Fallout's Mysterious Great Game: Who Are The Other Players? | Fallout Lore

Поділитися
Вставка
  • Опубліковано 16 тра 2024
  • In the irradiated swamplands of Point Lookout, a rivalry more than two hundred years in the making, reaches it’s bitter end.
    Desmond Lockhart, a pre-war British ghoul and former spy vs Professor Calvert, a brilliant government scientist, reduced to a power-hungry brain in a jar.
    As is so often the case, its up to the Lone Wanderer to decide who wins but this rivalry wasn’t just born out of a mutual dislike.
    As both characters are players in a much larger game. Fallout’s Great Game, a kill or be killed conflict between the last vestiges of the old world’s pre-war elite who all managed to find ways to cheat death, and continue playing.
    In todays video we revisit the conflict between the two players we know, the factions involved, the events which take place and all of the potential endings. Before finishing with some theories over who the other players may be.
    TIMESTAMPS
    00:00​ Introduction
    01:37 The Local Flavor
    06:51 The Ghoul
    12:40 The Brain
    16:35 Meeting of the Minds
    20:42 Who Else Is Playing?
    21:17 Dr. Stanislaus Braun
    22:54 John Caleb Bradberton
    24:45 The Think Tank
    32:57 Mr. House
    37:39 Other Characters & Factions
    39:59 Final Thoughts
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    FALLOUT 4 POINT LOOKOUT MOD
    www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mo...
    MUSIC
    Epidemic Sound
    #fallout #falloutlore #fallout4
  • Ігри

КОМЕНТАРІ • 349

  • @todd2.08
    @todd2.08 2 місяці тому +999

    On the one hand, House would think the game is beneath him
    On the other hand, he is a sucker for pre-war nostalgia

    • @redwiltshire1816
      @redwiltshire1816 2 місяці тому +127

      “The best way to win a war is not to play” house would definitely be the type of guy to follow this

    • @LordDaret
      @LordDaret 2 місяці тому +26

      @@redwiltshire1816he would pull out some figurative popcorn and watch the fireworks.

    • @anthonyst-pierre1435
      @anthonyst-pierre1435 2 місяці тому +2

      Agree ​👍​@@LordDaret

    • @peytongonavy
      @peytongonavy Місяць тому +24

      Then again, if you're a "Tony Stark" kinda guy, maybe competing with contemporaries is just the outlet you're looking for.
      The House Always Wins.

    • @user-fi8im6sd9i
      @user-fi8im6sd9i Місяць тому +7

      House also seems the sort not to play, but also would have many associates who would be involved and be a thorn in House's side, forcing him to be involved

  • @knightspearhead5718
    @knightspearhead5718 2 місяці тому +551

    My guess is that Mobius was the main one part of the Great game in the think tank

    • @UraniumFever76
      @UraniumFever76  2 місяці тому +92

      He seems the most agreeable! It’s interesting would love to learn more about each member as they were pre-war.

    • @attackboss6
      @attackboss6 2 місяці тому +34

      I think morbius was there with his morb orb

    • @thebluemidget4909
      @thebluemidget4909 2 місяці тому +16

      It's not morbin time​@@attackboss6

    • @attackboss6
      @attackboss6 2 місяці тому +3

      @@thebluemidget4909 its morbing time!

    • @Chromatome
      @Chromatome 2 місяці тому +3

      @@thebluemidget4909 It is indeed morbing time.

  • @johnalddrumph456
    @johnalddrumph456 2 місяці тому +434

    I’ve never really thought much about it before but it must be miserable to go from a living breathing human being before the war, to losing your body and becoming nothing more than a brain floating in a jar for hundreds of years in a world completely torn apart and ruined by nukes.

    • @timlaffin6758
      @timlaffin6758 2 місяці тому +70

      As someone with a failing body and more health complications and body aches then i care for, who is currently hoping robot bodys become a thing in my short time left. I gotta say, there are deffinetly atleast a few of us who would love being able to exsist as an unfeeling brain in a jar. Make me a robobrain and start calling me tin can, ill consider it a gift.

    • @XxSTACKxX
      @XxSTACKxX 2 місяці тому +14

      @@timlaffin6758I imagine it would be a total mindfuck. You’d probably be comatose for a while just trying to grasp at what you now are.

    • @tsarfox3462
      @tsarfox3462 2 місяці тому +14

      As the heads in a jar in Futurama said "As a disembodied head in a jar, I envy the dead"

    • @t84t748748t6
      @t84t748748t6 2 місяці тому +5

      being a robobrain whit mine memories intact no problim ore what mr house got going on
      but being just a brain no way to interact whit anything i think u would just break after a amount of time

    • @ErectedGasCan
      @ErectedGasCan 2 місяці тому

      Would prefer to be in that state than current physical state, and i'm not even joking lol

  • @bigdumguy1974
    @bigdumguy1974 2 місяці тому +340

    The Mysterious Stranger is not likely a player in the Great Game.
    That is- if he WAS a time traveler.
    If he was a player with the ability to time travel, he would have went back and killed all other players before the game would have even started.

    • @user-tl3fv5ub6e
      @user-tl3fv5ub6e 2 місяці тому +26

      Also seemingly he can appear out of nowhere, and with the combat skill he has, killing other players seems like a easy feat.

    • @LordDaret
      @LordDaret 2 місяці тому +14

      @@user-tl3fv5ub6emore likely the Mysterious Stranger as a time traveler would be guiding the player specifically. After all you never see him fighting against you in combat, only with you.

    • @user-tl3fv5ub6e
      @user-tl3fv5ub6e 2 місяці тому +5

      @@LordDaret I meant players as in players of the big game. What this video is talking about

    • @somezombie9275
      @somezombie9275 2 місяці тому +6

      But where is the fun in that? Killing your oponent before they become a worthwhile Rival would be terribly boring.

    • @FireFox64000000
      @FireFox64000000 2 місяці тому +2

      Unless of course several of those players are his ancestors and he's not sure which ones.

  • @rikusschulze6249
    @rikusschulze6249 2 місяці тому +322

    "The Great Game" is a euphemism for espionage and covert operations to further the goals of Nations and, sometimes, singular people.
    But it's mostly espionage, sometimes for the sake of espionage.
    Desmond is a fromer agent of some nation and he is hunting down the last couple of adversaries of his time as one before the war, probably to settle old scores.
    I don't know if you knew that, but if you did, you should have mentioned what the great game is.

    • @UraniumFever76
      @UraniumFever76  2 місяці тому +123

      It's more of a nod mate, 'The Great Game' IRL was a very specific conflict between the British and Russian Empires in the 19th century over their holdings in Asia. All done via proxies and espionage and didn't boil over into direct war between them. In Fallout it's clearly a reference to that but doesn't seem to be nation specific, rather its powerful individuals. As Desmond is British I doubt it was a conflict between the US and England.

    • @aa-tr9xt
      @aa-tr9xt 2 місяці тому +27

      @@UraniumFever76 I thought any goodwill between the us and england had worn away by the time of the great war? Am I mistaken? Great video though

    • @UraniumFever76
      @UraniumFever76  2 місяці тому +42

      @@aa-tr9xt Thanks! No you aren't, and I would have to double check this, but from memory the Resource Wars in Europe was mostly infighting between European nations and then taking a leaf of the US's book after invading Mexico, a 'European Commonwealth' invaded the Middle East for resources. After that the US annexed Canada and then obviously the Sino-American war. I think the details are left deliberately light but the inference to me at least, was the UK wouldn't have been much of a player on the international stage compared to the US.

    • @DISTurbedwaffle918
      @DISTurbedwaffle918 2 місяці тому +6

      Everyone has a "Great Game" they play, and some are greater than others.

    • @masteroutlaw100
      @masteroutlaw100 2 місяці тому +8

      @@UraniumFever76 The 'Great Game' in the fallout context likely is a reference to this and would have similarities. We know Desmond is British and likely MI6 and is working against Americans, who weren't on the best of terms with Europe pre war as far as we know. From this it can be assumed through Occams Razor (which is a weapon in fallout 3 btw look it up) that the pre war UK and US were engaged in espionage battles, over what or why though we do not know.

  • @JoshSweetvale
    @JoshSweetvale 21 день тому +34

    I love how the TV show has this exact thing as _the main plot._

    • @Theology.101
      @Theology.101 3 дні тому +1

      Its the main plot of fallout 2 and 3 as well. Its the end state of unregulated capitalism - the State is the Company and the Companies are the state. The Shareholders are Officeholders - ending the resource war with a peace and the introduction of 2 (2!) successful cold fusion generators from both Moldaver and Mass Fusion would have destroyed the political and economic basis of the whole system
      For the Buisnessmen and Government officials, it wad either social revolution leading to their execution, or dropping the bomb and starting fresh

  • @coreywong6229
    @coreywong6229 2 місяці тому +95

    Probably easily one of my favorite ghoul characters. He just give no slags about it.

  • @Shredow2
    @Shredow2 Місяць тому +33

    I strongly feel that the show using the words "The great game" during the corporate cabal meeting with a shadowy figure looking down(representative of the enclave imo) was meant to be a direct reference to this.

    • @waywardvoid
      @waywardvoid Місяць тому +5

      I was thinking about that myself, that maybe these are members of the game or people who found out about the game and started "playing" themselves in hopes of controlling the future if they win.

    • @UraniumFever76
      @UraniumFever76  23 дні тому +8

      I know!! That was a pleasant surprise. I might have to do an update at some point!

    • @nolanmcleod2619
      @nolanmcleod2619 3 дні тому

      ​@@UraniumFever76 yes you certainly should! I'd be back

  • @theULTIMATElife50
    @theULTIMATElife50 2 місяці тому +118

    Considering this and the video EpicNate released, I believe the great game is far larger than even Desmond knows. Shadow governments, aliens, eldritch entities, strangers, and some lucky or unlucky nobodies; who knows how big the great game really is? It may also be a clever way for the devs to pat them selves on the back for the back story they have written.

    • @dominickruziki2281
      @dominickruziki2281 2 місяці тому +1

      What vid did Nate talk about it?

    • @theULTIMATElife50
      @theULTIMATElife50 2 місяці тому +6

      @@dominickruziki2281It is more of the implications of this video and Nates latest video about Dunwich. Also considering how Bethesda likes to write complex background stories that are not directly told to the player but are inferred, an allegory, or played out in a smaller scale for the player to interact with.

    • @ednaldopreira
      @ednaldopreira 2 місяці тому +3

      ​@@theULTIMATElife50
      Writing direct stories: (Bethesda) -I sleep
      Writing Indirect stories: (Bethesda) Real shit

    • @max7971
      @max7971 2 місяці тому

      @@ednaldopreira oh yeah, from gotta find muh dad to gotta find muh son, such an indirect storytelling.

    • @Steelstriker
      @Steelstriker Місяць тому +1

      Tzeentch: JUST AS Planned

  • @mineandforever2877
    @mineandforever2877 2 місяці тому +111

    I love this mod it makes point lookout fresh but still has its classic charm

    • @ErectedGasCan
      @ErectedGasCan 2 місяці тому +1

      Took me a while before i first realised it was a mod, and even longer before my brain accepted it was one. 😂

    • @mineandforever2877
      @mineandforever2877 2 місяці тому

      @@ErectedGasCan same here mate

    • @user-uv2bd7ee3q
      @user-uv2bd7ee3q 2 місяці тому +2

      My PC When I run a single mod: 💨💨🔥

    • @mineandforever2877
      @mineandforever2877 2 місяці тому

      @@user-uv2bd7ee3q I know what you mean I could fry eggs on it

  • @bbttkr
    @bbttkr Місяць тому +77

    I loved that the fallout tv show addressed the great game and what it was but am sad that not many are talking about it. I loved that the great game was as many predicted the great game of survival saying that "you can be the richest person in the world when all other rich people are dead"

    • @Shredow2
      @Shredow2 Місяць тому +17

      People are too busy screeching that the show retconned new vegas. It didn't, but that's what morons think cuz people online told them it did.

    • @bigman9854
      @bigman9854 28 днів тому +8

      @@Shredow2fr if people want this franchise to carry on going places they need to allow it to grow and stop whining

    • @MisterHPlays
      @MisterHPlays 26 днів тому +1

      I didn't even notice! Was it during the secret cabal meeting?

    • @bbttkr
      @bbttkr 26 днів тому +6

      @@MisterHPlays yup the vaulttec mr house meeting

    • @mysticwraith6667
      @mysticwraith6667 21 день тому +3

      ​@Shredow2 It did recon by moving Shady Sands location...but every single Fallout since Fallout 2 has recons so i dunno why the show is such an issue

  • @Grombrindal
    @Grombrindal 2 місяці тому +49

    On the contrary, I think Desmond was a jet addict and was talking bollocks.

    • @silent_hunter515
      @silent_hunter515 2 місяці тому +9

      Lore is weird on that obsidian lore most chems don't work on ghouls like med x and jet
      Then you got Bethesda lore drugs for everyone

    • @silent_hunter515
      @silent_hunter515 2 місяці тому +4

      I think only ultrajet works

    • @jacobchurch2290
      @jacobchurch2290 2 місяці тому +1

      Who else was a jet addict but could tell the future 😮 maybe it helped him since he was a ghoul

  • @DelinquentChibi
    @DelinquentChibi 2 місяці тому +62

    Definitely think House could've been a member of the Great Game. It makes too much sense for a man of his caliber, but I'm not terribly sure about Bradburton. If he truly were a member of the Great Game, he wouldn't have been sidelined by the Walt Disney treatment(I had to make the reference, lol). He would've had plans in place, a wider network or some way to control things.
    That being said, I feel like the Great Game would've had maybe only one person from each nation. Perhaps some sort of Illuminati or Freemason-adjacent shadow organization? Calvert was the American member, Lockhart was the British/U.K. member. Braun could be another one, being the German member, but I don't think he would fit. He's content to play god in his simulation, he has no ulterior motives for the world at large. He doesn't even seem to care about the Vault Experiments themselves, and he's "supposedly" a large driving force behind a lot of them.(I could be confusing actual lore with lore-friendly mods here).
    Of course, if my hypothesis is true, that leaves us to question how many "nations" took part in this Game, but it's a possibility, even if it's a small one.

    • @UraniumFever76
      @UraniumFever76  2 місяці тому +9

      I totally understand what you are saying about Bradberton. What I would say though, is taking in to account what he thought he was getting from this deal; a living biosuit that would allow him to function as normal. He was fiercely competitive and awful lol but how his ambition would have translated to a post-war environment I'm unsure. The Great Game as a concept is a nod to the proxy conflict between the British and Russian empires in the 19th century, but I feel like in Fallout it's more focussed on individuals rather than institutions.

    • @t84t748748t6
      @t84t748748t6 2 місяці тому +8

      bradburton was very close to having his own new vegas hey had a robot army (hey clearly got because hey saw the nukes coming), clone machine , secret science team if hey had enough charisma his former employees turnt ghouls so sad to see the potential wasted of nuka world

    • @jromero9795
      @jromero9795 Місяць тому +1

      After having finished the Fallout show already: 👀👀

    • @UraniumFever76
      @UraniumFever76  Місяць тому +1

      @@jromero9795 looks like I was right about other high ranking Vault-Tec members after all lol

    • @Philweasel
      @Philweasel 2 дні тому +1

      Not all players of the great game were competent, I feel a lot of them, for all their money and political power, forgot they were just men.

  • @JReilly9945
    @JReilly9945 2 місяці тому +9

    House is absolutely the kind of guy who would high-mindedly claim to be above such trivialities, but would absolutely turn all of his power towards it if he found another viable player. Its basically what he does in the Mojave already, he just does it with people and groups that haven't been around as long as him.

  • @derangedtangerine4731
    @derangedtangerine4731 2 місяці тому +23

    I made a theory ages ago that house was part of the great game, I'm glad someone else not only sees the same thing as I but also expands upon it and shines light on things I never thought about.

    • @UraniumFever76
      @UraniumFever76  2 місяці тому +6

      Thanks mate, I think there's a good chance he would have been. But only in terms of protecting his own interests.

  • @nobodynothing282
    @nobodynothing282 2 місяці тому +18

    The occultists are a bigger deal than you gave them credit for though. The greatest disappointment in the community is no New Vegas dlc mod adding the ancient city beneath the Mojave, accessed via the Divide.

    • @UraniumFever76
      @UraniumFever76  2 місяці тому +6

      I do think they are a pretty big deal I just don't think characters like Desmond or Calvert (and presumably other players of the Great Game) would have known how powerful they were or what they were really up to. Dunwich pre-war kept what they were doing very very quiet and the Cabots although very wealthy and influential in Boston society, kept their immortality a secret. Jack faked his own death several times, then posed as a new distant relative to inherit the family property.

  • @leatheryfoot6354
    @leatheryfoot6354 Місяць тому +9

    I love the various ways the contestants of the great game learned how to extend their lifespan. Desmond became a Ghoul, House preserves his whole body, The Think Tank and Prof. Calvert preserve their brains.

  • @Become-Eggplant
    @Become-Eggplant 23 дні тому +4

    Whoever voiced Desmond, is giving me Saint Jiub vibe.

  • @derekmay9717
    @derekmay9717 2 місяці тому +33

    Cabot, think tank, and house. If the story permits maybe someone in the divide if anyone survived. Also he is British. So maybe someone from the other countries as well. Also do program on civil war. NCR vs the east coast bos. Might be a good video.

    • @XSilver_WaterX
      @XSilver_WaterX 2 місяці тому

      Braun probably wouldn't because he's too arrogant to play with others and tricked the General who previously had the resources to build the Vault under threat of convincing-lie, which sadly all Vault were built ON! Barberton, or Mr. Soda in my head, would be beneath notice to many players except to House, Vault Tec Pres and Finance.Advisor, due to their different built minds. This is simply a game of who has the bigger cock and gets to rule the wasteland like a God in their petty delusions while aware that people suffer is actually HAPPINESSS?!

  • @danielsurvivor1372
    @danielsurvivor1372 2 місяці тому +15

    I like the idea IF Mr. House is participant in Desmonds entante game then Mr. House views this as "a simple side quest I can do once Mojave is free from NCR and Legion"
    If Mr. House ending ends up being canon, would be cool to be his employee and help him finish this lil game

    • @UraniumFever76
      @UraniumFever76  2 місяці тому

      Desmond would 100% be a side quest for him haha I am hoping his ending is canon actually.

  • @ineptitude
    @ineptitude 2 місяці тому +34

    I used the “game” as inspiration for a homebrew campaign in NYC. Decided one guy tried FEV to become immortal and now rules the whole enchilada.
    Never could decide on a good name though.

    • @Kurotaisa
      @Kurotaisa 2 місяці тому +5

      The big applesauce

    • @masteroutlaw100
      @masteroutlaw100 2 місяці тому +1

      I'm writing an RPG inspired by the fallout universe where you would play as NASA and have to survive after a nuclear war before escaping to Mars, long story short you'd have spies and assassins after you the whole way trying to get you and the space program back in line

    • @gurdevsingh4356
      @gurdevsingh4356 Місяць тому +3

      Appleopolous
      New new york
      Empire row
      Old Albany
      Cab city
      Gabagool

    • @AreGeeBee
      @AreGeeBee Місяць тому

      Core city

    • @julianbello8376
      @julianbello8376 Місяць тому

      Huh, you might get a thing or 12 out of the deux ex franchise. Hard recommend.

  • @Werewolf_Korra
    @Werewolf_Korra 2 місяці тому +5

    Do you think Desmond agreed to test the intentional ghoulification process on Eddie Winter just so he would know it wouldn't kill him?

    • @UraniumFever76
      @UraniumFever76  2 місяці тому +1

      I could definitely see that being plausible. I would love to know how many people did this, I can only think of two at the moment.

  • @codyc7036
    @codyc7036 Місяць тому +6

    Im interested how Mr house will play a role in season 2 of the show

  • @MentatMan222
    @MentatMan222 2 місяці тому +31

    This is a great video man I love when you discuss lore

    • @UraniumFever76
      @UraniumFever76  2 місяці тому +6

      Really appreciate that mate, got more videos on the way!

    • @MentatMan222
      @MentatMan222 2 місяці тому +4

      @@UraniumFever76 Thats great to hear :)

  • @Gaizaz
    @Gaizaz 2 місяці тому +21

    I'd love to see Desmond in Fallout Lοndon

  • @torav8343
    @torav8343 Місяць тому +14

    So whos here after finishing the show

    • @UraniumFever76
      @UraniumFever76  Місяць тому +3

      I'm glad I posted this video when I did!

    • @torav8343
      @torav8343 Місяць тому +2

      Went that scene played it nuked my mind

    • @TheBIGB420
      @TheBIGB420 29 днів тому

      If you only know fallout because it went to tv then you're not a true fan and don't belong. We don't want you

    • @Panthromise
      @Panthromise 26 днів тому +1

      @@TheBIGB420 cringe, bet you don't bathe or pay taxes.

    • @OwnageMancer
      @OwnageMancer 24 дні тому

      33:53 whoaaaaa i forgot Danny Trejo was in this game

  • @leliel6767
    @leliel6767 Місяць тому +27

    It seems the Fallout Show has finally somewhat awnsered this

  • @brothers_of_nod
    @brothers_of_nod 2 місяці тому +6

    I would like to see more of this part of the lore expanded.

    • @UraniumFever76
      @UraniumFever76  2 місяці тому

      Agreed hoping for something in Fallout 5!

  • @Dalocklear73
    @Dalocklear73 2 місяці тому +6

    21:28 I’ve got 100% on fallout 3 and didn’t know you could see the geck in game

    • @UraniumFever76
      @UraniumFever76  2 місяці тому +1

      Yeah its a bit tricky though as Fawkes normally fetches it for you lol think I had gone back with god mode on to get the shot of it opening up!

  • @Dalocklear73
    @Dalocklear73 2 місяці тому +2

    Fantastic video man, you really brought some new information that I think most people haven’t heard or paid attention too

    • @UraniumFever76
      @UraniumFever76  2 місяці тому

      Thanks mate! Really appreciate that and thank you for checking the video. I really enjoyed making this one, as this questline was one of my favourites.

  • @The-egg-cult.
    @The-egg-cult. 2 місяці тому +27

    When he said limey i intently hated him

    • @UraniumFever76
      @UraniumFever76  2 місяці тому +7

      He sealed his death there for me too lol

    • @spiffygonzales5160
      @spiffygonzales5160 2 місяці тому +4

      That made me love him. Would've sided with the brain if I could lol

    • @nighteye4042
      @nighteye4042 2 місяці тому +2

      ​@@spiffygonzales5160Could you not?

    • @imnotaracistokay
      @imnotaracistokay 2 місяці тому +5

      ​@@nighteye4042 yeah but he backstab you after

    • @nighteye4042
      @nighteye4042 2 місяці тому

      @@imnotaracistokay Ah, never ended that way, didn't know that

  • @fuckedward7117
    @fuckedward7117 2 місяці тому +8

    Great job and great cinematics. More vids like this please.

    • @UraniumFever76
      @UraniumFever76  2 місяці тому +1

      Thank you very much! Hoping to release one every Sunday moving forwards

  • @Ith4qua
    @Ith4qua 2 місяці тому +4

    Oh man, I hope that Desmond is at least referenced in Fallout London.

  • @Protolore
    @Protolore 2 місяці тому +5

    Love it, only through is that Mr. House is still part of the great game. The great game is basically about politics and statecraft, and he runs the whole strip which is really influential.

    • @UraniumFever76
      @UraniumFever76  2 місяці тому +1

      Yeah I could definitely see that being the case! I think he would be as soon as he's wrapped up the business with the platinum chip.

    • @Protolore
      @Protolore 2 місяці тому

      @@UraniumFever76 True, like that would be his way back into the game in ernest.

  • @e31174
    @e31174 2 місяці тому +2

    Great video and it’s kinda neat to have these types of fan theories and thought experiments. I think Bradberton being a part of the great game actually makes some sense. I’d be inline with his character and Desmond does say he needs to “head north” when you last speak to him so I can definitely see that. House tho I really don’t see, he says it himself that he doesn’t care what other people do and just wants to advance the world for what he sees as the better. And while I don’t think everyone out there both in game/lore or even fan wise agree with House’s goals, he doesn’t strike me as someone who would care about something like the Great Game.

    • @UraniumFever76
      @UraniumFever76  2 місяці тому

      Thank you! Appreciate you checking out the video. Bradberton also had his own private army in Nuka World with all of the very advanced robots. I think the next stages of House's plan after New Vegas could include eliminating anyone who would stand in his way of one day building colony ships to escape Earth (interestingly a very similar to the motivation of the Enclave). But yeah don't think it would be like Desmond or Calvert crossing names off a kill list per say lol.

  • @kevind3974
    @kevind3974 Місяць тому +3

    Welp tv shows out and it seems like this vids due an update. We just got a name and face to a bunch of the players

  • @meeplesmcmeep3595
    @meeplesmcmeep3595 2 місяці тому +5

    @thenthapple talked about the great game years ago and this is the only other video I've seen about it since

    • @UraniumFever76
      @UraniumFever76  2 місяці тому

      Did he really? I will have to check his video out! Like you said I havent seen it covered much so would be interested to see what he made of it.

  • @invisiblediscos9412
    @invisiblediscos9412 2 місяці тому +8

    Am I about to replay fallout 3 again just because I don't remember this cool mission from over a decade ago

    • @UraniumFever76
      @UraniumFever76  2 місяці тому

      Hey if you are on PC maybe give the Fallout 4 version a try!

  • @masteroutlaw100
    @masteroutlaw100 2 місяці тому +1

    I think Daniel Littlehorn the guy you meet by taking the Contract Killer perk has a hand in the great game as well, his dialogue when you inquire about why he wants random peoples ears implies as much.

  • @CorvoFG
    @CorvoFG 2 місяці тому +8

    Nice work!

  • @Leisurelee53
    @Leisurelee53 15 днів тому +1

    God i miss Big MT.
    "No! Outside is death!
    Despite mounting evidence to the contrary!"

  • @JanoschNr1
    @JanoschNr1 2 місяці тому +1

    Despite having played F3 100% throu more times than I can remember, I can't recall at all the fact that Calber was able to speak to us via his mind.

  • @tonts5329
    @tonts5329 Місяць тому +1

    The Mysterious Stranger, i think he's just a guy trying to lookout for people. Maybe even some kind of role passed on to different people throughout the post-war wasteland? They potentially stick around the Lone Wanderer/Courier etc as they recognise them as someone very important, a mover/shaker who's changing things up?
    Also amusingly his influence extends past Fallout into other games where similar characters exist, like Middle-Earth: Shadow of War with Forthog Orc-Slayer showing up to save Talion, always mysteriously showing up to help. Just like the stranger.

  • @SHDW-nf2ki
    @SHDW-nf2ki 2 місяці тому +25

    Bethesda had so much potential to use this concept to flesh out pre war america
    but of course they didn't lol

    • @kingofhearts3185
      @kingofhearts3185 2 місяці тому +14

      Like so many other ideas. I'm still pissed they never followed up the Nick/Kellog thing, love far harbor, but wish we got a conclusion there.

  • @RDPendleton
    @RDPendleton 2 місяці тому +7

    I bet Eddie Winter would have played the Game had he not been taken off the board.

    • @UraniumFever76
      @UraniumFever76  2 місяці тому +3

      Yeah not really sure what his goals are post-war. Kind of just surviving I guess?

    • @robertpatter5509
      @robertpatter5509 22 дні тому

      Eddie Winter is not the espionage type or big thinker. He's just a survivor.
      He couldn't even conceive of what the Great Game is.

  • @nhientran4142
    @nhientran4142 2 місяці тому +2

    the mysterious stranger could be a time traveller or a secret organization like they teleport around just like how the institute would and since there is a mysterious magnum in new vegas so might be not prewar

  • @TheTimberwolf44
    @TheTimberwolf44 29 днів тому +2

    I'm not sure if the Fallout show is canon, but a certain scene in that show may refer to the Great Game

  • @Alan_The_Jaguar
    @Alan_The_Jaguar 2 місяці тому +4

    I wonder if the folks of Fallout london will make a nod to old ghoul agent

  • @levongevorgyan6789
    @levongevorgyan6789 2 місяці тому +1

    He was going North after one of his rivals. Maybe there were ideas of making one of the Institute a player of the Great Game that were cut or something? Or maybe he was going after Bradberton before learning that his foe wasn't in the game anymore.

  • @jonathanwatson4484
    @jonathanwatson4484 Місяць тому

    I think Desmound would very much get a lot of information from the think tank, since he could remind them quite strongly about the past, they would tell him everything he need know about lunch codes and other possible players, and I think the goal of the great game is simply to eliminate and neutralise other attendees as the world to them is serve on a silver plate.
    also I can imagine house would be the toughest opponent Desmound would face, house has pretty much succeeded on his own goals, and it very likely house would either give desmound what he wants, or offer the ghoul the opportunity to work with him in the shaping of the world

  • @waxknucklebearingjuice5592
    @waxknucklebearingjuice5592 2 місяці тому +3

    Damn , this guy making a run at ox.... well done sir. Pretty rare i see somebody put out fallout lore content on par with ox...i might prefer this presentation better actually.

    • @UraniumFever76
      @UraniumFever76  2 місяці тому +1

      Thanks a lot mate, that's a really nice comment. Ox is a legend! I'm glad you enjoyed it, working on some more. Hoping to do one a week.

  • @dubfox1691
    @dubfox1691 Місяць тому +3

    I wonder if The Great Game might be some international political shenanigans continued. Our rude Ghoul is a military intelligence agent; the refers to The Great Game as a "microcosm" which is a smaller version of a larger thing (school is a microcosm of society, for example). Perhaps there are a few international movers-and-shakers connected to the intelligence world still trying to bump each other off. Perhaps when he says he's going North, he's going to find his ghoulified opp in Canada? I don't think it's the sort of thing House would get involved in, he is in a totally different gamespace

  • @Markis2bi4
    @Markis2bi4 17 днів тому +1

    I guess the real question I really want to ask is, what does our secret agent Ghoul even want out of this Great Game? Is he just tying off loose ends because they’re all he has left? Or does he believe the people he kills off are potential, existential threats to Humanity in the long run?

  • @erikmory6910
    @erikmory6910 2 місяці тому +2

    The Cabot Family definitely were players especially Lorenzo and Jack.

  • @natebit8130
    @natebit8130 2 місяці тому +2

    I'd love to see more videos of this nature.

    • @UraniumFever76
      @UraniumFever76  2 місяці тому +1

      Working on the next one at the moment!

  • @urfavwhtboy
    @urfavwhtboy 2 місяці тому +2

    Love the channel bro♥️

    • @UraniumFever76
      @UraniumFever76  2 місяці тому

      Thanks mate! Appreciate you checking the video

  • @dreamingflurry2729
    @dreamingflurry2729 2 місяці тому +2

    A bit of a pickle, hm? I see what you did there ;) - Well done!

  • @leminjapan
    @leminjapan Місяць тому

    This video just shows how awesome the voice acting is in the game

  • @silent_hunter515
    @silent_hunter515 2 місяці тому +3

    God i love these vids they help me sleep

  • @humanmale1042
    @humanmale1042 17 днів тому +1

    Maybe the great game was pre war espionage, and this is the last of those involved settling who’s gonna live

  • @Unit-3475
    @Unit-3475 Місяць тому +1

    It seems to me that if Robert House was a player in the Great Game, then at some point he said:
    “Not bad, I guess I’ll pass.”.
    And left his seat at the table to play his game on the sidelines.
    Or perhaps (given his character it is more than possible) - he always played a game of his own, not wanting to be part in the delusional projects of the Enclave and Vault-Tec (and others).

  • @AllpostsFilms
    @AllpostsFilms 2 місяці тому +5

    Mr House is my favourite character in fallout, definitely the best faction to side with!

  • @jessep5280
    @jessep5280 Місяць тому

    I'm more curious to know where Desmond went after.
    He mentions going north to pursue his next target, and I've always been so curious about that. Almost as if it is some kind of long tease. Plus, he's a ghoul, so we may yet see him in the future.
    I hope so, as I've always had a soft spot for no-nonsense, hard-ass characters like Desmond.

  • @nowsmile790
    @nowsmile790 Місяць тому +2

    I believe there is one person you might’ve forgotten that is not on the list the name to add to your list of people who might’ve been a participant in the great game I believe a good candidate was Frederick Sinclair He had lots of political and financial power as well as many things I believe he would personally fit in perfectly.

  • @castfivestreaming9673
    @castfivestreaming9673 Місяць тому +1

    Good vid I'm thinking about subbing

  • @MetaSynForYourSoul
    @MetaSynForYourSoul 2 місяці тому +3

    What about Tenpenny? I know it does not really fit him, but u think, especially with three easy he treats the people below his tower, he feels like a player.

    • @UraniumFever76
      @UraniumFever76  2 місяці тому +1

      I think he would be a post-war player for sure. He has some seriously big ambitions for the Wasteland.

    • @MetaSynForYourSoul
      @MetaSynForYourSoul 2 місяці тому

      @@UraniumFever76 Yeah. Maybe more players got added.

    • @lord0jackostar
      @lord0jackostar Місяць тому

      I feel like there’s two Games running in sync. The Pre-War Game, with Desmond and the other survivors. It’s got a shrinking player group, and they all play for keeps. The Post-War Game is possibly what Tenpenny is playing. A different group of players, with the same motivations but maybe slightly less “at any cost” survival instincts. I can’t see Tenpenny ghoulifing himself just to get an edge on the others; but there’s multiple Pre-War individuals that did horrific things to themselves to see the other side of the war and keep going.
      I feel like the Pre-Game players have a slight superiority complex over the Post-Game players, like grown adults or old survivors of crime families watching children play at Cops & Robbers.

  • @th3fish
    @th3fish 2 місяці тому

    I never really enjoyed the point lookout dlc but its nice that it has deep lore connections

  • @NVY-Krom
    @NVY-Krom 2 місяці тому +5

    masterpiece

    • @TheBearInTheChair
      @TheBearInTheChair 2 місяці тому +2

      I made so many moonshine runs to Point lookout

    • @UraniumFever76
      @UraniumFever76  2 місяці тому +2

      Thank you! Point Lookout is one of my favourite DLCs

    • @NVY-Krom
      @NVY-Krom 2 місяці тому +1

      @@UraniumFever76 fallout 3 is easily my favorite games, keep up the content man its class

  • @Werewolf_Korra
    @Werewolf_Korra 2 місяці тому +2

    Now I'm imagining all these pre-war movers and shakers meeting at a gala or something a few months before the War.
    Bradberton and House were just about to get put into their coccoons, Desmond was toying with radiation treatments, and everyone else was thinking about the best way to put their brain in a jar.

    • @UraniumFever76
      @UraniumFever76  2 місяці тому

      Mate haha that's a great image. Would love there to be a pre-war scene in something like that at some point. Maybe in the tv show? I'm sure all these characters would have brushed shoulders at some point.

  • @RememberHisLove
    @RememberHisLove Місяць тому +1

    We wouldn't be so lucky to have a good central plot for Fallout 5.
    No, Bethesda will have to remind us again how much they really want to make another Terminator game with the base game and leave all the good bits for DLCs...

  • @advocatusdiaboli9971
    @advocatusdiaboli9971 2 місяці тому +1

    The Mysterious stranger is, obviously, the god emperor of mankind (to be).

  • @Admiralofthedeeps
    @Admiralofthedeeps 2 місяці тому +1

    This was a great video.

    • @UraniumFever76
      @UraniumFever76  2 місяці тому

      Thanks very much! Appreciate you checking it out 😊

  • @dragonsnail3298
    @dragonsnail3298 21 день тому +1

    What makes a gifted killer like you into a hardened badass like me?!
    Radiation?

  • @tjbarke6086
    @tjbarke6086 19 днів тому +1

    House may not personally seek to abuse others, his ideology is nonetheless abusive through its callous negligence.

  • @TransFemcell
    @TransFemcell 2 місяці тому +1

    There should have been an option to turn the Nuka-Cola guy into a synth now that I think about it

  • @killerboy99100
    @killerboy99100 22 дні тому +1

    what pistol mod are you using? that thing looks awesome

  • @VAULT-TEC_INC.
    @VAULT-TEC_INC. Місяць тому +2

    The “y” is silent in pronouncing “Maryland.” So it’s like, “MARE-lynn’D”

    • @illwill6080
      @illwill6080 Місяць тому +1

      Simular to how you properly pronounce Baltimore its pronounced baldmore people from Maryland seem to hate the I sound

  • @junkmail3947
    @junkmail3947 Місяць тому +1

    I just finished watching The fallout show and I think there's a reference to the great game in there

  • @TheDarthWarlok
    @TheDarthWarlok 2 місяці тому

    It's possible Bradberton and General Braxton were players in the game, from what Desmond said about sabotaging the presidential cantidate it's possible it was going on pre-war

  • @krivexyt5986
    @krivexyt5986 2 місяці тому +4

    Is the proffesor's voice the same one as the one that does the Darlek one??

    • @UraniumFever76
      @UraniumFever76  2 місяці тому +1

      Nicholas Briggs? I don't think so but I will check!

  • @Dodge_this
    @Dodge_this 2 місяці тому

    I love the swamp people, hillbilly ogres are pretty funny. Anyway I think Mr House is obviously a good pick for the great game when you first think about it......however, the longer you think the less sense it seems to make, I doubt House would care to play deeming it unworthy of his attention, house also makes it clear what his goals for the post war world were and how he wants to achieve them

  • @ravenoferin500
    @ravenoferin500 Місяць тому

    Is it just me or does the "You will suffer. You will all suffer." Line sound like it's a reference to Jon in BG2?

  • @brandonl7759
    @brandonl7759 23 дні тому +1

    Lol as someone from Maryland id like to clear up a common misconception with its pronunciation. Its Mare-lend, ive heared people from the US call it Mary-land so you're not alone 😂

    • @UraniumFever76
      @UraniumFever76  23 дні тому +1

      Lol I've learnt the hard way! Of course its one those where in the UK we also have a Maryland (multiple) and is definitely not pronounced like that. But you've got to go with the one in question! I will be making sure to get that right in future!

    • @brandonl7759
      @brandonl7759 23 дні тому +1

      @@UraniumFever76 haha it's really no big deal, thats cool that yall have Marylands too!

  • @Adam_TG
    @Adam_TG Місяць тому +1

    What about Dean Domino? Could he be a player in the Great Game as well?

  • @jakeking974
    @jakeking974 28 днів тому +3

    "his business is beyond my understanding"
    >I have 11 INT
    I doubt that
    *I shoot Desmond in the face for withholding information*

  • @AeonAxisProductions
    @AeonAxisProductions 3 години тому

    I guess all the residents from vault 31, and cooper Howard would be considered players in the game, though for cooper he has no idea it’s a game

  • @rottenspooks3518
    @rottenspooks3518 Місяць тому

    I've actually never heard the theory that The Mysterious Stranger is a time traveller before

  • @KefkeWren
    @KefkeWren 2 місяці тому +4

    I think that the Mysterious Stranger has his explanation in Fallout 76...specifically through the Order of Mysteries. Although the agents of their group were all women, we see a similarity in the weapons, tactics, and even the name given to the Mysterious Stranger. I would be willing to bet that the Mysterious Stranger is actually a group, and that they either come from survivors of the betrayal of the Order - possibly even Frederick Rivers, the sole male member - or someone who found the Order's headquarters later, as the player does, and copied their tech and training.

  • @jayboog740
    @jayboog740 2 місяці тому +1

    absolute banger‼️‼️🔥

    • @UraniumFever76
      @UraniumFever76  2 місяці тому +1

      Thanks mate!! Appreciate you checking it out

  • @movarie
    @movarie Місяць тому +1

    the strangers are a group and they come to the aid of those who will one day join them.

  • @sonicninja3434
    @sonicninja3434 2 місяці тому +2

    Neat!

  • @bryantronan4480
    @bryantronan4480 Місяць тому

    Oh shit he’s playing the point look out remaster mod 👀

  • @lord0jackostar
    @lord0jackostar Місяць тому

    I feel like there’s two Games running in sync. The Pre-War Game, with Desmond and the other survivors. It’s got a shrinking player group, and they all play for keeps. The Post-War Game is possibly what Tenpenny and a few others are playing. A different group of players, with the same motivations but maybe slightly less “at any cost” survival instincts. I can’t see Tenpenny ghoulifing himself just to get an edge on the others; but there’s multiple Pre-War individuals that did horrific things to themselves to see the other side of the war and keep going.
    I feel like the Pre-Game players have a slight superiority complex over the Post-Game players, like grown adults or old survivors of crime families watching children play at Cops & Robbers.

  • @TheStephenation
    @TheStephenation Місяць тому +1

    Jack Cabot would have dabbled in this "great game" if only for the sake of checking threats against his own plans. Lorenzo Cabot was taken off the board long before the bombs dropped, but if he is set free, that changes.

  • @thetrashmammal7389
    @thetrashmammal7389 25 днів тому

    Him mentioning "im going north" feeds into my harebrained theory that the next fallout game could be set in the northern midwest/southern canada. What other evidence do i have for that you might ask? Literally nothing else aside from the map of all the vaults in the fallout show showing a cluster of vaults around the great lakes and one or two in canada.

  • @tobbekre
    @tobbekre Місяць тому

    Holup a sec, the point lookout mod... i do hope (yet doubt that) theyll be adding a dating mechanic so that i can... i mean, so that One can finally get it on with Desmond!

  • @lojones1636
    @lojones1636 2 місяці тому +1

    all are participants in the great work

  • @Paddyman8869
    @Paddyman8869 2 місяці тому +1

    In the end there can be only one

  • @kennyayy8949
    @kennyayy8949 Місяць тому

    I always just thought it was a reference to Highlander aha

  • @dylantomney2909
    @dylantomney2909 2 місяці тому +2

    I never ever knew about Meat of champions holy shit

    • @UraniumFever76
      @UraniumFever76  2 місяці тому

      Yeah its an interesting one that! There's about 4 people you need to cannibalise I think will need to check.