i feel the same

@@davidovics92 i feel the game

aspiring game dev lol

"aspiring game dev" lol

@@yamo511 Stop living in the past, let it go already! 😆

All I need in life is a Fallout 1 remake by Obsidian

​@@ProtoPurityGod I fucking wish

Master is not a villain, he is antihero antagonist.

@@TrueNeutralEvGenius that's what a good antagonist is, having development, backstory, a justification and even a redemption arc if you get the best ending

He was actually the example what couldv happened with Vault dweller.

That's certainly the case in Fallout: New Vegas. And it's a darn good thing that the weapon mechanics are serviceable, unlike in Fallout 3.

Funny enough even if you bring proof, if your speech and charisma aren't high enough he will just accuse you of forging the documents and attack you

@@MBSMythic terrific writing

Also Masters plan was in my opinion unintentionally similar to Nazi ideas.. 'One race. One goal. One people.' 'One people. One reich. One Führer.'

Master is not a villain, he is antihero antagonist. True intellectual, mutilated and cursed by intelligence and FEV.

@@TrueNeutralEvGenius Dude, he murders a ton of people to reach his goal and to impose his will on the world. He's a villain. But at least a villain that can be reasoned with.

Love that book Never knew the connection between it and Arroyo.

Earth Abides is such a great, but grim, novel.

Can't be prehistoric if they have a view on the pre-war world tho.

Then he became a tree and got lit the fuck up

@@kafkabigmonstill one of the most insane things bethesda’s ever done like why is he a tree lmao

@@jess648 I thought it made sense. Fallout 4 with androids is a worse break from established lore, in my opinion.

Fallout 2 changed more lore from the previous game than any other Fallout. But sure, keep shitting on Bethesda Fallouts

@@Flismz This is a bold opinion to state, but I'm really glad someone voiced it.

I don't think Bethesda ever really understood fallout.

Please make your own thoughts for once.@@davidhughes8795

New Vegas is hands down the most overrated fallout game, no, most overrated game in general I think. Its litterally just Fallout 3 but worse and with pretentious writing.

@@wordofswords5386 That's funny, I thought it was a cut above all the other recent ones, the writing being a particular strength. Each to their own I supose.

Try to praise one Fallout game without shitting on a Bethesda Fallout game afterward: Impossible

I know I bet this channel will be legendary. It definitely made my day when I discovered it. It's like seeing one of my favorite authors of all times. I met Arlo Guthrie once, but this is definitely inspirational and memories all at once. I never used to listen to Arlo Guthrie as a kid, but I'm like a hippie at heart. It has been a while since Ive played it everyday all day, but still wow. Talk about an awesome Segway from growing up reading choose your own adventure books. These kids don't remember the world before fakebook and horrigan started recruiting for isis and censoring the have nots like vault city while making up reality as they go along. Controlling people with algorithms they say, but they always know where to tap for mass destruction now don't they? They are destroying the spiritual groundwater with depleted uranium shells today. It's our decision what kind of technicians we can be. They think we will all destroy ourselves as they get richer right now at least. Not for long! Horrigan is about to have a foot shoved up his ass like that seventies show Dad. Oh one day hell do it! We should send Mila Kunis to the front to defend "her people". I love how people in Russia see this game in reality as well but I'm not political I just see it's been a LOOOONG time coming. Killing the rest of the world off and inviting civil war to build a vault city PRISON! WE NEED CASSIDY AGAIN! HE WAS BADASS. He even kind of resembles the maga people as well once they bust them up some more. They are already shooting them for stealing lawn chairs from public property on Jan 6th. Choreographed on Fakebook like isis! I hate to tell you but this recession will only get worse and worse as it has slowly since 1985. If I EVER made a video game Zuckerberg would be the most evil villian on the planet. Choreographing people to their deaths! I know he is just a puppet but that entity is running the united states like a shell at this point almost 30 years later

@@ZeeHilalDecided to just start typing your stream of consciousness?

Your dad and people like him are unsung heroes.

China obfuscates a lot of it's defense budget, they're just a little under the US in terms of budget they just mask alot of their military development under research subsidies and a few other sectors mainly due to propaganda reasons, the exact ones that have you describing the US budget as 'depressing.'

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Look up GDC fallout New Vegas

Have been pleasantly surprised to see some of the influences that went into Fallout as described in different videos on this channel. My first exposure to La Jetee was also in college somewhere around 2009/2010. These videos are awesome

A Boy and His Dog also had vaults. It's definitely those two movies at the top.

@@DACFalloutRanger Vaults, raiders, ghouls, insane robots/androids IIRC? Lots of good stuff there.

It's actually a few stories, including Boy nearly killing himself, and then awkwardly having to work with Blood and a fierce young woman who can also talk to Blood. Harlan just loved adding wrinkles to that weird, destroyed world.

@@RedSiegfried And giant mutant critters, too.

I've been playing through Fallout 1 for the first time and Road Warrior and the Mad Max films I really felt those vibes in there. More so than the other games. There is like a vast emptiness feeling to it.

Christ, I just had to look to see at how long ago it was. Sure enough '97.damn. I suppose I was a teenager at the time. And then fallout 2 was a mere year later. Not a decade like games now. Looking at you, Rockstar.

Right?!? He may not get a zillion views the day a video drops, but this is evergreen content that becomes more valuable as time passes. These videos only increase in importance and views and time crawls along. I assume these are made for historical reasons and passion, not for profit. Never stop! I want hundreds of hours of Tim talking about game design.

Ни разу не грубо, а даже мягче, чем семантически dogmeat, что есть по сути собачье мясо. Это больше даже аллюзия на "Boy and His Dog", чем на "Mad Max".

You made this video happen?

Why vault 5?

Woah, you are right! I see a mention of Sugar Bombs in my notes from the 90s, but there were no items called Sugar Bombs in Fallout or Fallout 2. But they are in Fallout 3, New Vegas, and 4. Parallel design development? Calvin & Hobbes fans at Bethesda? I do not know.

@@CainOnGames Oh hey thanks for the response. The wikis seem to only see it as a 3 onward phenomenon...maybe it was shared in some design notes?... I'd like to think there was some parallel love for C&H for all of us coming out of the 90s/00s. Just wanted to say again what an inspiration you've been and how great it is having these videos and explanations here. Being a queer player of RPGs, it's been revelatory and inspiring to hear from lgbt game designers, particularly one who was so fundamental to my favorite digital stories. You rock!

Following the creation of the series has gotten me to try watching and reading many works that inspired it or were inspired by it. I'm definitely picking up Canticle for Leibowitz next library trip!

Is there a mod that lets you collect the box tops and send them in for a helicopter beanie? They're should be

Same. I wonder where the steampunk influence came from.

You bet! I loved Crusader when I was a kid and when I played the fallout demo and saw they had similar graphic style I knew I had to get the game. 25 years later, I'm still a fan and watching all of Tim's videos.

boy, do I envy you

the well known one is 12monkeys ( both movie and the tv show)

Yep, one that comes to mind is the album Celestial by the band ISIS (they disbanded before that name became a taboo.)

How old are you? Please don’t take this as rude. Are you still playing video games?

@@Mushroomshay Older than Tim, and clearly self-aware at some point in the fifties (what time is it? It’s Howdy Doody time. “Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird, it’s a plane…”, “Give ‘em what fer, Davy”). The retro-futurism of Fallout always makes me smile. I play more board games than video games these days, though I still play some.

>dropping

Crazy Joe lol

Damn it! Missed Heinlein, City of Lost Children and Blade Runner. And I ummed and ahhed about saying Romero. Ah well I got On The Beach!

Even though it hasn't aged as well as fallout, Crusader is such an underrated game! I wish it made a comeback.

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@@CainOnGames Thanks Timothy. I watched your video about color blindness. I'm glad you still managed to truck on with it in the industry and that your peers even questioned your opinion regarding your condition in relation to games you were creating together. I think my question revolves more around 'stimulative colors' and their implication in games. I understand that the 'fun' factor is a major motivator for game creators, but for me over saturated colors actually diminish the sense of reality which also creates immersion! (I also enjoyed the monochromatic theme of Skyrim/winter hinterlands, like yourself). Thanks for the reply and link.

I hope we can deepen that particular discussion a bit because it's struck me as a trend toward the cartoonish and, frankly, childish whereas RPGs especially were a bit, shall we say, on the countercultural side from their inception. While a great many Fallout fans just think the series "fun" (as opposed to enjoyable), others in the Fallout community have more appreciated its black humor and cultural critique, whether intended or not. It's that last, among other things, that has gone missing in modern Fallouts in favor of "mainstreaming" it for an indiscriminate audience, but when the most destructive device ever created by human beings is viewed and treated as though it were a toy, for example, I would say something has gone horribly and perhaps even irrevocably amiss. I'm sure Tim can't really comment on the direction the industry itself is going for professional reasons, but while I haven't been able to get into more recent Obsidian games, I absolutely adored Obsidian's "trailer" for The Outer Worlds 2, presented at E3 2021, which essentially takes the gaming "industry" itself to task. Brilliant. Some of it is innocuous, I'm sure. Bethesda received a lot of criticism for the monochrome palette of Fallout 3 and perhaps overcompensated in Fallout 4 with its bright blue and red and yellow buildings and catwalks and railings, etc. while the rest of the coloring was fairly subdued. (That's what ENBs are for, of course. Don't like it? Change it.) The latest Dark Souls game (and it is a Dark Souls game) has gone that route also with even the skies of each region essentially duplicating the colors assigned to the vast majority of soceries and incantations and weapon arts to be found in them. One can only suppose From Software thought that would make them more atmospheric as the colors correspond to the "mood" of the various arts -- storm, magic, faith, arcane, frost, etc. From my perspective, however, it was just another layer of video gamey artificiality as opposed to artistry, if that makes sense, that the game would have been better off without. Anyway.... Great, thought-provoking question.

​@@lrinfi Thank you for the reply, Irinfi. I must agree with you that for me the selling point in said Fallout is the 'grit, the dark humor, the wit' and we've perhaps forgotten that subtly also has it's impact. For me the over saturated colors are just too intrusive these days and it reminds me of the colorful arcade games which still existed back in the 90's (39y/o), made to catch your eye with color and sounds and bring you to the said device/game. I hope to see a counter to this with upcoming Obsidian games with some nice normal color schemes. I am personally looking forward to Avowed which we seem to have very little information on. Perhaps that is a good thing! I'm a fervent defender of: 'I don't know what I want, make me dream!' Good day

@@Falicon "I'm a fervent defender of: 'I don't know what I want, make me dream!'" Funny you should say that. One of the things you'd least expect to go the way of the dodo bird in modern video games is going the way of the dodo bird in modern video games: actual interactivity. Video games used to ignite and engage our own imaginations, but are becoming little more than interactive movies and passive "entertainment." It honestly sends shivers down my spine when people say, for example, "Elden Ring is the future of RPGs." Arugh? Elden Ring is not even a RPG. It's literally designed for online PvP and co-op combat. Its SP campaign, if you can call it that, consists of being monologued at and picking an ending from a list. At no time is the player given agency to participate in an unfolding story. In fact, it bugs me no end that initial combat build creation screens are still labeled "character creation." The upcoming generation has been raised on that, though. They don't know the difference because they probably haven't experienced the difference if they haven't played, say, the early Fallouts, Mass Effect, a few Bethesda games, etc. So, I hope it means what it should mean when Todd Howard, for example, says things like, "We're going back to some things that we used to do in games long ago that we felt have really let players express the character they want to be." That would be nice.