Just a fun thought, here's a start of the list of things Tactics added to Fallout that are now well accepted or at least more common features: - Radroaches - Crouching - Splinter factions of the Brotherhood - Atomic/radiation worshipping cults - Hidden robot faction - Different flavors of Nuka Cola - The Brotherhood's Dirigibles - Cabal of brain jars (Big MT?) Can you guys think of any others? I think it's had a subtle but surprisingly deep legacy on the franchise
It's a great soundtrack. For me, it's up there with the Dark City soundtrack album, which for some reason has Course of Empire on it, and the Mortal Kombat soundtrack, with its Sister Machine Gun and Gravity Kills and whatnot.
Are rock soundtracks dead? Back in the day you could see bands like fucking NAPALM DEATH on OSTs for popular movies. Or a Biohazard and Onyx collaboration.
you are by far one of the best creators on this platform, got the most detailed reviews and the funniest bits, and not to mention it just oozes style. It's amazing someone can take such a simple genre of video and still inject it with so much personality!
Dude's also got like 5 albums available on Bandcamp and some of the songs are straight bangers. Makes me look like I have the creative abilities of a sea anemone.
I've had anxiety and sleep issues these last few days, and your videos actually helped me a lot. I don't know why, I'm not sure if it's your voice, the music, the general vibe or your narration, but they're very calming. And while I was facing insomnia again tonight, you uploaded. Thanks a lot for your work, Grim.
What's funny is that their videos are wildly entertaining but so soothing and relaxing that I just end up watching over and over and again if I do fall asleep 😀
I love that, despite being the face of the franchise, the BoS is so different in each game, like, in every game they are totally different factions, only their appearence are constant
@@lasskinn474 1 and 2 basically the same brotherhood along with NV. And then helping out is one of the major side plots can you get them to help. 3 its specifically because the leader of the brotherhood over there wants to help people. There's a little boy who grows up to be the main leader in fallout 4 brotherhood and they make it a point that they flew over and weren't Originally there sides a few people thry had scout ahead and set up a base. So really no inconsistency. Maybe in 76 but I haven't played enough to know.
@@lasskinn474 and the kid grew up to be racist to synthetic people ans convinced most of the brotherhood who already fear out of control technology that they should be eradicated
@@magnenoalex2 i heard its supposed to resemble early Christianity where each regional group while following the same teachings have different political views and deal with non believers differently
Growing up as a semi-poor person, FO: T was the first fallout game I got to expeience untill adulthood. Many a teenage hours were spent grinding the FO: T demo.
@xXx420Cold_@ss_Rider69xXx I cant say I was fully poor cause I had a computer (some kind of pentium 3) and could afford to buy a gaming magazine once in awhile (Old editions at the flea market). I cant remember the name of the magazine the demo came on, was most likely the april 2001 edition of PC gamer.
Just have to say that I love this channel. It just hits all the spots for me - the games, the editing, the jokes, the voice - it all just clicks into an immensely enjoyable experience. Thank you very much for your efforts and let the Goth Gamer Revolution take the world!
I was having a rough night at work, but being able to listen to this helped to take my mind off things. I greatly appreciate all that you do. Keep it up :)
Your videos are hilarious, your writing and editing are superb, and your choice of games to review is second-to-none! Thank you for all the hard work. Your channel is truly a gem!
What I got from the three "Fallout" videos: the second game having only eleven months in development and the creative leads bailing out during production became a bigger success than the first as well as larger in content. "Tactics" ended up being well received and a solid experience in spite of the numerous setbacks, corporate interference and a new developer shouldering the burden of fan expectations. What's the lesson? That crunch culture and the looming spectre of bankruptcy does wonders for the creative genius? I hope not. Perhaps that the first game, being in development for four years, really built a clear foundation in terms of world building, character interactions, questing, aesthetics and sound design. It made it easier to expand and tinker upon it for future sequels, spin-offs, expansions, mods while still feeling integrated in the "Fallout" world.
I think the better conclusion is probably that talented game developers can do great things even when put into very tough circumstances. That doesn't necessarily mean those circumstances were conducive to a great end-product.
@@robinmattheussen2395 yeah, and if you have a team of uninterested devs, you'll probably get a uninterested game, whether you crunch them or not. a lot bad modern games just come to the fact that nobody making them is passionate about what they're working on. it's just become another 9-5 job.
@@JewTube001 "It's just become another 9-5 job" Well, not really. That's where the crunch comes in. Game industry devs are notoriously overworked and underpaid. It's a passion industry. People want to become game devs because they love games, and that's a big reason of why companies get away with treating them like shit. Game devs who lose their passion will usually switch over to less glamorous segments of the tech industry, which pay far better with less of the awful working conditions. And besides that, no amount of passion is going to override the directives of greedy corporate management. If your boss tells you that your job is pumping out 20$ cosmetics all day, your passion isn't going to make the game better, it's just going to make shinier cosmetics. And similarly, no amount of passion will counteract Ubisoft management telling you that your singleplayer game needs a generic open world, skill tree, ten thousand collectibles, and all the other bloat that comes with the territory. If you decide to try and work on an actually inspired game, you'll just get fired. (And that's ignoring the fact that these games are made by huge teams and no single developer has that much control over the process, passionate or otherwise.)
I feel like the story of the first game is better written overall. While I overall love it, Fallout 2 also committed the original sin of introducing joke torture vaults being a thing that ballooned into almost every vault being one that I really hate. If I remember right, wasn't Fallout 1 a passion project done with a skeleton crew and Fallout 2 was mostly built on top of it with a full team?
@@EvelynDayless not sure if F1 was a ”passion project”. I mean the devs were passionate and the publisher supported them through many years of development. ”Passion project” sounds like a side gig you suffer for (financially and spare time investment if you have a full time job) to complete with no certainty of any return on investment. You do it because you’re passionate about it, or if a ”crazy” artist ”because the project demanded itself to be realized. I’m but the instrument of the will of the artistic spirit”.
I never thought I'd see SOAD Zelda mentioned in the wild again. I love this channel. Worth noting for anyone who cares, it wasn't actually SOAD that wrote and performed that song, it was a guy named Joe Pleiman.
Another video to play as i fall aleep for the next 2 weeks. I literally exclaim "oooooooo" whenever i see a new vid posted. Your content keeps me going grimbo. Thanks for all you do.
I have vivid memories of this game, after New Vegas came out Target had a Fallout Trilogy pack that I bought. Played all of them a lot on my laptop, but I've only ever finished Fallout one. But Tactics was a lot of fun just playing it as a violent roadtrip simulator while Lee Ermy yells at you for not getting the job done. And I loved it enough to get a box copy of it at a con for 40 bucks and it came with the game guide.
i bought that same pack only in walmart. i also only finished fallout 1 but have so many more weird but fun memories tactics than the other 2. i also played it on my laptop. that laptop ate that disc tho. the cd drive got stuck shut and then the laptop died. couldnt get it out so i had to just throw out the laptop with my original fallout trilogy cd on it. had to buy fallout 1,2 and tactics on steam a few yrs later to play them again.
I for one, really wish that another crack at "Fallout, But Tactics" would happen; it's a great IP and world for it. Tons of unique and interesting stuff to do with it. A modernized, but not full on nuXCOM would be great. I also wish Mass Effect would get a treatment similar to a Tactics spinoff as it would also be great for it. _Similarly, and I'm gonna keep shilling this idea and hope it gets stolen: an interequel RPG set in ME's crazy world of corporate espionage would be SICK. Just imagine the shit you could get up to.. unnnnfff._
I just keep hoping the copium that with the Bethesda acquisition, Microsoft can get one of the many studios at their disposal to make fallout spinoffs. A Fallout New Vegas type spinoff (aka more like the base games) from Obsidian or InXile, and other offerings like a new Fallout tactics game.
I became a fan of you last month. My 17th year old senior cat went missing, and my depression and anxiety was literally killing me. I quitted my job because i literally couldnt stop crying or blaming myself. Your videos actually helped me get into a healthier state of mind and soul. Right now i actually feel somewhat good and I owe you a big time Grim, thanks for the amazing content. It shows that you put love and effort into your videos. Love from Argentina
He’s the best! Also I’m so sorry about your gato :( Oh and one last thing I’m not pointing this out to ridicule you as being bilingual is something I find so impressive, so I’m just hoping to help with your English- but you don’t have to add the “ed” at the end of quit even when talking in the past tense. In every tense it’s just simply “quit”. The only addition to the word that should ever be added on is an s when appropriate, like “John always quits his job”. Hope you understand my intention and know I’m not being critical at all as your English is actually great! Just figured I’d help out with the one thing I noticed :)
That beast tribe town mission with the hostages gave me nightmares, it was way to easy to get bogged down in a fight anywhere in the town and the hostages killed. Eventually had to drug up my guys with everything so that I could run straight to the hard won locations of the hostages.
bro you just gotta go in there with shotguns man. You gotta crawl up on em like tom clancy, set up ambushes from multiple angles then ALL AT ONCE just stand your dudes up to get their LoS's on their targets and execute every dude in the room at the same time with a few shotgun blasts. It's dope. But yes, that was the first legit hard mission in the game.
Thanks for making this. Not only is it an immensely entertaining video on its own but honestly? I thought I was the only one who liked Fallout- Tactics. It's nice to know there's dozens of us.
i'm baffled by anyone who would dislike it. If you don't like it, you just don't like the genre or post apocalyptic setting that it's in. It's near perfect for what it is. I could write an essay on it's merits.
I have fond memories of the Multiplayer of this game. My Brothers and I would LAN and pit our squads against each other. Also you have good content, thanks for making it.
I always thought the references to FO:T in FO3, FO:NV, and FO4 were handled really well. Like, a lot of fans didn't want the game to be canon, so Beth and Obsidian probably couldn't win by making it totally canon, but the Midwest BOS is clearly at least acknowledged as existing by all three games. In addition, I always brushed off the erroneous origin of the BOS in the intro as just being an unreliable narrator (the scribe reading the book), probably due to Caeser mentioning capturing scribes from the east who don't know their own history very well. Anyway I could be totally wrong on all of this but great video and just wanted to toss some other info out there.
listening to the lore of this game, i kinda like the idea of vault 0 more than the idea that most vaults were built to be social experiments. i also like the origins of the brotherhood.
40:34 In my playthroughs I leave the area and do NOT kill the merchant. The mission debrief gets quite "detailed" about what happens to him. 55:11 Now this truly made me ROLFLMAO. I just really wanted you to know this for some reason. Thank you so much for reviewing this one. Peace.
Possibly a hot and definitely lacking nuance take, but fans really need to settle down when creators want to work with established IPs. It’s one thing if a writer writes an established character completely differently in terms of actions and personality. It’s another if they wish to expand and develop. People have such a guttural reaction to change, but some of the best games happen because creative people do what the adjective implies; create.
I can really relate to this video, tactics was my first fallout and lead me to the first 2 games, which i played back to back like an addicted junkie. To me this was the best era of fallout. I have a huge spot in my heart for FOT. I spent years playing it online on gamespy arcade , the community was great and extremely competitive. I miss those days, fallout isnt the same as it was back in those glorious days.
The game's actually really good with a couple of mods installed that fix all of the bugs, and then some. For an iso pseudo-turned-based squad tactics game made 20 years ago, it really shines. Sure the story is not really cannon, but that doesn't mean it should be treated like a pariah. Tactics is the first 'Fallout' game I ever played, and ironically I still only really play this game. Nostalgia I suppose... Although nearly impossible to do now, the best way to play the campaign is with a full group of 6 human players in real-time (not turn-based).
I haven't watched a single one of your videos. But I've listened to every one listed besides the TV show thing. Thank you for being consistent and keeping a calm cadence.
Hah, BUGTHESDA. They say that FALL0UT Tactics is non-canonical, & then contradict themselves by mentioning the existence of the rogue Midwestern B.O.S. in both, F3 & F4, & they even used one of their airships designs for F4 & named it PRYDWEN, which at the very least converts FALL0UT Tactics into a semi-canonical title!
@@JKavanagh-tq8rp Yup. I guess u can basically say the same about them regarding T.E.S., the difference would be that they created T.E.S., but they didn't create FALL0UT.
I love your channel so much. And I love when you cover a game like this because I think “Oh good. I can watch the video without wanting to stop 2 seconds in and try the game.”
I rarely comment on youtube but I'm happy I found your channel, I like the vibe of your videos and you deserve so much more views! High quality stuff man, keep it up! :)
What really creaps me out about the game is the prone animations. Outside of life you don't see much prone combat represented in media, so it really brings back the bad feals. Like you remember crawling yourself raw on the elbows and thighs. Shit's awful, just awful. That being written, I respect the game for expressing it so clearly.
My dawg likes Queen of the Damned. Instant respect. Even though you already had mine. That amazing Aaliyah taken from us way too early. Also you’re right in that the sound track slapps. That whole movie was bad ass
It's funny how the criticism ended up being "It was rushed and the lore contradicted what came before it." So like Fallout 2, then. Fallout 1 was also rushed and barely finished. Fallout fans back in the day were just insane. There was no way to appease them.
Just found your channel a couple weeks ago and I've been loving it. I was wondering which game would be next, and gad dayum, my man, what a gem! Loved this game in my teens. I'm primarily a multiplayer gamer, always have been, and I rarely had/have the attention span to see a single player game through to the end. Hundreds of games started, and I only finish about 10% of them. Your videos let me go back and experience those game worlds over again, get a refresher on the story, and finally see how they ended. Plus your little asides and jokes. It's dope af and I love it. Thanks for the great content!
The death animations where just so damn good in this game. The deaths in the new 3D games just cant hold a handle to the old ones. And I actually appreciated the broad selection of many different guns. Yes most of them only offer a minor stat difference, but still a more varied loot is more fun. And all the different gun sounds where a joy to listen to. Many of the guns had very distinct and cool shooting sounds.
I really don't know how you manage to do this at such a high quality so consistently for so long, other than the consistency has made it come naturally in the long run because the length of these videos is ridiculous for how good they always are.
I say this alot, but I find much solace in this channel. Grim Beard has a very singular take on video games, and his paradoxical disdain of gamers is one I can relate to. I really hope he continues making videos as l will always be their to ardently watch them.
I played a lot of Tactics and really enjoyed it despite the feeling that a lot was missing to make it feel whole as a fallout game.I spent a lot of time exploring the map despite their being not that much point probably because of my love for that aspect in fallout 2
The cold intros get better and better and I gotta say I'm a big fan of the parapup arc. Also I'm glad you cut the Bitter Recompense section -- keeps the introspective/dark goth atmosphere and light/comedy vibe you've got going on in very nice balance. Much lvoe Grim!
that laser gatling bit you mention is probably due to the game's randomized forced hit splash zone immediately around a character when certain guns miss them. i had a hard time with this when fighting the super mutants and their heavy machineguns because i didnt know about it and bunched up my guys too much. the person the enemy is shooting at is often fine, but if people are right beside them they get splattered.
8:25 Holy shit, that takes me back. Nice reference. BTW, it wasn't actually SOAD performing the song, though that's almost exclusively who it's credited to. It was written and performed by Joe Pleiman on his album "Rabbit Joint" in 1998.
Ah, this game. I'll always remember my first playthrough. Therein I learned that a sniper character can one-shot the boss at such range that the doors don't close, circumventing much of that encounter.
1:18:25 When Fallout New Vegas came out, I was really enjoying something about it that I couldn't quite identify, until I realized that they were also using music tracks from the first two Fallout games, and not just the more tepid Fallout 3 OST.
For me it was same case as FO3 and FO4 - cool games but bad Fallouts. I really dig isometric action games, with tactical flavor, and I can't help myself... btw real-time mode is da best, because you can use traps and other nasty surprsises unheard in turn-based mode.
"mutants are marginalized groups" feels like a bad take. I know it's kinda in the game but idk if racism is racism anymore when you're fighting for your life against green ethnocidal roid ragers, ticking time bomb rabies zombies and the fucking centaurs.
The Brotherhood of Steel is never consistent. Every game makes the BoS act or perform differently. Sometimes they're isolationists and xenophobic, sometimes they're altruistic, sometimes they're religious technophiles. It's pretty ridiculous to completely dismiss a game in the Fallout franchise just because they depict the BoS differently.
I think a spam bot may be replying to some of you, I have reported it tho. This is the real grim here. Certainly NOT A BOT 😅
That’s exactly something a bot would say! You’re not fooling anyone goth gamer ghoul bot!
Not a bot... But perhaps a ghost???
is it the telep bot bs or something? it's on a ton of channels
Hey grim! That Zelda song you referenced around the 8 minute mark was not made by System of a Down not sure you care but yeah
Why did you want my credit card info?
Jk
Does anybody else see the length of these videos and just get super excited?!?
so i’m not the only one!
When it is one of the good Fallout games?
Yes
Absolutely
Yea bruh
Length and girth sure
Just a fun thought, here's a start of the list of things Tactics added to Fallout that are now well accepted or at least more common features:
- Radroaches
- Crouching
- Splinter factions of the Brotherhood
- Atomic/radiation worshipping cults
- Hidden robot faction
- Different flavors of Nuka Cola
- The Brotherhood's Dirigibles
- Cabal of brain jars (Big MT?)
Can you guys think of any others? I think it's had a subtle but surprisingly deep legacy on the franchise
Y he have nail polish on
Not having a good plot
@@Ave_Satana666 Because he can, CJ, you busta
Disappointing arpgs
That's amazing! I didn't know Radroaches came from this game :)
Does anybody else perpetually rewatch (really, re-listen to) Grimbo's content? It's just like a nice brain massage while I'm working.
Same here! :D
this is my 10th time watching this one!
@@cassolmedia These are rookie numbers!
I do! The comedy inserts are great in my opinion.
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It is true: Queen of the Damned soundtrack does go irresponsibly hard. It's like cinematic nu-metal.
It's a great soundtrack. For me, it's up there with the Dark City soundtrack album, which for some reason has Course of Empire on it, and the Mortal Kombat soundtrack, with its Sister Machine Gun and Gravity Kills and whatnot.
@@auto_mata Gravity Kills lol. That's a name I haven't heard in years. My first live show (Buzzfest 96, ah yeah!)
I have the version where it's specifically Jonathan Davis' vocals, so essentially The Vampire Lestat's album from the movie.
Are rock soundtracks dead? Back in the day you could see bands like fucking NAPALM DEATH on OSTs for popular movies. Or a Biohazard and Onyx collaboration.
@@auto_mata>Dark City
My man!
you are by far one of the best creators on this platform, got the most detailed reviews and the funniest bits, and not to mention it just oozes style. It's amazing someone can take such a simple genre of video and still inject it with so much personality!
I hope he covers every video game
@@shanehenson315 Goth Gamer Nation is here for it lol
@@shanehenson315 every. game.
Dude's also got like 5 albums available on Bandcamp and some of the songs are straight bangers. Makes me look like I have the creative abilities of a sea anemone.
That's what clinical depression does! Helps you do great content because nothing is ever good enough.
I've had anxiety and sleep issues these last few days, and your videos actually helped me a lot. I don't know why, I'm not sure if it's your voice, the music, the general vibe or your narration, but they're very calming. And while I was facing insomnia again tonight, you uploaded. Thanks a lot for your work, Grim.
Can confirm
Amen
Sleepy bird voice
I go to sleep to Grimbeard videos often.
What's funny is that their videos are wildly entertaining but so soothing and relaxing that I just end up watching over and over and again if I do fall asleep 😀
I love that, despite being the face of the franchise, the BoS is so different in each game, like, in every game they are totally different factions, only their appearence are constant
Theres always a lore reason for it
@@magnenoalex2 that sometimes conflicts.
it's not like you can't make up stuff though
@@lasskinn474 1 and 2 basically the same brotherhood along with NV. And then helping out is one of the major side plots can you get them to help. 3 its specifically because the leader of the brotherhood over there wants to help people. There's a little boy who grows up to be the main leader in fallout 4 brotherhood and they make it a point that they flew over and weren't Originally there sides a few people thry had scout ahead and set up a base. So really no inconsistency. Maybe in 76 but I haven't played enough to know.
@@lasskinn474 and the kid grew up to be racist to synthetic people ans convinced most of the brotherhood who already fear out of control technology that they should be eradicated
@@magnenoalex2 i heard its supposed to resemble early Christianity where each regional group while following the same teachings have different political views and deal with non believers differently
Growing up as a semi-poor person, FO: T was the first fallout game I got to expeience untill adulthood. Many a teenage hours were spent grinding the FO: T demo.
@xXx420Cold_@ss_Rider69xXx le epic 4chan green text!!
@xXx420Cold_@ss_Rider69xXx I cant say I was fully poor cause I had a computer (some kind of pentium 3) and could afford to buy a gaming magazine once in awhile (Old editions at the flea market). I cant remember the name of the magazine the demo came on, was most likely the april 2001 edition of PC gamer.
@@xXxCold_ss_RiderxXxwell, your attitude and specific brain damage showcased do give off the aura of someone who uses that site.
"my ass has seen more rubber than a dead rat in the middle of route 66" gotta be my favourite line out of anything
Just have to say that I love this channel. It just hits all the spots for me - the games, the editing, the jokes, the voice - it all just clicks into an immensely enjoyable experience. Thank you very much for your efforts and let the Goth Gamer Revolution take the world!
I really love that Grim Beard lives in like a spooky haunted house
I'd say it is more of a spooky haunted roommate shared cubicle.
Silent Hill 4: Grim Beard
Spoopy af
"Action figures of brotherhood paladins." *show X-01 Armor which is Enclave*
*Brotherhood of Steel pulls out Laser Rifle, AD VICTORIUM INTENSIFIES*
One of the few channels I have a visceral reaction to, seeing a new video available. Thanks for your work Grim
True! Grim and also Indeimaus, I have watched their videos so many times
I was having a rough night at work, but being able to listen to this helped to take my mind off things. I greatly appreciate all that you do. Keep it up :)
You work at night? Are you a nurse or a guard?
@@asuspiciousavocado3317 I work as a night shift phlebotomist
Hope you're doing better
@@asuspiciousavocado3317 A lot of professions have night shifts. Like almost all of them.
Your videos are hilarious, your writing and editing are superb, and your choice of games to review is second-to-none! Thank you for all the hard work. Your channel is truly a gem!
The impact this game had on the fallout modding scene, the amount of mods that use tactics sprites is quite big
it's great to see fallout tactics receiving some love.
I absolutely loved this game and it was also the first fallout i ever played.
What I got from the three "Fallout" videos: the second game having only eleven months in development and the creative leads bailing out during production became a bigger success than the first as well as larger in content. "Tactics" ended up being well received and a solid experience in spite of the numerous setbacks, corporate interference and a new developer shouldering the burden of fan expectations. What's the lesson? That crunch culture and the looming spectre of bankruptcy does wonders for the creative genius? I hope not. Perhaps that the first game, being in development for four years, really built a clear foundation in terms of world building, character interactions, questing, aesthetics and sound design. It made it easier to expand and tinker upon it for future sequels, spin-offs, expansions, mods while still feeling integrated in the "Fallout" world.
I think the better conclusion is probably that talented game developers can do great things even when put into very tough circumstances. That doesn't necessarily mean those circumstances were conducive to a great end-product.
@@robinmattheussen2395 yeah, and if you have a team of uninterested devs, you'll probably get a uninterested game, whether you crunch them or not. a lot bad modern games just come to the fact that nobody making them is passionate about what they're working on. it's just become another 9-5 job.
@@JewTube001 "It's just become another 9-5 job"
Well, not really. That's where the crunch comes in. Game industry devs are notoriously overworked and underpaid. It's a passion industry. People want to become game devs because they love games, and that's a big reason of why companies get away with treating them like shit. Game devs who lose their passion will usually switch over to less glamorous segments of the tech industry, which pay far better with less of the awful working conditions.
And besides that, no amount of passion is going to override the directives of greedy corporate management. If your boss tells you that your job is pumping out 20$ cosmetics all day, your passion isn't going to make the game better, it's just going to make shinier cosmetics. And similarly, no amount of passion will counteract Ubisoft management telling you that your singleplayer game needs a generic open world, skill tree, ten thousand collectibles, and all the other bloat that comes with the territory. If you decide to try and work on an actually inspired game, you'll just get fired. (And that's ignoring the fact that these games are made by huge teams and no single developer has that much control over the process, passionate or otherwise.)
I feel like the story of the first game is better written overall. While I overall love it, Fallout 2 also committed the original sin of introducing joke torture vaults being a thing that ballooned into almost every vault being one that I really hate.
If I remember right, wasn't Fallout 1 a passion project done with a skeleton crew and Fallout 2 was mostly built on top of it with a full team?
@@EvelynDayless not sure if F1 was a ”passion project”. I mean the devs were passionate and the publisher supported them through many years of development. ”Passion project” sounds like a side gig you suffer for (financially and spare time investment if you have a full time job) to complete with no certainty of any return on investment. You do it because you’re passionate about it, or if a ”crazy” artist ”because the project demanded itself to be realized. I’m but the instrument of the will of the artistic spirit”.
I never thought I'd see SOAD Zelda mentioned in the wild again. I love this channel. Worth noting for anyone who cares, it wasn't actually SOAD that wrote and performed that song, it was a guy named Joe Pleiman.
Another video to play as i fall aleep for the next 2 weeks. I literally exclaim "oooooooo" whenever i see a new vid posted. Your content keeps me going grimbo. Thanks for all you do.
I have vivid memories of this game, after New Vegas came out Target had a Fallout Trilogy pack that I bought. Played all of them a lot on my laptop, but I've only ever finished Fallout one.
But Tactics was a lot of fun just playing it as a violent roadtrip simulator while Lee Ermy yells at you for not getting the job done. And I loved it enough to get a box copy of it at a con for 40 bucks and it came with the game guide.
I wonder why you didn't finish Fallout 2?
2 is the best of the original trilogy and second only to NV.
i bought that same pack only in walmart. i also only finished fallout 1 but have so many more weird but fun memories tactics than the other 2. i also played it on my laptop. that laptop ate that disc tho. the cd drive got stuck shut and then the laptop died. couldnt get it out so i had to just throw out the laptop with my original fallout trilogy cd on it. had to buy fallout 1,2 and tactics on steam a few yrs later to play them again.
as someone who binged many years of your content in the last few days im very excited for another thing.
Sup binge brother
I for one, really wish that another crack at "Fallout, But Tactics" would happen; it's a great IP and world for it. Tons of unique and interesting stuff to do with it. A modernized, but not full on nuXCOM would be great.
I also wish Mass Effect would get a treatment similar to a Tactics spinoff as it would also be great for it.
_Similarly, and I'm gonna keep shilling this idea and hope it gets stolen: an interequel RPG set in ME's crazy world of corporate espionage would be SICK. Just imagine the shit you could get up to.. unnnnfff._
I actually made a fallout tabletop war game in collage, I think, based on New Vegas, I guess it's not that good though
fallout total war lol
The formular they used for Gears Tactics would work great for a modern version
@@nuttyjawa Yeah, I'd want a bit more of a sandboxy, OG XCOM approach, but as far as a guaranteed working formula: there ya go.
I just keep hoping the copium that with the Bethesda acquisition, Microsoft can get one of the many studios at their disposal to make fallout spinoffs. A Fallout New Vegas type spinoff (aka more like the base games) from Obsidian or InXile, and other offerings like a new Fallout tactics game.
I became a fan of you last month. My 17th year old senior cat went missing, and my depression and anxiety was literally killing me. I quitted my job because i literally couldnt stop crying or blaming myself.
Your videos actually helped me get into a healthier state of mind and soul. Right now i actually feel somewhat good and I owe you a big time Grim, thanks for the amazing content. It shows that you put love and effort into your videos.
Love from Argentina
He’s the best! Also I’m so sorry about your gato :(
Oh and one last thing I’m not pointing this out to ridicule you as being bilingual is something I find so impressive, so I’m just hoping to help with your English- but you don’t have to add the “ed” at the end of quit even when talking in the past tense. In every tense it’s just simply “quit”. The only addition to the word that should ever be added on is an s when appropriate, like “John always quits his job”. Hope you understand my intention and know I’m not being critical at all as your English is actually great! Just figured I’d help out with the one thing I noticed :)
Goth being a gateway into healthier state of mind, that's one new one.
You inventing new past tense of quit gave me depression
That beast tribe town mission with the hostages gave me nightmares, it was way to easy to get bogged down in a fight anywhere in the town and the hostages killed. Eventually had to drug up my guys with everything so that I could run straight to the hard won locations of the hostages.
Drugs man. Idk why some of them are illegal yet so damn usefull.
there's an underground tunnel that takes you near the holding place of the hostages
@@gambucino1260 its because they're so useful you want to take them all the time and that starts causing problems...
bro you just gotta go in there with shotguns man. You gotta crawl up on em like tom clancy, set up ambushes from multiple angles then ALL AT ONCE just stand your dudes up to get their LoS's on their targets and execute every dude in the room at the same time with a few shotgun blasts. It's dope. But yes, that was the first legit hard mission in the game.
Thanks for making this. Not only is it an immensely entertaining video on its own but honestly? I thought I was the only one who liked Fallout- Tactics. It's nice to know there's dozens of us.
i'm baffled by anyone who would dislike it. If you don't like it, you just don't like the genre or post apocalyptic setting that it's in. It's near perfect for what it is. I could write an essay on it's merits.
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I have fond memories of the Multiplayer of this game. My Brothers and I would LAN and pit our squads against each other. Also you have good content, thanks for making it.
I always thought the references to FO:T in FO3, FO:NV, and FO4 were handled really well. Like, a lot of fans didn't want the game to be canon, so Beth and Obsidian probably couldn't win by making it totally canon, but the Midwest BOS is clearly at least acknowledged as existing by all three games.
In addition, I always brushed off the erroneous origin of the BOS in the intro as just being an unreliable narrator (the scribe reading the book), probably due to Caeser mentioning capturing scribes from the east who don't know their own history very well.
Anyway I could be totally wrong on all of this but great video and just wanted to toss some other info out there.
Lots of fans didn't want it to be canon????
@@noddy1973 Yes a lot of old school purist hated the lore. But whatever most "fans" don't know what they want.
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@@inkeddecker9964 that just sounds like the same situation FO2 had on No mutants allowed when it released lol
listening to the lore of this game, i kinda like the idea of vault 0 more than the idea that most vaults were built to be social experiments. i also like the origins of the brotherhood.
When parapug coughs in the intro, I die. The whole intro is gold.
40:34 In my playthroughs I leave the area and do NOT kill the merchant. The mission debrief gets quite "detailed" about what happens to him.
55:11 Now this truly made me ROLFLMAO. I just really wanted you to know this for some reason.
Thank you so much for reviewing this one. Peace.
For anyone wondering ROLFLMAO is when you laugh but also breathe in and out really fast, like rolf harris
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Yes, yes i see, how clever and well thought out
Para-Pup coughing absolutely killed me, lmaoooo 😂👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 it’s so stupid but so damn funny!
I am the FoT Apostle. The game suddenly becomes awesome if you play it solo. Seriously. No jank, 100% action- sneaky and tactical.
Possibly a hot and definitely lacking nuance take, but fans really need to settle down when creators want to work with established IPs. It’s one thing if a writer writes an established character completely differently in terms of actions and personality. It’s another if they wish to expand and develop. People have such a guttural reaction to change, but some of the best games happen because creative people do what the adjective implies; create.
Anytime a new Grimbeard video comes out, I just get happy.
You literally saved a bad evening for me. Thank you!
I don't know man... I am just some random dumpy dude in my late 30s and your brand of humor just does it for me. Loving your videos. Keep it up.
I can really relate to this video, tactics was my first fallout and lead me to the first 2 games, which i played back to back like an addicted junkie. To me this was the best era of fallout. I have a huge spot in my heart for FOT. I spent years playing it online on gamespy arcade , the community was great and extremely competitive. I miss those days, fallout isnt the same as it was back in those glorious days.
The game's actually really good with a couple of mods installed that fix all of the bugs, and then some. For an iso pseudo-turned-based squad tactics game made 20 years ago, it really shines. Sure the story is not really cannon, but that doesn't mean it should be treated like a pariah. Tactics is the first 'Fallout' game I ever played, and ironically I still only really play this game. Nostalgia I suppose...
Although nearly impossible to do now, the best way to play the campaign is with a full group of 6 human players in real-time (not turn-based).
I haven't watched a single one of your videos.
But I've listened to every one listed besides the TV show thing.
Thank you for being consistent and keeping a calm cadence.
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Can't believe you didn't mention Kurtwood Smith's role in X-Files as agent Bill Patterson in season 3, episode 14
Hah, BUGTHESDA. They say that FALL0UT Tactics is non-canonical, & then contradict themselves by mentioning the existence of the rogue Midwestern B.O.S. in both, F3 & F4, & they even used one of their airships designs for F4 & named it PRYDWEN, which at the very least converts FALL0UT Tactics into a semi-canonical title!
Bethesda has as much interest in Fallout as Warhammer has about Inquistion.
@@JKavanagh-tq8rp Yup. I guess u can basically say the same about them regarding T.E.S., the difference would be that they created T.E.S., but they didn't create FALL0UT.
I love your channel so much. And I love when you cover a game like this because I think “Oh good. I can watch the video without wanting to stop 2 seconds in and try the game.”
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I rarely comment on youtube but I'm happy I found your channel, I like the vibe of your videos and you deserve so much more views! High quality stuff man, keep it up! :)
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What really creaps me out about the game is the prone animations. Outside of life you don't see much prone combat represented in media, so it really brings back the bad feals. Like you remember crawling yourself raw on the elbows and thighs. Shit's awful, just awful. That being written, I respect the game for expressing it so clearly.
“My heart is made of piss” has earned you a subscription, friend.
My dawg likes Queen of the Damned. Instant respect. Even though you already had mine. That amazing Aaliyah taken from us way too early.
Also you’re right in that the sound track slapps. That whole movie was bad ass
I love how you suggest Ermey is looking up at us in hell.
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i love u grimbeard
You've seriously become an instant watch every time you upload! Love you video style and astectic!
It's funny how the criticism ended up being "It was rushed and the lore contradicted what came before it." So like Fallout 2, then. Fallout 1 was also rushed and barely finished. Fallout fans back in the day were just insane. There was no way to appease them.
Incredible. This is heat, Fuego even. A preposterous display of prowess and understanding. Thank you Mr. Beard for your awesome vids.
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47:27 Red Forman reminiscing about his time in Korea.
Fallout Tactics still looks awesome, its like one of the best visual looking old game.
Gotta love that Kotaku/Polygon title you snuck in there, I see you Grim.
New grimbeard episode? today is a good day!
That whole line about Crystal in the patreon credits section is a quote, yes. Your quote, from the Harvester review.
Just found your channel a couple weeks ago and I've been loving it. I was wondering which game would be next, and gad dayum, my man, what a gem! Loved this game in my teens. I'm primarily a multiplayer gamer, always have been, and I rarely had/have the attention span to see a single player game through to the end. Hundreds of games started, and I only finish about 10% of them. Your videos let me go back and experience those game worlds over again, get a refresher on the story, and finally see how they ended. Plus your little asides and jokes. It's dope af and I love it. Thanks for the great content!
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The earliest I've ever seen new Grim on RUclips. I guess lesson planning can wait until tomorrow.
The death animations where just so damn good in this game. The deaths in the new 3D games just cant hold a handle to the old ones.
And I actually appreciated the broad selection of many different guns. Yes most of them only offer a minor stat difference, but still a more varied loot is more fun. And all the different gun sounds where a joy to listen to. Many of the guns had very distinct and cool shooting sounds.
Loved the Tactics, no questions about it. I think I replayed it as much as I did Fallout 2
I really don't know how you manage to do this at such a high quality so consistently for so long, other than the consistency has made it come naturally in the long run because the length of these videos is ridiculous for how good they always are.
Mom, quick new Grim Beard just dropped.
Thanks for this sweet, sweet content Grim, hope you are doing well ❤️
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Yo I fuckin love your videos. Keep making them please
Grim, your videos are so good, thank you for the content
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Rat Roundup is easily my favourite segment.
Hell yea
I say this alot, but I find much solace in this channel. Grim Beard has a very singular take on video games, and his paradoxical disdain of gamers is one I can relate to. I really hope he continues making videos as l will always be their to ardently watch them.
"Gamers" is such a shameful word.
god i fkn love that intro grim 🙂🖤
Nice. Thanks
Highlight of my night dude, thank you!
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Once again you have filled another nugget of time twixt cradle and grave with chuckles and insight. A fine day to you, sir.
I was gonna watch paint dry but this'll do
you may regret this choice :o
I fucking love everything about your skits and general demeanor
I'm obsessed too
I played a lot of Tactics and really enjoyed it despite the feeling that a lot was missing to make it feel whole as a fallout game.I spent a lot of time exploring the map despite their being not that much point probably because of my love for that aspect in fallout 2
and here I thought I was about to go to sleep.
"don't play XCOM" to enjoy this game is like "don't play most games" to enjoy f76.
Wow, What a blast from the past and it's Grimsbioni reviewing it too!
Love this game, it may be "not fallout" but it's a great game set in the fallout universe.
I agree. That's also my take on Fallout 4.
The cold intros get better and better and I gotta say I'm a big fan of the parapup arc. Also I'm glad you cut the Bitter Recompense section -- keeps the introspective/dark goth atmosphere and light/comedy vibe you've got going on in very nice balance. Much lvoe Grim!
that laser gatling bit you mention is probably due to the game's randomized forced hit splash zone immediately around a character when certain guns miss them. i had a hard time with this when fighting the super mutants and their heavy machineguns because i didnt know about it and bunched up my guys too much. the person the enemy is shooting at is often fine, but if people are right beside them they get splattered.
Stormtrooper approach to combat
8:25 Holy shit, that takes me back. Nice reference.
BTW, it wasn't actually SOAD performing the song, though that's almost exclusively who it's credited to.
It was written and performed by Joe Pleiman on his album "Rabbit Joint" in 1998.
Ah, this game. I'll always remember my first playthrough. Therein I learned that a sniper character can one-shot the boss at such range that the doors don't close, circumventing much of that encounter.
Game. Is good.
1:18:25 When Fallout New Vegas came out, I was really enjoying something about it that I couldn't quite identify, until I realized that they were also using music tracks from the first two Fallout games, and not just the more tepid Fallout 3 OST.
Curious if Fallout Brotherhood of Steel (non-tactics) would be too much psychic damage even for Parapug.
We're nearing the inevitable New Vegas review. I cannot wait.
For me it was same case as FO3 and FO4 - cool games but bad Fallouts.
I really dig isometric action games, with tactical flavor, and I can't help myself... btw real-time mode is da best, because you can use traps and other nasty surprsises unheard in turn-based mode.
Finally, something to distract me from the fact that RUclips finally shut him down...
He got another supanatural channel somewhere, dont worry.
My man, how do you push out this much content so quickly
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The Enclave vs The Brotherhood will always be one of my favorite faction wars.
"mutants are marginalized groups" feels like a bad take. I know it's kinda in the game but idk if racism is racism anymore when you're fighting for your life against green ethnocidal roid ragers, ticking time bomb rabies zombies and the fucking centaurs.
48:06 "Going up to traders and asking if they sell Ligma"😆👌🏻👌🏻💯💯
The Brotherhood of Steel is never consistent. Every game makes the BoS act or perform differently. Sometimes they're isolationists and xenophobic, sometimes they're altruistic, sometimes they're religious technophiles. It's pretty ridiculous to completely dismiss a game in the Fallout franchise just because they depict the BoS differently.
You're not wrong, that soundtrack was dope when it came out.