Fallout 76 is Worse Than You Know | Part 4/4

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Fallout 76 is a misunderstood game, largely because many people discussing it are doing so from the outside. The reality is that while the narrative is that time has improved the game, it's actually only gotten worse.
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0:00:00 - Brotherhood of Steel: Part Two
0:39:29 - Brotherhood of Steel: Part Three
0:52:52 - Expeditions: The Pitt
1:14:58 - The End
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@keanuxu5435
@keanuxu5435 Жыл бұрын
Bethesda thinking the BoS, Enclave, FEV, etc, are core tenets of Fallout is like thinking the color red is important to the formula for Coca-Cola.
@bjobs316
@bjobs316 Жыл бұрын
The funny thing is that Nuka Cola was blue until Tactics.
@jackiejack999
@jackiejack999 Жыл бұрын
​@@bjobs316That's just cause the bottles you found of it were regular glass ones. The beverage itself wasn't blue.
@bjobs316
@bjobs316 Жыл бұрын
@@jackiejack999 yes, I was referring to the bottle style.
@ryszakowy
@ryszakowy Жыл бұрын
@@bjobs316 and tactics made a better lore about nuka cola than bethesda just changing design every single time
@bjobs316
@bjobs316 Жыл бұрын
@@ryszakowy I can't get into tactics, but I hate so much Nuka World that I can only trust you.
@yeahiconquerworldsofficial
@yeahiconquerworldsofficial Жыл бұрын
The excessive use of nuclear warheads against the annoying NPC’s is probably the best bit in this whole series.
@toolatetothestory
@toolatetothestory Жыл бұрын
The *reasonable use of nuclear warheads
@SissypheanCatboy
@SissypheanCatboy 8 ай бұрын
@@honeybadger6275 what a loser lmao
@SqualidsargeStudios
@SqualidsargeStudios 6 ай бұрын
@@honeybadger6275let me guess the types who do that fly the nezi flag huh.
@honeybadger6275
@honeybadger6275 6 ай бұрын
@@SqualidsargeStudios What's a nezi flag?
@MundaneThingsBackwards
@MundaneThingsBackwards 5 ай бұрын
@@SqualidsargeStudios No they could fly the Palestinian one. =P
@Sam-uk4mb
@Sam-uk4mb Жыл бұрын
To paraphrase Shamus Young (RIP) Bethesdas insistence on shoehorning in the Brotherhood everywhere makes the fallout universe seem so small. after Fallout 1 and 2 you have this entire unexplored country full of potentially different, varied conflicts...and then Bethesda rolls in and effectively ports the west coast, with all its factions, creatures and even its currency, onto the East Coast. And then they shoehorn the BoS into Fallout 4, and then 76 (along with the Enclave), and again the world just starts to feel really small and samey. Is the entire country just different Brotherhood chapters, with the same creatures roaming around and occasional Enclave big bad to blow up/occasional new faction? I can certainly appreciate what Bethesda did for the franchise, and I had a lot of fun with fallout 3, but it's a shame they couldn't be more creative with new factions and conflicts in different areas
@watchm4ker
@watchm4ker Жыл бұрын
Having the Brotherhood show up in 3 made sense, especially with how their story on the West Coast would eventually end. But after that... Errrgh...
@nadrewod999
@nadrewod999 Жыл бұрын
The Brotherhood at the end of Fallout 2 was a dying faction, so it having the resources to send an entire pilgrimage all the way across the country to DC makes far less sense than the Brotherhood having a small chapter located in the relative proximity of Nevada, especially since Fallout 1, 2, and NV establish that traders can still largely walk the path of the old interstate highways, even if they're too shattered into pieces and cluttered with wrecked pre-war cars to allow for vehicular travel.
@chasewilson3693
@chasewilson3693 Жыл бұрын
@@watchm4ker It really doesn't. They were a dying faction in fallout 2 and it makes no sense for them to be as active as they were in 3, especially as the defacto "hero" faction. Then again, 3 pretty much is where all the cracks that would become gaping canyons of awfulness found in 4 and 76 started. The only modern fallout game with a believable Brotherhood faction is, unsurprisingly, New Vegas. As it makes total sense that they are incredibly small and just barely scraping by after being kicked in the balls for decades by the rising powers while they stagnated and declined both in numbers and philosophy after already being in a weakened position after fallout 2. There is a reason the NCR, Legion and Mr. House all want them destroyed since they don't see much inherent worth in recruiting them and see more good being done wiping them out than rallying them to their cause. They are a minor faction hated by everyone that is clearly in decline. Even if you help them, they are still almost completely reliant on the greater powers for continued existence and should they cease to be useful would be snuffed out rather easily.
@watchm4ker
@watchm4ker Жыл бұрын
@@chasewilson3693 At the same time, it also makes sense that, faced with those growing pressures, everyone with any sense would have packed up and left to find other facilities that might have been left untouched. Not like the US was short on those.
@hitomisalazar4073
@hitomisalazar4073 Жыл бұрын
It is a brain worm that goes even to Modders. As you see something like the Old World Blues mod for Hearts of Iron 4... which is filled with like 12 different Brotherhood chapters spread all over regions from the Pacific Northwest to Texas. Like even people who aren't really beholden to the idea of marketing and having to put a Brotherhood everywhere (and in that mod they don't even have the canonical Chicago Brotherhood as the midwest isn't really included), still end up doing it.
@NMEApollo
@NMEApollo Жыл бұрын
The Mole Men would be the perfect antagonistic force vs the Brotherhood. The digging part gives the devs reason to keep all major encounters with them in instanced areas, they destroy tech and infrastructure by digging under/through it and salvaging it. They force the Brotherhood into tight spaces where their power armor and explosive weaponry would be a disservice. It would be bad enough to reasonably explain why any attempts to establish a chapter in the area failed.
@pteroid11
@pteroid11 Жыл бұрын
Literally the Underminer from Incredibles would be a better villain than any of the ones they actually produced
@serPomiz
@serPomiz Жыл бұрын
this. just having the molemen, and a variation of them for these mission would have worked perfectly the execution of the supermutant is something that we kind of need for variety, but we do not need THE freaking supermutants eveyrwhere!
@alexanderrahl7034
@alexanderrahl7034 Жыл бұрын
A trip from Rome to Latetia (paris) for a Roman Legion marching, could take about ~60 days, depending on weather conditions, the time of year, and if they ran into trouble on the way. Mostly as the crow flies, it's a little over 1300km. This includes crossing rivers, valleys, and of course the Alps. The trip from San Fran, to Charleston, is about twice that distance at over 2500km, and includes crossing over the Rocky Mountains, then crossing the desert, possibly even Death Valley, _whatever_ the Mississippi River has become, and then navigate the rough terrain of Appalachia. In a world where there's no civilization, people are fighting to survive, mutants everywhere, raiders, robots, and no respite in sight. Seas of nuclear radiation and fallout and hazards. And we are expected to believe 4 brotherhood members _of the newly formed brotherhood of steel_ , would have the drive, passion, skill, strength and God tier luck; to survive that journey? Gedtafuqouttshere
@jesustyronechrist2330
@jesustyronechrist2330 Жыл бұрын
Uh, they obviously just drove across with a cadillac while blasting Kickstart My Heart by Mötley Crue through the repurposed military air sirens as speakers
@evinbraley
@evinbraley Жыл бұрын
The only way I can see this being possible is if the scout team was much bigger and had at one point working military grade transports, but the trip slowly killed all but the current team and destroyed the transportation they used to get there.
@watchm4ker
@watchm4ker Жыл бұрын
More importantly, we know that a century and a half later, the Brotherhood's expedition to DC was a MASSIVE undertaking, taking months and making several stops along the way.
@Yostuba
@Yostuba Жыл бұрын
"newly formed brotherhood of steel" I mean they are all active military personel its not like they're random normals they're soilders. Yeah its far as fuck but its not like they're normals they were about to be shipped off to china/alaska.
@Mirthful_Midori
@Mirthful_Midori Жыл бұрын
Don't forget how hard it was just for them to get to Lost Hills from Mariposa and those places are practically next door to each other, at least compared to a trip cross country.
@LordHonkInc
@LordHonkInc Жыл бұрын
"I won't sit back and wait for the Brotherhood to fire first," he monologued while our capable protagonists started blasting his gang with lasers and a double-barreled shotgun.
@SeraSmiles
@SeraSmiles Жыл бұрын
I will never understand Bethesda's desire for "end game balance" or their rush to get players to that power level in their games. The best parts of an RPG for me are the difficult scraping of early game & the absolute godhood of a late game nerevarine. But for some reason Bethesda seems to hate both of those parts in spite of most people seeming to also feel that way?
@trentn1127
@trentn1127 Жыл бұрын
Most of the dedicated rpg audience want that but the casual audience always wanna feel super powerful during the couple hours a week they might play the game. This doesn’t explain why they cap the endgame so hard though
@audiosurfarchive
@audiosurfarchive Жыл бұрын
Their rush to endgame character progress is based on bad gameplay loops and ultimately shallow character building. Look at something like Grim Dawn: an indie clickemup aRPG. Infinitely more nuance, depth and MEANINGFUL decisions in building your character. Fuck they even made a faction influence system with benefits for both negative and positive rep. In a hack-and-slash action RPG. Bethesda "RPGs" aren't. Just another contributor to the pollution and dilution of """RPG""" mechanical creep into any and all other real time action games. And while definitely not just them doing it at this point (almost every AAA open world game is basically an ""RPG"" by BGS standards) they certainly helped popularize and influence juggernauts like Goobisoft™ into having colored-loot MTX filled, mile-wide inch-deep design philosophy. Absolutely disgusting.
@funnydog7133
@funnydog7133 Жыл бұрын
Would you say that skyrim was an improvement over oblivion in this regard?
@elitereptilian200
@elitereptilian200 Жыл бұрын
@@audiosurfarchive Grim Dawn is such bloody freaking awesome game!! Go play it folks!!
@TheBard1999
@TheBard1999 Жыл бұрын
They did try to balance their games in Oblivion and Skyrim, but it resulted in a lot of criticisms and system where early game and late game characters feel the same.
@RedSHARK6
@RedSHARK6 Жыл бұрын
The lack of player agency had been pretty bad, but Rahmani destroying the transmitter with you being unable to do anything to stop it is just incredible.
@CottonPanzer
@CottonPanzer Жыл бұрын
Bethesda: Introduces the Mole Miners, one of the most interesting ambient factions and enemies in modern Fallout history, with an incredibly sad story. Bethesda: Introduces Scorched, one of the more dangerous enemy factions and the focus of the main game. Bethesda: Introduces Responders and the Free States, some of the most interesting and realistic factions in modern fallout history. Bethesda: Well, we >have< to use Super Mutants and Brotherhood of Steel. It's Fallout after all.
@jackiejack999
@jackiejack999 11 ай бұрын
Yeah they have the ability to create new and interesting factions, but completely squander it all in execution along with the desire for brand recognition.
@suckassmork2972
@suckassmork2972 6 ай бұрын
Oh we fallin' out on this one!
@MundaneThingsBackwards
@MundaneThingsBackwards 5 ай бұрын
Unironically, are they wrong to? That's the brand they've cultivated with their sizeable extremely invested and gullible fanbase. They'll go down swinging before they let any of it go.
@commanderknee3821
@commanderknee3821 3 ай бұрын
@@MundaneThingsBackwards case and point: the fucking fallout show lmao
@pravkdey
@pravkdey Ай бұрын
​@@MundaneThingsBackwards hate to suck New Vegas' sufficiently fellatioed dick but they introduced several new major and minor factions that were both goofy scary and unique. Ya jus need a sprinkle of giveadamn™ to make it work haha
@cirnofumo7352
@cirnofumo7352 Жыл бұрын
Just think, they had a Moleminer city in the game files since launch. Yet we got milquetoast expeditions and BoS garbage.
@PlebNC
@PlebNC Жыл бұрын
Bethesda: Makes a bunch of neat new factions to based quests around. Also Bethesda: Brotherhood goes brrrr....
@vexile1239
@vexile1239 Жыл бұрын
Brotherhood of sheet
@doughboywhine
@doughboywhine Жыл бұрын
sorrry family they already used moleminers for the treasure hunter mole miner event so they can't retread content
@vexile1239
@vexile1239 3 ай бұрын
​@@doughboywhineand the bos isn't a retread? They've been beating that horse ever since they took over the ip
@Marines_Memelevolent
@Marines_Memelevolent 2 ай бұрын
@@vexile1239he was being sarcastic
@carbonjohnson6414
@carbonjohnson6414 Жыл бұрын
Bethesda wasting Joshua Graham's voice actor on Dr Jobber and this high school tier writing is an atrocity.
@honeybadger6275
@honeybadger6275 Жыл бұрын
Well, bethesda has had high school tier writing since fallout 3 so its nothing new.
@mushyroom9569
@mushyroom9569 7 ай бұрын
Just type “Joshua Graham reads” into the search bar. You can listen to him read philosophical and religious texts until the end of days.
@michellamoureuxm
@michellamoureuxm Жыл бұрын
I honestly think the people who say the game is fixed legitimately just skip all dialog and story, and just play it like an FPSMMO, though it's just the barebones of both.
@SwampGreen14
@SwampGreen14 Жыл бұрын
Ikr? When I think about a Multiplayer Fallout game, the last thing I want is a dollar-store version of Destiny or The Division.
@ChristopherSadlowski
@ChristopherSadlowski Жыл бұрын
I'm shocked by how many people openly admit they don't give a shit about the story in ANY AND EVERY game they play. Just tell us you're stupid and proud of it and save us all the headache. Like, if you don't give me a good, or even decent story, in your GODDAMN RPG OF ALL GENRES I'm not going to stick around. Why would I? I wouldn't care about anything you made. I think this is one reason why games are the way they are anymore. The vast majority of video game players are proudly uneducated and want to stay that way; no thoughts, just shoot, make things go big boom boom, I don't care about anyone or anything or even myself. Why write something even halfway passable when the 80% of braindead morons who buy your dumb shit tell you to your face they can't be bothered to read...or even listen to a single character you designed? Just give them their big boom boom stick and throw literally everything else in the trash. Pathetic.
@BWMagus
@BWMagus Жыл бұрын
@@ChristopherSadlowski What I don't get about it is that even if many people don't care about the story, that doesn't mean they actively OPPOSE a good story. Why not hire some decent writers to make some decent stuff for the people who DO care, and those who don't care will still just skip past it all? Writers are not that expensive in the grand scheme of things (unless you're hiring a best-selling novelist or something) so it's a small price to pay to avoid driving away the good chunk of people who will be bored and frustrated by a shit story or bad dialogue (look how it basically destroyed Forspoken, an otherwise so-so game). There's nothing wrong with not wanting stories in your video games and just liking shooting or base building or inventory management, but if you're going to bother having a story at all, it should be good.
@flakes1972
@flakes1972 Жыл бұрын
The Shawn Hockman thing is actually even less thoughtful than that, it's literally just a reference to a random encounter in the game where you're approached by painfully transparent brotherhood imitators that try and rob you. Also holy shit, you have no idea how much worse the raiders get if you do their mission in Steel Reign.
@Slop_Dogg
@Slop_Dogg Жыл бұрын
so literally just the fake Preston Garvey encounter from FO4. how creative.
@VAULT-TEC_INC.
@VAULT-TEC_INC. Жыл бұрын
@@Slop_Dogg It’s more developed than “fake person Garvey.” Watch a video showing all the possible endings.
@johncarver357
@johncarver357 Жыл бұрын
@@VAULT-TEC_INC. that would mean wasting time though...watching what? an hour? a 30 min long video? just to find out theres nothing new (unsurprisingly) in greedout 76?
@RedTigerDragoon
@RedTigerDragoon Жыл бұрын
​@@Slop_Dogg Nah not even that recent. It was a random event in Skyrim when bandits dressed in Legion or storm cloak armour try to tax you while still standing over naked soldier's bodies
@user-bt7ul4sq9j
@user-bt7ul4sq9j Жыл бұрын
​@@RedTigerDragoonIt's even older than that. There was a similar hoax/robbery incident in Fallout 3 as well, at the Anchorage War Memorial.
@BustyCatbot
@BustyCatbot Жыл бұрын
I still find it funny that even now, they still haven't fixed enemies not realizing they're dead until half a second after you kill them.
@hariman7727
@hariman7727 Жыл бұрын
They might not be able to fix that due to server lag.
@BustyCatbot
@BustyCatbot Жыл бұрын
​@@hariman7727 You say that as if thousands of other games haven't perfected MMO-esque multiplayer with minimal apparent lag, and this is with a 24 player count.
@hariman7727
@hariman7727 Жыл бұрын
@@BustyCatbot that makes me wonder if the net code is that bad.
@TheSlammurai
@TheSlammurai Жыл бұрын
@@BustyCatbot Yes, but thousands of other games who HAVE perfected MMO-esque multiplayer with minimal apparent lag weren't made by Bethesda, who are so incompetent they couldn't touch air if they walked outside.
@BustyCatbot
@BustyCatbot Жыл бұрын
@@TheSlammurai Bethesda is like an old engineer who just keeps using their machining tools they've had since the 50s, sure they get the job done, but everything comes out janky and barely held together.
@belhariry
@belhariry Жыл бұрын
Bethesda is like that chef that has access to world class ingredients but can't make a decent omelet to save his life because he burns/overcooks everything
@Edax_Royeaux
@Edax_Royeaux Жыл бұрын
And their excuse if that it's up to the customer to cook up their own fun.
@zbynektrajer2735
@zbynektrajer2735 Жыл бұрын
More like undercooks. Some more time would probably helped during the development.
@sicksock435446
@sicksock435446 Жыл бұрын
Some people would have a lot of fun eating it. If you just forced yourself to eat it you might enjoy it too.
@trentn1127
@trentn1127 Жыл бұрын
@@zbynektrajer2735 We’ll have to see if that holds true with TES VI but honestly I don’t have high expectations
@ryszakowy
@ryszakowy Жыл бұрын
that's the perfect comparison i ever heard.... it's like hell's kitchen episode bethesda undercooks the game gamer chef ramsay checks and sees it's raw and understandably is angry bethesda grabs the raw game and puts it on fire again also bethesda burns the fuck out of the game making it even worse so it looks ready gamer ramsay checks again and under surface layer that is bruned to shit is still raw game gamer ramsay starts cursing and calls bethesda a bunch of incompetent retards bethesda abandons the game and puts a next one on fire AND BURNS IT TO HELL COMPLETELY gamer ramsay throws the game at bethesda and yells at them to fuck off upstairs and take off their jacket that's exactly what was happenning time and again after oblivion
@Mastergrunt9dawg
@Mastergrunt9dawg Жыл бұрын
"Hold on, the fucking government is on my lawn..." *machinegun noises*
@AuspexAO
@AuspexAO Жыл бұрын
"Did you get anything good?" "It fell through the map" This entire exchange may as well have been the review.
@romulusnuma116
@romulusnuma116 Жыл бұрын
It's remarkable that all conflicts after the main quest is just do you help the raiders or literally anyone else because that would obviously be better then helping raiders?
@synth-wave_steve
@synth-wave_steve Жыл бұрын
Why does this game try to defend raiders so much?
@romulusnuma116
@romulusnuma116 Жыл бұрын
@Samuel Hajdecki I can only assume the writers thought they had a winner with their quirky raider characters so wanted push that as much as possible
@SpaceKingofSpace
@SpaceKingofSpace Жыл бұрын
@@romulusnuma116 "Play as a Raider" is a thing fans have always asked for and that Bethesda seems to have homed in on as a fan demand. The Pit had you doing more raidery things, Fallout 4 had Nuka World as a whole DLC, and now 76 tries to incorporate raider dynamics into most of the stories. I get the feeling they simply believe "the fans want raider content, so let's add Raiders." Not "lets write Raider characters," or "lets add raider mechanics," just "lets add Raiders" and slapping their usual writing tropes ontop of the aesthetics of raiders, which is why they all kind of feel like any old settlement or faction character, just in spiky armour. Every other faction has just as many unkillable characters, but they don't promote as many red flags as raiders, so when you try to kill them you get the issues as if you had tried to kill any faction essentials.
@6661313
@6661313 Жыл бұрын
@@SpaceKingofSpace 'play as a raider" is something we had long before bethesda ever got the rights and fucked up every fallout game they developed, the difference is in bethesda developed ones and 76 in particular they made the raider factions you could join as bland and weak as possible to not offend censors in their chase for money.
@gizoginjr
@gizoginjr Жыл бұрын
@@SpaceKingofSpace And every time they have tried to add "play as a raider" mechanics, they have been awful.
@Neighbour249
@Neighbour249 Жыл бұрын
Regarding the narrative of the game being fixed, it wouldnt surprise me at all if they hired a PR firm to spread it. It's exactly the kind of thing they'd do.
@PlebNC
@PlebNC Жыл бұрын
Wouldn't need to. When the quality bar is at rock bottom the only way is up.
@Edax_Royeaux
@Edax_Royeaux Жыл бұрын
Just like when they gave themselves 5 star reviews in their merchandise store before the items were even for sale. Bethesda is the gold standard for a corrupt company.
@punlshedsnake8210
@punlshedsnake8210 Жыл бұрын
@@deanjustdean7818 They forgot to give the "rock bottom" a hitbox so the bar clipped through it
@lucasramey6427
@lucasramey6427 Жыл бұрын
​@@deanjustdean7818 they've dug their hole they can dig it deeper
@fourcrippledhorses
@fourcrippledhorses Жыл бұрын
this is the kind of thing any game company would do. pretty naive to pretend it's just bethesda. feels like blizzard are the only ones who think they can fix it by going 'nuh uh' instead of hiring shi... i mean endearing fans
@iamdivan7368
@iamdivan7368 Жыл бұрын
Imagine if in Outer Wilds they would release DLC in which they add a living breathing Nomai on every planet, just sitting here like a tourist attraction and ready to talk to you
@jacksobrooks
@jacksobrooks Жыл бұрын
That's hilarious.
@Jeg1041
@Jeg1041 Жыл бұрын
I care more about Pye and Poke than I do about any Bethesda NPC
@RougeMephilesClone
@RougeMephilesClone Жыл бұрын
The way Outer Wilds in general managed its NPCs made 'em feel more special than anything in any Bethesda game. You meet anyone farther out than your home planet's moon, and you feel like you just found buried treasure. It's a jaw drop every time, especially _that_ one, and *especially **_that_** one.*
@Marvin12Mcm
@Marvin12Mcm Жыл бұрын
I always figured the farmer complaining about people claiming to be part of the brotherhood and robbing him was a reference to the random encounter brotherhood of buck where 3 NPCs, Barnaby, Barry, and Buck, asking for "donations"
@doggiethepug
@doggiethepug Жыл бұрын
Because it is and the creator of this video didn't stumble upon the random encounter or do research and look it up online.
@samiesta9996
@samiesta9996 Жыл бұрын
​@@doggiethepug It is such an obscure reference that I don't blame him. Also, there aren't many good resources to research FO76's references and random encounters. Even the wiki is very incomplete.
@luclin92
@luclin92 Жыл бұрын
Wait that is a encounter? I have not seen that one. Like at all🤣
@6661313
@6661313 Жыл бұрын
@@luclin92 just fast travel to random encounter locations, walk up, and server hop/repeat, not all random encounters will spawn in every random encounter area though, but one of the places for that one i think is the surface exit of Charly nuke launch site
@boba3597
@boba3597 Жыл бұрын
I feel like an mmo fallout should have you choose a faction to join from character creation, BoS, Enclave, Khans, whatever you want, and basically do what WoW and SWTOR does where players of the opposite faction can pvp etc. This would also mean different starting locations
@ZorotheGallade
@ZorotheGallade Жыл бұрын
But that would require Bethesda writers to not only write multiple questlines depending on which faction is joined, but also ensure to balance them so that no player faction has an advantage over others. And we all know Bethesda always follows the "Join every faction, do every quest" mentality.
@trustytrest
@trustytrest 8 ай бұрын
Mandatory PVP is the best way to make sure any game is dead in the water. This ain't the early 90s anymore when people weren't sure how to act so they were cautious about infighting. Nowadays all that "feature" will do is encourage griefers to exploit the game so they almost always win. You don't get "epic and fair duels" or "grand battles", just griefers wanting to bully all the players trying to do PvE. It also means it's next to impossible to have any storyline, unless it'a all in instanced zones where pvp can't happen. You'd be better off having a New Vegas kind of hub area, where a bunch of factions just so happen to end up for drinks and gambling and the like. Where they have a pretty good reason to intermingle and NOT blow each others' heads off. Only in dedicated PvP areas would that be a thing, and otherwise the factions are busy focused on their own interests to openly war on each other every chance they get.
@Paul_Vaughn
@Paul_Vaughn 7 ай бұрын
@@trustytrest I like this angle better. I think Hypothetical Better 76 starts off with you leaving the 76 vault, finding the remnants of other factions and the Scorched, and wondering what the hell happened. You do the main quest, figure out what part each faction had to play in fighting the Scorched, with little breadcrumbs here and there that there were a shitload more people than there are Scorched; if that's the case, where did they all go? Once you get to the Brotherhood end quest, before you fight the Scorched, you find a power-armored body that is key to finding a code/shutting something off/some other excuse to interact with it. Body falls out, search the body, find a note saying "Hey, go to Greenbriar. We've found a vault entrance to it that wasn't sealed shut, and we've managed to gain control over the terminal that controls it. Make sure you've got your dog tags, or the Gutsys outfront won't be able to identify you." From there, you go to the Greenbriar estate, where the US government would've held out in a nuclear war.... if it didn't end so soon. Since most got stuck in DC traffic, the place seems like a good place to go to maybe find authorization for a weapon to help fight The Scorched, and maybe find Brotherhood remnants there if you're lucky. Once you get to the Greenbriar Vault, if you don't have an ID tag, the Gutsys taser you and throw you back outside the dungeon. If you do have an ID tag (from Taggerty's questline or from getting that one dead's Brotherhood tags), they welcome the new "Private" into the Brotherhood Bunker. From there, you see real-ass people for the first time in forever. A Knight in a gas mask is watching the door, and almost shits himself to see a real-ass person come through. He scans you for Scorched infection, believes you're clear, and brings you to a Haz-Mat Scribe nearby to get a medical checkup. The scribe looks you over, confirms you're clear, and denotes that you have a remarkable resistance to the plague. Where most would die in days after exposure, your cells show remarkable resistance to the pathogen; the scribe gives you about a year or so before you die. They take a blood sample, and scurry off to a lab. From there, you're brought before Head Paladin So'n'so, who's taken over after Taggerty gave her life to cover their retreat into the bunker. He tells you that most of Greenbriar remains unmapped, and progress is slow going because they lack the power armor and gas masks to deal with any scorched or any other threats that might pop up. If you and probably your Vault buddies are resistant, he figures, you'd be able to do what we can't do and go in blind. He sends you on a mission to the other side of the Vault; they've sealed a door near where they think Scorched are, and aren't keen on letting them know they're here... but if you can clear them out, there's supposedly some Macguffin they need on the other side. You go through the door, find the Free States/Responders/Raiders, and eventually go through a quest chain to negotiate an uneasy truce between the factions. Brotherhood believe that only they can fight the Scorched, you can point out that the Responders were doing a pretty good job as well, and have an inoculation against the plague in the works that your blood will probably make 100% effective. Free States believe that everyone else should leave, and if they don't, we all just need to shut the hell up and live in the bunker forever. You can point out that the Raiders chose a similar path, and suffered a worse fate at Top of the World; fighting the plague is the only option, and the Free States would have a valuable role in New Virginia since they're Scorched detection tech is 100% effective, instead of the Raider's 50%, Responders 75%, and Brotherhood's 90%. The Raiders (who I'm re-tooling as vacationing teenagers with 25 years of arrested development), throw out some pseudo-philosophical bullshit about the strong being rightful owners of all, and that if the other factions want to work with them, they need to pledge fealty to the Raiders. You can point out that it did them a ton of good the last time, and that if they want to die again, you're ready to put a bullet in em. (You later find out that all the Raider corpses were their parents, who died either trying to get them to the bunker or fighting off a large Scorched assault at Top of the World.) The Responders are the easiest to persuade; they just want everyone to get along so they can end the Scorched plague and prosecute the raiders for killing their leader after he tried to make peace. You tell them the Brotherhood, the Free States, and the Raiders are working together-ish, they're automatically onboard. From there, all the factions put people in the GB Bunker's central area: a replica of the Senate/House of Representatives (whichever gives more space), and start the process of rallying for fighting the Scorched. From there, you do the same process of finding the nukes and nuking the Scorched Beast. Once you report that back, all the factions celebrate. From there, you're told it's going to take a year or so for most of the Scorched to die out, but they'll give you radiant quests to bring back supplies/setup beacons/do other questwork while they get everyone inoculated and ready to return to the surface. 1 year later, Wastelanders drops, and some of the Greenbriar NPCs show up in the broader world while the GB bunker becomes a sort-of quest hub. EDIT: Also, to expand a little bit on the Raiders: they're 40 year olds who act like teens cause they were spoiled pre-war kids, and their parents were a mix of old money and self-made men. The old money's "let the butlers handle it" ways quickly die out as the self-made men whip them into shape as farmers, guards, and other less-intensive tasks while they go out and take what they need to survive. The kids, not understanding that this is a last-ditch effort to keep them alive, see their moms and dads murdering and killing as a good thing, since they get to eat the finest canned steak and drink boxed wine. When the Scorched show up, they double down on it; they *deserve* the Greenbriar Bunker since their parents fought for them to have it. (Could even have it so that they locked their parents out when they got into it, with a flimsy excuse of "they could have been Scorched already"). Turn them less into annoying psychopaths and more into annoying, but sympathetic incompetent Peter Pan larpers. Maybe a few DLCs down the line, you get to choose where the faction goes: do you tell em they need to literally grow up, or do you let em keep living their pirate cove delusions?
@pablo.gonzales945
@pablo.gonzales945 Жыл бұрын
35:31 when I was playing through steal Dawn this part pissed me off so much. It almost feels like the raiders are taunting you with their essential tags 💀
@matrix3509
@matrix3509 Жыл бұрын
Bethesda is no stranger to making their essential NPCs utterly insufferable. See: the entirety of Little Lamplight, Maven Black-Briar, too many others to name.
@SwampGreen14
@SwampGreen14 Жыл бұрын
@@matrix3509 Don‘t forget Braith, that little shit
@the_last_ballad
@the_last_ballad Жыл бұрын
​@@matrix3509 Delphine. You can't even tell her no for some dumb reason, all you can do is ghost her.
@Eamil
@Eamil Жыл бұрын
Patrician: "Towards the end of my playthrough I was using the E key to jump-" Me: "Huh, like Morrowind." Patrician: "-like this was Morrowind." Me: *fistbump*
@alexanderrahl7034
@alexanderrahl7034 Жыл бұрын
So far, playing with this girl I'm seeing, the only quest line I've actually liked, been invested in, and cared about. Has been the one about the astronaut. Because that's interesting. Someone who was up in space, missed the war, lands in West Virginia, wakes up and finds the world she knew is gone. Compelling stuff. She has memories of how things were before, and has to adjust to the world as it is now. There's no huge stakes that I know of yet. Nothing for me to say "well, this doesn't fucking matter because the rest of the games don't mention it" because it's a personal story, not a grand one. And it's the only one I liked lol
@TheOfficialButthead
@TheOfficialButthead Жыл бұрын
Yeah it's a good concept, sad that got the boring fallout 76 style quest line where all you do are 10 fetch quests for an hour or 2 then you're done. Also they had flirt dialogue options with her too and it was really embarrassing
@daralenoach
@daralenoach Жыл бұрын
Basically the plot of the original Planet of the Apes. But yeah it's a compelling low-stakes story with the potential to be interesting.
@courier8365
@courier8365 Жыл бұрын
Yeah I was kinda hoping to hear what Patrician had to say about that but I guess he missed it
@6661313
@6661313 Жыл бұрын
Misteress of Mysteries might be one of the better ones, and even that is kinda garbage
@doughboywhine
@doughboywhine Жыл бұрын
I didn't find it that interesting
@valthorix7347
@valthorix7347 Жыл бұрын
I would weep tears of joy to watch a 14 hour long video of you ripping gta online to shreds. I played that game from 2018-2022 for over 2000 hours and can confidently say that I've never felt more betrayed by a piece of software. That game was my favorite online experience even with the absolute dogshit community it spawned, but it just kept getting worse and worse with shit never being fixed and less and less redeemable things and it just got to a point when I quit out of disgust
@wills5482
@wills5482 Жыл бұрын
Just mod some billions like I did and have fun dabbing on everybody with all the OP vehicles
@wickedgoodmonsta
@wickedgoodmonsta Жыл бұрын
seconded. one of the greatest games at their disposal and they continually shit on the player base. absolutely blows my mind how little gta is mentioned when talking about predatory practices
@genesisfan029
@genesisfan029 Жыл бұрын
And yet you still put over 2000 hours into it knowing it was shit. What does that say about you?
@RafaelSantos-pi8py
@RafaelSantos-pi8py Жыл бұрын
Adding the opressor MK2 to GTA5 online was a great idea. Prove me wrong.
@Dufoth
@Dufoth Жыл бұрын
My friend and I have the worst time trying to play together in GTA. Horrible game
@GhostOfSnuffles
@GhostOfSnuffles Жыл бұрын
Whoever is responsible for making landscapes and biomes at Bethesda needs a raise, everyone else on the dev team needs to be fired.
@anon1963
@anon1963 Жыл бұрын
Devs have nothing to do with it, it's management. They need to be fired.
@balmorrablue3130
@balmorrablue3130 Жыл бұрын
@@anon1963devs still made this shit game
@Chopstorm.
@Chopstorm. Жыл бұрын
​@anon1963 I'm not so sure. When the writing is consistently bad for over 10 years, are you _really_ going to say it's all management's fault? I mean, I guess it is since they don't fire the awful writers, but I don't think that's the point you're arguing.
@mango_raider4116
@mango_raider4116 11 ай бұрын
​@@Chopstorm.No point in arguing with "muh devs can never be wrong" people
@arisumego
@arisumego 11 ай бұрын
@@mango_raider4116this
@mohabexpert123
@mohabexpert123 10 ай бұрын
48:56 you hear dark elves. I hear Joshua Graham
@spiffyhat8631
@spiffyhat8631 Жыл бұрын
1:01:36 "Get anything good out of that?" "Fell through the map :/" What an amazingly poetic end to this series lmao
@vexile1239
@vexile1239 9 ай бұрын
Very classic bugthesda
@pamdaniels7861
@pamdaniels7861 Жыл бұрын
i genuinely have been loving these videos. it fills me with a seething hatred for bethesda.
@Tony_Cardoza
@Tony_Cardoza Жыл бұрын
And they deserve it. All of it and more.
@eeebee6166
@eeebee6166 Жыл бұрын
For me it’s justification. Instead of 1 or 2 new fallouts, we got this fucking garbage. Todd Coward and lying Pete Hines need to be held to account for this
@FusionTechCinema
@FusionTechCinema Жыл бұрын
Bethesda also made Skyrim show some respect
@SeraSmiles
@SeraSmiles Жыл бұрын
@@FusionTechCinema lol
@vostyok6030
@vostyok6030 Жыл бұрын
Read up what Zenimax did to Redfall. Starfield is going to tank and you can pin this comment if you don't believe me.
@tarabelle7716
@tarabelle7716 Жыл бұрын
Sidenote: Noita (which took me ~200 hours to finally beat) has a ~11/12% completion rate. Just a funny comparison
@Cocc0nuttt0
@Cocc0nuttt0 Жыл бұрын
the difference is that it's fun no matter how many times you get 1shot by vittuperkele
@tarabelle7716
@tarabelle7716 Жыл бұрын
@@Cocc0nuttt0 "killed by freezing vapor" all washes away.. like the rain...
@monody
@monody Жыл бұрын
Well, to answer that question at 1:05:55, The game was for a portfolio piece. They made it in the ramp up to their acquisition, in no small part to demonstrate a product with residual income alongside ESO. Functionally, padding to value the company better.
@Izithel
@Izithel Жыл бұрын
And that same corporate bullshit resulted in Arkane Studios being forced to make generic looter-shooter Redfall.
@basedsneedclave175
@basedsneedclave175 Жыл бұрын
Bethesda must think they will sell 0 copies without the metal people, green people and big lizards.
@awkwardGardener
@awkwardGardener Жыл бұрын
I love how the Hellstorm Launchers are supposedly super fuckin dangerous experimental weapons but they're actually out right worse than the regular ass Missile launcher in almost every way but weight and are really just kind of mediocre if you use any of the amazing special damage types since those damage types scale really weirdly with two shot (Which is typically the meta primary effect for explosive weapons).
@TheOfficialButthead
@TheOfficialButthead Жыл бұрын
Explosive weapons have just always been kinda meh in fallout games, especially 76
@awkwardGardener
@awkwardGardener Жыл бұрын
@@TheOfficialButthead Nah, gamer. Two Shot auto and missile launchers really do some work in 76, cause the explosion damage is still doubled even after Two Shot was nerfed for everything else.
@TannerLindberg
@TannerLindberg Жыл бұрын
​@@TheOfficialButthead what? Explosive was op in fo4 and is apart of several meta builds in 76
@TannerLindberg
@TannerLindberg Жыл бұрын
In fact when they could drop explosive gattling lasers were (and still are) the best things in the game. Still fetching a high price in second hand markets lol
@awkwardGardener
@awkwardGardener Жыл бұрын
@@TannerLindberg They're not in the gamer anymore, gamer. Bethesda killed legacies entirely by implementing a complex system that detects and deletes effects that shouldn't be on certain guns instead of just fixing/balancing them
@dikasmusha6194
@dikasmusha6194 Жыл бұрын
7/10 is too merciful. Bethesda turned Fallout into Borderlands-tier slop.
@americankid7782
@americankid7782 Жыл бұрын
Bro borderlands used to be good. Makes me sad to see it nowadays
@AllyMonsters
@AllyMonsters Жыл бұрын
the 7 out of 10 in a dig on ign and gamespot.
@DigitalApex
@DigitalApex Жыл бұрын
"We are the Encla--" "I HAVE NUCLEAR WEAP--"
@pablo.gonzales945
@pablo.gonzales945 Жыл бұрын
This video really reminded me how much steal Dawn/reign pissed me off. I hated how after the paladin ruined everything it’s just like “lol forget about that green skin time”
@TwinSteel
@TwinSteel 11 ай бұрын
It makes me more and more sad that the Fallout world is populated with the same super mutants, death claws and factions from the first game - it would be so fun to see region specific creatures, factions and lore but instead it’s all the same with worse and worse stories to tell
@ytuser19
@ytuser19 Жыл бұрын
It's amazing how many "essential" characters are in Bethesda games.
@BWMagus
@BWMagus Жыл бұрын
Newer ones. In Morrowind, you could lock your playthrough entirely, although they would at least tell you that you did so.
@joejoemyo
@joejoemyo Жыл бұрын
As far as I remember, VLF should be able to transmit even across continents. That transmitter could have had a hand in rebuilding the world. Bethesda obviously couldn't allow this because other games need to happen, and it's REALLY telling that instead of, say, writing a villain who wants to destroy this, they have a random impulsive woman "break" it. And I'm expected to believe nobody ever tried to repair it SMH my head
@imnotdwdym
@imnotdwdym Жыл бұрын
Side note, the "Server Maintenance shutdowns" aren't actual Maintenance, they just shut down lobbies when only 2-3 players are in them. Most likely to counter farming seeing as you can buy fallout first and have lobbies for yourself to farm workshops that spawn Fusion Cores.
@Patrician
@Patrician Жыл бұрын
You can see me immediately try to rejoin a new server and having it fail
@imnotdwdym
@imnotdwdym Жыл бұрын
@@Patrician Maybe this was actually one of the rare instances there actually was one. But in 99% of cases it actually is just an indication that they're shutting down the lobby.
@elitereptilian200
@elitereptilian200 Жыл бұрын
@@imnotdwdym uhm.. you clearly have no clue what you're talking about.. never have I been able to login to any server before the maintenance is over, neither has anyone else.. there is so much legitimate critisism to put on bethesda and fallout76 I have no clue why you are trying to make one out of a lie or pure ignorance..
@vulpes133
@vulpes133 Жыл бұрын
@@elitereptilian200 I don't know about you, but I've constantly been able to avoid the maintenance by just hopping into another server that was more populated.
@TheTundraTerror
@TheTundraTerror Жыл бұрын
Why the hell would they care about you farming Fusion Cores when you can't even bring them back to public servers?
@Eamil
@Eamil Жыл бұрын
Having finished the video, I have to say this: The identity crisis that you describe at around 1:06:00 is a huge part of why I never played this game to begin with. As a fan of both Fallout and Conan Exiles, when Fallout 76 was announced I was excited for about five minutes. When we got more information and found out that there would be no privately hosted servers and no permanence to building, and instead you'd get a little CAMP that would disappear when you log out and reappear on whatever server you get randomly assigned to when you log back in, my hype was killed stone dead. From the very start, this game was trying to be both a single-player Fallout game and a multiplayer survival game, and it does neither well, and I don't think it's capable of being made to do the survival game aspect well because the reasons it fails at that are foundational to the game design. So that leaves a fairly superficial multiplayer aspect to be carried by the story. And you've thoroughly explained why the story fails to do that.
@GW2_Live
@GW2_Live 8 ай бұрын
I think the most annoying thing about 76 is the fact that the cool world is wasted on a bad game. I wouldn't even mind if they made a single player fallout on this map
@Kilesa
@Kilesa Жыл бұрын
This is it. This will be the 76 hour video we've been waiting for.
@the_neuron
@the_neuron Жыл бұрын
This is it Luigi
@justincider8892
@justincider8892 5 ай бұрын
Watching you reference Starfield and your hopes now that we all know what happened with Starfield is just hilarious to me.
@shadowdogg0074
@shadowdogg0074 Жыл бұрын
I'm so sad this series is ending its been a great start to my weekend
@christopherjones7191
@christopherjones7191 Жыл бұрын
yup, I will miss these 4 videos than 76
@porklift6902
@porklift6902 Жыл бұрын
The dialogue from Shawn Hockman on the fake BoS members robbing him (I think) is supposed to reference a random encounter where 2 men in power armor posing as BoS members try to do the same to you.
@probablythedm1669
@probablythedm1669 Жыл бұрын
That... doesn't make it any better.
@danielgusarov2020
@danielgusarov2020 Жыл бұрын
This is the first time I powered through a 4 hour youtube video. Usually these are literally 90% filler, very happy to have found something that isn't
@nothingoutofnothing5955
@nothingoutofnothing5955 Жыл бұрын
Next stop is the 24hr video he made on skyrim
@thomashightower7881
@thomashightower7881 Жыл бұрын
His videos over the games in the elder scrolls series are very good, with little to no fat on them
@imtheparty12
@imtheparty12 Жыл бұрын
As others said, his videos are never filled with any empty content. As he says in the beginning of his Oblivion video (which is 12 hours long), they are exactly as long as they need to be.
@erwinthedodo9205
@erwinthedodo9205 Жыл бұрын
​@@nothingoutofnothing5955 he WHAT
@danielgusarov2020
@danielgusarov2020 Жыл бұрын
@@Wolf_ManJack Issue is that literally nobody cares for rambling besides the person doing it. I don't mind people who spend their time to make pointless 20h pieces about topics they're invested in but I'm never going to watch that content, because it's 90% pointless and 100% a waste of my time. This guy is one of the select few that have the justification to make their videos this long. Also why would I care for content that isn't interesting and is made primarily for the person who made it? What help is there in "acknowledging" them and their effort, when it's not directed at me? Also the only content in a video that isn't interesting is the content that's besides the point, which is literally what filler is. Edit: I tried reading this back and realized that I might be too drunk, if you care for understanding this enough just reply and I'll answer when sober.
@Bladezeromus
@Bladezeromus Жыл бұрын
Wait... so Bethesda nerfed 2 shot explosive weapons into the ground... then gives you one as a quest reward? What a joke.
@Dampy.69
@Dampy.69 10 ай бұрын
When Interplay and Black Isle created Fallout they meant for it to grow with each iteration, building on top of what was previously established. Then Bethesda comes along and makes a "sequel" that's creatively bankrupt trying to rehash what existed before. Xbox Game Studios needs to transfer the IP from Bethesda to either inXile or Obsidian. I don't see a future for this franchise without it's original creators.
@MisterKerr
@MisterKerr Жыл бұрын
That ending, though, where you two try to do a bit of roleplay, but the game a) spawns a generic distracting enemy, b) bugs out one of your inventories, c) Bethesda clips Esbern right through the chair, and d) immediately respawns him after death with no consequences, I think says all that anyone needs to know about Fallout 76.
@kernelnumbr4810
@kernelnumbr4810 Жыл бұрын
Oh btw,the settlement quest is essentially Preston’s Another Settlement Needs Your Help,considering Rahami says that a settlement needs our help in that mission
@betheguy_posts
@betheguy_posts Жыл бұрын
Ah shit. Starfield is gonna bomb, isn't it?
@GypsyVisuals
@GypsyVisuals Жыл бұрын
Great video series. You've saved me from an urge I had to check out this dumpster fire for myself. I feel like you gave them a fair review here, it's sad to yet again see that Bethesda has no idea what makes the art assets they stick together in a world fun or interesting.
@Rehteal
@Rehteal Жыл бұрын
To answer the question about a DLC that hated its original plotline, that would be the Duke Nuken Forever DLC.
@roxbox6721
@roxbox6721 Жыл бұрын
5:34 I believe there is an error here; In the game, there is a random encounter you can have where a group of NPCs who are pretending to be BoS "ask" for donations to "the cause". If you have the BoS quest line done from the main story, you can call them out by pointing out that their uniforms aren't up to BoS regulations.
@BaconMinion
@BaconMinion Жыл бұрын
The whole quick tempered female character thing is either an amazing piss take on the whole "boss bitch" thing that's been creeping into media for years now... or somebody is just mask off putting that into the game. The best parody is not knowing that it's meant to be parody, but then again, nobody at Bethesda knows how to do actual parody... so I have to believe they're doing this intentionally to meet current media standards that everybody actually hates.
@zoltanz288
@zoltanz288 8 ай бұрын
methesda is a parody.
@TravJam317
@TravJam317 Жыл бұрын
"Please don't say that was what killed him. Oh, I wasn't supposed to say that part out loud." Genuinely LOLed hard at that part. Shawn Hockman could have run into a group cosplaying BOS, but he's not talking about 76ers (IMO). There is a random encounter where you run into 3 NPCs who claim their BOS and they want you to basically pay their toll. That's the only thing I've run across in-game that references what he's talking about.
@PlebNC
@PlebNC Жыл бұрын
Virgin Fallout video essays: 1 hour video on Fallout New Vegas. Chad Fallout video essays: 4 hours on Fallout 76.
@AlphaKnight-hg2jq
@AlphaKnight-hg2jq Жыл бұрын
Why are they painted like fo4 bos, theres literally 0 reason for it "lets bring back the brotherhood again but this time its the west coast brotherhood so lets have them wear t51 but that might confuse the players so lets paint them like the fo4 brotherhood so they know who they are" I guarantee this was the exact thought process
@TannerLindberg
@TannerLindberg Жыл бұрын
Honestly you might not be far off tbh i can totally see a jaded designer saying that. Or a new one who only has his job via a degree doing it for brand consistency reasons even if it doesnt make sense.
@AlphaKnight-hg2jq
@AlphaKnight-hg2jq Жыл бұрын
@@TannerLindberg is consistency too much to ask for? Its literally all that we want Just make YOUR FUCKING GAME MAKE SENSE BESTHESDA, Y DO U DO THIS????
@Mirthful_Midori
@Mirthful_Midori Жыл бұрын
They also have them doing that lame "ad victorium" thing, even though that pretentious Latin speaking nonsense was never a thing prior to Fallout 4's BoS. Bethesda will do whatever they think will be recognizable, regardless of lore or just plain consistent writing.
@AlphaKnight-hg2jq
@AlphaKnight-hg2jq Жыл бұрын
@@Mirthful_Midori i like Ad Victorium because shouting stuff in latin while killing your enemies is cool but having them say it is just stupid
@Mirthful_Midori
@Mirthful_Midori Жыл бұрын
@@AlphaKnight-hg2jq The funny thing is it really shows the difference between how Bethesda and Obsidian wrote. The Legion uses Latin to show that they think they're smart, but the BoS uses Latin because Bethesda thinks it makes the BoS look smart. Both groups wind up looking a bit pretentious, but that's deliberate with the Legion.
@Liam-B
@Liam-B 6 ай бұрын
This meager attempt at Skinnerian design is truely artless and devoid of soul.
@Liam-B
@Liam-B 6 ай бұрын
The game I mean. Love the anylises.
@trustytrest
@trustytrest 8 ай бұрын
The "need" for super mutants and Brotherhood of Steel is ridiculous. The former aren't even a faction nor characters anymore. Just barbarian orcs with a different name. You could easily just have a Buff Scorched or whatever that fulfills the same role. There is zero STORY need for super mutants to exist at all here. The Brotherhood of Steel is even more pathetic. "They have to be here because they're the icon of the series!!!" when they really weren't until FO3 shoved em into the spotlight. Even then, it is not the BROTHERHOOD that is the icon, but rather the Power Armor itself. And you do not need the Brotherhood to have Power Armor! They did not invent it nor do they have a monopoly on it. Especially not this early in the wasteland. Just go create a Power Armor faction and make them be a bootleg brotherhood that you can twist and mould into the knightly faction Bethesda wants their BoS to be. Hell, you can give both of those groups basically the same backstory. The Super Scorched are just heavily mutated people, like Super Mutants but not strapped to their lore. The Power Armor Knights are just military veteran survivors that feel the need to keep military supplies, especially weapons and Power Armor, to themselves in fear that any ragtag survivor group getting their hands on em will just become overpowered raiders. There, now you have your not-Super Mutants which you can give your own design variants to instead of making em all the same, and you have your Power Armor goody-two-shoes who see themselves as protecting the wasteland from both monsters abd from humans themselves. You have all the iconography without having to retcon lore and shove in the same groups from FO1 all the way back in the 90s. You also have actual room for creativity now. It's not really creative ideas on their own, but you can make all these new story decisions and new designs without worrying how it will affect FO3 and 4's stories.
@prikoker
@prikoker Жыл бұрын
i love the ending and the way you two just sat around and talked, like two seasoned scarred adventurers returning after a life ruining journey, and the clock began to tick down something so deeply somber about this feeling of acceptance, being through hell and back and going through it all, and realizing that yeah, its all over now thank you for the great dissection work
@JD-rz5mo
@JD-rz5mo Жыл бұрын
The NPC talking about being robbed by the Brotherhood of Steel isn't referencing the people from Vault 76, it's referencing a random event that can appear where a group of raiders pretend to be the Brotherhood of Steel to rob people. I've encountered it before in the limited time I played the game, but I don't really see people mention it often. You could easily miss the encounter entirely due to all the RNG involved in actually seeing them.
@solomonharvey-batten8974
@solomonharvey-batten8974 Жыл бұрын
If I were teaching game design, I’d probably be putting some of your key points into lesson plans.
@amannamedsquid313
@amannamedsquid313 Жыл бұрын
Watching this whole series really makes me want to play Morrowind and New Vegas again.
@breendart134
@breendart134 Жыл бұрын
Saaaaame. But I'm traveling so I won't be able to lose my life to Morrowind and New Vegas quite yet, lol
@Regulith
@Regulith Жыл бұрын
about 80% of the way through this video I actually started the process of installing Tale of Two Wastelands for the first time, lmao.
@PlebNC
@PlebNC Жыл бұрын
Blackburn's VA also voiced Joshua Graham in Fallout New Vegas. I remember Blackburn has a line vaguely like that "I take no pleasure in killing but god's work blah blah" meme line that might be a reference to that.
@Slender_Man_186
@Slender_Man_186 Жыл бұрын
“God can’t be expected to do all of the work”
@hansmoleman2666
@hansmoleman2666 Жыл бұрын
Even Tactics handles a brotherhood offshoot better, and Bethesda uses the elements setup there in both F3 and F4 while trying to simultaneously say its non canon, not that that matters I mean, if any one cares about Fallout canonicity you’d be smart to ignore anything Bethesda puts out.
@DarkAbilex
@DarkAbilex Жыл бұрын
These were the first four videos I’ve ever seen from you. I enjoy lore videos and retrospective takes on games Like this looking at the game or series as a whole. Thanks for your hard work, I’m sorry for your suffering. May you take pride in knowing me and many more subscribed and enjoyed your videos.
@TravisTraps
@TravisTraps Жыл бұрын
This is my story too, first time here, loved the series. And subbed up
@Empyrean55
@Empyrean55 Жыл бұрын
Check out his morrowind/oblivion and skyrim reviews too!
@TravisTraps
@TravisTraps Жыл бұрын
@@Empyrean55 will do!!
@punlshedsnake8210
@punlshedsnake8210 Жыл бұрын
As many problems as the game has, I appreciate that borderlands 3 lets you freely enable/disable any seasonal events, so you can experience all the seasonal content, much of which is pretty good, without having to wait potentially almost a year.
@Patrician
@Patrician Жыл бұрын
That sounds like a good way to preserve that content for future players. One more reason to opt for 76 being a co-op shooter instead of a survival pseudo-MMO
@ninthshade7375
@ninthshade7375 Жыл бұрын
The clock ticking down to the server closing at the end of the fourth and final part of this series is perfect. I loved this series, will definitely check out more of you & Private's stuff. Thank you.
@ALoreMiles
@ALoreMiles Жыл бұрын
Hey PTV, amazing work as always! This collab makes me very happy. You are of the two people who brought me into the long form analysis videos. The other one being NeverKnowsBest, whose last video got demonetized, and his other channel deleted. I'm sure your YT circles are already buzzing about this, but a few more voices can't hurt, right? Cheers and keep up the great work, as always!
@elitereptilian200
@elitereptilian200 Жыл бұрын
This was a bloody excellent & magnificent video critique series about a truly a dissappointing and mediocre game.. the fortitude it had to require to get this done cannot be underestimated!! Thank you mate!! And now that it is out on its entirety, I'm gonna watch it all again from the beginning..
@Luunyby
@Luunyby 8 ай бұрын
Rewatching this and that Starfield comment kinda hits different
@fartface8918
@fartface8918 Жыл бұрын
These videos have been a small comfort at work over these past few weeks of deep sickness I have been enduring, thank you
@audiosurfarchive
@audiosurfarchive Жыл бұрын
Pat & Sesh 4EVA. Y'all are seriously talented as a duo. The riffing / "therapy" session at the end just highlights that. Excellent series.
@sureokk
@sureokk Жыл бұрын
The fact that they can't make the weather consistent
@stevestevenson3791
@stevestevenson3791 7 ай бұрын
Every time he mentions the words "Starfield" and "Hopefully" together, I instinctively shake my head. We had such hope for that game, didn't we?
@timcronic2341
@timcronic2341 Жыл бұрын
I feel the use of nuclear weapons in 76 still, all these years later, symbolizes why I won’t ever touch it as an avid fallout fan. It reveals a fundamental failure to understand the messages and theming of Fallout as a setting and world, how nuclear weapons are treated as the tragic, terrible weapons that destroyed the earth… and now they’re a way to do events.
@BWMagus
@BWMagus Жыл бұрын
So what about the nuclear weapons in New Vegas?
@belhariry
@belhariry Жыл бұрын
@@BWMagus Those were included because they were already in F03 and there wasn't enough time to get them out. Also they're incredibly expensive and not very prolific. Least fun weapon to use in the game imo.
@bigwinz
@bigwinz 4 ай бұрын
​@@belhariry"wasn't enough time to get them out" lol literally just cut them. It takes no time. Seems like a cope.
@TheTundraTerror
@TheTundraTerror Жыл бұрын
Really been enjoying this more "bite-sized" release schedule. Hope you consider doing this again for future videos.
@masterofbloopers
@masterofbloopers Жыл бұрын
After watching this series, I can confirm that Fallout 76 is indeed worse than I knew.
@asitallfallsdown5914
@asitallfallsdown5914 Жыл бұрын
The only acceptable 76 redemption ark, is completely rebuilding it into a singleplayer game and Tale of Two Wastelands'ing it to Fallout 4, perhaps with some changes to timeskip it to sync with Fallout 4's time period.
@TheOfficialButthead
@TheOfficialButthead Жыл бұрын
That will never happen
@roozbeh6999
@roozbeh6999 Жыл бұрын
Just ask modders to add 76's weapons and stuff to older fallout games
@TheWunderWaffelShow
@TheWunderWaffelShow Жыл бұрын
You mentioned halo 3 recon armor and my mind was immediately flooded with Arby N The Chief references
@The_Bacon_Dragon
@The_Bacon_Dragon Жыл бұрын
They never should have made the perk system a series of interchangeable cards. Having no dedicated builds means no players are encouraged to seek out other players to work together for various needs whether it be for building, fighting, healing, or crafting. No one really needs to work together and the economy is pretty much just shopping for plans or an occasional legendary. The best example I can think of is Star Wars Galaxies. In vanilla you had the ability to choose a class, weapon skills, etc. You couldn't do it all though by yourself which was the point. There were engineers for vehicles, creature tamers for mounts or for big party monsters to join your group, weapon and armor smiths, doctors, hell even dancers and musicians that would heal your mind stat and could buff you. Everyone had various roles that kept an economy going by adding choice of where to buy from. Yes there was an auction house but players could really set up their own shops for gear they crafted or to sell their services. Then everyone would be able to build up a combat tree to defend themselves with and to join parties for dungeons or taking on giant beasts. No one could completely go through the game alone because you had to work together with others at some point. 76 doesnt really have any of that.
@zoltanz288
@zoltanz288 8 ай бұрын
thats because they knew that no one would play this and that there wouldnt be enough players for that.
@shinigandhi7565
@shinigandhi7565 Жыл бұрын
Felt very vindicated watching this series. It was free for like a week on ps4 and my gf at the time really thought it was great and I annoyed her by complaining about everything
@Infantry492
@Infantry492 Жыл бұрын
I tried it when it was free on ps plus and I'm just so happy I passed on it for so long. It ran like ass, consistently dropping frames while adventuring throughout the world. On top of that it felt like playing fallout 4 which made things worse to me.
@shinigandhi7565
@shinigandhi7565 Жыл бұрын
@@Infantry492 fallout 4 but all the enemies are levelled to someone else's character and you can't use any of the loot you find. They took out everything that made a single player game good and added all the stuff that makes mmos bad without anything that makes multiplayer fun.
@KonoGufo
@KonoGufo Жыл бұрын
This is the issue with casual players, bad games are like fast food to them
@shinigandhi7565
@shinigandhi7565 Жыл бұрын
@@KonoGufo that's a great analogy actually
@kie2
@kie2 Жыл бұрын
Not being able to kill whoever you want is lame. It's the kind of thing where if you start with Skyrim or Oblivion is feels natural that you can't kill important people but if you start with Morrowind or New Vegas it's just insanely limiting to not have the option to do as you please.
@Rhyas9
@Rhyas9 Жыл бұрын
And then Todd Howard goes on stage and tries to hype Starfield, just as he did Fallout 76. 16 times the facepalm.
@daedalus6796
@daedalus6796 Жыл бұрын
That last minute contained some really emotional roleplaying. I'm glad that over 4 hours of video gave enough of an excuse to share that with us.
@Anklumos94
@Anklumos94 7 ай бұрын
Doesn't this get y'all excited for the show! I can't wait to see how they gut one of my favorite franchises. Maybe as a special treat they can push very priced merch in every scene!
@wisdomcoffee
@wisdomcoffee 6 ай бұрын
Have you seen the Bethesda gift store? They put more effort into merchandising their IPs than the actual games. $75 Fallout bedsheets baby!
@vault6242
@vault6242 2 ай бұрын
And you were right, but let's be honest anyone expecting or thinking otherwise is delusional
@hmmokay.4807
@hmmokay.4807 Жыл бұрын
The spliced in ork dialogue was gold… Excellent 4 part series thank you
@CruzaComplex
@CruzaComplex Жыл бұрын
KZfaq scrub here. Is the "half hour cooperative therapy session" available uncut anywhere, maybe as a patreon thing? Would love to see that kind of candid content.
@Patrician
@Patrician Жыл бұрын
The highlights are what is in the video. It's fairly rambly, so I salvaged what was shown.
@bogdankarnaukhov95
@bogdankarnaukhov95 Жыл бұрын
They probably make women this way to show how strong and independent they are, but it just doesn’t work
@peterclarke7240
@peterclarke7240 Жыл бұрын
I feel like the real tragedy of this game is that the community is one of the nicest I've ever encountered, but Bethesda seem unable to capitalise on that.
@evilmario5649
@evilmario5649 Жыл бұрын
kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hq9miaRpv7SwXWQ.html
@6661313
@6661313 Жыл бұрын
I honestly always asked people that said this (in game or reddit etc) what they were comparing it to and very seldom got an answer, and when i did it was either Rust or GTA online, what are you comparing it to? f76 was one of the worst i have ever come across (the worst being Rust, i never had any issues with GTA but never played the online much) I finally "quit" a month or so ago after getting one of my mules pushed into a (yet another) trap camp when transferring junk between accounts. i only get on if someone i know IRL wants something in game now and then i just dump it for them or run them through whatever content they need done
@huberthumphry280
@huberthumphry280 Жыл бұрын
@@6661313 I can only compare it with ESO, which I feel is just as good of a community but a whole lot more cliq oriented (due to guilds) but I think there are some things that influence this, lack of text chat in 76 means you don't see rambling low key racist, misogynistic, homophonic rants and a surplus of loot means high levels are "kind" to newbies just because you want to get rid of stuff. I also think that platform matters, I played on ps and really rarely ran into horrible players, and did meet lots of good people. I stopped playing after december 2020 (after the second "season") due to the seasons taking away daily and weekly atom challenges and the nerf to the world introduced earlier with One Wasteland for All update
@6661313
@6661313 Жыл бұрын
@@huberthumphry280 hmm i played ESO but only solo, never interacted with anyone, I didn't even consider that when I was thinking of online games. I guess I don't consider throwing away garbage in front of low level players to be "kind" at all lol, nor just not actively harming them (like the multitude of trap camps i find on a weekly basis)
@huberthumphry280
@huberthumphry280 Жыл бұрын
@@6661313 who said anything about "garbage" it was common for stims, radaway, ammo and level appropriate weapons and armor to be dropped, including legendary ones
@spnked9516
@spnked9516 Жыл бұрын
These videos were a fascinating watch that really highlight the problem relation between established IPs, fans, and the "games-as-service" model. Broken and messy games like this are allowed to limp along as a "profitable" zombie all because a handful of whale fanatics are willing to throw money at anything with a familiar coat of paint.
@BWMagus
@BWMagus Жыл бұрын
Alot of games have this. I think the fact is that shooting things in the face is inherently satisfying, and it's not hard to get SOME people to get hooked on YOUR face-shooting simulator.
@PlebNC
@PlebNC Жыл бұрын
It's funny hearing about the limits of the jetpack as I've used it to climb most of the tallest structures in the game. Notable the Charleston Power Station Cooling Towers, various power pylons, most skyscrapers and I can fly into the UFO at Gallahan Mining during the UFO Invasion event there (fun fact: the UFOs are smaller than you'd think and unfortunately you clip through them).
@Twizinator
@Twizinator Жыл бұрын
Funnily enough, something that stuck out to me was at 1:07:52 when you are both seemingly surprised to notice another player in the open world. That should NEVER happen in an MMORPG.
@FredCDobbs-rd5wi
@FredCDobbs-rd5wi Жыл бұрын
It's a good example how the game has the worst elements of a MMORPG and so few of the benefits. It's really just a single player game that requires an online connection, has (even now)stability and bug issues and other players randomly showing up and hurting your immersion BUT not enough other players to meaningfully interact with or to support game modes that require a certain minimum number of players.
@Cascadian_Ranger
@Cascadian_Ranger Жыл бұрын
I haven't had the nerve to pick up 76 despite hearing the same "redemption arc" stuff because there was some intuitive sense that that was not the case. Clearly you have shown that to be true. Its amazing seeing how comically bad most everything about the game is, because on the surface you would think even just popping in and being a tourist and seeing the world itself could be fun, but I don't think that's really possible without having to engage with every other issue. Great work as always Patrician, great stuff as always. Looking forward to what you do next.
@MaxwellVador
@MaxwellVador Жыл бұрын
Shout out to Keith Szarabjka. My favorite minor role voice actor and audiobook narrator
@user-bt7ul4sq9j
@user-bt7ul4sq9j Жыл бұрын
Bethesda is just a bugged out version of King Midas. Everything they touch turns to shit.
@zoltanz288
@zoltanz288 8 ай бұрын
and then crashes to desktop.
@123456gordon
@123456gordon Жыл бұрын
So it's basically what I always said it was: some sort of MMO-like survival thing type of game with a Fallout skin. It's like if you wanted to make a Battlefield/CoD as an isometric strategy turn based game. What the fuck is that even. It's like merchandising, sell a shirt or a coffee mug with a logo.
@erei5659
@erei5659 Жыл бұрын
I liked exploring the map, and building, but that was all that was good about 76.
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