Fun fact: the narrator for many of the intros is Ron Perlman

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

😯😀 Nice!

@virtualatheist

2 жыл бұрын

@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames He's also the news reader in the intro to Fallout 4. Also, the voices were probably altered to avoid a copyright strike. The dog is Dogmeat, a companion character that has appeared in several of the games and is iconic. As to who fired first, that is intentionally unclear, but there is evidence to suggest that Vault Tec (the company who built the vaults) were in some way responsible for the war.

@Spikebhaal

2 жыл бұрын

@@morgothable He is the bestes of boys. I always have a Mod to have Dogmeat and one other companion. And one Mod the makes Dogmeat survive more just love the good boy.

@jthomp97

2 жыл бұрын

I just love that fact. He’s Slade in Teen Titans

@Skyliner03

Жыл бұрын

@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames in Fallout 3, the survivor's father is played by Liam Neeson (Taken film trilogy, The Commuter and other great films)

17:05 Fun Facts: River the Real-Life Dog was best known for her role as Dogmeat for Fallout Series. Sadly she's tragically passed on June 26, 2021. Her death was announced by her owner & Developer for Fallout Series, Joel Burgess on Twitter. It really reminds me of my pet dog Man(Mandingo) who died on December 2020 due to his old age. Rest in power River. 🙏🏿😭🙏🏿

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

😢

@ellisjahfinelcraddock

2 жыл бұрын

@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames yep. She's a great dog especially my dog Man(Mandingo) too.

The "Great War" was mostly between the US and China and obviously, it did lead to mutually assured destruction in 2077. The core idea behind the Fallout series is that when the US discovered nuclear power, it was waaayyy more powerful than it is in real life and somehow very easy to miniaturize, so it led to a whole host of technological advancements in the 50s, like nuclear-powered cars and AI household robots like the Mr. Handy. Essentially, technology advanced while retaining the 50's aesthetic. This led to a golden age until fuel supplies started dwindling, which was the cause of the war, as the trailers point out. The Fallout games themselves are spread out both in where they take place and when they take place. Fallout I takes place in 2161 in what's left of California. Fallout II is its direct sequel, taking place around 2241 and is also set in California. As you may have gathered from the Fallout II intro, in Fallout II, you play as a villager from the village that the protagonist of Fallout I founds after his exile. Fallout III was sort of a reboot in that it doesn't follow the story of the protagonist from Fallout I. It takes place in the ruins of Washington, D.C. starting in 2277. It was also the first Fallout game made/published by Bethesda, which is why the series switched from an isometric, tactical game to a first/third person action/tactical hybrid. Fallout New Vegas is obviously in and around what's left of Vegas, and Fallout IV takes place in Boston in 2287. Fallout IV is also notable in that you play as an original vault dweller: the house that Dogmeat (that's actually his name, I swear) is sniffing around is the player's house, and one of the people standing on the platform when the bomb goes off in the distance is the player. You barely make it into the vault with your family, then you emerge 210 years later.

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for giving us more info on the games 😀

@Scarabswarm

2 жыл бұрын

That was a very succinct and thorough explanation. Well done.

@hackerx7329

2 жыл бұрын

To add to that, technology developed wildly differently because they kept developing electronics based on vacuum tubes and transistors didn't get developed. Hence why the "advanced computers" from the future all still looked like stuff our world used in the 1970s and early 1980s. Making smaller more powerful electronics is really difficult with tubes and so they continued down the path of stuff mostly being centralized mainframes that people connected to with terminals that had monochromatic CRT displays. And yet the proliferation of nuclear powered everything meant if you could solve the problem with brute force it was done that way because nobody cared about energy efficiency or practicality or safety and the world ended up with plenty of plasma and laser weapons and stupid things like sledge hammers with rocket engines so they could hit harder.

@-Luna-tic.exe-

2 жыл бұрын

@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames history in the fallout universe stays the same until it diverges in 1950, in this universe the microprocessor is never invented, that's partially the reason why everything has a 50's diesel punk aesthetic. But factions in the games you hear about the most is The brotherhood of steel, the enclave, and NCR. The brotherhood is derived from remnants of the United states armed forces. Capt Rodger maxson formed the brotherhood of steel 2 days after the bombs dropped, but before he and all of those under his command went rogue when he discovered the US Army was using FEV (forced evolutionary virus) on prisoners of war to try and make super soldiers at mariposa(end result was the super mutants you see in game). After the bombs maxim formed the brotherhood of steel to go forth and help what's left of the people rebuild. Unfortunately this devolved into "help the people by preventing the destruction of humanity through technology" so they "assist" by killing mutated abominations from fev or mutations from radiation and collecting and preserving (not using) technology. If a technology is thought to even REMOTELY be a threat to mankind's existence the brotherhood will pursue that technology's complete and utter destruction and anyone who sought to use it will also be destroyed. The enclave are not exactly remnants as they were remnants of the us government, but not the good parts. In this universe what we refer to as "the deep state" and all the evil negativity we associate with that term is reality when its dealing with the enclave. They want control of everything and will destroy anyone who gets in their way. Alot of prewar members of the enclave also funded vault tec. Vault tec in turn sanctioned alot of twisted experiments in 50% of the vaults ranging from hallucination gas, periodically execute a vault member or everyone dies, what would happen if a vault was comprised of 100 women and one man, and the opposite one woman and 100 men, to simply an entire empty vault, one guy and a box of puppets. The NCR or New California Republic is closest to a new "government" originating from the village Arroyo you visit in the first fallout and operates like the real worlds government of 1850s, as they are opportunistic expansionist that cause alot of friction with towns or tribes that do not want to conform to NCR law.

@StormerWindfall-qz5tn

10 ай бұрын

Thank you for a quick explanation of the games and a fairly accurate one too. Nice job lad!

Lore wise most Vaults were used to test stuff on the dwellers without thier knowledge and it was some twisted stuff.

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

We’ve been told some of the twisted stuff 😨

@raifthemad

2 жыл бұрын

That bit of lore, iirc, was added in after the first game, maybe even after second. It didn't start out that way.

" Super happy fun times" honestly as someone whose played most of the games, I do get a super happy fun time feeling watching these intros haha, you just don't know until you've played them, it's not all doom and gloom and the games do well at poking a bit of fun at themselves, or presenting you with situations so incredibly wild, you can't help but laugh lol.

I’ve always loved Fallout’s artistic meshing of 50s Americana with Mad Max.

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

😎🤟

You guys missed Fallout 2,3,4 and New Vegas intro i wish you guys can watch it. The intro contains a lot of information about the game and the plot. Will there be a part 2

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

We can for sure check out more for Fallout. This was just an intro to the series for us 🙂

@ProGamerboy-lw7jo

2 жыл бұрын

@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames did not look like your reaction was a 🙂, more like a 😦

@RK-zf1jm

2 жыл бұрын

no they didnt fallout 2 intro was there fallout 3 and new vegas intros are missing but the game trailers are there plus i think fallout 4 game opening is easily the weakest of all of them they should of never gotten rid of ron pearlman

One of my favorite game series. Btw, the games are actually very funny, and sometimes don't take themselves too seriously. At the same time they are also depressing and philosophical and packed with action and interesting characters and places :) Would be cool for you to watch the S.P.E.C.I.A.L videos of Fallout 4, you get to know the humorous vein of the games well :)

@andyme3541

2 жыл бұрын

It's very much a series that knows 'Our premise is pretty dark... here is some funny to lighten your experience'

@koraegi

2 жыл бұрын

Except fallout 1

@tofu_golem

2 жыл бұрын

There's a lot of really dark humor in the series.

@realkorti

2 жыл бұрын

"drink. some. water." is my favorite, i recommend sarcastic jerk videos from F4 :D

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

We can get behind some dark humor 🙂😈

This games series makes me fall in love with 50-60s music.

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Such innocent music for the setting it’s in 😯

"Who is dumb enough to do that?" Some people would see the entire world burn if they can't get what they want.

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Sad but true ☹️😢

I came on the scene with Fallout 3, and I gotta say it STILL holds up to me in all ways other than the fact that the graphics are pretty outdated. I feel like the thing they do SO well with these games is the atmosphere, the feeling of picking through the ruins of the old world and discovering what came before while trying to use the pieces to build something new. It's grim for sure, but there's enough levity through the INCREDIBLY charming soundtrack and the generally casual nature of a lot of the characters to keep it from being hopelessly depressing. It kinda has an air of taking something that you find in the garbage can and making the best of it. Yeah, it all sucks but you gotta keep going somehow. Fallout 4 is a lot in the tradition of FO3, though it does take a few steps back with the ways it tries to move forward. The main story, while compelling at its base concept, isn't handled terribly well and it suffers a bit from some weak writing. The world to play in, and some of the side quests and stuff, is a HECK of a lot of fun though. There are some pretty entertaining DLCs too. Fallout 76, which didn't get featured here unfortunately, was a perhaps overly-ambitious attempt by a company that was starting to half-ass stuff kind of a lot lol. The first multiplayer Fallout adventure, it's kind of a sandbox RPG set in a world that's only loosely tied together by any real questlines. The whole idea of it was that the PLAYERS would flesh out the world...instead of needing NPCs to drive things forward or sell supplies etc, all of those functions would be done by the actual people playing the game and role-playing the parts. Some bits of it worked, but honestly the game was kind of a shell that COULD have been filled with something really neat...but it made too many mistakes and tried a little hard to just kind of "be there" and make money off of people lol. There's good stuff to be had, and some updates/expansions did good things for the game...but it never really got exciting again after the initial exploration and experience. Fallout: New Vegas, on the other hand...is freaking perfection IMO lol. Came out after FO3 and uses the same basic generational hardware, so they're largely comparable in a lot of ways. It takes a great game (FO3) and innovates on what it built to create a whole new adventure in a completely different part of the country, with a whole other feel. It's the least "Fallout-y" of the titles IMO, because there's not as much emphasis on US history and that feeling of haunting nostalgia that the series is so strong with...but it has its own flavor and style and I think it absolutely shatters what might otherwise be expected of a Fallout game. It also pretty much holds the standard for quality when it comes to DLC expansions, with every new bit of content being a contained and fully-fleshed story filled with new areas, adventures, and gear...all tied together somehow into a comprehensive story that both meshes with the main game's overall narrative and the subplots of each individual DLC. Honestly a masterpiece IMO. Glad you guys got to check these out! Even though the game studio behind them has been steadily declining and it's a little too much to hope for that we get another GOOD Fallout ever, these games hold a special place in my heart. At their best, they're essentially post-apocalyptic Skyrim filled with dark humor and raw mayhem. Oh, and congrats on hitting 140k! You guys deserve all that and MORE! Y'all are easily in the upper ranks of my favorite YT creators, and I'm always thrilled to see you guys post something new! I love getting to follow along on your journey. :)

@aregulargamer1

2 жыл бұрын

NV is honestly one of the greatest games ever made.

@ericmartin8870

2 жыл бұрын

@@aregulargamer1 I wholeheartedly agree, I desperately hope that it one days gets a well-deserved cosmetic overhaul remake/rerelease. I wouldn't want them to change much of ANYTHING (other than stability updates), but an edition of it that looked as good as modern games do and played exactly the way it did back in the day? And is far more easily available? I'd pay full next-gen price to get that on my PS5. Sadly, modern Bethesda doesn't seem to give much of a crap about anything but Starfield and NV wasn't even technically THEIR baby anyway...so odds are pretty slim it'll ever happen. So I mostly just file it under "Happy Memories" lol.

@MrMeddyman

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah though the trailers are depressing because they are made from the PoV of Ron Perlman before the war it's not the case in game, the people of Post-War America don't have much to be depressed about because they don't really have a frame of reference for what came before and you wouldn't know it from watching the trailer, but the world is capable of being bright and absurd more often than grim or oppressive due to that 1950s flair and classic Americana. Fallout is post-post apocalypse, it's about rebuilding and finding a path forward, not wallowing in the destruction like most post-apocalypse universes like Mad Max, The Road and it's other inspirations

@robsilvester6213

2 жыл бұрын

A fun overview of Fallout New Vegas: UNSTOPPABLE MORON MAKES NUCLEAR WASTELAND NOTICEABLY WORSE | Fallout: New Vegas kzread.info/dash/bejne/iH-jzctmXcm5prg.html

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Always appreciate you sharing your experience with the games we check out. Seems like New Vegas was a big hit! Have only seen people gushing about it in the comments so far 😀

I'm so glad you are doing Fallout! I heavily recommend checking put all the trailers and intros for more lore and there are plenty of lore channels to check out. The lore for fallout and the stories of people in the world is a really interesting thing to hear about!

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

We have been giving some lore channels to check out 🙂

Fallout is an amazing yet DARK game franchise, i personally love 3 and New Vegas the most, the modding community for the latter is INSANE.

I am pretty sure the voices are messed up so the video isn't removed from KZread for copyright violation.

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Ah, okay. Makes sense 🙂

I'm Fallout 1 for the first time in 15 years and I immediately fell in love with it, I have all parts of Fallout 1-76 and I think it's 1.2, New Vegas and 4 (which I still play). I think Fallout is closest to the reality of today's world and the situation in the world.

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

It does hit a little close to home 😢

The intro for Fallout 4 is another wonderful piece, even if the vanilla game is not the best. I'd recommend a watch on that one.

@aregulargamer1

2 жыл бұрын

Honestly, if it just had the leveling and dialogue of New Vegas, it'd instantly be a ten times better game. Like, how the fuck do you look at what Obsidian created, and then decide to go with the shit fallout 4 ended up with.

@arthurhucksake2665

2 жыл бұрын

@@aregulargamer1 Exactly, this is the main issue I have with the vanilla Fallout 4 experience. That being said, Im done with vanilla, and I'm really enjoying the mods that are out there.

@titanhades4331

2 жыл бұрын

Ignore these guys. Fallout 4 is amazing and the majority agree with that Majority always trumps the small number of neighsayers,

@arthurhucksake2665

2 жыл бұрын

@@titanhades4331 I should have prefaced that by saying that it was only my opinion. And I should have said that while it is not the best, it is far, far, from the worst of the Fallout games. It wasn't my intention to come across as a naysayer, and for that I apologise.

@aregulargamer1

2 жыл бұрын

@@arthurhucksake2665 Maybe 76 qualifies for "worst fallout ever", but damn does it have stiff competition for the spot, between Tactics and Brotherhood of Steel.

Fallout is a series I very much enjoy. There's something oddly....beautiful in the depressing ruined world left behind. As there's nothing left but Hope, and you are given the opportunity to make things better as much as you can. The Vaults are one of the more shocking aspects of the lore. The vaults were built to survive nuclear war....but they were never intended to serve that actual purpose. The company, Vault Tech, assumed that any war that broke out that resulted in people going to the vaults would be resolved in a few years, they never expected a complete wipe out of society. So the vaults were all built to have different social experiments conducted in them to test how people in a confined space would act under various stimuli and pressures; usually to horrifying results. One vault was made where all the residents assigned were recovering alcoholics and drug addicts in rehab with stockpiles of drugs and alcohol in secret compartments to be discovered over time...one vault was designed to test viruses on the inhabitants and observe how they handle pandemics in an enclosed space.....one vault had the residents hold elections to sacrifice a resident every few years under the threat if they didn't everyone would die...the trick being they were all supposed to refuse to sacrifice anyone and if so they would then be let out; they didn't discover this until everyone in the vault was dead except for about 4 people when they finally decided to give up. As for how it all happened, it's never quite been said who shot first; just after one bomb was fired everyone started firing at everyone else and the actual gameplay takes place a few hundred years later (varying from game to game) in what arose from the ashes.

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Man the vaults are crazy with the experiments they come up with 😱

Fallout New Vegas was probably one of my favorite games. Had several amazing plot driven DLCs too.

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

😎🤟

3:22 his sigh explains how terrifying humans can be

This video is amazing; watching you guys react to Fallout was a real treat since I love the games and you guys. I really liked the part when, despite all the explosions, gunfights and irradiated beasts, Ken says “Oh you can gamble” 😂. Fallout is a very important game series for me since it explores in depth the morality behind all sorts of situations. Your decisions have a positive or negative effect on the characters/environment around you, which I feel other games need to do. The characters (most of them) are memorable and loveable. 4 is probably my favourite simply because of the companions you can travel with. I greatly anticipate your future videos guys, you rock 🤘

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed our first reaction to Fallout. 😀 and yes, inbetween the blood and beasts you have to take the scenery in like gambling 😜😂

Congrats to the 140K! I cant believe i wasnt subscribed to either of your guys' channels, considering how much i watched them and how much they showed up in my feed, Course Corrected!!!

I found out about Fallout when 3 was still in its hay day, never really got into it, but I did play 4 and it's a lot of fun imo. Also, that thing that was flying along the road that was getting shot at, that's an Eyebot and they're typically kind of annoying xD

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for explaining the eyebot for us 🙂

The basic summary of Fallout: "the vaults were never meant to save anyone" The vaults were ways for the rich to perform human experiments to prepare themselves for leaving earth behind. The fallout games deal with the aftermath of the nuclear war the government unleashed. How people survived and rebuilt in a dead and mutated world

I'm not sure if you have seen it but for the marketing for Fallout 4 they hired Dan Bull to write a song for them and he made one called S.P.E.C.I.A.L based around the game characters attributes system and it's impressively good.

That was a pretty good collection of stuff, I just wish that it included the intro's for the games, I personally think Fallout 3's and New Vegas's intro's are really good, so I hope you get round to them as well at some point :)

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Yup. We can circle back to get to the intros that weren’t in this video 🙂

If you really want to dig into the lore of Fallout in an entertaining way, I’d suggest you guys react to The Storyteller series from Shoddycast. Really fun.

I suggest digging more into thise series. The lore is really interesting and the whole theme of combining depressing situation with this sunny 50s style makes it super memorable. If you want to know where to start I suggest looking into videos about major factions namely NCR, Brotherhood of Steel, Cesar's Legion, Enclave, Vault Tech (let's just say Vaults weren't just build for the rich), New Vegas, The Institute. Or if you are really interested there is whole series about Fallout lore from ShoddyCast that is simply amazing. kzread.info/dash/bejne/oKqlz8GpgKeTkbQ.html&ab_channel=ShoddyCast Love your content guys. Keep it up ;)

@realkorti

2 жыл бұрын

well they weren't build for the rich either - the rich were just better baited into it with their funds (and ended up as experiments sometimes)

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the suggestion on more Fallout material to check out 😀

Nice to see how much your channel has grown. Way to go!

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! 🥳🥳🍾🥂

I think the largest appeal is because it's a twist of the wild west. It's open and full of choices where the smallest choice matters, why? Because nothing much is left. The old grandma you help matters. But then begs the question, to any rational thinker, how did she survive? Then find out you helped a 'villain'. To make a home or a fresh start from nothing but junk and see human resilience. Also mods...mods help. It's why many people want to see Starfield. Because if even the exact same mod support happened but with a 64 but system and newer engine, you can see creation of players make their own universe and stories much like movies or full games.

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

That makes sense 🙂

16:59 man this took me back to sophomore year of high school and watching Josh Scorchers live stream to the Bethesda E3 conference.

One thing the Fallout series excelled at was locational story telling. You'll come across a location where things are situated strangely, and the dawning horror (or amusement) of what transpired there will occur to you as you sift through the clues left behind. Sometimes the clues aren't so subtle, but it's engaging to piece together the events of the past.

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

That’s a fun detail about the game 🙂

Fallout, Mass Effect and Dragon Age are my top three game series ever. I've been playing Fallout since the late 90's, and still do. If you feel like trying it, I'd recommend starting at Fallout 3. Also, congrats on milestone! 🤙❤️

Congrats ^^ you earned it .. I rly like the chemistry between you is so much fun to watch your Videos ^^

late to the party here, but each vault had different missions, and entry varied from vault to vault, some actually had specific objectives of overfilling or underfilling to see what would happen, Vault-tec and the enclave are so twisted, not sure what the entry requirements were for vault 13, or 101, but in fallout 4 the protagonists family got in because the male protag did time in the army. For me, fallout 1 will always have a special place in my heart, was the first one i played way back when it came out on a demo disc, and it featured a small part of the game in Junktown, the turn-based RPG style and story really got me hooked, and there was a line, not sure what game it came from but it was something like: "the end of the world wasn't the end many thought it would be, it was just another beginning."

Fallout 1 & 2 are a must play just for its atmosphere.

It's a goddamn crime that y'all ain't got the Fallout: New Vegas intro. Ain't nothin' like getting shot in the face by a post-apocalyptic Matthew Perry to start an adventure!

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

😯😨

congrats iv always enjoyed your channel you guys deserve it :)

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Appreciate it 🥳🥳🤗🥂🍾

This series was truly fantastic, it's gone downhill pretty steeply in the past few years but the old games will always stand the test of time! They've got the best post apocalyptic setting I've ever seen and New Vegas is one of the best RPGs of all time.

@dre27321

2 жыл бұрын

How has it gone downhill? I saw nothing wrong with fallout 4 and people seemed to love it. the only bad thing was fallout 76

@TheUkchiller

2 жыл бұрын

Fallout four was an improvement on some things. But the actual rpg side and story was pretty terrible

@Duskwalker68

2 жыл бұрын

@@dre27321 Fallout 4's main issues for me were the story/dialogue and factions, the gameplay is the best in the entire series though; to me it's a great game, but not a great Fallout game. Fallout 76 on the other hand is an absolute embarrassment to both the series and the developers of the game, it pretty much killed my interest for any future title published by Bethesda. It had the single worst launch I've ever seen in all of gaming and the monetization is both predatory and egregious, IMO it's left a huge stain on the Developer's reputation and if they're willing to put out garbage like 76 while screwing numerous customers over I have no faith in their future titles.

@Duskwalker68

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheUkchiller my thoughts exactly, 4 wasn't a bad game it just wasn't really Fallout to me due to lack of RPG mechanics. Mods help a lot though, with a fully modded game my only major issue is the dialogue/story.

@RimshotKiller

2 жыл бұрын

Fallout is one of my all time favourite franchises, so believe me when I say that I -really- wanted to love Fallout 4. However, it was so incredibly boring that even with multiple attempts over the years I never got any further than Diamond City. 4 just lacked soul. The story was boring (and honestly, stupid). Now, 3s story wasn't exactly great either, but somehow it still managed to hold my attemtion a lot better than 4 did. And New Vegas was just absolutley fantastic. Damn, I think I'll have to start a new run starting with Fallout 1 now...

One of my top channels celebrating a milestone with one of my top game franchises!!! Yes! Congrats, you guys! ❤️

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

🥳🥳🍾🥂

Fallout New Vegas is one of those rare games that's in a complete league of its own. Easily one of the greatest games ever made in my opinion. It is peak open world RPG without a doubt. The amount of options and open ended gameplay that you have to work with is just the perfect amount without it feeling like a slog like a lot of other games, AND your choices actually matter. The world and the people in it change and react depending on the choices you make and the end is very different depending on what roads you decide to go down. There's so much room for creativity when it comes to how you play the game, and the way you make your character build, as the dozens of perks you can pick from have drastically different effects on you. There is a nearly endless selection of weapons for you to play around with so you can find a collection that works best/feels the most fun for you. Tons of secrets are sprinkled all throughout the game that really incentivize exploring everything and interacting with everyone. Maybe if you go to this crater in the middle of nowhere you'll find a fun cosmetic item in it, or once you finish exploring some hidden cave you'll find a one of a kind weapon guarded by a unique super boss enemy. There's so much to experience that it's almost impossible to see it all. And there's no way I can't mention how fantastically all of the dialogue in the game is written. Even the story itself is really fun, but the characters in New Vegas absolutely sell it. Mr. House, Benny, Cesar, Ulysses, Joshua Graham, Arcade, Boone, Raul, heck even non-speaking characters like ED-E give the world so much life and charm. Even outside the major characters, just one off random NPC characters have so much to offer to your experience it's insane. Even crazier is the fact that they managed to make four incredible DLC packs for the game that genuinely feel worth the price tag. Each one of them offers something unique for you to experience and whether it be more amazing characters, interesting lore/worldbuilding, fun new weapons and armor, or something completely new you are guaranteed to get your moneys worth. I bought this game on New Year's Eve 2010 my Sophomore year of Highschool and I can still vividly remember getting home and playing it for the first time. Over a decade later, I've had to have done at least 15-20 playthroughs of various completions levels, and I will probably do plenty more. This is a game I recommend everyone at least try once at some point in their life.

"I always wonder who dropped the bombs" Bethany is so on point here with this comment! Throughout the game they have never made it clear who exactly started it. We know from the "tutorial" of Fallout 4 with the news talking about nuclear detonations in big american cities, but were those in retaliation? Or were they even "Friendly Fire" with it being american bombs hitting american targets? In Fallout 3, the first town you encounter has a dormant nuclear bomb in the middle. You as a player can choose to disarm it (or to detonate it killing everyone in town) but if you look at it there's a plaque about it being from Vault Tec (the company making the Vaults). In Fallout 4 they introduced a computer program that was ment to try to anticipate China's next step but feeding more info into the program made it realize that it could never properly account for the randomness of "the human factor" and so players speculate that the software decided to try to remove that randomness by nuking the world, Skynet-style. The War inGame had been going on for years, and intel suggested that it was more a question of When, not If, the bombs would drop. There are a lot of fan-theories, but it is still a mystery who started it. Nothing revealed by the devs. We do however know exactly when it happened, as all calendars in the game end on that date, and pretty much all clocks (that are not inside settlements and villages) all show the time that the bombs dropped.

@Zappina

2 жыл бұрын

From what i gathered from the games, China dropped the first bomb as a desperate move when the US powered armor devisions reached Beijing.(According to the fallout 3 DLC, the chinese submarine Yangtze was the first sub which launched nukes). However the game also suggest it was actually the US shadow government, the Enclave, which is responsible for the nuclear war or at least for the events which lead to it.. There is also Skynet in Sierra Army Depot, which could responsible, although its probably just a movie reference.

The way the story is told in the Fallout games (especially 3 & 4 which is when Bethesda took over) is very much down to reading the scenery and doing some detective work. You can come across a skeleton in a bathtub next to a toaster, heavily implying that someone couldn't take reality and decided to just off themselves. You can find what's left of someone's picnic on the beach. You can find a stroller and a teddy next to a car on a parking lot showing how someone was about to pack or unpack their kids while going shopping (they have a hard rule that there are no "small skeletons" but instead imply what have happened by placing toys and other things in places where whoever might have been playing with them did not survive). There are a lot of stories told like that, the world-building team is pretty good at telling these "silent" stories by only using decorations. On the other hand you can enter office buildings, power plants, factories etc and find handscribbled notes, audio recordings and find internal company emails. You can read about how a team is stuck dead with a project while they lie to management and saying they are close to a solution. You can find emails about how someone is pissed about people smoking at the ventilation intake (and if you go outside you can find a bunch of cigarettes there so they try to keep things consistent) or you can find creepy pasta about how they heard about the bombs hitting, now they hear monsters, they are scared. You can find rooms with desks flipped to block the doors and a skeleton hiding behind the sofa with a crate full of alcohol and a handgun, implying that maybe they numbed themselves before taking their life. Or you can find some dead monsters nearby showing that the person didn't go down without a fight. Sadly there's not a lot of InGame cinematics and cutscenes, mostly trailers and promotional material. But if you want to venture deeper into the Fallout Universe (and if you dont mind some depressing dystopian with a pinch of sarcasm and dark humor then there's a LOT of material out there. For example, look into the various Vaults that were made (you saw some of the promo made to look like advertisement for one of the Vaults). There's some nasty stuff going on there..

@Ferdawoon

2 жыл бұрын

I personally like WiseFish videos. They are a bit longer, 35-40min each but well chaptered so you can probably do some editing magic to bring it down to chunks that better suit your channel! They are not deepdives of each Vault, but still deep enough to get a proper feeling for the stuff going on there. A lot of summary-videos gloss over a lot of stuff or only mention it briefly. Each Vault story could probably be an hour long to tell it properly,. but I think these vids have a decent middleground. The Vaults Of Fallout - Vaults 3 - 43 | Fallout Lore kzread.info/dash/bejne/lqp3sMqEoMytd5M.html The Vaults Of Fallout - Vaults 51 - 95 | Fallout Lore kzread.info/dash/bejne/fHh3l5iJoNrOZqg.html Vaults Of Fallout - Vaults 96 - 118 | Fallout Lore kzread.info/dash/bejne/aIKVo9KooLuTqso.html

Your reactions during the Fallout 3 portion were quite interesting. Here's something that makes those headshots seem tame, in Fallout 2 you could shoot foes in the groin.

yep need the intros for the games as well, especially new vegas, because like fallout 1 is only shortly after the bombs fell but like fallout 3 and such is like hundreds of years later

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

😎👍🙂

I'm so happy you guys got into the Fallout-universe! :D

I think some of the trailers were definitely edited to be slightly higher (probably to avoid some copyright? No idea), the voices definitely weren't as... nasally and high-pitched in the originals, haha.

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Good to know. Seemed like an odd choice and little jarring 😆

@TheSmokingSkull

2 жыл бұрын

@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames Yeah, especially on the last one, Fallout 4, where it sounded like the main character had ingested helium at the very end... these kinds of compilation videos are usually ok, but this was definitely out of the ordinary. Maybe you need someone to vet videos for you ahead of time, haha.

Ken, enemies play a major role in Fallout: Supermutants, ghouls, raiders, gunners, various mutated animals, humans. And then there are friendly and enemy factions, companions, various weapons: firearms, laser, plasma, ballistic and grenades or knives. Simply Fallout is absolutely amazing and at the same time scary approaching reality

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

😯

you guys are so much fun! you deserve every bit.

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! 😊🤗🥳🍾🥂

Finally!! I've been waiting months to see you guys react to Fallout!

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

😎🤟🥳

Bro shaded a tear for that murican bacon and eggs

Let's celebrate by watching the most depressing video 😂 The contrast between your happy faces in the beginning and when you've been watching the Fallout trailers is so funny 🤣

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Haha, yeah this was not even celebration we thought 😂🤗🥳🍾

Fallout is one of my favorite worlds in all of fiction. It's so scary and cool because it's simply alternate history: "What if the Cold War went into the 21st century?" I had a conversation with a friend and I described the story behind how the war started, he had this dreadful look on his face when he said this "This feels waaaaayyy to real, especially now." Keep in mind, it took the world of Fallout until 2077 to destroy itself and my friends are already calling this game too close to home. I also like that it's beyond the common zombie or pandemic apocalypse, the nukes messed up the world so much, that it created my favorite virtual playground.

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Yup, got that way too real feeling as well 😱

Idc man the way I literally cried watching the fallout 4 trailer on initial release. I was literally so excited for it.

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

☺️

Fallout 1&2 are absolute classics and great games each. But I think they are incomparable to the later ones because the technology and the game's capabilities are so different they might as well be a different game series. Out of the later ones, New Vegas is definitely my favorite. I think it had the more interesting stories and captured the wacky madness of a post-apocalyptic world the best.

@ShingenNolaan

2 жыл бұрын

Truth. 1& 2 are just different.

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

😎🤟

The 2:31 execution of a Canadian citizen by U.S Soldiers is inspired by the Vietnam War Execution of Nguyễn Văn Lém, one of the most recognizable photos ever taken. A revenge killing undertaken by South Vietnam General Nguyễn Ngọc Loan for the murder of his wife and six children that was twisted by the media of both communist and capitalist governments all over the world, the photographer won a Pulitzer for it as well. It's a fitting homage, because really encapsulates what makes Fallout different than other more generic post-apocalyse universes. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/43/Execution_of_Nguyen_Van_Lem.jpg Fallout is more post-post apocalypse, when done right, it's about the world pulling itself back together from the brink of destruction, but still shaped by Old-World values (rampant unchecked capitalism, violent expansion and greed, wars of idealogy) that might just damn it yet again. War never changes. It's not supposed to be overtly oppressive or dark, the world was destroyed 200 years ago and a lot of people in Post-War America still embody that 1950s cheer even in the ashes of the nuclear war, but everyone interprets the different games differently. The Interplay games get it right, the newer 3D Bethesda games are hit or miss sometimes to dark, other times not as deep as what came before, but oh boy Brotherhood of Steel 9:00 is really just awful lol

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for pointing out that reference

@Tony-The-Motherfucking-Tiger

Жыл бұрын

OG Fallout was just brutal

My favorite part about Fallout 4 is that it's not a hero story like every other fallout game, you're just some random pre-war guy/gal who happened to survive the nukes and now you're trying to find your kidnapped son.

Fallout 1 Intro looks like prophecy ...

Yeah...you didn't necessarily get into the vaults because you were rich (although there ARE vaults like that...Sierra Madre in Fallout: New Vegas, and the hotel vaults on Far Harbor in Fallout 4 come to mind), but because of proximity, or some other factor. In Fallout 4, our protagonist gets in because he's (or she's the wife of) a veteran.

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for clarifying vault access for us 🙂

There's really no answer to who dropped the bombs first. The games strongly suggest that it was China, but there's also hints that it could've been vault TEC that did it themselves

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

That’s a good conspiracy theory for vault tec 😯🤔

I'm sure someone's said it by now but, if you're curious about the dog in these videos look up Dogmeat. It's actually a rather touching story. :)

Great series and great reaction as always 👏

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it 🥳🥳

Bethany,s facial expression starting at 17.05 made me feel very sad

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

😢🤗 parts of these trailers were sad

I assure you, you will not Fallout of this Franchise, cause Fallout never Changes

I think the reason why the voices in the trailers sound weird and higher pitched is from your settings. I'd check your playback speed settings... which could also explain why the trailers where shorter than I remember

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

We watched other videos this same day and they were all normal. It was something from the uploader 🤗

Pretty sure you guys watched a edited version of the trailers, the higher pitched voices. Still nice seeing you guys react to Fallout!

Not all vaults was there to save people, some were "just" labs for experiment's on humans

It was Vault-Tec btw.. It was them that "ended" it all..(A a self fulfilling prophecy regarding the "need" for the vaults).. A good Fallout series to watch is called "The Storyteller: Fallout" by ShoddyCast... He really dives into the Fallout world/lore.. As for Fallout 76.. Well "Internet Historian" (name is his YT Channel) said it best about that game.. Would love to see you two react to his video(s) btw.. His humor in his videos are next level..

the dog is named Dogmeat and hes an icon in most of the games =0

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

It needs a better name 😢

Definitely some of the best soundtracks ever, and one hell of a unique style. Hands down one of the best franchises out there.

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

😎🤟

also teh teacup can be picked up and used to craft or make other thigns so lots of clutter everywhere to use

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Oh nice that they make use of it in game 😀

So as some info: about anyone in the population could get chosen for an application to join a vault. They had to, as the vaults were in secret not meant to actually ensure humanity's survival in large numbers. Nearly all vaults were instead testing grounds (unbeknown to the residents) Hence why nearly anyone regardless of status could be selected to join, as they needed a very broad range of types of "test subjects". The results for those experiments would be used by the elite who would use the data to improve their own future. Tough I don't remember if this was the Enclave or just Vault Tech themselves.

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

If it’s too good to be true there is a reason 😱

The lore of this world is so in depth i only started at fallout 3 but it is such a rich story

That Brotherhood of steel trailer was lit! 🔥

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

3 ай бұрын

😎🤟

Without spoilers. Each vault had a specific reason for being built. The people chosen to enter the vaults fit those reasons. The dog is named Dogmeat. I love seeing people react to Fallout as it is one of my favorite game series and I hope you check out the intro to each game because they set up the story for them. As always I really enjoyed the reaction

im glad to be apart of this community :D

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

We’re glad you’re an active part of it as well 😀😊🤗🤗

Not sure why the audio of the trailers was all high pitched and chipmunk voices, but thats not what they actually sound like, might be something that the uploader of the trailers changed to avoid copyright claims possibly?

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Believe that is what others have said 🤗 though the music gets copyright claims anyways so not sure what the point was 😂

“Do you get to play as the dog?!” No- …ot yet… (MODDERS!!! GET TO WORK!!!)

@9:21 OMG it's that abomination brotherhood of steel game lol! Fun fact the fallout community while divided on several things about the games, best ones and so on{its 2 and new vegas btw} nearly the whole community disown brotherhood of steel the ps2 game from the 2000's. While I've never played it I saw gameplay of it a few years ago and I agree it's not Fallout to me.

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 ай бұрын

At least community can agree on one thing 😁

If you guys are interested in learning more about Fallout, try "The Storyteller: Fallout Lore Series" by Shoddycast.

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for vid rec 🙂

The Vaults were actually not that expensive. There were Vaults that had wealthy socialites and the "best of us," but most of them were affordable enough for most people to live. This wasn't to secure as many lives but to experiment on as many of them as possible. As you play the games, you learn that each Vault had a different "theme" based on an experiment that the US government was running at the time. There was a handful that were designed solely with the purpose of saving lives. Still, even those had a twist to them - some would do this by cloning residents which led to malfunctions that caused the clones to become psychotic and murder everyone. In contrast, others cryogenically froze survivors but had no failsafe to wake them up. One thing about the Fallout world is that literally, everything sucks. There are rarely any 100% good people, but there are rarely any 100% bad people either. As for the bombs dropping, there's a lot of conflicting info on who dropped the bombs first. It could've been the US, the Chinese, an accident, a conspiracy against their own people, or even aliens (yes, aliens exist in Fallout - sometimes they're interesting, sometimes they're a joke). A major theme is about letting the past go and trying to rebuild. It's why the games take this retro-future aesthetic. The major difference between our world and Fallout's world is that the transistor was never built, which allows electrical charges to amplify with small parts. This is why technology is smaller and smaller in the real world, but in Fallout, everyone uses big, bulk vacuum tubes to keep that Jetson's-like aesthetic. As a result, even though the bombs dropped in the 2070s, technology seems dorky and similar to the original Star Trek series. Furthermore, American culture stayed transfixed with the 50s, seeing it as the golden age of progress. Now everyone listens to 50s music, dresses in the fashion, and advertising follows the same models. If you want to know more about Fallout you should watch some lore series. The games aren't designed for a straight-up summary or playthrough as a lot of the choices are based on what the player decides, including what order to tackle each area, who lives and who dies, what communities thrive, the endings, etc. Fallout New Vegas is the best in the series and is considered to be the true Fallout 3 since it was developed by most of the original dev team. Bethesda Fallout is different, focuses more on traditional good vs evil stories, has a horror twist to things, stays set in the East Coast like DC, Appalachia, and Boston, and includes a lot of that alien/Lovecraftian influence. The original Fallout by Interplay, Black Isle Studio, and Obsidian focuses on the West Coast, particularly Northern and Southern California and the Las Vegas area. New Vegas is one of the best games of all time (as well as Fallout 1 and 2) because of the many choices you can make. People still regularly debate whether or not the New California Republic (basically America) is a better choice than Caesar's Legion (a tribalistic army of roving maniacs modeled after Ancient Rome) with good points on either side. Sure, the NCR wants to bring us back to the old style of living, but the old style of living is responsible for imperialism, crippling bureaucracy, social inequality, prejudice, and led to the world being destroyed by nukes. The Legion is a group of women-enslaving, civilian crucifying, murder hobos, but their territories are the safest, they have rapidly expanded over the short time they've been active, and their people are loyal to one another and caring. Once you meet their leader, you realize he's a philosophical idealist who believes himself to be committing a necessary evil as all great civilizations began with murderers and scoundrels who built safe places for the people to prosper - he'd rather have his descendants be alive to hate him than to have never existed because of civil infighting. Then we get to Mr. House who runs Vegas and wants it to be an independent state similar to Singapore, with a dictator allowing free-market economics to give people freedom of wealth and privacy in exchange for freedom in government. It may suck to have a robotic overlord who could potentially watch your every move like Big Brother, but he also has proof that he can develop space colonies, clean drinking water, advance the human lifespan, and take humanity beyond the peaks of the old world. And yet you can still choose to reject all those paths and let Vegas and the surrounding areas be independent of any ruler - giving people the chance to live as they please with their own rules for their groups, but can you live with the chaos that comes with that? Is it possible for classy cannibals to live alongside vigilante Elvis cultists and xenophobic tech hoarders descended from US military veterans? How will people get their basic needs attended to without an overarching government, whether it be based on the flawed US system, an extremist primitivism ideology, or a dictatorship run by a borderline sociopath Tony Stark? As you can see, there's no easy answer to these questions, even if your gut outright rejects or accepts one of the above approaches. And that's just one of the many choices that matter in New Vegas. Everyone should play that game even though it's about to be 12 years old.

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for the breakdown of Fallout games and especially New Vegas. Definitely seems like a must play game and we will try to look more into the lore for this series 🙂

"Who dropped the bombs". Literally the biggest discussion point in the whole Fallout series, as there isn't *much* info on *who* launched the first nuke during The Great War (which lasted minutes to hours). It *is* alluded that it was China and there's even a Chinese sub somewhere near the coast of Boston in FO4. But we don't *know*, really..

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

That’s pretty cool they leave it vague and open for debate 🙂

@sayascarlett3187

2 жыл бұрын

@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames It's the holy grail of Fallout 😂

Have you seen cutscene of old PC game called Armoreds and Dangerous? By the way the Fallout series is based of movie Mad Max. And the game have so many reference. Like Nuka Cola is for Coca Cola.

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Haven’t heard of that old pc game before 🤔🙂

@davidosclay852

2 жыл бұрын

@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames Armoreds and Dangerous PC has some funny scene, and the charcters are british talk I remember.

One of the weirdest storys i heard about games in general is around Fallout 4. The currency to trade items in game is bottle caps. So one guy decided to collect over 2000 of them and send them to the dev's including a summery how much he liked Fallout 3 and became a fan. To make it short the idea was so unique that Bethesta honored it by giving him a free copy of Fallout 4.

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

That’s pretty neat story 🙂

I remember watching New Vegas' trailer over and over and over again when i first saw it.

You have no idea the rabbit hole your going down with fallout lore, both canon to the series and to players, like the inside jokes and memes. "Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter"

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

We do enjoy a series with great lore 😀

There is a bit of commentary on who drops the bombs first in Fallout 3. The response was "it does not matter who shot first, everyone lost in the end"

While the alternate world of Fallout may seem dark and foreboding, I have taken it as that we, as a species, have such an indomitable will to survive against all odds. By all accounts, the early humans should have gone extinct. We competed with predators far superior in strength, speed, smell, sight, and hearing that they could have wiped us out, but they didn't. Even the climate could not hold us back. Our ability to reason (use tools and learn from mistakes), to form communities (strength in numbers), and the will to survive (and with a bit of luck) gave us the edge we needed to become the dominant species for thousands of years. Those traits are still within us, and I do honestly believe that somehow humanity will survive in the future in spite of everything going on today.

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

That’s a glass half full approach 😊😀

The notion that it was a world wide World War 3 has been retconned by Fallout 4. Fallout 4 tells us that the war was only a small war.

@banziattack1354

Ай бұрын

Yeah and no. Europe and the Middle East in the fallout universe we’re already going at it with WMDs before China and US squared up

Yall gotta do the fallout new vegas intros, it was the only one missing in this video.

@PapitoQinn

2 жыл бұрын

The only intros they had was for fallout 1 and 2. All the rest were trailers.

@dickheyman2175

2 жыл бұрын

@@PapitoQinn ahh okay. Well then do 3 and 4 as well

@bluenekofox

2 жыл бұрын

Missing 76 as well

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

We can check out intros for those games. Maybe for a triple trailer Tuesday 🤔😇

Wild fact: the clip of a large towed artillerypiece firing a nuclear warhead in the third trailer is real, from a weapons test of the M65 atomic cannon.

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

😯😨

8:40 and this is the game we all try to forget. *shudders* in game advertisements…..

It's my birthday today haha cool Sunday upload! Have a good day ya'll!

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

Happy belated birthday 🥳🥳🥳🥳

In the first Fallout, you can beat the final bad guy through dialog, if you are a skilled enough smooth talker.

While I’m very mixed on the game itself, the animated fallout 76 trailer was pretty damn good to be honest

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

We heard trailers were best part of 76 🤔🤗

Ahahaha! I am on-lline once again! Tremble, world, before my electric heating coil of doom!

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

😱

Otherwise, I would add that the soundtrack to Fallout 1 and 2 was created by Mark Morgan, an absolutely great ambient meditation music, I just love that soundtrack.

Fallout 76 had a bad launch, but man is its trailer SO good, it's what got people overly hyped in the first place. You should watch it!

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

There is a compilation of like 30 minutes for some Fallout 76 trailers 😅

I played fallout 3, new vegas,and fallout 4. My favorite one is fallout 4 because I love creating settlements. In those 3. Fallout 3 you grow up in a vault,new vegas your out for revenge at first, fallout 4 you get in the vault because of your military background

i believe the video editor changed the pitch to avoid any copyright strikes from KZread, they've gotten pretty insane with that stuff. Shame it didn't include any of the Fallout 76 Trailers for the primary release and update releases.

@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames

2 жыл бұрын

There’s a video with all the Fallout 76 trailers that’s over 30 minutes 😅

@TheMoonshadowMysteryChannel

2 жыл бұрын

@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames I could not find that one

the voices were set higher probably to avoid copyright