The Fall of the Fiends: Exploring the Dark Side of the Mojave

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  • @Maxsmack
    @Maxsmack Рік тому +30

    killing cook cook and showing betsy is a must for every playthrough just like killing saint james

    • @ShadowXII
      @ShadowXII 4 місяці тому +3

      Even on Legion runs, this is a must.

  • @xXMrPocketsXx
    @xXMrPocketsXx Рік тому +46

    I love killing the Fiends. So much early Exp from just clearing out west side

    • @N_orte
      @N_orte  Рік тому +5

      theyre quite weak

  • @Jacob_Tribal
    @Jacob_Tribal Рік тому +79

    Just hard to believe a whole group of people thought it was a good idea to leave their lifeline the entrance unguarded

    • @tinaherr3856
      @tinaherr3856 Рік тому +21

      Naivete combined with being shielded in the safe Vault, can do it

    • @tinaherr3856
      @tinaherr3856 Рік тому +4

      @@nevermindmeijustinjectedaw9988 I believe that they were referring to the Vault dweller of Vault 3. Not the Fiends.

  • @DarknessViper99
    @DarknessViper99 Рік тому +260

    Much like the Powder Gangers, you can hardly feel sorry for this faction.

    • @drunkenmmamaster419
      @drunkenmmamaster419 Рік тому +15

      I mean is anyone really evil in a lawless apocalypse? You need to think more and put yourself in their shoes , the apocalypse has no time for being a "good person" all the good people are unalived

    • @Cat-uv7dy
      @Cat-uv7dy Рік тому +109

      Yes. They are. They don’t only do it because they need to survive, they do it because they enjoy it. Also, this part of the wasteland is anything but lawless

    • @cherry9787
      @cherry9787 Рік тому +62

      ​@@drunkenmmamaster419 Bro, they're all psychopaths

    • @komiks42
      @komiks42 Рік тому +36

      They are worse han powder gangers. Not every powder ganger was doing what he did because he enjoy it.

    • @mjkrh
      @mjkrh Рік тому

      @@drunkenmmamaster419 They are not doing anything constructive and they are not even "surviving" in wasteland psychopaths taking chems they will die soon but kill others in the meantime.......it's just destructive overall and objectively bad for literally everyone involved except drug dealers.

  • @Joshwa96
    @Joshwa96 Рік тому +22

    "This lore is the darkest of the franchise" maaan I could think of several darker lores. Especially experimentation, FEV and enclave atrocities.

    • @Spongebrain97
      @Spongebrain97 Рік тому +12

      The quest with Corporal Betsy involving Cook Cook and the fiends is pretty dark though. Probably the most Iv seen in a more "modern" game

    • @mappingshaman5280
      @mappingshaman5280 Рік тому +6

      If you doubt the darkness of the fiends head over to aerotech refugee Park and talk to the ncr officer. He'll give you a really easy quest. Do it.

    • @colddaze6680
      @colddaze6680 9 місяців тому +3

      ​@@mappingshaman5280definitely fiends have to be most scummy gang in Fallout.

  • @John.McMillan
    @John.McMillan Рік тому +44

    Your thumbnail made me remember how fun the Snarling Imperialist perk is and now I have to do another playthrough. Damn you.

    • @kotzpenner
      @kotzpenner Рік тому +8

      Put a cap in General Gobbledegook

    • @scrappydoo7887
      @scrappydoo7887 Рік тому +7

      Isn't it Sneering Imperialist?

    • @changvasejarik62
      @changvasejarik62 6 місяців тому +2

      @@scrappydoo7887both are true if you’re doing it right.

    • @scrappydoo7887
      @scrappydoo7887 6 місяців тому +1

      @@changvasejarik62 lol I guess you are right 👍

  • @MikefromTexas1
    @MikefromTexas1 Рік тому +196

    Can you imagine growing up in a Vault, barely even knowing what violence is, only to watch everyone you've ever loved get raped and slaughtered repeatedly.
    Damn.

    • @wadezabel5306
      @wadezabel5306 Рік тому

      ​@Jοe Biden THATS MY FUCKING PRESIDENT 🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥🔥

    • @dominicsouthern7672
      @dominicsouthern7672 Рік тому +5

      @Jοe Biden i agree Mr. President!

    • @N_orte
      @N_orte  Рік тому +20

      id rather not imagine that tyvm

    • @hatake1990
      @hatake1990 Рік тому +3

      ​@@N_orte forreal😅

    • @hatake1990
      @hatake1990 Рік тому +12

      Was definitely super niave to not exit the vault with some form of security. That's one of those, "I'd rather have it and not need it, than need it and not have it" situations haha.

  • @brothers_of_nod
    @brothers_of_nod Рік тому +41

    It always feels good destroying the fiends.

  • @ConorMceee
    @ConorMceee Рік тому +8

    I think I've gone on a mission and just wiped the fiends out in all but one of my many playthroughs. I didn't even know there was quests linked to them other than the bounties from Camp McCarran for a long time...

  • @TycoonTitian01
    @TycoonTitian01 Рік тому +30

    Honestly the depth of this faction is insane, I just killed them because I took the west route to the strip and they shot at me

    • @concept5631
      @concept5631 Рік тому +2

      You did the Mojave a surface and didn't even know it.

  • @Matt-md5yt
    @Matt-md5yt Рік тому +32

    Nice topic. Love the talk about raiders

  • @solobro4208
    @solobro4208 Рік тому +6

    I didn’t even realize this was uploaded 10 minutes ago 😂

  • @loopernoodling
    @loopernoodling Рік тому +8

    I'm replaying right now, and a while back some NCR guy asked me to rescue someone from Vault 3, I think. can't remember any names. But... the quest marker didn't come up.
    I went in Vault 3 anyway, found some prisoners and left them go, and killed everyone.
    Later on, I was supposed to give some illicit goods to Motor Runner, but he was dead!
    That was a botched quest for me,
    (I should have gone back to an earlier save and tried again - but I've only just thought of that!).

    • @TY-km8hj
      @TY-km8hj Рік тому +2

      Yhh pretty sure ur on about the captured rangers. Its a quest but not one with a marker not to sure why tho

    • @Zarlos01
      @Zarlos01 Рік тому +2

      I find it funny that you can deliver the package from the khans, completing their quest, and kill Motor Runner immediately after.

    • @TY-km8hj
      @TY-km8hj Рік тому +1

      @@Zarlos01 this is the way

    • @N_orte
      @N_orte  Рік тому +3

      yeah, you need to do some of the quests in a certain order to not get locked out. you can see that in the video where the quest "Aba Daba Honeymoon" fails after i merk motor runner.

    • @colddaze6680
      @colddaze6680 9 місяців тому +1

      ​@@N_orte Know what you mean. Though seems a bit schizo for a player to do drug runs for Khan's, then in the next minute work for NCR. If I work for NCR, pretty much are on their side for a whole game. Imagine I've joined up for a whole playthrough. If I do drug runs for Khan's, then I imagine I joined up, and stay in their colours for a whole playthrough with different character. Seems way more consistent, immersive that way.

  • @robertjohn6585
    @robertjohn6585 Рік тому +3

    Ah yes, the story of vault 3... forever proving the rule of "Speak softly and carry a big stick".

  • @krzosu
    @krzosu Рік тому +2

    1:18 - Um not exacly - there were at least 3 vaults in New Vegas - the one on the strip, the vault 3 - and then there is the one under lucky 38
    and in general new vegas area there were at least several more,
    vault 22,
    securitron vault under the fort,
    enclave remnant bunker,
    vault 34,
    Hidden Valley
    The abandoned BOS bunker (the entrance to dead money dlc)

  • @groovemedium
    @groovemedium Рік тому +1

    You had me at "Stay away from West Side!"

  • @babycarrotz32
    @babycarrotz32 Рік тому +11

    Underrated UA-camr. I hope you get more recognition. Hope to see more videos soon.

  • @timothyharris1125
    @timothyharris1125 Рік тому +14

    St.James might be the absolute worst character in the entirety of the Fallout franchise, he just straights up molests children before he sells them to unsavory people.

    • @N_orte
      @N_orte  Рік тому +4

      yeah. its quite dark

    • @timothyharris1125
      @timothyharris1125 Рік тому +7

      @@N_orte That whole story involving him and Dermott was basically human trafficking in a nutshell. St. James was just morally Bankrupt, Hell even Cook-Cook had a favorite animal. Then the game gives you the option to put them down like the animals they turned out to be even before reporting the crime. I slay them everytime I play.

  • @scrappydoo7887
    @scrappydoo7887 Рік тому +9

    I must have binge watched about thirty hours of your content 😂
    Excellent work 👍

    • @N_orte
      @N_orte  Рік тому +6

      that means a lot scrappy doo. thank you

  • @theguybehindyou4762
    @theguybehindyou4762 Рік тому +2

    Alternate title: “Exploring the green side of grass”

  • @nickgennady
    @nickgennady Рік тому +1

    Imagine the NCR where everyone has a gun can’t kill guy with a guy a golf club.

  • @jerichohill487
    @jerichohill487 Рік тому +3

    Great video. Really enjoyed it

  • @rootin222
    @rootin222 Рік тому +2

    The fiends are just a crack headed version of the NCR or Legion tbh

  • @andrews.4780
    @andrews.4780 Рік тому +6

    Excellent video as always bro! I never really anticipated that the Fiends were the most savage Raider group.

    • @N_orte
      @N_orte  Рік тому +2

      cheers Andrew! yeah, the fiends are quite messed up

  • @concept5631
    @concept5631 Рік тому +2

    Let's all take a moment to acknowledge the suffering the vault 3 dwellers were subject to.

  • @FancyJesus666
    @FancyJesus666 Рік тому +5

    As someone from Utah it bothers me more than it should that every fallout UA-camr pronounces Nephi as na-phi instead of nee-phi like it should be pronounced

    • @N_orte
      @N_orte  Рік тому +2

      a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet

  • @inductivegrunt94
    @inductivegrunt94 Рік тому +15

    Yeah, you can't feel sympathy for these guys. They are basically like the Powder Gangers but even less redeemable. So it's good that they die out or are incredibly reduced in almost every ending.

    • @drunkenmmamaster419
      @drunkenmmamaster419 Рік тому

      No one cares about being the "good guy" in the apocalypse 😂 survival of the fittest and kill or be killed kid no one cares about who's good or evil

  • @shadesofslay
    @shadesofslay Рік тому +10

    I always felt a mix of sympathy and frustration towards the Vault 3 dwellers. I will (probably years from now) get around to my own lore video on this topic, but I’ve got a lotttttttt of content to get through first 😂 but yeah. Loved the vid.

  • @Voltaic_Fire
    @Voltaic_Fire Рік тому +1

    Another great video!

  • @Jaysin412
    @Jaysin412 Рік тому +4

    Awesome! Never this early!

  • @st.anselmsfire3547
    @st.anselmsfire3547 Рік тому +10

    I love how you can easily reboot your reputation in New Vegas by massacring Fiends.
    One thing that always kind of bothered me about this game was how most Fiend quests were kind of a joke. Three Card Bounty, for one, was one of those, "I need a cheap way to get in good with the NCR" quests. They aren't nearly as hard as their reputation would imply.

    • @justinchoy476
      @justinchoy476 Рік тому +4

      i don't know about you but my first time playing fallout nv it was genuinely difficult fighting fiends thanks to their better equipment compared to mine and their numbers.

    • @colddaze6680
      @colddaze6680 9 місяців тому +1

      I know what you mean. Nephi and Violet were easy, for me anyway even at lower levels. I'd snipe their crew ,then take em out one v one. The way they go on about Nephi and his golf club you would think he's some kind of raider Lanius. Not even. I gave him fair melee fight , even went unarmed against him ( with no ramped up unarmed stats) . Put him down easy enough. Cook- cook is the only one that is any real kind of dangerous out of the 3. Even after you snipe his crew.

  • @Scatt2k7
    @Scatt2k7 Рік тому +1

    Killing the fiends is the easiest and best decision in game hate the lot of them especially cook cook, i might have to redownload FONV thanks 😅.

  • @padraigdowney7407
    @padraigdowney7407 Рік тому +2

    What it the easiest way to kill a deathclaw in fallout 3

    • @timothyharris1125
      @timothyharris1125 Рік тому +3

      Get a dart gun and shoot it, also their bellies are weak to gunfire due to not being armored.

    • @padraigdowney7407
      @padraigdowney7407 Рік тому +1

      @@timothyharris1125 thank you.

    • @scrappydoo7887
      @scrappydoo7887 Рік тому +1

      Alien blaster

    • @lunaseur327
      @lunaseur327 Рік тому +1

      Dart gun, spray face and stomach with combat Shotgun

  • @flumasks
    @flumasks Рік тому

    Real

  • @MersadieOlit0n
    @MersadieOlit0n Рік тому +1

    This is why i hate fallout 4 In NV every thing ever faction felt like it was apart of the story & khow you dealt with them affected the overall world, fllout 4 just felt like groups was just dumped in the world for you to have something to do

    • @ivog2256
      @ivog2256 Рік тому

      I agree, NV was better

  • @ivog2256
    @ivog2256 Рік тому

    No way hsu is pronounced Shoo lmao, I’ve been saying H-Soo for years

  • @lightbluej9411
    @lightbluej9411 Рік тому +1

    i’m wayyyy to early

  • @coleforbes6268
    @coleforbes6268 Рік тому

    3rd

  • @therakshasan8547
    @therakshasan8547 Рік тому +4

    Vault 3 : The Woke vault .

  • @drunkenmmamaster419
    @drunkenmmamaster419 Рік тому

    Is anyone evil in the apocalypse? They do what they had to survive 🤷‍♂️
    Its darwanism in the fallout universe either adapt or die no time for being the morality police 🤷‍♂️

    • @cherry9787
      @cherry9787 Рік тому +24

      They're literal psychopaths.

    • @filmandfirearms
      @filmandfirearms Рік тому

      Dude, the Fiends murder, rape, rob, and burn everything the innocent civilians of the Mojave have. They are drugged up lunatics who care for nothing but destruction. Even the Powder Gangers are more moral than them, at least they're just in it for the money. Even if New Vegas was set days after the bombs dropped, the Fiends would still be evil, but it isn't. It's over 200 years later. There are advanced modern civilizations capable of rivaling the old world. The Fiends are so monstrous, they don't even get a faction reputation system, because every single faction wants them dead

    • @derekk2666
      @derekk2666 Рік тому +23

      they do the shit they do for fun how is that not evil?

    • @spookydonutghosthouse
      @spookydonutghosthouse Рік тому

      They literally murder and rape for fun?

    • @komiks42
      @komiks42 Рік тому +10

      Sure, noone is "truly evil", but thats a band of brutal junkies that kill, steal, and propably do other disqusting things, because they want drugs. Seem pretty evil to me

  • @matthewgood1873
    @matthewgood1873 Рік тому

    I love your channelsl sir plz keep it up.