I remember visiting GrayDitch my first time playing Fallout 3, I was on the “Wasteland Survival Guide” quest, and I was a very low level, with not much other than a hunting rifle and a pistol. And when Bryan came to me and told me about the ants I thought, “Heh, ants! How hard could it be?” Boy, did I learn that day.😂
Thaaaats the reason I stuffed him in a port a shelter and walked back to megaton...I'm gonna gain a few levels on my repeat playthrough before I help him now thx
The quest name "Those!" is a reference to the 50's sci-fi flick, "Them!" which also was about giant, irradiated ants. And Dot's Diner is a reference to the cgi show Reboot, in which there was a character named Dot who owned a diner called, well, Dot's Diner.
Carlos Santana I always remember seeing this kid my first play through and trying to help walking and dying instantly and never doing it again until very very later I’ve beaten the game hundreds of times and I’ve done it once.
@@seansun5194 I repeatedly tried until I finally succeeded through sheer brute force even if I completely exhausted the wasteland of ammo and weapons to do it (which people get weird about denying is possible when you mention it). I played most of Fallout 3 that way. Probably why it's remained my least favorite RPG I actually bought (the original Dark Souls and Fallout: New Vegas are tied for my favorite).
Going to super duper mart is so iconic just like this mission. When I hear fallout 3 I see super duper mart raid at level 3. Than this quest than going to gnr thru the metro is another iconic one
I found Grayditch before I found the AntAgonizer, and tbh, I was underwhelmed. The Mechanist was fielding Protectrons, Mister Gutsies, Sentrybots (the latter two being a source of dread for me at the time), and the AntAgonizer just had run-of-the-mill Giant Ants? I was hoping that she'd at least have some Fire Ants, otherwise I don't see how she'd be anything more than a minor nuisance at best
also when you encounter him and tell him youll help, you can pass a speech check that isnt TOO hard to pass, but if you do, he gives up the key and tells you about it, so its not locked behind Child at Heart like everyones fave little scamp in Mothership Zeta.
Idk about Ants, but if you've played Fallout NV's Lonesome Road DLC, Ulysses mentions that there is an underground network of Tunnelers that will someday break through the surface and kill everyone.
@@egg494 Well kill everyone isn't fair to say it like that but a big ol bloody battle with everyone running around blasting them and most dying would be a thing.
I remember my first encounter with the fire ants* in greyditch. *Stoped in VATS as an ant raised its head* "I wonder why they call them fire ants" *ant breaths fire* "Thats why! That's why!"
Could have also gone with "It came from Greyditch!" as a homage to the game "It came from the Desert" which in itself was a homage to 1950's giant ants films.
Yeah and he used the Forced Evolutionary Virus, what can possibly go wrong, it's not like nothing's gone wrong before. All we need is A Deathclaw eating a 🔥 breathing Ant 🥚and Moth-Man 🥚 for Breakfast with a side of cysty 🥓 .
Ah yes, the quest I never completed and the area I never went back to. I'm pretty sure I stumbled upon this when I was walking to the citadel to perform the infamous glitch in order to get power armor straight out of the vault. Good times.
The title of the quest is homage to the film Them! is one of the first of the 1950s "nuclear monster" films, and the first "big bug" feature. With giant ants
1:11:08 Actually, Bryan’s mother was already out of the picture when he and his father arrived in Grayditch. Vera probably just already knew that her sister was dead.
@@sebastainjohnson4123 Lesko 10 years later: Good news everyone! The ants are tinier...but they have a venomous bite that could kill a deathclaw. SOMEBODY MAKE THIS A MOD!
Every so often when I am rewatching these I am reminded of how insanely complete and thorough Ox is in all of this. When he goes into one of the employee only areas he indicates that you can hack the terminal or pick the door lock but he actual shows video of both and at the specific door. I can't imagine the workflow he has to use on these playthroughs to get all of this footage and all of the dialog options. It must take so much time but man I am glad he does :) Truly amazing and we have the vids forever!! 👍
The quest is somewhat big, but at his level it is a breeze, but lets not forget that he goes through all the things you can do in that mission and all dialog options.
Yeah, he'll start talking to you right when you are in the middle of a gun fight. This was my first Bethesda game, so I thought he must be magical or a guardian angel or something to just walk through gunfire to talk to me. I was really confused by it.
I used a killable-kids mod once years back to see how it played out, and more than half the time, Bryan would be dead before I got the quest from him. He's rather suicidal - one time, he ran up to me while being chased by the super mutants from the nearby office building. When ants strain your combat ability, super mutants make you sh*t your pants! Anywho, I don't use that mod anymore. Being essential is the only thing that keeps Bryan alive.
Damn you’re right. And used his actual name, as an adult would go by Frank and not Freddy. Good catch to detail. Also nobody talks about how the Navarro remnant probably gave the scientist that FEV strain…
I've always enjoyed running by as many ants as possible, sending the inhibitor pulse and watching the ants fry each other on the way back up, and on the surface. Always great fun.
Its funny that it took you so long to get to this quest, Ox; I feel like this is one most people run into just exploring past Megaton. Also, a little sad we didn't get to see a reference clip from "Them" for the quest. I didn't know you could kill the queen and still get the rewards. I will have to try that on my next playthrough. Also, if Dr. Lesko was, canonically able to continue his work, I think it worked. After all, the Ants in other fallout games are all enormous, however, the aints in Fallout 4 are around the size of mice and rats.
Yup, just because someone has their ideals doesn't make them right. His lack of responsibility and disregard for the people he got killed made me think 'well, if you don't care what you did why should I care about you', pulled out my shotgun and painted the wall behind him with his brains.
Unless I missed it, you missed out on a choice with Lesko. You can go into the cave, turn around, go back to him and tell him all the guardians are dead even if they are alive.
Awesome you finally visited Grayditch, this is always my first location I clear after leaving Megaton, I use one of the houses as my player home until I decided between Megaton and Tenpenny Tower. It is one of the hardest locations to clear at the start of the game.
I dont understand why three dog says on the radio "hey theres an innocent kid all on his own in this town completely defenseless " as if slavers dont listen to the radio
I was walking near grayditch and he just ran up behind me and scared the hell out of me cause I didn’t hear him. I may have yelled “holy shit” and my heart stopped
I had the same. Played it yesterday again for a long time. Was cruising at night past Super-duper Mart when he sneaked up on me. Scared the living daylights out of me.
And when we get out of greyditch we see a hoard of ants bigger than any species- Btw: I used to play fallout when I was more little and didn't like it I thought it was to much for me, till now I started playing a lot and knowing people like you still play like I do brings me a lot of joy.
I always hated how little damage the ants seemed to do to each other, mean while they turn me into Charcoal Briquette. (I always do this quest at lower levels, cuz ant nector and fire ant nector are great early on, either for the effects or value, also good location for scrap metal. )
This whole ordeal is a reference to the 1954 movie "THEM!" about giant ants. I remember watching it over and over with my brother when i was a kid. Its pretty good for a movie fromm the 50s. Less cheesy than you would think
28:13 "Motorcycle blade"...? That must be a badass motorcycle, if it has blades on it.. Keep up the great work Ox, I always appreciate the uploads and the lore; it's a good night when I see your notification.
Ox missed the bad karma option where Lesko is told that the guardians are dead when, in fact, they're not and he enters the tunnels and dies. You miss out on all the rewards though. Ox also failed to mention the docile forager ants up near Oasis. Of course it's possible, at the time of recording, he hadn't been there yet.
I completed the Dr’s quest, got the PER enhancement; sent Brian to live with his aunt, came back to check on the Dr (he was killed by ants) so I killed the Ant Queen...THE END...
i just finished this quest in an unmodded version of the game and watching this makes me feel cheated. this is so pretty. so much stuff i missed just because everything was 40 shades of the same color. if you're lucky youll encounter a light even tho it doesnt actually emit light beyond the bulb itself. not to mention the glitches. glad to see that Lesko always runs from the queen though, i thought my game just wasnt letting an interaction happen for some reason. also i met the kid quite a ways from grayditch, quite awhile before i even discovered the super-duper mart. I'm glad the community is able to basically completely recreate these games the way they envisioned them while playing them.
I like FO3's "lightly used toilet" filter over everything, it's adds a whole new level of gloom and depression to the wasteland, while also emphasizing nicer and more vibrant areas. I never really had a problem with missing out on things either, but I'm usually a super scrounger in these games.
Three dog doesn't have any room to talk. That first scenario would have almost certainly lead to the boy ending up as a slave. Because three dog announced to the entire region. That the kid was alone.
Fallout 3 was my Fallout game introduction. A lot of my XBox friends were playing it and I picked it up for that fact. This quest was why I fell in love with the series.
@@thepurrfectionist365 Yeah. Paradise Falls and Little Lamplight are very similar. You get the urge to shoot everyone there the minute you walk in to both places...
i've gotta say, this is probably one of my favorite quest from fallout 3. the choices you can make actually make a difference and it's a good introduction into the wasteland.
Watching this video, I remembered something about FO4 that left me wanting. Boston and the Commonwealth never seemed like a place that existed before The War. Fallout 3 and NV felt like we were going through a world destroyed, with the skeletons of the old world greeting us at every juncture; Grayditch ‘feels’ like a community that has been lost for nearly 200 years. Most of Fallout 4 feels more like going through an amusement park rather than a graveyard, if that makes sense.
I found the story of what happened to Grayditch to be one of the cruellest and saddest stories in all of Fallout 3. The stupid scientist who screws about with mutated ants, gives them the ability to breathe fire...and they killed everyone in town
Enclave Nerd here, to point out something about the remnant. He is more than likely the reason the scientist had access to a strain of FEV, right from Navarro. For lore purposes, I kept a little…
Dude this quest will always have a special place in my heart. It was one of the first quests I did so it was the first time I felt like I helped someone in the wasteland (fallout 3 was the first fallout game I played)
Feels like there's a lot more to unpack from Lesko's experiments. He claims his work could save generations of people, but if the giant ants were made smaller, would that really improve the lives of people in the wastes? They're not as dangerous as radscorpions for instance. And it seems like he's somehow pacified the ants into not attacking him. Wouldn't the bigger discovery be a way to domesticate the ants? Real life ants can carry several times their weight, so that means they could serve as an alternative to pack brahmin. They could even aid in the defense of small settlements due to their territorial instincts.
I just wanted to thank you for posting these videos. Watching them has made actually want to play the game and actually finish it. I always got super frustrated by the fact that I was always getting killed by overpowered enemies because I wasn't play with any of the DLC on my Xbox 360. Doing the Operation Anchorage DLC has really helped me a lot.
@@therealpizzagirl All Perception does is allow you to see further with your enemy locator. A.K.A., the little GPS ticker thing on the bottom of your HUD. Strength, yeah, is better for carrying more.
"Those" is a reference to "Them" Edit: after watching all of this... it dawned on me that this Lesko fella is Farnsworth from Futurama! At least that's what he sounds like to me.
Thank you Ox absolutely love your fallout content and I support you in every other endeavor you you may take on! Soon as my check lands your getting a couple of my hard earned dollars. Since you work so hard on everything you do!
Ahh Greyditch, that place will forever hold a special place in my heart. I called it home. Never did get around to that Megaton mission on my first play through.
I remember visiting GrayDitch my first time playing Fallout 3, I was on the “Wasteland Survival Guide” quest, and I was a very low level, with not much other than a hunting rifle and a pistol. And when Bryan came to me and told me about the ants I thought, “Heh, ants! How hard could it be?” Boy, did I learn that day.😂
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Yeah me too, had to come back at a later time so I wouldn't get annihilated by the ants 😂
Dq
Thaaaats the reason I stuffed him in a port a shelter and walked back to megaton...I'm gonna gain a few levels on my repeat playthrough before I help him now thx
Lollllll thats real shit same exact thing for me my first playthrough
The quest name "Those!" is a reference to the 50's sci-fi flick, "Them!" which also was about giant, irradiated ants. And Dot's Diner is a reference to the cgi show Reboot, in which there was a character named Dot who owned a diner called, well, Dot's Diner.
Glad I scrolled though before posting, I had the exact same thought.
Reboot
@@docweidner No one ever seems to scroll through before posting, so thank you.
I remember watching that movie as kid.
Dot's Diner is a weird name for a character.
I still remember this quest being an introduction into a great series.
Me too, man
Carlos Santana I always remember seeing this kid my first play through and trying to help walking and dying instantly and never doing it again until very very later I’ve beaten the game hundreds of times and I’ve done it once.
@@seansun5194 I repeatedly tried until I finally succeeded through sheer brute force even if I completely exhausted the wasteland of ammo and weapons to do it (which people get weird about denying is possible when you mention it). I played most of Fallout 3 that way. Probably why it's remained my least favorite RPG I actually bought (the original Dark Souls and Fallout: New Vegas are tied for my favorite).
@@dashiellgillingham4579 wait wouldn’t there still be merchants and enemies to get supplies from?
Going to super duper mart is so iconic just like this mission. When I hear fallout 3 I see super duper mart raid at level 3. Than this quest than going to gnr thru the metro is another iconic one
Imagine if the Antagonizer ever found this place!
I'd like to imagine there would be a civil war between her ants and the ants of the queen
Let loose the Ants of War!
Giant Pyro Ants VS Giant Regular Ant.
I found Grayditch before I found the AntAgonizer, and tbh, I was underwhelmed. The Mechanist was fielding Protectrons, Mister Gutsies, Sentrybots (the latter two being a source of dread for me at the time), and the AntAgonizer just had run-of-the-mill Giant Ants? I was hoping that she'd at least have some Fire Ants, otherwise I don't see how she'd be anything more than a minor nuisance at best
@@quentincoetzee4313 agreed plus the event triggered early for me the first time so by the time I got close it had ruined the event
Oxhorn walks in to Grayditch at maximum level with the best gear in the game
Fire Ants: Finally a worthy opponent our battle will be LEGENDARY!
Spartan 044 I also had the best gear, because you can do operation anchorage at any time...
@@Ubernerd3000 I know
Lol xD
He’s barely been hit by a fire ant
Wasn't he, level 2 at the beginning of the video?
Plot twist: Vera isn’t his aunt; she’s his ant! O_o
For a second. I thought you meant she becomes an actual ant. Like the ones we just nuked
I wanna commit soy sauce
You really upped the ante
Boo!
You're going to hell.
I literally just realized this is a quest that starts with Ants and ends with Aunts
Because "U" made a diffrence
I'll leave now
yup, from Dead Ants to a Living Ant.
That feeling when you miss the joke because you say "awnt" and not "ant" 😔✌🏽
"-but before we find a home for Brian Wilkes, "
*ad plays*
"let's play Raid Shadow Legends."
Me (listening to Oxhorn): "well that can't be canon..."
PlebNC LOL
The only reason this Bryan is alive unlike all grown-ups is because children are imortal
Fallout and Skyrim logic 😂😂😂
Ya pretty much
Emerald Dragon i pickpocketed him and gave a grenade
Its hard to remember because it was several years ago. But i think i rmurdered bryan
First thing I did when I got to little lamplight was blasting maccready with an alien blaster
If you have the child at heart perk, he will tell you about his fathers stash of supplies in the dumpster behind the diner.
also when you encounter him and tell him youll help, you can pass a speech check that isnt TOO hard to pass, but if you do, he gives up the key and tells you about it, so its not locked behind Child at Heart like everyones fave little scamp in Mothership Zeta.
I got it without the perk because I’m not a bitch
And so returns the Eulogy Jones jingle and i love it
if only Oxhorn could legally program his Eulogy Jones T-Shirt to play that every time its worn.
Makes you wonder if the underground in the fallout world has an empire of billions of ants, ready to emerge to the surface and feast on humanity.
*bill bailey voice* Human slaaaaves, In an insect nation!
This gave me a flashback to edf
Idk about Ants, but if you've played Fallout NV's Lonesome Road DLC, Ulysses mentions that there is an underground network of Tunnelers that will someday break through the surface and kill everyone.
@@egg494 Well kill everyone isn't fair to say it like that but a big ol bloody battle with everyone running around blasting them and most dying would be a thing.
Gears of War
Ox, at your level, you're only sneaking around for dramatic effect. 🤣
I remember my first encounter with the fire ants* in greyditch.
*Stoped in VATS as an ant raised its head*
"I wonder why they call them fire ants"
*ant breaths fire*
"Thats why! That's why!"
"firearms" 💀
@@creepermangaming7912 I got autocowrecked
Thanks for still uploading games like fallout 3 and new Vegas. Even though the games are a decade old it is still relevant.
Sees giant ant
"We can take care of this guy."
Shoots ant.
Sees child.
"We can take care of this guy."
Ha!
The quest about giant ants is called 'Those!' as opposed to 'Them' the movie about giant ants.
I don't know why he forgot to mention that point. It's even mentioned by the Fallout wiki.
@@u83rj1 hes only human
Could have also gone with "It came from Greyditch!" as a homage to the game "It came from the Desert" which in itself was a homage to 1950's giant ants films.
James Smith because it’s relatively well known to anyone that is into fallout lore and its universe. Game came out 11 years ago...
Lesko might have completed his experiment as the ants found in fallout 4 are smaller.
Noah Waldman The ants on the East coast are smaller, but the ones out west are probably even bigger by now.
Seems unlikely. The Commonwealth is pretty far from the Capital Wasteland, and he was only experimenting on one colony of ants
Yeah and he used the Forced Evolutionary Virus, what can possibly go wrong, it's not like nothing's gone wrong before. All we need is A Deathclaw eating a 🔥 breathing Ant 🥚and Moth-Man 🥚 for Breakfast with a side of cysty 🥓 .
I liked the Grayditch quests. Took a lot of restraint on my part not to kill Lesko
"Wow thats kinda overkill"
"Yeah yeah its overkill I dont care"
Oof
Ah yes, the quest I never completed and the area I never went back to.
I'm pretty sure I stumbled upon this when I was walking to the citadel to perform the infamous glitch in order to get power armor straight out of the vault.
Good times.
ExpertCrewUnlock that about sums it up
ExpertCrewUnlock You missed out. This guy’s lab coat is awesome
I actually recommend finishing it you get a perk where you are more resistant to fire
Ah yes another infamous Bethesda screw u.... I mean glitch?
@@wickedthemadhatter9713 feature
In my game that kid has been in that preservation chamber for like a year and he's still there
At least he's being preserved
@@joseph5802 haha
@I play minecraft 23 I'm confused as to what a ling is
He goes out real quick when you are not around and gets food and water. Then he goes back...
He is gonna goulify someday if you keep fermenting him in there.
The title of the quest is homage to the film Them! is one of the first of the 1950s "nuclear monster" films, and the first "big bug" feature. With giant ants
“Probably not Brian. Good luck in there!” That got a genuine snort out of me.
I love when oxhorn gets a teddy bear in literally any episode and says “I’ll grab this for little Marie she will appreciate it” so sweet
1:11:08
Actually, Bryan’s mother was already out of the picture when he and his father arrived in Grayditch. Vera probably just already knew that her sister was dead.
Dr Lesko sounded alot like Doctor Farnsworth from Futurama, i half expected his entries to start with "GOOD NEWS COMPUTER ENTRY!"
You're not crazy. He's actually a direct reference. That's why he's an amoral crackpot who doesn't care about who he hurts.
@@sebastainjohnson4123 I actually didn't know that. Bethesda you sneaky little geeks haha
@@ShadioxGaming lol, yea, it's one of my favorite parts of the game. It's meant to be a big scifi love letter.
@@sebastainjohnson4123 Lesko 10 years later: Good news everyone! The ants are tinier...but they have a venomous bite that could kill a deathclaw.
SOMEBODY MAKE THIS A MOD!
@@ShadioxGaming Sign me up!
Every so often when I am rewatching these I am reminded of how insanely complete and thorough Ox is in all of this. When he goes into one of the employee only areas he indicates that you can hack the terminal or pick the door lock but he actual shows video of both and at the specific door. I can't imagine the workflow he has to use on these playthroughs to get all of this footage and all of the dialog options. It must take so much time but man I am glad he does :) Truly amazing and we have the vids forever!! 👍
It's insane that he made 6 videos a week
You managed an hour's worth of content from Grayditch? Dafuq did I miss?
Edit: I never thought to send him to Little Lamplight!
The quest is somewhat big, but at his level it is a breeze, but lets not forget that he goes through all the things you can do in that mission and all dialog options.
@@milonchello1643 True. It's been awhile since I've played through this quest.
I always send him to rivet city
I always gave him a nice collar that beeped, you know, to keep him company. Besides, slavery builds character right?
@@vonshroom2068 I am scared-
Doctor Lesko sounds like those generic scientists in half life!
How Marvelous!
He sounds like Farnsworth to me from Futurama
@@AdrianBludfang Good news everyone!
Same voice actor as for vault 101 Overseer Almodovar and vault 112 overseer Braun, Moriarty...
@@AdrianBludfang He seriously does.
This annoying kid always comes running to me while im trying to do moira's super duper mart quest
RoboticMarmot14 same he always scared the shit out of me
Yeah, he'll start talking to you right when you are in the middle of a gun fight. This was my first Bethesda game, so I thought he must be magical or a guardian angel or something to just walk through gunfire to talk to me. I was really confused by it.
Ha,same but I had enclave on my ass's so I hoped that that would shoot the kid... I was wrong
I used a killable-kids mod once years back to see how it played out, and more than half the time, Bryan would be dead before I got the quest from him. He's rather suicidal - one time, he ran up to me while being chased by the super mutants from the nearby office building. When ants strain your combat ability, super mutants make you sh*t your pants! Anywho, I don't use that mod anymore. Being essential is the only thing that keeps Bryan alive.
I always try to get away from him
When he was talking about teaching "Freddy" to use the gun, he's talking about Brian's father, not his son, Will.
Damn you’re right. And used his actual name, as an adult would go by Frank and not Freddy. Good catch to detail. Also nobody talks about how the Navarro remnant probably gave the scientist that FEV strain…
I’m surprised you didn’t talk about the smaller ants from the fallout 4 Nuka world dlc
There are actually small ants in game. You find them being attacked by big ants. You can go into there little ant hill i think its unmarked in the map
@@robertbogan225 It's quite near Oasis. If you help them they give you Ant Nectar every 30 in-game days.
"one day while..."
Never gets old
I've always enjoyed running by as many ants as possible, sending the inhibitor pulse and watching the ants fry each other on the way back up, and on the surface. Always great fun.
Its funny that it took you so long to get to this quest, Ox; I feel like this is one most people run into just exploring past Megaton. Also, a little sad we didn't get to see a reference clip from "Them" for the quest. I didn't know you could kill the queen and still get the rewards. I will have to try that on my next playthrough.
Also, if Dr. Lesko was, canonically able to continue his work, I think it worked. After all, the Ants in other fallout games are all enormous, however, the aints in Fallout 4 are around the size of mice and rats.
i ran into this recently and was unaware that my level 3 would have to fight for my life.
@41:16, and it's with THAT Line, I decided in my play "This guy dies."
Yup, just because someone has their ideals doesn't make them right. His lack of responsibility and disregard for the people he got killed made me think 'well, if you don't care what you did why should I care about you', pulled out my shotgun and painted the wall behind him with his brains.
I just needed his doctor's outfit so I can hack lv 50 terminals. It was nothing personal.
Unless I missed it, you missed out on a choice with Lesko. You can go into the cave, turn around, go back to him and tell him all the guardians are dead even if they are alive.
That is a fun, but bad karma inducing, option. I did it a couple of times when I played an evil character.
57:38 When you've been hoarding powerfull ammo for the "endgame". 😊
I remember those things freaking me out when I first started playing. Granted I was under armed and it was difficult.
Oxhorn my friend you miss the TAPE in Wilks' house
I did too, where is it if you don’t mind me asking?
@@nightmaregaminggg6808 _Google_
BrazGaz *not helpful and a lazy response, thanks for nothing*
@@nightmaregaminggg6808 It is very helpful, if you had half a brain you could use the internet. You clearly have Enough time.
Awesome you finally visited Grayditch, this is always my first location I clear after leaving Megaton, I use one of the houses as my player home until I decided between Megaton and Tenpenny Tower. It is one of the hardest locations to clear at the start of the game.
Those ants killed me so many times back in the day, awful things. Great video as usual Oxhorn!
28:13 "There's a motorcycle blade in one of these boxes"
Whatever a motorcycle blade is sounds terrifying lmfao
ACTUALMIKU LOL
I dont understand why three dog says on the radio "hey theres an innocent kid all on his own in this town completely defenseless " as if slavers dont listen to the radio
Is it just me, or is that Dr. Farnsworth?
It's professor, i believe
Yup, and Dr. Mobius too, I think.
I think that's supposed to be him too!
I was walking near grayditch and he just ran up behind me and scared the hell out of me cause I didn’t hear him. I may have yelled “holy shit” and my heart stopped
I had the same. Played it yesterday again for a long time. Was cruising at night past Super-duper Mart when he sneaked up on me. Scared the living daylights out of me.
And when we get out of greyditch we see a hoard of ants bigger than any species-
Btw: I used to play fallout when I was more little and didn't like it I thought it was to much for me, till now I started playing a lot and knowing people like you still play like I do brings me a lot of joy.
I always hated how little damage the ants seemed to do to each other, mean while they turn me into Charcoal Briquette. (I always do this quest at lower levels, cuz ant nector and fire ant nector are great early on, either for the effects or value, also good location for scrap metal. )
This is my first encounter after doing the quest of Wasteland survival guide such feels. I miss playing fallout 3
I love at 57:46 that you just got sick of ants and decided overkill was right kill, only to be befuddled by not reloading
28:13 "Motorcycle blade"
This whole ordeal is a reference to the 1954 movie "THEM!"
about giant ants. I remember watching it over and over with my brother when i was a kid. Its pretty good for a movie fromm the 50s. Less cheesy than you would think
Wow, reminds me that this game is 13 years old, how time flys.
I remember first playing Fallout 3, and stumbling into this mission. Ah, the memories.
Ah the the smell of burning husks from previous saves
28:13 "Motorcycle blade"...?
That must be a badass motorcycle, if it has blades on it..
Keep up the great work Ox, I always appreciate the uploads and the lore; it's a good night when I see your notification.
Ox missed the bad karma option where Lesko is told that the guardians are dead when, in fact, they're not and he enters the tunnels and dies. You miss out on all the rewards though.
Ox also failed to mention the docile forager ants up near Oasis. Of course it's possible, at the time of recording, he hadn't been there yet.
I mostly skip this place heading to river city and the kid usally chases me as far as the bridge near the Pentagon then disappears
Take care a bunch of Ants to send a kid to his Aunt
I loved this quest!! I played this when I was younger, and ngl the kid ran away from greyditch and never went to the polawski pod.
I completed the Dr’s quest, got the PER enhancement; sent Brian to live with his aunt, came back to check on the Dr (he was killed by ants) so I killed the Ant Queen...THE END...
We walk up the stairs.
ANTS!
We join the stream.
ANTS!
We donate money.
ANTS!
We go to Anchorage .
ANTS
i just finished this quest in an unmodded version of the game and watching this makes me feel cheated. this is so pretty. so much stuff i missed just because everything was 40 shades of the same color. if you're lucky youll encounter a light even tho it doesnt actually emit light beyond the bulb itself. not to mention the glitches. glad to see that Lesko always runs from the queen though, i thought my game just wasnt letting an interaction happen for some reason. also i met the kid quite a ways from grayditch, quite awhile before i even discovered the super-duper mart. I'm glad the community is able to basically completely recreate these games the way they envisioned them while playing them.
I like FO3's "lightly used toilet" filter over everything, it's adds a whole new level of gloom and depression to the wasteland, while also emphasizing nicer and more vibrant areas. I never really had a problem with missing out on things either, but I'm usually a super scrounger in these games.
Three dog doesn't have any room to talk. That first scenario would have almost certainly lead to the boy ending up as a slave. Because three dog announced to the entire region. That the kid was alone.
LOL! You remembered the Ad sound effects, but forgot the images.
Fallout 3 was my Fallout game introduction. A lot of my XBox friends were playing it and I picked it up for that fact. This quest was why I fell in love with the series.
I never knew you could send Brian to Little Lamplight!
IMO sending him there is just as bad as selling him to the Slavers. Knowing that he will be shipped off to Big Town when gets older.
@@thepurrfectionist365 Yeah. Paradise Falls and Little Lamplight are very similar. You get the urge to shoot everyone there the minute you walk in to both places...
Never knew that either. Thanks Oxhorn.
i've gotta say, this is probably one of my favorite quest from fallout 3. the choices you can make actually make a difference and it's a good introduction into the wasteland.
Watching this video, I remembered something about FO4 that left me wanting. Boston and the Commonwealth never seemed like a place that existed before The War. Fallout 3 and NV felt like we were going through a world destroyed, with the skeletons of the old world greeting us at every juncture; Grayditch ‘feels’ like a community that has been lost for nearly 200 years. Most of Fallout 4 feels more like going through an amusement park rather than a graveyard, if that makes sense.
Totally. They didn't nail that debate atmosphere like the previous games. However SOME of the side quests are pretty decent.
The neutral ending for the kid just hearing McCready dialogue options that's enough of a reason to go for it
Why does he sound like the Voice of the Professor from Futurama?
Good news, everyone!
“Bad news, everyone! Someone destroyed my life’s work and killed me!”
Nobody:
Doctor Lesko: *Good news, everyone!*
28:16 Ah yes. The infamous motorcycle blade.
lesko’s voice actor sounds like voicing him is causing physical pain
I found the story of what happened to Grayditch to be one of the cruellest and saddest stories in all of Fallout 3. The stupid scientist who screws about with mutated ants, gives them the ability to breathe fire...and they killed everyone in town
"Good News, everyone! I've modified Ants to breathe fire!"
I'm worried that one of this fire ant drones might eventually turn into a queen, like what happens in nature.
I never thought about taking Bryan Wilks to Little Lamplight, which sounds like a good idea
If only he had 4 turtles to use that mutagen on..
We'd have to go to the Empire Wasteland for the results of THAT experiment.
Enclave Nerd here, to point out something about the remnant. He is more than likely the reason the scientist had access to a strain of FEV, right from Navarro.
For lore purposes, I kept a little…
Oh this quest line was really difficult for me, I don't know why.
I can’t complete the quest because I killed his aunt in rivit city withought realizing she was part of the quest
@@no-hv2ur Well you can give him to Maccready or Eulogy :^)
Did you get it shortly after leaving 101? This quest is recommended for higher-level players.
Dude this quest will always have a special place in my heart. It was one of the first quests I did so it was the first time I felt like I helped someone in the wasteland (fallout 3 was the first fallout game I played)
Mine too.
Feels like there's a lot more to unpack from Lesko's experiments. He claims his work could save generations of people, but if the giant ants were made smaller, would that really improve the lives of people in the wastes? They're not as dangerous as radscorpions for instance. And it seems like he's somehow pacified the ants into not attacking him. Wouldn't the bigger discovery be a way to domesticate the ants? Real life ants can carry several times their weight, so that means they could serve as an alternative to pack brahmin. They could even aid in the defense of small settlements due to their territorial instincts.
"The sign says, 'welcome to grayditch', but it's doesn't seem very welcome. 𝙄𝙩'𝙨 𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙨𝙚𝙚𝙢𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙙𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙩𝙚𝙙" Very fitting.
word: overkill
definition: using nukes to kill ants.
I just wanted to thank you for posting these videos. Watching them has made actually want to play the game and actually finish it. I always got super frustrated by the fact that I was always getting killed by overpowered enemies because I wasn't play with any of the DLC on my Xbox 360. Doing the Operation Anchorage DLC has really helped me a lot.
This is one of the best quests in Fallout 3. I like the number of ways it can end.
i agree.
Ant Might over Ant Sight. Good enough perception supersedes that useless Sight reward.
@@TheTechCguy I've always taken Ant Might over Ant Sight. Perception is kinda useless in the modern Fallouts
@@therealpizzagirl All Perception does is allow you to see further with your enemy locator. A.K.A., the little GPS ticker thing on the bottom of your HUD. Strength, yeah, is better for carrying more.
@@TheTechCguy Yep yep I prefer Luck & Intelligence in the 3D Fallout games with Endurance as my third fav.
16:54 more like Professor Farnsworth than Dr. Lesko.
"Those" is a reference to "Them"
Edit: after watching all of this... it dawned on me that this Lesko fella is Farnsworth from Futurama! At least that's what he sounds like to me.
Nerdy scientist voice: "Oh, you startled me!"
Thank you Ox absolutely love your fallout content and I support you in every other endeavor you you may take on! Soon as my check lands your getting a couple of my hard earned dollars. Since you work so hard on everything you do!
Jeez, somebody get this scientist some mentats. Maybe he'll have better luck with scorpions.....
There's still the question of what happened to the Enclave guy's wife and kid.
They go buh-bye!
Doctor Lesko sounds a lot like Doctor Farnsworth
See this is what happens when you leave the sugar out.
RG see,this is how you get ants
If you take a drink every time he says 'Ant', you'll get alcohol poisoning!
27:16 you missed a Mini Nuke beside that generator.
Its part of the pipe
War... War... Never Changes!
Neither does Friendship!
But Ponies do and the roads that they trot!
*Sing Maybe by The Ink Spots*
In fallout 4 it would be funny if the Institute called you grandfather
I played Fallout 4, and I found it funny. When I nuked the Institute, back to the stone age!
Ahh Greyditch, that place will forever hold a special place in my heart. I called it home. Never did get around to that Megaton mission on my first play through.