Lmao, my father worked in radio and once was doing an interview with Jim, and my dad got me on the phone (i was like 4 at the time) to talk to Tigger. Looking back, i find it hilarious thinking that I was talking to The Master as well.
You know you've written an awesome villain when you can be relieved that you've stopped their horrifying plot, but also feel genuine remorse over them as well.
Well put, I don't want all my media villains to be sympathetic but when it's done right it creates a bittersweet ending. Perfect for the grim post apocalypse setting where survival usually means something or someone else has to die.
The Master is both interesting and very unsettling, how you learn about his transformation, his calm way of speaking, his sheer look that remind me of The Thing.
It's called americanism. No, there is great Unity in division. Diversity destroys social cohesion and insitutional trust. But a delineative Imperial federation can bind them all in unity. Because pure multiplicity represents the extreme opposite of principle unity. "As you saw the iron mixed with clay, so the peoples will mix with one another, but will not hold together any more than iron mixes with clay. In the days of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will shatter all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, but will itself stand forever"-Daniel 2:43-44
the duality of men, Harold turned into a tree who soon became a religion and Richard who turned into a sentient computer who wanted to force everybody to serve one cause
On the other hand, holy shit they really played into the whacky shit people think radiation can do to you. Ghouls, supermutants, literal new limbs and grotesque things like the Master, all caused by the terrors of radiation in a way that people could truly believe a few decades ago. Funny.
When Charisma was OP... Beating the final boss by convincing him his plan sucked and he has done nothing to bring peace to the world. Only set off a chain reaction of suffering.
The Master & Legate Lanius: I will fulfill my purpose for this world. Protagonist: Yeah, but you kinda sucks bro. Just stop. The master & Legate Lanius: Understandable, have a great day.
Speech not Charisma. Charisma is so useless in F1 that you can finish easily with just 1 CHR. And you’re actively gimping yourself by putting points in Charisma.
The master is an arguably incredible villain. Though it seems unlikely, I'd love to see an og fallout remaster rendered in 3d with the modern fallout's engine. I really think it'd bring the character "alive."
I think that'd be considered a remake if we're being technical, but yes, 100%, would love to experience the story of the old fallouts without the gameplay of that era since I'm 25 and too young to wrap my head around playing through that original game nowadays
@@moosecannibal8224 thats wild to me that people can't enjoy the old fallouts. I'm only a few years older than you but I remember pirating them in like 8th grade and really liking it. It is alot of reading though
@@moosecannibal8224 I'm 23 and managed to pull through. Takes some time getting used to it, but it's 100% worth doing so. I'd make the claim that the first two fallouts are likely the best of the franchise.
My late father turned me into the fallout nerd I am today. He would tell me I couldn't watch him play Fallout, but never made me stop lmfao I ended up playing on his computer when he was on the road working. Those were the days, sunny delight and fallout on Saturday morning! I'm always down for that. Seeing it in 3D would be such a special nostalgic feeling for those of us rounding 30.
Woah so if his name was originally Richard Moreau, and in the Hub he became a doctor, that makes him... Dr. Moreau? As in the book/movie 'The Island of Dr. Moreau,' where Dr. Moreau presides over a bunch of mutants who call him 'the father'? Damn original Fallout, 2 decades since we first met and you've still got things to show me
@@MarkkysLife the west coast has progressed… east cost hasn’t progressed at all… in the east people haven’t even cleaned the skeletons out of their living areas
@@1738-l1jIt's the concept of retro-futurism. Like the wattsons, but nuclear. Everything is colorful as in the 60's (more like as how colorful people would imagine the 60's was). In reality, maybe it's just that the east uses paint that doesn't resist nuclear apocalipses.
I literally got Fallout 1 to listen to the Master after watching a video on how the Master can be shown the truth and decide to blow himself up. That final part where he realizes you are telling him the truth and just hearing him realize how mad it was to do that is hearthbreaking and makes me get chills. Also i always thought he wanted the vaults due to low rads but the mutated fev makes sense.
You're actually right on the reason for wanting the vaults. They hold pure, uncontaminated subjects, making them perfect candidates for the Master's army.
I'd love to give it a go (the first flalout game I was exposed to was fallout 3 but even then didn't have anything to play it on.) Now I can access all of them and I want to try Fallout 1 and 2 but I'm terrified my computer is too new and it would brick itself :/
@@boopadoop385 don’t be discouraged. There’s lots of community support and unofficial patches for FO1&2. I played for the first time during Covid and they are genuinely so fucking good. It’s totally worth the little bit of effort to make them run safe and stable.
i like how in fallout 1 super mutants are actually super fucking strong, unlike recent fallout games where you can easily kill a nightkin with a simple pistol, it made mutants into an actual danger that spreads like a plague. It makes you think about how important actual in game difficulty plays a role in lore.
Fallout 1, for all the bugs and glitches that make it incredibly difficult to play, was a narrative masterpiece. It all culminates with confronting the Master. It will be a true test of everything you've put into the game so far, whether you talk him down or blow him away. But what I love; absolutely LOVE about Fallout is that you can SKIP THE ENCOUNTER ENTIRELY. You can instead go to the vault's nuclear reactor and force it to overload with an astronomical science/hacking check. And it's amazing that the developers would include an option to bypass the conclusion of the narrative arc that was building up for so long. And it makes so much sense! Regardless of how well-equipped and prepared you are, the Master is a terrifyingly powerful force; master of psionics, robotics, and genetic mutants. Why would you go in against him head on if you could just blow him up with minimal risk to yourself and your crew? Phenomenal. Absolutely loved it.
@mark shaw Yeah that's why Fallout is actually a household name now and the original devs sold the property right? Because the original fallouts were just so damn good eh? I'm reading these games had a shit load of bugs but it's only bad when Bethesda does it. Also, nostalgia has a way of making you overlook the bad in things. I sincerely doubt anyone could have done better with Fallout than Bethesda. I'm sure the original devs simply caught lightning in a bottle with Fallout.
@Timi Kärkkäinen Your ignorance is showing, and to say Bethesda knows nothing about any of that is completely asinine. Have you never played Morrowind? Please, keep saying stupid shit just because bugs and glitches bad touched you (which the original fallouts had). It's a wonder Troika and Interplay are no longer around. Let's not forget that Bethesda's main studio is Zenimax Media which created the likes of Call of Cthulhu the Dark Corners of the Earth which had everything you just described. No please keep saying they don't know how to create anything at all. LOL
What I like about the master is his place in the timeline. He fits nearly perfect. He was a mutant abomination not too longer after the bombs dropped that tried to rise a new empire of mutants. When vanquished he is slowly forgotten over time as time moves on, mutation lessened and humanity came back from the brink. He was the ruler of the darkest time of fallout, when the sky’s were still gray and mutation was all over. He is basically a wolf if a modern human was dropped naked in the woods. But now that the dark times are over he is probably a legend at best.
It's called americanism. No, there is great Unity in division. Diversity destroys social cohesion and insitutional trust. But a delineative Imperial federation can bind them all in unity. Because pure multiplicity represents the extreme opposite of principle unity. "As you saw the iron mixed with clay, so the peoples will mix with one another, but will not hold together any more than iron mixes with clay. In the days of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will shatter all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, but will itself stand forever"-Daniel 2:43-44
He has the right idea but sometimes the cost are too great. It's about the matter of perspective anyway. We said this is bad because we see this in our way, The Master said this is good because he sees this in his way and both has their own kernel of truth.
The fact that a super mutated half man, half machine was stopped by one random clueless human looking for a water chip just shows that humans will forever be the apex species
Doesn't it strike you as convenient that all the fiction that depicts humanity as the apex species is always written by humans? Seems like propoganda to me.
And wouldn’t it be so amazing if you didn’t realize you were the master at first until certain little lore-specific things started happening, and then it became undeniable that you were playing as the antagonist of the first game. Such a cool idea!!
I’m currently playing Fallout 4 as Richard. Imagining him surviving his own suicide because of his regenerative abilities, wrestling with his madness and forced to face the consequences of his actions.
@@patatepotato8767 Turn it into a colony sim, but one where you understand that no matter what, it's futile because they'll never reproduce. At the end of the game you face the player
Been waiting for a video about this character for a while, I never played early Fallout, but can see how much of the grim and gritty aspect has been watered down.. less graphically advanced yet story wise superior
Emil Pagliarulo just couldn't handle that the canon of the original games was far superior to anything he could write and so he just took the superficial elements and kludged them into a sad mimicry. Most folks who appreciate the story telling of the original games from Black Isle find what was presented in FO3, 4 and 76 to be lackluster at best.
It's called americanism. No, there is great Unity in division. Diversity destroys social cohesion and insitutional trust. But a delineative Imperial federation can bind them all in unity. Because pure multiplicity represents the extreme opposite of principle unity. "As you saw the iron mixed with clay, so the peoples will mix with one another, but will not hold together any more than iron mixes with clay. In the days of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will shatter all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, but will itself stand forever"-Daniel 2:43-44
@@Thagomizer I think FO2 could work If the first game was adapted first. And FO3 could be a movie too, I think the family themes could be easy digested by the masses.
Very good breakdown. The Master is one of my favorite villains because he's so three-dimensional. Instead of just trying to take over for the hell of it, there's an entire philosophy behind his actions, and he genuinely believes he's working to build a better future for the species. In fact, the Plan might've even worked, if it weren't for its one fatal flaw: that super-mutants can't breed. All life must reproduce or eventually go extinct. The Master is intelligent enough to realize this, which is why he commits suicide with the nuke in the diplomatic victory. What's really cool is that the Master can also score a diplomatic victory against you by convincing the player character to join the Unity. Fallout may be an old game, but the writing, storytelling and atmosphere are top-notch.
True Master can also "speech check" you, but it's a hollow victory for him in the end. Yes he stops the guy trying to stop him, but in the end he will ultimately fail because he never realised his creations cannot reproduce. It's interesting how this super intelligent mutant never bothered to check that fundamental thing about life.
The Master, I believe, is the most interesting Fallout villain. He has a motive that is understandable, a past that is relatable, a present (in this context) that is consistent with his past, and a future plan that could (possibly) come to fruition. Although The Master did not ultimately succeed, they did have a lasting mark on the Fallout universe. You see super mutants everywhere in the series meaning The Masters' reach expanded extremely far, as well as his army. FEV is an integral part of the Fallout universe and its inner machinations. I can not come to a better conclusion than The Master is one of, if not the most well thought out and most influential adversary in the series.
It's called americanism. No, there is great Unity in division. Diversity destroys social cohesion and insitutional trust. But a delineative Imperial federation can bind them all in unity. Because pure multiplicity represents the extreme opposite of principle unity. "As you saw the iron mixed with clay, so the peoples will mix with one another, but will not hold together any more than iron mixes with clay. In the days of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will shatter all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, but will itself stand forever"-Daniel 2:43-44
Fallout 1 is a game that absolutely deserves a remake, and i dare to say, in first/third person like FO3, NV and 4. The master chilled my bones when i was a kid...
Excellent video! I like how you left the Master's fate open ended since we, the players, get to decide how he lives or dies. With some of the comments here, I would like to see a Fallout 1+2 remaster, but in their original isometric form. The remaster should look like Pillars of Eternity, or like the Planescape remaster. I feel that would grant it proper justice, giving us a shiny new look but keeping the actual gameplay and story/acting intact. Bethesda's Fallouts belong how they are, and Black Isle/Interplay's Fallouts belong how they are as well.
To me pillars of eternity is ugly. pixel art is where it's at -- look at death trash for something recent. a remaster improving the resolutions and whatnot on f01 and 2 would be fine , but I'd really like a proper isometric sequel.
This video was exactly what I was hoping to find when I searched for "Fallout lore the Master" Very nicely summarized and presented. Thanks a lot! You get a L&S for this.
We need writing, lore and love like this in new Fallout games. You get the sense the writers really love and took pride in the world they conceived and constructed.
He fancied himself a doctor after he made it to the surface and had to make a new life for himself. Either he was trained to some extent as one or no one else was as mildly competent as he was or perhaps nobody else wanted the job or could spell it on their sign. Either way, assuming that perhaps he had been performing as a doctor within his home vault, perhaps that is then tied into how it was that he came to be cast out. That he had killed someone as he performed a procedure drunk, wasn't as skilled as he was thought to be and may have given someone the wrong medicine-allergic reaction or amount or completly wrong from the start. Or maybe he granted a patient death, released them from their suffering. Either way, hearing of his status as a doctor, it certainly does strike me as a possibility. Others see or say murder while he says mistake or accident. No one around to tell us now though.
My first thoughts as well. One thing life taught me is perspective plays a big role. The villain in someone’s life might be someone else’s hero depending on the view and circumstances. That’s why I try and get everyone’s pov when tryna problem solve
The Master seems heavily Influenced by the movies The Fly and The Thing for its combination of humans and the tentacles coming from the chest paired with a man who was in a very unfortunate situation slowly decaying with nothing being able to stop it
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@@firstnamelastname956 For our sins we deserve eternity in hell, but God loves us so much he came as Jesus to pay the price of our sins through living a perfect life for us, his death and his resurrection so we can be forgiven and receive eternal life if we follow and obey him in faith FOR LIFE , Jesus loves u and desires to have a personal relationship with you of love, peace, redemption and obedience ✝️ May Jesus bless you, repent of your sins and turn to Christ before it's too late 🙏🏿❤️
To me, The Master is best final boss in the intire francise. Eventhough he has very little screen time, the game gives him lots of build up. He has very good backstory and you can feel his presence trough out the entire game. Then when you enter the cathetral you have multiple ways of taken of him. You can plant a bomb in the building he's residing in, kill him directly or talk him down which results in him commiting suicide. He is also a 3 dimetional character and his voice acters due an excellent job at bringing him to live. And finaly, his pressence can be feld long after his downfall.
This was needed for the old Fallout lore. This guy is like the Vaati Vidya of Fallout. I can put these stories on in te background while I'm doing some shit and be interested the whole time. Love it
Fallout 3 was my first experience and I loved it, the first time I played it, I was hooked and now I finally understand Harold the tree and mariposa, so cool they put lore into 3 from the other games, thanks for the lore my man
The master isn’t just my favorite Fallout villain its my favorite villain in any video game. It’s appearance is so unsettling mixed with the other voices the master truly sat in my memory since I first played the game. Along with his misguided conquest for unity I think it was just such a brilliantly written character.
I had never played the first Fallout game until running across your channel. After seeing a bunch of these lore videos it made me go and start playing it.
I wanted to throw out a possible video idea. I would love to have the entire story of Nick Valentine (Man, machine, and the combination) put in. He was such a fascinating character in Fallout 4 (probably the best in my opinion) and his whole story (including the Eddie Winters stuff, getting scanned, getting trashed into a heap, getting accepted into Diamond City) was such a ride. Maybe you have it planned for the future, maybe you hadn't considered it yet, but I wanted to throw it out there. These are amazing videos, please keep them coming!
Ever since learning and reading of the Master he occupied a special place in my heart among other iconic characters. Just the other day I installed Fallout 1 for the second time and this time, with much better English skills and willingness to let its world pull me in, I accidentally found Harold in a shack. Even knowing their story, knowing what would happen to both of them, in the end, the way he told the tale of their adventure was something else. The delivery of Charlie Adler is so profound, his voice full of the pain of a life, and a friend, both long lost. And the whole encounter, like Harold himself to most of the Hub, like a breeze passing through the trees. I don't know if many people who discovered him back then imagined the implications, the magnitude of his tale. It was a moving, chilling encounter and one I know will remember for a long time. And, "So what shall it be?" Is forever etched into my mind. Jim Cummings is phenomenal, as always. Today or tomorrow I shall stand face to face with the Master for the very first time. Thank you for the in depth, quality video! I've been watching your other Fallout content and I look forward to more!
Saw your videos in my recommendation glad I watched. I know nothing of Fallout lore before 4 and New Vegas so it’s so cool seeing new things about lore I don’t know anything about. Keep it up you got a new subscriber
I'd love to see another Master creature in a future Fallout title. If the FEV could create the Master then who's to say it couldn't again? I could imagine a vault dedicated to FEV research inadvertently creating a "master". Spreading the loving unity to every vault resident. It could be explained that because of the FEV research this vault couldn't be opened internally.
Technically it's possible for a similar initial mutation set to be induced, but the Master reached the height he did by absorbing numerous other beings, both mutated and not.
His transformation kinda looks like John Carpenter's film the thing, I believe Richard was delusional thinking that mutants could unify the wasteland I'm just glad the vault dweller defeated him in fallout 1.
I believe the master was not expecting the mutants to unify the wasteland through diplomacy. But through force and change. What would happen if everyone in this world turned into white or black people? There would be no more prejudice and racism any longer cuz everybody belongs to the same race. I know it sounds insane, but master had an interesting idea there. Make one race and eliminate needless conflict. The execution of that plan was horrible though. No mercy or thought for the people he hurts in the persuit of his plan. Might be a side effect of the fev warping his mind.
They seemed to start off more sci-fi in the first game. Then went more military with Enclave and NCR but also pushing towards lovecraftian. That's why I love these games. It's a bit of everything but it meshes together so well instead of feeling out of place.
@@timbuckthe2nd642 what was so horrible about 4? I loved the amount of detail they put into it. The Brotherhood turned into evil bigots sadly but it was pretty cool. I loved the followers you got especially Nick and Piper. Wonder if they could ever make a Fallout game that didn't revolve around the player looking for something or someone.
Something I've always found impressive about the FEV is it was able too evolve Richard using the machines and creatures near by. Becoming partly machine But Harold had the total opposite, instead of evolving with technology. His body became a giant tree, evolving along side nature. The FEV seems too be influenced by whatever environment it's in, making it possible too survive no matter where
love your videos, Syn 🤗💜 this one reminded me, I'm aware there isn't too much content around but some Rippers turf wars retrospective would be ameowzing.
One thing I find interesting is centaurs in Fallout 1. Because the master claims the whole point of Unity is to bring peace to the world and end all future conflict. But when you look up the wiki for Fallout 1 centaurs you can see that the dog head seems to be snapping its teeth at the human head trying to bite it despite them being a part of the same organism. Obviousness you can say that this is only indicative of the animal parts of unity mutations and the human mutations like the human part of a centaur or humans made into super mutants don’t have that same agression towards another under the master. You can also say a centaur’s intelligence is far lower than that of a pure unity super mutant. More animalistic in nature. But if that is the case and it’s not just the dog part of the centaur causing this inward aggression then what does that mean for Unity. Because the most intelligent super mutants are pure strain with little to no prior radiation exposure. The perfect population of this being vault dwellers. But from what we’ve seen in fallout most vaults that don’t outright expose their inhabitants to harmful products still don’t last long due to the nature of most vault tec experiments. And the vast majority of humans not in vaults have significant radiation exposure from just being alive above ground. So even if Unity succeeded and the master mutated the whole world while finding a solution to the sterility problem then it seems like most of the new mutants wouldn’t be pure and thus not as intelligent as the master would prefer. With nothing left to conquer and no new purpose is it possible that many of these new mutants might rebel against the power of unity to coexist peacefully with other supermutants and thus start fighting one another completely erasing the biggest positive effect of the plan.
I tried picking up fallout 1 a long time ago and for one reason or another just couldn't get into it, but this vid convinced me to redownload. Gonna binge watch some more 🙌🙌
Master is not only the best villain from fallout, but one of the best villains from all, more than a villain and misunderstanded hero, he tried to save people but the cost was huge and the result wasn't a success until he realize, why he suicided, to punish himself.
Is the Master the best Fallout Villain so far, if not, who is?
Edit: Scourge is pronounced skurj, I'm very tired if you couldn't tell 😅
Yes
Shaun
Us humanity as a whole is the villain and hero
Jezebel from Fallout 4 ofc, pure evil brain
if bethesda going full lovecraftian it will be ug-qualtoth or alhazred, if not then either elijah or caesar :3
"I was baptised twice. Once in water, once in green goo"
This joke is so underappreciated
Thank you master Joshua we love you xoxoxo
@@emilydavis9548 fr
I was baptised in boiling water.
Came to say two years late.. ❤
The most unnerving part of the Master is the fact that it's the same guy who voices Winnie the Pooh
Jim Cummings has an insane range
Whoa
And Gizmo from the same game
Lmao, my father worked in radio and once was doing an interview with Jim, and my dad got me on the phone (i was like 4 at the time) to talk to Tigger. Looking back, i find it hilarious thinking that I was talking to The Master as well.
@@jack_corvinus he’s always Hondo Ohnaka in my brain
You know you've written an awesome villain when you can be relieved that you've stopped their horrifying plot, but also feel genuine remorse over them as well.
Well put, I don't want all my media villains to be sympathetic but when it's done right it creates a bittersweet ending.
Perfect for the grim post apocalypse setting where survival usually means something or someone else has to die.
@@MediumRareOpinionswell put!
Remorse for that abomination? You’re a funny one.
@@MaztRPwn Or, you may be a bit dense if you didn't understand his point.
No remorse for muties.
The Master is both interesting and very unsettling, how you learn about his transformation, his calm way of speaking, his sheer look that remind me of The Thing.
It's called americanism.
No, there is great Unity in division. Diversity destroys social cohesion and insitutional trust. But a delineative Imperial federation can bind them all in unity. Because pure multiplicity represents the extreme opposite of principle unity.
"As you saw the iron mixed with clay, so the peoples will mix with one another, but will not hold together any more than iron mixes with clay. In the days of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will shatter all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, but will itself stand forever"-Daniel 2:43-44
@@RenneDanjoule this has nothing to do with anything
@@RenneDanjoule bro stfu that has nothing to do
@@RenneDanjoule you dun lost your marbles son.
@@Fractal_blip he straight up lost his marbles
the duality of men, Harold turned into a tree who soon became a religion and Richard who turned into a sentient computer who wanted to force everybody to serve one cause
@Eli
It was a really complex cover up.
@@brok56 That's religion baby
On the other hand, holy shit they really played into the whacky shit people think radiation can do to you. Ghouls, supermutants, literal new limbs and grotesque things like the Master, all caused by the terrors of radiation in a way that people could truly believe a few decades ago. Funny.
@@EveryTimeV2 I mean, please share with us your portfolio of wildly popular game content lol
@@EveryTimeV2 not to nitpick, but supermutants were a result of the FEV, not radiation
When Charisma was OP... Beating the final boss by convincing him his plan sucked and he has done nothing to bring peace to the world. Only set off a chain reaction of suffering.
The Master & Legate Lanius: I will fulfill my purpose for this world.
Protagonist: Yeah, but you kinda sucks bro. Just stop.
The master & Legate Lanius: Understandable, have a great day.
@@Gerraint Not really comparable to Lanius. You need more than a Bootle of booze and a nice PJs to convince the Master he's wrong
Just detonate the nuke in the basement.
Speech not Charisma.
Charisma is so useless in F1 that you can finish easily with just 1 CHR. And you’re actively gimping yourself by putting points in Charisma.
@@patatepotato8767 new Vegas charisma is a dump stat.
The master is an arguably incredible villain. Though it seems unlikely, I'd love to see an og fallout remaster rendered in 3d with the modern fallout's engine. I really think it'd bring the character "alive."
I think that'd be considered a remake if we're being technical, but yes, 100%, would love to experience the story of the old fallouts without the gameplay of that era since I'm 25 and too young to wrap my head around playing through that original game nowadays
@@moosecannibal8224 thats wild to me that people can't enjoy the old fallouts. I'm only a few years older than you but I remember pirating them in like 8th grade and really liking it. It is alot of reading though
@@moosecannibal8224 I'm 23 and managed to pull through. Takes some time getting used to it, but it's 100% worth doing so. I'd make the claim that the first two fallouts are likely the best of the franchise.
My late father turned me into the fallout nerd I am today. He would tell me I couldn't watch him play Fallout, but never made me stop lmfao I ended up playing on his computer when he was on the road working. Those were the days, sunny delight and fallout on Saturday morning! I'm always down for that. Seeing it in 3D would be such a special nostalgic feeling for those of us rounding 30.
I think that in soon future AI will be able to convert 2D games into new engines.
Woah so if his name was originally Richard Moreau, and in the Hub he became a doctor, that makes him... Dr. Moreau? As in the book/movie 'The Island of Dr. Moreau,' where Dr. Moreau presides over a bunch of mutants who call him 'the father'?
Damn original Fallout, 2 decades since we first met and you've still got things to show me
111 likes, looks like the sole survivor came around
@@Mast3rKK hahaaa!
@@vandaylen shit now its 113
Ill give u a like now
Yeah, Bethesda likes making Easter Eggs in their game
Apparently there's a Nuka Cola bottle cap in Skyrim
@@axelwulf6220 fallout 1 and 3 have nothing to do with Bethesda, its why the writing is good unlike 3 and 4.
I wish fallout went back to being more body horror like, it's such an incredibly setting that fits the game so well.
@@MarkkysLifenot under Bethesda it isn’t, they haven’t added a single thing of worth to the series.
@@MarkkysLifekinda like how the world has been “progressing” irl
@@HamTheBaconfallout 4 and-76 lame af idk why they make fallout colorfull and jolly
@@MarkkysLife the west coast has progressed… east cost hasn’t progressed at all… in the east people haven’t even cleaned the skeletons out of their living areas
@@1738-l1jIt's the concept of retro-futurism. Like the wattsons, but nuclear. Everything is colorful as in the 60's (more like as how colorful people would imagine the 60's was). In reality, maybe it's just that the east uses paint that doesn't resist nuclear apocalipses.
I like how "the most intelligent mutant" automatically developed a British accent.
Least mutated British man
doesn't add up imo bc I'm a brit & most of us are thick as pig shite lmao
Everything sounds smarter in a British accent
@twizzm Ok. I can see the resemblance.
He even developed British teeth.
I literally got Fallout 1 to listen to the Master after watching a video on how the Master can be shown the truth and decide to blow himself up. That final part where he realizes you are telling him the truth and just hearing him realize how mad it was to do that is hearthbreaking and makes me get chills.
Also i always thought he wanted the vaults due to low rads but the mutated fev makes sense.
You're actually right on the reason for wanting the vaults. They hold pure, uncontaminated subjects, making them perfect candidates for the Master's army.
You bought a game just to listen to one character?
Huh.
I'd love to give it a go (the first flalout game I was exposed to was fallout 3 but even then didn't have anything to play it on.)
Now I can access all of them and I want to try Fallout 1 and 2 but I'm terrified my computer is too new and it would brick itself :/
@@INFILTR8US W
@@boopadoop385 don’t be discouraged. There’s lots of community support and unofficial patches for FO1&2. I played for the first time during Covid and they are genuinely so fucking good. It’s totally worth the little bit of effort to make them run safe and stable.
The Master always gave me "I Have no Mouth and yet I Must Scream" vibes.
same thougts
He is kind of like a morbidly "nice" AM. His long haul vision is a skewed version of noble.
Omg this is SO true!
Hes voiced by the voice actor of ihnmaims, and created the original book
thinking more Shodan myself
i like how in fallout 1 super mutants are actually super fucking strong, unlike recent fallout games where you can easily kill a nightkin with a simple pistol, it made mutants into an actual danger that spreads like a plague. It makes you think about how important actual in game difficulty plays a role in lore.
I mean you can kill anything with a pistol in real life... You might have to shoot it 20 times compared to 3 or 5 but itll die eventually
@@demonjmh Fallout is not real life
Yeah, I most definitely agree. The mutants were overall presented as an genuine threat, which is missing from more recent games.
They are also super-intelligent thanks to the FEV. Harry was just an outlier. Also they had steam trucks.
@@meatycitadel most Super Mutants in FO1 were stupid, very few were actually smart, let alone Genius level after FEV
Fallout 1, for all the bugs and glitches that make it incredibly difficult to play, was a narrative masterpiece. It all culminates with confronting the Master. It will be a true test of everything you've put into the game so far, whether you talk him down or blow him away.
But what I love; absolutely LOVE about Fallout is that you can SKIP THE ENCOUNTER ENTIRELY. You can instead go to the vault's nuclear reactor and force it to overload with an astronomical science/hacking check. And it's amazing that the developers would include an option to bypass the conclusion of the narrative arc that was building up for so long. And it makes so much sense! Regardless of how well-equipped and prepared you are, the Master is a terrifyingly powerful force; master of psionics, robotics, and genetic mutants. Why would you go in against him head on if you could just blow him up with minimal risk to yourself and your crew?
Phenomenal. Absolutely loved it.
Because they know how to write/make a game, Bethesda just sux ⚽🏀
You can also join him 😉
@mark shaw Yeah that's why Fallout is actually a household name now and the original devs sold the property right? Because the original fallouts were just so damn good eh? I'm reading these games had a shit load of bugs but it's only bad when Bethesda does it. Also, nostalgia has a way of making you overlook the bad in things. I sincerely doubt anyone could have done better with Fallout than Bethesda. I'm sure the original devs simply caught lightning in a bottle with Fallout.
@@OriginalDrGonzo old fallouts have atmosphere, story, characters which Bethesda know nothing about
@Timi Kärkkäinen Your ignorance is showing, and to say Bethesda knows nothing about any of that is completely asinine. Have you never played Morrowind? Please, keep saying stupid shit just because bugs and glitches bad touched you (which the original fallouts had). It's a wonder Troika and Interplay are no longer around. Let's not forget that Bethesda's main studio is Zenimax Media which created the likes of Call of Cthulhu the Dark Corners of the Earth which had everything you just described. No please keep saying they don't know how to create anything at all. LOL
What I like about the master is his place in the timeline. He fits nearly perfect. He was a mutant abomination not too longer after the bombs dropped that tried to rise a new empire of mutants. When vanquished he is slowly forgotten over time as time moves on, mutation lessened and humanity came back from the brink. He was the ruler of the darkest time of fallout, when the sky’s were still gray and mutation was all over. He is basically a wolf if a modern human was dropped naked in the woods. But now that the dark times are over he is probably a legend at best.
The best thing being that the waves of his actions are still being felt well into fallout 4
@@anoblecilla13how
@@macktre8846 super mutants silly billy
@@dethmedic52hmmmm no. not that coast.
@@aidencrawford9704 is that so? Care to elaborate?
Definitely one of the most inspirational antagonists put there and everything about him from his design to his motives and feelings are so well done.
It's called americanism.
No, there is great Unity in division. Diversity destroys social cohesion and insitutional trust. But a delineative Imperial federation can bind them all in unity. Because pure multiplicity represents the extreme opposite of principle unity.
"As you saw the iron mixed with clay, so the peoples will mix with one another, but will not hold together any more than iron mixes with clay. In the days of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will shatter all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, but will itself stand forever"-Daniel 2:43-44
@@RenneDanjoule That's gonna be a yikes from me chief.
@@RenneDanjoule
Uh, based.
@@RenneDanjoule Yeah, I'm thinking based.
@@RenneDanjoule you sound like you belong in Fallout.
Another fantastic lore video! In his own twisted way the Master wanted to bring peace and I think all of the best villains have similar motivations.
It's really funny because nightkin have pretty clear superiority complexes over other super mutants.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
#themasterdidnothingwrong
He has the right idea but sometimes the cost are too great. It's about the matter of perspective anyway. We said this is bad because we see this in our way, The Master said this is good because he sees this in his way and both has their own kernel of truth.
The fact that a super mutated half man, half machine was stopped by one random clueless human looking for a water chip just shows that humans will forever be the apex species
Doesn't it strike you as convenient that all the fiction that depicts humanity as the apex species is always written by humans? Seems like propoganda to me.
We don’t fuck around. 💪🏻
Humanity does have a predator though...
Themselves...
You almost sound like an Enclave soldier.. 🤔
@thelvadem5713 thats called competition
A Fallout game playing as The master after he was exiled from vault 8 playing his 400 mile journey would be awesome
Holy shit yes! That would be so cool
I like this idea In fallout 4 u can build towns. they should do a prequel where u make mutants as Richard
And wouldn’t it be so amazing if you didn’t realize you were the master at first until certain little lore-specific things started happening, and then it became undeniable that you were playing as the antagonist of the first game. Such a cool idea!!
I’m currently playing Fallout 4 as Richard. Imagining him surviving his own suicide because of his regenerative abilities, wrestling with his madness and forced to face the consequences of his actions.
@@patatepotato8767 Turn it into a colony sim, but one where you understand that no matter what, it's futile because they'll never reproduce. At the end of the game you face the player
Been waiting for a video about this character for a while, I never played early Fallout, but can see how much of the grim and gritty aspect has been watered down.. less graphically advanced yet story wise superior
Emil Pagliarulo just couldn't handle that the canon of the original games was far superior to anything he could write and so he just took the superficial elements and kludged them into a sad mimicry. Most folks who appreciate the story telling of the original games from Black Isle find what was presented in FO3, 4 and 76 to be lackluster at best.
It's called americanism.
No, there is great Unity in division. Diversity destroys social cohesion and insitutional trust. But a delineative Imperial federation can bind them all in unity. Because pure multiplicity represents the extreme opposite of principle unity.
"As you saw the iron mixed with clay, so the peoples will mix with one another, but will not hold together any more than iron mixes with clay. In the days of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will shatter all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, but will itself stand forever"-Daniel 2:43-44
@@RenneDanjoule wtf are you on about
@@Thagomizer I think FO2 could work If the first game was adapted first.
And FO3 could be a movie too, I think the family themes could be easy digested by the masses.
I mean fallout 3 story was okay and new Vegas was good. Fallout 4 story was ok.
Bakersfield turning into Necropolis is the most believable thing about Fallout to me, as someone born in Bakersfield
I laughed harder than I should have...
Hmmm I thought the necropolis was LA...
@@miafillene4396that’s the boneyard
Same. In the show I was like why the FUCK does this man wanna go to Bakersfield
Very good breakdown. The Master is one of my favorite villains because he's so three-dimensional. Instead of just trying to take over for the hell of it, there's an entire philosophy behind his actions, and he genuinely believes he's working to build a better future for the species. In fact, the Plan might've even worked, if it weren't for its one fatal flaw: that super-mutants can't breed. All life must reproduce or eventually go extinct. The Master is intelligent enough to realize this, which is why he commits suicide with the nuke in the diplomatic victory. What's really cool is that the Master can also score a diplomatic victory against you by convincing the player character to join the Unity. Fallout may be an old game, but the writing, storytelling and atmosphere are top-notch.
True Master can also "speech check" you, but it's a hollow victory for him in the end. Yes he stops the guy trying to stop him, but in the end he will ultimately fail because he never realised his creations cannot reproduce. It's interesting how this super intelligent mutant never bothered to check that fundamental thing about life.
The Master, I believe, is the most interesting Fallout villain. He has a motive that is understandable, a past that is relatable, a present (in this context) that is consistent with his past, and a future plan that could (possibly) come to fruition. Although The Master did not ultimately succeed, they did have a lasting mark on the Fallout universe. You see super mutants everywhere in the series meaning The Masters' reach expanded extremely far, as well as his army. FEV is an integral part of the Fallout universe and its inner machinations. I can not come to a better conclusion than The Master is one of, if not the most well thought out and most influential adversary in the series.
I wish we saw more of The Master. His design was great, he deserved more than just one appearance.
Poor guy, he just wanted to live his life normally, it's funny how one change could've had him continue living a normal life
a remake off this game in 4k is a wet dream
*THE MASTER LIVES!*
We need a Remake of Fallout 1 mostly for The Master.
On GOD
It's called americanism.
No, there is great Unity in division. Diversity destroys social cohesion and insitutional trust. But a delineative Imperial federation can bind them all in unity. Because pure multiplicity represents the extreme opposite of principle unity.
"As you saw the iron mixed with clay, so the peoples will mix with one another, but will not hold together any more than iron mixes with clay. In the days of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will shatter all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, but will itself stand forever"-Daniel 2:43-44
Fallout 1 and 2 and bring the brother of steel game to pc and other councils as well all remastered
@@RenneDanjoule what
That would be sick.
Fallout 1 is a game that absolutely deserves a remake, and i dare to say, in first/third person like FO3, NV and 4. The master chilled my bones when i was a kid...
Think it would work great for the TV series as its works great as an introduction to the fallout world
@@pbh81 ooehhh true that
@@pbh81 if I'm correct Amazon has rights to a fallout tv series or film + the original fallout film draft
@@Thagomizer a remaster would benefit it. Get over it
@@vitiate5093 If you're too dumb to play the original, you don't deserve to.
Excellent video! I like how you left the Master's fate open ended since we, the players, get to decide how he lives or dies. With some of the comments here, I would like to see a Fallout 1+2 remaster, but in their original isometric form. The remaster should look like Pillars of Eternity, or like the Planescape remaster. I feel that would grant it proper justice, giving us a shiny new look but keeping the actual gameplay and story/acting intact. Bethesda's Fallouts belong how they are, and Black Isle/Interplay's Fallouts belong how they are as well.
To me pillars of eternity is ugly. pixel art is where it's at -- look at death trash for something recent. a remaster improving the resolutions and whatnot on f01 and 2 would be fine , but I'd really like a proper isometric sequel.
@@patatepotato8767 not too far from fallout in reality atm tbh
I gotta fever and the only prescription is more New Vegas Devs
This video was exactly what I was hoping to find when I searched for "Fallout lore the Master"
Very nicely summarized and presented. Thanks a lot! You get a L&S for this.
The Master is perhaps the best and most unnerving villain in the entire fallout series.
Can't agree more, definitely the creepiest boss imo
@@themorguestudios creepiest but also the one with the most depth. A tragic and wonderfullly unsettling character.
@@deceiver444 very true. Very unsettling seeing the master for the first time lol
Well made video as usual. The amount of quality content you've been putting out recently is incredible, overall admirable.
One of the best villains video gaming history. I just love how many ways there are to deal with him
@@RenneDanjoule stop copy pasting
@@cloudboysmusic5223 you must be hallucinating.
@@RenneDanjoule you deleted the comment lol
@@shinyentree225 Lay off the jet.
Fallout 1: *A literal cyborg-mutant hellspawn with the most sadistic goals I've ever heard.*
Fallout 4: oh noes, big scary green man
huh
@@andrewlachance2062right lol
@@andrewlachance2062 Oags, I was talking about how by Fallout 4, the antagonists are much more simple/watred down than what they originally were. 😭
@@TaterTodWoah, replying one year after making a comment.💀
@@RomanCigić Lmao, yee. I rarely get any notifications on YT so whenever I get a comment reply I might as well reply meself.
Crazy how much trouble you would create just by banishing a guy from the vault
It seems like whenever someone gets forced into leaving a vault some wild shit goes down.
I know the residents of vault 101 regretted banashing me after I heard their distress call
@@Acksiel what'd you do fam haha
@@Acksiel yeah whatd ya do
its not the boy im worried about, its the man he will become.
Bro, perfect timing. I was looking for a lore video of the master about 2 days ago. This is fantastic, thank you.
We need writing, lore and love like this in new Fallout games. You get the sense the writers really love and took pride in the world they conceived and constructed.
He fancied himself a doctor after he made it to the surface and had to make a new life for himself. Either he was trained to some extent as one or no one else was as mildly competent as he was or perhaps nobody else wanted the job or could spell it on their sign. Either way, assuming that perhaps he had been performing as a doctor within his home vault, perhaps that is then tied into how it was that he came to be cast out. That he had killed someone as he performed a procedure drunk, wasn't as skilled as he was thought to be and may have given someone the wrong medicine-allergic reaction or amount or completly wrong from the start. Or maybe he granted a patient death, released them from their suffering. Either way, hearing of his status as a doctor, it certainly does strike me as a possibility. Others see or say murder while he says mistake or accident. No one around to tell us now though.
My first thoughts as well. One thing life taught me is perspective plays a big role. The villain in someone’s life might be someone else’s hero depending on the view and circumstances. That’s why I try and get everyone’s pov when tryna problem solve
Yeah, Euthanasia is seen as a coin with two heads.
The Master seems heavily Influenced by the movies The Fly and The Thing for its combination of humans and the tentacles coming from the chest paired with a man who was in a very unfortunate situation slowly decaying with nothing being able to stop it
For our sins we deserve eternity in hell, but God loves us so much he came as Jesus to pay the price of our sins through living a perfect life for us, his death and his resurrection so we can be forgiven and receive eternal life if we follow and obey him in faith FOR LIFE , Jesus loves u and desires to have a personal relationship with you of love, peace, redemption and obedience ✝️
May Jesus bless you, repent of your sins and turn to Christ before it's too late 🙏🏿❤️😊
Ok
@@firstnamelastname956 For our sins we deserve eternity in hell, but God loves us so much he came as Jesus to pay the price of our sins through living a perfect life for us, his death and his resurrection so we can be forgiven and receive eternal life if we follow and obey him in faith FOR LIFE , Jesus loves u and desires to have a personal relationship with you of love, peace, redemption and obedience ✝️
May Jesus bless you, repent of your sins and turn to Christ before it's too late 🙏🏿❤️
"A coming together a unification of harmony" One mind one body make us whole. Richard would make a great unitologist in a different universe.
Or a really good free mason in a not so fictional place
Hominy*
To me, The Master is best final boss in the intire francise. Eventhough he has very little screen time, the game gives him lots of build up. He has very good backstory and you can feel his presence trough out the entire game. Then when you enter the cathetral you have multiple ways of taken of him. You can plant a bomb in the building he's residing in, kill him directly or talk him down which results in him commiting suicide. He is also a 3 dimetional character and his voice acters due an excellent job at bringing him to live. And finaly, his pressence can be feld long after his downfall.
The Master was indeed a terrible presence throughout the entire game, but not as terrible as your grammar.
@@viliamvacula8111 I'm Dutch and not in school. I don't need to change what I typed if people can still understand what I was trying to communicate.
@@spouwnerring its just a few spelling errors here and there, nothing major and other than that, your english was fine (:
@@patatepotato8767 if I’d tell you, would you believe me?
@@viliamvacula8111 So? Where's this proof of your being a multilinguist?
Accidentally clicked this out of some recommended videos, don't have any regrets, great narrative!
I’ve never played the og fallout but i think it has the best villain.
Love this channel keep up the good work.
This was needed for the old Fallout lore. This guy is like the Vaati Vidya of Fallout.
I can put these stories on in te background while I'm doing some shit and be interested the whole time. Love it
Fallout 3 was my first experience and I loved it, the first time I played it, I was hooked and now I finally understand Harold the tree and mariposa, so cool they put lore into 3 from the other games, thanks for the lore my man
So in the end, the real master was the friends we assimilated along the way
Don't hit me, I have AIDS
The master isn’t just my favorite Fallout villain its my favorite villain in any video game. It’s appearance is so unsettling mixed with the other voices the master truly sat in my memory since I first played the game. Along with his misguided conquest for unity I think it was just such a brilliantly written character.
I love videos like these as I always learn something new, such as the Nightkin being former vault dwellers.
The “crack assault paladins” have got to be the funniest thing ever
He’s the best Fallout villain and easily in the top 10 of all media.
I had never played the first Fallout game until running across your channel. After seeing a bunch of these lore videos it made me go and start playing it.
Really enjoy how you explain the open ended endings. 10/10
This man deserves to narrate the "war never changes" intro in the next Fallout game.
"War (War!) (War!) never changes.. (changes!) (changes..).."
But ron pearlman
I wanted to throw out a possible video idea. I would love to have the entire story of Nick Valentine (Man, machine, and the combination) put in. He was such a fascinating character in Fallout 4 (probably the best in my opinion) and his whole story (including the Eddie Winters stuff, getting scanned, getting trashed into a heap, getting accepted into Diamond City) was such a ride. Maybe you have it planned for the future, maybe you hadn't considered it yet, but I wanted to throw it out there. These are amazing videos, please keep them coming!
Big ups liquid Richard
I’m usually not crazy about these kind of lore videos but you told the story very well. Keep up the good work!
Loving your content, best Fallout-Lore Channel!
Ever since learning and reading of the Master he occupied a special place in my heart among other iconic characters. Just the other day I installed Fallout 1 for the second time and this time, with much better English skills and willingness to let its world pull me in, I accidentally found Harold in a shack.
Even knowing their story, knowing what would happen to both of them, in the end, the way he told the tale of their adventure was something else. The delivery of Charlie Adler is so profound, his voice full of the pain of a life, and a friend, both long lost. And the whole encounter, like Harold himself to most of the Hub, like a breeze passing through the trees. I don't know if many people who discovered him back then imagined the implications, the magnitude of his tale. It was a moving, chilling encounter and one I know will remember for a long time.
And,
"So what shall it be?" Is forever etched into my mind. Jim Cummings is phenomenal, as always. Today or tomorrow I shall stand face to face with the Master for the very first time. Thank you for the in depth, quality video! I've been watching your other Fallout content and I look forward to more!
Master
Master
Where's the dreams that I've been after?
Master
Master
Promised only lies
Oh hey. I noticed you changed the thumbnail to his MTG art. Nice touch!
Im a huge fan of MTG and Fallout, so seeing that made my day.
Well spotted! Many others have also changed so keep an eye out for those 😉
man i was so confused looking at year ago videos with mtg art, i forgot that you can change thumbnails 😂
Wow this really puts in perspective how far the lore fell
One of the most dangerous characters in fallout is literally a fleshy calculator
Wow, thanls for bringing some light to those who didnt play the old fallout. Ty so much, great video!
Thank youuuuu! Ive been complaining about how there isn't enough Master/Mutant lore on RUclips
Now this channel does good lore videos informative and concise, not like others for whom opening every single box counts like "lore"
Yet another great video from Synonynamous. can you also do a video on other fallout characters? i would love to see you make them.
Saw your videos in my recommendation glad I watched. I know nothing of Fallout lore before 4 and New Vegas so it’s so cool seeing new things about lore I don’t know anything about. Keep it up you got a new subscriber
I love you man, these videos are great
I'd love to see another Master creature in a future Fallout title. If the FEV could create the Master then who's to say it couldn't again? I could imagine a vault dedicated to FEV research inadvertently creating a "master". Spreading the loving unity to every vault resident. It could be explained that because of the FEV research this vault couldn't be opened internally.
A new strain of FEV? It’s been done before by The Institute
Technically it's possible for a similar initial mutation set to be induced, but the Master reached the height he did by absorbing numerous other beings, both mutated and not.
That sounds terrible. Sure let's turn this singular, great villain into an enemy type we can encounter again and again
another great video, i really light up when i see a youtube notification from you these videos are always so good
@Eli huh?
His transformation kinda looks like John Carpenter's film the thing, I believe Richard was delusional thinking that mutants could unify the wasteland I'm just glad the vault dweller defeated him in fallout 1.
I believe the master was not expecting the mutants to unify the wasteland through diplomacy.
But through force and change. What would happen if everyone in this world turned into white or black people? There would be no more prejudice and racism any longer cuz everybody belongs to the same race.
I know it sounds insane, but master had an interesting idea there. Make one race and eliminate needless conflict. The execution of that plan was horrible though. No mercy or thought for the people he hurts in the persuit of his plan. Might be a side effect of the fev warping his mind.
I never get tired of your videos. Keep it up 🐐 of fallout lore.
I haven't really played the first fallout because of how it played but I like the lore for it
The Master is amazing ugh I was so obsessed with his lore for months!! Amazing video! 😍
Maybe Harold lore next? 👀❤️
Babe I can't come to bed even if it's Valentine's Day, Synonymous just posted.
They seemed to start off more sci-fi in the first game. Then went more military with Enclave and NCR but also pushing towards lovecraftian. That's why I love these games. It's a bit of everything but it meshes together so well instead of feeling out of place.
All I know is that Bethesda ruined fallout.
@@timbuckthe2nd642 uhm....ok. I've only played #3 and up and like them just fine.
Though I know a lot of people would agree with you.
@@MillieBlackRose 3 and NV were great cause they included black isle writing... but 4 and 76 🤮🤮🤮
@@timbuckthe2nd642 what was so horrible about 4? I loved the amount of detail they put into it. The Brotherhood turned into evil bigots sadly but it was pretty cool. I loved the followers you got especially Nick and Piper.
Wonder if they could ever make a Fallout game that didn't revolve around the player looking for something or someone.
Something I've always found impressive about the FEV is it was able too evolve Richard using the machines and creatures near by. Becoming partly machine
But Harold had the total opposite, instead of evolving with technology. His body became a giant tree, evolving along side nature. The FEV seems too be influenced by whatever environment it's in, making it possible too survive no matter where
This was pleasant to listen. Very vibrant story telling. Thank you for assisting my nap :)
Genuinely terrifying. Not a lot of fallout stuff creeps me out, but his design is so creepy!
I was horrified, the first time I heard the Master's story. He only wanted things to be fixed for humanity as a whole. I needed this.
Absolutely fantastic video! Really enjoy your content and this one in particular! The master was a truly fascinating character.
Learnt alot of things about the master this video. Another great one as always!
Incredibly well made video that was super engaging
Fighting they just don't make boss encounters like this anymore. The master is equal parts, interesting and terrifying.
Your videos always make my day, Keep it up I really appreciate it. Thank you.
he is one of the creepyiest when it comes to looks to be honest. glad you covered this guy
love your videos, Syn 🤗💜 this one reminded me, I'm aware there isn't too much content around but some Rippers turf wars retrospective would be ameowzing.
I always love finding new people talk about Fallout lore in their own way.
One thing I find interesting is centaurs in Fallout 1. Because the master claims the whole point of Unity is to bring peace to the world and end all future conflict. But when you look up the wiki for Fallout 1 centaurs you can see that the dog head seems to be snapping its teeth at the human head trying to bite it despite them being a part of the same organism.
Obviousness you can say that this is only indicative of the animal parts of unity mutations and the human mutations like the human part of a centaur or humans made into super mutants don’t have that same agression towards another under the master. You can also say a centaur’s intelligence is far lower than that of a pure unity super mutant. More animalistic in nature. But if that is the case and it’s not just the dog part of the centaur causing this inward aggression then what does that mean for Unity.
Because the most intelligent super mutants are pure strain with little to no prior radiation exposure. The perfect population of this being vault dwellers. But from what we’ve seen in fallout most vaults that don’t outright expose their inhabitants to harmful products still don’t last long due to the nature of most vault tec experiments. And the vast majority of humans not in vaults have significant radiation exposure from just being alive above ground. So even if Unity succeeded and the master mutated the whole world while finding a solution to the sterility problem then it seems like most of the new mutants wouldn’t be pure and thus not as intelligent as the master would prefer. With nothing left to conquer and no new purpose is it possible that many of these new mutants might rebel against the power of unity to coexist peacefully with other supermutants and thus start fighting one another completely erasing the biggest positive effect of the plan.
Tony Jay and Jim Cummings...top notch talent for such an early game.
This was my first Synonymous video, I have now watched every one of his video like 4 times at least.
This character is very reminiscent of the mega-AI from "I have no mouth and I must scream"
Your content is superb.
Absolutely love the way you narrate. Can't wait to see more of your professional work.
Love your stuff bro been here since like 30k love to see your channel is finally taking off
I tried picking up fallout 1 a long time ago and for one reason or another just couldn't get into it, but this vid convinced me to redownload. Gonna binge watch some more 🙌🙌
Master is not only the best villain from fallout, but one of the best villains from all, more than a villain and misunderstanded hero, he tried to save people but the cost was huge and the result wasn't a success until he realize, why he suicided, to punish himself.
That was really well done dude 🍻
This is the best the master lore video I’ve seen, thanks for the information
Master is such a good character