How Ghouls are Made - Fallout Lore

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  • Опубликовано: 9 июл 2024
  • How does one turn from a human to a ghoul in the Fallout games? Here's the lore behind the Ghoulification process.
    Sorry about some of the video quality. The video capture software messed up at points.
    0:00 Intro
    0:45 Science in Fallout
    1:39 Radiation and Ghoulification
    1:57 Physical Changes
    2:35 Timeline
    3:49 Willing Pre-War Ghouls
    4:35 Benefits to Being a Ghoul
    6:15 Feral Ghouls
    7:38 Glowing Ones
    7:59 Discrimination
    9:28 Ghoul Communities
    9:50 Conclusion
    10:23 Outro
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    Lore sources used in this video: Halo Encyclopedia (2022 Edition), Halopedia, Halo The Rubicon Protocol, Halo Infinite.
    Video title: How Ghouls are Made - Fallout Lore
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  • @LoreTours
    @LoreTours  2 месяца назад +299

    Welcome to all the lovely people arriving to this video following the release of the Fallout TV show. If you're looking for more Fallout content, then I'd suggest checking out our 'How PipBoys work' video or many of our other Fallout videos here ruclips.net/video/QHZMlH7aY2Y/видео.htmlsi=ycVX7T7-xBqAOIdI

    • @delvinciposterkid
      @delvinciposterkid 2 месяца назад

      I have the theory that the ghoulification is caused by a drug primarily associated with the Pan Immunity Virion [PVP] that was rolled out as broad spectrum vaccine against biological/radiological weapons developed by China. The mutagenic properties of PVP was further researched leading to the Forced Evolution Virion [FEV] . This was hinted [? ] in the Fallout tv series when the Brotherhood squire with the broken foot got ghoulified after drinking a drug given by a "doctor".[btw SPOILERS]

    • @SmackheadGaming
      @SmackheadGaming 2 месяца назад +2

      Hate to be that guy but you're saying 'nuclear' wrong and it's grating

    • @mrbleak9873
      @mrbleak9873 2 месяца назад

      I love the passive aggression in your comment.

    • @RogerValor
      @RogerValor 2 месяца назад +1

      @@SmackheadGaming nucular. it is pronounced nucular.

    • @miiiimas
      @miiiimas 2 месяца назад

      @LoreTours as a fallout enthusiast - how did you like the new tv series? (I just got into the Games throught the series and had no clue of the lore before watching)

  • @PhantomSavage
    @PhantomSavage 2 месяца назад +466

    I always wanted to have "Ghoul" be a selectable player race when making a character. It probably wouldn't work story wise for any of the games except New Vegas, but from a gameplay perspective it could have some REALLY interesting contrasting pros and cons compared to a normal human playthrough.
    Some idea:
    Pros:
    - Radiation has no negative effects
    - Increased DT and limb durability
    - No drug addiction
    - Unique dialogue options and skill checks
    - Feral Ghouls and Super Mutants not automatically hostile (except raiders)
    Cons:
    - All drugs are 50% less effective and do not last as long, including stimpacks
    - Base -5 to speech and barter
    - Some factions and characters will lock you out of quests or refuse to sell you items (Brotherhood, Enclave, ect.)
    - Too much unchecked radiation can force the player to periodically enter VATS and attack a random target, including allies.
    You could have a lot of fun with unique themed perks too:
    Pre-War Knowledge -
    You're a pre-war Ghoul, you have forgotten more things than most know, and you just remembered some of it. Instantly gain a level and all its benefits.
    Glowed Up -
    Every level of radiation sickness increases your damage by 20%, but you emit a green glow that also gives you -10 stealth with each level of radiation sickness.
    Zombie Gourmand -
    Receive double the HP and AP when using the cannibal trait. Using the cannibal trait on other Ghouls and Super Mutants temporarily increases damage and DT.
    Undead Desperado -
    15% increase to accuracy and 20% damage increase for Western style weapons (revolvers, lever action rifles/shotguns, ect.) when using VATS.
    +2 Speech for all Western wear items (cowboy hats, duster coats, ect)
    A Ghoul playthrough would be very different but VERY fun.

    • @LoreTours
      @LoreTours  2 месяца назад +74

      It feels like a missed opportunity not to include Ghouls and other types of character starting origins in Fallout 76 rather than just having everyone come from the same vault. Feel like the unique nature of that game would have provided the perfect setup for Goul, wastelander, maybe even Super Mutant player characters

    • @SomeLibtard
      @SomeLibtard 2 месяца назад +5

      You can get addicted to alcohol after drinking 1 beer, but if you live in the glowing sea, popping all the Radaway & Radx in the wasteland nothing happens? 🤷‍♂️
      Pretty sure it was Fallout 3 you can get a Ghoul mask which when equipped Feral Ghouls won't attack you, but yes Ghoulification could have been a perk

    • @PerceptionVsReality333
      @PerceptionVsReality333 2 месяца назад +11

      I love this idea 💡

    • @dinobro3253
      @dinobro3253 29 дней назад +3

      Welp you predicted it.

    • @LoreTours
      @LoreTours  29 дней назад +3

      @@dinobro3253 pretty cool that they've finally added the feature, hopefully it's added to a fututre non 76 game too

  • @maxxbradley5003
    @maxxbradley5003 Год назад +948

    There is also a genetic factor, not everyone has the ghoulification gene so they pass

    • @twistedyogert
      @twistedyogert 2 месяца назад +14

      I guess it's a lot like the Hulk in Marvel comics.
      In the Marvel Universe, gamma rays would kill a normal human, but certain humans like Bruce Banner have a mutation in their genome that triggers superhuman abilities when the cells are irradiated.

    • @ZigealFaust
      @ZigealFaust 2 месяца назад +2

      thats just from natural exposure/nukes. You can 100% find many ways people have made themselves into ghouls via other means just like Virgil did with FEV and controlling becoming a super mutant that retained his memories.

  • @Yinzermakesvids
    @Yinzermakesvids 2 месяца назад +1538

    Couldn't imagine being stuck in a refrigerator for 210 years and not die

    • @matheuswesley7138
      @matheuswesley7138 2 месяца назад +51

      It remembers me Deadpool, that also happened to him

    • @connorwilcox146
      @connorwilcox146 2 месяца назад +26

      Yeah it’s a silly quest and probably shouldn’t be taken seriously

    • @randomshit65
      @randomshit65 2 месяца назад +36

      @@connorwilcox146he isn’t 💀 he’s saying it in a way like it would be horrible to be stuck in one, not that it couldn’t be true 😂

    • @yiosomething
      @yiosomething 2 месяца назад +7

      Maybe he was sleeping

    • @Vicus_of_Utrecht
      @Vicus_of_Utrecht 2 месяца назад +2

      ​@@yiosomethingsounds like not many had a meth binge- 36 hours under pseudosleep isn't um...

  • @Thelegendofme
    @Thelegendofme Год назад +322

    There's a chem that can prevent ghouls from becoming feral. This will be explained in the next major fallout release

    • @DivineLightPaladin
      @DivineLightPaladin 8 месяцев назад +13

      Please elaborate?! Where did you find this info

    • @mtsen771
      @mtsen771 2 месяца назад +164

      You were right lmao.

    • @tungoz7687
      @tungoz7687 2 месяца назад +34

      😂 ur right

    • @crezd5028
      @crezd5028 2 месяца назад +47

      Your the messiah dude

    • @Kopoloio137
      @Kopoloio137 2 месяца назад +32

      are you from Bethesda?

  • @Theaxemandaily
    @Theaxemandaily 2 месяца назад +80

    What I love about the series that recently dropped, is that one of the main characters is a ghoul.

  • @Nyck-Dee
    @Nyck-Dee Год назад +366

    My ideal fallout game has the additon of starting as either a Human, Ghoul or Super Mutant. If you start as a Ghoul you'd probably get a different starting location or even able to choose a different background and get different dialogue from the people you meet.

    • @victorymansions
      @victorymansions Год назад +50

      Player character as a Ghoul could be an epic storyline. After all they can exist for centuries, meaning the background history could be very complex and intriguing. It could also add a cool dynamic where humans aren't immediately talkative or trusting of you, so trust would have to be earned. A cool concept could be the aim of setting up your own Ghoul hideaway like Underworld, having to scour the wastes for particular things the place needs. Maybe you could even control ferals in certain locations when confronted with hostile humans on your travels. The more I think about it, the more I'm liking the angle!

    • @djentleman8116
      @djentleman8116 Год назад +30

      @@victorymansions no one could ever pay bethesda enough to work that hard

    • @triplethegrowth
      @triplethegrowth 8 месяцев назад +3

      Fallout 5 lore.

    • @alize0623
      @alize0623 6 месяцев назад +1

      100% agree and each mode could be a subtle difficulty increase

    • @00wrongun
      @00wrongun 2 месяца назад +2

      I made a Super Mutant friend in Fallout 3 back in the day lol

  • @ded2thaworld963
    @ded2thaworld963 Год назад +526

    Always wished we had a way to become a ghoul or super mutant, each would have it pros and cons.

    • @LoreTours
      @LoreTours  Год назад +79

      That would have been fun. SPECIAL skills of 1 for Intelligence and Charisma but 10 for strength for Supermutant characters

    • @LilMcMoffett
      @LilMcMoffett Год назад +12

      @@LoreTours about a 8 or 9 in Endurance

    • @TheRealLumpySpirit
      @TheRealLumpySpirit Год назад +11

      Iirc you could become a super mutant in one of the first two fallout games?

    • @ded2thaworld963
      @ded2thaworld963 Год назад +30

      @@TheRealLumpySpirit sorta, but it ended the game.

    • @agbag8185
      @agbag8185 Год назад +17

      Or choose race/species like in Elder Scrolls

  • @Gasgiant-ttl43
    @Gasgiant-ttl43 2 месяца назад +142

    I always imagined ghoulification as the end result of an ongoing dose of lethal radiation being treated with hundreds of stimpaks until you became a corpse who couldn't die. Anyway, loved the vid.

    • @aplix747
      @aplix747 2 месяца назад +23

      That would be an awesome canon and still keep things somewhat realistic. Maybe these high amounts of radiation cause the effects of the stimpaks to "bake into" the person? Stimpaks could be embryonic stem cells that have been super-boosted by something similar to FEV, causing them to rapidly regenerate cells. Perhaps that effect becomes slightly permanent when baked into a person?

    • @djiahfalls1977
      @djiahfalls1977 2 месяца назад +2

      I like this theory

    • @neliusbresnan3766
      @neliusbresnan3766 2 месяца назад +4

      Thats a fun idea. Similar to an idea I had for any D&D type game with healing magic. Remember all those times a healing potion healed you for 8 hit-points when you only needed 7 to get back to full strenth. So where did that one extra hitpoint go? Was it just completely-wasted? I say no. I say its had a longer-term effect on their bodies. And that is why aging adventurers are still far stronger and more capable and age more-slowly than NPCs.

  • @LearnOffice365
    @LearnOffice365 2 месяца назад +45

    great show goggins as the ghoul is perfect casting.

  • @smincesmeat316
    @smincesmeat316 Год назад +328

    My thought on feralisation is that it’s less to do with the mind not regenerating, and more with how it would regenerate; If you snap a big chunk off a vinyl disc and somehow replace that chunk with blank vinyl, that song is still irreparably damaged and unplayable. And, in fact, the whole disc suffers from it.
    Or maybe it is just brainrot and I’m reading too much into it.

    • @LoreTours
      @LoreTours  Год назад +60

      That's a really good theory and would make so much more sense than the regenerative abilities not extending to the brain. Love that analogy with the vinyl record as well, brilliant job 👏

    • @matthewbartley2746
      @matthewbartley2746 Год назад

      Hadn't even considered that.
      It's very well possible that their brain also regenerates overtime but in doing so.. becomes the cancer scar tissue blank neurons and synapses like the rest of their body.
      Bad wiring and no programing leaving them little more than instinct to feed and fight/flight.
      That's an absolutely incredible and now that it's out there... seemingly obvious possibility.

    • @TimberWulfIsHere
      @TimberWulfIsHere 2 месяца назад +2

      That's not how brains work

    • @OG-97
      @OG-97 2 месяца назад

      Youre dumb ​@@TimberWulfIsHere

    • @autophreaktrishield
      @autophreaktrishield 2 месяца назад +3

      You know brain rot, blank repair and flawed repair aren't mutually exclusive.
      Even if you manage to put the original record piece back it still sounds different.
      Blank piece put in as stated alters the content
      And rot does kind of occur with audio recordings

  • @kriswinklmann6401
    @kriswinklmann6401 Год назад +75

    Picture any female ghouls voice and how it sounds now imagine that voice saying mmmmmhh Homer!

    • @DivineLightPaladin
      @DivineLightPaladin 8 месяцев назад +2

      Eh it's deeper than Marge

    • @user-ym4xy6us5e
      @user-ym4xy6us5e 2 месяца назад

      HAHAHAHA. Mmmmmm, Homie, come to bed. I love it when you nuzzle my neck before we snuggle. XD

  • @vinylpeaches9741
    @vinylpeaches9741 Год назад +25

    Wonderful video! Well edited, well paced and well done all around. Hope to see more 🥺

  • @gachalordnoobie4911
    @gachalordnoobie4911 6 месяцев назад +29

    It is likely that ghouls do not need to eat at all. After all the ghoul child Billy we meet in Fallout 4 has been locked inside a fridge where he hid when the bombs started falling and he has been stuck inside that fridge for over 200 years. In all that time (aside from being ghoulified) he has not aged a day and survived all that time without any food or water (though he may have possibly drank at least some water did get inside the fridge during rains so perhaps he did drink at least a little over the two centuries he has been stuck in that fridge.
    We also do not know whether ghouls are actually immortal or just live a very long time - as there has simply been no case of a ghoul dying of old age. Their appearance would suggest the former as it would appear that their cells dying and regenerating are in near-perfect synchronization, essentially being replaced with identical new ones as soon as the old ones die. This would mean practical immortality, or at the very least a lifespan so impossibly long that it basically makes no difference.
    It is also highly implied that ghouls going feral is more of a mental problem than a physical one. Hopelessness and loss of will to live seem to accelerate this process significantly. This appears to be the reason why some ghouls have lived for over 200 years and appear to be in perfect condition (for a ghoul) while others become feral shortly after turning, it is all about their mental state. Two ghouls were actually trying to find a cure for ghoulification, but once they realized they could not - they immediately turned feral because they lost hope.

  • @TheNumber1RatedSalesman1997
    @TheNumber1RatedSalesman1997 Год назад +45

    fantastic delivery & pacing !
    only nitpick is missing information about not all people being able to become ghouls; most simply die of radiation-
    but regardless, love the editing & quirky questioning of the listener(s) !

    • @LoreTours
      @LoreTours  Год назад +11

      Thanks dude, means a lot.
      Ah thought I mentioned that at the beginning, must have forgot to add it into the final script! Thanks for the feedback :)

    • @TheNumber1RatedSalesman1997
      @TheNumber1RatedSalesman1997 Год назад +1

      @@LoreTours perhaps it slipped my mind when leaving my comment-
      if so i do apologize !
      i'll have to give it another listen sometime !
      & thank you kindly for the reply, truly appreciate it !

  • @MarzieMalfoy
    @MarzieMalfoy Год назад +61

    I honestly have always wanted a choice in the vanilla game to start as a ghoul or become one.

    • @A4FORMATAS
      @A4FORMATAS 2 месяца назад

      Wow undead rogue looks just like it.

    • @skyetyga2585
      @skyetyga2585 2 месяца назад +2

      U can get the foul mask in fallout 3 and just rp from that point as if youd been turned (there’s a ton of gouls there and u could easily make that your secondary starting point) I can’t help but grab the mask every time I play bc it lets you walk with the fouls as if you are one

    • @liquidsleepgames3661
      @liquidsleepgames3661 2 месяца назад +2

      ​@@skyetyga2585 but there isn't a mechanic behind it really you still get treated like a vault dweller/wastelander.

  • @AjSteele21
    @AjSteele21 Год назад +26

    I feel like I just sat it one of the best lectures in college about ghouls. Hell of a video mate

    • @LoreTours
      @LoreTours  Год назад +1

      Ahahaha thanks mate 😊

  • @MrSmilingDeath
    @MrSmilingDeath 2 месяца назад +85

    I always just assumed the wild, outlandish mutations, like ghoulification and enlarged creatures, were probably caused by a unique, occasional mix of radiation and trace amounts of FEV that might have somehow gotten into the atmosphere.

    • @Dark-Avennger
      @Dark-Avennger 2 месяца назад +1

      Well FEV is a virus and they will end up propagating into the environment like one, especially a virus that’s immune to radiation and gives its hosts similar immunity

    • @greystorm7862
      @greystorm7862 2 месяца назад

      Vault 34 kills the ghoul part.

  • @Idolhands7007
    @Idolhands7007 2 месяца назад +19

    You might be surprised to find out that radiated drinks were indeed advertised as a health product. Around the turn of the century or earlier I believe.

    • @mtpstv94
      @mtpstv94 2 месяца назад +8

      It was great until your jaw literally fell off. It happened due to people taking such products for "health".

  • @lonewonderer7657
    @lonewonderer7657 Год назад +86

    I'm definitely sad how they changed the art style of the ghouls in FO4 & FO76 as i was a fan of it for previous games, each ghoul's appearance was unique and honestly very terrifying as you could see bits of skin falling of them and some would even have different skin color

    • @creativename6126
      @creativename6126 Год назад +13

      They are probably more visually interesting but I find it hard to believe any off them could survive in the wasteland. They are actively decomposing so it’s hard to believe they could stick around for so long

    • @thelocalmothman
      @thelocalmothman Год назад +12

      @@creativename6126 personaly like the new ones as they look completely plausible

    • @maddoxio
      @maddoxio 2 месяца назад +20

      ​@@creativename6126 Yeah, current Ghouls with permanent scarring instead of rotting flesh makes more sense to me.
      I like both looks, and I do want both to remain canon, but the old Ghouls are literally falling apart. No way they're living 200-300 years

    • @poppers7317
      @poppers7317 2 месяца назад +1

      Who cares what makes sense when it makes the games more boring.

    • @user-ym4xy6us5e
      @user-ym4xy6us5e 2 месяца назад +1

      @@poppers7317 A game is more engaging when its universe is somewhat believable.

  • @sp0opy317
    @sp0opy317 Год назад +19

    The way I think of fallout radiation is it’s just a unique kind of radiation that doesn’t exist irl causing it to have its own unique affect like becoming a ghoul

    • @LoreTours
      @LoreTours  Год назад +4

      That's the best way to think about it, it has its own rules in Fallout

    • @Melanrick
      @Melanrick Год назад

      Or maybe the government just released FEV to the general population... That would make radiation works crazy unpredictable. And if we stop to think about it... If the gov wanted to ensure that it would still have life on earth, then releasing the FEV its pretty much mandatory.

  • @america8706
    @america8706 2 месяца назад +18

    With the release of the FO tv show, I wonder if Lucy might be becoming a ghoul as we see her able to move one of her digits replace with another quite some time after the original had seen a catastrophic injury. I think it would be really neat to see the very pretty main naive character of the story turn into a ghoul over time as the Wasteland does some similar mutating of her morals at the same time.

    • @bexs9400
      @bexs9400 2 месяца назад +2

      That would be so cool and would make her parallel with cooper even more interesting

    • @SclountDraxxer
      @SclountDraxxer 2 месяца назад +6

      Would be interesting but I doubt it because her finger was surgically attached by Snip Snip, not by simply jamming a finger back on her hand.

  • @juliamccoll5732
    @juliamccoll5732 Год назад +115

    I think Hancock would've been an interesting case to add here, as he says he somehow ghoulified himself through the use of chems. A strange case, to be sure!
    Really enjoyed your video though. ☺️ You have a lovely voice for narrating!

    • @LoreTours
      @LoreTours  Год назад +16

      Good point! Yes interesting how the side effects of a radiation drug managed to turn him into a Ghoul. Thanks :)

    • @Xxsorafan
      @Xxsorafan Год назад +11

      Really? I wish he had more human features than looking like the rest since he’s new in the ghoulification compared to others that got it from the pre war era

    • @samuelprince4719
      @samuelprince4719 Год назад +7

      Gotta love Hancock. Knowingly ghoulified himself to try a new drug 🤣 don't think I'd do it personally. Skin and facial features falling off would be so messed up 🤮

    • @applegamer20
      @applegamer20 6 месяцев назад +3

      There was also Eddie Winter who used experimental treatment to become a ghoul before the Great War before hiding out in his bunker

    • @MisterWiza
      @MisterWiza 2 месяца назад +5

      Funny how the TV show made this relevant again

  • @dono9088
    @dono9088 Год назад +25

    You should have way more subs man, this is very entertaining and informational

  • @Paradox9Nine
    @Paradox9Nine 2 месяца назад +8

    Hey, I loved the jazzle dazzle music

  • @CianGmanHD
    @CianGmanHD Год назад +16

    Straight away sub ,no annoying intro I appreciate it .

  • @JTL1776
    @JTL1776 Год назад +5

    Amazing work...
    Keep it up you'll have millions of subscribers in no time...

    • @LoreTours
      @LoreTours  Год назад +1

      Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!😀

  • @OmenGoldhelm
    @OmenGoldhelm Год назад +4

    Amazing Documentary please do more Fallout videos like this!

    • @LoreTours
      @LoreTours  Год назад +1

      Thanks! Fallout is pretty fun to cover, so much lore.

  • @valennieto9795
    @valennieto9795 Год назад +3

    Great vid!

  • @Melanrick
    @Melanrick Год назад +8

    I have a theory about ghouls... So, if everyone could become one, then the amount of dead on the aftermath of the Nuclear Holocaust would be very low. They would mostly have died by damage. However, things like open vaults that were designed to work that way suggest that somehow the higher lvs of government and personal were expecting something like that to happen.
    So the key here is: What if the FEV was released into the general population in very, very lower dosages and they just waited to see what would happen when the bombs fall out? People who got exposed much would survive ground 0 explosion and others would just have enough to survive the hardships of the land... Especially because every vault dweller we play as in the games seems to be highly affected by radiation, while everyone else aint...
    And if i would think like a scientist then, the release of FEV into the general population in various degrees would be a control group for observation and improvement of the virus, especially by having something to compare in the labs. Not only that, but having actual human beings alive in vaults make it so every change is possible to catalog and compare... And if we were to take it a step further, it would explain why in a certain point it would be so hard for even the institute to get a fresh body that haven't gone into decay by "radiation" even though there are plenty of vault dwellers around, but a baby would be in pristine conditions by have not being exposed to any kind of FEV...
    Also, if they knew that the war was going to break out and vault tec wanted to preserve the world biome, then surely they would have released the FEV to the whole planet in order to ensure something would have survived and then just watch what happens...

  • @connshawn4921
    @connshawn4921 2 месяца назад

    Love this video! Can't believe how underrated this channel is

    • @LoreTours
      @LoreTours  2 месяца назад

      Glad you enjoyed it!

    • @user-ym4xy6us5e
      @user-ym4xy6us5e 2 месяца назад +1

      Underrated channels are about the only thing that makes RUclips better than boring, homogenized, old TV cable. I feel conflicting emotions when a channel I have followed for years becomes broadly popular.

  • @Mordraneth
    @Mordraneth Год назад +21

    I could have sworn pre-FO3, Ghouls were created by exposure to a very small level of FEV and dosed with high levels of radiation. Harold states as much in FO1. I know it isn't canon now, but, I like the original idea that it takes FEV and radiation, plus the genes to even survive the process.

    • @finn_in_the_bin5263
      @finn_in_the_bin5263 Год назад +3

      Yes and no. The real truth is that for the first two games the devs couldn't even agree on what caused it- some said what you said, others that fev is deadly to any ghoul

  • @marshmallowfluffbun
    @marshmallowfluffbun Год назад

    I love seeing new fallout lore content! I love this video! It was great! >_

    • @LoreTours
      @LoreTours  Год назад +1

      Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it 😀

  • @MrPickles1456
    @MrPickles1456 Год назад +9

    The non freal goul in camp search light is my favorite

  • @servingtime
    @servingtime 2 месяца назад +2

    I wish you could encounter a "fresh" ghoul in the games, someone who is living somewhere isolated, unknowingly living in radiation. Confused about what is happening to them, panicking, still has their hair but about to turn. Meeting them would start a quest of somekind

  • @orestedemartinis1377
    @orestedemartinis1377 Месяц назад +9

    So Deadpool is kind of a ghoul?

  • @user-gt7wm5bj6h
    @user-gt7wm5bj6h 2 месяца назад

    music on point, ty!

  • @grizzlyauto2.029
    @grizzlyauto2.029 2 месяца назад +1

    Been playing since the day FO3 came out on PS3, glad to see more people getting into the series!

  • @GS-vb3zn
    @GS-vb3zn 2 месяца назад

    Lore. Lore! LORE! And even more more lore. Can’t get enough of videos that have lore in the title, can we, folks?

  • @s.p.a.v.
    @s.p.a.v. 2 месяца назад

    Nice video, thanks!

  • @statusquo8958
    @statusquo8958 Год назад

    This is an awesome video

  • @chanm01
    @chanm01 Месяц назад +1

    Nice work! I wish more lore videos would provide citations for the main points, either in the video itself, or in the comments. I'm sure a lot of research goes into scripting these videos, so it's kind of a shame not to make that info more widely known.
    Anyway, found this after seeing the show. I really enjoyed it, but one of my nitpicks was that it felt like maybe the writers took some liberties with the ghoul lore. I'm still not sure why they needed to invent ghoulification drugs and anti-feral drugs.

    • @LoreTours
      @LoreTours  Месяц назад +1

      That's a good point on the citations. The Wikis are usually a good starting point to get an idea for the lore, then you have to dive deeper into the specific references mentioned on the wiki, exploring the game dialogue for yourself, going through reference books, logs etc.
      Been a while since I made this one but I feel a lot of the info came from dialogue and the computers of the doctor in Underworld.

  • @Ldg0111
    @Ldg0111 2 месяца назад +27

    Can they produce children or did it also fall off

    • @syto24
      @syto24 2 месяца назад

      In New Vegas you can have sex with a ghoul so I guess they do have it

    • @paladinfoxx6574
      @paladinfoxx6574 2 месяца назад

      No they're sterile, but they still have working privates

    • @NewkingVR
      @NewkingVR 2 месяца назад +12

      In fallout shelter it's proven because if you put a human dweller and a ghoul in a living quarter they have baby

    • @torrentialrage
      @torrentialrage 2 месяца назад

      what is they reproduce like fish

  • @ValentinaDiNapoli-bh7ds
    @ValentinaDiNapoli-bh7ds 2 месяца назад

    Such a wholesome video 💕

  • @humpadumpathump5918
    @humpadumpathump5918 2 месяца назад +1

    I love the background music

  • @maeburekaiser
    @maeburekaiser 2 месяца назад +2

    I have wondered if the ghoulification, especially of the survivors from the bombs dropping, had something to do with worldwide exposure to radiation prior to the apocalypse.
    They were constantly exposed to radiation of various levels through their consumer technology.
    We have now seen that animals in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone have fairly quickly evolved to survive long-term radiation exposure. Not by becoming immune to the radiation itself but fighting off the cancer that such exposure normally produces.
    Radiation is a mutation catalyst, a pretty powerful one. So humans exposed to what we would consider very harmful levels of radiation, but still not high enough to trigger acute radiation sickness, may have been evolving to survive the effects of radiation exposure in the time leading up to the bombs dropping.
    So that when it happens, and they are exposed to higher levels, they are genetically primed to essentially become Deadpool-lite under the right conditions.
    Radiation exposure then becomes a kind of catalyst for things like regeneration. Or to soak up and hold onto radiation in their cells.

  • @AshGreen359
    @AshGreen359 Месяц назад +3

    According to the TV show, all you need is an injection

    • @danamania150
      @danamania150 Месяц назад

      Lore breaking shit show

    • @intermsofreality
      @intermsofreality Месяц назад +1

      @@danamania150 Hancock from Fallout 4 became a ghoul by taking a drug as well, so I don't see what lore is being broken here. Sounds to me like you need to brush up on the lore yourself. Or are you one of those 'Bethesda lore isn't canon' types?

  • @huntermac2012
    @huntermac2012 2 месяца назад +1214

    whos here after watching fallout tv show📺

  • @AstralMystic
    @AstralMystic Год назад +1

    I really need to play the older Fallout games! I was introduced to the universe only recently with 76. And these creepy and memorable quests you speak of - I'm not disappointed, because yeah... not so much in that one. A couple of the sentient ghoul characters do have somewhat decent stories I guess (though I will guess that that lack of ability to be fully interesting is mostly to blame on these ones - and the post-war world itself, being still so much younger.) And large waves of ferals in places well known to spawn them can be a bit horrifying and challenging in the early game...

    • @NewOrderOfAlexandria
      @NewOrderOfAlexandria 2 месяца назад

      Not even modern Bethesda compares to the PS3 era games they made, I still haven't played the original three (there was a spin off after 2) either, but the franchise seems more interesting the further back you go.

  • @lokis7740
    @lokis7740 2 месяца назад

    Didn't know much about fallout until I heard the series came out, sounds cool as hell being a Ghoul!

  • @ledgengoad6214
    @ledgengoad6214 Год назад +3

    In the next fallout game you should get to play as a ghoul from ground zero somewhere

  • @gooo1762
    @gooo1762 2 месяца назад

    Sick video

  • @dahlinthefiend
    @dahlinthefiend 2 месяца назад +2

    Prejudice against ghouls tracks perfectly with humanity. Ostracizing the people who got it the worst in the whole mess.

  • @BigWoodzCBCL
    @BigWoodzCBCL 2 месяца назад

    There is something peaceful about listening to someone explain Fallout over hotel lobby piano music!

  • @travispeterson5359
    @travispeterson5359 2 месяца назад +1

    I watched a very interesting video the other day by one of the major players involved in the creation of nukes and civilian reactors and he flat out stated that radiation is not dangerous and was only made scary to keep people from stealing the plutonium.

  • @stilloading5652
    @stilloading5652 2 месяца назад +5

    Shoutout to Billy Peabody

  • @yepisuredolikecats3979
    @yepisuredolikecats3979 2 месяца назад +1

    I wonder if any of them try to fashion cosmetic items to compensate for missing noses or exposed muscles, like prosthetics

  • @Facemob1941
    @Facemob1941 2 месяца назад

    I was super excited to see you use footage from the original top down rpg. Fallout 2 is the best of any of the games. I wish they would put out an update

  • @projectboy5409
    @projectboy5409 Год назад +9

    Part of me wonders if we could ever seen born ghouls. It was a plot in the canceled van Buren game. That have all the good parts of ghouls but also can breed with humans.

    • @finn_in_the_bin5263
      @finn_in_the_bin5263 Год назад +1

      Well the big issue with that is that ghouls can't just 'not breed with humans', they can't breed at all. The radiation sterilized them. There may be a workaround for that- perhaps ghoulification in the womb?- but while I think it would be absolutely awesome, I also think it would be VERY hard to pull off

    • @projectboy5409
      @projectboy5409 Год назад

      @@finn_in_the_bin5263 Well I don't think a female ghoul can get pregnant however a male may not be. From what I heard about the van Buren it was about a scientists wanting to create army of born ghouls. We learn humans and born ghouls are compatible because if your male you can romance a female born ghoul

    • @finn_in_the_bin5263
      @finn_in_the_bin5263 Год назад

      @@projectboy5409 I mean yeah I'm sure there's a way for it to be possible but I'm pretty sure I remember hearing that the men are just as sterile as the women in one of the games

    • @projectboy5409
      @projectboy5409 Год назад +1

      @@finn_in_the_bin5263 in the wiki page it kinda talks about how at that point the had only made 3 because of the low success rate of well making them.

    • @finn_in_the_bin5263
      @finn_in_the_bin5263 Год назад

      @@projectboy5409 I wonder if some sort of invitro was used? Like maybe it's not that the men don't have any swimmers but that they're just weaker/tend to die before they make it to the egg or something?

  • @zargouellette3668
    @zargouellette3668 Год назад +10

    Imagine playing a fallout game where your character became a ghoul.

    • @easypete975
      @easypete975 Год назад +3

      It could add an interesting aspect.. a weak feeble ghoul that is looked down on by all.. and you must traver5the waste land with a new perspective

    • @samuelprince4719
      @samuelprince4719 Год назад

      I think it'd be great as a story about a ghoul or just a mechanic of becoming a ghoul at any point. But personally I'd love a full story about someone who becomes a ghoul. The ghoul from nuke break is a great character. You'd be weaker, suffer more limb damage but heal over time, heal from rads and be shunned and judged by almost everyone you meet.

    • @finn_in_the_bin5263
      @finn_in_the_bin5263 Год назад

      There technically are more than one of those- they're called 'super fucking cool ghoulification mods' XD

  • @FrankAndrews
    @FrankAndrews Год назад +2

    Ghoul mercs would legit be tough to deal with.

  • @iamjaysaul1169
    @iamjaysaul1169 2 месяца назад +1

    what a lovely musical score in the backgroud - who is it ?

  • @DoctorFuzworth
    @DoctorFuzworth 2 месяца назад +1

    So note that I haven't watched the show but it seems like thell go feral just givin enough time if they dont have what ever that chem is he takes. whats up with that?

    • @donglegs
      @donglegs 2 месяца назад

      Guess they thought it jazzed the world up a bit by making the stakes higher and giving people more reason to distrust ghouls

  • @55sfg55
    @55sfg55 16 дней назад +1

    0:47 in reality people drinked "radioactive water" because they thought it maked them stronger, more fertile, helped them with their vitality etc... for example radithor.

  • @jamesboulger8705
    @jamesboulger8705 Месяц назад

    Im here because in the original game, Harold apparently is ghoulified from the FEV, which always struck me as a deep inconsistency.

  • @jackpetersen7231
    @jackpetersen7231 2 месяца назад +56

    The music is a bit to loud

  • @irisdaniels2318
    @irisdaniels2318 9 месяцев назад +13

    ghouls arent actually rotten, fun fact. their appearance is due to burns and constant regeneration, leading to a mangled appearance.

  • @williamthomas5215
    @williamthomas5215 Месяц назад

    “I’d give you some cherry tomatoes but you got a hole in your neck”
    - some ghoul badass

  • @dbiedler
    @dbiedler 2 месяца назад

    Thank you.

  • @Neuralatrophy
    @Neuralatrophy 2 месяца назад

    Another thing I pointed out to a friend of mine is that in the fallout universe, they dropped the nukes wrong. They actually had a smaller blast radius and longer lasting radiation more in line with the Chernobyl event than with Hiroshima and Nagasaki which were basically clear of serious radiation in around a decade, both of which were detonated at high altitudes for a larger blast and burn radius.

  • @kieranmilner4208
    @kieranmilner4208 5 месяцев назад +3

    I wanna see a ghoul clut in fallout as they’re basically immortal

  • @kobe1shinobi37
    @kobe1shinobi37 Год назад +2

    Ah here I am again. Watching fallout lore videos. Re-learning the same information I have already acquired through 1000s of hours playing the games. Yet I never learn. The cyclical nature of existence holds me firmly. Maybe the only escape for me would be true nuclear flame passing over the land I live, eradicating me from reality. Until then I will find myself here again in a slightly altered form. A different video, a different creator. Yet I will be back there is no escape. War never changes.

  • @ModdedGarage
    @ModdedGarage 2 месяца назад +2

    My personal thoughts on the whole radiation ideology I that we believe this is solely based on our own radiation technologies.
    But in reality there are numerous different types of radiation in the universe, possibly endless different types.
    What if the bombs made in fallout weren't like ours at all.

  • @jrasealexander5480
    @jrasealexander5480 Год назад

    Hey lore, great vid, but you kind of missed the mark. In the Fallout universe during the bombardment of the great war pre-war facilities containing several strains of the FEV virus. THIS COMBINED WITH GAMMA RADIATION is what actually causes all the mutations seen throughout the flora and fauna of the US wasteland.

    • @LoreTours
      @LoreTours  Год назад +5

      Thanks! In most cases that's correct, but not with Ghouls oddly. Originally the devs went with the FEV explanation then retconned it to say just radiation causes Ghoulification. That's why Desmond and Eddie Winter were able to ghoulify themselves prior to the war and FEV exposure :)

  • @dougsholly9323
    @dougsholly9323 2 месяца назад

    Those is interesting. This is basically how I understood the whole process, but I recently watched the Fallout series on Amazon. While I love the series, and for the most part, they are spot on with the lore, this is one sticking point for me. In that series, they imply that becoming a ghoul can be done via chemistry... possibly irradiated chemistry though. And, it seems that a specific drug (the name slips my mind at the moment) is what is required to prevent becoming feral, and lacking it means becoming feral is inevitable. That seems contrary to this synopsis and my understanding of ghouls.
    The series is very entertaining, though, and Coggins was really good as the ghoul.

    • @user-ym4xy6us5e
      @user-ym4xy6us5e 2 месяца назад +1

      Lately, new reincarnations of any given Intellectual Property seldom adhere to the lore. The writer/director is always too prideful, and too beholden to woke interests to write and direct unique and creative scripts. They are capable only of twisting the old stories to suit woke agendas, because evil cannot create but rather excels at perverting all that was once good.

    • @dougsholly9323
      @dougsholly9323 2 месяца назад

      @@user-ym4xy6us5e in general, this may be true (not sure about "evil" though), but Todd Howard was the executive producer, so I am less inclined to believe that is the reason.

  • @exonac3968
    @exonac3968 Год назад +1

    This is wonderful. Thank you for romanticizing being a ghoul. The music fits perfectly.

  • @captainbean3114
    @captainbean3114 2 месяца назад

    around 9:20ish you mention Jason Bright implying that he and his group of followers were able to repair the rockets, but Jason himself reveals to you that without the human-scientist (forgetting his name) they never could have achieved it.

  • @joshuamiles5293
    @joshuamiles5293 2 месяца назад +1

    I say a fallout that you can become a super mutant or ghoul through the game itself. You could go ghoul fairly easily but super mutant would be either chance you survive being captured by super mutants (unlikely) or either find or make your own FEV and dose yourself to become one

  • @willcarroll8438
    @willcarroll8438 2 месяца назад

    Nice jazz music can you tell me what it is?

  • @blackxwhite123
    @blackxwhite123 2 месяца назад +1

    it only takes 1 shot and 2 seconds to become a ghoul if your name is Thaddeus.

  • @dolby8551
    @dolby8551 Год назад +3

    Kid in the fridge was probably just meant to be a funny joke and the devs didn't realise it would be lore breaking

    • @LoreTours
      @LoreTours  Год назад +1

      Very true, seems like the lore changes every game just to suit off handed jokes or new mechanics

  • @WeirdCongs
    @WeirdCongs 2 месяца назад +26

    So Deadpool is a ghoul ?

  • @victoriabryer4710
    @victoriabryer4710 Год назад +1

    Imagine finding a ghouls who rotted on the inside, and they need a power suit to walk around. They will still look like a smoothskin but sound like a ghoul.

    • @LoreTours
      @LoreTours  Год назад

      Interesting concept, guessing they'd avoid most discrimination faced by Ghouls but still have most of the benefits of being a ghoul, if you consider them benefits that is...

  • @уничтожитьУкраинурадиславы

    A Niche topic that not many people care about broken down into detail?
    YES LETS GO!!! And an angelic voice to walk me through a perfectly paced video. Wonderful all around.

  • @73Emlo
    @73Emlo 2 месяца назад

    Awww, Gary!

  • @allstarzombie_7
    @allstarzombie_7 Год назад +3

    I want to be like Harvey dent and be half ghoul, half human.

  • @travismoore7849
    @travismoore7849 Год назад +3

    I think being a synth is better as you look human and could pass yourself off as normal. Where a ghoul can not.

    • @LoreTours
      @LoreTours  Год назад +1

      True, would you have free will though...

    • @travismoore7849
      @travismoore7849 Год назад

      @@LoreTours Free will would be in question I guess. But there are exceptions to everything from Curi to that synth detective and others.

  • @JR-gh8lp
    @JR-gh8lp 2 месяца назад

    This approach ans style of this video was really fun and entertaining 🎉

  • @SunshineFrog828
    @SunshineFrog828 2 месяца назад

    I know each game has ghoulish perks. But what if before we could get it in the next gsme. We have a new mechanic to prevent us from going ghoul snd eventually going feral?

  • @MajBoothroyd
    @MajBoothroyd 2 месяца назад

    Only for a Cooper Howard esque vendetta.

  • @mouazkanzoua5482
    @mouazkanzoua5482 Год назад +1

    Have a nice day

  • @JrFFoo
    @JrFFoo 2 месяца назад +1

    Interesting

  • @that1martian
    @that1martian 2 месяца назад

    I think I have a soft spot for Ghouls not only because of what they went through to turn into Ghouls, but also because of what they become when they go feral.

  • @rawdog7881
    @rawdog7881 2 месяца назад

    I forgot about Carol. She scared the shit out of me as a kid.

  • @Burnlit1337
    @Burnlit1337 2 месяца назад

    Damn it, so the show really did retcon feral with this vial of subtance thing that keeps them sentient?

  • @christianfoster3806
    @christianfoster3806 2 месяца назад

    Does anybody else recall the table top RPG Gamma World?

  • @pineapplepizza4016
    @pineapplepizza4016 Месяц назад

    It seems like a fate worse than death.

  • @ClancyWoodard-yw6tg
    @ClancyWoodard-yw6tg 21 день назад

    The way you explain the fallout world is exactly how i explain it because 100% true it's the 2070s but its a word stuck in 1957

  • @Noirora
    @Noirora 2 месяца назад

    I can only imagine how they look on the inside of their bodies…

  • @kchilz32
    @kchilz32 2 месяца назад

    Skull face from Metal Gear reminds me of Ghouls