The Biggest Influences On Fallout

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  • Опубликовано: 7 июн 2023
  • I talk about the books, movies, and games that influenced Fallout the most, starting with specific elements of Fallout and what influenced them, and then talking about more general influences.
    For musical influences, see my prior video:
    • The Music of Fallout
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  • @LahceneBelbachir
    @LahceneBelbachir Год назад +465

    Seriously, it's like christmas presents dropping every day with these videos,
    as an aspiring game developer you have no idea how valuable this information is to me.

    • @davidovics92
      @davidovics92 Год назад +11

      i feel the same

    • @Beunibster
      @Beunibster Год назад +7

      @@davidovics92 i feel the game

    • @yamo511
      @yamo511 3 месяца назад +1

      aspiring game dev lol

    • @yamo511
      @yamo511 3 месяца назад +1

      "aspiring game dev" lol

    • @LahceneBelbachir
      @LahceneBelbachir 3 месяца назад +3

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

  • @TheAceLewis
    @TheAceLewis 3 месяца назад +33

    VATS always reminded me of XCOM hit chances, “if it ain’t 100% it’s 50%” as Xcom players always say.

    • @bricaaron3978
      @bricaaron3978 Месяц назад +2

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

  • @ukdoomer2082
    @ukdoomer2082 Год назад +583

    the master was such an original grotesque but compelling villain you just would not see things like that in modern day fallout

    • @ProtoPurity
      @ProtoPurity Год назад +71

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

    • @nundulan
      @nundulan Год назад +18

      ​@@ProtoPurityGod I fucking wish

    • @TrueNeutralEvGenius
      @TrueNeutralEvGenius Год назад +21

      Master is not a villain, he is antihero antagonist.

    • @ProtoPurity
      @ProtoPurity Год назад +29

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

    • @Sybrakos1
      @Sybrakos1 Год назад +3

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

  • @gargamellenoir8460
    @gargamellenoir8460 Год назад +329

    The Master is still the best Fallout villain, and it's not even close. Scary as hell, unique, but also you can beat him without combat, if you do your homework. Not just a "I'll give you a 100 speech check to fuck off", you need to bring actual arguments from data you found to the table to convince him his plan is doomed.
    Amazing stuff.

    • @MBSMythic
      @MBSMythic Год назад +67

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

    • @TheJayson8899
      @TheJayson8899 Год назад +11

      @@MBSMythic terrific writing

    • @Sybrakos1
      @Sybrakos1 Год назад

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

    • @TrueNeutralEvGenius
      @TrueNeutralEvGenius Год назад +4

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

    • @gargamellenoir8460
      @gargamellenoir8460 Год назад +32

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

  • @NubileReptile
    @NubileReptile Год назад +147

    Chris Avellone has mentioned that the inspiration for Arroyo in Fallout 2 was the novel Earth Abides, which features a similar transformation of 'civilized' people into a prehistoric tribe that can't read, write or do mathematics and views the pre-war world in legendary terms. I think you said that was one of the areas you worked on before you left Interplay.

    • @kristianweinstock2941
      @kristianweinstock2941 Год назад +6

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

    • @gilgamecha
      @gilgamecha Год назад +3

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

    • @nathanlevesque7812
      @nathanlevesque7812 3 месяца назад

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

  • @xxlCortez
    @xxlCortez Год назад +88

    Harold seems to be a remaining proof of the ghoul origin debate. He looks like a ghoul and calls himself a ghoul but according to his backstory, his change was caused by the FEV that also changed the Master.

    • @kafkabigmon
      @kafkabigmon Год назад +16

      Then he became a tree and got lit the fuck up

    • @jess648
      @jess648 11 месяцев назад +12

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

    • @ChadVulpes
      @ChadVulpes 9 месяцев назад +12

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

    • @Flismz
      @Flismz 6 месяцев назад +15

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

    • @ChadVulpes
      @ChadVulpes 6 месяцев назад +13

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

  • @its_eis
    @its_eis 3 месяца назад +16

    Dude, as someone who grew up replaying fallout 1/2, I am sooo stoken to have discovered your channel

  • @corneliuscornwallis
    @corneliuscornwallis Год назад +51

    These videos have been golden for getting insight on not only Fallout, but game development as a whole

    • @ZeeHilal
      @ZeeHilal Год назад +1

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

    • @cassi5420
      @cassi5420 4 месяца назад

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

  • @barronTV1
    @barronTV1 Год назад +103

    Just finished Fallout 1 for the first time, loved it, I really wish we could go back to the atmosphere and aesthetic it had compared to Fallout 4, it also gave me an even greater appreciation for New Vegas because of how much it feels like a continuation of old Fallout.

    • @davidhughes8795
      @davidhughes8795 6 месяцев назад +10

      I don't think Bethesda ever really understood fallout.

    • @wordofswords5386
      @wordofswords5386 6 месяцев назад

      Please make your own thoughts for once.@@davidhughes8795

    • @wordofswords5386
      @wordofswords5386 6 месяцев назад +8

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

    • @davidhughes8795
      @davidhughes8795 6 месяцев назад +32

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

    • @Flismz
      @Flismz 6 месяцев назад +7

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

  • @giver6153
    @giver6153 Год назад +20

    Man this small little content talk was actually a super big reveal for fans,glad this happened

  • @TACNERD1
    @TACNERD1 Год назад +19

    I was so happy to hear two influences. Gamma World which gave me hours out old school table top fun and secondly LaJetee which I was lucky enough to watch in a film class in college. Thank you for this trip down memory lane Tim.

    • @andersonprimer
      @andersonprimer Год назад

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

  • @darkzircon8165
    @darkzircon8165 Год назад +49

    I want to thank you and the rest of the original Fallout team for creating such an entertaining game. I'm replaying the first one and I'm still surprised by the small details. I became so interested in the movies that inspired it that now most of those films are my favorite ones. Thank you!

  • @ProfBoggs
    @ProfBoggs Год назад +28

    My dad was a civilian employee for a branch of the US military as an electronics technician. He has lots of stories about defense contractors who wanted him to just approve testing equipment so everyone could go home, quality control be damned. Fortunately for enlisted persons using the equipment, he held contractors' feet to the fire until the testing equipment worked.
    Thanks again for posting your tales. I really enjoy these.

    • @WeekndWarriorrr
      @WeekndWarriorrr 3 месяца назад +4

      Your dad and people like him are unsung heroes.

  • @elonmusk1010
    @elonmusk1010 Год назад +73

    love these fallout videos

  • @zarakc2278
    @zarakc2278 Год назад +6

    Love that Wiz-War was mentioned as an influence. My dad taught us with one of the copies he and his group of buddies would play with. I love the mayhem that stems forth from playing it!

  • @lordfizzz
    @lordfizzz Год назад +10

    This has been such a great series of vids man. Im a lil older closer to 40 and i played fallout 1 and 2 in 98. My old man put me onto bladerunner and obviously mad max all that cool shit. I always got immense water world vibes, especially the Khans lol. Appreciate the lil world you conjured up for us man

    • @xXHashassinXx
      @xXHashassinXx 3 месяца назад

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

  • @imyarek
    @imyarek Год назад +5

    Currently trying to finish a game that is stuck in a development hell (4 years for a project that was supposed to last 2) and your videos actually help me stay motivated on this final stage. Thank you, really.

  • @LyonTheGreat
    @LyonTheGreat Год назад +17

    I find your remarks about Wasteland super interesting because a "founding myth" about Fallout I've heard for years now (and I believe it was even touted on the wiki) was that Fallout came to be specifically BECAUSE the Wasteland devs, Brian Fargo in particular, wanted to make a sequel but weren't allowed to.
    I don't know how this legend came to be but I think the truth of Fallout's conception to be substantially more interesting.

  • @_TristanGray
    @_TristanGray Год назад +33

    Unimportant depressing side note, the US spends more than the next 10 biggest militaries combined, not “just” 2 or 3. 😬

    • @thimble347
      @thimble347 Год назад +1

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

    • @murkythreat
      @murkythreat Год назад +4

      based

    • @penisinlargementpills2511
      @penisinlargementpills2511 Год назад

      based

  • @Tunnelsnakesfool
    @Tunnelsnakesfool Год назад +3

    TIM tysm for this because you are helping me prove a point about defense contractors I have always said

  • @sIippo
    @sIippo Год назад +10

    Never stop uploading Tim. Your work has been inspiring for many of us, and these videos provide invaluable insight!

    • @xXHashassinXx
      @xXHashassinXx 3 месяца назад +2

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

  • @naomihunter7749
    @naomihunter7749 Год назад +1

    Been really loving all these videos from you. I love the look into the industry, the look into the process, and even the open videos about your personal experiences. Thanks for making these! From a fan perspective, as well as a designer perspective, this stuff is all kind of fascinating.

  • @xXHashassinXx
    @xXHashassinXx 3 месяца назад +4

    Ya know, I might not watch these on publication, but I want to let you know that fallout 1&2 are among my favorite games ever, I've played through both dozens of times, along with original wasteland. I really enjoy hearing you talk about them, and game design philosophy. I used to think I could make games, and technically I can, but I'm not able to make anything I'm proud of. You're inspirational. Maybe someday when I'm mature enough I'll try again. (I'm already in my 40s so probably not, but who knows!)
    I might not be watching these the day the come out, but please understand that this is "evergreen" content that have nothing to to with "today" and thusly are relevant and interesting in perpetuity. Fallout exists and is still being mage and played, and old heads like myself, as well as new fans, will find these videos interesting for 100 years to come. Thank you and please make more!

  • @versebuchanan512
    @versebuchanan512 Год назад +6

    Thank you so much for these stories, Tim, it means a lot. Your games mean a lot to me, and did back when I was a kid, and this is just a fantastic thing that you're doing

  • @OBTX91
    @OBTX91 21 день назад

    I really appreciate that younger you had the presence of mind to keep regular and accurate notes so that this information could be cataloged for the then future.

  • @anxietyonline1947
    @anxietyonline1947 Год назад +7

    So glad I found this channel! I have some of the best memories of my childhood opening up the big PC Fallout 1 box on xmas and installing it.
    The game was something so different and cool, I literally couldnt wait to get home from school to explore the wasteland!
    Cheers for making a childhood memory sir!

  • @thomasmitchell4986
    @thomasmitchell4986 Год назад

    I really appreciate hearing this historical context and background on my favourite game of all time. Fallout shaped my gaming/reading/movie/show preferences some twenty plus years later. Thank you so much for all creative work Tim.

  • @Rigel_Chiokis
    @Rigel_Chiokis Месяц назад

    As soon as you started talking about Wasteland having quests with moral dilemmas, I thought of the boy asking you to find his dog. In fact, that's the only specific quest I remember about that game. So yes, it stuck with me over all of these years.

  • @iStricer
    @iStricer Год назад +1

    Fascinating as always. Thank you for sharing, Tim!

  • @da7me22
    @da7me22 Год назад +16

    I am playing Fallout New Vegas and I googled for the inspiration of the fallout series. It is crazy that this video was posted just two weeks ago.
    This series is very fleshed out lore wise.

  • @thinkmore8024
    @thinkmore8024 Год назад +6

    Tim, you could make a video on your reflections on what has been lost and what has been gained from RPGs like Fallout and Arcanum going full first-person 3d. What is better and what is worse in full 3d games.

  • @TheOneBearded
    @TheOneBearded Год назад +1

    These videos remain fantastic. Love to see the next one in my feed.
    Would be great to get a closer look at the stuff in the background.

  • @Vault5Dweller
    @Vault5Dweller Год назад +5

    Thank you SO MUCH for answering my question, Tim. So great!

  • @leinadisjourneys
    @leinadisjourneys Год назад +3

    Another great video, thank you. I would love to hear about these influences on Arcanum as well, if there were any in particular.
    Also, would be really cool to have a video of you talking about some of your favorite games all in all, both new and old, and the effect they had on you.

  • @papsoe0
    @papsoe0 Год назад

    Gash I enjoy your talks, Ty for being such a big part of my childhood, even if it was without ever knowing you where, until now 🙏

  • @chandler224
    @chandler224 Год назад +2

    I started playing Fallout (1) for the first time thanks to your channel! Love hearing all the details and behind the scene facts as I'm playing.

  • @chrisburns514
    @chrisburns514 3 месяца назад +2

    Them! Haha, Fallout 3 was my first game, it had a quest called “Those!” which I was afraid to finish as a kid.
    Love to hear all this stuff, thanks for sharing!

  • @RedSiegfried
    @RedSiegfried Год назад +36

    I always imagined two the biggest movie influences were A Boy And His Dog and The Road Warrior so very interesting to hear about this. Thanks. And yeah, Dogmeat was the name of the dog in A Boy and His Dog - his actual name was Blood and he hated being called Dogmeat. :) A Boy and His Dog also had the "Screaming Meemies?" which are definitely an inspiration for glowing ghouls. It's a good short story and a really gonzo movie too.

    • @DACFalloutRanger
      @DACFalloutRanger Год назад +8

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

    • @RedSiegfried
      @RedSiegfried Год назад +8

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

    • @bluemooninthedaylight8073
      @bluemooninthedaylight8073 Год назад +1

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

    • @bluemooninthedaylight8073
      @bluemooninthedaylight8073 Год назад +1

      @@RedSiegfried And giant mutant critters, too.

    • @Amanitaland
      @Amanitaland 3 месяца назад

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

  • @patrickdoherty4527
    @patrickdoherty4527 3 месяца назад

    Fantastic to hear your insights on the development of such a classic game. There are quite a few movies you mentioned which are now on my to watch list. Love the channel!

  • @IMBREISGAU
    @IMBREISGAU Год назад +19

    I would like to know about the influence in The Outer Worlds and Arcanum too!

    • @Mirokuofnite
      @Mirokuofnite Год назад +2

      Same. I wonder where the steampunk influence came from.

  • @sword522
    @sword522 Год назад

    Oh boy so much great content!
    Thank you TC!
    Love this so much.

  • @TrueNeutralEvGenius
    @TrueNeutralEvGenius Год назад +3

    "La Jetée" is an absolute masterpiece, which inspired innumerable quantity of other ingenius creators and works of different kinds of art.

    • @skeven0
      @skeven0 Год назад

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

    • @andersonprimer
      @andersonprimer Год назад

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

  • @catfreshwilly2750
    @catfreshwilly2750 3 месяца назад

    Appreciate all of this that you are sharing! Loving it

  • @thewastelandarchitect9000
    @thewastelandarchitect9000 Год назад

    Honestly can’t get enough of these videos! Keep them coming ❤

  • @cannedfrootloops7803
    @cannedfrootloops7803 2 месяца назад +2

    Bigger than the next two or three combined? Try bigger than ALL OF THEM combined.
    Love your content, Cain. One of the most special channels on the site.

  • @TheLazyEngineer
    @TheLazyEngineer 9 месяцев назад +9

    Mentats => Dune?

  • @TheSkullPanda
    @TheSkullPanda Год назад +20

    Love these expos always and forever, it's such a treat to learn all this after 20+ years of loving this creation. One weird question - you mention sugar bombs/chocolate frosted sugar bombs; and I think i remember that showing up in the manuals? But if not, do they actually show up in any of the original games? The earliest i can remember them in the games was fallout 3. I definitely appreciate the reference to Calvin and Hobbes.

    • @CainOnGames
      @CainOnGames  Год назад +25

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

    • @TheSkullPanda
      @TheSkullPanda Год назад +3

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

    • @TheSkullPanda
      @TheSkullPanda Год назад +3

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

    • @xXHashassinXx
      @xXHashassinXx 3 месяца назад

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

  • @markkhalil5215
    @markkhalil5215 Год назад

    Hey Tim! great seeing you on youtube. Some rad videos man, been watching a bunch of them. Thanks for sharing all this awesome history of one of my fav. all time games.

  • @janvermeulen1557
    @janvermeulen1557 Год назад +3

    Nice list. Cool to see Crusader no Remorse mentioned. That game was sweet :)

    • @marcovirtual
      @marcovirtual Год назад +1

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

  • @wiisportss
    @wiisportss Год назад +11

    honey wake up tim cain just uploaded

  • @LatwPIAT
    @LatwPIAT Год назад +2

    I skimmed some old Gamma World editions a while back and one thing that just struck me the other day was that the Master's and Enclave's need for vault-dwellers uncorrupted by the mutating radiation of the nuclear apocalypse maps almost 1:1 to Gamma World's Pure Strain Humans who've lived in environmentally protected spaces.

  • @12stringblues
    @12stringblues Год назад +1

    Your videos are awesome! Fallout is my favorite game/series and I love all this info. Thanks!

  • @duncanhoward6648
    @duncanhoward6648 Год назад

    These are my favorite videos on this website right now.

  • @stewpidasohl
    @stewpidasohl 3 месяца назад

    This is really cool to listen to, would love to see more creators do this kind of breakdown. thanks!

  • @moosecannibal8224
    @moosecannibal8224 Год назад +2

    Okay, commenting again now that I've watched the video a bit.
    The fact that Sugarbombs are based off of Calvin and Hobbes' in universe over-sugary cereal is amazing.
    I adored those comics so much and it's so cool to have a link between a nostalgic part of my childhood and a franchise I love

  • @thekorv95
    @thekorv95 Год назад

    So insightful. I've watched a lot of fallout lore videos. But this is like going straight to the core. Much respect for being a part of the creation of such a deep and fascinating universe!
    West coast for life!

  • @theofficialtaylorroachyout6269

    Thank you so much for these videos Tim! I wasn't born until years after Fallout released but I've loved going and exploring older games and while Fallout took a bit to get into with the clunky gameplay, I loved it. The realization that I could actually screw up by something that Junktown didn't like and getting put in jail was so cool to me and it (along with Fallout 2) has become one of my favorite experiences in a game and single-handedly (or double-handedly since 2 had a part in it as well) got me into CRPGs. Thank you for the clunky mess that you've helped provide and I hope you end up having a good day today.

  • @ScottishBr4h
    @ScottishBr4h Год назад +2

    you're a legend for dropping these Tim!

    • @yamo511
      @yamo511 3 месяца назад

      >dropping

  • @ComradeCage
    @ComradeCage Год назад +1

    Mr. Cain, you have created a series that I will forever be a fan of in all its forms. I cannot thank you enough for this gift, a game that I will play for ages all my life.

  • @jacoblloyd2573
    @jacoblloyd2573 Год назад +1

    The channel we all needed and didn't know it!

  • @bruceschlickbernd8475
    @bruceschlickbernd8475 Год назад +4

    That was my favorite video of yours so far. I love the whole fifties vibe, though I think that’s because I lived it - Forbidden Planet is the earliest movie I can remember seeing (at a drive-in theater). Shout out to the late Scott Bennie for Dog Meat!

    • @Mushroomshay
      @Mushroomshay 3 месяца назад

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

    • @bruceschlickbernd8475
      @bruceschlickbernd8475 3 месяца назад +1

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

  • @djnorth2020
    @djnorth2020 2 месяца назад

    I must be one of dozen people in Finland who played and still have Gamma World. And I hosted GURPS in few different time eras, fantasy, cyberpunk and wild west. Love hearing about the influences and origins. Explains why I fell in love with the Fallout franchise.

  • @akv-e5t
    @akv-e5t 11 месяцев назад

    I've been waiting for this video for many years.

  • @MasoMate
    @MasoMate Год назад

    thank you for all the great work. i cant watch the video fully right now but i will soon

  • @ThisGuyAd.
    @ThisGuyAd. Год назад +1

    When you talk about comic book covers you can see the influence of pulp comics. But the work I always think of is the work of Spain Rodriguez. If you look at the Zap Comix issue 7 cover, the influence is uncanny and I love it.
    I also when having to explain Fallout to people who have never played it by saying it's Terry Gilliam's Brazil but after a nuclear war. Thanks for doing these videos Tim ✌️😎👍

  • @leandrorossi6710
    @leandrorossi6710 Год назад

    Love the videos Tim, keep'em coming!! Greetings from Argentina 😁😁

  • @slxxpyhollow
    @slxxpyhollow Год назад

    I am so glad you've kept all your notes! 😃

  • @maxmetpt
    @maxmetpt Год назад +1

    Lovely to see how much "the team" seemed to be on the same page, in one way or another. Reading the Hugo books, and so on. Very cool! :)

  • @jspike96
    @jspike96 Год назад +1

    I'd love to see a video on your thoughts regarding the writing, world, gameplay, art, characters, etc of the sequel games. Could do a video for each game in the series.

  • @baddragonite
    @baddragonite Год назад +1

    I always like how the origin of ghouls is mostly pointed at as being radiation but is left juuuust the tadest bit vague enough for speculation to come up

  • @JL-dz8sj
    @JL-dz8sj Год назад +3

    City of lost children had to have been the largest influence on the art style of Fallout.. How did Ron Perlman get involved with the intro narrative, it has to be tied to that influence?

  • @FluffySylveonBoi
    @FluffySylveonBoi Год назад +1

    I love how Mentats are a Dune reference. All the inspiration was awesome, especially Monty Python influence or Mad Max.

  • @theJellyjoker
    @theJellyjoker 8 месяцев назад

    This is the kind of behind the scenes info i love!

  • @TKsMantis
    @TKsMantis Год назад +3

    Hey Tim!
    Thank you for making this RUclips channel and speaking about Fallout like this.
    It means a lot to me to hear from you about a game that means so much to me and so many people.
    Thank you so much for all the hard work you have done over the years!

  • @Schmuni
    @Schmuni 3 месяца назад

    This is sooo good for documentation. Wow. Thank you.

  • @dmitriysergienko
    @dmitriysergienko Год назад +28

    Люблю Dogmeat! У нас его перевели как «псина», что немного грубо, но учитывая суровый мир наверняка многие так и называли бы его. А ведь он такой хороший мальчик. Тысячу раз сохранялся и загружался, но прошёл полностью с ним всю игру от начала и до конца. В Марипозе было особенно сложно. Сейчас представил как круто бы было, если бы в конце наш персонаж уходил вдаль вместе с ним. Как бонус за спасение собаки. Но тогда наверное была бы слишком явная отсылка к воину дороги.

    • @TrueNeutralEvGenius
      @TrueNeutralEvGenius Год назад +9

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

  • @TheinternetArchaeologist
    @TheinternetArchaeologist 2 месяца назад

    Thank you for helping to create my favorite video game series!!!

  • @phoenixvance6642
    @phoenixvance6642 Год назад +3

    I think the old model synths in F4 are alright from a design standpoint; They partially remind me of the designs of old prosthetics from the 50s rather than "Terminator" even if theyre still overall too sleek/high tech for fallout. The later models are still absurd, however.

  • @poophead2251
    @poophead2251 Год назад +2

    This means so much to us Fallout fans . Thank you so much!

  • @Suds_Mc_Duff
    @Suds_Mc_Duff Год назад +2

    IIRC, in A boy and his dog. he insults the dog at some point calling him dogmeat

  • @ash12181987
    @ash12181987 Год назад

    I always wondered after I saw the movie Radioactive Dreams, if that was one of the inspirations. Thanks for the vid!

  • @AndreasSelzer
    @AndreasSelzer Год назад +4

    So Sugar Bombs is a Calvin and Hobbes reference? Nice! 👍 🐯

  • @toobin8r
    @toobin8r 3 месяца назад

    For Ghouls, I’d always assumed it was some combination of taking lots of drugs with radiation exposure, or otherwise consuming a lot of processed products with preservatives in them, which: what are they putting in food during the Resource Wars as fillers and additives. Basically the ghoul would be another sorta prod at early 50s consumerism, or at the burgeoning drug problem in an era that’s supposedly one of plenty

  • @calsouth03
    @calsouth03 Год назад

    Hey Tim,
    Been really enjoying these, thanks for making them. Do you think you'd ever consider sharing your advice on worldbuilding in your videos? Related to this video for example, I'm currently working on my own worldbuilding side project and finding that it's pretty difficult to achieve a balance with trying to stay unique while being heavily influenced by other media.

  • @nvbl2806
    @nvbl2806 Год назад +3

    Power armor also has a Warhammer 40K feel to it, did that franchise ever come up during the design phase?

  • @shurley96
    @shurley96 2 месяца назад

    I loved a Canticle for Liebowitz (Standard reading for a catholic nerd), and I remember when reading it thinking 'this just has to have been an influence on Fallout'.

  • @TheJonnyEnglish
    @TheJonnyEnglish 2 месяца назад

    This was awesome, thank you!

  • @cameroncochran1105
    @cameroncochran1105 2 месяца назад

    Im playing the original fallout 1 and 2 right now! Love your work my dude

  • @user-yn6qd9oh8k
    @user-yn6qd9oh8k Год назад

    Very interesting information. Thanks for the video.

  • @Falicon
    @Falicon Год назад +12

    Hi Timothy,
    Thank you for sharing your stories.
    I was wondering if you would make a video about colors and their use in gaming.
    The subject interests me at the moment because I am witnessing more and more bright and over saturated colors in games these days, it seems to have become the general trend these past few years (2018 onwards)

    • @CainOnGames
      @CainOnGames  Год назад +12

      ruclips.net/video/fHUAFYDzN3U/видео.html

    • @Falicon
      @Falicon Год назад +5

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

    • @lrinfi
      @lrinfi Год назад +1

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

    • @Falicon
      @Falicon Год назад +1

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

    • @lrinfi
      @lrinfi Год назад +1

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

  • @blueazure9658
    @blueazure9658 Год назад

    These videos are life changing.

  • @davidgjam7600
    @davidgjam7600 Год назад +1

    A Boy and his Dog is one of my favorite movies, to me it really has the same vibes as Fallout 1

  • @chellejohnson9789
    @chellejohnson9789 Год назад

    How did I just find out you have a RUclips? What a gift!

  • @tomk.ink.8373
    @tomk.ink.8373 Год назад

    Love these videos so much

  • @PointReflex
    @PointReflex Год назад +1

    If you havent seen it, I do have a movie to reccomend, well two actually: Metropolis (1927) for its "wall of separation" between the people triving their lifes at the expense of the undesirables and how this obliterates the very core of what made humanity reach the skyes, and Threads (1984) the most accurate despiction in nuclear holocaust that makes both The Day After (1983) and Sarah's nuke nightmare in Terminator 2 (1991) look like episodes of Hello Kitty.

  • @shanepye7078
    @shanepye7078 3 месяца назад

    The dark humour in the games and especially the Vault Tec meeting from the show with the dark room, round overhead light and the big board, I’m reminded of Dr.Strangelove.

  • @majora4prez543
    @majora4prez543 Год назад +1

    What about Star Control 2? I was inspired to watch a Let's Play of that game after reading your review of it, and the open world with a time limit, the dialogue trees, the ability to make friends or enemies out of most of the other powers in the game, the sense of humor, and the well-thought-out villains really reminded me of Fallout.

  • @8866F
    @8866F 2 месяца назад

    Listening to this reminds me of the coworkers, who are capable of telling me a joke that I told them the day before, completely convinced that it is their joke.

  • @inkmark0099
    @inkmark0099 Год назад

    Really enjoying these vids - can you do a vid on your opinions on modern fallout?

  • @paulhenry8174
    @paulhenry8174 Год назад

    Thanks for doing this. Loved your game.