I only feel sorry for his...wife? When I kill all the ghouls. Most of them were feral and wasn't her fault Roy is a piece of shit in the end of the day
Man I hated the Tenpenny Tower quest. You more or less get punished for doing the right thing by letting in a persecuted minority group (The ghouls) into the tower, and once Roy's gang are settled in they genocide all the inhabitants, good or bad. So the only choice you have as a "good character" is to take the lesser of two evils and take out Roy and his gang, but you're judged by Three Dog even though he doesn't know the actual situation of it.
@@TheQuenchiestCakethey are not persecuted. Why do people always say the ghouls were persecuted? Not allowing people into your home is not persecution. Tenpenny saw right through Roy and he was correct.
I remember the first time I blew up Megaton (first play through) I had no idea Tenpenny was even there. The mushroom cloud went up then suddenly I hear “Good show!” Total jump scare and it really made the entire thing seem so much more ominous.
She's the one I would have wifed up had the game let me as I was going through puberty. I was simping so hard, son. Although this was back in 2014-2015. I would have showed her my amulet of Mara.
I really think it should have doomed the waters of life quest. Kinda like Morrowind when you kill that Blade Cassius. The game prompts you: "With this character's death, the thread of prophecy is severed." You can continue in your own doomed world.
truth be told Liam Nesson acts like this because he's so focused on the Water Purification project that he doesn't even have the time to scold you. The point is that he's a neglectful parent. Which is also the reason we may become evil in our playthrough.
Not only that but a whole bunch of idiots worshipping the bomb, as cruel as it sounds but I kind of agree with Mr. Burke on natural selection. And if the nuke isn't ever disabled, who's to say someone else won't try detonating it?
@@TheQuenchiestCakeeveryone outside said it was a bad idea even some of towns people thought it was a bad idea.... But the founders, to them it was the WHOLE POINT 😂
I love the fact that you can hardly even discern/see Megaton from Tenpenny tower. It just looks like any other hunk of shit on the backdrop that is D.C.
If you have Broken Steel and complete the Holy Water quest, Mother Curie and Brother Gerard will be effected if you blow up Megaton afterwards. Curie turns into a hostile ghoul reaver while Gerard had some dialogue but will stand and pray by the ruins.
i never seen that last dialogue: so you would have to do the Roy Philips thing first then agree to destroy megaton. so simple yet i never thought of doing it that way.
When I first played fo3 I saved Megaton, then I realized how stupid they are by building and living next to an unexploded atomic bomb, and from that point on I will always blow it up
Oh, forgot to mention, I will also kill Burke and Tempenny afterwards and give the tower to the ghouls, Megaton is full of dummies, but Tempenny tower is full of bastards
The things been sitting there for over 200 years and everyone knows it, if it weren't for the player its likely nothing would've happened, or Simms would've found someone to disarm it because he always greets newcomers
@@thetaai8262 yah, but I wouldn't risk it, they could have found so many other places, it's not like there wasnt space to build, and Simms would've found someone to disarm it like it did with the absolute stranger that blow it up? he is way too much trustworthy and I don't like a simple "likely" separating me from blowing up in the sleep
seriously, this is one of bethesdas biggest screw ups with this game. megaton is one of the 3 major settlements in the entire game, besides that it was a NUCLEAR EXPLOSION and shouldve been seen all across the wasteland
@@largewings Nuclear explosions vary greatly in their power. This one seemed more like a tactical nuke. You can watch old videos of Davy Crocketts exploding in the 1960s; they weren't particularly spectacular from afar.
@@TacoBlend That was Stephen Russel not Wes. However, he does voice the og silver shroud, moe cronin (the swatter guy in Diamond City) and the protectrons.
I found a trader in a small building at the most southern part of the map who said in a horrified voice that she was going to move to megaton but it blow up on her way there😂
Really? He just seems disappointed, as if all he did was kill a few people in a morally gray way. But he nuked a fucking city, which didn’t even need to be done. And all says is he’s disappointed and that they will talk about later.
@@mesodini246"you can tell he is genuinely horrified" Either the guy who posted this has no grasp on human emotion or it was written by a bot. Which, given my experience with fallout fans, it seems like they're all on the low end of sentience anyway
@@tylerlackey1175Considering everything that needs to be taken care of at the moment, it makes sense for your father to temporarily push that subject aside.
Dad's speech reminds me so much of Virgil's reaction to the destruction of the institute in fallout 4. You can tell Bethesda is genuinely creatively bankrupt
you nuked a city? I'm very VERY disappointed in you... i'm going to have to ground you for the weekend, that will make you think long and hard about things...
Well to be fair, the radioactive half life of the materials in a nuke are pretty low. So after 200 years of sitting there, there’s probably a lot less fissile material left. In all honesty it’s a miracle there’s enough left to even go critical.
Its funny to me how James sounds like a disappointed father who watched you steal the cookie jar, instead of a lunatic who detonated a nuclear weapon, kill hundreds of innocents and wiping a town of the fucking map.
The thing is, I was surprised that James didn’t just yell at you for blowing up a town but still for some reason hearing Liam Neeson say “I’m so disappointed in you”, tears my heart apart. I don’t want Liam Neeson mad at me. Lol 😂
Do some reason it didn’t occur to me as to why dads voice was so…. Familiar… I didn’t realize until a video outright mentioned liam Neeson in the place of dad
I remember waaay back in the day when they released a gameplay trailer for this. The guy pick pocketed someone and put a live grenade in their inventory. Then they showed a bit of this megaton scenario where you had to make a decision and they said that decision would highly affect the game. I was soooo hooked after that. Being able to create your own story and world is just so crucial for a good gaming experience.
I hope new Bethesda games have an 'Easy' difficulty where, if you accidentally harm someone, they ask you, "Now did you really mean that?", to avert the bloodbath that would typically ensue.
I wonder if they'll do that in the upcoming Starfield due to that being a massive problem in previous games. At the end of the day, most people don't realise that you can just run away in these games and come back as everyone would act like nothing happened (although not sure if it works in TES Games due to the bounty system those games have)
Eh, there's a lot worse. Thier deaths were painless and instant. There's things you do in WoW for s simple side quest that are worse murder a town and plant flags in their corpses for example. You can't even kill kids, which Fallout 2 lets you do. Those damn kids were still just running around in the crater going AHH help! because they are immune to all.
Lmao, this is like the only villain thing you can do in the game and it has almost no consequences, New Vegas is way WAY better for this kind of things (and a way better game overall).
@@andreberclet3733 So I guess you've never joined the cannibals in Andale, sold a child from Little Lamplight to the slavers of Paradise Falls, or massacred The Railroad HQ together with the same slavers you promised The Railroad you would kill for them? I'm also guessing you've never burned Harold to death despite the fact that he begged you to stab him in the heart because he's afraid of fire, or sabotaged Project Purity and destroyed all hope of clean water in the Capital Wasteland? You've probably never sold a runaway synth to The Institute agent in River City either, or let the ghouls kill everyone in Tenpenny Tower. Fallout 3 is a psychopath simulator if you want it to be.
@@jacklambert1521You are completely right, however, people can't help but bring up other games whenever Fallout 3 is mentioned. They're just programmed to respond about how other games do it so much better!
Casual reminder that megaton is effectively a bandit resthome. The doctor is a slaver from paradise falls, people like jericho are a dime-a-dozen - hell, just look at Moriarty's computer. He hires you as a hitman if you ask him for work. The guy working at the food shop downstairs is a jet dealer. The point is that it's basically one of the nastiest places in the waste, and that's why it gets left alone.
You’re right though. It’s bad world building on Bethesda’s part. They have little protection, yet the slavers haven’t attacked them yet, despite being possibly the biggest target. On top of that, they have no reason to be rich or snobby. They haven’t built wealth off of anything.
True but fatmen and mini nukes are extremely rare. Wasting one on tenpenny just wouldn't be worth it most of the time. Thankfully we're the lone wanderer and we have the protag powers so we just find them all over
there should have been a bigger consequence than a massive karma hit going there you should see the impact, people suffering and the catastrophic effect of the detonation there should have been a cinematic of people melting from heat, or maybe ghostly wailings when passing nearby, etc
You realise if u do his peacful option days later wvery none ghoul ends up dead in the basment he literaly kills everyone even agter gegying in peacfuly
Moira was such a sweet character. She was my favorite NPC to interact with and I never got tired of the VA haha Wish she’d returned in 4 as a DLC character. Maybe she could return as the head of a big trading empire of some kind in the next game, if they make one.
You don't go blind from looking at an exploding nuclear bomb, numbskull. You get blinded. Do you understand the difference? The latter means you won't be able to see, the former means you lose your vision - permanently. The radiation also doesn't spread that far.
Why would your father admonish you for speeding along natural selection? Tenpenny told his advisor to tell them to leave, that the giant nuke was an eyesore, and that if they evacuated with all their stuff, they'd survive, but they said no.
Burke didnt actualy tell them he was told to but burke didnt thats the interesting dynamic tempeny is sort of evil but has leniency while burk ignores tempenys leniency and doesnt give a shit
Manya Varges in Megaton explains that the original town residents needed the help from the Children of Atom who were just getting started as a cult. Naturally, the Children wanted the town built around the bomb and weren't going to help otherwise. It's some easily missed dialogue, but it is explained.
Ok but here the scary thing, imagine this, your a wastelander who has been living your entire life not really knowing what got humanity to that point or what a nuke going off looks like, and then while walking out of Washington you see a sudden bright light on the horizon and see a mushroom cloud go into the sky. You probably not move due to the shock of every happening
Imagine the residents of shelter 101 being scared and wondering "why our doctor is gone", "why a good companion left", and then an earthquake began and levels of radiation that were never felt again 200 years ago,really the scariest thing
Realistically there would not be a single window left in the tower after an explosion like that. Also, most likely everyone who looked straight at it would go blind immediately. After a couple of days the tower (and the surrounding area) are going to be covered in radioactive dust, causing radiation levels to skyrocket and many people to get mutations/cancer. In short, yeah they would be fucked completely, which IMO adds to the insanity and irresponsibility of this choice.
God, I forgot Liam Neeson was in this game. Imagine if some game studio tried to do the equivalent thing today, who would they cast? I want Jared Harris.
It really shows how little Bethesda understood the emotional ramifications of everything about Fallout as a setting if nuking a town and engulfing it's entire population in radioactive hellfire can only muster a "Son, I'm so disappointed in you" from your father, the pivotal character of the entire story.
Its real. Even in this world and time people dont care much about someone else death. There was case in US where father helped son to burry his victim.
@@Komotau4691 Don't get me wrong, I do get where you're coming from, but we're talking about a character who, at every turn, wants you to avoid hostility and violence as much as possible if it's unnecessary. Someone who has turned people away because of their hateful nature. So him scalding you with "ummm blowing up that entire town full of people I liked who helped me? I'm disappointed bro" was fucking terrible. It undervalues every moral value he claims to have as a character.
@@lainamitclaire Thats because he love his son and death is something normal in Wasteland so he just say that line. He is also scientists and deeply focus on his Project Purity so what his son did to some city is second thing in his life :D
Saved my game then chose to blow up megaton… my 13 year old self couldn’t live with my horrible decision so I went back to my save point and righted my wrongs. I was totally immersed in this world, I’m 28 and don’t even play video games anymore but I’ll never forget just how special this game was to me.
Hard to believe a man so set on saving the lives in the wasteland can only say how disappointed he is that his only child intentionally killed a bunch of innocent people... i never understood why this is the only random quest he comments on...
I haven’t blown up megaton in so long, does the game explain why people thought it was a good idea to live next to a nuke? Surely they all expected to die evantually
I mean most people probably assumed it was deactive or a dud. Granted it is also a hell of a final resort. Raiders try to swarm the town while some crazy bastard holds a grenade by a nuke and tells them they move and everything fucking dies. Are they gonna think this crazy person with a bomb ready to blow a nuke is bluffing? Maybe but that is a risk not worth taking
The Crater the bomb left offered a natural shelter for survivors from the immediate post war Environmental hazards, such as radiation sandstorms and such. There was also a fresh water supply from pipes in the crater. So people scavenged airplanes from the nearby airport and built their city walls around the crater. The bomb’s detonator was faulty, so in all likelihood it could have remained for another several hundred years, maybe even indefinitely, we’re it not from Burke’s interference.
It's so weird how morality changed between the Fallout games. Fallout 3: Comic book morality Fallout New Vegas: Morality is still objective (there's a karma system and the omnipotent narrator passes moral judgement on you), but nuance is added for spice. Fallout 4: Morality is subjective, totally up to the player. Not complain, it's just interesting.
That's really not true at all. The morality remains the same throughout all three games, and it's based on our modern world's universal sense of morality. Killing the racist residents of Tenpenny Tower for being racist towards ghouls is morally good. Nuking Megaton is morally bad. BoS members taking food, technology & supplies from settlements is morally bad. Railroad agents rescuing synths is morally good. The only reason NV doesn't focus as much on its Karma system is due to the Reputation system. Instead you're more likely (though not always) to find NV moral choices in side quests, not faction quests.
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Me after two weeks since the video is out: I forgot about ThreeDog and the dude from broken steel dlc.. 😐😐
Still, pretty comprehensive video! And at least you mentioned it here!
You are no longer TopGameWorld, but now, UpperLevelGameWorld.
In Atom's Name 🙏
Man the British are just different when it comes to problem solving
The biggest punishment for blowing up Megaton is Liam Neeson's disappointment.
more like qui gon dissapointed at you
Aslan didn't go to all the trouble of saving Narnia for you to nuke it 🤣
He does have an special set of skills.
Eh, whatever. Good riddance to the absolute morons that built a city around an active, radiation generating nuke.
bro gets ‘disappointed in you’ for genocide lmao
5:28 "Look Burke, if you're about to burn down that smoothskin shithole, I ain't gonna stop ya." *-Roy Phillips, Very Good Karma*
Roy Phillips, very good karma, kills even Herbert “Daring” Dashwood, known ghoul friend.
I only feel sorry for his...wife? When I kill all the ghouls. Most of them were feral and wasn't her fault Roy is a piece of shit in the end of the day
Man I hated the Tenpenny Tower quest. You more or less get punished for doing the right thing by letting in a persecuted minority group (The ghouls) into the tower, and once Roy's gang are settled in they genocide all the inhabitants, good or bad.
So the only choice you have as a "good character" is to take the lesser of two evils and take out Roy and his gang, but you're judged by Three Dog even though he doesn't know the actual situation of it.
@@TheQuenchiestCakewelcome to life
@@TheQuenchiestCakethey are not persecuted. Why do people always say the ghouls were persecuted? Not allowing people into your home is not persecution. Tenpenny saw right through Roy and he was correct.
For whatever reason Moira's totally insane behaviour disturbed me the most when I did this on my 'evil playthrough'.
"man my home got blown up.. _oh well, time to get back to business boys!"_
@@notjimpickens7928 😂
@@notjimpickens7928the grindset
She drops the act really quick if you tell her you're going to finish the job.
"Wait, what?" followed by a futile attempt at running.
I want her in my life.
I remember the first time I blew up Megaton (first play through) I had no idea Tenpenny was even there. The mushroom cloud went up then suddenly I hear “Good show!” Total jump scare and it really made the entire thing seem so much more ominous.
Same here! There was a mysterious mastermind behind the mastermind and I didn't even see him sitting there , did it at night as well
It would be cool if after you blew up Megaton, Lucas Simms was standing behind you with a .44 saying good show! And starts shooting
I didn't see him either when I was a kid 😂
One of gaming greatest moments
Real British mastermind introduction moment.
I didn't notice until now but Moira does actually sound freaked out when she realises she's a ghoul. It's literally the only thing that fazes her.
She's the one I would have wifed up had the game let me as I was going through puberty.
I was simping so hard, son. Although this was back in 2014-2015.
I would have showed her my amulet of Mara.
For about half a second
@@roddydykes7053 It you tell her you're going to kill her after that, she definitely freaks.
We just gonna ignore how Jericho said he was worried about growing a FOURTH arm 💀
He already has a 3rd ldg
What he means by that is his dick is as long as an arm lmao.
Yeah. He lied, used a joking inflection to dismiss not wanting to hang around & made that his reason for not taking any responsibility..
@@richhenschke3021 What 💀
@@CDTypholhe's saying Jericho was with burke and tenpenny
Liam Neeson: I'm only mildly disappointed you nuked a town full of people. Let's talk about it later after we've had couple of cold ones, shall we?
right. He should be either extremely horrorized and hate you or not care at all. His reaction is...weird
I really think it should have doomed the waters of life quest. Kinda like Morrowind when you kill that Blade Cassius. The game prompts you: "With this character's death, the thread of prophecy is severed." You can continue in your own doomed world.
@@maestrofeli4259you're still my son
@@smhoneyjuarez2928 said liam neeson
truth be told Liam Nesson acts like this because he's so focused on the Water Purification project that he doesn't even have the time to scold you. The point is that he's a neglectful parent. Which is also the reason we may become evil in our playthrough.
Son, I am mildly upset you committed an atrocity on a whim.
not even upset, just dissapointed
Building a city around a undetonated nuke and then trusting a random kid fresh out of the Vault to disarm it… yeah I believe this deserves to happen
Not only that but a whole bunch of idiots worshipping the bomb, as cruel as it sounds but I kind of agree with Mr. Burke on natural selection.
And if the nuke isn't ever disabled, who's to say someone else won't try detonating it?
@@TheQuenchiestCake
BASED 😂
@@TheQuenchiestCakeeveryone outside said it was a bad idea even some of towns people thought it was a bad idea....
But the founders, to them it was the WHOLE POINT 😂
I love the fact that you can hardly even discern/see Megaton from Tenpenny tower. It just looks like any other hunk of shit on the backdrop that is D.C.
I like how your dad's just like: oh that's just my naughty naughty boy, he's quite the character isn't he? That silly sausage killed all those people
To be fair, megaton was a shit hole…not much lost there no?
I’m not saying I’d nuke it, I’m saying I’m not all too bothered to see it gone
It's giving....Eric Cartman's mom
@@Berserker3624your so edgy
He doesn't act that way, he's very upset. He just can't get hung up on it given the circumstances
If you have Broken Steel and complete the Holy Water quest, Mother Curie and Brother Gerard will be effected if you blow up Megaton afterwards. Curie turns into a hostile ghoul reaver while Gerard had some dialogue but will stand and pray by the ruins.
That also happenes of you poison the water with fev
Thumbs DOWN if Oppenheimer movie DIDN'T bring you here!!!
i never seen that last dialogue: so you would have to do the Roy Philips thing first then agree to destroy megaton. so simple yet i never thought of doing it that way.
I did that on my current playthrough and I still didn’t get that dialogue. Huh…
Tried doing an “evil” play through, saw Moira and instantly deleted that play through lol
Haha ghoul friends go brr
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When I first played fo3 I saved Megaton, then I realized how stupid they are by building and living next to an unexploded atomic bomb, and from that point on I will always blow it up
Oh, forgot to mention, I will also kill Burke and Tempenny afterwards and give the tower to the ghouls, Megaton is full of dummies, but Tempenny tower is full of bastards
The things been sitting there for over 200 years and everyone knows it, if it weren't for the player its likely nothing would've happened, or Simms would've found someone to disarm it because he always greets newcomers
@@thetaai8262 yah, but I wouldn't risk it, they could have found so many other places, it's not like there wasnt space to build, and Simms would've found someone to disarm it like it did with the absolute stranger that blow it up? he is way too much trustworthy and I don't like a simple "likely" separating me from blowing up in the sleep
@@ugaBelugaI think that one old lady said the crater offered natural protection and made it a good place to fortify
Based af
Moira genuinely creeped me out after nuking.
@juststandinghere As a ghoul she can now live for hundreds of years, for her research purposes thats a +
Rest of the wasteland: we dont see anything 😑
seriously, this is one of bethesdas biggest screw ups with this game. megaton is one of the 3 major settlements in the entire game, besides that it was a NUCLEAR EXPLOSION and shouldve been seen all across the wasteland
@@largewings Meh. Just another radioactive bomb destroying stuff. You get used to it in the wasteland.
Well, yeah, they got blinded by the flash.
@@largewings Nuclear explosions vary greatly in their power. This one seemed more like a tactical nuke. You can watch old videos of Davy Crocketts exploding in the 1960s; they weren't particularly spectacular from afar.
@@Unknown-jt1jo youre probably right, my issue is that youre wiping out one of the big major settlements in the game and its treated like a sideshow
Fun fact: Mr. Burke is voiced by Wes Johnson (who's voicing Sheogorath in TES franchise).
and Lucien Lachance
@@DrTolis and every imperial
And Nick Valentine
@@TacoBlend That was Stephen Russel not Wes. However, he does voice the og silver shroud, moe cronin (the swatter guy in Diamond City) and the protectrons.
And the guy in Morrowind who asks you a bunch of weird questions before guessing your class!
The second biggest settlement gets nuked and like 5 people react to it in any way, most of which are tied directly to the quest itself.
Yep. Shit game.
What about rivet city, it’s gotta be bigger
@@AxialmatCitidel is probably as big or bigger too
I found a trader in a small building at the most southern part of the map who said in a horrified voice that she was going to move to megaton but it blow up on her way there😂
And to think Skyrim, their next game, had even less responsiveness to player action.
Good luck to Moira on her move!
I was wondering, she can only go to Underground or you can tell her to go to tenpenny tower if you side with roy?
Never wanted to blew up megaton just because of sweet Moira
Dad’s speech reminds me so much of Virgil’s reaction to the destruction of the institute in fallout 4. You can tell he is genuinely horrified.
Really? He just seems disappointed, as if all he did was kill a few people in a morally gray way. But he nuked a fucking city, which didn’t even need to be done. And all says is he’s disappointed and that they will talk about later.
@@mesodini246 Yeah lol. Failed writing and voice acting for his reaction to such a thing
@@mesodini246"you can tell he is genuinely horrified"
Either the guy who posted this has no grasp on human emotion or it was written by a bot. Which, given my experience with fallout fans, it seems like they're all on the low end of sentience anyway
@@tylerlackey1175Considering everything that needs to be taken care of at the moment, it makes sense for your father to temporarily push that subject aside.
Dad's speech reminds me so much of Virgil's reaction to the destruction of the institute in fallout 4. You can tell Bethesda is genuinely creatively bankrupt
Man Moira scared the shit out of 11 year old me when the game came out.
Random: Megaton blew up
Me: thats my handywork
Random: why'd you do it?
Me: they had it coming
you nuked a city? I'm very VERY disappointed in you... i'm going to have to ground you for the weekend, that will make you think long and hard about things...
I DON’T GIVE A SHIT ‘BOUT PEOPLE LIVING NEAR THE STUPID NUKE
0:08 Bro I’m just saying that should’ve destroyed wayyy more than Megaton. That could’ve impacted even vault 101 and buried that lol 😂
The vaults are specifically designed to be impervious to nukes but yes it probably should’ve collapsed the cave leading to it
Well to be fair, the radioactive half life of the materials in a nuke are pretty low. So after 200 years of sitting there, there’s probably a lot less fissile material left. In all honesty it’s a miracle there’s enough left to even go critical.
@@funny3scene ye that’s what I meant
It completely depends on that weapon's yield. Some nuclear weapons aren't very powerful. The weakest ones are comparable to strong conventional bombs.
@@Unknown-jt1jo ye
Moira.... Mora never changes. Her personality remains. Has to be my favorite NPC in the game.
I feel so bad for discovering her almost near the end of the game (IDK WHY I DIDN’T SEE THE SUPPLIES STATION)
Its funny to me how James sounds like a disappointed father who watched you steal the cookie jar, instead of a lunatic who detonated a nuclear weapon, kill hundreds of innocents and wiping a town of the fucking map.
You forgot the Scribe guy who complains for everything, from project purity when you start the broken steel dlc.
It’s amazing how well the embody the selfish rich old man by making him want a town removed from existence because “eye sore”
The thing is, I was surprised that James didn’t just yell at you for blowing up a town but still for some reason hearing Liam Neeson say “I’m so disappointed in you”, tears my heart apart. I don’t want Liam Neeson mad at me. Lol 😂
Even Bethesda’s audio director must be terrified of Neeson to not have him yell while recording his lines for James lol
Kill a couple thousand people
"Son I'm not mad,I'm just disappointed"
Don’t forget three dog mentioning you on the radio
Yeah before I blow up Megaton I always get the Strenght bobblehead and sometimes Jericho.
I forgot about Jericho last time. Eh, Charon better.
Do some reason it didn’t occur to me as to why dads voice was so…. Familiar… I didn’t realize until a video outright mentioned liam Neeson in the place of dad
I remember waaay back in the day when they released a gameplay trailer for this. The guy pick pocketed someone and put a live grenade in their inventory. Then they showed a bit of this megaton scenario where you had to make a decision and they said that decision would highly affect the game. I was soooo hooked after that. Being able to create your own story and world is just so crucial for a good gaming experience.
Yep they lied even back then
@@naxergss2625 wait wat do u mean bro? bethesdas always been good to us!!
@@murkypuddle33 i'd rather play RS3 than a bethesda game
@@naxergss2625 what? why man? give me reasons please?
@@murkypuddle33 You mean Bethesda's games or RS3
I hope new Bethesda games have an 'Easy' difficulty where, if you accidentally harm someone, they ask you, "Now did you really mean that?", to avert the bloodbath that would typically ensue.
I wonder if they'll do that in the upcoming Starfield due to that being a massive problem in previous games. At the end of the day, most people don't realise that you can just run away in these games and come back as everyone would act like nothing happened (although not sure if it works in TES Games due to the bounty system those games have)
They already have that. Just put away your weapon and any accidental attacks will be forgiven.
>set off a nuclear bomb
>about 4 people unrelated to the quest comment on it with throwaway lines
great job, Bugthesda
Technically 5 with the Broken Steel DLC
One of the most vile things I've ever done in a game. Fallout 3 REALLY lets you play as a villain if you want to. Completely psychotic and evil.
Eh, there's a lot worse. Thier deaths were painless and instant. There's things you do in WoW for s simple side quest that are worse murder a town and plant flags in their corpses for example. You can't even kill kids, which Fallout 2 lets you do. Those damn kids were still just running around in the crater going AHH help! because they are immune to all.
Lmao, this is like the only villain thing you can do in the game and it has almost no consequences, New Vegas is way WAY better for this kind of things (and a way better game overall).
@@andreberclet3733 So I guess you've never joined the cannibals in Andale, sold a child from Little Lamplight to the slavers of Paradise Falls, or massacred The Railroad HQ together with the same slavers you promised The Railroad you would kill for them? I'm also guessing you've never burned Harold to death despite the fact that he begged you to stab him in the heart because he's afraid of fire, or sabotaged Project Purity and destroyed all hope of clean water in the Capital Wasteland? You've probably never sold a runaway synth to The Institute agent in River City either, or let the ghouls kill everyone in Tenpenny Tower.
Fallout 3 is a psychopath simulator if you want it to be.
@@jacklambert1521You are completely right, however, people can't help but bring up other games whenever Fallout 3 is mentioned. They're just programmed to respond about how other games do it so much better!
@@andreberclet3733god you people are annoying
I totally forgot just how snobby and psychotic the Tenpenny Tower residents are.
That's why i never bombed megaton and sided with roy phillips to kill everyone in there.
@@TwoOrdersOfFriesRoy is a psycho as much as Tenpenny is
Casual reminder that megaton is effectively a bandit resthome. The doctor is a slaver from paradise falls, people like jericho are a dime-a-dozen - hell, just look at Moriarty's computer. He hires you as a hitman if you ask him for work. The guy working at the food shop downstairs is a jet dealer.
The point is that it's basically one of the nastiest places in the waste, and that's why it gets left alone.
I always wondered why Tenpenny's Tower is still standing in a World where Fatmans and such exist. But well its a Game in the end.
You’re right though. It’s bad world building on Bethesda’s part. They have little protection, yet the slavers haven’t attacked them yet, despite being possibly the biggest target. On top of that, they have no reason to be rich or snobby. They haven’t built wealth off of anything.
True but fatmen and mini nukes are extremely rare. Wasting one on tenpenny just wouldn't be worth it most of the time.
Thankfully we're the lone wanderer and we have the protag powers so we just find them all over
Give your bodies to Atom my friends, release yourself to his power, feel his Glow, and be divided 🙏
The funniest thing is Moira, being 50m from the bomb but somehow she survives... XD
She literally explains it in this video. "She wasn't in town at the time"
It was ironic numbnuts
tbh building ur town around a nuke is just asking for it
there should have been a bigger consequence than a massive karma hit
going there you should see the impact, people suffering and the catastrophic effect of the detonation
there should have been a cinematic of people melting from heat, or maybe ghostly wailings when passing nearby, etc
No thats preqchy as fuck
Gay idea, Fallout is already the catastrophic effect of a nuclear-caused war.
Yknow suddenly I don't feel so inclined to help roy anymore
You realise if u do his peacful option days later wvery none ghoul ends up dead in the basment he literaly kills everyone even agter gegying in peacfuly
@@demonic_myst4503 can you smell burnt toast?
@@demonic_myst4503yo, you okay mate? Seem to be slurring your keyboard there…
@@demonic_myst4503
Go home, pal. You're drunk.
That final scene almost makes it worth doing a complete evil playthrough…
Megaton: a city dying to get its hands on a Darwin Award.
Yet we lose karma for punishing people for their stupidity.
*commits genocide* I’m not a bad guy, they deserved it because they are so dumb
Lone wanderer blows up a town. Dad just gets disappointed
Oh you know when pip boy guy had devil horns and goatie, you know you did something very bad
Honestly, first time playing, your dad's reaction in game saying how he's disappointed bugged me more than my irl father being disappointed lmao
Wow. Nice to see people are still making Fallout 3 content. Good video.
Jericho has three arms confirmed
The third arm is his bepis
I just realized Mr Burke has the same voice actor as the Imperial Guards in Oblivion
And Lucien Lachance
When I was young I did this and thought the game was over so I stopped playing
Behold! He is coming from the clou… (dead)
Dad is like "yo that shit balls but eeeeeh you're still fam"
Or in whatever capacity certain subcultures would express this.
Moira was such a sweet character. She was my favorite NPC to interact with and I never got tired of the VA haha Wish she’d returned in 4 as a DLC character. Maybe she could return as the head of a big trading empire of some kind in the next game, if they make one.
I remember doing this back in the day. Loved this game.
Fallout characters are built different, they look directly at a exploding nuclear bomb and don’t go blind or die from radiation poisoning
It’s in muh genesss! *patch of skin falls off
You don't go blind from looking at an exploding nuclear bomb, numbskull. You get blinded.
Do you understand the difference? The latter means you won't be able to see, the former means you lose your vision - permanently. The radiation also doesn't spread that far.
@michasmarzewski3670 based
I never realized that Mr. Burke was trying to talk to me at the bar. His audio is so badly mixed I can't hear him.
How to get Roy Philips and Burke lives under the Temp Tower ??
Never realized that was Liam Neeson til now
Why would your father admonish you for speeding along natural selection? Tenpenny told his advisor to tell them to leave, that the giant nuke was an eyesore, and that if they evacuated with all their stuff, they'd survive, but they said no.
Burke didnt actualy tell them he was told to but burke didnt thats the interesting dynamic tempeny is sort of evil but has leniency while burk ignores tempenys leniency and doesnt give a shit
You cant speed up nor slow down natural selection. Thats the human hubris.
Ngl, didn't expect Roy Phillips to be ok with that, thought he would just kill Burke for being a smoothskin. XD
I think Roy is genuinely afraid of him, but at the same time, blowing up Megaton = more dead smoothskins, so he doesn't really care.
Funnily enough, I blew up Megaton and then turned around to help Roy kill everyone in the tower just for the hell of it.
4:07 oh god… she lives
I mean, Tenpenny was not wrong. Who tf builds a town around a dud nuke
Manya Varges in Megaton explains that the original town residents needed the help from the Children of Atom who were just getting started as a cult. Naturally, the Children wanted the town built around the bomb and weren't going to help otherwise. It's some easily missed dialogue, but it is explained.
I remember a Scavenger mentioned the explosion too
Ok but here the scary thing, imagine this, your a wastelander who has been living your entire life not really knowing what got humanity to that point or what a nuke going off looks like, and then while walking out of Washington you see a sudden bright light on the horizon and see a mushroom cloud go into the sky. You probably not move due to the shock of every happening
Imagine the residents of shelter 101 being scared and wondering "why our doctor is gone", "why a good companion left", and then an earthquake began and levels of radiation that were never felt again 200 years ago,really the scariest thing
I can't do it, even if building next to an atom bomb was stupid they don't deserve anhilation
You can tell this is the same engine as Oblivion! The facial expressions are the same!
welp, i know who's gonna be *my* sidekick when i cross the Mojave. Moira Brown.
I never bothered to wonder about how close they are to that bomb. Would the tower suffer any effects?
realistically, most likely. But in Fallout 3's ridiculous world? probably not.
Realistically there would not be a single window left in the tower after an explosion like that. Also, most likely everyone who looked straight at it would go blind immediately. After a couple of days the tower (and the surrounding area) are going to be covered in radioactive dust, causing radiation levels to skyrocket and many people to get mutations/cancer.
In short, yeah they would be fucked completely, which IMO adds to the insanity and irresponsibility of this choice.
They would all be blind
God, I forgot Liam Neeson was in this game. Imagine if some game studio tried to do the equivalent thing today, who would they cast? I want Jared Harris.
It really shows how little Bethesda understood the emotional ramifications of everything about Fallout as a setting if nuking a town and engulfing it's entire population in radioactive hellfire can only muster a "Son, I'm so disappointed in you" from your father, the pivotal character of the entire story.
Its real. Even in this world and time people dont care much about someone else death. There was case in US where father helped son to burry his victim.
@@Komotau4691 Don't get me wrong, I do get where you're coming from, but we're talking about a character who, at every turn, wants you to avoid hostility and violence as much as possible if it's unnecessary. Someone who has turned people away because of their hateful nature. So him scalding you with "ummm blowing up that entire town full of people I liked who helped me? I'm disappointed bro" was fucking terrible.
It undervalues every moral value he claims to have as a character.
@@lainamitclaire Thats because he love his son and death is something normal in Wasteland so he just say that line. He is also scientists and deeply focus on his Project Purity so what his son did to some city is second thing in his life :D
@@Komotau4691 I don't think you're old enough to play a game like Fallout 3.
@@lainamitclaire I think you are not wise to understand its a just game.
Mr. Burke is basicalle Lucien Lachance in the post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Saved my game then chose to blow up megaton… my 13 year old self couldn’t live with my horrible decision so I went back to my save point and righted my wrongs. I was totally immersed in this world, I’m 28 and don’t even play video games anymore but I’ll never forget just how special this game was to me.
Man the punishment of blowing it up is the father being disappointed of his child
"Yeah boo hoo Megaton's gone"
Dude you watched me press the button otherwise you'd be dead!
I killed Mr. Burke when I first saw him in a bar in Megaton to save the town. I ended up having bad karma from it lol.
Same, but I've no regrets. If anything, I regret helping Roy
He was unlikable from the start
Hard to believe a man so set on saving the lives in the wasteland can only say how disappointed he is that his only child intentionally killed a bunch of innocent people... i never understood why this is the only random quest he comments on...
I haven’t blown up megaton in so long, does the game explain why people thought it was a good idea to live next to a nuke? Surely they all expected to die evantually
I mean most people probably assumed it was deactive or a dud. Granted it is also a hell of a final resort.
Raiders try to swarm the town while some crazy bastard holds a grenade by a nuke and tells them they move and everything fucking dies. Are they gonna think this crazy person with a bomb ready to blow a nuke is bluffing? Maybe but that is a risk not worth taking
The Crater the bomb left offered a natural shelter for survivors from the immediate post war Environmental hazards, such as radiation sandstorms and such. There was also a fresh water supply from pipes in the crater. So people scavenged airplanes from the nearby airport and built their city walls around the crater.
The bomb’s detonator was faulty, so in all likelihood it could have remained for another several hundred years, maybe even indefinitely, we’re it not from Burke’s interference.
5:22 good karma character
„You‘ve lost Karma“ 🙈😂😂
It's so weird how morality changed between the Fallout games.
Fallout 3: Comic book morality
Fallout New Vegas: Morality is still objective (there's a karma system and the omnipotent narrator passes moral judgement on you), but nuance is added for spice.
Fallout 4: Morality is subjective, totally up to the player.
Not complain, it's just interesting.
That's really not true at all. The morality remains the same throughout all three games, and it's based on our modern world's universal sense of morality. Killing the racist residents of Tenpenny Tower for being racist towards ghouls is morally good. Nuking Megaton is morally bad. BoS members taking food, technology & supplies from settlements is morally bad. Railroad agents rescuing synths is morally good. The only reason NV doesn't focus as much on its Karma system is due to the Reputation system. Instead you're more likely (though not always) to find NV moral choices in side quests, not faction quests.
@michasmarzewski3670 That consequences have no real impact on gameplay lmao You just make some enemies.
@michasmarzewski3670a new Vegas fan never passes up the opportunity to insist it’s gods gift to this earth.
@@Komotau4691lonesome road:
Fallout 4 isnt aubjective its literaly cartoony still the evil os kidnapping people and replacing them with robots thats caryoony
Cut to me giving water over to beggars to fix my karma back to Good.
What I never liked about this is right after I'm done doing all the work, the old fart tenpenny goes "Well done, Mr. Burke"
It's actually kinda funny that the ghouls are A-OK with burning down Megaton.
Tbf what did they expect living near a LIVE NUKE
Jericho is carl from aqua teen hunger force
Look, dad, you didn’t let me shoot radroaches until I was older and so I had to blow up Megaton. This is really your fault.
Funny how practically no one but the abandoning moral high ground father gave a negative reaction.
I genuinely like Allistair, he's such a likeable ol cooter
Unfortunately for him, he got that unique pimp suit that I want. He dies in 100% of my playthroughs
I got to that point. But then I killed the two guys and went back to megaton to disarm the charge. But of course Bethesda did not forsee this.
When I was younger I was so scared by Moira brown when she turned
Why did shitshack megaton explode more violently than the institute
I wish that the developers had shown way more damage then they did. Like knocking down surrounding structures like the rest of the highway.