The Tragic Lore of Fallout’s New California Republic
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- The New California Republic is perhaps the Fallout Universe's most iconic faction. With its origins in Vault 15 and Shady Sands, the NCR's history begins in Fallout 1 and has continued throughout the franchise, even past the Amazon Prime TV Show.
Today, we explore its full story.
I’ve been up for like 30 hours haha. I’ll see ya gremlins tomorrow when I wake up to check the comments 👈👈😎
Get some sleep man you deserve it!
Sleep well pookie bear
You are officially my most favorite RUclipsr, bro you make the best videos
Only 30 hours? Todd Howard stays up 45 hours a day every day. No wonder you're falling off.
I appreciate you ❤
"If the legion breaks through our defenses, I've got one bullet I'm saving just for me" - Every other NCR Trooper
We won’t go quietly. The legion can count on that
@@CallofFreaky i mean... the gunshot will make a noise lol
@@loyalistmundicomedentisdux9538 That’s such an ominous line 🥺
Better dead than a slave to the red
New Vegas was the best fallout. I'd love to see a New Vegas 2.
Bro is makin movies now, the videos were long but the intro and whole animation style is absolutely amazing, props
“There is no future in the Bear or Bull. The Bear is diseased, barely clings to life. And the Bull… when the Legion reaches the sea, it will turn on itself and die. Killing one will end both.”
It was so diseased...that they had to nuke it's capital to stop it.
Why people take Ulysses seriously is beyond me. He's just a dude that deals with the hurt he was dealt with by trying to justify it somehow...and the way he chooses is bullshit.
“Bear Bull Bear Bull Bear Bull Bear Bull” suck my Anti-Material Rifle Ulysses. I ain’t listening to all that
@@James-thefogiscomingwait a second he’s definitely onto something don’t do that 😭
@@danlaskey6743 let em cook lmao
Ulysses is a self important narcissistic blowhard. I literally just finished NV, including Lonesome Road. Ulysses literally just saw us delivering a package and created a huge fanfic backstory in his head about us from just that one act. Then created a huge elaborate scheme to nuke the enemy of the clan that destroyed his own family. You think he would want to destroy the Legion, but nope. We're only given that option at the end once we deal with Ulysses.
Considering how suicidal most of the NCR soldier were during the battle of Hoover dam, I'm surprised they survived that long
The first battle or second?
Uh i think they just don’t want to be tortured
Or the battle of Helios 1. Apparently they had a lot of casualties there, too
Well if they lost the dam there wouldn’t be an NCR anymore
@@CallofFreaky not necessarily. You do realize they still hold all of southern California at least
Learning more about President Kimball makes me feel not so bad for murdering him in so many playthroughs tbh lmao
One head may be struck down, but the other will bite and fight until the end. The NCR shall not fade quietly into the night.
The NCR is quite literally just like the United States, too big to fall even if a single city is destroyed, if DC is destroyed for example there is still government and command structure elsewhere. The sign also says the FIRST capital of the NCR implying after New Vegas it was moved, possibly to a bigger city
@@Ranger_Brutus
This is some NeoCon level coping ngl. The whole point of the NCR is that they are a corrupt state repeating the mistakes of the former US. Too big to fall? Nothing is too big to fall.
hell yeah, we will not fall quietly. NCR for life.
We'll always have something the Legion doesn't. Super cool ranger armor
@@Ranger_Brutus Not really in how the wasteland is, the reason why most of the massive empires before travel got faster collapsed was due to lack of the ability to effectively enforce the capitals rule. The US has the benefit on not existing in that era and not getting massive till about the invention of the telegraph.
"Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter" -every NCR patrolman ever
even the desk workers be saying that
Well, they got their wish.
Can confirm, the Mojave is not meant for human habitation.
using phrases like " records on the subject are murky, all we know is that there's a second Battle of Hoover dam" etc. It's just really great because it keeps the immersion going and makes it feel like you're watching a documentary while still keeping the ambiguous player chosen stuff about the lore up to the viewer of the video / player. It's a really creative and stylish way of writing that I always look forward two for these videos. Keep up the great work, looking forward to more :)
There's another fallout lore youtuber called Synonymous who does this too it leaves it open to the viewer, while still explaining everything.
or, and here me out now, its because the next season of the fallout show, according to the hollywood pansy ass big wigs, is directly dealing with New Vegas in "film" after the events of the game. They've already adamantly maintained that the show is canon to the entirety of fallout ruling like 75% of the Sole Survivor's and Courier's endings nonexistent. By the Prydwen being in tact it means that either the Sole Survivor went with the Brotherhood or Minutemen, and from just the brief that we've seen of New Vegas it seems that either House's ending or NCR's ending are canon. My bet is going to be on a variation of House's ending for FNV because then the libshit producers can say "muh capitalism bad and everything needs to be a 1:1 vote" and somehow Lucy is gonna kill/disable House and the courier is gonna fuck off back to the divide or conveniently be in the Big Empty while this is all going on.
@@rougeofda21stcenturybreathe dude
Deliberately pretending past games are in a permanent lore limbo is unironically worse than choosing a canon ending for past games. The “canon” takes away absolutely nothing from your individual experience playing the game and you’re crying about a non issue right now.
@@Koifin3 if you’re replying to me, yes, the canon endings matter. Eventually, Bethesda is going to run out of actual interesting places for us to visit or see and old locations are going to have to be reused. If we revisit New Vegas, The Capitol Wastes, or The Commonwealth any point in the future timelines, certain aspects are going to have to be established for the game to function on a storytelling level. They can’t retconn everything (Jet) and expect players not to notice or just go with it without serious backlash, and the more blatant it is, the more that backlash will be.
Player agency is the biggest complaint with Fallout 4, and is the biggest reason why it is objectively the most disliked fallout. If players didn’t care about what’s canon and what isn’t, this wouldn’t be a complaint.
The Brotherhood has been on the path to becoming the antagonists of the series for a while now. It's only a matter of time before they go beyond the point of no return
I need to make this clear, this is by far the best fallout lore video ever made. I truly believe this, you really outdone yourself Nate. Telling it like it’s actual history is perfect and the editing is perfect. I hope to see more videos like this. Keep up the great work.
I recently played Fallouts 1 and 2 for the first time and they really enhance New Vegas. It's one thing to know the lore of the NCR but it's another thing to be in Shady Sands and in the other settlements and see how the future nation grew little by little. It's pretty surreal that the NCR arose from an isolated farming community and settlements like Junktown, The Hub and the LA Boneyard which had all of these internal problems but were able to overcome them
Uniting LA should be seen as a miracle
Vault 15, home of the NCR
My man. I have played all numbered Fallout games as they came out. New Vegas enhances the entire series.
Man good time. When the show had it nuked I was sad. I helped the town grow into the ncr. Made it longer than most apocalypse civilizations.
Always an impressive achievement given how miserable the first 2 games were to actually play, even by the standards of their time.
Fantastically done. The allegory of American politics, is laid out as simply as anyone could ask, and a modestly excellent primer for the Fallout show season 2. Excellent. I'm proud of your work here, and thankful for the many hours of free Skyrim and Fallout lore content that preceded it. Keeping myself and other's thinking of our favourite fantasy on lonely nights, and revealing secrets otherwise not connected. It may be a bit much, but truly a magnum so far.
Fallout show 🤢🤮
Kimball showing us once again what is so prevalent through history and fiction: Great military leaders don't necessarily make for good statesmen.
Not sure NCR education will cover how much of the pre-war history. If not, let's just say that much of its voter base could be easily manipulated by political campaigns.
Skyrim Legion:
Then there's Karl Franz, Prince and Emperor. We ignore End Times
Also Napoleon, but he had help from other people
@@Brother_O4TS Yes but that's why we remember them. They were exceptions, not the norm.
Let’s all give Nate a huge round of applause for the amazing performance over these great couple of years! Thanks so much for all of the great content and entertainment! 🎉
Honestly, learning its history has just made me love the NCR more. Despite its mistakes, its still really my favorite faction in fallout, kinda hoping it gets a resurgence in later material.
All the jet in fallout couldn’t keep me up for 30 hours. You’re a dedicated artist.
Wow I’ve been looking everyday for a new video and it’s finally here! And a banger as always🙏🏼
Nate! This is one of the best Fallout video I have ever watched.
You can see the love and care you put into your research and video making. Keep up the amazing work.
I just shouted outside my building window in NYC "TheEpicNate dropped another video!", and someone responded with "Fallout or Skyrim?!"
Lol
Nobody said that Lil bro
@@dudeydude354 As the guy that shouted "fallout or Skyrim?!" I think somebody said that little bro.
@@chesemydude nuh uh Lil bro
@@dudeydude354yeah huh lil bro then everyone clapped
Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish a new TheEpicNate video.
This is not meant to be a hate comment this is meant to be a parody of the meme "patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter".
I can't tell if this is a hate comment or not
This comment needs further editing to be read more clearly.
I liked/appreciated it.
What's up guys! It's your boy! Here to day to talk to you about how this is a historic comment! Ready to tell you FUTURE historians that THIS comment and comment responses is a TOTALLY.. ABSOLUTE PRODUCT OF ITS TIME.....
@@Billyboi76 haha it was a funny comment no offense taken!
"Dollars were not backed by nothing but faith in a republic."
That's wild imagine if we had such a crazy system in place today! /s
Thanks for giving me something to listen to at work!!!! Love the videos!!!
Oh, man! Nate put up something new so now I have to watch this... thanks a bunch!!!
Your videos are usually great but this one felt like you turned things up to 11!
The intro in particular was very cool and felt well polished ❤
Dude this video quality is insanely good, keep up the work nate, cannot wait to see what you come up with in the future!
This really helped clear up a few things for me, specifically why the NCR cared so desperately about gold mining in Redding in Fallout 2. I know there's a whole campaign in Redding, and that the NCR wanted access to the mines but I didn't internalize that NCR had moved to the gold standard.
so glad you made a vid like this i’ve been needing a full ncr docuvid to show my friends who’ve never played fallout why the show had me genuinely tweaking
ITS NATE HES FUCKEN BACK LETS GOOOO
Damn I see why ppl were mad all this lore just went away
Well done Nate. This is awesome. I love deep lore dives like this. Great work by everyone 👍👍
Been waiting for a video like this after the show ! Great job Nate thanks for staying up bro !
Nate, Nate never changes. Always top tier content!
I feel like people who started with Fallout 1/2 have a much different view than people that started with Bethesda NCR.
The fact that they combined the boneyard and shady sands into one city is a crime.
The fact that Fallout 1 put LA in the completely wrong place than where it is IRL is a crime.
@@markricheard1870 huh
@@markricheard1870 Shady Sands isn't a real place IRL lol? I'm talking about how the boneyard and shady sands are two completely different cities in the lore.
Shady sands isn’t at the boneyard in the show?? We haven’t even seen the boneyard itself?
@@LewisB3217 the boneyard is los angeles you dunce. The whole show takes place in LA hence the final battle.
That was fantastic, Nate! The later portions could use some editing- I know you probably can't show stuff from the Amazon show, but during the portions explaining the events of the show, having some B-roll footage instead of just the Caesar throne would probably help a little- I honestly thought the video on my tablet was fouled up for some reason. But the research here, the enormous amount of detail and the obvious love for the material... edits aside, this is probably the best video you've done yet. Loved every minute, thank you!
this is just a wonderful video and made just in time for the second season of the Fallout show and tells the history of the Iconic NCR very clearly. Another great video under your belt Nate.
damn man you been putting in work on these recent videos. loving the hustle but dont burn yourself out bro!
Thank you for all your hard work Nate .
Great to see you upload again Nate. Hope all is well.
I don’t think the NCR is dead, i think they are just going through a Minuteman Arc. Indecision, massive losses, being stretched too thin, and ineffective leadership caused the first iteration to die, but it will definitely rise again. With Cold Fusion lighting and warming Los Angeles and possibly beyond, the NCR Remnants can use this old world power…to begin again.
Meta Talk: Honestly i think the TV Show Season 1 was meant to be the actual ending of the NCR, but they are pulling back on that because that implication wasn’t received well. And it’s a good thing that they are listening to people’s criticisms and opinions. I honestly think Fallout Season 2’s NCR presence will be a late edition because people wanted them to stick around, so they may stand out compared to everything else.
And before you say it, no it wasn’t Todd Howard who wanted Shady Sands to be blown up. He didn’t even write the show, he just advised for lore additions and changes suggested by the actual writers and Showrunners. It was THEIR idea to blow up Shady Sands, and apparently Todd was actually apprehensive to approve it at first.
Ironically it was an original Pre-Bethesda Fallout Writer, Chris Avellone, who wanted this too, as he ironically holds opinions everyone accuses Bethesda of having: Chris wanted Shady Sands nuked in an effort to weaken them and create new chaos because if large swaths of land became solidified Civilizations, it wouldn’t really be a Fallout Story anymore, would it?
Despite getting what he wanted, Chris Avellone hates the Show due to petty reasons lol
Chris Avellone is a level designer, not a writer. But yes he did in fact wanted to nuke the NCR but Bethesda said no.
@@elvis5008he was a writer. He was also the project lead on the New Vegas DLCs. Nice attempt at spreading misinformation.
The cope in this comment is huge. Vagueness leads to the darkside. Making up lore to justify poor decision making.
Just curious, why does he hate the show for petty reasons?
@@callmelance4094 Look up his review of the show. Its pretty lengthy but it paints a clear picture that the writers of the show didn't research the lore that well.
Long time fan of your Elder Scrolls work ☺and just barely got into Fallout 😊I love listening to your videos, because you can tell how much work you put into them!
Somehow, this video seems particularly timely considering the state of things in a certain location.
Honestly, just considering the state of things in general
Is something going on in California?
@@RustyIv Sadly, there always is.
Perfect to listen to while I work away, thanks again Nate.
Doing this in the context of a historical documentary is just perfect.
This was so interesting to watch! Loved how you explored fallout lore.
This has been a fantastic year for Nate vids
THE NCR FLAG WILL NEVER FALL ‼️‼️‼️
Internal corruption will eventually cause it to fall
@@Imperial.Soldier what corruption? The Brahmin barons??
@@LewisB3217Bruh
Aaand the cucks are going wild with the terrible TV series hype!
The Brahmin barons Regaining power is due to people, losing faith in the NCR due to the corruption and its failing currency system. Go play through new Vegas and listen to the political discussions
...and when humanity needed him most, Nate returned.
The courier had something to say about the whole Hoover Dam situation. And what he did, who knows.
I suspect we'll find out in S2 of the fallout show. But hey, that's just a theory. A game theory!
@@Miss_TrilliumYou get a downvote for making a MatPat reference. No favors for that plagiarist and hack.
The cannon ending to the battle of Hoover Damn is that the sierra madre’s cloud engulfed both it and new Vegas after the tunnel era began burrowing into them leading to the city and damn being abandoned
@@CloakofAuronWhat did MatPat do?
@@CloakofAuron bruh is seething over a reference to a children's slop creator💀
Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish you save one bullet just for yourself, you can count on that
New fallout lore video to fall asleep to on a Friday? Is it Christmas already🤩
Nate, I've been watching your content for some time now but holy hekkin atom dude, you nailed it this time. Far better than I expected and any of your past videos.
Thanks for taking the time to break down such a lengthy subject! I wish this video existed back when the show came out for the new fans 😅 but it's here now, and you all did a great job
I would honestly love for the next fallout game to be set in California.
There's already so much great lore to base a story in. It could be set in a time after the NCR has fragmented and fallen apart.
Did anyone else think of the songs, "I Love You California" or "California Dreamin"? I sure did.
As a Californian, this level of painstaking devoted attention to my glorious people will get you everywhere
And now they make self checkout machines at Walmart. Woooow.
Criminally underrated comment here
In my country theres macchines like that since a lot of years
I love how this video is exactly 1:13:23 and not a second longer.
That was the perfect time to stop the video, good call Nate. 👏
It is always a good day when a new video comes out on nates channel
Absolutely brilliant work Nate. Insane how the views aren’t at least 4x higher
Holy crap, man. This video is on another level. Well done.
It's a good day any day Epic Nate drops a vid. Much love and appreciation my guy.
my man. thanks for uploading me and my friends were just talking about your vids a while ago
Got a 12 hour shift at work and i find this gem to pass the first hour 20 of the shift.
Awesome work man. Appreciate the work you put into these videos.
“I’ve got one bullet I’m saving just for me”
Nate has been the only consistent constant thing in my life
Patrolling the youtube recommended almost makes you wish for an EpicNate history video.
Videos like this. This is why you are the best. Hands down!
Very high quality, good job!
I will always and forever love the ncr. They are so cool, and it's a tragedy they're gone
They ain't
@@valentinoa8354 they aren’t gone, this video is wrong in that regard
A comprehensive feature-film length Fallout lore video? WE EATING GOOD TODAY
Thank you so much! Been waiting all week
Two things. First have you legitimately managed to run out of fallout and elder scrolls mysteries? Like I just want to know, cuz that's a damn hard task to accomplish and if you have that's a lifetime achievement.
Second, I really enjoyed essentially getting a documentary from inside the fallout universe about the New California Republic. This was a real neat change of pace from your normal stuff. There's just something charming about seeing a huge mystery from the in-universe perspective.
YEAHH BOI damn dude your production quality has gone crazy great job
From the game FNV itself tells us about the NCR, it was not doing good back home, to the point the NCR losing at Hoover Dam would in my opinion do the NCR more good in the long run then a victory.
Hey Nate it’s guys here. Love receiving new videos from you 👍
Great vid Nate. Amazing work.
EpicNate dropped a feature length NCR video. Didn't know I was getting wrecked tonight.
Thank you for what you do, Nate. 🖖
Fallout has taught us 2 things War has never changed and Greed gets us no where.
Glad to be vindicated for the countless yes man with upgraded securitrons. Hell, even house ending is better.
Thank you, I like the way you explain stuff and idk anything about the ncr. Have a good day
An hour long video at 2am ? fuck it we ball.
Another day another banger fallout video from Nate!
Oh man, that's where he's been, Nates been cooking.
Whenever the songs it's a man or the wanderer play on the radio is when Fallout is the best for me, didn't think the people who chose the music could be the most important people.
‘that is a story for another day’ rip Jason Damron
I needed this right now ! Thank you
Tandi seems like she was actually fairly good Looking for a 50-year-old wasteland survivor
You'd expect that kind of hard life would wear you down
Given the medications/ healthcare technology of the Fallout world is quite advanced, I am not surprised she survived that long given shes the President of the first real postwar nation
Come one Fallout season 2 or a new bloody Fallout game, we're all eager to get our teeth into what's going to happen next.
Thanks Nate this was frigging awesome 👌
Always a pleasure to watch your videos. Thanks for sharing. Great work.💯👍👍
I love your videos, so calming
*THE BEAR NEVER DIES, IT ONLY HIBERNATES.*
I AM EXCITE! How is it that like 10 years later I am still learning and loving these?
Excited for this after the fallout series. Always can trust EpicNate to give us one hell of an indeph video. Keep up the amazing work man!
Babe, get the popcorn a new Nate video just dropped!
Great video as always Nate!
Just makes me so sad to listen to this amazing build up, only to have the show basically kill the entire NCR as a faction off screen 😓
Right as I get off work, this is amazing.