“The most I know about Fallout is that Fallout: New Vegas is good” *everyone liked that* In all seriousness, the semi-rpg thing you touched on in the preface was spot on: there are clear quests and storylines/routes to follow and I guess different endings depending on your actions, but also a fair bit of ‘yeah just hang out and go crazy’. I’m excited to see how you unpack the lore and the environmental storytelling y’all pick up on. These discussions are gonna be great.
IMO, the live action is actually more enjoyable if you haven’t played the games. A lot of the mysteries the show presents are immediately solved if you’ve played any of the games before. The live action perfectly captured both the goofy and man made horrors beyond comprehension vibe of the games.
and if you played the games, (the classics and new vegas especially) it just ruined established lore this is all could've been avoided if the director and todd just made the show take place in the east coast, but noooooooo they gotta shit all over the west coast as well
@@sirtonyedgarlol it didn't ruin established lore, people have already confirmed that it keeps inline with pretty much everything and are only a couple of nitpicks here and there
@@Martin-rh6bn oh yeah? and which people confirmed it already? Todd "It just works" Howard? Known for consistently breaking lore along with his buddy Emil? I could really list all the lore breaks, but there's already someone that did that which is Enclave Emily But just on top of my head, here's the lore break I can think right now: - The Master should've raided Vault 31, 32, and 33 long ago seeing as it's out in the open, and Vault 13 is set deep in the mountains and it's inevitable that the Master raided that if the Vault Dweller didn't stop him, how in the hell did he just miss a big ass door way out in the Santa Monica Pier? is he stupid? Keep in mind he have information regarding other vaults when he got into The Los Angeles Vault. - Having Vault-Tec be the one that dropped the bombs is stupid when it directly contradicts what President Richardson said, he already confirmed China launched first, speaking of, its funny how Amazon dont dare to mention China at all, just say its the Reds, making people think its the Soviets, don't wanna offend the supreme leader aren't they. - Mr. House being in the big bad super villains meeting, getting the info Vault-Tec would be the one dropping the nukes themselves is also stupid, it makes his dialogue with the Courier lost its meaning, before he comes across as an intelligent man that do all his best to defend the city he loves, but despite his intellect, he's only 20 hours short from getting the Platinum Chip that would protect all of Las Vegas and possibly a huge chunk of Nevada itself. Now he's an idiot that doesnt utilize the fact that he's in the big bad guys meeting to gain more info as to when they will drop the bomb, now he's just lying to the Courier when he said he calculated when the bomb will drop to not seem like an idiot to them. - Sinclair, what the fuck is he doing representing Big MT? He's their victim for godsake, it just feels like the showrunner look up list of all rich people in the Fallout universe and decide to make them evil, despite Sinclair, while being naive, is a good-hearted man that wants to save his love and employees by building Sierra Madre, but sadly sabotaged by Dean and Big MT themselves. -The premise by itself is already stupid because the Brotherhood of Steel, instead of going gung-ho when they know an Enclave facility exist and raiding it, they instead chose to chase around a scientist, they immediately went to war with Enclave when they got Liberty Prime up and running, and now they got the Prydwen and can just massacre them easily, but noooo, they went on a stupid hunt instead. And speaking of that, who the fuck even sets up the bounty? It can't be the NCR/Moldaver, because they got killed off by the BoS, its even dumber if the bounty is set by the Enclave seeing as how weakened they are and being actively hunted down. I watched the show with the mindset that this is not canon, despite what Todd Howard said, but my god it's just mid on its own, worse as part of the Fallout franchise, they try to push the "corporation and capitalism bad" message yet its funded by Amazon, thats peak irony, and trying to paint communism in good light despite China in this universe is also as evil as the US government.
@@Nekotaku_TV What do you mean, "No."? First of all, it's an actual phenomenon people have experienced, whether it's real or not. Secondly, it's a joke
Brotherhood of Steel aren’t scavengers that found armour and became what we see in the show. They are descendants of a faction of the U.S army based in California when the bombs fell that were already equipped with power armour that had been developed by the military about 10 - 20 years previously to 2077 to fight the Chinese army that had invaded Alaska. We have yet to see the kind of heavy firepower/weapons that BoS tend to use in the games, the sort that need heavy ammo cases on their backs or powerful energy weapons.
27:21 It might seem not that bad here but that’s because they’re probably in a place where bombs weren’t targeted. Most of cities of the old world are high in radiation and in rubbles.
This is such fun insight, extremely cool observations, like yeah, fantasy knights, cowboys, and clueless fish out of the fishbowl post apocalyptic scavenging, it's so fun
The nukes fly in 2077 after the US and China have been fighting a conventional war for 10 years. It's mentioned very briefly in the opening at the birthday party.
Great video guys. Very excited to go down this journey with you. I loved the show, and am a big fan of the Fallout series in general. And a big fan of you guys as well. We have a "peanut butter in my chocolate" situation here.
Fallout 1 and 2 where isometric (peer down from the skies) style rpgs and had absolutely mastercrafted storytelling and options for roleplaying and playing whatever kind of character you wanted to make. If you had the skills for it you could even Talk the final boss into realizing that his grand master plan was wrong and flawed, that it would never, Could never succeed... He then kills himself because its the only way to stop his plan from killing off humanity, more or less. Or you can go in guns blazing to have one hell of an end game fight before the credits roll.
What a great reaction it's like finding a nugget of gold when it's usually just dried cow shit... they sooo captured the vibe of the games and paid sooo much fan service whilst still making it great for people who have never played any of the games. Can't wait for the rest of the journey with you guys
Fallouts whole universe hinges on the fact that transistors weren't invented till hundreds of years after the war ended. Up till 2077 when the bombs dropped all technology still ran off vacuum tube's. Yet they still managed "futuristic" technology like robots and power armor, plasma and laser weapons ect. That plus everything being nuclear is what gives everything such a 1950s vibe. "Gas" stations don't sell fuel, they sell coolant for the nuclear powered engines primarily.
"Fallouts whole universe hinges on the fact that transistors weren't invented till hundreds of years after the war ended." This is just false. They absolutely did exist before and I still can't believe this is spread as if it was cannon.
This is not true and has been debunked for literal decades, I don't know where people still keep getting this idea from. Transistors not being invented or being invented later in the fallout universe is literally some bullshit some fan decided was true on a forum one day. There's nothing in any of the games to imply the transistor was never invented, in fact the existence of pulse grenades and their effect on robots in the first game implies the literal opposite.
For your first foray into the Fallout universe this is amazing reactions from you guys! Glad you are doing this series. Lucy is such a fun character my favorite of the three so far. Its such a fun series and with how much you guys observe every detail on what is going on is great. Really looking forward to watching the rest of the series and with what you guys discussed how the series progresses and how much your ideals of what will happen if it'll be the same or different.
I love this show so much, it captures the tone of the games so well! Ella Purnell is amazing as Lucy! (Tho i keep hearing Jinx when she talks 😅 the joys of a shared actor)
@@jnliewmichael4235 yeah even just 4 would be fine by me even if new vegas would be awesome. I am interested to see someone experience the content in reverse since most of us have played the games first
Mostly. Catastrophic EMPs depend not only on high altitutde detonation but also on the correct position. All atomic bombs create EMPs, but they don't extend much outside their zone of total destruction, so their effect can be neglected on low altitude bursts.
@@windsaw151 Correct :) Localized EMP occurs but is within maybe a few to tens of miles High altitude EMP is VERY different as is a reaction with the Earth's magnetic field and incredibly powerful
Thanks for the reaction guys. I'm glad you enjoyed the Ghoul. He's an endgame Fallout character with all the easter egg achievos, and all the DLC completed.
Fallout's a weird universe to dive into blind. It's got everything from eldritch monsters to UFO's to AI. But you picked up on the most important aspect, that it's an alternate reality world where robotic and nuclear technology was more advanced by the 1950's than in our world before the bombs fell. And yeah, stempacks like the big needle Lucy stuck herself are the magical cure all in the games that more or less regenerate wounded tissue. Another fun note is in the games you manage your radiation levels by drinking purified water which is why that raider is chugging from the water vase and it tips Lucy off to check his rad levels.
Yeah the mid-century modern/ atom-punk aesthetic and society stuck around for much longer than they should have because of investment and focus on cycle at power and fission rather than stuff like microchip technology or fossil fuels (which were still around obviously but nuclear fission was more prominent). Makes for some really hilarious but fascinating environments and storylines. Excited to see how they take to the show!
@@Jegekim True, I forget that all the time because of the culture. It feels more like they fell during early cold-war era. Frankly the setting before the war in that since always felt needlessly complicated to me.
@eriksand9262 I know that isn't the case in all the games, but I was thinking it was in some of them. Looking it up, I'm a bit embarrassed to find I was right, but only in Fallout Shelter which I hardly want to count.
Lucy and her 'application' is her character sheet, ie... the skills she has invested in, her traits.... The HUGE bag the squires carry is to represent all the 'STUFF' you pick up, and take with you throughout Fallout. The Power Armor suits were from the Sino-American war, and The Brotherhood was part of the US Military pre war, that saw where things were going and separated themselves just before the bom bs fell.
I haven't been keeping up with videos for a while, and the sudden appearance of Jacob rocking a wasteland appropriate beard caught me off guard. It's very different from the image in my head, based on Parasyte, mha, slime eras. But it really works in a way I wouldn't have expected
A small bit of background info. The show won't tell you, but the Enclave is a malicious shadow government derived from the remnants of the US government, watching things from afar and carrying out operations with tech way better than everyone else's pre-war stuff. They were introduced in FO2 and raised the ceiling on what endgame gear meant compared to the first game. Also, Vaults are typically a singular thing with no connections. This triple-conjoined thing is out of the ordinary.
Best way to describe fallout's setting and aesthetic is a post apocalyptic scifi as imagined by the post WWII American of the 50s and 60s. Optimism in a bury-your-head-in-the-sand kinda way, mixed with the-world-will-end-any-day style of pessimism. Retrofuturistic, computers that are clunky and mostly shit but also in some ways super advanced, lots of advancement in nuclear tech.
Seconded. I know they only really get comments when filtered through their mods, but I think the intros are a great way of introducing the concept of the world, without really spoiling anything
My favorite thing about fallout is the way the do exposition without feeling like some info dump interrupting the plot, there’s a lot of environmental storytelling, show don’t tell and quick clarification lines use very effectively.
Usually, the Vault-Tec numbered vaults are not connected. The only known are 31, 32 and 33 because "spoiler". It's known from the lore of the franchise that most of them are to some degree part of a social/scientific experiment. As far as we know, Vault-Tec made about 120 of them, each with different setup/puspose Other companies/organisations constructed their own vaults with their own caracteristics The "baby leg gun" is called a JunkJet. It comes from Fallout 4 and it's a gun designed to be able to use any kind of item from your inventory as ammunition
Bit of lore for the Brotherhood of Steel It existed before the bombs dropped. The BoS used to be a group of soldiers who served the US army. Led by a man named Roger Maxson, they eventually staged a small rebellion after learning about dark human experiments that the government was backing. They survived the bombs, created the Brotherhood, and eventually strove to help the people of the newly created wasteland. However, over time the orders secondary objective of hoarding tech to use became the primary objective and it turned into a sort of cult. Now they are very isolationist. Edit: Currently, they are led by a descendant of Roger, Arthur Maxson. Overall, they have likely helped the wasteland more than they have harmed it, but they are not nice about it. They are also long time adversaries of the Enclave, which is the *OTHER* military faction that survived the bombs. (The enclave are basically Americans who are essentially Nazi-levels of obsessed with old patriotism. If you are irradiated or mutated, the enclave wants you dead. This is a very bad thing for the wasteland, as pretty much everyone and everything is some amount of irradiated just from living on the surface.)
@gregoryhayes7569 What spoiler? The greater lore is *never* brought up in the show. Please, since their moderating things makes doing so safe, tell me exactly what episode and scene I spoiled? In fact, you may even list the episode and time and I'll check out the exact scene myself. I'll certainly also apologize if I am proven incorrect.
Love that you guys are reacting to this! I’m excited to see the thoughts of people who don’t know the games. There are a few reveals that don’t have the same impact without emotional investment in the games, but it’s still a really good self contained story. Would love to see them either play the games or watch some lore videos (I’m particularly a fan of Oxhorn’s) after the series
Technology innovates during peacetime and advances during wartime. Fallout World’s nuclear Cold War lasted over 100 years and mid-20th century tech as we know it stagnated in some ways but advanced in others.
Also, some pretty great protagonists but I find my unofficial favourite character (and seems to be the same with a bunch of other reactors) is Norm. Just something about his chill thoughtful way of looking at things.
If you ever decide to play any of the games 4 is the most welcoming, 3 is one of the best and new vegas is the single greatest role-playing game I've ever played
@@fredwinit's an okay shooter "RPG", gameplay is okay, but the story is severely lacking If they really wanna start playing the game, just play Fallout 1 lol, or if they don't wanna play the classics, starting with New Vegas is also good to start with, 3 is also good, but the story is not as in depth as NV, but it makes up with it by the exploration and side quest
First scene is so disgusting. Another good video game adaptation. I love the realism of the fight between Lucy and Monty. Then just stupid how he killed him in a barrel. Maximus is quite annoying. But his trip is fun. I love Norm.
Caleb's rationale is so backwards. He's saying, "The Vaults would have taken SO long to build that there's no WAY they could have been built while the "Cuban missile crisis" period was going on" (which is CORRECT) but then he somehow reasons that that must mean they were built POST nuclear apocalypse? Huh? Wouldn't the rationale be that they were built pre-emptively?
Relax. They don't know anything about the Fallout universe and they're getting bombarded with lots of world-building and lore. The show will explain itself later on anyways.
@@johnyshadowDefinitely cut them some slack on this one, but still, I do agree that these two tend to make crazy assumptions that contradict the text and get confused thinking the show lied to them or something.
I originally had no faith in the TV series, because I think Bethesda's handing of the Fallout franchise (Fallout 3, 4, and 76) has been a total shitshow from a writing standpoint. But I was wrong, the showrunner behind the TV series knows what he's doing and seems to have a lot fun ideas. The entire season is really solid, so I'm excited for these reactions.
Great analysis, fun reaction. The series best decision was to lean into game logic, like the stim-pac Lucy uses on herself which heals you in game and in the series. IMO there are more people in vault 33 than they show at the assembly, after all they show Lucy teaching a classroom of children at the beginning. Lucy can always get back into the vault as long as she keeps her Pip-boy. (the arm computer) Max is a true believer that is why he gets promoted. No mouth guard for Max, he is tough. Ghouls are mutants and they are essentially immortal and very tough.
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When did Jacob turned into mountain man 🤯
Bro, he looks extremely good too!
dude's getting ready for fallout irl
The beard is magnificent
I love the hair and beard!
Thought I was watching Rhett and Link for a second 😂
That beard is glorious!
“The most I know about Fallout is that Fallout: New Vegas is good”
*everyone liked that*
In all seriousness, the semi-rpg thing you touched on in the preface was spot on: there are clear quests and storylines/routes to follow and I guess different endings depending on your actions, but also a fair bit of ‘yeah just hang out and go crazy’.
I’m excited to see how you unpack the lore and the environmental storytelling y’all pick up on. These discussions are gonna be great.
I do like the part where the ghoul calls out getting side tracked
@@TrueHavoc13 “you will get sidetracked by random bull****” made me laugh until I cried, absolutely stellar quote and true to the player experience
@@zalizoo0402 "every goddamn time"
Funnily enough Lucy's actress Ella Purnell also voices grown-up Jinx so it's 2 for 2 great adaptations
That's herr???? She is awesome
She's also in Yellowjackets. To me she looks like a young Susan Sarandon. She's incredible, so much charisma.
Jacob dropped the Karl Marx drip
Bro is out here seizing the means of sanity.
IMO, the live action is actually more enjoyable if you haven’t played the games. A lot of the mysteries the show presents are immediately solved if you’ve played any of the games before.
The live action perfectly captured both the goofy and man made horrors beyond comprehension vibe of the games.
and if you played the games, (the classics and new vegas especially) it just ruined established lore
this is all could've been avoided if the director and todd just made the show take place in the east coast, but noooooooo
they gotta shit all over the west coast as well
@@sirtonyedgarlol it didn't ruin established lore, people have already confirmed that it keeps inline with pretty much everything and are only a couple of nitpicks here and there
@@Martin-rh6bn oh yeah? and which people confirmed it already? Todd "It just works" Howard? Known for consistently breaking lore along with his buddy Emil?
I could really list all the lore breaks, but there's already someone that did that which is Enclave Emily
But just on top of my head, here's the lore break I can think right now:
- The Master should've raided Vault 31, 32, and 33 long ago seeing as it's out in the open, and Vault 13 is set deep in the mountains and it's inevitable that the Master raided that if the Vault Dweller didn't stop him, how in the hell did he just miss a big ass door way out in the Santa Monica Pier? is he stupid? Keep in mind he have information regarding other vaults when he got into The Los Angeles Vault.
- Having Vault-Tec be the one that dropped the bombs is stupid when it directly contradicts what President Richardson said, he already confirmed China launched first, speaking of, its funny how Amazon dont dare to mention China at all, just say its the Reds, making people think its the Soviets, don't wanna offend the supreme leader aren't they.
- Mr. House being in the big bad super villains meeting, getting the info Vault-Tec would be the one dropping the nukes themselves is also stupid, it makes his dialogue with the Courier lost its meaning, before he comes across as an intelligent man that do all his best to defend the city he loves, but despite his intellect, he's only 20 hours short from getting the Platinum Chip that would protect all of Las Vegas and possibly a huge chunk of Nevada itself.
Now he's an idiot that doesnt utilize the fact that he's in the big bad guys meeting to gain more info as to when they will drop the bomb, now he's just lying to the Courier when he said he calculated when the bomb will drop to not seem like an idiot to them.
- Sinclair, what the fuck is he doing representing Big MT? He's their victim for godsake, it just feels like the showrunner look up list of all rich people in the Fallout universe and decide to make them evil, despite Sinclair, while being naive, is a good-hearted man that wants to save his love and employees by building Sierra Madre, but sadly sabotaged by Dean and Big MT themselves.
-The premise by itself is already stupid because the Brotherhood of Steel, instead of going gung-ho when they know an Enclave facility exist and raiding it, they instead chose to chase around a scientist, they immediately went to war with Enclave when they got Liberty Prime up and running, and now they got the Prydwen and can just massacre them easily, but noooo, they went on a stupid hunt instead.
And speaking of that, who the fuck even sets up the bounty? It can't be the NCR/Moldaver, because they got killed off by the BoS, its even dumber if the bounty is set by the Enclave seeing as how weakened they are and being actively hunted down.
I watched the show with the mindset that this is not canon, despite what Todd Howard said, but my god it's just mid on its own, worse as part of the Fallout franchise, they try to push the "corporation and capitalism bad" message yet its funded by Amazon, thats peak irony, and trying to paint communism in good light despite China in this universe is also as evil as the US government.
@@Martin-rh6bn People have already confirmed that it contradicts established lore constantly.
@@leontrotsky9563 people (me) have said that shut the fuck up its just a fucking game its not that serious. The show is good and that's what matters.
Thinking that the Vaults were made after the bombs is interesting to me...
They're clearly fallout shelters to keep humanity going, no?
What in the wrong ways of fuck made them come up with this dumbass idea
they are
Bonus things that exist in fallout canonically
Aliens
Ghosts
Eldrich entities
Cryptids
A 5 story robot that throws nukes like footballs
"Death to Communism" **Mini nuke whistles**
"Death is a preferable alternative to communism."
@@TheEclipse420 "Designation: Liberty Prime. Operational assessment: All systems nominal. Primary directive: War."
Don't forget the well-spoken, mutated Jackson' chamelons that are about ten feet tall.
Time Travel
It's fun watching people try to figure out where this show is going.
The bros reacting to Fallout?
Okey dokey!
For some reason I thought you guys reacted to this already!! Soooo looking forward to it, I think you guys will love it!
Mandela effect.
OMG I LITERALLY HAD THE SAME THOUGHT. LIKE AM I HAVING A DEJA VU? CAUSE I SWEAR I SAW THAT THUMBNAIL BEFORE?
@@fredwin No.
@@TherealDEXIL Your second question doesn't make sense.
@@Nekotaku_TV What do you mean, "No."? First of all, it's an actual phenomenon people have experienced, whether it's real or not. Secondly, it's a joke
Brotherhood of Steel aren’t scavengers that found armour and became what we see in the show. They are descendants of a faction of the U.S army based in California when the bombs fell that were already equipped with power armour that had been developed by the military about 10 - 20 years previously to 2077 to fight the Chinese army that had invaded Alaska. We have yet to see the kind of heavy firepower/weapons that BoS tend to use in the games, the sort that need heavy ammo cases on their backs or powerful energy weapons.
27:21 It might seem not that bad here but that’s because they’re probably in a place where bombs weren’t targeted. Most of cities of the old world are high in radiation and in rubbles.
This is such fun insight, extremely cool observations, like yeah, fantasy knights, cowboys, and clueless fish out of the fishbowl post apocalyptic scavenging, it's so fun
The nukes fly in 2077 after the US and China have been fighting a conventional war for 10 years. It's mentioned very briefly in the opening at the birthday party.
Great video guys. Very excited to go down this journey with you. I loved the show, and am a big fan of the Fallout series in general. And a big fan of you guys as well. We have a "peanut butter in my chocolate" situation here.
Your first time in the fallout universe? How? That's wild.
Pleasant surprise to see you guys reacting to this - I hope you'll enjoy it as much as I did
No spoilers or anything, just saying you guys are quite astute. Caught it in the Bojack reactions too, but dang. 😂
The bombs fell in 2077.
1:01:19
“When faced with extinction, every alternative is preferable”
Red Vs Blue moment omg
I wish you guys'd started a Venture Bros marathon. Would've been my weekly therapy session for the next year instead of Bojack.
Fallout 1 and 2 where isometric (peer down from the skies) style rpgs and had absolutely mastercrafted storytelling and options for roleplaying and playing whatever kind of character you wanted to make. If you had the skills for it you could even Talk the final boss into realizing that his grand master plan was wrong and flawed, that it would never, Could never succeed... He then kills himself because its the only way to stop his plan from killing off humanity, more or less. Or you can go in guns blazing to have one hell of an end game fight before the credits roll.
What a great reaction it's like finding a nugget of gold when it's usually just dried cow shit... they sooo captured the vibe of the games and paid sooo much fan service whilst still making it great for people who have never played any of the games. Can't wait for the rest of the journey with you guys
Fallouts whole universe hinges on the fact that transistors weren't invented till hundreds of years after the war ended. Up till 2077 when the bombs dropped all technology still ran off vacuum tube's. Yet they still managed "futuristic" technology like robots and power armor, plasma and laser weapons ect. That plus everything being nuclear is what gives everything such a 1950s vibe. "Gas" stations don't sell fuel, they sell coolant for the nuclear powered engines primarily.
"Fallouts whole universe hinges on the fact that transistors weren't invented till hundreds of years after the war ended."
This is just false. They absolutely did exist before and I still can't believe this is spread as if it was cannon.
They were invented much later than normal, but they were invented pre-war.
You are thinking of super conductors
This is not true and has been debunked for literal decades, I don't know where people still keep getting this idea from. Transistors not being invented or being invented later in the fallout universe is literally some bullshit some fan decided was true on a forum one day. There's nothing in any of the games to imply the transistor was never invented, in fact the existence of pulse grenades and their effect on robots in the first game implies the literal opposite.
@Jackex Superconductors are a classification if metals...
Random fallout fact Bombs fall in 2077 and the first vault to open their doors was
vault 76 in appalachia 2102.
You can't open your door if it never closed.
Appalachia wasn’t really hit by the nukes but it was still affected by the radiation
For your first foray into the Fallout universe this is amazing reactions from you guys! Glad you are doing this series. Lucy is such a fun character my favorite of the three so far. Its such a fun series and with how much you guys observe every detail on what is going on is great. Really looking forward to watching the rest of the series and with what you guys discussed how the series progresses and how much your ideals of what will happen if it'll be the same or different.
Yall are in for a great ride 🤯🫠
I'm sure you've finished the series by now, I can't wait to enjoy the ride with you!! Subbed for the reactions!
I love this show so much, it captures the tone of the games so well! Ella Purnell is amazing as Lucy! (Tho i keep hearing Jinx when she talks 😅 the joys of a shared actor)
Fallout playthroughs after the show?!?!?
Kinda hope so too.
Fallout 1 and 2 I have low hopes for any one of them playing either one, but Fallout 3, New Vegas and 4, I can see it happening.
@@jnliewmichael4235 yeah even just 4 would be fine by me even if new vegas would be awesome. I am interested to see someone experience the content in reverse since most of us have played the games first
6:57 My understanding is that an EMP blast doesn't happen unless the detonation happens in the upper atmosphere
Mostly. Catastrophic EMPs depend not only on high altitutde detonation but also on the correct position.
All atomic bombs create EMPs, but they don't extend much outside their zone of total destruction, so their effect can be neglected on low altitude bursts.
@@windsaw151 Correct :) Localized EMP occurs but is within maybe a few to tens of miles
High altitude EMP is VERY different as is a reaction with the Earth's magnetic field and incredibly powerful
Having both played and watched fallout I am really excited about this reaction series, especially after hearing their discussion :D
Fallout playthrough in the future maybe? I'd watch!
Not really an alternate Earth. It's alternate history. It could be argued to be the same thing, I guess.
Thanks for the reaction guys.
I'm glad you enjoyed the Ghoul. He's an endgame Fallout character with all the easter egg achievos, and all the DLC completed.
Fallout's a weird universe to dive into blind. It's got everything from eldritch monsters to UFO's to AI. But you picked up on the most important aspect, that it's an alternate reality world where robotic and nuclear technology was more advanced by the 1950's than in our world before the bombs fell. And yeah, stempacks like the big needle Lucy stuck herself are the magical cure all in the games that more or less regenerate wounded tissue. Another fun note is in the games you manage your radiation levels by drinking purified water which is why that raider is chugging from the water vase and it tips Lucy off to check his rad levels.
Need to remember though that the bombs fell in the year 2077. The 50's aesthetic just kinda stuck around.
Yeah the mid-century modern/ atom-punk aesthetic and society stuck around for much longer than they should have because of investment and focus on cycle at power and fission rather than stuff like microchip technology or fossil fuels (which were still around obviously but nuclear fission was more prominent). Makes for some really hilarious but fascinating environments and storylines.
Excited to see how they take to the show!
@@Jegekim True, I forget that all the time because of the culture. It feels more like they fell during early cold-war era. Frankly the setting before the war in that since always felt needlessly complicated to me.
@eriksand9262 I know that isn't the case in all the games, but I was thinking it was in some of them. Looking it up, I'm a bit embarrassed to find I was right, but only in Fallout Shelter which I hardly want to count.
Lucy is also played by Jinx from Arcane. :)
Lucy and her 'application' is her character sheet, ie... the skills she has invested in, her traits.... The HUGE bag the squires carry is to represent all the 'STUFF' you pick up, and take with you throughout Fallout. The Power Armor suits were from the Sino-American war, and The Brotherhood was part of the US Military pre war, that saw where things were going and separated themselves just before the bom bs fell.
Aaaaaa, did not expect this, cannot wait to see your reactions! :D
Watching this again with people who have no clue is amazing
I haven't been keeping up with videos for a while, and the sudden appearance of Jacob rocking a wasteland appropriate beard caught me off guard. It's very different from the image in my head, based on Parasyte, mha, slime eras. But it really works in a way I wouldn't have expected
A small bit of background info. The show won't tell you, but the Enclave is a malicious shadow government derived from the remnants of the US government, watching things from afar and carrying out operations with tech way better than everyone else's pre-war stuff. They were introduced in FO2 and raised the ceiling on what endgame gear meant compared to the first game. Also, Vaults are typically a singular thing with no connections. This triple-conjoined thing is out of the ordinary.
They dont read the comments
@@user-dj9iu2et3rI think they do to some degree or read Patreon comments bc they have noted comments before
@@user-dj9iu2et3rand also the show is probably waiting for that reveal.
They do read some comments, but they have a moderator who filters out spoiler comments like this one.
17:09 You think so? But with your cousin it feels so much more famili(y)ar.
Boooo
xD
Surreal timing, watching this from the bomb shelter
Best way to describe fallout's setting and aesthetic is a post apocalyptic scifi as imagined by the post WWII American of the 50s and 60s. Optimism in a bury-your-head-in-the-sand kinda way, mixed with the-world-will-end-any-day style of pessimism. Retrofuturistic, computers that are clunky and mostly shit but also in some ways super advanced, lots of advancement in nuclear tech.
Even if you don't plays the games checkout all the opening intros to each game to get a feel for the world of Fallout.
Seconded. I know they only really get comments when filtered through their mods, but I think the intros are a great way of introducing the concept of the world, without really spoiling anything
if u guys are wondering, this show is not a adaptation of a specific game, is just in the same universe as the games (and is canon)
the gun shooting junk is called JunkJet (from Fallout 4)
My favorite thing about fallout is the way the do exposition without feeling like some info dump interrupting the plot, there’s a lot of environmental storytelling, show don’t tell and quick clarification lines use very effectively.
Oh boy. This is gonna be good. Honestly my show of the year.
Your beard is reminding me of Tormund from game of thrones! Super cool!
Jacob without a hat? That's a new one.
Usually, the Vault-Tec numbered vaults are not connected.
The only known are 31, 32 and 33 because "spoiler".
It's known from the lore of the franchise that most of them are to some degree part of a social/scientific experiment. As far as we know, Vault-Tec made about 120 of them, each with different setup/puspose
Other companies/organisations constructed their own vaults with their own caracteristics
The "baby leg gun" is called a JunkJet. It comes from Fallout 4 and it's a gun designed to be able to use any kind of item from your inventory as ammunition
Damn, that beard looks cool AF
Yes. The vaults are there to keep people safe.
Bit of lore for the Brotherhood of Steel
It existed before the bombs dropped. The BoS used to be a group of soldiers who served the US army. Led by a man named Roger Maxson, they eventually staged a small rebellion after learning about dark human experiments that the government was backing. They survived the bombs, created the Brotherhood, and eventually strove to help the people of the newly created wasteland. However, over time the orders secondary objective of hoarding tech to use became the primary objective and it turned into a sort of cult. Now they are very isolationist.
Edit: Currently, they are led by a descendant of Roger, Arthur Maxson.
Overall, they have likely helped the wasteland more than they have harmed it, but they are not nice about it.
They are also long time adversaries of the Enclave, which is the *OTHER* military faction that survived the bombs. (The enclave are basically Americans who are essentially Nazi-levels of obsessed with old patriotism. If you are irradiated or mutated, the enclave wants you dead. This is a very bad thing for the wasteland, as pretty much everyone and everything is some amount of irradiated just from living on the surface.)
Fortunately, SOS have moderators who filter out spoiler comments like this one.
@gregoryhayes7569
What spoiler?
The greater lore is *never* brought up in the show.
Please, since their moderating things makes doing so safe, tell me exactly what episode and scene I spoiled?
In fact, you may even list the episode and time and I'll check out the exact scene myself.
I'll certainly also apologize if I am proven incorrect.
@@gregoryhayes7569 nothing about it is a spoiler
I know you guys have a gaming channel and this was made in a lab to make you want to play Fallout so good luck with that.
Love that you guys are reacting to this!
I’m excited to see the thoughts of people who don’t know the games. There are a few reveals that don’t have the same impact without emotional investment in the games, but it’s still a really good self contained story.
Would love to see them either play the games or watch some lore videos (I’m particularly a fan of Oxhorn’s) after the series
the boys calling 90% of the plot twists in the season from the first episode - look at them go!!!
40:46 The frame of Truth!..
Technology innovates during peacetime and advances during wartime. Fallout World’s nuclear Cold War lasted over 100 years and mid-20th century tech as we know it stagnated in some ways but advanced in others.
Fun fact is that Lucy in this show is also the voice actor of act 2-3 jinx from arcane
She's just sweeping great videogame adaptations, good for her!
The timing of the upload 😂
boy when you realize Lucy's dad is the main villain
YES! LET'S FUCKING GO!!!
36:57 "vault looks newer", hmm. Not gonna go to spoilers, but there mightve been a reason why it "looks" newer.
One handy piece of data: The bombs dropped October 23, 2077. In that world, the microchip was never invented. OK, two pieces.
Also, some pretty great protagonists but I find my unofficial favourite character (and seems to be the same with a bunch of other reactors) is Norm. Just something about his chill thoughtful way of looking at things.
If you know US history, you'll know that, not only where we building fallout shelters like this, but we actually have fallout shelters like this.
"Fallout New Vegas is good"
*You are idolized by the FNV community*
58:36 oh yeah they definitely touch on that 😂
Excellent beards
To set the record straight, the fallout series IS an RPG, it's just you typical style of RPG.
"Good man, good man"
33:45 Daaamn...
Need them on dark someday
Do you guys watch stuff as a full-time job? Your productivity is amazing
I LOVE YOU GUYS!!!
There’ll be another robot to see in this season.
33:35 holy shit
Borther, the beard!
Yes Fallout New Vegas is good that'll be relevant.
How ya gonna edit out him saying “I do this shit for the love of the game” that’s a party foul
If you ever decide to play any of the games 4 is the most welcoming, 3 is one of the best and new vegas is the single greatest role-playing game I've ever played
Is Four really the most welcoming? I feel like it just may seem that way because it has so much less depth.
@@fredwin that's why. It's the most simple and so good for beginners
@@fredwinit's an okay shooter "RPG", gameplay is okay, but the story is severely lacking
If they really wanna start playing the game, just play Fallout 1 lol, or if they don't wanna play the classics, starting with New Vegas is also good to start with, 3 is also good, but the story is not as in depth as NV, but it makes up with it by the exploration and side quest
I would love to see them at least attempt a play through of 1, even if it’s just for one stream. see how far they get
Fallout 76 now is GREAT!!!
one of the best adaptations ever possibly the best imo
if they continue this level of detail its gonna be amazing
Ok just so you know the bombs dropped in 2077
9:20 ha ha ha haa..haha...ha...lol
Grodie to the max!
As a Gen X person who grew up in the shadow of a fairly major Cold War target, the pre-titlecard sequence was a few extra levels of traumatic. O.O
I come back after a few years and suddenly facial hair
I guess some things are tropes for a reason
First scene is so disgusting.
Another good video game adaptation.
I love the realism of the fight between Lucy and Monty. Then just stupid how he killed him in a barrel.
Maximus is quite annoying. But his trip is fun.
I love Norm.
This is gonna be a really interesting as a long time Fallout fan to see people completely new to the franchise experience it for the first time!
you should react to some fallout intros maybe the first ones
I hope you guys try out Fallout 3 or New Vegas. 1 & 2 are turn based tactics games while 3 and onwards are FPS RPGs.
Caleb's rationale is so backwards. He's saying, "The Vaults would have taken SO long to build that there's no WAY they could have been built while the "Cuban missile crisis" period was going on" (which is CORRECT) but then he somehow reasons that that must mean they were built POST nuclear apocalypse? Huh? Wouldn't the rationale be that they were built pre-emptively?
Relax. They don't know anything about the Fallout universe and they're getting bombarded with lots of world-building and lore. The show will explain itself later on anyways.
Give them a break lol they literally went into this show blind.
Sure, but why have those negative assumptions and no positive assumptions?
@@EtherSword They default to "The show must be wrong", instead of "Maybe WE got it wrong?".
@@johnyshadowDefinitely cut them some slack on this one, but still, I do agree that these two tend to make crazy assumptions that contradict the text and get confused thinking the show lied to them or something.
I have been waiting for this
I originally had no faith in the TV series, because I think Bethesda's handing of the Fallout franchise (Fallout 3, 4, and 76) has been a total shitshow from a writing standpoint.
But I was wrong, the showrunner behind the TV series knows what he's doing and seems to have a lot fun ideas.
The entire season is really solid, so I'm excited for these reactions.
I like this show
Great analysis, fun reaction.
The series best decision was to lean into game logic, like the stim-pac Lucy uses on herself which heals you in game and in the series.
IMO there are more people in vault 33 than they show at the assembly, after all they show Lucy teaching a classroom of children at the beginning.
Lucy can always get back into the vault as long as she keeps her Pip-boy. (the arm computer)
Max is a true believer that is why he gets promoted.
No mouth guard for Max, he is tough.
Ghouls are mutants and they are essentially immortal and very tough.
Damn it...I was just about to go to bed...