Fallout’s Best Skeleton Stories | Fallout Lore
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- Опубліковано 5 чер 2024
- The Skeletons of Fallout tell many stories.
From chilling environmental storytelling to popular culture easter eggs, their presence is sometimes woven into to some of the greatest and saddest Fallout stories of all.
In todays video we are taking a look at some of the best storytelling skeletons found in-game.
TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Introduction
00:39 Fallout 3
08:44 Fallout: New Vegas
19:54 Fallout 4
25:59 Fallout 76
30:42 Final Thoughts
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This is spookier than when I first learned that skeletons are inside people.
They ARE
That is spooky you are right
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Says who?
Futurama Not rick and morty
Criminal error as I even had the footage 😂 oh dear…
@UraniumFever76 no worries it happens
Sorry dawg it'sallover now😂 jk
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Lmao I absolutely thought it was intentional considering you played the actual clip lol
I think the underwater T-rex is actually a reference to Mean Girls, specifically the line "And on the third day, God created the Remington bolt-action rifle, so that man could fight the dinosaurs. And the homosexuals."
God bless
O.o
The problem with the theory is that it is a lever action rifle, in a twist of fate, is actually operated by a mechanical lever. Also three has a bolt action rifle, the hunting rifle.
I think its from Jurassic park
@@justsomeguy9700 Jurassic world maybe. Jurassic Park's famous weapon is the SPAS-12
Sinclair: "Yeah, I've tried everything."
Vault-Tech-Support: "Did you try turning it on and-
Sinclair: _"YESITRIEDTURNINGITONANDOFF!!!"_
Vault-Tech-Support: "Did you try pipe access from section 1B?"
Sinclair: "That place is a death trap to get to, and how are pipes gonna help me with the computer prob-
Vault-Tech-Support: _"Did you try pipe access from section 1B?"_
Sinclair: "UGH! _Fine!_ Please hold, I'll be right back!"
- 200 years later -
Vault-Tech-Support: * skeleton wearing a headset, with his arms folded, sitting in front of a computer *
Haha he really managed to do a number on the Vault! Very poor from Sinclair
my favorite skeletons were the ones that you'd walk over and would spazz out, flipping around, then dealing massive damage to you and killing you instantly
That sound is imprinted in my brain. Always get that glitch in Fallout 4.
Oh yeah, same like that stupid red corvega synth! God damn those spaghetti code!
@@UraniumFever76Always happened to me more in 3 and NV 😂
@@UraniumFever76 it isn't a glitch sir, Todd calls them....."features"
Your forget the most important one from the original Fallout:
"You see Ed. Ed's dead."
In Fallout 4 there's a skeleton in a bathtub surrounded by Mannequin's holding Machete's in one of the buildings in Concord.
Seymour is a reference to a "Futurama" episode called "Jurassic Bark" not Rick and Morty. Rick and Morty wasn't even created yet when fallout 3 was released
the video showed futurama but he said rick and morty LMAO
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And Seymour is in New Vegas, not 3 ;)
This was at Fallout New Vegas
The Survivalist's story never fails to make me emotional. The man who had everything taken from him twice no- thrice over and decided to foster new life in this canyon until the day he finally succumbed to the spores. Everytime I played Honest Hearts, I always get his armour first (because they were cool but also) to honour his memory and legacy
Such a good story to discover. I always enjoy diving back into the New Vegas DLC's for footage!
The survivalist is a true paragon of humanity. He ensured a group of humans' survival in the spirit of saving the human race, and being as altruistic as possible up to the very end. Dealt with intense loneliness and grief instead of committing suicide because he could still help others in the world.
Truly one of the greatest side stories in the series
The saddest one (for me at least) is a grave in Fallout 76 not a skeleton but it's marked by toy blocks with the name Angel spelled out. I screenshot it and it makes me kind of sad every time it pops up when the game starts. However, the funniest skeleton to me in Fallout 76 is of a lady who apparently died doing "snow angels" in nuka-Cola bottles 👌
I don't know that one! Do you know where it is? Appreciate you checking out the video as well!
@@UraniumFever76 The grave that spells my angel is just under the East kanawa Tower...facing Westish
Oh man, there's one in Fallout 4, I believe in the automotive junk yard, where in a bunker, you can find a set of skeletons. Two children buried in a dug out opening through the bunker wall, and two parents with rat poison next to them. The surrounding terminals before, then after you enter, tell a hopeful, but ultimately grim story.
I'll spare the details as to not spoil it, but out of all the human remains that have a story, this one hit me the hardest outside of Randall Clark and maybe one or two others. It's short, but tragic. Had to stand there and process it a while. Whoever wrote it did a great job. I still think about it almost 10 years later.
Oops, he did mention it in this video! It's the miller family. Sorry, I was cleaning my shop while listening to this and must have missed that section.
@@NautilusGuitars That's alright! All great picks mate, really stick with you.
I love that Cooper Howard poster even more now.
This is literally one of the reasons I love fallout, the environmental story telling. Coming across one of these skeletons and trying to Sherlock solve the mystery of what happened. Then finding the notes/terminals with lore to confirm your theory! The BEST gaming experiences I've had!
Hold on. Fallout was originally going to have time traveling dinosaurs? I need to hear more about this
Bro that’s not scratching the surface, There is a game called Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel which is by the worst fallout game in history even worst than 76, there was Fallout Extreme a cancelled game where you play a rouge faction of Brotherhood who you were going to fight with teammates A Corrupt Brotherhood, Native Americans Shamans,a Mongolian horde, and A Chinese Emperor who lead a army of remnants of China Red Army to invade Alaska.
Trust me when I say that Fallout has always been this wacky.
@@mi-lo4ec I heard of that game. I plan to see a walkthrough sometime. Also I'm well aware the series has always been whacky
@@mi-lo4ec also need a video on that canceled game now
@@mi-lo4ec fallout 76 isn't that bad ok, it's a whole lot better now
@@danteinpuro319 yeah ur right should of say 76 launch
“Hey, who turned out the lights?” Nice Doctor Who reference there.
Seymor fossilized dog is futurama not rick and morty.
When he said that my blood pressure went through the roof! Futurama is my jam.
Editing is hard lol
Since its story takes place mere minutes before the Great War, I've always considered the 'skeleton stories' to hit more in Fallout 4 than they did in other games.
Big John's Salvage was a soul crusher as seeing your whole family suffocate and die is heartbreaking enough, but having to dig a grave for your two young children near where you sleep then dying there with your spouse must have been absolute Hell for them.
One you didn't cover was the girl at the lone cabin (Forgot what it's called) neat Red Rocket Truck Shop and Concord. The girl ran away from home after having an argument with her parents because she found out she was pregnant, and considering how her holotape goes it is implied her boyfriend doesn't know. Being alone with an expecting child can be very stressful for a girl to say the very least, but to spend the last few minutes of human civilization alone before the bombs dropped... must have been more than depressing.
Another that's not covered in the video is the story of the man who lost the woman he loved in an unmentioned accident. Dude lived in a small house north of Hardware Town and east of Vault 81. It was where he met her, where they fell in love, and ventured out into the Wasteland before she died and returned to the same house to live the rest of his days. The only mementos he has of her is a locket and (I assume) a brahmin since he cares about her wellbeing enough to build a contraption to get rid of bugs. Finds out he dropped the locket in the (Heavily irradiated) lake after scaring bugs off harassing his brahmin, he dives into the waters to find it as he had near nothing left to lose. Due to the radiation, he died but not before he was able to find the locket and hold it tight in his hand and close to his chest. Not as depressing as Big John's Salvage or the girl who ran away from home, but it a sad one that in some ways had closure. This one took place post-War but I felt in needed to be mentioned.
I think the Miller family might be a little nod to the Signal Oscar Zulu from 3 as well. Both really well done little narratives (gut-wrenching too). I don't know the Red Rocket one - is that in 4 as well? I did think I went a little light on Fallout 4's as I was rushing a bit by the end lol. Got some more cooking at the moment that I'm excited to get started with.
Appreciate you checking the video as well mate!
@@UraniumFever76 Yo, a part 2? That would be splendid.
@@UraniumFever76I found the girl myself just the other day. It's very close to the Red Rocket station, I believe you go straight out from the cave behind the station to locate it, but I need to wait till I get home to verify. No skeleton, just the holotape, but it's actually voice recorded as well.
There is also one in fallout 4 of two people commiting a bank robbery just before the bombs drop. The most amount of pre war money I have seen in stacks since point lookout
YES Randall Clark! My all time favorite character in any video and you never even meet the guy while he’s alive. Genuinely an incredible character, with an amazing story both written and environmentally told. He’s one of the reasons NV is my favorite Fallout and THE reason Honest Hearts is the best DLC imo. His story of losing everything, regaining something and then experiencing the tragic loss over again only to not give up and to persevere. What he went through was more than any man should ever experience. Yet he persevered and found a new purpose in helping others, was just beautiful. The fact that he chose to never reveal himself to those he was protecting because he knew that while they needed his help, what they needed more was something to believe in is just incredible. He knew his time was limited and that if they were to survive they would need to feel like he was always watching, he became a god like figure not out of vanity but to deliver hope. I cannot do it justice so if you’ve never found all his terminals and read them please do yourself a favor and go find them. Don’t look them up on UA-cam.
The skeleton I remember the most is from fallout 4 (in the harbormaster hotel I think?) and its an old lady reading an overdue book to a giddyup buttercup, teddy bear and jangles the moons monkey. Pretty sad
definitely. I ran into that one a few months ago. it made me stop and look for a minute. there's another, part of a mod that adds more interiors and stuff around concord, was a small apartment with a female ghoul and a baby skeleton in a crib. I was exploring around concord at a fairly high level, tons of mods, I had a P90 with a flashlight on it. was clearing that building to set something up, forget what but basically I turned the entirety of concord into a settlement. so I clear this room, go up to the only bedroom, there's a locked door. bullet holes in the door, shell casings on the ground. maybe a raider attack, maybe not. pick the lock, enter the room, immediately jumped on by the ghoul. it's not letting me go. fighting harder than most other ghouls. I a burst from the P90 later, it's done and dusted. only then did I realize the skeleton of the baby in the crib, the toys around the room. female feral had a baby rattle and bottle in inventory. she was still protecting her kid, after 200 years. struck me as fairly sad, Now I just ignore that apartment in most playthroughs. let momma be, don't want to disturb her or her baby.
@@aidanacebo9529 That's really sad. Do you know the name of the mod?
Rip brotherhood member, died of having his meat turned into sausage slices
Possibly the underwater T-Rex skeleton could be a reference to the end of Jurassic Park 2 where was transported on a boat from the island as mayhem happened as usual.
That is actually a great shout. Would make a lot of sense as these are normally popular culture easter eggs!
Bethesda is far from perfect, but world building is something they excel in.
The unmarked shacks and homes are my favourite because there's a whole story contained in a single interior cell
I mean they’re not that bad at it, at the least
So many stories, so much tragedy. The skeletons of Fallout are some of the best storytelling. Thanks for the video showcasing some of Fallout's greatest and most tragic bits of story throughout the series. This was a really fun watch. Well done on this.
They really do some great storytelling it must be said! Appreciate you checking out the video, thanks 😄
I remember one where you find a message where a guy says he'll stab someone in the head wit ha pen and sure enough not too far away your find a skeleton with a pen sticking out of its eye socket.
Another sad one I know of is in the town of Minefield in Fallout 3, you can find a couple of skeletons on a bed surrounded by bottles, indicating they decided to OD.
Similar in Fallout 3 you can find a skeleton in a bath tub with a toaster, I think it was Fallout 3.
And I think in Fallout 4 in a church tower you can find two skeletons, apparently a couple, next to each other in an embrace.
I don’t know that pen one! Sounds really interesting. Do you know where it is? Appreciate you checking the video 👊🏻
@@UraniumFever76 I believe the pen one is the Vault Tec Regional HQ in Boston proper in FO4, if that's the one I'm remembering.
i was just walking around fallout 76 looking for random skeleton stories and i was thinking "i wish there was a video that should these off" and you upload this
Perfect timing mate! There's so many that I could probably do a part 2 at some point.
There's time where I just take a moment and realize .. they are no longer suffering in the hellish wasteland....
It's like PTSD
i’ve always loved the one fishing in a toilet 😂
That is a good one lol
Rick and morty? Thats Futurama. I no longer have any faith in you.
Wtf is a Futurama, sounds like a ripoff 🙄
@@theploot8230Are you serious?
@@bepisman208no it's satirical
@@aggressiveavocado i was concerned for a second there lol
It's like the cool grandpa you never got the chance to know but you only hear stories about 😂
It's a dope comedy tv series that was cancelled later on I think because of low fundings
0:18 doctor who reference from the shadows that eat you one of them kept repeating “Hey who turned out the lights?”
Such a good two parter those were!
The Vashta Nerada!
That horned kangaroo is a reference to a joke crypted in the USA that was a popular thing a very long time ago.
I've noticed that when I play fallout 4, that if I wanna know the story of what happened to a, particular business or home when the bombs fell to just go look at the skeletons. Because it tells you all you need to know.
Even the Fallout show gave a nod to this as Lucy finds the skeletons of a family around a table and a bottle of Vault-Tec Plan D on the table.
Seymour isn't a reference toRick and Morty, that's Futurama...
You should do a video about the Teddy Bear and Gnome stories in the Fallout games. There are so many!
Sickleman evidence can be found in other areas of Appalachia. Also, at 76's launch the message read SICKLEMAN WAS HERE and after the Wastelanders dlc and when npcs started coming back to Appalachia, the sign changed to SICKLEMAN IS HERE. So perhaps, SIckleman is still alive and wandering Appalachia. I would love it if a future quest had us doing some detective work to find Sickleman.
There are only a handful of videos that are worth watching and then watching again. This hit every single criteria and my top five favorite videos
Mate thank you so much! Lovely comment to read
I love how they captured the skeletons story telling in the show. Can’t wait to see more from the franchise
There is a "time travel" device on the monorail in Fallout 76. I always thought it would be cool to have an expedition where you travel back and try to prevent the bombs from dropping, but maybe it goes wrong and we meet some dinosaurs. Or, maybe we go back to the 1940s and stop the transistor from being invented, thus creating the Fallout divergent universe. I think there is a lot of potential there.
I remember first finding child-sized skeletons in NV with my roomate at the time. We looked at eachother and both said, in almost unison "Those skeletons are way too small"
The sheer amount of people who didnt get the Rick and Morty joke is staggering, its almost like they didnt watch the video but it's like 1/3 of the way in.
Such a well put together video. Skeletons have always been one of the more charming forms of storytelling in Fallout, imo
Don't give up, skeleton!
Honestly an amazing and (as far as I know) original video concept, absolutely earned a subscriber
I thought it was something a bit new, can't say I've seen any other videos like it. Glad people seem to have enjoyed it!
I always been fascinated by the three skeletons you find backstage at Tampuico Theater during Dead Money, it's two adults, one with a gun, one with a Doctor's bag and a dose of Med-X and a child with a teddy beat. I wonder who they were, what happened and what they were doing backstage.
Yeah that's a good trio, should have included those!
In Fallout 76, there is a skeleton strapped to an electric chair in the bed of a dried out lake.
There is also a JAWS skeleton story -- a half-sunken boat with a mutated dolphin and half a skeleton on stern of the boat.
Vera's "ghost" recording, still screaming for Sinclair 2 centuries later still haunts me a decade after playing...
I know right!
God I love Vera as a character despite the fact we never really see her spare the holograms and her skeleton in her room. Seeing her skeleton and hearing her pleas just always makes me sad EVERY TIME
Such good story telling right? I love those DLCs so much.
9:48 Futurama, not Rick and Morty.
I heard that too, and I was had to play it back twice to know that that's not Rick and Morty.I'm kind of hurt he said that
@@ScolarVisar2307 Just a slip of the tongue. I'm pretty sure all the people that have played fallout New Vegas love futurama.
7:13 This is actually slightly terrifying, it just walks up and stares at you.
Love this video. Thankyou for all the hard work you put into it
Thank you very much for checking it out!
9:34 the craziest thing about the "ice cream" thing is that it was always a joke my grandma would make when i was a kid, and i never got it and she told me once years later "why is the password always ice cream?" "if you don't let me, i'll scream" and i think that there really has to be some old media that it's based off of since it's such a weird stretch that it just seems like a 'you had to be there' sort of thing, when i look it up everyone just says, "oh he's in the desert, of course he covets ice cream.." so i just thought i'd toss it out there
Rick and Morty? Don't you mean Futurama 😅
My favorite skeleton story will always be Randall Dean Clark. His story would be a great story-driven fallout spin off game.
I found and played miller story only yesterday and here it is on video but I didn’t know until now. I have years and 30 days recorded too, thanks.
Dude first of all, amazing video, great job, secondly, I just realized half way, why I was hearing Miss Fortune and Lady Jaina Proudmoure... It's Laura Bailey! I never noticed it since I only did Sierra Madre once since release.. Very cool.
Probably an oversight how the bones on most of the pre-war skeletons are still attached.
Radiation baby!
This video was wonderful! congratulations on your effort
Thanks very much! Glad you enjoyed it!
Love your longer videos. Great stuff. Thanks.Gonna stop because I’m still playing FO3 for the first time and what to avoid spoilers.
Appreciated mate! Let me know what you think of it once you've started your run!
the zion one really hit hard for some reason ☹
Which one? Or both? I do agree though. The storytelling skeletons in that game were so good!
My favorite skeleton encounter had to have been the refrigerator skeleton from fallout new Vegas referencing Indiana Jones or the Star Wars skeletons in fallout Vegas in Nipton
Good content. Really hits down to the very bone.
Very good mate haha!
This is a great idea for a video, good job
Thanks very much! Appreciate you checking it out 😁
For Ian's wife Cheryl there is a female skeleton right outside the house , she had to kill her husband and more than likely got killed right outside by the Mr handy farmers
Very good spot. I just noticed that in the footage, pretty bleak if she ended up going through all that just to run into them!
Ohh you little scoundrel that rick and morty joke was good
Thanks, great idea to cover this
Appreciated mate, I thought it was something a bit new.
The fallout 4 crypt is such an overlooked area. Its a really nicely executed location but gets overlooked by having the player looking for the railroad.
The millers are one of my favourite bits of environmental storytelling in the Bethesda era. It's a realistic situation and i recently read about a bunker someone found under their home with a design I questioned for the same reason. One entrance was in their house with a second a street or 2 again appearing as sewer access but it was on a busy street. A bomb would likely collapse buildings on both access points making the shelter a fancy tomb.
Would definitely enjoy a part two if you make it.
Think there's definitely enough for a part 2 at some point!
I'm a little upset you said rick and morty lol
Me too man, me too 😂
7:10
That one kinda spooked me
Vera Keyes knew Cooper Howard? Season 2 cameo?
It'd be cool to see Dean Domino around
@@Grimkeeper17 I wonder who'd play either of them? I don't think Laura Bailey does live action.
The sad part about the survivalists story though is that he left many things in each of the caves for the children to use but he didn't unarmed the traps he set up to keep the dwellers from 22 out which will eventually kill any of the kids who would step into the caves leave them unable to use anything he left.
Just an idea for a short video, but someone needs to tell the story of Rufus and his owner (in Fallout 76). When wandering around I found out the full story and I have never known if anyone figured it out.
The thing i love about fallout 4 is that you play as someone who lived prewar right when the bombs fell. So anytime i hear something that happened in different fallout games or see skeletons. I always vision this stuff happening at the same time as the sole survivor rushing to vault 111 or during their stasis. It makes it more sad honestly
starting this video with begin again gave me flashbacks to playing DUST. scared the hell out of me
Is it possible the dinosaur with a human and a levergun could be a jurassic world reference? Owen Grady uses a marlin against the dinosaurs
I keep thinking of the two in the Concord Speakeasy that died in a confrontation which makes you wonder if someone tried to rob the place during the panic
One story of skeletons that allot of people dont seem to know about in fallout 4, a country club where very rich big wigs would go to drink expensive wines and cigars, all after the bombings have happened, the ones remaining were all called for one last toust and they all seem to know whats going to happen and accept it, you find them all on their expensive couches and chairs all dead skeletons and each with battles of "Poisoned wine" so all these rich folks thay survived the bombs but didnt have a vault all came together to commit mass suicide, and no one talks about them.
That Futurama mix-up is wild
For some reason the skeletons in the houses in Minefield from Fallout 3 always come to mind whenever I think of skeletons with a story in Fallout.
Gotta say the best ones of all time is in 3/NV when they spazz out and fly into the air where they slowly travel off into oblivian😂
19:52 I refuse to let go 😂
76 is probably the most stuffed with stories of people dying ,its depressing asf just hearing everyone die after having survived armageedon and the infighting from everyone just pain.
Loved the Dr. Who reference at the beginning
goddamnit! i was not ready for those dead money flashbacks at the very start of the video XD
The trauma harness allowing the skeletons to hold and fire weapons is a miracle, considering it doesn't cover theirs arms or hands
Matt: “This skeleton has been working hard. How hard? TO THE BONE!”
Pat: “F( ) off.”
Matt: “Yeah, I should.”
I lost it when you called Futurama Rick and Morty 😂
I came across a couple of skeletons in Fallout 4, in the Bureau of Labor, if I'm not wrong. The one in plain clothes was strangling the one in a suit over a safe. I found that quite amusing.
Somewhere in the western part off the Fallout 4 map you can find a skeleton with a baton, next to three living mongrel hounds and dog bowls and such. I think the implication is that someone tried to train some hounds but got killed and eaten.
I’m wondering if the lever action rifle and T. rex was a nod to the joke that some lever actions shoot a powerful enough round(.45-70gov for example) to drop a dinosaur.
The stories of pre war skeletons is just really sad as it shows you what there final moments were like right as the bombs fell
The skeleton who slams the dumpster lid. Lol. Dude is like.....mmmm nope.
I love in fallout 4 all the skeletons sitting outside with beers in hand. If they were there by chance or by choice thats maybe the best way to go out when the bombs dropped
Absolutely loved this video!
Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed it!
9:52 hit me like a flashbang 😂
I remember when I was like.. 12 years old I saw a video on UA-cam showing all the skeletons in Fallout 3 or 4. It absolutely terrified me to my core and I couldn't sleep for at least two days.
For weeks, I would randomly think to myself "What if North Korea dropped the nukes on us right now and I was turned into a skeleton? What would I look like to survivors hundreds of years from now?"
The a runaways holotape and corpse found at rangers cabin makes me sad still one of my favorite sad stories
How DARE you get Futurama and Rick and Morty confused. Jurassic Bark was an extremely good episode and Seymour was the best boy. Seymour himself was a nod to Hachiko, an Akita that waited for his owner to return from work for around a decade. Seymour waited 12 years for Fry to come back. Unlike Hidesaburō Ueno, Fry didn't die of a cerebral hemorrhage at work. Fry was instead frozen for a thousand years. Jurassic Bark still makes me cry. Futurama had some seriously touching episodes despite typically being a lowbrow comedy, like when Fry learns that his brother, who he thought hated him, actually loved him so much that he named his first born son in his honor; or when Fry got to have one last talk with his mother.
Epic man 👍 I'll watch while I 2, I honor you.
Thanks mate!
Sandy Coves Convalescent Home from Fallout 4. The whole place always made me feel so sad.
Silence in the library gave me nightmares as a kid when it was still on Netflix