People say it breaks immersion I disagree, it’s the hot desert and you’d most likely go a little crazy so this perk fits exactly how it should
@thisprojectisretired11646 ай бұрын
Exactly! It's so hot there that you wish for a nuclear winter instead
@blood_golemm50666 ай бұрын
Anyone who says it breaks immersion has never been in to the desert wilderness. The folks out there are truly something else.
@Putrescence4205 ай бұрын
After 3 days in the desert fun, I was Looking at a river bed
@keepitclean87915 ай бұрын
I'm glad I can roleplay as someone with schizophrenia
@kyosokutai5 ай бұрын
People also say it's entirely optional. (You need to take the wild wasteland perk for any of this to even show up) Bethesda took that personally and made it mandatory. edit: Okay, i've been informed that the wild wacky stupid nonsense is in fact the main story quest, not easter eggs or reference humor. Oops.
@evansnyder78734 ай бұрын
The fact that they had 18 months to make this game and they dedicated time to wacky Easter eggs that only occur IF you take the perk is wild
@redlight39323 ай бұрын
the best dev team fallout ever had
@badyuk563 ай бұрын
More accurate is to say that this perk was kinda compromise between developers who wanted to add some weird funny non canon content and others creators who didn’t. So the came up with idea adding these content as a perk
@kotzpenner2 ай бұрын
@@badyuk56 elegant solution, apart of it using a perk slot, I'd rather have it as an option like Survival mode
@pedromiguel7485 ай бұрын
You forgot the part in lonesome road ending cards, where if you decide to nuke long 15, the rangers and troopers NCR monument will be half buried in sand and a trooper is on his knees, referencing planet of the apes
@klbn64 ай бұрын
"The Couriers finally, really did it. They blew up the lands West and East of the Mojave... damning them all to hell."
@anakin-is-panakin3 ай бұрын
@@klbn6YOU MANIACS
@tr0llz0r206 ай бұрын
"SHE TURNED ME INTO A NEWT!" "A Newt?" "Well I got better" 😂😂😂
@mathiasdaniels78385 ай бұрын
"bring out your dead *bong*" LOL
@lucutes29365 ай бұрын
What
@comicsansseraphim49344 ай бұрын
Pie jesu domine
@Kawamura24 ай бұрын
@@comicsansseraphim4934 *smack*
@comicsansseraphim49344 ай бұрын
@@Kawamura2 Dona eis reqiuem
@onemariobro6 ай бұрын
I personally love the wild wasteland and I wish it was prevalent in the games, little surprised no mods have tried to do that in fallout 4 or 3
@x_hibernia6 ай бұрын
It kinda is fallout 1 and 2 is full of this humour, the reason it's not in 3 and 4 is because Bethesda made those games, obsidian entertainment made new Vegas ie interplay or blackisle studios
@kaizenregimen6 ай бұрын
There is a wild wasteland mod for fallout 4
@lucutes29365 ай бұрын
Not
@kyosokutai5 ай бұрын
More saliently: With how absolutely disastrous the writing and quest design for Fo3 and 4 is, how would you *tell* which are the jokes and which are supposed to be played straight? Fo4 has, in no particular order a ghoul child trapped in a fridge for 200 years. a hardboiled detective (from the wrong era) downloaded into a robot, tracking down his ghoul nemesis that murdered his GF A crew of crazy robots driving a ancient age-of-sail ship by mounting rocket engines to it a super mutant looking for the milk of human kindness a small child merchant with a sentry-bot bodyguard A super-mutant-behemoth wearing a swan boat as a hat. A man tending a bar in the middle of nowhere Dead brahmin crushed under a fridge (random spawn, if someone can explain that, go ahead) And far too many more to list...
@nikosantos11724 ай бұрын
Capitalism kills
@hodgepodge93625 ай бұрын
The Crusoe encounter could also be a reference to the old original pink panther movie. In the movies detective Clusoe is tasked with finding the pink panther which is a rare diamond. The movie is a comedy and sees Clusoe being hilariously inept and bad at being a detective, hence the "bad detective" reference.
@sg.16765 ай бұрын
That’s what I thought too
@user-gj7lp5iz6k3 ай бұрын
This is 100% what the reference is
@robesdebah48113 ай бұрын
Yeah. The character model looks like Caruso, but I think they intentionally combined the names.
@antmandals3253 ай бұрын
It's none of these things. I'm actually surprised everyone is getting this wrong considering the book it's referencing is a literary classic. The book Robinson CRUSOE, is about a man who ends up stranded on an island of cannibals...you know...like the White Glove Society.
@robesdebah48113 ай бұрын
@@antmandals325 damn. YOU'RE the best detective!
@happilyham67696 ай бұрын
I have never considered not taking the trait. It's worth it for the alien blaster alone.
@kaizenregimen6 ай бұрын
YCS is kinda better tho
@plaguenplay35166 ай бұрын
@@kaizenregimentrue. YCS can be used as a primary weapon while Alien blaster's good for a couple of hella powerful shots
@YouTubecanfuckagoat6 ай бұрын
You can change out perks in the Big MT dlc & get both weapons.
@happilyham67696 ай бұрын
@@KZfaqcanfuckagoat I looked into that, I don't think it works. Have you done it?
@mintymoth87255 ай бұрын
@@happilyham6769If you're playing on pc just add the perk using the console.
@X-SPONGED5 ай бұрын
"Take drugs. Kill bear"🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥
@nathanrodriguez914nr4 ай бұрын
I was so confused. For some reason I thought New Vegas was older than Indiana Jones 4. Didn't even realize New Vegas came out 2 years after.
@yosukeminamoto58234 ай бұрын
blame it on the FO3 engine
@huntertrum36584 ай бұрын
My dumb self somehow thought New Vegas came before Fallout 3. I can still remember the confusion on the GameStop employee's face when I asked for the "new fallout" and he handed me NV and I said blunty afterwards "no, the newer one."
@Shushkin6 ай бұрын
Wild wasteland is the trait I picked for my very first playthrough 😅
@patrickreynolds7935 ай бұрын
same lol
@seronymus4 ай бұрын
Ditto
@bergermeistermeisterburger4 ай бұрын
I appreciate that you included the alternatives for each encounter if possible. I like seeing the differences between perkless and perk, not just the encounters
@axemansjazz66706 ай бұрын
If I remember correctly, there’s also a non-Wild Wasteland occurrence of ‘Kilroy Was Here’ in the sewers beneath the area around Vegas.
@forthegovernment5 ай бұрын
The mini deathclaw is no joke
@unapersonaexcepcional23692 ай бұрын
Like FRR thing is mad OP. Elijah's LAER shoot him down tho
@ProfArmitage2186 ай бұрын
The walking eye robot from Venture Brothers was referencing a 1964 episode of "Jonny Quest"; the robots are identical. A good portion of the show is a parody of Jonny Quest.
@SuperMrHiggins5 ай бұрын
Go Team Venture!
@Nomed385 ай бұрын
The show The Venture Bros going so far as to have characters from Johnny Quest in the show, albeit in a aged up form.
@cubistictrout85165 ай бұрын
I was glad to see someone else saw the similarities. I was about to say the same thing.
@texasguy-3 ай бұрын
Also the spiders in Doctor Who New Series episode 2 The End of the world
@DeadwaveCarrier-oc1wo4 ай бұрын
Really speaks to the influence of pop culture when you're not exactly 100% familiar with a lot of these source materials but you can still place a somewhat accurate guess of their references.
@DrakeDiablo6 ай бұрын
I can’t help but feel old and confused. I got this game when it first came out, I’ve played it so much that in my mind it was older than a lot of the references made.
@SuperMrHiggins5 ай бұрын
ditto
@ApotheosisOfAbsurdity4 ай бұрын
Like Crystal Skull, if I guessed, I would have thought it was older than the 4th Indiana Jones film, despite the reference clearly putting it after.
@clinteckert56465 ай бұрын
Who else's first encounter of the wacky wasteland was the indiana jones refrigerator encounter? I remember not understanding what is going on when the music chimed 😂
@Gremlin_Boi_4 ай бұрын
something about Cookie Monster having his own easter egg in Fallout of all games, seems surprisingly and weirdly fitting
@CrusadingSnom4 ай бұрын
since playing this game non stop since it came out, I have chosen WWL every single time, so this video is very nice since I had no idea half of these where WWL events, especially the mr new vegas one.
@HandiNapАй бұрын
This just makes me realize I truly could play this game endless times and find new things every time.
@iWhisperASMR5 ай бұрын
He calls them Donnie and Marie, which is a reference to Donnie & Marie.
@ricardomartinez84304 ай бұрын
This perk introduced me to Monty Python and I always pick it in every play through
@anakin-is-panakin3 ай бұрын
What an interesting way to get introduced to Monty Python lol not bad interesting just interesting interesting
@mik4k64 ай бұрын
7:23 - It seems more like a _Pink Panther_ reference, as Inspector Clouseau was always portrayed as a bumbling investigator.
@SuperMrHiggins5 ай бұрын
New Vegas was just incredible.
@kalebstuart30835 ай бұрын
I've always appreciated the variety WW would provide for your courier as a character. Like yeah, the dude is a combat monster on two feet, and he's got a kickass taste in music, but he swears that he talked to a dog and killed some aliens.
@FuriousMaximum5 ай бұрын
That ambient bell music around 14:00 is very creepy. Awesome stuff.
@namagem03 ай бұрын
I’m pretty sure this is from the Dead Money DLC which has some great atmospheric music throughout!
@RasoAbadzija3 ай бұрын
It's a soundtrack from FO1, in one of the final locations, the cathedral. FNV used a lot of soundtracks from FO1 and FO2, and they fit perfectly
@heyitztokyo96186 ай бұрын
Finally a KZfaq video I can sit and watch.
@Zack-xu2zw5 ай бұрын
It just makes the game feel a lil more like Fallout 2 and I like it for that. Honestly, I just hate not using it as often because I like both my trait slots. However! I realized you can console command it in after leaving the docs place so I would recommend that as well for people. It's not an unfair advantage imo
@Colt1003 ай бұрын
the skeleton with the hat and the dog with glasses has always reminded me of JoJos part 3, the skeletons hat looks like Joseph's and the dog looks like Iggy
@HomnixHD5 ай бұрын
Love this perk never have i not chosen it, this combined with die of destiny and a world of pain is a must play for all
@gaydes10125 ай бұрын
I forget where it is but in lonesome road on a wall you can find an ash outline of a person which is a looney toons reference
@hansolo12633 ай бұрын
21:04 Try Guest as password is a reference to the Cartoon Show "Archer" where the secret service the protagonist works always uses Guest as Password for their PC´s. Also it is a running gag tru the whole series. Idk what occasion in game it is, but the first appearance of that joke is in the pilot episode of archer where he needs the Password to enter the Mainframe of his own Agency. So maybe even the Welcome to the Mainframe is a little reference to Archer.
@Firestream10006 ай бұрын
Great video! I didnt know the disco music only came with wwl
@velocity18523 ай бұрын
I love the thumbnail on this! Reminds me of Daria or 90s mtv in general
@PositivelyPlaying4 ай бұрын
I know this is probably not actually the case but I assumed Crusoe to be a reference to Inspector Clouseau rather than CSI Miami. But meme culture probably wins that fight.
@kilroy78886 ай бұрын
Kilroy was here (oooOoOoOO)
@mobslayer99196 ай бұрын
reading this made the sound play in my head
@TheGlobadier4 ай бұрын
another fun fact with the trauma suits, In one of Capaldi's episodes "oxygen" the main physical antagonist are basically trauma suits that hijack the dead/dying bodies of the workers wearing them.
@mattlukethompson4 ай бұрын
Notorious Big lmfao
@tremendous24645 ай бұрын
Great video, I learned loads even though I am someone who has always played with wild wasteland on, I didn't know all the things it caused. Keep up the good work 👏
@-V-_-V-5 ай бұрын
Done and Marie are a music duo not a TV show
@mik4k64 ай бұрын
From 1975 to 1979, Donny and Marie Osmond had their own TV variety show, simply called _Donny and Marie._
@delugesofgrandeur5 ай бұрын
Ah yes, the rap artist Notorious big.
@booqrdoit91384 ай бұрын
"Im a Brother Seamus!" "What like an Irish monk?"
@pariah28406 ай бұрын
This needs more views
@reddragonlegacy4 ай бұрын
Man, I need to play New Vegas...more. I have Wild Wasteland picked. Haven't found most of these. Especially the DLC ones
@foxxtbe4 ай бұрын
Did you know little Timmy never fell in a well on Lassie.
@adp8062 ай бұрын
True. It's one of those memes that arose from a source that never had that exact thing. Much like "Beam me up, Scotty" in Star Trek.
@brothersgt.grauwolff67165 ай бұрын
I usually wait until I get to Big MT to turn on Wild Wasteland as the YCS-128 Prototype Gauss is a better option in my opinion
@KLGChaos4 ай бұрын
First thing I always do with Tale of Two Wastelands is mod is so Wild Wasteland is given for free.
@oBuLLzEyEo10135 ай бұрын
Notorious BIG ladies and gentlemen...
@UndyingZombie5 ай бұрын
Honestly it has always been my fav perk, and I am one of those players who always uses it.. Even for the first time playing said game. I was soo disappointed with Fallout 4 not having it.
@nickherzler80135 ай бұрын
I legit thought the Mr. New Vegas lines were just regular lines lol
@ricktherock6 ай бұрын
Never saw the pimpboy 3 billion wonder if it is a andre 3000 reference
@cam58166 ай бұрын
Man I never thought about that but I hope so! I love Andre 3000! That would be a cool reference!
@mcbdllc28483 ай бұрын
I doubt it
@stevenswitzer51544 ай бұрын
Seymore asses was itself a simpsons call back
@brunoaguiar2514 ай бұрын
I took this perk the 2 times I played NV. So, besides the perk icon popping up, I didn't knew what changed
@dakotalupien91994 ай бұрын
ive been playing this game since i was like 12 and im 22 now and i dont think ive ever not taken the wild wasteland perk
@ikeduno79736 ай бұрын
Notorious Big. Hehe.
@jasonhufnagle53646 ай бұрын
I believe the skull with the hat is an Indiana Jones reference and not a NCR ranger hat.
@texasguy-3 ай бұрын
Everyone forgets Ed in the entrance to Vault 34, the sound effect and wild wasteland pop up appears with it as well .
@b_bogg6 ай бұрын
The only thing I disagree with is the way you said “The Notorious Big” it’s the Notorious B.I.G. Great content tho!
@Fading_Rain3 ай бұрын
Stripe killed me on my first playthrough of Old World Blues. I didn't know what killed me in a few hits until I looked down after reloading 😭
@BIATEC884 ай бұрын
I think the skull wears a gamblers hat or something not an NCR one. I could be wrong though
@BrandonAnderson-tp4oq6 ай бұрын
Notorious big 😂😂
@krikswacher69856 ай бұрын
Epic video as always
@Iron_Age6 ай бұрын
Thanks what was your favorite encounter?
@denis23816 ай бұрын
@@Iron_Agemine was the prostitute who didnt ask for money because i was young and good looking
@iangraham27585 ай бұрын
I just thought of something after the first dog encounter. King shark in suicide squad says that a lot. I wonder if he learned English through children's tv.
@squeekieballs50526 ай бұрын
Great content, subbed. 👍 But um, that music what comes with the Pimpboy isn't "Disco". It starts with P and ends with Or-No 🤣🤣🤣
@mathiasdaniels78385 ай бұрын
some "boom chicka wah wah" music
@squeekieballs50525 ай бұрын
@@mathiasdaniels7838 🤣🤣🤣👍
@Digital_Ghost_5 ай бұрын
The Venture “Brothers”
@swimbassin61965 ай бұрын
That alien blaster is bad ass
@jasonm20816 ай бұрын
As much as I enjoy the Wild Wasteland trait I often Don't take it. As cool as the references are the first dozen times, after a while they get a bit old Plus as somebody who runs without mods the game seems to be far more stable without Wild Wasteland encounters.
@josephfinkelstein51173 ай бұрын
You said notorious "big". I understand why but the dude deserves proper respect. Its bee eye gee
@caldadextra20634 ай бұрын
It’s an homage to the wackiness of the first two games. Besides that, no Fallout gar has ever been completely serious. Even the TV show gets this mood near perfectly. I mean, the entire concept of retro-futurism is kind of goofy to start with
@ravinraven69135 ай бұрын
With the way things are, Wild Wasteland just seems to be their normal type of humor. So not taking it would be still as weird, but maybe, an idea for a mod perk? Take "Less Wild Wasteland" and it makes the wasteland more civilized and normal.
@bragagd16184 ай бұрын
you're telling me I've played this game withouth knowing I had this trait...
@PanAndScanBuddy4 ай бұрын
Isn't the skeleton a reference to the fridge skeleton at 1:26 - with the fedora like Indy?
@stevekempsyninja32925 ай бұрын
I always choose this and the Foir eyes perk to add further sight when wearing glasses...thats easy
@misterturkturkle4 ай бұрын
theres only one other trait worth taking and its not as good as either of those so
@titousobased3 ай бұрын
its more a prewar gambler fedora hat than an ncr ranger hat
@kentuckles6 ай бұрын
Stripe lmao, he's so cute, why deadly?
@JacobKinsley3 ай бұрын
Watching this video just before I don't get the perk lmao
@omgman86632 ай бұрын
"NCR ranger hat" my man thats Dr Jones
@Burnthealphabetpeople6 ай бұрын
the hat on the logo is not the ncr ranger hat its the indiana jones gambler hat you find because of the perk in the fridge
@Varangian_af_Scaniae5 ай бұрын
Somehow the Indiana reference feels so out of place for me. On my timeline F:NV is much older that Indy 4. I have a hard time processing it. Remember when I found that fridge back in 2015-ish. Hell that is almost 10 years ago. Time flies boys, do not postpone what you can do today to the future.
@Vert_GreenHeart5 ай бұрын
This was new concept to me, it was as the name suggested wild ! though sadly i did know little of the references but like Obsidian said, the jokes are there for those who understand and to those who don't, it won't look out of place still.
@mobslayer99196 ай бұрын
you missed one, unless its not a wild wasteland thing. tumbleweed ranch. a nightkin will approach you and ask if you want to buy his cattle. you say yes, and he'll take every single cap you have. course you can kill him to get it back
@richardcummings11676 ай бұрын
That's not Wild Wasteland. He's always there and I never take ww.
@mobslayer99196 ай бұрын
@@richardcummings1167 i see. thought i saw a video of cut nv content where the encounter played out differently with ww
@richardcummings11676 ай бұрын
@@mobslayer9919 That's possible. I just always use him towards completing the "vault 13's revenge" challenge.
@xaviercruz85335 ай бұрын
It’s actually possible to kill the dogs playing poker. I did a no kill run of big mt and a securitron somehow made its way in the room on my second quest in the building. I’m unsure if it glitches in there or it’s intentional
@corncobjohnsonrealАй бұрын
8:50 Johnny 5 aces is the most schizophrenic wild wasteland encounter, I don't even get it
@sircarrot41804 ай бұрын
I genuinely thought the Maude gang was part of the canon stuff since i always pick that perk
@kyleh93256 ай бұрын
I never did wild wasteland. That's awesome they have so many Dr. Who references.
@BIG-ROB925 ай бұрын
The wild wasteland perk is strange on the ps3 version with all DLC ..Just last few weeks ago in some random buildings - it would make the sound a the image in the corner but - nothing was actually there searching the Room + others close ... i think it was glitched lol
@witheretide85154 ай бұрын
might have been some text on the wall
@user-vf4xl2dp8j2 ай бұрын
Um he forgot the planet of the apes (collapsed mojave outpost statues) reference at the lonesome road end credits
@scottwinfrey82504 ай бұрын
The only problem with WW is you lose the unique gauss rifle
@BrandonMcCurry9994 ай бұрын
I didn't do a new vegas playthrough without it
@hewhoknows64404 ай бұрын
Oh another thing the guy that voices the dreaded doctor Mobius also voices rusty venture
@cobaltprime94674 ай бұрын
Imho it should all be canon. No matter how weird they get. If it’s in the game and it’s intentional, then it happened.
@grapesoftime3 ай бұрын
Ycs fans (me) like: yeah must be nice to see these encounters... unfortunately I'd rather have the gauss rifle than an alien blaster with a finite amount of ammo
@Overlord3675 ай бұрын
Also wild wasteland need to do that as I’ve never used it often so that’s going to change soon👍
@benjaminboettcher11883 ай бұрын
1:01 does he think the ncr ranger wears a fedora? The ncr ranger wears a helmet with a mask that has red goggles.
@trog696 ай бұрын
I take the WW perk every playthrough, even though most of the references go over my head since I don't watch tv, only watched a couple of old Star Wars movies and don't remember any of the details, and because I'm terrible about noticing things in games unless they have a blinking bright light to force me to notice. In fact, I have a mod for FO4 that does exactly that; bright arrows pointing to Bobbleheads, magazines, etc. D'oh!
@Gr0g2346 ай бұрын
Good video but your sound is super quiet
@Iron_Age6 ай бұрын
Thanks! And yea I’m definitely gonna get a new mic and fix that.
@chungus8166 ай бұрын
Good video👍
@Iron_Age6 ай бұрын
Thanks!
@sporkinstien65713 ай бұрын
I've literally never made a character without it lmao. Even as a stupid ass kid I knew "always this one"
@WFKPG5 ай бұрын
Welp, time to spend a few days reinstalling and modding FNV I suppose. Nice video
@double22545 ай бұрын
The main tactical choice wild wasteland gives you is you get the alien blaster and holy hand grenades vs legendary Gauss Rifle and an extra trait… I always use wild wasteland for the fun of it but on paper that’s the real choice