whiteknight5137 Před 5 lety +15

      It has decent graphics I guess but that's it

    • @warmfridge3320
      @warmfridge3320 Před 5 lety +7

      WhiteKnight I didn't have the 'University' dlc either so my education is shit :/ ah well at least I still have an xbox360 with Fallout 3 goty 😂

    • @huwguyver4208
      @huwguyver4208 Před 2 lety

      @@enzodriver the Life tutorial goes for at least 12 years- more if you want to have starting perks.

  • @johnirby8847
    @johnirby8847 Před 5 dny +3

    I couldn't go back to Fallout 3 after New Vegas....even Fallout 4 lacks the feeling of New Vegas.

  • @Rorius
    @Rorius Před rokem +28

    It's so refreshing to hear someone talk about the good things Fallout 3 did.
    I'm one of those people who's first Fallout was 3. I 100%ed the game and all it's dlc multiple times over and loved every minute of it but when it came to trying out Fallout New Vegas, I personally disliked it "by comparison". I've never been able to quite put it into words why, but that whole section about the grandiose moments/locations in fo3 really nailed one of my main grievances. I always just used to say that I thought foNV was bland, but what I really meant is there are very few locations that genuinely feel "important" or "special" or "awesome". New Vegas itself was pretty, but so so small, Hoover Dam felt grandiose but outside of a couple other spots, everything felt like everything else, so bland I can barely remember any of them. Meanwhile I remember so much of fo3 so fondly because there was variety and spectacle in so many of the spaces.
    tl;dr fo3 > nv imo (especially in terms of it's world and "spectacle")

    • @dock7777
      @dock7777 Před rokem +3

      It's a wasteland. It's supposed to be mundane and barren for the most part. The focus is instead dedicated to the tensions between various characters and factions, and also freedom in how the play chooses to interact with those elements. This is what New Vegas excels in.

    • @Rorius
      @Rorius Před rokem +1

      While I agree nv excels in it's character interactivity, games still benefit greatly from visually stimulating and unique settings. Fallout 3, despite also being a wasteland, managed to be varied and interesting visually so it's not impossible to make a wasteland that way.
      In my personal opinion, nv was just too bland looking for my taste (I mean, I still played right through it, it's still a great game, I just preferred 3)

    • @dock7777
      @dock7777 Před rokem +1

      @@Rorius I think it depends on the mood the game is going for. If the game is trying to sell you a destroyed world filled with death, war and tension, then proceeds to fill said world with visually stunning locations that impress the player, that would be antithetical to the premise of the game.
      In Fallout's case, the world is barren because there realistically would not be that many impressive vistas left after the world has been annihilated and it's remaining inhabitants are making due with scraps. You may not prefer it, but thematically it makes complete sense and in this case, the game benefits from not going that route.
      And as for Fallout 3, Bethesda's locations may be impressive on surface level, but if you think about the logistics of them for 2 minutes, you will realize a lot make little to no sense within the context of the world.
      Just my 2 cents, lol. You're free to prefer fo3 I just enjoy discussing these things

    • @Rorius
      @Rorius Před rokem +1

      When it comes to videogames, there's a balance developers have to make between realism/purely logical reasoning, and spectacle/game-feel/fun. Ultimately when I play games, I appreciate games that don't focus too heavily on realism when its at the cost of fun.
      An example of this I always use is my enjoyment of the driving in gta4 vs saints row 3.
      gta4 decided to try emulate reality and make the driving feel heavy and realistic and I hated it (a sentiment shared by most from what I've heard). Conversely, sr3 went for pure control and the driving was super satisfying and fun.
      And to be fair, fallout was never really all that realistic? This is the game series with the aliens and the elvis gang and the flesh monster fused with a computer who you can convince to end their tyrany with just words.
      Sorry, I don't mean to rant, I get a little carried away discussing these kinds of things as well heheh
      But yea, it's all subjective in the end

  • @unclesam326
    @unclesam326 Před 4 lety +438

    Holy god I never knew that Arkansas was a good guy. Now I feel infinitely bad for killing him every play through.

    • @APlayfulLittleBlend
      @APlayfulLittleBlend Před 3 lety +92

      That's the thing tho, is he? He tries to kill you because he thinks you just might be a slaver, hes probably killed a lot of slavers, but hes probably also killed a bunch of innocent people just trying to get by too. So, what's the right decision? That's the reason fallout 3 is good.

    • @APlayfulLittleBlend
      @APlayfulLittleBlend Před 3 lety +13

      @Conn Benn exactly, so is he a good person? He shoots strangers in sight on the chance that they are bad people.

    • @APlayfulLittleBlend
      @APlayfulLittleBlend Před 3 lety +12

      @Conn Benn I mean, it does say in the game guide that his goal is to kill slavers but he attacks you just because he thinks you are one, not a lot of nuance there, especially if they said it outright.

    • @MrBcraze513
      @MrBcraze513 Před 3 lety +3

      One of the escaped slaves mention Arkansas being an escaped slave

    • @emperorgameling5064
      @emperorgameling5064 Před 3 lety +12

      @@APlayfulLittleBlend Yes very good complex choice, "kill someone trying to kill me or not kill someone trying to kill me" very sophisticated.

  • @HARpgT
    @HARpgT Před 3 lety +124

    This video fills me with so much nostalgia. Super Duper Mart. Fire Ants. The Super Behemoth fight with the BOS. The radio. It brings tears to my eyes.

  • @spirit8296
    @spirit8296 Před 3 měsíci +10

    i come back to this every so often, just to see some positivity with fallout 3.
    great game

  • @nickelbacksinger1996
    @nickelbacksinger1996 Před rokem +7

    For me, the FO3 experience will never be the same without is also being on the PS3. I love playing on PC, but when I first played fallout, it was on a PS3 in a dimly lit basement, and something about the combination of the PS3's UI, sounds, the feeling of the controller, (and that basement setting too), made the experience so much more memorable for me. Anyone else?

    • @AyeYoBoxingWithMadiba
      @AyeYoBoxingWithMadiba Před 8 měsíci +2

      I’m from the DC metro area. I live near the real location of Germantown and have spent my life taking the metro into DC. I work in Alexandria which is near Annandale… the immersion I got playing FO3 will never be topped

  • @maxvanleeuwen1273
    @maxvanleeuwen1273 Před 5 lety +137

    The first time you step out of the vault in FO3 and your eyes adjust to the sunlight, there is just nothing like it. The intro is long, but every minute of it is pure gold.

    • @theblancmange1265
      @theblancmange1265 Před 5 lety +5

      For the first few times when you explore all the options. Then it's almost an hour of agony.

    • @maxvanleeuwen1273
      @maxvanleeuwen1273 Před 5 lety +1

      @@theblancmange1265 Yeah, you need to make a save file right before the exit, when you can reconsider all the attributes

    • @redjaygaming9757
      @redjaygaming9757 Před 5 lety

      No its not the intro is annoying

    • @MichealWSmith
      @MichealWSmith Před 5 lety +2

      Legit the same thing happens when u leave Doc Mitchells house. Not fanboying.

    • @slacktivism05
      @slacktivism05 Před 5 lety +1

      Also in FO4 just saying…

  • @taurus-ug3fp
    @taurus-ug3fp Před 4 lety +299

    True Nerd: "Is a man's life worth the freedom of multiple children?"
    Me: *"I mass murdered the town"*

    • @brian.phillips1985
      @brian.phillips1985 Před 4 lety +35

      @@silent_stalker3687 It's like you are trying to find any excuse not to gun down slavers.

    • @shawn723723
      @shawn723723 Před 4 lety +26

      Do you think that if new slavers tried to move in and heard about how every slaver was killed... They'd just be like oh cool what a great place to start selling slaves?

    • @brian.phillips1985
      @brian.phillips1985 Před 4 lety +23

      @@silent_stalker3687 Not only are you advocating for slavery, but your logic is incredibly flawed.

    • @jasonhymes3382
      @jasonhymes3382 Před 4 lety

      @@brian.phillips1985 Slavery = bad. Truly the mind of a open minded individual free of the ideals of society.
      The logic isn't flawed. History is not linear. I can say with 100% certainty that slavery will exist outside of Africa again in the future. The roman empire was one of the largest driving forces of civilization in the world. They were slavers.

    • @brian.phillips1985
      @brian.phillips1985 Před 4 lety +10

      @@jasonhymes3382 Half of what you even said doesn't correlate with your point.

  • @yungsmut5743
    @yungsmut5743 Před rokem +10

    This was my favorite game in middle school and still probably is

  • @NikoTukoquakeando
    @NikoTukoquakeando Před rokem +7

    10 years later and still learning new things

  • @calebtruth1941
    @calebtruth1941 Před 4 lety +691

    Hunting Rifles: *exist
    Super Mutants: i'Le TaKe YoUr EnTiRe StOcK

    • @orenges
      @orenges Před 4 lety +3

      more like every enemy out there.

    • @starfallsnow4490
      @starfallsnow4490 Před 4 lety +40

      Why did I think that in a Super Mutant voice..?

    • @theoaky8924
      @theoaky8924 Před 4 lety +23

      Super Mutant: *its free real estate*

    • @theoaky8924
      @theoaky8924 Před 4 lety +8

      @HCE_ Henri only if all the guns in fallout 4 weren't left handed.

    • @mixnflix101
      @mixnflix101 Před 4 lety +13

      @HCE_ Henri Hunting rifle was a monster in New Vegas too lol

  • @YugSihtTsuj
    @YugSihtTsuj Před 4 lety +461

    I never thought it was a bad game; I liked it a lot. But damn, now I want to play it again.

    • @damiendemers7495
      @damiendemers7495 Před 4 lety +4

      Same lol

    • @comicsans1689
      @comicsans1689 Před 4 lety +61

      Too bad the Bethesda online hate train is trying to convince everyone that Bethesda was never good. Even though Obsidian has never produced a game on par with Bethesda's best works, Obsidiots will find some way to nitpick and bullshit about how New Vegas is a God-tier game and that anything with Bethesda's name on it is irredeemable garbage. It's even funnier when Obsidiots praise New Vegas for being a better role playing game when it's actually a worse role playing game due to how they ruined skill checks.

    • @MeTaLISaWeSoMe95
      @MeTaLISaWeSoMe95 Před 4 lety +11

      @@comicsans1689 never? Outer world's? Tyranny? Pillars of Eternity? I loved old Bethesda, but they had quite a few shit games too. Yes the Elder Scrolls and Fallout 3 were good, but Obsidian has consistently put out amazing games since they began.

    • @comicsans1689
      @comicsans1689 Před 4 lety +25

      @ScorchedCrow95
      >Outer Worlds
      Garbage, just mediocre garbage. The writing is subpar for an Obsidian game (especially since they replaced Chris Avellone with even more liberal and pretentious writers), the characters and their designs are terrible, and the promise of deep role playing was not fulfilled. The only reason anyone liked the game is due to the Bethesda hate train and the fact that the RPG market is so shallow that people will accept sub-par games. The Outer Worlds clearly needed more development time, a recurring them with just about every game Obsidian has ever made.
      >Tyranny
      I've actually played a little bit of it when it was free one weekend on Steam, and it seemed interesting in its premise. I would need to play more of it before passing a final judgement.
      >Pillars of Eternity
      I haven't played it, but it looks alright.

    • @MeTaLISaWeSoMe95
      @MeTaLISaWeSoMe95 Před 4 lety +8

      @@comicsans1689 I cannot agree at all about Outer Worlds. Not one bit. It was exactly what I wanted when I bought it, and nearly everyone else agrees.

  • @kevinwiggins3509
    @kevinwiggins3509 Před rokem +6

    I relate so much to going down a dark corridor and seeing the silhouette of a super mutant and being so scared as a kid I had a save at the beginning of that same tunnel for a few weeks

  • @Nantosuelta
    @Nantosuelta Před rokem +6

    I remember I once played fallout 3 for so long that I pinched a nerve in my back and couldn't walk for hours afterward.

  • @CoolSmoovie
    @CoolSmoovie Před 2 lety +650

    Fallout arguments somed up in one sentence:
    Do you like Green or Orange?

    • @avalonjustin
      @avalonjustin Před 2 lety +53

      I wanted orange. It gave me lemon-lime.

    • @DrKaii
      @DrKaii Před 2 lety +71

      @@avalonjustin I wanted green, it gave me acute radiation poisoning

    • @Your.Local.Editor.
      @Your.Local.Editor. Před 2 lety +19

      Hehehe peasants,I made both huds *blue*

    • @christophervanoster
      @christophervanoster Před 2 lety +1

      Bright orange. Not that dull sand yellow of new Vegas. I changed my hud in 4 to be bright orange

    • @thedipermontshow
      @thedipermontshow Před 2 lety

      Not gonna lie, that resume everything very good.

  • @jdgustofwinddance.7748
    @jdgustofwinddance.7748 Před 3 lety +948

    All this is just a waste of time. The greatest Fallout game will always be Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel.

  • @corvididaecorax2991
    @corvididaecorax2991 Před rokem +17

    Fallout 3 doesn't get upset by the idea that a player might miss something interesting. Bethesda RPGs in general are like that, and I like that. After a playthrough of New Vegas I felt like I had seen most of what it had for me. But after playing 3 I felt like there was still more I could have found. Which really works for me.
    Fortunately there is a mod that lets me play both together. So I can get the advantages of each.

    • @LucyWest370
      @LucyWest370 Před 4 měsíci +1

      Yeah basically everything of note in new vegas is seen in major locations, black mt, the mojave outpost, the strip, etc. in fallout 3 you can just as easily walk in some random direction and end up inadvertently finding a unique weapon or bobblehead.

  • @lgd6619
    @lgd6619 Před 5 měsíci +13

    I have never understood the obsession with realism in games it takes away far more than it ever gives, gaming worlds can be so much more than the real world

    • @rowenawesome2156
      @rowenawesome2156 Před 4 měsíci +1

      THIS! SPEAK IT WAYYYY LOUDER FOR THE GTA IV FANBOYS

    • @KR-tk8fe
      @KR-tk8fe Před 4 měsíci +1

      Yeah that's why I didn't like the atmosphere of fallout 4 and Skyrim.

    • @TheBreakingBenny
      @TheBreakingBenny Před 4 měsíci +1

      Grounded ones, then? Mothership Zeta confirms that aliens exist, whereas in Fallout 1 and 2 that was just special encounters for some inside jokes.
      Imagine trying to claim Fallout and/or Star Wars "has never been grounded"… couldn't be me. it's an immediate forfeit if someone said Star Wars "was always silly because an imperial stormtrooper bumped his head."

    • @spankyjeffro5320
      @spankyjeffro5320 Před měsícem

      Realism doesn't necessarily mean real to this reality. It's more along the lines of "Does this make sense or not?". Most of the time, no, it does not make sense.
      That's certainly what I want from games. I want every single piece of lore to make sense to the game world or not be in the game world.

  • @janitordroidjenkins7081
    @janitordroidjenkins7081 Před 3 lety +780

    "Is mass murder ok if the targets are slavers?"
    Y e s

    • @turkeygod6665
      @turkeygod6665 Před 3 lety +31

      Yeah this video is odd lmao. I either agree with him or minorly disagree. I dont my stance on 3 has been changed, its always been Eh alrightish. Still good video tho
      Edit: Further into the video now, yeah disaree with everything he has to say about the legate lmao. That was a great boss and interaction and he may have been brutal, he was still smart and thus knows when not to advance. But still, good review.

    • @michaelgillespie9112
      @michaelgillespie9112 Před 3 lety +21

      No. Those people are scum and deserve justice, but no one deserves to die, no one deserves that. It's not up to us to pass that judgement anyway. Us killing them for their crimes is essentially us passing judgement on tuem, and it shouldn't be up to us. Even if you want to kill them, it isn't one t place to pass judgement. I don't know who is qualified to pass said judgement, but it certainly isn't us.

    • @TheGoldenMan888
      @TheGoldenMan888 Před 3 lety +51

      @@michaelgillespie9112 fucking nonsense in the wasteland there are not such things, in our real world we are afraid to do things that the law forbid us for bad and good reasons, of course my character joined them and bombed Megaton too because i find it realistic because its more beneficial for me lol

    • @michaelgillespie9112
      @michaelgillespie9112 Před 3 lety +7

      @@TheGoldenMan888 I understand not everyone will agree with me. I'm just saying what I believe is right. In a world like Fallout, my way of thinking will get me killed, I know that, but lucky for me, I'm not in the world of Fallout. I'm in a world were I'm privileged enough to be allowed to think this way. My way of thinking would never work in a world like Fallout, but this ISN'T Fallout.

    • @janitordroidjenkins7081
      @janitordroidjenkins7081 Před 3 lety +5

      You fail to remember who we play as, we are the main character, nothing in the significant wasteland happens unless we're involved.

  • @Orandu
    @Orandu Před 4 lety +83

    I hear a song by _the ink spots_ I am compelled to play another 100 hrs of fallout 3...

  • @namedhuman5870
    @namedhuman5870 Před rokem +17

    For me the difference is that I bought New Vegas first and I stopped playing after a few hours because the writing was so good, I believed that I was missing the history of the world by playing only New Vegas. It felt like everything was built upon the previous games. Therefore, I bought fallout 3 to experience the history. Obviously that was wrong, NV builds upon F1 and F2. I completed both F3 and NV, but only in NV did I get the feeling of a world being presented to me with a rich history and characters with a story beyond my experiences. The map in 3 is good, lots to see, but it lacks a feeling of being lived in.

    • @thedamntrain3467
      @thedamntrain3467 Před rokem +6

      Yup. FO3 is designed with a much bigger inspiration taken from FO1, but it does a lot of it at a surface level, and with a very "themepark" -esque approach. The only thing that I find "fresh" is how Elder Lyons treats the BoS's mission and how his vision is a more humanitarian one... Even though that in itself is mostly just what Roger Maxson would have wanted, instead of the BoS turning into what it was in FO1.

  • @chrisnewbury3793
    @chrisnewbury3793 Před rokem +4

    Leaving the vault gave me the same feeling leaving that dungeon in Oblivion did. "Ah where to go now...?"

  • @erikcarrillo7378
    @erikcarrillo7378 Před 2 lety +872

    Exiting the vault in Fallout 3 was legit an iconic gaming moment. Seeing it is like a direct shot of nostalgia.

    • @demonpride1975
      @demonpride1975 Před 2 lety +48

      that moment you step out into the sun, your eyes adjust, and you survey your surroundings, and say to yourself ugh i instantly regret my decision, this world is fucking horrible. but that's what makes 3 a great game. the grim desolate world, that is struggling just to stay alive. where most people leave because of how dangerous it is. i love it.
      and honestly i know people hate the green filter, i love it. it makes the world feel more grim.

    • @emilydavis9548
      @emilydavis9548 Před 2 lety +11

      I got chills

    • @demonpride1975
      @demonpride1975 Před 2 lety +27

      @@emilydavis9548 i like new vegas and 4, but as nerd said. those 2 games feel like people are rebuilding, 3 feels like people can't because of how terrible the dc wasteland is.

    • @shaneig9824
      @shaneig9824 Před 2 lety +1

      i swear when you go back to vault 101 for one last time for the side quest idek how to explain it but you know what im talking about. i got cucked by Amata

    • @shaneig9824
      @shaneig9824 Před 2 lety +1

      The overseer cockblocked me when he knows I wouldve been knee deep into those cheeks

  • @isaaccherian8032
    @isaaccherian8032 Před 4 lety +545

    Many a True Nerd: *discusses all the ways to get into Paradise Falls*
    Me who just used my minigun to make it rain: Yeah totally

    • @METALGEARMATRIX
      @METALGEARMATRIX Před 4 lety +1

      Used a combat shotty for some Hail

    • @littlebiits4216
      @littlebiits4216 Před 4 lety +2

      im american and I think new vegas should he remastered

    • @Peanutbutter19191
      @Peanutbutter19191 Před 4 lety +1

      I didn’t even know there was peaceful way to get the slaves out I always just murdered the slavers

    • @realspartan5206
      @realspartan5206 Před 4 lety +2

      there’s a peaceful way to get the slaves out of paradise falls?
      *loads almost 700 rounds into every slaver*
      nah, I’m just going to keep killing the slavers anyway

    • @sadmanpranto9026
      @sadmanpranto9026 Před 4 lety +1

      For some reason I always used Hunting Rifle in that game, as much as possible.

  • @TheDezembro
    @TheDezembro Před rokem +5

    Man, I just love rewatching this CZcams Epic every once in a while.

  • @Mephilis78
    @Mephilis78 Před 11 měsíci +8

    Fallout 3 leaves the main quests and the side content relatively separate. New Vegas has a main quest that acts as a guided tour of locations with side quests.
    One is an RPG that expects you to go out on your own and discover things yourself. One is a Theme Park RPG, with attractions along the main path.
    The problem here is that Bethesda clearly overestimated the typical Fallout fan. They assumed that, just like an Elder Scrolls fan, that they would be smart enough and curious enough to enjoy exploration and solving mysteries that aren't part of a main quest. Unfortunately, that's not the way classic Fallout fans think. There really was no exploration, per se. There were random encounters in the wasteland, that acted as discoveries, rather then persistent secrets that you can find in the same place everytime. For example, the UFO in Fallout 1. There is no set location. Find it once, start a new game and go to the same grid immediately... Nothing. It has a random chance of occuring any time that you fast travel on the world map. The UFO could be between Shady Sands and Vault 15, or it could be between Junktown and the Hub. It's random, as with almost everything else you find on world map that isn't part of a main quest chain. Every side quest is started by quest givers in main quest locations. Every new permanent "discovery" is marked on your map by an NPC. Fallout fans always had their hands held. They were rewarded for simply traveling between quest locations, with RNG secrets. They were never actually rewarded for exploration before.
    Contrast that with Daggerfall, the game Bethesda made nearest to Fallout 1. Every location was persistent. Some were marked by NPCs, some by maps you could find in dungeons. Even then, you could find them on your own. They would always be in the same place. If you wanted a a deadric artifact, you'd first have to find a book telling you how to summon the deadric prince, in question. You'd have to meet every condition, location, time, date, offerings, etc. This is a level of player agency that has never been attained by a Fallout game. It's never required that much intelligence to do anything in any Fallout game, including Bethesda's Fallouts. Point is, Bethesda was counting on a level of cognitive function that didn't exist, because Fallout fans never had to work for any secrets. They were all handed to them by a friggin dice roll..

    • @nicknolte8671
      @nicknolte8671 Před 11 měsíci +2

      Which is why some players that have played Fallout 3 never got to experience some of its content including the best quests in the game like the violin quest or visiting the Oasis (because it was in bumfuck nowhere) along with a slew of other quests.

    • @nicknolte8671
      @nicknolte8671 Před 11 měsíci +1

      And then they introduced quest compass so the player would never get lost and level scaling so the player would never be challenged and this was way before Fallout 3...
      And they made it so karma can be bought for an insignificant currency and made it so some NPCs can't be killed so players don't get frustrated.
      Meanwhile, you can kill everyone in New Vegas but the children and Yes Man (which is rationally explained).
      No one's contrasting Daggerfall and Fallout 1 or even 2, but Fallout 3 and New Vegas so I'm not sure what your point is.
      No challenge, no frustration and zero consequences. Gee, it almost sounds like... I don't know... A theme park... LMAO

  • @papapesky
    @papapesky Před 3 lety +953

    I'm probably the only person on earth that enjoyed the DC metro system.

    • @darkmammoth2232
      @darkmammoth2232 Před 3 lety +138

      Nothing like crawling through dark tunnels hearing the footsteps of wandering Ghouls.

    • @CrimsonRaven
      @CrimsonRaven Před 3 lety +76

      @@darkmammoth2232 I mean... it's basically the whole Metro trilogy right there, and I can't say it turned out that badly :)

    • @-EJ-
      @-EJ- Před 3 lety +83

      I like how it actually feels like the metro. I would know, I live in fallout 3 irl.

    • @MillieBlackRose
      @MillieBlackRose Před 3 lety +16

      I enjoyed it.

    • @ashtontheartist6751
      @ashtontheartist6751 Před 3 lety +15

      Your not the only one.

  • @marshahammack4503
    @marshahammack4503 Před 3 lety +506

    it's disheartening when your game is used to tear down another game" -tim cain

    • @marcoe.3314
      @marcoe.3314 Před 3 lety +5

      @Kelley Bozeman can someone tell me why he has a reputation. Did I miss something?

    • @zanethezaniest274
      @zanethezaniest274 Před 3 lety +54

      @@marcoe.3314
      H.Bomberguy made a really video talking about how bad Fallout 3 was and compared it to Fallout New Vegas a lot. And jumping from New Vegas to 3, I kinda see why he’s mad about the shift in quality.

    • @zanethezaniest274
      @zanethezaniest274 Před 3 lety +4

      @TheKillSwitch
      I forgot which game he compared it to, it’s been 4 years since I saw that vid. Sorry.

    • @jmachero5852
      @jmachero5852 Před 3 lety +24

      Your opinion then. I’m currently playing NV and so far, I think the game is really good. I’m at the endgame quests and I’m currently doing the DLCs. Honestly I’ve also played FO3 and the opening intro was completely unnecessary, it’s like teaching someone who is playing video games for the first time, that’s not love and care. New Vegas throws you straight into it. It’s your opinion, though, I can’t change that.

    • @lonefinch2127
      @lonefinch2127 Před 3 lety +62

      @TheKillSwitch You’re making Fallout 1 & 2 look bad with this elitist neckbeard shit.
      And before you call me a fanboy, I don’t really like FO3 that much.

  • @Zackary1005
    @Zackary1005 Před rokem +23

    Fallout 3 is awesome. So many good memories playing it.

  • @houstonswisha143
    @houstonswisha143 Před rokem +12

    Dude i love this guy lmao hes right FNV fans act like they have to hate fo3

    • @TheBreakingBenny
      @TheBreakingBenny Před rokem +5

      That would be why he gets a lot of subscribers, since the general audience thinks Fallout is about some kind of Naked Gun world that is more interested in everyone shooting each other.
      Maybe Fallout 3 just isn't as good as anyone recalls.

    • @kieranhurst8543
      @kieranhurst8543 Před rokem +2

      ​@@TheBreakingBenny maybe you're just a bit salty? Can't let other people enjoy something? And when people rebut your arguments with their criticism of new vegas you just say they are wrong without any explanation
      Go cope and seethe under that idiot hbomberguys fo3 video. You're anti fun opinion might actually be welcome there

  • @hubris7434
    @hubris7434 Před 2 lety +522

    I grew up in Washington DC and this video reminded me of that incredible first moment of exiting the vault and seeing my home as the Capitol Wasteland. Powerful stuff.

    • @DrKaii
      @DrKaii Před 2 lety +2

      wow

    • @dami8801
      @dami8801 Před 2 lety

      who

    • @jeffreynowak8866
      @jeffreynowak8866 Před 2 lety +8

      I grew up in vegas...same feels

    • @liamconverse8950
      @liamconverse8950 Před 2 lety +4

      Yeah me too I grew up in Arlington so I probably biased, but it's surprising to hear that people don't think this was a good game

    • @hubris7434
      @hubris7434 Před 2 lety +5

      @@liamconverse8950 Sadly, I'm no longer surprised to find out that people hate something the rest of us just enjoyed.

  • @UpIsNotJump
    @UpIsNotJump Před 6 lety +2457

    Aha! The long commentary is ALIVE

    • @theenexuses
      @theenexuses Před 6 lety +51

      you should do longer form videos like this, your editing skills are on par with if not greater than some of the best edited youtube videos such as hbomberguy or soviet womble

    • @SirDylan23
      @SirDylan23 Před 6 lety +2

      i agree!

    • @fencerhoskal696
      @fencerhoskal696 Před 6 lety +2

      Up is not pump

    • @madman407708
      @madman407708 Před 6 lety +6

      It's a breath of fresh air to get something that you can just put on in the background and play some hearthstone or something

    • @MoshiAngelic
      @MoshiAngelic Před 6 lety +1

      wait.. When did I get unsubbed from you AND WHY DID IT HAPPEN?

  • @ziongite
    @ziongite Před 6 měsíci +19

    Here is what I have noticed. Most people don't personally create their own opinions, and in fact things they claim are their opinion aren't even really their opinion, but it is just something they repeat based on what they think is the commonly held position.
    What I am saying is, that a trend started to say Fallout 3 sucks, and then a lot of kids and teens essentially adopted that and started repeating that, without actually thinking objectively and playing the game to come to their own unbiased conclusion.
    This also means that marketing or trying to control rhetoric is a powerful thing indeed, because a lot of people just go along with what they perceive other people as thinking or saying, instead of forming their own opinion about something.
    In the modern era this is why you have a lot of games try to reach out to influencers and pay them to claim the game is good, because corporations know that how objectively good the game is won't necessarily determine its reputation and sales, but rather the perception that people are saying it is good is what will achieve that.

    • @lordofthebeltsthereturnoft1127
      @lordofthebeltsthereturnoft1127 Před 6 měsíci +6

      This is true, only a minority of people think about things properly, most people just go along with whatever they think others are saying or doing.
      Take for example religion, we can see in most countries with intense religious control that it is always only a minority of people that think objectively and realise that they were raised under essentially a cult. But you average human is so mindless you could raise them under any cult and they would follow it and not question it. Only a minority of people have the ability to think essentially, everyone else is just a product of their environment and peer pressure.

    • @TheEvilDedolok
      @TheEvilDedolok Před 6 měsíci +2

      I just played with friend Fallout 3 and finishing fallout new vegas right now with the last DLC and then we finish the game. And i would not say Fallout 3 sucks but i would say this video sucks because it really makes shitty comparisons to Fallout New Vegas. And Fallout New Vegas is the game that actually made us thinking about trying fallout 1 and 2 but only after New Vegas not after fallout 3 because in comparison New Vegas is just at another level in a lot of things and we enjoy it much more.

    • @TheEvilDedolok
      @TheEvilDedolok Před 6 měsíci +1

      @@lordofthebeltsthereturnoft1127 And comparing religion to opinions on games is pretty big difference atleast for me. Do you say with this that following religion is bad ? How many do you think who believe in Jesus are following their rules about lets say sex before marriage or masturbation. There is a lot of people who just think there is someone like god but dont exactly follow every rule of their religion. And dont get me started on cults a lot of people who were raised in a cult could never tell they were actually in a cult because they were closed to outside world and realised after they actually experience how it is outside or were saved by outside sources.
      What i heard about fallout 3 was it is worse game than Fallout New Vegas and after playing both i just have to agree with that. Fallout 3 is not bad game on its own but compared to New Vegas i just have to agree with the majority.

  • @ezrablake1234
    @ezrablake1234 Před 3 lety +533

    My youtube recommendations be like :
    Fallout 3 is bad and here’s why!
    Fallout 3 wasn’t that bad
    Fallout NV the best
    Fallout 4 did some things better than NV
    Confusion

    • @Tay-xj5ud
      @Tay-xj5ud Před 3 lety +66

      welcome to the work of 10 years.
      is this progress? no.
      is this why god is going to kill us all? probably.
      did you leave your stove on? I don't know, I don't live with you.

    • @lordbuss
      @lordbuss Před 3 lety +88

      It's called "different people having different opinions".

    • @shiteyanyo1111
      @shiteyanyo1111 Před 3 lety +107

      "Fallout fans are THE WOOOORST."
      -A Fallout fan

    • @jebalitabb8228
      @jebalitabb8228 Před 3 lety +24

      It’s hard to appreciate NV when you know how much of the game was cut. 3 feels like a much more complete game

    • @Tay-xj5ud
      @Tay-xj5ud Před 3 lety +4

      @@jebalitabb8228 the game was actually scraped a little over 15 years ago most of the script and storyboard was already made which is why it took em 18 months to complete most of it.

  • @brandonruiz4023
    @brandonruiz4023 Před 5 lety +585

    Fallout 3 had this crazy vibe that the others can’t replicate. A certain creepiness and loneliness about the capital wasteland. My first game on the 360! Sparked the biggest love for a franchise

    • @aliekexie8467
      @aliekexie8467 Před 5 lety +13

      How is it more crazy than where people are literally tribal or where the ost alone is foreboding?

    • @austinchery
      @austinchery Před 5 lety +21

      Felt too much like the bombs dropped only years in Fallout 3, where its been 200 and some years.

    • @SystematicAnarchy
      @SystematicAnarchy Před 5 lety +15

      This is so damn right dude, the metros especially were creepy af!!

    • @lobstertown1826
      @lobstertown1826 Před 5 lety +34

      Aliekexie The atmosphere man. DC was a depressing wasteland, you can nuke a city, paradise falls, the Pitt, Point look out, even just green color filter made it feel so much more apocalyptic than the other Fallouts. I agree New Vegas is better, but New Vegas is much more civilized, and just doesn’t have that same feeling. They tried it with Dead money, but Dead money was anything but good

    • @brandonruiz4023
      @brandonruiz4023 Před 5 lety +1

      T-Pose Kek yesss the green color filter! Definitely added to the atmosphere

  • @hillpeakperformance3342
    @hillpeakperformance3342 Před měsícem +8

    Anybody watching in 2024?

  • @stevea.b.9282
    @stevea.b.9282 Před rokem +2

    I totally forgot the ending. What I remember is the 3 months I spent joyfully romping and roaming around, the intense action, the sense of discovery and adventure... FNV and Skyrim also got the atmosphere right.

  • @Jason_Ultimate
    @Jason_Ultimate Před 2 lety +596

    I think the argument about New Vegas using roads so often as safer passageways vs Fallout 3's roads often being the most dangerous makes sense given the state of each area in the lore.
    The New Vegas area by that time is a place with many settlements all connected by roads, and there are constantly caravans and couriers traveling these paths to make deliveries and sell goods to the settlements, to the point where there's actually companies employing these professions specifically. These people are typically well armed and/or escorted by bodyguards, and that makes them hard targets for any typical raider or fiend group to take out for their supplies, or even for most creatures of the wastes. On top of that, since caravans have the backing of a hugely influential entity backed by the NCR like the Crimson Caravan Company, it makes sense that the CCC would invest in ensuring their trade routes are secure and their employees aren't in any really serious danger, plus the NCR also actively makes efforts to ensure their people are safe from any major uncontained threats as well.
    There's also what makes the roads dangerous in 3 to consider. That would primarily be Super Mutants, slavers, and the Enclave later on.
    Since in New Vegas Super Mutants are all either holed up in Black Mountain or Jacobstown (all of whom are non-violent anyways), that's no longer a real issue.
    The Enclave got wiped out in 3 and is now effectively down to only 4 members, none of which even really want to continue fighting the Brotherhood or the people anyways, so that's also no longer an issue.
    As for the slavers, by the time of New Vegas in the eastern region, Caesar's Legion is basically the only form of slavers left. It's likely the NCR made sure that any major slave operation was taken out, since I doubt they'd let that happen considering how vital all their citizens are to supplying them with necessary resources.
    Odds are no one will see or read this whole thing, but it's a thought I had that I wanted to share anyways.

    • @potatosauce3561
      @potatosauce3561 Před 2 lety +25

      Fr tho this is the most logical out look

    • @randomlorenerd6040
      @randomlorenerd6040 Před 2 lety +28

      One thing to note is that Caesars' lands are actually better for traders than the NCRs. Caesars has basically wiped out or assimilated all the tribes in his area. Couple that with how brutal he is to his enemies and the raiders have left for easier targets, namely the NCR.There's even a trader in his camp that says he would rather trade in Caesars' land and they're fine as long as you respect their beliefs.
      The NCR has over extended and we constantly hear about it during New Vegas' playthrough. The Brahman Barons have a vice grip on the government and have forced the majority of their military to defend their farms. Its why caravan companies are so reliant on hired guns to protect their cargo. While there aren't a huge amount of enemies on the roads in New Vegas you can find quite a few fiends camps on the road all the way up to the strip.

    • @Jason_Ultimate
      @Jason_Ultimate Před 2 lety +39

      @Spawn
      Why would I get flamed by NV fanboys? I'm actively defending the game from a criticism by pointing out the differences in settings.
      But yeah, I really don't get why the community tends to divide itself into one of two camps of "Bethesda bad" or "Bethesda good" and expect that to be everyone's standard. I really like certain aspects of all the games and go to each for specific reasons. I say just let people like what they like.

    • @Jason_Ultimate
      @Jason_Ultimate Před 2 lety +10

      @@randomlorenerd6040
      That's true, but a few fiend and raider gangs/camps dotted around the map near the roads is still leagues safer than most of the other regions of the American wastelands otherwise at least.

    • @Treyplomer
      @Treyplomer Před 2 lety +2

      Can’t believe I’m reading all this at 2:12am and I got work tm but that shit kinda interesting😂

  • @wernerviehhauser94
    @wernerviehhauser94 Před 3 lety +74

    I was stunned by the scene where you leave the vault and are blinded by the light. It felt like being IN the game for me.

    • @starvoyager2094
      @starvoyager2094 Před 3 lety +2

      F:NV does the exact same thing when you step out of doc michells house.

    • @wernerviehhauser94
      @wernerviehhauser94 Před 3 lety

      @@starvoyager2094 but you tend to remember the first time you had a specific experience more vividly. I found bullet time in Matrix boring since I already had that experience from Requiem using "warp time".

    • @staminabs8312
      @staminabs8312 Před 3 lety +3

      @@starvoyager2094 also it was not nearly as amazing cause in fo3 you see a large portion of the map including the captiol building, sprinvale, the broken bridge.

    • @jerrystewart9783
      @jerrystewart9783 Před 2 lety +1

      You were totally wrapped up like a deuce another runner in the nigh

  • @tiegom4ximus
    @tiegom4ximus Před měsícem +5

    The best video about fallout 3

  • @nabkawe
    @nabkawe Před rokem +5

    I've played both New Vegas writing is amazing... I'm 35 and I still enjoyed it like it was my first rpg

  • @GECKman88
    @GECKman88 Před 4 lety +208

    When you enter the wasteland for the first time, I was practically a kid, about 13. This made me fall in love with the game and I was amazed at this huge open world full of things to explore. I remember even reading all the terminal entries etc and finding Megaton. I will forever be in love with this game, it made me crave worlds and games LIKE THIS ONE and I was sad there wasn't much if any others (of the time) with the same level of freedom.
    EDIT: I seem to remember hearing that the Dev's for Fallout 3 needed to work on something else, anything else, after the game was finished. This being due to how depressing they felt the game was, that they all felt down because of it's drab pallet, hellish and lonely world. All parts that made it an amazing game IMO, but it would affect you if you work on this kind of world for years...

    • @mcslaggers4999
      @mcslaggers4999 Před 4 lety +3

      Funny enough your character was also a kid. Only 19

    • @Dwayndibb
      @Dwayndibb Před 4 lety +2

      Yes the value for money must be crazy for anyone who bothered to give it a chance. I also made the mistake so I can go with this.
      Fall new Vegas doesn't feel like you are in a nuclear wasteland more like the wild west or something. Fallout 3 is more a better story starting in a vault as you should in fallout shelter? People need to play again even for time killer it's a break from playing Dying light or GTA.

  • @RoosterFloyd
    @RoosterFloyd Před 4 lety +751

    I am stopping this video, I'm sorry but I am ten minutes in and I just can't stand it anymore.
    I'm going to go play fallout 3 again.

    • @RoosterFloyd
      @RoosterFloyd Před 4 lety +24

      @Maximilian Bien Will any water do?

    • @RoosterFloyd
      @RoosterFloyd Před 4 lety +28

      @Maximilian Bien Kind of choosy for a thirsty guy.

    • @bambi.nisseni
      @bambi.nisseni Před 4 lety +1

      @@ryphish4924 im looking to play 3 and NV this week

    • @ryphish4924
      @ryphish4924 Před 4 lety

      @@bambi.nisseni 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

    • @chambeet
      @chambeet Před 4 lety

      I just started the game about a week ago. Fucking loving it so far. I started it once long ago on the PC but never got very far.

  • @EJL2004
    @EJL2004 Před rokem +5

    FO3 was the first fallout for me and I adored it at the time, then played NV and was blown away and still am. I go back to FO3 and am blown away at how devastated the country is and how simple it is with way fewer guns etc, (I mean as much as I enjoyed using the shotgun it's design made no sense with the drum mag so far forward but whatever.) It really gives a desolation feeling. First time I went towards the Springvale high school and saw the body's hanging from hooks or dead in the cages it gave me chills, which I imagine it would for any vault dweller heading to the surface for the first time. Both are superb games!

  • @jimbryant2157
    @jimbryant2157 Před rokem +7

    I like them both, but I did complete FO3 (along with all 5 DLCs) but eventually lost interest in New Vegas. I have tried a couple of times to get back into NV, but I have never been able to stay focused on the huge number of locations & quests - definitely a 'me' problem.

  • @xhale_YT
    @xhale_YT Před 3 lety +408

    Fun fact: In the beginning when your having your birthday party, eat your sweet roll and Butch will ask you to give the sweet roll. But if you eat it before talking to butch, butch will get angry towards you and he won’t even try to punch you.
    Edit: fuck your likes

    • @mac2312
      @mac2312 Před 2 lety +17

      Very cool! Never thought to actually eat it right there

    • @xhale_YT
      @xhale_YT Před 2 lety +1

      @@mac2312 yeah ive noticed that on my second play through

    • @zakzak5892
      @zakzak5892 Před 2 lety +16

      Lol why have I never thought to eat the sweet roll.

    • @21stcenturyjesuschrist85
      @21stcenturyjesuschrist85 Před 2 lety +40

      nobody ever eats the sweet roll right away because it’s absolutely imperative to hoard everything, we’re gonna need it later probably

    • @Snyperwolf91
      @Snyperwolf91 Před 2 lety +15

      @@21stcenturyjesuschrist85 Especially for the 6 HP to heal even when you have 9000 HP total and have over 300 Stimpacks that heal all your HP back .
      Necessity starts with the small things.

  • @kendawg8766
    @kendawg8766 Před 3 lety +169

    Fallout 3 the first mention of the enclave comes from Nathan in megaton when you open dialogue with him he supports enclave because they are trying to save the wasteland or something like that

    • @Whatamievingdoing
      @Whatamievingdoing Před 3 lety +14

      No enclave radio happens the second you leave the vault

    • @unknownchicken2284
      @unknownchicken2284 Před 3 lety +9

      @@Whatamievingdoing , yes but you don't know about what they really are until they show up. You hear vague descriptions but you dont get hit in the teeth with them until they hit tou in the teeth

    • @Whatamievingdoing
      @Whatamievingdoing Před 3 lety +14

      @@unknownchicken2284 fallout 2 exists, fallout fans know what the enclave is from the time they start playing fallout 3, have you forgotten the characters frank horrigan dick Richardson, sgt. Granite, sgt. dornan etc.

    • @edraith
      @edraith Před 3 lety +26

      @@Whatamievingdoing he was talking about just Fallout 3. Obviously most Fallout 3 players don't even know about Fallout 1 & 2

    • @dadaddy4296
      @dadaddy4296 Před 3 lety +1

      I killed everyone in that town

  • @kylerowley8248
    @kylerowley8248 Před 6 měsíci +2

    Just realized if you let Caesar die you admit that he was right in that sometimes short term suffering is worth it for long term stability.

  • @thedamntrain3467
    @thedamntrain3467 Před rokem +2

    49:50 I have a feeling the legate was meant to be kinda like Frank Harrigan -type character, but ultimately his appearances were cut out along with the other legion stuff.

  • @reginadea2821
    @reginadea2821 Před 3 lety +78

    The theory on the super mutants is exactly right. If you sneak into the vault, the first two super mutants you come across talk of running low on green stuff, on needing to capture more and stronger humans and turn them into super mutants, and them ignoring Fawkes' attempts at trying to give them advice on long-term strategies.

    • @your-username-here2308
      @your-username-here2308 Před 2 lety +2

      That made me even sad listening to them in the Vault Tec headquarters and Vault 87 about needing to find new FEV. They are doomed from the start.

    • @TheBreakingBenny
      @TheBreakingBenny Před rokem +2

      Question: How did the FEV end up in Vault 87? Wasn't that supposed to be some very hush-hush project intended for tackling China should the latter fire nuclear bombs on America?
      The Vault 87 super mutants in Fallout 3 exist because Bethesda couldn't be arsed to make a new race that's practically orcs, so they called these ones super mutants.

    • @Gdsryrox
      @Gdsryrox Před rokem +1

      @@TheBreakingBenny You have to remember that Vault Tech and the USA Military did a lot of stuff together. A lot of the vaults were experiments for the Military, while it is a bit reconny (like how they changed the origins of Jet) it still could make viable sense in the universe that Vault Tech managed to get their hands on some FEV but since they couldn't get enough to fill vats they changed it to an airborne variant which is why the mutants have a more sickly green color then the original.
      Got to also remember FO3 was the first 3D and main entry into the franchises since the disaster that was BOS Game. It's not really hard to imagine why Bethesda tried to incorporate familiar factions into the game to draw back in older players. While in hide site they could have used vault 87 being directly nuked as a way to make a new mutant faction and changed the BOS to like US Navy remnants (like some members are in rivet city are) they went with familiar known factions and decided to put uniqiue spins on them.
      Like how the mutants are sort of a 'what if the unity happened' giving us a view of a mutant population that is slowly dying and unable to do anything. Lyons brotherhood giving us an example of a post game BOS that has already gone through the process of opening up and not needing a random waste lander to tell them hording is bad and they should help people like in FO1 and NV.

    • @TheBreakingBenny
      @TheBreakingBenny Před rokem

      @@Gdsryrox Van Buren was also supposed to be the first 3D entry, even though that never came to be because Interplay's retardedness with their IPs and money required them to close their studios. Seems pitiable given that Bethesda must've sat on all this while they were busy with The Elder Scrolls IV, and because they had no better lead writer and designer than Emil Pagliarulo. That man sucks at handling large projects, and I'd have to ask why _he_ was given that task. If he started out with the Thief games since GOLD, his writing ability stagnated into being like he has dementia.
      It's also pitiable that Bethesda doesn't really go anywhere with their set pieces; they are better equipped for creating Elder Scrolls-like experiences than they'd be at working through how the world works, such as when they reuse so many elements from past entries just because… and apparently because it's too scary having games without the BOS in them, no matter if they're rewritten to be Enclave Lite in Fallout 4, or in FO3 where they have all communication with the West Coast cut off when the outcasts should've been that instead. (It's as though Pagliarulo believes us asking the why's and how's is bad, and he delves further into that by not learning from what worked poorly in FO3.)
      Radscorpions should be rare on the East Coast given it's nowhere as desert-y as California, whilst Rivet City should've been more invested in considering they have a greenhouse or two there.

    • @Gdsryrox
      @Gdsryrox Před rokem +1

      @@TheBreakingBenny Van Buren wasn't really 3D. Sure if used 3D assets but the game was still going to be an isometric top down like all the prior ones. FO3 was the first real time 3rd person that completely changed how combat was usually done. (Again excluding BOS game that was a beatemup)
      Also what do you mean by 'sitting' on the franchise? Bethesda only brought the fallout IP in 2007 and released fallout 3 in 2008. Yeah they started work in July 2004 but they didn't own the franchise then that was still under interplay. And as you said they were making Oblivion at the time, this is back in the early 2000s when technology wasn't anywhere near as good and Bethesda was much smaller.
      Again that is very much hind site. It's very easy to look at NV and all the new factions they brought in and be like "Why didn't FO3 do that, gosh they were so unoriginal fuck Bethesda FO3 is the worst game ever because it uses recognizable and familiar things".
      Again yeah reusing the BOS in hide site almost 20 years later but you have to remember. At the time the last 2 fallout games fucking sucked, they went with a safe option and experimented with the factions even then. I have a feeling if the BOS in FO3 just sat in a bunker all game and didn't do anything until the lone wanderer came in and said. "Stop hording tech help people" everyone would have creamed themselves and said it was the most amazing thing ever. I mean they do that for NV BOS who act basically the same as they do in FO1.
      For the enclave while they are a bit over the top it makes sense that once they were defeated at the hands of the NCR they'd flee to probably the one place they'd have access to all sorts of pre war tech. You know, the capital of the country. Other then that enemies and stuff really aren't that much of a 'terrible choice' considering it's been 200 years since the war and in a land where pretty much everything is dry due to you know nuclear war an apex predator like a radscropian could thrive just about anywhere.
      Also while I do agree rivet city could have been more developed I have a feeling you've not played FO3, otherwise you would know the plant lab was a relatively new thing.