@@mme.veronica735 whenever RUclipsrs muck about with "past me" and "future me" and edit in text or voiced comments critiquing and clarifying their initial commentary, to me - all that happened in the past to me because I'm watching it now. Time is an arrow, mostly. I need to watch The Arrival again only this time on psilocybin to screw up my headspace on this even more.
I’ve played F3 7 or 8 times since 2008, for probably 1K+ hours, and although I knew about the Snatcher reference, I didn’t know about Gibson’s corpse. That’s what makes this game great. It’s incredibly dense and chock-full of environmental storytelling and Easter eggs. You could play this game for thousands of hours and still find new stuff.
Things I learned about Jon today: In his experience wandering a post nuclear wasteland, alien technology falling from the sky near a particular train tunnel is more common that coming across a stray dog.
Fun fact about the Roach King - he makes an appearance in Fallout 4, and you've already met him! He shows up, I believe, in You Only Live Once under the name "Regi Blattaria," and he ambushed you on what you thought was a perfectly safe path. Edit: I got his name slightly wrong, but yes. It was YOLO #24 "The Entirely Safe Road."
It's not the same Roach King, though, since Fallout 4 is set 10 years later, and you can kill the Roach King in Fallout 3. It's a new Roach King for a new wasteland.
Dogmeat's toughness was not an over-correction so much as an acknowledgement that he was "immortal by reload" for the vast majority of players anyway. They basically removed an annoyance with people having to replay fights.
@@Here_is_Waldo 15,000 HP is better than him resting until the fight is over, on one of my first runs he took out a couple deathclaws in ol' olny, that's better than an essential tag. By the time I got Fallout 3 all the DLC was out, so seeing people say Dogmeat sucked and dies easily confused me.
Dogmeat dying in the Mariposa isn't from the Fallout Bible, it's from the Fallout 2 Manual, Page 12. > Invading the Vats, I came across more mutants and robots. None could stand in my way. I had a mission. I had a goal. I had a really large gun. It was here that Dogmeat fell, a victim of a powerful energy forcefield. I miss that dog.
I love the discussion on the design philosophy of having a barren wasteland for the tone. The STALKER games also nail that feeling IMO, it's a fantastic way to build atmosphere.
There’s a developer sanctioned, TTW style roguelike that combines all the regions from (I think) all the STALKER games, with hardcore and roguelike mode where you can pick your initial faction and new RPG elements and updated inventory system. It replaces the OG campaign with randomized missions that send you across all the different zones, and reputation systems etc. and from what I understand, it’s FREE! It’s called Stalker omega I think.
@@okonkwojonesStalker Anomaly. Yes it’s a standalone mod that combines the maps from the original stalker trilogy. The story behind the creation of that mod is pretty crazy. Basically a mod that combined with another mod and eventually accumulated into a giant standalone game worked on by many different modders. On top of that, there are other ginormous mods FOR Anomaly that make it even crazier. Years of work by very talented fans of stalker.
It's a fictional character's name so he's honor-bound to respect how it's pronounced by the characters in-game. However, if they referenced the actual US state, we'd be in for a 5 minute rant tangent.
I first played Fallout 3 on the PS3 which is in german. And Grouse actually pronounces Arkansas "Arkensis" lol The voice acting is generally weird at times. Like the male raiders are a total joke & not sounding aggressive at all. They talk like they are about to invite you for a cup of tea and some cake. Or the tape your dad made for you when he left the vault, starts of as sincere but the part when Jonas interrupts dad, is actually also voiced by the same person who does your father. lol I'm guessing that the voice actors weren't given proper instructions & direction on how to read certain lines. So now James sounds like he's schizophrenic or has multiple personality disorder whenever I listen to the tape after I've heard the actual english voice acting. lol
One of my favorites was the NV JSawyer run and I always hoped Jon would give F3 the same treatment, but I didn’t think it would happen. Well, here it is and I’m so here for it. Appointment watching on Sundays.
I have way more hours in FNV than 3, but I feel like with the TTW mod, I truly prefer the F3 wasteland with the FNV mechanics. I liked that whole tangent about open space and exploration, the game really does just feel like a proper wasteland. Even before you play it so much that you know every route and every location, FNV just feels like everything is so close by that aside from maybe heading between novac and the trading post, there isn't ever any moment where you are just walking through a wasteland. Honest hearts is probably the closest that game ever comes to truly feeling like you're exploring a wilderness, but that's also not a wasteland
Yeah, one of my few complaints with New Vegas is that it doesn't really incentivize exploration all that much. There aren't that many unmarked locations, and the those that do exist tend to not have as much loot or unique weapons/apparel as the unmarked locations in Fallout 3. It doesn't help that New Vegas has so many invisible walls in place around its hills to funnel the player down certain routes. You can't just wander around and chance upon cool locations like you can in Fallout 3. There's also the absence of the little stories in New Vegas that are so common in Fallout 3. Notes, terminal entries, and holotapes are scattered all around the Capital Wasteland, but outside its DLC New Vegas only has a handful. In fact, off the top of my head I can only think of two holotapes in New Vegas, and those are the one in the cave above Jacobstown and the one in the Sunset Sarsaparilla HQ. According to the wiki, there are only 10 audio logs placed throughout the whole base game. The rest are in its DLC. By comparison, Fallout 3 has 67 just in its base game, and around 40 more in its expansions. You can chock that difference to development crunch, but I also think Bethesda just cares more about that kind of storytelling and type of world building more than Obsidian. They are very good at telling stories through their environments, and making locations irrelevant to the plot relevant to you.
I haven’t been this excited for a series since New Vegas Kill Everything. Nothing brings me more joy than knowing that I get to come home from work every Sunday for the next few months and watch my favourite RUclipsr play my favourite era of my favourite franchise.
Thanks for that info about the Capital Wasteland design. It's interesting how they designed it and how giving eveything and every character a bit more space gives the game such a distinct and fitting feeling.
Jon never ceases to amaze me with new knowledge of a game I've played the heck out of (or so I thought). I recently found out about the Firelance a few months ago but I never knew the backstory of Arkansas and minefield. My last play-through, I found the body and note for that house but had no idea what the reference was. I'm sure I will find out new things with each episode. Also, Dogmeat dying in Mariposa in Fallout 1 is canon because he was scripted to run into traps. You had to do a lot of scum saves to keep him alive.
Well not just that, the game manual for Fallout 2, back when it shipped on a CD and all, included the "Vault Dweller's Journal" where he gave a little introduction to the setting as well as detailed out canonical events. Like all the companions died. Ian if I remember got hit by a Flamethrower from a Supermutant in Necropolis canonically. Along with other things like the Vault Dweller was Canonical Good Karma and didn't shoot Jacoren at the end. That he tackled the Cathedral and had a violent conflict with The Master instead of the other routes of setting off the nuke or talking him down. And that he did Mariposa after the Cathedral as a final loose end.
That Firelance drop was insane! And if I recall from my time playing TTW, you can use the power modules from Mothership Zeta in the Firelance/Alien Blaster, with a slight damage decrease if I recall correctly, not like that matters much with those things, and you get *thousands* of the modules if you're casually playing through the Mothership Zeta DLC.
What a lucky bastard. Been playing this game for years and only got this event twice (and one of the times the gun went missing and I never found where It landed, should have brought Dogmeat with me).
@@alexalbuquerquerodriguesal108 I tend to save-scum a random encounter (usually the Anchorage Memorial) until I get Firelance. Once I get it, I use it to get through one or two mutants in the Museum of Technology and then stash it until way later in the playthrough. Most of the time, I forget that I even have it and get frustrated that I'm not getting the encounter later on.
Something quite interesting is how many Fallout 3 weapons become much more effective in TTW because of iron sight aiming. Assault rifles and hunting rifles were weirdly inaccurate in Fallout 3 but here they're actually quite effective at long range. Cool!
@@BradTheAmerican Guns in general have significantly less spread in New Vegas than in Fallout 3. You actually hit where you're aiming if you match the weapon's skill.
I agree on the whole map thing. Emptiness matters. Fallout 4 is so dense it gets really annoying that you can't walk 10 meters without being shot at. Skyrim also got some empty spaces and it helps build the atmoshphere.
This ambitious love-letter of a series is already incredible. Feed me more lore!!! But in all seriousness, the love Jon holds for this game is evident in every cut, and I can't wait to watch more of his absolute Masterclass on Fallout as time goes on. Thanks for everything!
You might want to double check that Dogmeat is still the unstoppable Murder Machine. ToTW kinda changes up a lot of things. Which would include Dogmeat.
Jon: "Because Dogmeat is a-" Me: "Blue Heeler from Mad Max!" Jon: "Australian Cattle Dog from Mad Max!" Me: yeah same thing Jon just let me have a victory
those who missed fallout 4 yolo will not appreciate how AWESOME! the ending of this video is ...... "I'm just going to walk along this perfectly safe road I have already traversed multiple times OMG WHAT IS THAT!" Easily my favorite jump cut of the entire series. (Fallout 4: You Only Live Once - Part 24 - The Entirely Safe Road, 16:10ish in, and oh my its the same episode as perception 0 jon missing missile launch (wo)man for like 10 minutes straight when she was already dead)
Jon please please please make this more than once a week! Besides the fact I need MOAR this might take five eternities to get through both 3 and New Vegas!
The best interpretation of a postapokalyptic wasteland in every videogame. But many will never understand this. Its this special atmosphere. Im absolutely happy that they made the map so big. It feels like exploring the real life wold when ur on vaccation. Just with Nuclear warheads, monsters and insane Raiders.
Jon whatever you do DONT FORGET to reverse pickpocket a power armor helmet into three dogs inventory so you can pickpocket his glasses and headband after reloading the area, thus stealing his infinite power. Bonus: three dog forever sounds like a stormtroopers
It always lands in the same place (east of Oberland Station), and the encounter always occurs at the same level (20). Also, if you have a companion with you when it flies over, they will always comment on it.
Yea, hang a right at chaos junction and it's right nearby in the woods. It's a nice Easter egg, but wish there was more going on with the aliens in FO4.
If you're playing TTW, try killing deathclaws with a maxed-out crit build (all the crit-boosting perks and gear, Luck bobblehead, etc.) and the unique BB gun from New Vegas (which has an insane crit multiplier) and watch as those 10ft hulking murder machines suddenly explode into a pile of gibs from getting plinked with a tiny pellet. Never gets old.
The only thing that upset me in this episode is that RUclips will only let me give you one thumbs up! An absolute treat of an episode. Thank you, again, Jon!
That's because Jon doesn't take side. He's not in camp Obsidian, camp Black Isle or camp Bethesda. He's camp Fallout - he loves it all, no matter who made it. He's a bit like Oxhorn, who only cares about the lore, no matter the developer.
SAD WARNING, PLEASE DON'T READ IF YOU'RE SENSITIVE ABOUT DOGS. My precious little prince Marley, aka "The Niffler" has passes away at 14 years old. I've known him since i was 7 years old, he got me through a lot of troubles in my childhood like bullying. He was always there for me, even when i was a scared little kid. He protected me before anyone else in my family and I'll always love him. He went through a lot in this life and came out the other side stronger, he was a cancer survivor. My dad told me that he once took Marley out for a walk and he ran away when he was off the lead. My dad couldn't find him no matter where he looked and eventually decided to come back home, not knowing what to tell me, my brother and my sister. When he got back home, he found marley sitting on the doorstep, the jammy git realised he couldn't find his human and went back to the pack den! We were the babies of the family, he was my floofy baby. I'll miss him every day. Goodbye my sweet Prince
16:56 - I keep forgetting that you're literally playing Fallout 3 (and New Vegas) within Fallout New Vegas, so it's only natural that you would get the New Vegas companions dialogue interface. So friggin' cool!
I know what Jon means about the feeling of being alone. When Fallout 76 came out, I barely stopped playing it because I loved that there were no NPC’s you met crazed monsters and the occasional player but never any normal people. The crushing loneliness was perfect. Then they ruined it.
@@shockmazta3116 They game has always had NPCs and the dead feeling was intentional and in according with the story. It was a game about resettling wiped-out Appalachia. I cannot excuse the launch state (the server stability was awful), but the design was top notch. And with Wastelanders it became a great game.
im genuinely quite surprised you didn't know about the easter egg or the corpse of Gibson that has the note reading "search the house" i remember finding both the corpse and the little model house in one of my first playthroughs but i honestly must've just been really lucky. Still its amazing that even after all this time you still learn new things about this amazing game. Kudos John i love your content
7:20 that actually explains a lot about how I feel about the Fallout 4 wasteland. I love Fallout 4, but the Commonwealth is just too chocked full of locations. You can't walk for two seconds without running into a marked location, unmarked location, or random encounter. Survival mode vastly decreasing the distance of marked locations appearing on your compass can provide the illusion of emptiness, but once you realize that concord is literally right next to Starlight Drive-in which is literally right next to Lexington, which is literally right next to Cambridge which is literally right next to Diamond City etc. you notice how close together everything is. Perhaps this is why my favorite regions of that map are those in the northern and western portions where settlements and even marked locations are few and far between with empty roads and wilderness being more common. Part of why Far Harbor speaks to me may be because of its desolate nature as well.
I always needed Dogmeat to find the Firelance, too. They should have added some blinky lights to it or something. There's a crashed military truck carrying more power cells east of Fort Bannister.
This has quickly become one of my favorite playthrough videos of all time. The mod is incredible and listening to Jon ramble about Fallout lore and history, as well as finding all these "new" easter eggs, is simply amazing. Please make this more than once a week!
I had a Mega CD back in 1995. And I played Snatcher. When I first played Fallout 3 I didn't see this Easter Egg, but I did see and know of it a few years later. The genius of the headless Gibson and the 'search the house' note did not go unnoticed. In fact, I frigging loved it. I love that you've found out about the Easter Egg now. I would also suggest playing the game itself. You can emulate it on Mega CD in English, the only system it was released on in English. Well worth playing.
...oh, wow. So THAT'S what the model house in Minefield is for! A large easter egg! I didn't know that... this is great, I'm learning things I never knew!
I've done some digging into a possible explanation for the Zane house and from what I've found out it's possibly a reference to Zin Vathek (Zane Vathek in US localisation) from The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky game. Zin was a man of great stature (referenced by the oversized skeleton), whose occupation was Bracer and weapon of choice was Gauntlets (possibly referenced by the bracer on the skeletons arm) who was a skilled martial artist tasked to assist the child of his friend (referenced by the Pugilism Illustrated Skill Book in the child skeleton's bedroom). I may be wrong though as other people seem to believe it may be a reference to a Super Mutant growing into a Behemoth. Apologies if this mystery has already been solved, I've waited until now to watch this series so I can binge it.
Jon these may be my favourite gaming videos I’ve ever seen. I am bais cause fallout is dear to me heart, but I’ve never been so excited for a weekly series so quickly
"There's no way you can't find Dogmeat in Fallout 4." Yeah... about that... The Red Rocket gas station has "Come explore me" vibes on it, which I thought was a trap on my first playthrough of Fallout 4, so I gave it an extremely wide berth and neglected finding Dogmeat. It was only seeing your playthrough that I realized he was in there.
On one playthrough, I avoided Scrapyard as I didn't want companions. Then, as I was leaving Tacoma Industrial heading back into Tacoma Park, there was Dogmeat killing Talon Company Mercs. Since he traveled so far to find me, figured I should let him stick around.
Because Fallout 3 was my 1st fallout i have such respect for this game, I know i've had at least 500 hours in the capital wasteland and it's facinating how similar your start is to mine, almost like this game has hidden ways it pushes you and it's different to NV in almost every way and that's pretty much why it's silly comparing them. I must admit i never knew how to climb up to the sniper in megaton in your last vid anyway love yer vids jon ❤️
as for the Zane House, there are few chats around fallout reddits. that theorizes, it's some obscure reference to the 1957 black and white scifi film "amazing colossal man" by Bert I. Gordon starring Glenn Langan. (which did make an appearance on myster science theater 300
It's not just the Fallout bible that references the original Dogmeat's death. The original Fallout 2 manual (which was a chunky manual) has journal entries by the Fallout 1 character that serve as a bit of an canon epilogue that talk about Dogmeat's death.
Yes, someone at Bethesda liked Dogmeat so much, that they literally force him on you through the main quest, in case you didnt want a glitchy, refuses-to-stay-still-to-talk-to-him, generally not very useful fleabag that also tends to give your position away and pull enemies you didnt want to pull towards you. Seriously, I like Fallout 4s gameplay as much as the next guy, but the general writing and that moment that literally screams: "HeY gUyS, dO yOu ReMeMbEr DoGmEaT?!?!?!?!??! LoOk, It´S dOgMeAt, gUyS" are really painful
Jon, Dogmeats death isn't from the Fallout Bible, it's from the Fallout 2 Manual, which gives a "canon" (superseded by Bethesda Canon now ofc) story of the Vault Dweller. Ian got got by a mutant Flamethrower. Dogmeat died to a forcefield.
Just found out about this mod, and I found your channel. I am so happy and excited to watch all your vids! After watching, I will download this awesome mod!!!!
Having definite flashbacks to Jon's encounter with the Roach King in his FO4 YOLO run which freaked him the flip out. (And damaged his health bar considerably.) Had he run into Absolom (O, Absolom) early on it probably would have been Game Over. Dude is a beast and very accurate.
i loved that feeling of being alone while walking around FO3 the first time i played it but also on the edge of ur seat cause u knew at any second things could kick off and u didnt know if it was going to be rad scorps, mole rats, raiders or a super mutant patrol.
Honestly the fact that random encounters could run into each other was my favorite part of Fallout 3. I once had the injured Deathclaw event run into a super mutant event. I had already done operation anchorage so I was just sitting there watching them fight. And the fact there is so much of the easter eggs just hidden in random spots all over the map. It is an awesome game that I still see new things all the time.
Such an excellent and informative series. Jon is really showing his mastery of, and experience with, a much beloved series. It's wonderful to still have so much to learn about I game I've been enjoying for years.
Your summary regarding the use of space is exactly why I'll defend my preference of Fallout 3 over all the other until the day I die. It is masterful, beautiful, haunting and the greatest example of post apocalyptia in any media ever assembled. Its near 15 years, and I still don't believe I've ever enjoyed a game as much and a huge reason why is because of the use of open space, exploration, distant mysteries and the greatest gaming world of all time, the Capital Wasteland.
Love the discussion about the F3 wasteland. That lonely, barren atmosphere was what first hooked me into the Fallout series. I hope there will be future Fallout games that brings that back. New Vegas had great storytelling. Fallout 4 had a great gameplay loop (and base building). Even 76 had a very interesting map to explore, but none of them quite got that same pensive, desolate feel that Fallout 3 got so right.
I love the amount of research you do on videos. Mechanics for YOLO, game design for FO is better than you think, and deep lore for this. Always excited for Sunday evenings!
Oh wow I completely forgot about that tiny house! I never knew it was a reference to another video game...ok you're totally teaching me things I never knew about Fallout 3...that's awesome!
I started a new fallout 3 playthrough the other day, I got the firelance event at the train yard too, the gun itself was on top of the tunnel entrance and it took about half an hour to find the power cells
Using Dogmeat to fetch an unique sci-fi gun immediately reminded me of Fallout 4's get-Cryolator-early trick, and in a strange coincidence, it seems a version of Cryolator was cut from Fallout 3 before release ... Jon's luck getting him THIS close to replicating a bug from FO4 in a completely different game is fascinating!
Loving this series so far! Got lucky on my last Fallout 3 playthrough and got John’s key outside of the super duper mart. Don’t think I had ever spawned that even before and have been playing this game since it came out 14 years ago
I knew about the Gibson guy and the key to the miniature house on his body. What I didn't know is that it was a reference to something. I always thought it was nothing more than a cute unique container that was conveniently close to the door so I used it to store my big guns because I could. Also keep telling Dogmeat to find you ammo in that trainyard. I think there were more alien energy cells the few times I got that event, and the Railway Spikes are not infinite and will stop getting in the way at some point.
Your play-through has been so helpful. I got dog meat and when I saw you use him to get the alien blaster I remembered walking past a building littered with alien blaster rounds. I didn’t think it would work but dog meat found the gun and now I have one of the most powerful weapons at level 6.
Jon: "I have a plan..."
TTW: Alien Ship Event
Jon: "This was not part of the plan."
Make the plan, execute the plan, expect the plan to go off the rails, THROW AWAY THE PLAN.
Dogmeat: everything is part of god's (my) plan
That plan was about as cunning as baldrick. LOL
I assumed it was part of the Mothership Zeta DLC.
He's always got a plan.
Present Jon berating Past Jon for calling him Future Jon was a type of comedy I didn't know I wanted to see more of till now.
i haven't watched the episode yet, but you've got me hyped for it
They're both Past Jon now
@@mme.veronica735 maybe the past Jon is the friends we made along the way:)
@@mme.veronica735 whenever RUclipsrs muck about with "past me" and "future me" and edit in text or voiced comments critiquing and clarifying their initial commentary, to me - all that happened in the past to me because I'm watching it now. Time is an arrow, mostly.
I need to watch The Arrival again only this time on psilocybin to screw up my headspace on this even more.
If you like that you should read Homestuck
You're genuinely delivering on that promise of showing brand new things to people who've played for years, I had no idea about Gibson
I had no idea about the stash box in the scrapyard myself
Just the fact that it's a SNATCHER reference... 🤯
I’ve played F3 7 or 8 times since 2008, for probably 1K+ hours, and although I knew about the Snatcher reference, I didn’t know about Gibson’s corpse. That’s what makes this game great. It’s incredibly dense and chock-full of environmental storytelling and Easter eggs. You could play this game for thousands of hours and still find new stuff.
Since it's a cyberpunk-esque game, I presume Gibson is a reference to the scifi author?
i completely forgot that promise. in what video did he make that promise?
Things I learned about Jon today: In his experience wandering a post nuclear wasteland, alien technology falling from the sky near a particular train tunnel is more common that coming across a stray dog.
Fun fact about the Roach King - he makes an appearance in Fallout 4, and you've already met him! He shows up, I believe, in You Only Live Once under the name "Regi Blattaria," and he ambushed you on what you thought was a perfectly safe path.
Edit: I got his name slightly wrong, but yes. It was YOLO #24 "The Entirely Safe Road."
It's always a safe path except when Jon is taking it. LOL
It's not the same Roach King, though, since Fallout 4 is set 10 years later, and you can kill the Roach King in Fallout 3. It's a new Roach King for a new wasteland.
Yep!
He was calling him "the king of the rad roaches."
😂🤣
@@DovahFett It may not be canon that Lone Wanderer kills the Roach King. 😜
Yeah when I saw that he had a minigun and was called The Roach King , I went "Oh , this was in Fallout 4."
Dogmeat's toughness was not an over-correction so much as an acknowledgement that he was "immortal by reload" for the vast majority of players anyway. They basically removed an annoyance with people having to replay fights.
I'm surprised they didn't just make him Essential and have done with it.
I replayed so many fights for that dog, literally thousands
@@Here_is_Waldo 15,000 HP is better than him resting until the fight is over, on one of my first runs he took out a couple deathclaws in ol' olny, that's better than an essential tag.
By the time I got Fallout 3 all the DLC was out, so seeing people say Dogmeat sucked and dies easily confused me.
I preferred being able to set up a giant heap of mines then launch him to space
@@Puremindgames You have a good point.
Dogmeat dying in the Mariposa isn't from the Fallout Bible, it's from the Fallout 2 Manual, Page 12.
> Invading the Vats, I came across more mutants and robots. None could stand in my way. I had a mission. I had a goal. I had a really large gun. It was here that Dogmeat fell, a victim of a powerful energy forcefield. I miss that dog.
I love the discussion on the design philosophy of having a barren wasteland for the tone. The STALKER games also nail that feeling IMO, it's a fantastic way to build atmosphere.
Now I'm imagining Jon playing stalker
@@Sp4rt4nSl4ya He did a mini series in the first game a while ago, it was a bit of a disaster. He refused to aim down sights the entire time lol.
There’s a developer sanctioned, TTW style roguelike that combines all the regions from (I think) all the STALKER games, with hardcore and roguelike mode where you can pick your initial faction and new RPG elements and updated inventory system. It replaces the OG campaign with randomized missions that send you across all the different zones, and reputation systems etc. and from what I understand, it’s FREE!
It’s called Stalker omega I think.
@@okonkwojonesStalker Anomaly. Yes it’s a standalone mod that combines the maps from the original stalker trilogy. The story behind the creation of that mod is pretty crazy. Basically a mod that combined with another mod and eventually accumulated into a giant standalone game worked on by many different modders. On top of that, there are other ginormous mods FOR Anomaly that make it even crazier. Years of work by very talented fans of stalker.
The mod makers are such a kind community. A big hand for them for contacting Jon and solving the problems / bugs.
What was the fix?
It's so weird hearing Jon pronouncing Arkansas correctly and not complaining about it.
It's a fictional character's name so he's honor-bound to respect how it's pronounced by the characters in-game. However, if they referenced the actual US state, we'd be in for a 5 minute rant tangent.
@@osmium6832 It's also a piece of Fallout information. It's like Nerds who can pronounce Klingon but struggle with understanding a northern accent.
I first played Fallout 3 on the PS3 which is in german.
And Grouse actually pronounces Arkansas "Arkensis" lol
The voice acting is generally weird at times.
Like the male raiders are a total joke & not sounding aggressive at all.
They talk like they are about to invite you for a cup of tea and some cake.
Or the tape your dad made for you when he left the vault, starts of as sincere but the part when Jonas interrupts dad, is actually also voiced by the same person who does your father. lol
I'm guessing that the voice actors weren't given proper instructions & direction on how to read certain lines.
So now James sounds like he's schizophrenic or has multiple personality disorder whenever I listen to the tape after I've heard the actual english voice acting.
lol
This series is gonna last for bloody months, and I could not be happier. Well apart from maybe more Victoria 3 livestreams.
Wish he could upload this twice a week.
@@The101Point1 I second that, Jon is always funny when playing Fallout. I still rewatch his fallout 4 stuff even now.
Victoria 3 is a huge disappointment imo, as someone who played a lot of Vicky 2
Months? It’s gonna take years. Even YOLO took place over a year’s time. Which is why we definitely need this uploaded twice a week. Please Jon!
This is so far my favourite fallout series so far I can’t wait to see what kind of trouble Jon gets into
It's good so far and we'll see how it goes we're still early on but I think it's got its work cut out to be better than the fo4 Yolo series
@@codexmachina1358 Just stay on the edge of your seat waiting for Jon to say, "I've got a plan!"
@@Dave5281968 But doesn't Jon say "I've got a plan" in every fallout video? LOL
One of my favorites was the NV JSawyer run and I always hoped Jon would give F3 the same treatment, but I didn’t think it would happen. Well, here it is and I’m so here for it. Appointment watching on Sundays.
My constant refreshing worked!!!
I thought I was the only one 😂
My recommended finally shows his vids now.
How long were you refreshing for?
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This is the perfect series for me to watch after finishing Fallout 3 for the first time
Definitely would suggest you check out his other Fallout runs too!
If u like this, go check out his YOLO playthroughs.
'You can't solve all your problems by throwing money at them'
*Pulls out Rock-it Launcher* 'I beg to differ'
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I have way more hours in FNV than 3, but I feel like with the TTW mod, I truly prefer the F3 wasteland with the FNV mechanics. I liked that whole tangent about open space and exploration, the game really does just feel like a proper wasteland. Even before you play it so much that you know every route and every location, FNV just feels like everything is so close by that aside from maybe heading between novac and the trading post, there isn't ever any moment where you are just walking through a wasteland. Honest hearts is probably the closest that game ever comes to truly feeling like you're exploring a wilderness, but that's also not a wasteland
Yeah, one of my few complaints with New Vegas is that it doesn't really incentivize exploration all that much. There aren't that many unmarked locations, and the those that do exist tend to not have as much loot or unique weapons/apparel as the unmarked locations in Fallout 3. It doesn't help that New Vegas has so many invisible walls in place around its hills to funnel the player down certain routes. You can't just wander around and chance upon cool locations like you can in Fallout 3.
There's also the absence of the little stories in New Vegas that are so common in Fallout 3. Notes, terminal entries, and holotapes are scattered all around the Capital Wasteland, but outside its DLC New Vegas only has a handful. In fact, off the top of my head I can only think of two holotapes in New Vegas, and those are the one in the cave above Jacobstown and the one in the Sunset Sarsaparilla HQ. According to the wiki, there are only 10 audio logs placed throughout the whole base game. The rest are in its DLC. By comparison, Fallout 3 has 67 just in its base game, and around 40 more in its expansions. You can chock that difference to development crunch, but I also think Bethesda just cares more about that kind of storytelling and type of world building more than Obsidian. They are very good at telling stories through their environments, and making locations irrelevant to the plot relevant to you.
@@DovahFett Because Bethesda never cared about their main quests, and it's always been about creating interesting environments
I haven’t been this excited for a series since New Vegas Kill Everything. Nothing brings me more joy than knowing that I get to come home from work every Sunday for the next few months and watch my favourite RUclipsr play my favourite era of my favourite franchise.
"watch my favourite RUclipsr play my favourite era of my favourite franchise".
Literally me.
What did you think of the JD Sawyer run?
Thanks for that info about the Capital Wasteland design. It's interesting how they designed it and how giving eveything and every character a bit more space gives the game such a distinct and fitting feeling.
This is quickly becoming my favourite series on your channel
Same.
Jon make the best series in ALL OF RUclips
Hey Jon, thanks for giving fallout 3 some love by doing this series
Jon never ceases to amaze me with new knowledge of a game I've played the heck out of (or so I thought). I recently found out about the Firelance a few months ago but I never knew the backstory of Arkansas and minefield. My last play-through, I found the body and note for that house but had no idea what the reference was. I'm sure I will find out new things with each episode.
Also, Dogmeat dying in Mariposa in Fallout 1 is canon because he was scripted to run into traps. You had to do a lot of scum saves to keep him alive.
Well not just that, the game manual for Fallout 2, back when it shipped on a CD and all, included the "Vault Dweller's Journal" where he gave a little introduction to the setting as well as detailed out canonical events. Like all the companions died. Ian if I remember got hit by a Flamethrower from a Supermutant in Necropolis canonically. Along with other things like the Vault Dweller was Canonical Good Karma and didn't shoot Jacoren at the end. That he tackled the Cathedral and had a violent conflict with The Master instead of the other routes of setting off the nuke or talking him down. And that he did Mariposa after the Cathedral as a final loose end.
That Firelance drop was insane! And if I recall from my time playing TTW, you can use the power modules from Mothership Zeta in the Firelance/Alien Blaster, with a slight damage decrease if I recall correctly, not like that matters much with those things, and you get *thousands* of the modules if you're casually playing through the Mothership Zeta DLC.
What a lucky bastard. Been playing this game for years and only got this event twice (and one of the times the gun went missing and I never found where It landed, should have brought Dogmeat with me).
@@alexalbuquerquerodriguesal108 I tend to save-scum a random encounter (usually the Anchorage Memorial) until I get Firelance. Once I get it, I use it to get through one or two mutants in the Museum of Technology and then stash it until way later in the playthrough. Most of the time, I forget that I even have it and get frustrated that I'm not getting the encounter later on.
I got it in Meresti Train Yard early into the game as well, as I was about to start Vance's quest 🤣
Really appreciate the amount of work you're putting into these videos Jon!
Something quite interesting is how many Fallout 3 weapons become much more effective in TTW because of iron sight aiming. Assault rifles and hunting rifles were weirdly inaccurate in Fallout 3 but here they're actually quite effective at long range. Cool!
Iron sight aiming isn't any more effective than the regular zoom aiming. It's only cosmetic.
@@BradTheAmerican Guns in general have significantly less spread in New Vegas than in Fallout 3. You actually hit where you're aiming if you match the weapon's skill.
I agree on the whole map thing. Emptiness matters. Fallout 4 is so dense it gets really annoying that you can't walk 10 meters without being shot at.
Skyrim also got some empty spaces and it helps build the atmoshphere.
This ambitious love-letter of a series is already incredible. Feed me more lore!!! But in all seriousness, the love Jon holds for this game is evident in every cut, and I can't wait to watch more of his absolute Masterclass on Fallout as time goes on. Thanks for everything!
You might want to double check that Dogmeat is still the unstoppable Murder Machine. ToTW kinda changes up a lot of things. Which would include Dogmeat.
Did they make Dogmeat more powerful?
lol might explain why he seems to be dead half the episode
Jon: "Because Dogmeat is a-"
Me: "Blue Heeler from Mad Max!"
Jon: "Australian Cattle Dog from Mad Max!"
Me: yeah same thing Jon just let me have a victory
The work Roy Batty and the team have done is Picasso level master work.
those who missed fallout 4 yolo will not appreciate how AWESOME! the ending of this video is ...... "I'm just going to walk along this perfectly safe road I have already traversed multiple times OMG WHAT IS THAT!" Easily my favorite jump cut of the entire series. (Fallout 4: You Only Live Once - Part 24 - The Entirely Safe Road, 16:10ish in, and oh my its the same episode as perception 0 jon missing missile launch (wo)man for like 10 minutes straight when she was already dead)
God that background soundtrack for fo3 is just so damn good! Really glad you kept it in the videos.
Love the alternate reality bits. I learn so much that way
And we're you the cause of the hotfix or was there more who experienced it all ready and added it to a bug report?
I hope this series becomes a twice a week thing. If he's going to 100% both games this will take him well over a year
Jon please please please make this more than once a week! Besides the fact I need MOAR this might take five eternities to get through both 3 and New Vegas!
The best interpretation of a postapokalyptic wasteland in every videogame. But many will never understand this. Its this special atmosphere.
Im absolutely happy that they made the map so big. It feels like exploring the real life wold when ur on vaccation. Just with Nuclear warheads, monsters and insane Raiders.
Jon whatever you do DONT FORGET to reverse pickpocket a power armor helmet into three dogs inventory so you can pickpocket his glasses and headband after reloading the area, thus stealing his infinite power.
Bonus: three dog forever sounds like a stormtroopers
Jon: You can't miss the UFO in Fallout 4.
Me: To this day I've never seen it.
It always lands in the same place (east of Oberland Station), and the encounter always occurs at the same level (20). Also, if you have a companion with you when it flies over, they will always comment on it.
Yea, hang a right at chaos junction and it's right nearby in the woods. It's a nice Easter egg, but wish there was more going on with the aliens in FO4.
I know where it is, I just never see it happen, although on my first playthrough Nick did despite being surrounded by tall buildings.
Jon underestimates our power to be starring down at a rock and completely miss it
Fallout 4 trains you to be looking around closely for threats. No much can attack you from the sky, so there's no incentive to look up.
A highlight of playing Fallout 3 for me was clearing all the deathclaw from Old Olney with a Rock-It launcher full of teddy bears 🧸 😂
I prefer using the dart gun because it instantly cripples their legs eliminating most of their threat.
If you're playing TTW, try killing deathclaws with a maxed-out crit build (all the crit-boosting perks and gear, Luck bobblehead, etc.) and the unique BB gun from New Vegas (which has an insane crit multiplier) and watch as those 10ft hulking murder machines suddenly explode into a pile of gibs from getting plinked with a tiny pellet.
Never gets old.
I LOVE this series like I haven't for years matn. You make amazing content but these videos are taking me back.
Loving this series Jon, your in depth knowledge of this game is incredible. Never ever seen that tiny house mentioned or anything before
The only thing that upset me in this episode is that RUclips will only let me give you one thumbs up! An absolute treat of an episode. Thank you, again, Jon!
I can't believe Johnny Guitar is still causing headaches for players all these years later. Oddly endearing if you ask me!
On today's episode of Fallout, Jon learns he can solve his problems by firing money at them.
this series is gonna go oooofffff 🔥
woah
RUclips? 😶
Thanks for being one of the few youtubers who appreciate fo3's falloutness
That's because Jon doesn't take side. He's not in camp Obsidian, camp Black Isle or camp Bethesda. He's camp Fallout - he loves it all, no matter who made it. He's a bit like Oxhorn, who only cares about the lore, no matter the developer.
"That's a Fallout 3 radscorpion and I'm a really low level"......I'm dying over here 🤣🤣🤣
Thank you for uploading this Jon! I got some bad news about my dog today so I'm grateful for the distraction for 50 minutes
Sorry about your puppy Mmy friend.
SAD WARNING, PLEASE DON'T READ IF YOU'RE SENSITIVE ABOUT DOGS.
My precious little prince Marley, aka "The Niffler" has passes away at 14 years old. I've known him since i was 7 years old, he got me through a lot of troubles in my childhood like bullying. He was always there for me, even when i was a scared little kid. He protected me before anyone else in my family and I'll always love him. He went through a lot in this life and came out the other side stronger, he was a cancer survivor. My dad told me that he once took Marley out for a walk and he ran away when he was off the lead. My dad couldn't find him no matter where he looked and eventually decided to come back home, not knowing what to tell me, my brother and my sister. When he got back home, he found marley sitting on the doorstep, the jammy git realised he couldn't find his human and went back to the pack den! We were the babies of the family, he was my floofy baby. I'll miss him every day. Goodbye my sweet Prince
16:56 - I keep forgetting that you're literally playing Fallout 3 (and New Vegas) within Fallout New Vegas, so it's only natural that you would get the New Vegas companions dialogue interface. So friggin' cool!
Thank you for putting to rest my personal brain worm for the last however many years... that blasted miniature house!
I know what Jon means about the feeling of being alone. When Fallout 76 came out, I barely stopped playing it because I loved that there were no NPC’s you met crazed monsters and the occasional player but never any normal people. The crushing loneliness was perfect. Then they ruined it.
Agreed. I miss that desolation.
The game was dead and awful UNTIL they added NPC's and fixed a bunch of bugs. It's still a bad game, but at least they made some good changes.
@@shockmazta3116 They game has always had NPCs and the dead feeling was intentional and in according with the story. It was a game about resettling wiped-out Appalachia. I cannot excuse the launch state (the server stability was awful), but the design was top notch. And with Wastelanders it became a great game.
im genuinely quite surprised you didn't know about the easter egg or the corpse of Gibson that has the note reading "search the house" i remember finding both the corpse and the little model house in one of my first playthroughs but i honestly must've just been really lucky. Still its amazing that even after all this time you still learn new things about this amazing game. Kudos John i love your content
I suspect he'd simply never heard of Snatcher before. I know I hadn't.
7:20 that actually explains a lot about how I feel about the Fallout 4 wasteland. I love Fallout 4, but the Commonwealth is just too chocked full of locations. You can't walk for two seconds without running into a marked location, unmarked location, or random encounter. Survival mode vastly decreasing the distance of marked locations appearing on your compass can provide the illusion of emptiness, but once you realize that concord is literally right next to Starlight Drive-in which is literally right next to Lexington, which is literally right next to Cambridge which is literally right next to Diamond City etc. you notice how close together everything is. Perhaps this is why my favorite regions of that map are those in the northern and western portions where settlements and even marked locations are few and far between with empty roads and wilderness being more common. Part of why Far Harbor speaks to me may be because of its desolate nature as well.
I always needed Dogmeat to find the Firelance, too. They should have added some blinky lights to it or something.
There's a crashed military truck carrying more power cells east of Fort Bannister.
Pretty sure the Outcasts have some in their base as well, unless that's from a mod.
@@matthewbarry4464 Apparently those only exist if you've got the Scrounger perk.
(I just read the wiki cos I couldn't remember where that truck was)
@@macroglossumstellatarum5932 I do know there are some in the Broken Steel DLC at the Old Olney Powerworks.
This has quickly become one of my favorite playthrough videos of all time. The mod is incredible and listening to Jon ramble about Fallout lore and history, as well as finding all these "new" easter eggs, is simply amazing. Please make this more than once a week!
I had a Mega CD back in 1995. And I played Snatcher. When I first played Fallout 3 I didn't see this Easter Egg, but I did see and know of it a few years later. The genius of the headless Gibson and the 'search the house' note did not go unnoticed. In fact, I frigging loved it. I love that you've found out about the Easter Egg now. I would also suggest playing the game itself. You can emulate it on Mega CD in English, the only system it was released on in English. Well worth playing.
Absolutely golden line (spoilers for the video) -
"it turns out the real treasure was the alien weaponry we found along the way."
Well done Jon XD
"Lunchboxes! Books! Fire everything!"
Wow, Jon really threw the book at those dogs! ...Okay, fine, fired, but close enough.
...oh, wow. So THAT'S what the model house in Minefield is for! A large easter egg! I didn't know that... this is great, I'm learning things I never knew!
John's comments make this series 100x better than it already was with all of the nostalgia induced adventuring
I can tell Jon is enjoying this as much as I am
Nice to see Jon get one over on the Roach King for that sneak attack in Fallout 4 YOLO :)
I've done some digging into a possible explanation for the Zane house and from what I've found out it's possibly a reference to Zin Vathek (Zane Vathek in US localisation) from The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky game.
Zin was a man of great stature (referenced by the oversized skeleton), whose occupation was Bracer and weapon of choice was Gauntlets (possibly referenced by the bracer on the skeletons arm) who was a skilled martial artist tasked to assist the child of his friend (referenced by the Pugilism Illustrated Skill Book in the child skeleton's bedroom).
I may be wrong though as other people seem to believe it may be a reference to a Super Mutant growing into a Behemoth.
Apologies if this mystery has already been solved, I've waited until now to watch this series so I can binge it.
Jon these may be my favourite gaming videos I’ve ever seen. I am bais cause fallout is dear to me heart, but I’ve never been so excited for a weekly series so quickly
This is the second time I’ve learned something I never have seen and it’s all thanks to you man!!
Not only is it a series of a playthrough in Fo3, BUT also fun things about the game?
Best series.
Dogmeat is the best boy ever and deserves all the perks, plot armor, pettings, and treats.
Man's best friend perk, say goodbye to back tracking due to full inventory, that's a lot of busy work toasted. I like it
"There's no way you can't find Dogmeat in Fallout 4."
Yeah... about that...
The Red Rocket gas station has "Come explore me" vibes on it, which I thought was a trap on my first playthrough of Fallout 4, so I gave it an extremely wide berth and neglected finding Dogmeat. It was only seeing your playthrough that I realized he was in there.
On one playthrough, I avoided Scrapyard as I didn't want companions. Then, as I was leaving Tacoma Industrial heading back into Tacoma Park, there was Dogmeat killing Talon Company Mercs. Since he traveled so far to find me, figured I should let him stick around.
Because Fallout 3 was my 1st fallout i have such respect for this game, I know i've had at least 500 hours in the capital wasteland and it's facinating how similar your start is to mine, almost like this game has hidden ways it pushes you and it's different to NV in almost every way and that's pretty much why it's silly comparing them. I must admit i never knew how to climb up to the sniper in megaton in your last vid anyway love yer vids jon ❤️
as for the Zane House, there are few chats around fallout reddits. that theorizes, it's some obscure reference to the 1957 black and white scifi film "amazing colossal man" by Bert I. Gordon starring Glenn Langan. (which did make an appearance on myster science theater 300
It's not just the Fallout bible that references the original Dogmeat's death. The original Fallout 2 manual (which was a chunky manual) has journal entries by the Fallout 1 character that serve as a bit of an canon epilogue that talk about Dogmeat's death.
Yes, someone at Bethesda liked Dogmeat so much, that they literally force him on you through the main quest, in case you didnt want a glitchy, refuses-to-stay-still-to-talk-to-him, generally not very useful fleabag that also tends to give your position away and pull enemies you didnt want to pull towards you.
Seriously, I like Fallout 4s gameplay as much as the next guy, but the general writing and that moment that literally screams: "HeY gUyS, dO yOu ReMeMbEr DoGmEaT?!?!?!?!??! LoOk, It´S dOgMeAt, gUyS" are really painful
That not being alone feeling is one the short comings of Fallout 4, that map is so densely packed.
this series has hooked me like nothing else since fallout nv yolo
Jon, Dogmeats death isn't from the Fallout Bible, it's from the Fallout 2 Manual, which gives a "canon" (superseded by Bethesda Canon now ofc) story of the Vault Dweller. Ian got got by a mutant Flamethrower. Dogmeat died to a forcefield.
Just found out about this mod, and I found your channel. I am so happy and excited to watch all your vids! After watching, I will download this awesome mod!!!!
"In New Vegas, even a basic Super Mutant will kick your ass and wear it like a hat." I love this phrase.
Having definite flashbacks to Jon's encounter with the Roach King in his FO4 YOLO run which freaked him the flip out. (And damaged his health bar considerably.)
Had he run into Absolom (O, Absolom) early on it probably would have been Game Over. Dude is a beast and very accurate.
i loved that feeling of being alone while walking around FO3 the first time i played it but also on the edge of ur seat cause u knew at any second things could kick off and u didnt know if it was going to be rad scorps, mole rats, raiders or a super mutant patrol.
This is part playthough, part video essay & I LOVE it.
Honestly the fact that random encounters could run into each other was my favorite part of Fallout 3. I once had the injured Deathclaw event run into a super mutant event. I had already done operation anchorage so I was just sitting there watching them fight. And the fact there is so much of the easter eggs just hidden in random spots all over the map. It is an awesome game that I still see new things all the time.
This is basically a video series version of the entire Nukapedia and I love it.
My sacrifice to the gods has brought us this video.. very bloody work but it's honest work
I have been loving this series sooo much want too see more sooo bad
Such an excellent and informative series. Jon is really showing his mastery of, and experience with, a much beloved series. It's wonderful to still have so much to learn about I game I've been enjoying for years.
46:49 rip 400 caps
Also that whole throne scene is endcard worthy
Your summary regarding the use of space is exactly why I'll defend my preference of Fallout 3 over all the other until the day I die. It is masterful, beautiful, haunting and the greatest example of post apocalyptia in any media ever assembled.
Its near 15 years, and I still don't believe I've ever enjoyed a game as much and a huge reason why is because of the use of open space, exploration, distant mysteries and the greatest gaming world of all time, the Capital Wasteland.
Love the discussion about the F3 wasteland. That lonely, barren atmosphere was what first hooked me into the Fallout series. I hope there will be future Fallout games that brings that back.
New Vegas had great storytelling. Fallout 4 had a great gameplay loop (and base building). Even 76 had a very interesting map to explore, but none of them quite got that same pensive, desolate feel that Fallout 3 got so right.
I love the amount of research you do on videos. Mechanics for YOLO, game design for FO is better than you think, and deep lore for this. Always excited for Sunday evenings!
Paradise Falls still reminding me of whenever Evil Jon's loving relationship with the people there, heartwarming stuff
Oh wow I completely forgot about that tiny house! I never knew it was a reference to another video game...ok you're totally teaching me things I never knew about Fallout 3...that's awesome!
Good fun! I always look forward to these. Thank you Jon!
I started a new fallout 3 playthrough the other day, I got the firelance event at the train yard too, the gun itself was on top of the tunnel entrance and it took about half an hour to find the power cells
I thought the Firelance ship encounter was level locked. Fourteen years on and still learning things about this game.
Using Dogmeat to fetch an unique sci-fi gun immediately reminded me of Fallout 4's get-Cryolator-early trick, and in a strange coincidence, it seems a version of Cryolator was cut from Fallout 3 before release ... Jon's luck getting him THIS close to replicating a bug from FO4 in a completely different game is fascinating!
The cryolator is in TTW, and it's pretty powerful.
Loving this series so far! Got lucky on my last Fallout 3 playthrough and got John’s key outside of the super duper mart. Don’t think I had ever spawned that even before and have been playing this game since it came out 14 years ago
I knew about the Gibson guy and the key to the miniature house on his body. What I didn't know is that it was a reference to something. I always thought it was nothing more than a cute unique container that was conveniently close to the door so I used it to store my big guns because I could.
Also keep telling Dogmeat to find you ammo in that trainyard. I think there were more alien energy cells the few times I got that event, and the Railway Spikes are not infinite and will stop getting in the way at some point.
Your play-through has been so helpful. I got dog meat and when I saw you use him to get the alien blaster I remembered walking past a building littered with alien blaster rounds. I didn’t think it would work but dog meat found the gun and now I have one of the most powerful weapons at level 6.
The Roach King is also in Fallout 4. He almost got Jon in the F4 Yolo series near Corvega, but Jon didn't recognize him.