Fallout 4 is great and I'm tired of pretending it's not
Summary
TLDRThe video script is a satirical and humorous review of the game 'Fallout 4', developed by Bethesda Game Studios. The reviewer, while identifying as a fan of the game, doesn't shy away from pointing out its flaws, such as weak villains, a lack of a cohesive narrative, and the disjointed nature of the game's quest lines. Despite these criticisms, the reviewer expresses a deep affection for the game, attributing it to an 'ineffable' quality that makes it their favorite in the Fallout series. The script also touches upon the game's DLCs, with mixed feelings, appreciating 'Far Harbor' for its depth but criticizing 'Nuka-World' for its lack of substance. The reviewer acknowledges the role of mods in enhancing the game experience and concludes by teasing upcoming reviews on other games, including 'The Outer Worlds'.
Takeaways
- 🎮 Fallout 4 is a game developed by Bethesda Game Studios, set in a post-apocalyptic Boston, where players experience daily struggles such as housing shortages and inclement weather.
- 🚀 The game follows the success of Fallout 3 and introduces many gameplay innovations, including a larger map, improved graphics, and a dedicated sarcasm button.
- 🔍 Players embark on a rescue mission/quest for vengeance, reenacting plots of popular movies while interacting with various factions that offer different quests.
- 🛠️ A key feature of Fallout 4 is the ability to build and design settlements in the Wasteland, although the narrator found them functionally useless.
- 🏙️ The game pushes the limits of Bethesda's creation engine by introducing new mechanics like the reverse shot and running the game without the need for multiple stability mods.
- 🏃 Despite improvements, the game still has issues like character models moving faster than voice lines, causing the last syllable of each line to be cut off.
- 🐶 The narrator self-identifies as a Fallout 4 apologist, expressing a deep love for the game despite its flaws, and considers it their favorite game in the series.
- 🤖 The story involves meeting a synthetic child and dealing with the consequences of consumer capitalism, with a humorous take on the game's characters and scenarios.
- 🚧 The game's factions, such as the Brotherhood of Steel and the Railroad, offer different perspectives and quests, but the narrator criticizes some for their simplistic or derivative nature.
- 💣 Fallout 4 has several DLCs, with mixed reviews; some, like Far Harbor, are praised for their depth, while others, like Nuka-World, are criticized for being tedious and lacking substance.
- 🧩 The game is described as a collection of great ideas that don't interact in a meaningful way, resulting in a disjointed experience that is less than the sum of its parts.
Q & A
What is the setting of the game Fallout 4?
-Fallout 4 is set in a post-apocalyptic version of Boston, Massachusetts, where the player experiences daily struggles such as housing shortage and inclement weather.
Which game studio developed Fallout 4?
-Fallout 4 was developed by Bethesda Game Studios.
What are some gameplay innovations introduced in Fallout 4?
-Fallout 4 introduces innovations such as improved graphics, a larger game world, bigger guns and hats, and the ability to build and manage settlements.
How does the player's character in Fallout 4 end up in the future?
-The player's character is cryogenically frozen in Vault 111, and later wakes up in a post-apocalyptic world, effectively being sent to the future.
What is the significance of the Institute in Fallout 4?
-The Institute is a shadowy organization that plays a significant role in the game's plot, with connections to advanced technology and synthetic beings known as synths.
Which faction does the player character eventually lead in Fallout 4?
-The player character eventually leads the Minutemen, a faction that aims to help and protect the people of the Commonwealth.
What is the main conflict in the Far Harbor DLC for Fallout 4?
-The main conflict in Far Harbor revolves around the search for a missing person, which leads to tensions between the town's inhabitants and a synth commune called Acadia.
What is the central theme of the Nuka-World DLC?
-The central theme of Nuka-World is taking control of a post-apocalyptic amusement park and dealing with the various raider gangs that inhabit it.
How does the player character become the overboss in Nuka-World?
-The player character becomes the overboss in Nuka-World by defeating the previous overboss in a bumper car arena.
What is the player's role in the Automatron DLC?
-In the Automatron DLC, the player joins forces with a killer robot to combat a robot army while also having the ability to create their own robot army.
What is the player's goal in the Vault-Tec Workshop DLC?
-In the Vault-Tec Workshop DLC, the player's goal is to build and manage their own vault, conducting experiments on the dwellers within.
Outlines
🎮 Fallout 4 Game Introduction
The video script begins with an introduction to Fallout 4, a post-apocalyptic game developed by Bethesda Game Studios. It humorously touches on the game's setting in Boston, the various challenges faced by the player, and the gameplay innovations. The narrator expresses their love for the game, despite its flaws, and sets the tone for a detailed walkthrough of the game's features, including the construction of settlements and the interactions with different factions.
🏭 The Institute and Diamond City
This paragraph delves into the player's encounter with The Institute, a secretive organization with advanced technology, and Diamond City, the largest city in the Commonwealth. The player's character is tasked with detective work and uncovers a conspiracy involving the Institute, synths, and the disappearance of a child. The summary highlights the complex narrative and the moral dilemmas faced by the player.
🧠 Memory Den and the Glowing Sea
The player's journey leads to the Memory Den, where people relive their memories, and the Glowing Sea, a highly irradiated area. The narrative explores the character's search for a person named Virgil, who has been transformed into a Super Mutant. This section of the script discusses the player's efforts to infiltrate the Institute and the ethical considerations surrounding the creation and treatment of synths.
🛠️ Factions and Questlines
The script outlines the various factions the player can join or fight against, including the Minutemen, the Brotherhood of Steel, and the Railroad. It discusses the player's role in shaping the outcome of the game's world through their interactions with these factions. The summary emphasizes the branching narratives and the impact of the player's decisions on the game's factions and their questlines.
🚀 The Institute's Agenda and Family Reunion
This paragraph describes the player's confrontation with The Institute and the discovery of their agenda to create human-like robots. The player character, who is revealed to be the father of a synth child, is forced to make difficult choices regarding family and the fate of The Institute. The summary captures the emotional weight of these decisions and their implications for the game's story.
🤖 Automatron and Far Harbor DLCs
The script introduces the Automatron and Far Harbor DLCs, which expand the game's universe with new storylines, characters, and challenges. The Automatron DLC focuses on a robot army, while Far Harbor explores a remote island with its own set of mysteries. The summary discusses the DLCs' contributions to the game's depth and the player's experience.
🎢 Nuka-World and Game Critique
The final paragraph addresses the Nuka-World DLC, which allows the player to become the overboss of an amusement park overrun by raiders. The script offers a critique of the game's design and narrative, highlighting missed opportunities and the game's disjointed nature. The summary reflects on the game's flaws and the potential for a more cohesive and impactful story.
📺 Conclusion and Future Plans
The video script concludes with the narrator's personal thoughts on Fallout 4, acknowledging its flaws while expressing a deep appreciation for the game. The narrator also discusses their plans for future video projects, including a review of every Disney Channel original movie and a video on The Outer Worlds. The summary provides a wrap-up of the narrator's overall experience with the Fallout series and their anticipation for upcoming content.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Fallout 4
💡Bethesda Game Studios
💡Post-apocalyptic
💡Faction Quests
💡Synth
💡Settlement Building
💡DLC (Downloadable Content)
💡Mods (Modifications)
💡Minutemen
💡Main Theme
💡Nuka-World
Highlights
Fallout 4 is a post-apocalyptic game developed by Bethesda Game Studios, set in Boston, featuring daily struggles such as housing shortage and inclement weather.
The game boasts of many gameplay innovations including tolerable graphics, a sarcastic tone, and a larger map with bigger guns and hats.
Players can rehash the plots of both Fallout 3 and New Vegas simultaneously, meeting several factions that employ them as a hitman or exterminator.
The physical task of rebuilding settlements after the apocalypse falls to the player, who must operate a full-service design and construction company.
Fallout 4 pushes the creation engine to its limit by introducing a reverse shot in conversations and running the game without needing multiple stability mods.
Despite some criticisms, the speaker is a Fallout 4 apologist and considers it their favorite game in the series, even possibly of all time.
The game features a rescue mission/quest for vengeance, reenacting plots of Taken and John Wick, and includes the New England Patriots as an in-game element.
The player character, Johnny Fallout, is a war criminal and international bad boy, facing the consequences of runaway consumer capitalism.
Vault 111 is introduced as a place offering protection from the consequences of consumerism, with a dramatic elevator sequence.
The player is tasked with gathering supplies and hoping that 200-year-old guns still work after being thawed and released into the Commonwealth.
Sanctuary Hills is the player's pre-fabricated house that has survived 200 years of acid rain, maintained by the robot servant, Cogsworth.
The player meets a purebred German Shepherd and is asked to help with a situation involving 'little Timmy' and an island, introducing the character Preston Garvey.
Diamond City is the largest city in the Commonwealth with a theme of baseball, despite the lack of rights to the Red Sox likeness.
The quest to find the player's son involves detective work with Nick Valentine, a prototype synth with the memories of a pre-war detective.
The Institute is a shadowy organization that the player must confront and is later revealed to have a teleporter technology.
The game includes a faction system where the player's choices affect who will rebuild and claim the settlements, including Dunkin' Donuts.
The player can become the overboss of Nuka-World, an amusement park run by three different Raider gangs, each with unique characteristics.
The game's DLCs, such as Automatron, Far Harbor, and Nuka-World, offer additional content and missions, but vary greatly in quality and integration with the main game.
Transcripts
Fallout 4 is a game in which you must
experience the daily struggles of living
in Boston such as an acute housing
shortage inclement weather and the New
England Patriots developed by Bethesda
game studios hot off the heels of the
success of Fallout 3 7 years earlier boy
I sure hope we don't have to wait 7
years for Fallout 5 Fallout 4 boasts
many gameplay Innovations such as
tolerable Graphics post-apocalyptic
Minecraft and a dedicated sarcasm button
but wait there's more the map is bigger
the guns are bigger the hats are bigger
even the plot is bigger because Bethesda
couldn't choose between rehashing the
plot of Fallout 3 or rehashing the plot
of New Vegas you'll rehash both at once
as you Brave the harsh wastling of
taxachusetts on a rescue mission /qu for
vengeance while you're reenacting the
plots of Taken and John Wick
simultaneously you'll meet several
factions Each of which will employ you
as a Hitman and/or exterminator and it's
up to you to decide who will reclaim and
rebuild all these Dunkin Donuts for
themselves but no matter who you choose
the physical task of rebuilding will
fall exclusively to you and you alone by
yourself because radiation has melted
everyone's brains to the point they've
forgotten how to Plum a wall mix cement
or hammer a nail you must operate a full
service design building Construction
Company meaning you can design and build
your own Wasteland settlements Until you
realize that they're functionally
useless and store all of your unused
companions at your gas station bachelor
pad speaking of ancient decrepit
infrastructure Fallout 4 pushes
bethesda's creation engine to its limit
by finally inventing the reverse shot
that's right no longer are all
conversations conducted while NPCs wait
for you to take their mug shot but
that's not the only Improvement because
now you can actually run the game
without having to install 14 stability
mods of course the game speed is still
tied to the frame rate which was fine
when I was running this on my old crap
boox 1000 but when I upgraded my PC
because Todd told me I had to the
character models move faster than the
voice lines they're delivering meaning
the last syllable of each line gets cut
off like the final episode of The
Sopranos but despite all that before we
go any further I want to clarify one
point I am a Fallout 4 apologist and I
will not apologize this is my favorite
Fallout game maybe even my favorite game
of all time it's definitely better than
those first two games and before any of
you so-called Fallout fans start
composing death threats in the comments
because you don't understand the concept
of irony all I can say is you're just
not as much of a fan as I am and I can
prove it mathematically besides you're
not here for my smooth brain t you're
here for the Taco Bell sound effect but
if you think I'm going to take this game
to task with my usual low brow comedy
and ripped green screen edits you're
[ __ ] right however just know that any
criticism I make any nitpicks I take any
fists I shake all come from a place of
genuine love and affection the kind of
love and affection you have for like a
15-year-old incontinent dog so strap on
those Pit Boys scrap those pipe pistols
and rev up those friers as we park the
car at Harvard Yard in Fallout
4 welcome to Boston where every day God
flips a coin to decide what season it's
going to be heads for summer tales for
winter and on its side for nuclear
winter we play as Johnny Fallout war
criminal and international bad boy or
his wife a lawyer who I can only assume
he met at his trial together we have an
animatronic doll we're pretending is a
human child for tax purposes but now we
must face the ultimate consequences of
runaway consumer capitalism good morning
vault tech calling I don't care who the
IRS sends I am not paying taxes no sir
I'm here to tell you that the dildo of
consequence rarely comes lop and I'm
here to sell you protection if you're
the condom salesman you're 9 months too
late ha no sir I'm here to sell you and
your family protection from the
consequences of runaway consumer
capitalism sounds ironic no sir you and
your family will have a spot in Vault
111 speaking of which you should
probably head over we're expecting a
second sunrise in a few minutes huh
that's strange it's awfully orange out
today we make our way to Vault 111 where
the elevators are designed to maximize
drama at the expense of my
retin don't worry about a thing we're
really chill here you're in for a cool
experience hopefully you don't feel like
we're giving you the cold shoulder heat
your junk up Samurai [ __ ] balls it's
cold H you're still flying just let her
hold the kid okay I'm not victim blaming
but what did you think was going to
happen go the [ __ ] back to sleep Samurai
okay now wake the [ __ ] up Samurai after
getting Frozen and sent to the Future
like Squidward testicles we make our way
out of the tutorial hole as the Soul
Survivor not just of the freezer aisle
but of the entire United States but if
we're accepting the 44 caliber Call to
Adventure we'll need to gather supplies
and hope some of these 200-year-old guns
still work now that we've been turned
loose on the Commonwealth we get to
discover and explore many interesting
and unique places starting with our own
house welcome to Sanctuary Hills where
our pre-fabricated house with no Vapor
Barrier has managed to survive a nuclear
shock wave in 200 years of acid rain
possibly because it's still being taken
care of by your indentured robot servant
cogsworth who isn't a slave because I
used a different word cogsworth have you
been cleaning this town for 200 years
yes sir I have well then why does it
still look like [ __ ] get back to work if
I'm to clean house I'll need you to pick
up some bleach from the hardware store
in Concord try not to drink it on the
way back on our way to find some bleach
to drink we meet a pure bread German
Shepherd for some reason what's the
matter boy you say little Timmy's in
trouble what's this about an island
welcome to Concord the birthplace of the
American Revolution and also grape jelly
and in that same revolutionary Spirit
the Museum of freedom is under siege
from some patriots exercising their
second amendment rights by attempting to
shoot up the building but this guy's
dressed like a [ __ ] dork so he must
be an important character hey you grab
that laser musket and come help me this
looks worse than the [ __ ] that got
Shinzo a using a Futurama joke we crank
our way through the Raiders just call me
Christmas with the cranks I don't know
who you are but your timing is
impeccable why are you guys hiding in
the Attic of a museum on the American
Revolution is this supposed to be a
metaphor my name is Preston Garvey I'm
here to bring back those good
oldfashioned values on which we used to
rely you see I'm a minute man guy he
can't bring back the past tip [ __ ] of
course you can history is cyclical don't
you remember that war never changes bit
from the intro that's not meant to be a
good thing aren't you a war criminal no
I'm just a man who enjoys a good
execution a week ago there were 20 of us
yesterday there were 10 now there's only
five of us left hm sounds like a skill
issue after facilitating the second
Boston Massac Preston makes us an offer
who sure could use someone like you
doing all our Renovations for for us
I'll mark it on your map nah kid [ __ ]
settlement building it [ __ ] sucks
dick get your ass to Diamond City why
should I do that I'm going to be real
with you for a sec kid I'm high as [ __ ]
right now now you must single-handedly
rebuild your old subdivision if you want
to move the minen quest line forward
that means you must act as a carpenter
electrician and defense contractor
however due to strict HOA guidelines any
and all new construction must match the
existing neighborhood character which in
this case happens to be a radiated
Rubble hey guys big beak the Builder
here and on today's episode of this old
shack we'll be hanging some lights a
door and myself normally I like
settlement building but it's frustrating
when I'm trying to keep my upload
schedule to a tight 3 months and have to
spend several dozen hours playing Bob
the Builder in the corner of the map and
we don't exactly have time to horse
around so let's make like George Bush
and put nation building aside in favor
of some more Mindless Imperial violence
and if there's one group that can help
me with that it's the Brotherhood of
Steel welcome to the town of Cambridge
instead of being populated by nepo
babies trying to trick Taurus into
rubbing the piss statue we find a
military Patrol from the Brotherhood of
Steel about to be overrun by a vicious
pack of 12 radiation victims thanks for
helping us out that was a real close
call oh yeah man that was a real close
call not like you're in a giant steel
exoskeleton or something oh my God just
take the damn compliment here we meet
Brotherhood palet and dance the power
armor stays on during sex we help him
raate a lab so he can phone home
hopefully nothing consequential will
happen because of this during this
Mission we're forced to confront sense
from a shadowy organization called The
Institute and by confront I mean [ __ ]
incinerate you showed Real Steel balls
today especially how you were willing to
sacrifice me to kill your enemies so I'd
like to invite you to join the
Brotherhood of Steel what's the
Brotherhood of Steel three [ __ ] guys
who can't hold one building [ __ ] off I
wouldn't join you if you rode into town
on a giant blimp I'll put you down as a
maybe speaking of political dissidence
as we approach Diamond City we find a
woman demanding to speak with McDonald's
manager mayor MC chees what kind of
[ __ ] McDonald's has a message Piper
I've headed up to here with your tabloid
gossip how dare you publish that I'm
secretly a synth infiltrator because
you're a synth fat that's a nice
argument Piper why don't you back it up
with a source my source is that I made
it the [ __ ] up Piper for the last time
there's no such thing as The Institute
and there's no such thing as since I'm
trying to find my son oh well then you
want the Sy detective that lives just
off Main Street I'm going to become the
jonker welcome to Diamond City the
largest city in the Commonwealth somehow
because every Bethesda city has to have
a theme the theme of this town is
Bethesda couldn't get the rights to the
Red Sox likeness consequently any
mention of them has been sand blasted
and Fenway has been transformed into a
generic ballpark despite half the town
dressing as umpires nobody even knows
what baseball is except for Mo Cronin
who thinks it was some kind of blood
sport that would have actually been fun
to watch diamond City plays host to
several important public services such
as the radio station the robot bar the
waspy bar the meat bar and the Russian
bar the Russian bar what is this still
the [ __ ] land of opportunity what
does the rest of the world look like
that people are still immigrating here
there's also a security department
trained extensively in deescalation
they're also not allowed to help with
missing persons cases by order of the
mayor because there's been no political
blowback from this if we want to find
our son there's only one man we can turn
to detective Nick Valentine but first we
need to find him detective Valentine has
gone missing investigating skinny
balon's Hideout for a kidnapped girl and
by investigating I mean just walking
into a mob bar and asking what crime
they've committed to free Nick we must
enter the practical joke that is the
Boston Metro Transit System we
infiltrate the crime Vault and by
infiltrate I mean raid the place like
Judge Dread thank God these people
self-identify as Mobsters or else these
kind of turn off the body cameras shoot
first ask questions and never use of
force might be considered excessive we
didn't even know for sure if Nick is
here let alone that he's in trouble for
all we know his secretary was just
trying to get rid of us because he was
hung over in the back luckily for us and
our criminal liability Nick is not only
here not only falsely imprisoned but
also ready to unleash some righteous
Justice on these Sinners except of
course for the one person actually
responsible skinny Malone damn it Nikki
you come into my house you kill all my
guys and cost me my girl yeah but I was
stuck in your basement so that's all
justifiable homicide oh well that's all
right then back at Nick's office in
Diamond City we're immediately hired as
a detective due to our excessive use of
force as well as run through our case
with Nick he's a prototype synth with
the memories of a pre-war detective so
what did this guy look like and what
racial minority was he a part of uh he
was white actually white like Hispanic
what kind of cop did you say you were
again just answer the question he was
Caucasian and bald while there's only
one bald man in the entire game let's go
rob his house turns out John Harvey
Kellogg was living in Diamond city with
a young boy and no one had any questions
about it after some light breaking and
entering we find Kellogg's yogurt enema
chamber what was the chair for did you
just sit there and stare at the wall hey
boy can you use the scent to find
Kellogg no Kellogg not flight log dog
meet leads us to Battle Creek sanitarium
where Kellogg leads us through a series
of audio lectures on Eugenics well if it
isn't the most resilient man in
the people of taxachusetts do not be
alarmed we were the protagonists of the
previous game where really cool we swear
suddenly I'm regretting not taking dance
up on his offer back in Diamond City we
returned to Nick's office to discuss
what to do now that we've killed our
most promising lead you didn't happen to
grab any part of his brain while you
were there did you uh well luckily for
you I know someone who can help us
welcome to Good Neighbor the theme of
this town is [ __ ] crime it's just
crime but just like The Vibes besides
the mayor stabbing a guy in broad
daylight this neighborhood is more polic
than the whitest gated community in
South Africa within this crime slum
exists the memory Den a high-tech
laboratory where people can relive their
cherished memories of picking through
the rubble of the Commonwealth that I
guess their back hurts less or something
using the suicide pods from Fallout 3
we're able to Flatline ourselves so we
can communicate with Kellog in the
afterlife you're about to take a trip
through the human brain welcome to
Kellogg's frosted brain flakes using
Nick as a host we journey through
whatever was left of Kellogg's cherished
childhood memories after we sent a nuke
on an Express trip through his skull
that's when we learned that Kellogg had
a rough childhood yeah no [ __ ] I didn't
think anyone who kidnapped babies for a
living would be well adjusted we learned
that between murders Kell was living in
Diamond City with young Sheldon at the
institute's request to bait us into
killing him we also learned that the
Institute has a [ __ ] teleporter well
now that you've seen Cal had kind of a
rough childhood don't you feel bad about
killing him not even slightly but he was
a person if anything I feel a little
better actually what I kind of want to
kill someone else now uh you should get
out of here head south you might just
find what you're looking for there
welcome to the glowing sea during the
Great War Massachusetts became so
radiated that the map itself developed a
tumor and now we need to braid this
shattered landscape in search of a nerd
named Virgil luckily for us Bas Staters
aren't affected by any kind of winter
even nuclear winter it's not that cold
guys if anything it's weirdly warm this
is still probably healthier than
swimming in the Charles deep in this
radioactive Wasteland there are many
hidden secrets to discover including the
rarest thing in a Bethesda game a
settlement where nobody needs anything
the children of Adam send us to speak
with a former Institute scientist named
Virgil who has been transformed into a
Super Mutant through what I can only
assume was a [ __ ] hilarious lab
accident you want to get into the
Institute you'll need at least an SAT
score of 2100 a GPA of 3.98 and an essay
about how you overcame adversity what
kind of adversity you could kill a
Terminator if we want to get into the
Institute we'll need to Pat out our
extracurriculars by ripping a chip out
of the head of a corser an Institute
Blade Runner what are you doing here I'm
about to take a trip through the human
brain we now have the chip but if we
want to make it inside the Institute
we'll have to decode it welcome to Old
North Church home of the railroad
because why have your secret
headquarters be in any building when you
can have it in a Historic Landmark with
a giant red line leading right to your
front door the railroad is a
post-apocalyptic civil rights
organization except unlike the Followers
of the Apocalypse who wanted to help
everyone in the postnuclear Wasteland
the railroad Fields a small army
dedicated liberating synth from their
media labor it's like if Amnesty
International fielded a division of Navy
SEALs but only used them to steal
people's roombas we seek to free the
synth from their bondage because no one
else will it's literally the apocalypse
outside most people spend their days
fighting off zombies and Orcs I'm not
surprised they're not stepping up for
synth Liberation how did you get inside
our base you even knew our secret
password you guys know there's a [ __ ]
line all over the city that leads right
here right also what secret password
it's just your name what was password
too hard to remember the railroad frees
since from The Institute wipes their
memories and ships them out of state
which is like lobotomizing an injured
dolphin and releasing it on a nuclear
testing site but considering how
familiar they are with the inside of
synth's heads they're the only ones who
can retrieve the teleporter Telemetry
from the corser ship thanks for the data
wait before you leave do you want to
join the railroad absolutely not
fantastic let's go to your first
assignment now that I'm forced to
continue the railroad quest line against
my will we must help Deacon infiltrate
the local Dunkin Donuts to retrieve a
gun that doesn't look completely [ __ ]
ridiculous Beneath The Donut Shop is an
old railroad base that was raided by The
Institute but now their base is more
secure because they have a password
speaking speaking of raiding people's
underground bunkers it's time to serve
the Institute an UNO reverse card hey
sturis sorry to take you away from all
your important work but I need you to
build a teleporter well me and the boys
have made absolutely no progress putting
this T back together but yeah sure I can
help you build a teleporter why is it
that stur just knows how to build a
teleporter out of aluminum cans and dog
[ __ ] but can't figure out how to use a
hammer good luck finding your son
General I always knew you were a family
guy if I mimiz nobody gets my stuff none
of you deserve it a my
molecules [ __ ] ouch welcome to to The
Institute where they spend their time 3D
printing an endless stream of hos in an
attempt to create the next generation of
vtuber they've turned their back on
humanity and the people living out in
the Wasteland are little more than
barbarians to them very similar to The
Enclave in Fallout 3 but unlike The
Enclave their plane isn't the shallow
machinations of the Captain Planet
villain in fact their plane is so
complicated that nobody not the player
character not the Institute staff not
even the director seem to know what it
is but we do find a kid trapped in a
glass chamber oh [ __ ] is this what dog
meat was talking about it's me I'm Sean
hi Sean I'm dad I was raised by the
instit and now I'm its leader okay
what's with the humanlike robots please
tell me this isn't a weird sex thing do
you want to join The Institute well I
have some concerns I'm just going to
pretend you said yes you should go check
the place out since we're just kind of
rolling with it we get to meet the
institute's various departments such as
bioscience what's with the gorillas is
the institute's plan to return to monkey
They a surprise tool that will help us
later the Blade Runner division what
work are you having these since do
mostly meia labor like sweeping the
floor and fixing some pipes okay and
what part of that mandate requires them
to have human emotions and advanced
physics where we just happen to run into
the worst obstetrician on the East Coast
what are you a doctor of exactly I'm a
doctor of minding your own [ __ ]
business that's what well Dad now that
you've met everyone how about we play
catch I'd love to Son okay here's the
location of a synth you need to catch
for me I'll mark it on your
map hey guys it's me big beak
entertainment and today we'll be running
some [ __ ] errands for our son which
in this case means enforcing the
Fugitive Slave Act of course we can
always take a paage straight out of the
dad's Playbook and go out for a pack of
smokes and never come back every
Bethesda game has a point in the main
story where you just kind of stop giving
a [ __ ] and start getting sidetracked and
for me that's right here so this is as
good a time as any to introduce you to
the other faction's quest line starting
with the vegans the railroad continues
to live up to their name as we get
railroaded from One mission to the next
such as fetch quests package delivery
jobs and running messages oh my god I've
become a mailman of course if we don't
want to join the railroad we can always
sign up with the Brotherhood of Steel
are you ready to get higher than you've
ever been in your life Welcome to the
nightmare blunt rotation that is the
Fallout 4 Brotherhood of Steel back at
it again with those child soldiers I see
the Brotherhood of Steel is a
militaristic authoritarian medieval
larper session dedicated to shooting and
looting pre-war technology on the blimp
were introduced to Elder Arthur Maxon
we've met him previously in Fallout 3
where he was a Child Soldier who got
benched for accidentally shooting Sarah
Lions but now that he's finished what he
started he controls the Brotherhood of
Steel on the East Coast if the haircut
and the talk of Exterminating
Abominations doesn't give it away the
Brotherhood of Steel has officially
crossed the Event Horizon of YouTube
demonetization I guess this is what fox
made me die for in Fallout 3 it's always
fun to live long enough to see yourself
become the villain I've heard good
things things about you Soldier and I'm
looking for a special Soldier part monk
part Hitman part pest control specialist
go to hell excellent here's your next
assignment [ __ ] now that the gang's all
here we get to choose which faction will
finally Conquer Red Sox Nation will it
be the racist the racist the racists or
the progressive racist because I am a
YouTube shill I let my subscribers
decide and apparently they want me to
support Presto gravity's minute because
my subscribers love to see me suffer but
the jok's on you I was fully prepared to
rig the vote to achieve this outcome I'm
not some fair weather fighter I'm
Preston strong a soldier I unironically
love the Minutemen I love these guys I
love their stupid hats I love the
overall aesthetic this is how men would
dress if Society led us me and the boys
on our way to not pay our taxes Fallout
4 is many excellent meaningful and
well-regarded faction quest lines but we
won't be doing any of them thanks to
some true Patriots instead after getting
promoted to General faster than jargar
Banks we sell our souls to the devil in
exchange for becoming a land developer
hey guys it's me General big be and
welcome to the dudes Rock militia in
order to expand our burgeoning real
estate portfolio I must now rebuild the
minimen by becoming a door- to-door
Hitman luckily for me and my limited
skill set nobody has a problem with the
solution more complicated than go to the
next location and smoke whatever you
find living there this is the equivalent
of Joe Biden working as your [ __ ]
Oran man except your local Oran man has
more political legitimacy than I do hey
Preston when are we actually going to
have elections look the hell is an
election there must be some mistake I'm
supposed to be rebuilding America plant
the [ __ ] corn despite the game
framing the Minutemen as the second
American Revolution I seem to have
somehow built a highly factional
military dictatorship held together
exclusively by myself whoops I've
accidentally invented Yugoslavia it's
all the violence of the American
Revolution with none of the idealism
that being said you can't trust these
people with self-rule when you can't
even trust them with the most basic
construction project damn [ __ ] you live
like this now that we have five Farmers
on our side we need an ancient decrepit
flooded crab infested pit with a bunch
of holes in the wall that [ __ ] hole is
the castle a fort that's so outdated the
Chinese didn't even bother nuking it
it's so outdated it was conquered by
[ __ ] crabs but using several farmers
and several more nuclear weapons we're
finally able to liberate the Crusty Crab
this also gives us the ability to use
artillery whose power is matched only by
its inconvenience I can either throw a
smoke grenade that drops a bomb after
like a minute and a half or I can cut
out the middleman and throw a real
grenade but there's just something about
being in the [ __ ] that makes you want to
call in a danger close artillery strike
on your own position and die gloriously
like a hero of the Soviet Union or you
can return to your war criminal Roots
the faction quest lines come to aead at
Bunker Hill The Institute gets where the
railroad is moving 4 cents from a safe
house here is for a lot no the railroad
then tasks their entire Elite Infantry
Division to protect the sense and the
Brotherhood shows up to [ __ ] [ __ ] up so
that was an absolute disaster yeah I've
gotten some pretty concerning reports
that you let the since go you want to
explain that one to me dad why did you
program them to feel fear I've been
asking that for a while and the fact
that no one has answered me is pretty
[ __ ] concerning I thought we could be
a normal family I thought I could
unfreeze you and if you survived you
could kill my enemies and reap of my
stuff but you have to go around asking
why roombas feel fear you're still not
answering the question you're in deep
[ __ ] Junior I'm 60 years old well I'm
200 years old then we appear to be at an
impass [ __ ] you and the teleporter you
rode in on I still love you son see you
Christmas hey guys big beak
entertainment here and welcome to
balloon's Tower Defense 4 for no
narrative reason I can discern except to
be a DI Sean has ordered the Institute
to wipe out the menen but despite having
a [ __ ] teleporter they still don't
have the element of surprise and I can
set up as many turrets as I want to
repel them we found a way into the
Institute through an old pipe a pipe
that doesn't sound very secure how did
they miss that one well to get to it you
have to swim in the Charles now that we
have for some reason come into conflict
with the Institute we must Infiltrate
The Gamer basement and unplug the
console once and for all we break into
the bioscience lab and become combatants
in the gay chimpanzee War given how
eager these Apes were to rip me limb
from limb I can only conclude primate
Warfare as evolving too rapid this isn't
animal cruelty this is a preemptive
strike it's over Sean I killed your
gorillas the monkey business is over
gorillas are Apes you [ __ ] idiot I'm
sorry it's come to this hi sorry it's
come to this I'm
dad because completing the minent quest
requires soft locking the other faction
quest lines the Brotherhood of Steel has
been placed in a state of Lun narrative
limbo wherein their Airship is just
hanging out over Logan airport for
basically no reason we should nuke him
Preston we can't just keep nuking
everyone we don't like isn't that the
whole point of the Fallout series if War
doesn't change men must change and all
that [ __ ] I think we should limit
ourselves to one nuclear first drag per
day pal this game is missing a fourth
act the Fallout act this would have been
a fantastic opportunity to create a
fourth act with DLC like they did for
Fallout 3 Fallout 4 actually has the
most DLC of any Fallout game with seven
four that matter and two that anyone
actually care about but let's start with
automatron in automatron we must join
forces with a killer robot to kill a
killer robot army while creating our own
killer robot army also I gave cogsworth
legs the mechanist is releasing robots
all over the Commonwealth and we need to
stop them so we do that infiltrate in
the mechanist admittedly baller layer we
discover the mechanist is actually a
girl oh well that's all right then
despite the mechanist being a
fundamentally good person she is
accidentally created an army of robots
hellbent on violence and destruction
just like Taylor Swift then the final
terminal doesn't work so I can't
actually finish the main quest they
placed the terminal high enough to
activate but too low to walk to I feel
like the developer is trying to Edge me
from 2016 I had to go into the console
and turn on noclip like a dirty criminal
but the real item in automatron Pros
column isn't the story it's the ability
to send an army of Sentry Bots to secure
the roads by assigning them as provision
this provides more strategic control
over the Commonwealth than the entire
minen quest line but if you thought this
DLC was good just wait till you see what
Bethesda is cooking up
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next what the [ __ ] is this piece of [ __ ]
okay you guys can stop cooking what the
[ __ ] who the [ __ ] broke into Bethesda
and made this you guys got no business
making something this good in Far Harbor
you must find a missing person because
apparently that's the only inciting
incident Bethesda knows how to write but
if I'm going on a detective Mission with
my boy Nick all need to dress the part
Kenji nikano has asked Valentine's
detective agency to investigate The
Disappearance of his daughter Kumi she's
not in there as common law Partners Nick
and I go on a Couple's Retreat to a
lovely beded breakfast in coastal Maine
welcome to far Harbor a town on the ass
end of nowhere Under Siege by a
combination of giant salamanders extreme
humidity and the most corrosive threat
of all evangelicals Kumi has gone to a
synth commune at the center of the
island called aadia run by Nick's
long-lost brother Dima throughout the
base game Nick has been struggling with
who he is without the original Nick
Valentine's memory memories and it turns
out he's a [ __ ] for real Deo will say
the most catty [ __ ] and then just go AB
but who am I to judge even name dropping
the railroad buys you no credit with him
the railroad you mean the guys who scare
s into wiping their personalities in a
misguided attempt to keep them safe but
who am I to judge Kumi is convinced
she's a synth well we can settle that
right now ah Bethesda hey do we have a
synth named kassum Nano nope well the
railroad probably wouldn't have killed
and replaced the real Kumi so she must
not be a synth you're not a synth that's
the thing I'll never know for sure what
you you're you're not in the [ __ ]
records there a [ __ ] paper trail Kumi
says she's not going home because
something here is sus the children of
Adam are renting dea's old apartment and
he's worried they might find his stash
of incriminating memories so he assigns
us to pretend to be one of Adam's
faithful and infiltrate the church
welcome to the nucleus also known as the
most disgusting place I've ever seen
holy [ __ ] nobody in the Fallout Universe
showers but these guys extra don't
shower and instead spend their days
soaking in radioactive piss water they
even put it in their light bulbs I can
[ __ ] smell this place Children of
atam the time has come to sit here and
wait for someone else to solve all of
our problems up to this point the DLC
has been pretty great but this is still
Bethesda we're talking about and no
Bethesda game would be complete with at
least one [ __ ] Mission so to unlock
dima's memories we have to play Tower
Defense by way of Minecraft here we
learned that dimma killed the original
leader of far Harbor and replaced her
with a synth he's just as bad as the
Institute except this time we can
actually follow the thread of logic that
would lead him to do this we can either
convince him to turn himself in to be
immediately Courier 6 gr didn't even let
him get all the way in his knees then
all the towns folk you've helped over
the game stick up for you and agree not
to attack Acadia we could do that or we
could let it ride dimma pitches another
murder and replace scheme for the
children of Adam's leader High Confessor
tus honestly things between the children
and the town aren't even that bad if
Dima turns himself in that's the end of
the quest line they aren't even really
after each other all their faction
quests are completely unrelated but if
you want to go with dima's plan you can
either kill tectus or you can tell him
to get lost and pray to atomy never
decides to come back and destroy this
extremely fragile piece fortunately
1,000 hours of settlement building has
turned me into a professional Mason atam
has demanded we make peace with the
people of far Harbor atam also says that
back wall in the basement is his
favorite wall and you should never tear
it down or change it in any way no
matter which ending you pick for far
Harbor you will feel like scum and
that's great but as long as you don't
play it like a complete [ __ ] it'll
still end on the upbeat note that Kumi
goes back to her parents when the
Fallout fan base complains that Bethesda
could never develop a good Fallout game
this is the game you can slap him in the
face with it's a shame they didn't
retain any lessons from it do you guys
remember how vault tech built vaults to
run all kinds of crazy unethical
experiments have you ever wanted to
build your own well then you should play
fallout shelter but if you wanted to do
it in Minecraft I've got the $5 Fallout
for DLC for you in the vault tech
Workshop we can once again participate
in a vault experiment except this time
we get to be the perpetrator this one is
bad the experiments aren't even good or
funny also every time you place
something in the vault a little bit of
the nav mesh gets deleted so NPCs won't
walk on it but because all interior
cells share the same nav mesh whenever
you place something in this massive
interior cell you're slowly breaking
your game Bethesda was running an
experiment on us the whole time they
played us like a damnn fiddle speaking
of sick twisted experiments it's time to
talk about n world do you guys remember
the beginning of the video where I said
I like Fallout 4 well that included all
the DLC 2 even the absolutely worthless
ones even the one that straight up
breaks your game up to this point n
world is probably one of the most
tedious things I've ever had to play I
Was dreading finishing far Harbor
because I knew I would have to play this
next but it's time I need to go to n
world for some reason because some guy
we met told us to it doesn't even have
the thin veneer of looking for a missing
person he's just like I've been shot get
on the train When we arrive we find
ourselves trapped in Joker's Fun House
this isn't really a problem but at the
end we have to fight a guy who's
invented a bumper car Arena that makes
him immune to nuclear weapons the only
thing that can defeat him is a squirt
gun and also nuclear weapons for some
reason n World operates under the same
rules as the Santa Claus and killing the
previous overboss makes us the new
overboss yeah I can't imagine setting
that President will cause any problems
hey guys it's me big beak entertainment
and welcome to Nuka world now that I'm
the owner of the world's least dangerous
amusement part we'll be shaking hands
with danger as we meet the three carne
gangs that run the park the pack frat
Bros dressed like they're at a [ __ ]
Ed Festival The Operators a normal gang
that actually wants to make money and
the disciples the least homicidal
amusement park employees I feel like I'm
getting hepatitis just standing here now
that you're the overboss of this Raider
Triple Alliance you get to do all their
work for them if I'm the overboss why
can't I send literally anyone to do all
this this is a top down organization you
got to lead by example boss now you best
get to work conquering those other Parks
[ __ ] nuc world has five districts Kitty
Kingdom the world of refreshment dry
Rock Gulch Safari Adventure and Galactic
zone three of these are literally just
busy work but two are actually kind of
interesting in Safari Adventure you can
help Sito a man raised by gorillas
because for some [ __ ] reason Bethesda
already had the character model we'll
also need to contend with Oswald the
outrageous and his army of ghouls Oswald
is a children's magician who adapted to
the apocalypse by gaining actual magic
powers at first I thought this was just
for show but he does this [ __ ] when no
one's looking so he's just [ __ ] magic
whoever made n world was obviously not
the same guy who made far Harbor holy
[ __ ] far Harbor could have been its own
game nuk World shouldn't have even been
a side quest chain if far Harbor
embodied all the best qualities of
Fallout 4 n World embodies all the worst
qualities 90% of the quests are tedious
busy work there's no discernable theme
or story and besid cedo and Oswald
there's literally no interesting
characters in this entire DLC and
honestly these guys aren't even that
good none of these Raider characters
have any Nuance character development or
even any interesting ideas driving them
at least Caesar would spend 30 minutes
talking out of his ass about hegelian
dialectics it's almost like they made
this in response to a bunch of [ __ ]
complaints that you couldn't be fully
evil in Fallout 4 as if that was the
[ __ ] problem so they had add this $10
slice of nothing so these players could
act out their sadistic fantasies in a
video game instead of their middle
school I won't say it's never cathartic
to be a dick in an environment where
there's no consequences for it but if
I'm playing this for the story I at
least expect some [ __ ] story
catharsis this DLC is a lot of [ __ ]
nerve to reach back into the main story
by [ __ ] with the mineman quest line
turning your settlements Into Cash like
[ __ ] JG Wentworth then providing
absolutely no story around it but if you
were a loved one has been blue balled by
n world you do have recourse embrace
your inner Canadian and Liberate the
town single-handedly through extreme
violence and if you really want to have
a good time hit that quick save button
turn on God mode grab your Merv launcher
and make your game look like one of my
videos can I be real with you guys for a
second I don't get people that
passionately hate this game you like
Fallout 4 you've lost all credibility
damn you thought I had credibility me
the funny twocan man whose most
celebrated video is me bitching about
Charlie [ __ ] Brown is the writing
simplistic yes is any criticism You Can
level against this game valid yes are
the synthetic gorillas the stupidest
thing I've ever seen yes but do I give a
[ __ ] of course not because you can open
the door and watch them literally go
gorilla [ __ ] but why is Fallout 4 my
favorite Fallout game I don't fully know
there's something ineffable about
Fallout 4 for me and if I ever
unironically use the phrase Bethesda
magic I want you to shoot me in the face
with a gun but there's something about
this game I can't put my finger on maybe
it's the characters maybe it's the
setting maybe I just like the New
England Vibes I fully recognize the
game's flaws the weak villain for one
but also Fallout 4 really needed a
fourth act I just excavated a new
radioactive crater in the middle of the
city and Scattered hundreds of mad sign
scientist around the Commonwealth this
decision should have some blowback some
response some fallout Fallout 4 is a
collection of great ideas that don't
interact with each other in a meaningful
way it's disjointed and lends the game
in almost improvisational quality it
doesn't Elevate itself above its tropes
and results in a product that isn't
greater than the sum of its parts in
Fallout 3 you could blow through the
main story without even really absorbing
it New Vegas used factional conflict to
create branching outcomes that players
had to actively choose by prioritizing
quest lines of whatever faction they
were supporting Fallout 4 has similar
quests where you have to choose which
faction you're going to support but the
entirety of New Vegas every Quest every
character every interaction was built
around the main story of conflict
between the legion and CR and house I
can't think of a quest that doesn't
somehow inform the players's view of
that conflict and those factions in
Fallout 4 I'm not sure I could even tell
you what most of these factions actually
do here I can guess what they're about
but it's rare to see the literal impact
they have on the world I guess there's
something to be said for subtlety as
good as the story of New Vegas is it's
about as subtle as a brick through a
window characters will just tell you
their life story and moral philosophy on
man like they're queuing up for [ __ ]
Ted Talk Fallout 4 makes you work a
little bit harder for it but when you do
start putting in the effort and learning
about how characters are connected in
the lore you'll go oh wouldn't it be
cool if and you'll start seeing all the
missed opportunities Fallout 4 really is
a game of missed opportunities like
going to the Institute and learning that
Mayor McCheese actually is a synth
wouldn't it be cool to tell Piper and
see her reaction yeah it would have
overall Fallout 4 isn't a bad game or
even a bad Fallout game all of the
pieces for a really great and poignant
gamer here they just didn't [ __ ]
finish it I will also say that playing
without mods again feels like drag
racing on a [ __ ] penny farthing
bicycle that's why when Fanboys say
modders will fix Starfield with a
straight face I [ __ ] believe them I
can't think of another business that's
benefited as much from Free Labor as
since the [ __ ] plantation economy I
guess it's nice that the modders like
doing it but when I pay $60 for a video
game I don't like it to be with the
understanding that I'll have to download
20 nudity mods later because Jimmy the
Pervert is patching in the rest of the
story but maybe I'm giving Bethesda too
much credit after all it would be
disingenuous to suggest this isn't the
game they wanted to make and it's unfair
of me to pretend Fallout 4 is the game I
imagine it to be I just just wish they
would take that last step of curiosity
to ask why the [ __ ] any of these people
are
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here oh God please like And subscribe
please I want that [ __ ] plaque so
much here's the deal if half the people
who make it to the end of this thing
subscribe I can get it I can only put
something out once every 3 months anyway
so it's not like I'm going to spam your
subscription feed but anyway that's a
wrap on the Fallout Trilogy kind of
weird that it started with three and
ended with four but I guess Bethesda
just numbers these things however the
[ __ ] they feel like I thought about
making a video on Fallout 76 but I'm
worried that I wouldn't understand it if
I didn't play fallouts 5 through 75
first and since it looks like we're not
going to get Fallout 5 before the
[ __ ] heat death of the Universe I
originally wanted my next video to be on
Starfield but as a favor to Bethesda I
wanted them to get at least some DLC out
before I take a sledgehammer to it but
it turns out obsidian already made
Starfield except they called it the
outer worlds so the next video is going
to be on that but first a very special
surprise for a very special cohort of my
subscribers speaking of very special
subscribers I now have a patreon where
you can give me money in exchange you
get access to monthly Patron updates on
just what the hell I've been doing as
well as early video access including
access so early it might as well be
exclusive content I'm currently
torturing Myself by reviewing every
Disney Channel original movie ever made
but because that video is on the same
production schedule as Fallout 5 I'm
doing it segment by segment on the
patreon feed all that being said I want
to give a very special thank you to the
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and pointlessness and an extra special
shout out to all the taxpayers who
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