Agreed. I'm playing NV for the first time right now. NV has a much better story, much better writing, and much cooler faction dynamics. But FO3 has better ambiance and visual worldbuilding.
I remember being 14 in 2008 and while visiting a friend in the city he took me to a group of older gamers that he played rpg's with. Basically a share house full of absolute nerds that he met at the local FLGS and he was part of their group. Anyway, we went over to play dnd and a zombie apocolypse rpg they had designed, very fun! So when Iwe got there only one fella was home and he was playing fallout 3, which was brand new at the time, with the highest possible specs on his PC. I had no idea what it was being 2008 and not an online kid I just didn't hear about it, and I was just absolutely floored by how amazing it was. Graphics and gameplay yes, but the dialogue trees and the free exploration just had me stunned. I had never imagined that a game could do that sort of things, as I was still playing COD on the PS2 at home.
I never realised how atmospheric this game is until I played it without listening to the radio for the first time 5 years ago. As much as I like the songs on the radio, it really takes all of the spookiness away. Playing without the radio on is the true connoisseurs way of playing FO3.
Same. After I got tired of the radio music I started playing with the ambience and it is really immersing. The soundtrack is very harrowing and desolate sounding.
For my TTW playthrough, which I haven't done in years, I HIGHLY recommend that everyone STOPS listening to the damn radio music especially GNR and Mr New Vegas and enjoy the REAL music of the Fallout games. Bethesda Fallout, though gave rebirth to the series, severally hurt it with the stupid idea of the 1950s forever troupe which was never the original intention
Orchestral music holds up great over time and Bethesda picks great musicians and composers for their games. The music alone is honestly a big selling point and one reason I go back to this and Skyrim. Helps with stress.
I have no idea how they knew to put all these sounds and instruments together for a soundtrack. Like all of these weird, whispy little musical phrases that are just a few moments long, yet absolutely burned into the brain. They tapped into something deep here.
I wish I could erase this game from my mind and just replay it again with my brother for the first time. Its one of our best memories going back and forth with the controller killing radscorpions and giggling over Fawkes “BY ALL MEANS LETS”
This soundtrack forever burned into my brain. The best memories when this game came out I was 12-13 and was the best game I ever played then. Thanks for the upload
This game helped me cope as a young teen for three years being homeless, bouncing from hotel room to hotel room. While I didn't have a permanent home in real life, my Megaton home was always there. Crazy to think that was all over a decade ago now.
I was so obsessed with this game that I kept playing until my save file became so big that it slowed the frame rate more and more until it became unplayable. The main quest, all the side quests (I think), all the DLC, followed by hours upon hours of free-roaming and random encounters until the game just couldn't take it anymore. To this day the exhilaration of leaving the vault for the first time and just roaming that incredible world with this magnificent soundtrack is a feeling that no game before or since has been able to match.
I really like the setting and atmosphere of Fallout 3. It's unlike any other open world game I've ever played. At the beginning of the game you feel a feeling of pessimism and hopelessness, seeing a destroyed world, people in misery, thieves/Super mutants/Ghouls trying to kill you at any moment. And the game's coloring and soundtrack really reinforce these sensations. But as the game progresses and you reach near the end, you start to feel a feeling of a small hope for change.
I made my own label for a can of tuna back in the Fallout 3 days.. it just said Mirluk 5oz. Lol I even saved all my beer bottlecaps as if they were caps. Labelled my instant coffee: Buffout. Lol And i labelled all my Spam as "Cram"
Just thought of this listening, but the instruments contribute to the theme of the story. That after nuclear apocalypse and the end of the "modern age," the sounds, the pace, and then the spirits of ancient struggle for life come back.
with the exception of I think, the grand theft auto games which dont really apply. and the stalker franchise, Fallout 3 was my first real open world game, I dont really care if its an unpopular game, it was a lot of people's first fallout. including me
Love this music, also I’m wondering what are the rules with copyright when using this music as I wanted to use some of it in a video? Any help would be amazing
I believe if it's game music, then youtube doesn't really have an issue with flagging it as copyright, I suppose Bethesda themselves would have to strike the video if they didn't want you using their music. Crediting the music source in the description could always help too I suppose, less likely to be flagged for Copyright. gyazo.com/a9ddfc826d44b75ff0c6f909c35c250c
@@Endreaver amazing thank you so much. What about if I used the music in a video where the video itself has nothing to do with the audio in this case fallout 3 ambience?
@@Minepool1987 More likely to be flagged in that case, i don’t think youtube would flag it per-say, but whoever runs the legal team over at Bethesda might if your video gains enough traction (views) Not saying that they would tho, its a fairly old game/soundtrack now, so the possibilities of a strike are quite low, companies tend to let things slide more the older their content gets.
Although Fallout New Vegas is a great game and overrated, it doesn't give a full on wasteland vibe unlike Fallout 3 my first Fallout game. The green atmosphere and the barren capital wasteland shows how much destruction the great war caused.
yeah I never really felt the "fallout" aspect of new vegas as opposed to 3, it's hard to feel like a barren wasteland when 99% of it already is one. Say what you will about the story but the feeling of walking through radioactive sludge and mutant filth is exactly how id expect a nuclear holocaust to feel like. Meanwhile NV just makes me feel like im eating sand/gravel everywhere I go, cant stand it
Well, the theme of Fallout, as we all know, is the stubborn nature of humans, who will always try to rebuild the world, no matter what. It's intented to give off some tribalism vibes, with the most centered locations looking almost modern with the 20th century architecture. I think Fallout 2 handled it best. In my opinion, New Vegas looks and feels great for the atmosphere developers were going for, - it's Arizona, after all, with orange sunsets, deserts, sand and western colorful blue skies. And while I like the green Fallout 3 filter (too damn nostalgic), I just find the map too destroyed and broken down. There's no way humans wouldn't care to at least make some stone houses after two hundred years. I remember seeing the mod for Adobe Houses in Fallout New Vegas (like the ones in the classic entries) and it looked amazing. Don't know why devs didn't add them originally and everyone is living in a pile of rubble. I still like the atmosphere in 3 more, than New Vegas, though, yeah. Something about this depressing world with no hope absolutely makes it very melancholically alluring. Bethesda went in the completely wrong direction making Fallout 4 cartoony, fun and colorful in all the wrong ways. This franchise is supposed to have humorous moments, but such humour is often dark and only in certain places, set carefully. And Fallout 4 on the other hand felt like Saints Row...
problem is fo3 takes place 200 years after the war but looks like it was just 2 weeks not that the atmosphere is bad just doesnt make sense in the timeline
Seems to play fine on Steam bro? Playing through it now, GOTY edition with no mods. Get a few lock ups that seem to be caused by using a controller and DS4 Windows but generally it plays fine with really fast loading times with ssd. Holds up great, exploring the wasteland with this soundtrack is unrivalled.
I couldn't enjoy this with all the adds socking me in the ears. When its supposed too be a sleep aid... not good. So i will take the place of being in the " disliked " comment world. Too bad really.😢🤧
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Ah the Capital Wasteland. New Vegas might be my favorite Fallout game, but I had the most fun exploring the Capital Wastes.
Yeah. New Vegas is still one of the best RPGs, but the world pales to this one, full stop.
Yup if New Vegas focused solely on creating the world in the city rather than the city/mohave I believe the map would be a lot more fun to explore.
Agreed. I'm playing NV for the first time right now. NV has a much better story, much better writing, and much cooler faction dynamics. But FO3 has better ambiance and visual worldbuilding.
Probably because NV is mostly desert.
I remember being 14 in 2008 and while visiting a friend in the city he took me to a group of older gamers that he played rpg's with. Basically a share house full of absolute nerds that he met at the local FLGS and he was part of their group. Anyway, we went over to play dnd and a zombie apocolypse rpg they had designed, very fun! So when Iwe got there only one fella was home and he was playing fallout 3, which was brand new at the time, with the highest possible specs on his PC. I had no idea what it was being 2008 and not an online kid I just didn't hear about it, and I was just absolutely floored by how amazing it was. Graphics and gameplay yes, but the dialogue trees and the free exploration just had me stunned. I had never imagined that a game could do that sort of things, as I was still playing COD on the PS2 at home.
I never realised how atmospheric this game is until I played it without listening to the radio for the first time 5 years ago. As much as I like the songs on the radio, it really takes all of the spookiness away. Playing without the radio on is the true connoisseurs way of playing FO3.
Who the hell turned on the radio?? 🤣 the ambience is what made this game
Same. After I got tired of the radio music I started playing with the ambience and it is really immersing. The soundtrack is very harrowing and desolate sounding.
For my TTW playthrough, which I haven't done in years, I HIGHLY recommend that everyone STOPS listening to the damn radio music especially GNR and Mr New Vegas and enjoy the REAL music of the Fallout games. Bethesda Fallout, though gave rebirth to the series, severally hurt it with the stupid idea of the 1950s forever troupe which was never the original intention
@@normanred9212huh
Also huh?
The ambience of fallout 3 was so good and fitting that I went through the whole game just listening to it. Never turned on the radio.
Home, Radioactive Home.
Honestly, after all this time there's just something about the music from the Capital Wasteland that still gets me.
Orchestral music holds up great over time and Bethesda picks great musicians and composers for their games. The music alone is honestly a big selling point and one reason I go back to this and Skyrim. Helps with stress.
I have no idea how they knew to put all these sounds and instruments together for a soundtrack. Like all of these weird, whispy little musical phrases that are just a few moments long, yet absolutely burned into the brain. They tapped into something deep here.
That's how you know the right people are at the helm
Good description
I wish I could erase this game from my mind and just replay it again with my brother for the first time. Its one of our best memories going back and forth with the controller killing radscorpions and giggling over Fawkes “BY ALL MEANS LETS”
"BY ALL MEANS LETS" is top peak dialogues of all videogames industry lol
13:15 is the same sample that appears in the Abandoned Skyscrapers level in Twisted Metal Black.
46:15 forever lives in my head
59:46 😍😍😍
I love that part
This soundtrack forever burned into my brain. The best memories when this game came out I was 12-13 and was the best game I ever played then.
Thanks for the upload
This game helped me cope as a young teen for three years being homeless, bouncing from hotel room to hotel room. While I didn't have a permanent home in real life, my Megaton home was always there.
Crazy to think that was all over a decade ago now.
Did you carry an xbox with you
@@Keith-rd2uh I kept it in my family's car trunk when we didn't have a room
What happened to your parents?
I was so obsessed with this game that I kept playing until my save file became so big that it slowed the frame rate more and more until it became unplayable. The main quest, all the side quests (I think), all the DLC, followed by hours upon hours of free-roaming and random encounters until the game just couldn't take it anymore.
To this day the exhilaration of leaving the vault for the first time and just roaming that incredible world with this magnificent soundtrack is a feeling that no game before or since has been able to match.
Facts
All Creation engine games are like that. Once you get past level 60 in Skyrim shit just starts going haywire.
Been using this background music while I read Cormac McCarthy's The Road and it's been excellent
1:34 This exact part of the ambience randomly pops into my head bringing back a million memories.
One of the greatest experiences I have ever had in gaming was with this game right here
I really like the setting and atmosphere of Fallout 3. It's unlike any other open world game I've ever played. At the beginning of the game you feel a feeling of pessimism and hopelessness, seeing a destroyed world, people in misery, thieves/Super mutants/Ghouls trying to kill you at any moment. And the game's coloring and soundtrack really reinforce these sensations. But as the game progresses and you reach near the end, you start to feel a feeling of a small hope for change.
Fallout 3 Music is timeless! Its a work of art!
I love how there are tons of sounds also used in the old WoW soundtracks. It's like hearing two games at once.
12:45
this one def sticks out to me
I made my own label for a can of tuna back in the Fallout 3 days.. it just said Mirluk 5oz. Lol
I even saved all my beer bottlecaps as if they were caps. Labelled my instant coffee: Buffout. Lol
And i labelled all my Spam as "Cram"
29:02
I’ve been looking for this part but I don’t know the name of the song
Thanks!
This is what im refering to when i say i love the music in fallout
fo1 ost for me
mike morgan is a genius
Great vid, reminds me of the good times
Just thought of this listening, but the instruments contribute to the theme of the story. That after nuclear apocalypse and the end of the "modern age," the sounds, the pace, and then the spirits of ancient struggle for life come back.
I love how the video is just a loop with a really bugged out eyebot going back and fourth
How it feels like to be out in empty halls at school
It's just the absolute best
Recommendations never fails me.
Thank you very much.
16:26
"...The Capitol Wasteland... How did it come to this, America?"
with the exception of I think, the grand theft auto games which dont really apply. and the stalker franchise, Fallout 3 was my first real open world game, I dont really care if its an unpopular game, it was a lot of people's first fallout. including me
Ugh I miss living in 2011.
Just as good as skyrim's
23:13-23:30 and especially 28:10 - 29:00 and 30:00
Wow, the first track sounds like Leyndell's ambience from Elden Ring. In fact, a lot of ER's ambience resembles FO3 imo
Im gonna have to see about modding this into fo4, surely nexus should have something like this?
Used this myself in the past, highly recommend :)
www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/14667/
@@Endreaver much obliged, thank you!
I can't get over how excellent this ambience is. Pure nostalgia too.
I put this on when playing Kenshi. Got a recommendations when i raid black dragon ninja tower? And when i go to take down holy nation?
Is that an Enclave outpost there? I see a couple dudes who look like they're in Power Armor from their stance.
It is yes, when recording this video i was praying they wouldnt aggro halfway through haha
Love this music, also I’m wondering what are the rules with copyright when using this music as I wanted to use some of it in a video? Any help would be amazing
I believe if it's game music, then youtube doesn't really have an issue with flagging it as copyright, I suppose Bethesda themselves would have to strike the video if they didn't want you using their music.
Crediting the music source in the description could always help too I suppose, less likely to be flagged for Copyright.
gyazo.com/a9ddfc826d44b75ff0c6f909c35c250c
@@Endreaver amazing thank you so much. What about if I used the music in a video where the video itself has nothing to do with the audio in this case fallout 3 ambience?
@@Minepool1987 More likely to be flagged in that case, i don’t think youtube would flag it per-say, but whoever runs the legal team over at Bethesda might if your video gains enough traction (views)
Not saying that they would tho, its a fairly old game/soundtrack now, so the possibilities of a strike are quite low, companies tend to let things slide more the older their content gets.
@@Endreaver I see I see, really appreciate you getting back to me on that dude, have a good day 👍
@@Minepool1987 My pleasure. 🙂
My childhood...
Although Fallout New Vegas is a great game and overrated, it doesn't give a full on wasteland vibe unlike Fallout 3 my first Fallout game. The green atmosphere and the barren capital wasteland shows how much destruction the great war caused.
yeah I never really felt the "fallout" aspect of new vegas as opposed to 3, it's hard to feel like a barren wasteland when 99% of it already is one.
Say what you will about the story but the feeling of walking through radioactive sludge and mutant filth is exactly how id expect a nuclear holocaust to feel like. Meanwhile NV just makes me feel like im eating sand/gravel everywhere I go, cant stand it
Well, the theme of Fallout, as we all know, is the stubborn nature of humans, who will always try to rebuild the world, no matter what. It's intented to give off some tribalism vibes, with the most centered locations looking almost modern with the 20th century architecture. I think Fallout 2 handled it best.
In my opinion, New Vegas looks and feels great for the atmosphere developers were going for, - it's Arizona, after all, with orange sunsets, deserts, sand and western colorful blue skies. And while I like the green Fallout 3 filter (too damn nostalgic), I just find the map too destroyed and broken down. There's no way humans wouldn't care to at least make some stone houses after two hundred years. I remember seeing the mod for Adobe Houses in Fallout New Vegas (like the ones in the classic entries) and it looked amazing. Don't know why devs didn't add them originally and everyone is living in a pile of rubble.
I still like the atmosphere in 3 more, than New Vegas, though, yeah. Something about this depressing world with no hope absolutely makes it very melancholically alluring. Bethesda went in the completely wrong direction making Fallout 4 cartoony, fun and colorful in all the wrong ways. This franchise is supposed to have humorous moments, but such humour is often dark and only in certain places, set carefully. And Fallout 4 on the other hand felt like Saints Row...
Considering this was America's capital. No surprise it would be smoldered.
14:00 27:15
I'm surprised this Enclave outpost survived an hour untouched, usually a Deathclaw or Yao Guai will spawn in and wipe them out for me
Deadly turret mod and they wont. You may avoid it as well.
New vegas best game, F3 best post apocalyptic ambiance.
problem is fo3 takes place 200 years after the war but looks like it was just 2 weeks
not that the atmosphere is bad just doesnt make sense in the timeline
What is the first track called? Does anybody know? It's my favorite track.
I think it's "Old lands, new frontiers."
16:09 Please someone tell me what the title of that song is PLEASE
What Remains by Inon Zur, my personal fav 😊
@@jada1564 thank you sooooooo much
29:17 These 10 seconds have never left my head.
How is it called the first soundtrack? Can't find it...
man i wish i could play this game again, anyone know how to actually get this gem to work on windows 10 after the latest update?
Seems to play fine on Steam bro? Playing through it now, GOTY edition with no mods. Get a few lock ups that seem to be caused by using a controller and DS4 Windows but generally it plays fine with really fast loading times with ssd. Holds up great, exploring the wasteland with this soundtrack is unrivalled.
Buy an Xbox
I couldn't enjoy this with all the adds socking me in the ears. When its supposed too be a sleep aid... not good. So i will take the place of being in the " disliked " comment world. Too bad really.😢🤧
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Get an adblocker, no reason to sit through that BS.
maybe don't put an ad every three fucking minutes.
I have no control over ads sadly, this is on UA-cams side, I have zero monitization on this and all my other videos, so no clue why there would be ads