Spectacle & Silence - Fallout 3 In Retrospect
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- čas přidán 29. 06. 2024
- Fallout 3 is a game of many moments. Sometimes things are peaceful, sometimes things are ridiculous, sometimes it's great, sometimes it's not. Sammy is going to see what's what in the DC Wasteland.
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CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Intro
04:06 - Born in the Vault, Die in the Vault
11:40 - The Look on Your Face Says it All
30:25 - The Tourist
44:23 - Colonels and Mungos
59:01 - Silence Returns
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MODLIST:
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One thing I have always felt was underrated was the sound track of fallout 3. Especially the very ambient tracks which play as you explore the desolate wasteland.
Nah, I’ve always found those tracks way too “comfortable”, with exception of some tracks you hear when you’re in metros
@@flowerthencrranger3854 I agree, some of the exploration tracks reminded me of the music they'd play in kindergarten during naptime when I first played it. That said, while I still much prefer Fallout 1's soundtrack, if Fallout 3 wasn't a Fallout game, I'd think the soundtrack would be way more fitting. On its own it's still really good
@@nagger8216 Yeah, on it's own.
I just don't like how most tracks are "comfortable" and orchestral. Fallout 1, 2 (4 and NV to some extent) all seem to have that fixed, with most ambient tracks sounding outlandish and weird.
The radio is god tier. Three Dog solos Mr New Vegas, easy.
Both F3 and NV has amazing ambiance
I found a godsend of a mod a while back called "Tell Dad About Jonas" which adds the missing dialogue option for when Dad asks why you are in Vault 112 saving him instead of locked up in Vault 101. It gives the dialogue option I (and I imagine many others) always wanted. "After you left the vault, the Overseer went crazy! He killed Jonas, then tried to kill me!"
Is it voiced by Liam Neeson?
@@JoJoRogain Technically yes. It recycles other lines he has in the game.
@@rcblazer What was his reply?
@@CDTyphol It recycles some of Liam Neeson's lines for his reply. His actual reply is "My God... I am sorry to hear that! Please know that I would never put you in this position if I didn't think it were absolutely necessary. Perhaps I should have handled things differently. I'm sorry."
I actually show off the dialogue mod in my playthrough of Tale of Two Wastelands. It appears in Part 8.
Yeah
Patrolling the Capitol Wasteland almost makes you wish for a nuclear family.
13 years later and I just now noticed Three Dog has a pack of cigarettes rolled up in his shirt sleeve.
I think that's like the standard merc grunt outfit or something. I always looked at it and thought "I've never seen him smoke, tho..."
@@PrivateSessions I'm not big into the lore of the games but am a fan and like to play all BGS games at least once a year, and videos like yours with that one little piece of content makes me want to play through again to see what I missed. Your Skyrim movie is next on my list to watch tonight. Keep up the good production, makes for easy watching/listening.
"Bethesda is the best in making empty space interesting."
That aged well ^^
this is every bit as enjoyable as the retrospectives i have seen on much larger channels! this is good stuff, even if it isn't in front of a lot of eyeballs yet. keep up the good work
Indubitably.
"Even if it isn't in fro t of a lot of eyeballs yet"
What a cringe and moronic thing to say
@@jarredlucas4000 this had about 100 views when i came across it. you never know what the algorithm needs to see in terms of engagement to boost it, and that was just me trying to boost it. if that's cringe and moronic, guess i'll stay that way haha
This is a really good video. I’ve watched plenty of these long 1+ hour fallout retrospective videos as I’m passionate about the franchise, and I’ve found that most of the videos covering fo3 end up boiling down to ether “I think Bethesda’s bad so that’s all I’m going to show you” or “I think Bethesda’s good so that’s all I’m going to show you”. It was nice to see someone that understands what makes this game so special whilst also not shying away from critiquing the games shortcomings/failures.
Welcome to the franchise, you have Obsidian simps who despise everything Bethesda to the point they will attack you for even daring liking anything (especially lore) of any of the Bethesda games. The you have Bethesda simps who will attack you for even daring to say that some of there stuff may not be as good and could do better.
My advice, enjoy the series, don't become a fanboy, and ignore the fanboy's as you point and laugh at there miserable life.
You talking about the silent moments in the wastelands won me over. Nice entry.
recruiting Charon and seeing him blast down Ahzrukhal was a highlight of my first playthrough of Fallout 3. He is one of my favorite companions because of it.
It makes sense that James could survive the Wastes, as he does have a certain set of skills... seriously though, excellent video!
I love the way you do these videos, the character narrative you're able to build speaks much more to the quality of Bethesda world-building (or lack thereof, in some cases) than any matter-of-fact analysis ever could. The quality of an RPG can be determined by the story you're able to create using the game as a proxy (assuming your character is a blank slate)
It's definitely a lot trickier to do these sorts of videos in other games that's for sure.
5:45
"Amata is still a good friend of his"
>No more than 3 seconds later
[Amata is unconscious]
Why is Dr. Li relatively hostile to the PC? My impression is one (or both) of two possibilities: 1) PC's mother was Dr. Li's best friend and her gut reaction is to blame PC for her best friends death. 2) Dr. Li had an unrequited love for Dad and PC is the symbol of his rejection/choosing another woman.
I had assumed number 2 for so long that I think I forgot that it might not be canon
@@AB-sw4kb It actually is canon but for whatever reason only detailed in the game's guide, not in the actual game itself...
Also you mention how you don't meet any people complaining about water but remember that there are water beggars outside of pretty much every settlement, and you actually do help Megaton with their water situation by helping to fix their purifier and keep it running. There's also random encounters like 4 people who end up killing each other over a fridge full of purified water.
To clarify, Col Autumn injected himself with something before James overloaded project purity.
It was when he realized what James was doing he injected himself not prior js
I believe it was RadAway or Rad-X.
It is a VERY subtle detail...but yeah the existence of Rad-X pretty much fills this plot-hole. Presumably as soon as you turn your back, a power-armored (and thus radiation-insulated) Enclave soldier went into the chamber and pulled Autumn out.
@@MoonMoverGamingexcept the player can't used rad-x to perform the same stunt
@@MoonMoverGaming few details that fucks with that theory.
there were the power armoured guys left and right of the door that die faster than autumn and james.
one is a pill and the other is an iv bag. the animation is a syringe similar to stimpax or med x.
the item wouldve been used to get into vault 87 as the enclave dont use the caverns to enter.
upon killing autumn at the end of the game theres nothing on him to help protect the player as he wouldve had more when returning to the facility.
It's honestly just nice to see someone praising the game for things, I thought MATN was the only one who did on CZcams.
I disagreed with a lot of what he said but I still like the game so I figured might as well add another video out there just to balance things out a little.
@@PrivateSessions Even if you disagree, it's hard to fault him for it, we all know how much people, especially hardcore NV fans, like to rip Fallout 3 to shreds. Trust me, NV's dialogue compared to 3's isn't... That much better. People are pretty blind, honestly. But, that's my opinion, having played NV very recently.
@@georgepeterjoubert7482 Have you, or anyone else who thinks like you, ever considered the possibility that, a simpler game can also end up being a good thing? As much as I like story and dialogue, I don't like NV as much as I like Fallout 3. It's atmosphere lacks, there's not a lot of tension at all like there is in Fallout 3, gameplay wise. Yes, I understand that historically, Fallout is a heavy RPG and dialogue based game, but it doesn't mean it has to be. Clearly, Bethesda have a very different view of where to take the series, and that's okay, I'm tired of people saying it's not okay. They own it, they can do whatever they want with it. If you think it's bad, that's fine. I don't, Fallout 4 is potentially my favourite game in the series, a major part of that is the survival mode, it's really grown on me.
@@georgepeterjoubert7482 everybody is never at eachothers throats until you actually do anything. As in the entire world is put on pause until the courier blows something up or shoots someone in the face. Also, wrong kind of tension.
@@serathaevistille995 I agree dude, I personally think New Vegas is better than 3 but that doesnt mean I dont like 3. NV stans are so hard to argue with as they just dont care about your Bugthesda terrible writing gameplay breaking glitches crapfest lack of RPG elements ‘opinion’ when theres like none of that in the game?
Fallout 3 is one of my favorite games of all time, you've got to understand that at that time in 2008 for me and basically for most of the game industry in general there wasn't anything exactly like Fallout 3, these were the days before New Vegas and it was just a special moment in time for games that I'm glad i was alive and old enough to experience.
The closest thing I can think of is S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl (2007), but in my most humble opinion it is the opposite side of the same coin as both games tried new features that the other then implemented in sequels.
@@softwarefreak7830 You're totally right! The stalker series would have been the only thing that came closest
For me Fallout 3 and Mass Effect 2 will be inexorably linked as foils to each other. They were the games of the xbox360 generation that really felt like I was going on an adventure
I still look back on my time with fallout 3 on release as being great, warts and all, but today I definately have to acknowledge that if you look at it purely as an RPG it's pretty bad. The synthesis of all the parts really pull the whole together, especially the world and atmosphere, but that is subjective and I don't have and illusions of objectivity there.
Fallout 3 was the worst thing to happen to the ip. It ruined the future games and brought fans like you into the franchise. You don't understand fallout you don't like fallout. You like the crap Bethesda curns out and now fallout fans real fallout fans have to watch our favorite game get desecrated by a terrible developer.
You're gonna be huge, don't even sweat it, just keep doing what you're doing. Just takes time, keep your long game in mind, you'll be fine. And don't burn yourself out, ok? 👍
Somehow your channel popped up in my recommendations. Great video!
I'm still playing through Fallout 3. I started in 2014, and I probably have 1000 hours or so in it. Of course, I set it aside for years at a time. At the moment I have one DLC left and then the end of the main quest. So I am not watching all the video, just the beginning. Excellent insight.
Your graphics are much better than mine, and mine are not bad. Mostly the NPCs are better. I expect it is because my install is from 2014 and I do not want to change the mods.
I love this game too
What if I told you there’s a way to put 3 in to new Vegas
@@darkdog42 both great games i don’t need to merge them
@@Chuked what a grand and intoxicating innocence!
@@finalcam1740 what a wrong opinion hes got there! Go on, tell him more about it.
Hey man, found your videos through Patrician and I just wanted to say thank you. I have been unable to articulate exactly why I loved fallout 3 so much compared to 4 and you were able to put it into words. The unintentional theme of isolation and the fun of just roaming the countryside to see what weird stories you'd stumble across is unlike every other modern fallout. The other fallouts are all grand interconnected stories where the strength of fallout 3 was that it's wanderings were a series of vignettes about life in the wasteland. The game definitely has faults but it has to be one of my favorite game worlds to explore.
just watching you play through the beginning of this game reminded me so much of my own playthrough that i have yet to complete. we both had the same reaction to the super mutants at 12:22 and hid in the pulowski chamber lol
It's good to know I wasn't the only one who hid in the survival shelter when coming across my first super mutants
Makes 3 of us!
Just finished your oblivion series, it's great to see you covering other Bethesda games.
Having no nostalgia for the game, this shows how empty and drab the world really is. A great place to explore with bits and pieces to encounter.
Killing all the slavers with the named gatling laser, Vengeance, never gets old and I dont think it ever will lol
52:28 if you pay attention to when James kills himself, autumn injects himself with something that keeps him alive. It's not just magic that he lived, or a plot hole.
46:47
Bruh it IS a plothole, you can't just inject yourself with something and all of a sudden you're immune to lethal amounts of radiation.
@@Meme_Knight you know it's not real life right...?
@@Starlesslemon i never said it was, but fallout is somewhat based in reality and also that's just contrived writing they never said what he injected himself with, he just did it and boom, radiation resistance, please tell me that, that isn't a plot hole or contrived.
@@Meme_Knight they showed it... So it's not a plot hole. Not everything in every fictional universe gets explained. Why does RadX work? What are the ingredients?
This is both the best and more unique retrospectives on Fallout 3 on youtube. The storytelling is superb, the way you go about the review is original, and the positivity on the game is refreshing after seeing most long videos on this game prefer to put it down instead of seeing why people still like it. I'm not saying New Vegas is or isn't better, I just want to say thank you for being willing to see the best in Fallout 3.
This is still my favorite fallout game
It really doesn't get as much credit as it should.
Likewise, it's biggest flaw is that it's older therefore it is "inferior" in every possible way. Lol. Seriously this game IS great. It was great when it came out, and it's STILL great today. I hate the discourse around it these days.
@@khrashingphantom9632 honestly i dont get how it being inferior makes it a worse product
@@LucyWest370 That's why I put "inferior" in quotes. I don't follow that line of logic at all. This game is great in spite of it's age, but a common school of thought is if something is older and not "pre approved" by "major" channels it not only is inferior, but it also has no value. Lol. This game is STILL fantastic and it's just hard for me to see the HATRED it get now.
@@khrashingphantom9632 I can honestly understand how you could say its inferior, its like saying Avengers Infinity War is Inferior to Avengers Endgame. This is a true statement but that doesnt mean Infinity war is bad. People overhate 3, just let people like the game jeez.
i loved the way you wrote a little narrative for the main character for this retrospect! very good work, earned my like and sub only a few minutes in :)
ambient tracks in FO3 is amazing and haunting, unparalleled really. I think although NV is a better RPG, FO3 is the best effort to date by Bethesda
If we could have the gunplay/customization of fallout 4 and the atmosphere/not shit quests from fallout 3 if would be a great game
@@jeremyscungio16 the inner city isnt even cool and dangerous like it should be. very few locations are difficult to complete, and it just breaks your game bc bethesda doesn't understand the limits of his engine.
I would say morrowind or daggerfall but yeah fo3 is kinda cool
Be careful there chief. This is the internet, under no circumstances are you EVER allowed to say ANYTHING positive about Fallout 3 and especially not about Bethesda! Lol.
@@khrashingphantom9632 brace yourself, the new vegas fanboys are coming
When I first started watching I suspected you had atleast 50,000 subs!. You have such amazing content and I cant wait to watch more vids and watch your channel grow
My god, thank you for not being a fanboy, you not only praised the game, and explained why people would love it, and critiqued it as well. I wish the fanbase had less Bethesda and Obsidian simps, and more people like you.
Literally been searching for a video like this lately. Replaying Fallout 3 right now while I listen to your video. Liked and Subbed!
Found this off the algorithm but ooh boy am I pumped to check out that Oblivion vid
I can't believe this was released 7 months ago and I only got it recommended today! I watch so much fallout content that they usually pop up right away. This reminds me a lot of many a true nerd review on the game. Subscribed and ready to binge through all your videos!!
This was such an enjoyable video. Subscribed and can't wait to watch your other videos.
Always love discovering more youtubers doing fallout vids.
Excellent. Come on algorithm, give this channel a chance.
I got a pretty good chuckle when you massacred Paradise Falls and Charon shot the last guy and without missing a beat just "That takes care of that!"
The problem is that you went down a weird side route on the main quest... The cannon playthrough is annexing everything into the Republic of Dave
Hbomb scared me away from these hour long fallout rants
Though from what i skimmed of this you were extreemly more plesant
Subbed
"the first and only intelligent super mutant in the dc wastes" i will not stand for this Uncle Leo erasure!
I love that you make a story out of your retrospectives you make great content!
awesome vid, keep grinding dude!
Great video. I appreciate some more positive persoectives on the game that introduced me to Fallout
I love the stellaris music in the background, I instantly recognized it, Damn I love that game so much tbh but great video on fallout 3 though
Can't believe you never went to the tree cult.
CZcams recommended me your channel out of nowhere and it's a shame it didn't do so sooner. These retrospectives are lovely.
Funny thing is i grew up in rural alberta and always thought the dc waste and the Prarie looked weirdly similar. It definitely hits different for me.
Fallout is one of my favorite universes. And you Sir, do this franchise justice with your unique story telling and production. (I also like your Skyrim retrospect as well.) I like long analysis videos, for many different reasons. You have a very special take, unlike any others I have seen. It's your own. And it's good. In fact, it's excellent. Thank you for taking the time to share this with us. o7
Just found your channel, loving it so far 😍
good stuff. love the format
wow, rare to see a channel so well made with so few views. keep it up man, big things ahead
The use of Rimworld's soundtrack was in some ways the perfect choice for this video, great job on the retrospective
This is one of the reasons it’s still my favorite game of all time. There’s such a great balance of excitement and down time to take in the world and plan your next steps.
Fantastic video, you have earned a sub. I would expect a CZcamsr with millions of subs would have made this, the quality is top notch
Excellent content currently working my way through your vids
I had reached rivet city and talked to doctor Li before going to GNR, do i knew where James went to. When i got to GRN Lyons was nowhere to be seen and i had to fight the supermutants by myself. Then three dog gave me the same quest but my reward was the location of a millitary weapons cache.
It's cool that they still paid attention to detail in that way.
Fallout 3 was the first open world Rpg I ever played when it came out and I fell in love with the genre afterwards ❤
It's very telling when I see an hour long analysis and say 'Ah, a short video for my boring ass shift.'
Good work. I will watch your career with great interest. A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.
Great video. Bethesda open world's and gameplay loops always get me hooked whereas others just feel tedious and I'm not sure why that is.
Excellent video. Fallout 3 is one of my favorite games.
Your ENB looks great, awesome video.
46:20 the way he just capped her ass 💀💀💀
I haven't finished the video yet, but I appreciate the amount of work you put into this.
Liked, subscribed, commenting for the algorithm
Edit: Finished it now. Great video, man. About to watch your F:NV one
Nice video man told your story well.
This was generally a good dive. Most channels either ride Bethesda until its meat falls off or bashes the dead horse of the failures for 6 hours.
This is great stuff! +1 sub
35:06 that sounds like the drums in the Menagerie from Halo 3 ODST
Ok now that I made it to the 42:17 mark, I see that you're a man of culture, and indeed using ODST soundtracks
Fallout 3 was the first Fallout game I played and one of the first open world games that weren't GTA. So it'll always hold a nostalgic and special place in my heart to me. To me the capital Wasteland and surrounding areas rely on hunting, gathering, scavenging and bartering or raiding for survival, i like it.
Very different feel and vibe to fallout 3 when compared to new Vegas. I enjoy both, got more hours in Vegas but I remember much more about 3.
Any interest in playing fallout 1 or 2?
It sucks seeing such a good vid not get a lot of views.I have watched a few vids on this channel and I have really liked all of them, just sucks that they all don’t get the same spotlight as other.Keep making good vids
Dude seriously brought a missile to a water dispute.
AND blew up the water baron with it!
Great video sir im getting my fallout fix at work
Oh wow. You are such a good script writer. Subscribed.
Wow this was done pretty okay. Right on man!
I want the world of Bethesda and the mechanics of obsidian. A perfect game in my opinion
Yes and a mix of the writing and it would be perfect
Yeah ive always said theres not enough pre war lore in the classic and obsidian titles and not enough actually good main quest in the bethesda titles, so just put them together!
I mean all obsidian did was add useless iron sights, add weapon extensions which were glorified stat boosts (except for scopes), half-baked faction system (3 really wouldn't benefit from it regardless), and... made Charisma useless with number-based speech checks instead of percentage-based?
@@Jeyeyeyey useless iron sights? Dude in fallout 3 bullet spread was shooting a raider six inches in front of you and hitting a mole rat seven yards away by accident. The faction system is way less half baked then bethesda and while yes charisma is useless thats hardly a reason to hate new vegas.
I wish i could lose some of my memory and play fallout 3 for the first time again...
love how you used rimworld music, it just works
loving the Rimworld music!!!
I fucking love this style of commentary
I really, really like the use of Rimworld music in this video. It fits quite well.
I wonder if one of the points of divergence between reality and Fallout was that Lincoln was actually the good man that history teachers want to portray, and not the authoritarian dictator who was more than happy to allow the southern states to keep their property just to get more tariff money out of them.
Your fallout video essays are some of my favorites now man good job
Very nice, needs more eyes on this. Regarding Colonel Autumn. If you look closely when the purifier is destroyed you can see him inject his arm.
Damn, im only a minute or two in but i cant listen to the music without a strong sense of sadness. I guess the past two years have been strange for everyone and the sentiment is nothing new.. but where has the time gone?
You deserve more subs
"we just need the wather, all of it"
funny how goddamn megaton has it's own water pump station
AND not that far to the fucking river
I love the stellaris and rimworld music in the background
Skipping gnr and going straight to the rivet city science lab kinda breaks the game
Fallout 3 has great story and side stories, great atmosphere and great map, yes i said it, it doesn't mean it doesn't have it's problems and many things Fallout New Vegas did better especially adding aim sights, more weapons and great worldbuilding but still fallout 3 was a great Fallout game and still is, the story of the lone wanderer, the atmosphere of the destroyed capital of the USA and the map of Washington DC are it's best assets and i never get bored of it.
28:40 wow that EVA reference was surprisingly on point. •_•
Oblivion with guns.
You remind me a lot of Avalanche Reviews, who also makes retrospective videos, but mostly of survival horror games.
Liam Neeson is the dad.
Wish I could’ve caught these fresh off the video production press! I’ve been binging your content these past few days
Edit: I like the rimworld sound track marking an appearance :)
Subbed. Fallout 3 has a special place in my heart.
Nice dude
Honestly Bethesdas empty nothing is what makes fallout 3 better than the rest of the 3d fallouts. There is just nothing left.
I love fallout 3 and New vegas equally, its really hard to choose one when they're both so different and scratch different 'itches'.
I love your character names
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