Canonically, Dogmeat dies in the Military Base running towards a force field to save you :( Dogs are colourblind and she didn't see the forcefield. Supposedly, the dog in FO2 is a descendant of Dogmeat in FO1.
@@StratEdgyProductions just reread it and it didn't say anything about TRYING to save you, but I like to think she did. I can't find the source about the dogs being descendant of Dogmeat, but I'll look again. Forgot to mention that I love your video btw
@@jeremyalexander135 is not a side quest, but a special encounter event. Inside the Cafe, you can recruit Dogmeat, you just need to use your vault suit. Also, Dogmeat will join you even if you had reached the limit of companions.
The FO2 Dogmeat was a non-canon easter egg, not a real descendant of FO1 Dogmeat. Also I'm PRETTY sure Dogmeat was a boy! So until Bethesda messed with the story with the travesty we call Fallout 3, there was only ever 1 Dogmeat. And he was a good doggo who died in Mariposa. =(
I remember my dad's playthrough with high Luck; in the beginning of the game, heading towards Shady Sands (or just past it) he ran across a crashed spacecraft and got the alien blaster.
The random encounter I would pray for to all the gods early in all my Fallout 2 playthroughs is the one that yields you the solar scorcher. A laser pistol with nearly unlimited ammo when you're level 3? That's beyond broken.
@@abadenoughdude300 wow luck is God tier. Getting an alien blaster at like level 2-3 or a laser gun with practically infinite ammo at a time where you barely even get any money to buy ammo? Yeah that's beautifully busted
I’ve honestly never seen a UA-camr put out 40+ minute videos almost weekly, and have them be of this quality. Really enjoying your content and I hope this works out for you, if any channel deserves success right now, it’s you man.
I have no idea how a person can make two videos a month that are that are hours long like that. Like, how do you capture the footage, sort through a label it, write the script, find music, record narration, and edit it all together in two weeks. Like, does he have an editor or what? That's insane.
Its amazing. I also love the second intro where the heavenly music is in the tune of the other song in the intro, a kiss to build a dream on. Fucking amazing.
I don't get why the Enclave would just open fire on the Vault 13 residents though. They needed pure humans, why gun them down and send Deathclaws to mop up the survivors?
War story: Player (level 2) manages to piss off Joey in conversation, runs into Becky's chased by thugs, and hides behind Rebecca. Joey fires at player and hits Rebecca, casino guard fires at Joey and hits gambler. Eventually gamblers and townspeople are fighting each other and guards, guards are shooting gamblers and thugs, and Joey gets killed by Rebecca while still trying to shoot player. Then guard misses and kills orphan outside, two orphans storm the casino and even score a critical hit before being gunned down by the guards. Meanwhile, a guard accidentally hits another guard, guards start shooting each other, and as one guard runs out the door the entire battle spills out into the street! A few more people are killed out there. Combat ends, one of the surviving guards turns and walks back into the casino, while five or six guards and casino patrons remain outside, most of them severely wounded. One gambler, standing out in the street, comments: "Damn, Becky's was the only place to gamble around here!" THAT is how you Fallout
w8 how did you made guards kill guards? As far as I know NPCs from the same "faction" never target each other unless it's accidental. They are ready to take the D... I mean hits for the group and even die for it. At least in my playthroughs
It's a life hack really, hang around successful people and over time you start absorbing their xp along with other vital fluids. The highway to lvl100.
I remember when I was on one of my countless playthroughs of Fallout as a wee lad (it came out when I was 14) and I discovered I could defeat the Master by telling him why his plan wasn't going to work and showing him evidence. Fallout and Fallout 2 are the gold standard I've been comparing choice-based games against my entire life, and the only one that hasn't come up lacking is New Vegas.
Nah bro Skyrim. An open world game where the quests are on rails and you can’t make any meaningful decisions. I love Skyrim but it kinda sucks. Until you mod it.
the SMGs in this game were savage. I love burst firing into a crowd of enemies could be absolutely devastating, even if (or especially if) you had low accuracy
I used to amuse myself by trying to get the most ridiculous damage numbers with miniguns, things into the high thousands of hp. Burst crits in old Fallouts are preposterous.
I tried it, and I still have to continue it. The game is very complex and allow a ton of different builds and object combinations... Anyway I found the game really unappealing, I hate the graphic style and the absence of gore. I also found that the beginning of the game was really long and boring with a ton of dialogs and only little involvement into an epic quest... Instead I've played fallout : Nevada which is crazy good and with a ton of content, I highly recommend it !
As long as you don't mind investing 15 hours in a playthrough only to have to hard restart because you didn't use one of the eight "viable" meta builds from the wiki. The game isn't just "punishing", it objectively prevents you from playing how you want to since there are three different hard progression walls you run into before the game actually opens up, with zero indication as to why you can no longer progress as you'll repeatedly get overrun by enemies with resistances you haven't yet seen or can even fully wrap your head around. Fuck the Junkyard in particular, genuinely feels like the dev is taking the piss and actively did everything they could to make the game as much of an unresponsive rubix-cube as possible, definitely doesn't help that the entire community surrounding the game is of one of two camps - they either agree with me or just prattle off "git gud" empty platitudes because they're unwilling to admit they had to look up a build and end up coming off as a tryhard. Maybe it's just me, but the comparison to classic Fallout is at best, aesthetics based only and at worst, a classic case of not actually remembering how classic Fallout actually functions.
@Greig91 As in, either they acknowledge the game has serious balancing issues that the devs refuse to correct because the userbase that jerks their e-peen would throw a fit, or their response is "just git good", but no, I'M the asshole here for pointing out how obnoxious it is to blatantly refuse to accept criticism of something you subjectively enjoy. If people like this game, that's fine, but that doesn't make it NOT BUSTED. It's not about my opinion here, the game objectively doesn't let you play how you want to and "disagreeing" with that is to just ignore reality because you feel like it. Edit: Also notice how a majority of the people talking about it haven't beaten it. Looking at steam analytics of achievements, that's pretty much an across the board phenomena, seems really weird imo.
@blurred no game is perfect, if you think that fallout was well balanced you have nostalgia goggles. If you're playing fallout 1 without looking up what perks are good and you just throw points wherever you're gonna have a bad time. Some perks are actively damaging depending on your build. If you're having a hard time in an area you probably should go somewhere else to level up, complaining about difficulty spikes in it is the equivalent of walking to New Vegas or Fallout 1 wandering the desert to end game areas first thing. With the exception of old junktown if you're doing the main quest as fast as possible. That place is legitimately terrible. Point is if you made it through Fallout you can and will enjoy underrail if you get through a few rough patches. It's not perfect but it's a damn sight better than any other cRPG I've played that came out in the 10's.
I'm looking forward for your coverage of the rest of Fallout. Fallout and The Elder Scrolls are my favorite series, and I'm excited for you to cover the rest of my favorite games. I had never finished classic fallout because I never learned to gain the systems. This helped me start to do well in Fallout 1. Thanks.
I miss some of the dialog in the Fallout Demo. it was changed for the full game, when you punch someone in the dick they would yell out "My Crotch is the crotch of fire!"
Love when games let you make really specific builds, especially when there's a way to make it viable. I think I'm currently in a phase of status ailment builds in the few games where they can be useful.
I was not expecting you to read the next column after SPECIAL. The laughter almost caused me to launch my half-rolled spliff across the desk but luckily that didn't happen
I really liked this video. The different ways that different characters interact with the world is something I really love about the old fallout games, and the narration was good and funny.
And yet, so little amount of people play, and they claim FNV as the best among the series. Just looking at this comment section gives you the idea. How many of them are actually talking about the game itself?
@@JohnnyCasey Probably because there's a lot of console people or they just have a disinterest in the combat of fallout 1&2. It took me a bit of adjusting to get myself to play them as I'm younger and mostly grew up with fps and third person shooters/rpgs.
@@BullFrogFace That's funny, given by the current status of Fallout fanbase where they crap on any Bethesda Fallouts(namely 4 and 76) despite fact that they offer far appealing gameplay that are suited for modern gamers such as yourself and the majority of "Fallout fans". A game that they're constantly crapping on it has just the right thing that you wanted, and the ones that people praise them as the most compelling don't even interest people. How ironic.
@@JohnnyCasey Just seems to me like a lot more people have played the newer games and I tried to offer reasoning for that. Also, are you implying that people who've only played Bethesda era Fallout games aren't real fans? Or am I just misinterpreting your comment? I don't disagree with your comment but not everyone can get into crpgs/turn based combat... Even if every other aspect of the game is great.
@@BullFrogFace No. What made you think that way? The fact that I quoted 'Fallout fans' in my previous comment? I did that as a mockery against the mismatch of what they're saying and thinking. Their mouth says Fallout 4 and 76 are not a real Fallout or RPG, yet their mind wants to shoot and loot things in those two games. And they call themselves fans of the series. That's a laugh.
I remember the first time i played Fallout 1. Immediately after leaving the Vault on my way to Shady Sands i ran into the overturned nuka cola truck random event. I had something like 10k caps before the game even properly started. I went through the whole game buying shit left and right. It's part of the reason why this series has stayed so close to my heart.
You are a god! Sorry, but thats exactly what I needed but more important with the perfect person to make this video about. These kind of videos are so intriguing, they really make you as viewer get the same analytical perspective and wrap your head around from a extremly niche but most true perspective one could have over a game, i deeply respect that kind of work, not to mention the balance in teaching the viewer but also entertaining him. I'm on UA-cam since 2008, and thats the content why I'm still here, passion pure passion, thanks for sharing!
Have you taken a look at Wasteland 2? Wasteland 3 comes out soon, and I found Wasteland 2 and Underrail: Expedition the closest things to Fallout 1 and 2 in the modern age.
I played wasteland 2 on the playstation. It was the most buggy game ever, constantly crashing the ps4. But finished it. Had some problems but I loved the style and the really messed up world. Hope there will be more games like this in the future. And less fortnite shit.
Wasteland 2 is great on the first play through, and then on replays it's great... eventually. But on replays it's really samey for like the first 10-15 hours and there's not really much escaping that. But aside from that, the world building is great, the throwbacks to the original that you likely haven't played are really good, the decision making between skills and quests are fucking hard, and a lot of the side quests are really fun.
Love your videos, dude. You’re a great writer and despite having a real life, you’re still very passionate about games. Also, these are really great to fall asleep to. I can’t explain it.
The year is 2020 and yet people like you are making great videos about one of my favourite games. The format you used for video is sooooo good and entertaining, really enjoyed it whole time!
Making a power setting profile in windows that lowers your processor power "might" fix the force field issue. Its helped me fix problems in older games before.
Ive been wanting to buy Fallout and use this second build here. So this has helped a lot. Thanks! Also, I am a Hemophiliac and that joke had me laughing pretty good. Nicely done
As a comedic note, your delivery with "my god.... the carnage" was perfect as it was, and had me laughing literally out loud at work. Slightly marred by the extra bit after, but it was damn funny 🤣
9:23 well that would of saved me many headaches, i ran into that damn radscropion right outside the vault multiple times regardless of what build i had. thx lad. :)
Hey Strat, great stuff as always, but since we're here I feel like it's important to be honest and say I only came for Lyudmila's well-toned, Amazon Goddess vault booty. Some other stuff happened too, I guess, but I don't remember what specifically because my Intelligenece stat iz 2.
You and me both. I play Fallout 1&2 and Chrono Trigger every single year, at least once. Games that stand the test of time, till the end of time itself!
Funny story: I started with Fallout 4 and enjoyed it so much that I replayed all the games in reverse order. Now Fallout 1 is my favourite of the bunch and 4 is my least. Haven't touched 76 though due to the negativity it received.
I remember how proud I was of a 9 agility character that's saving grace was that he could fire two bursts of his night sight FAL in one turn, good shit pretty basic looking back though lol
I've got one of your videos recommended like two month ago when I had to stay at home for a week, because I had to wait for the results of a corona test, before I could go back to work. So I had a lot of time to fill. I bingewatched basicly all the videos you had uploaded at this time even though I hadn't heard about some of those games. I just enjoyed your way of analyzing a game, as well as the unique style of "structuring" your analyses. Great work.
Thanks for your 2nd Answer in the Q&A. Fallout 3/New Vegas, Oblivion and Dark Souls 1/Demon's Souls are hands down my all time favorite games. But I haven't even played any of them for probably over 5 years. I never understood the draw of watching let's plays until somehow I fell into watching them here on UA-cam a few years ago. I can't even begin to guess how many hours I've spent watching other people enjoy these 5 games in ways that I didn't play them now. Not a great use of my free time at my age, I'm sure, but I don't watch movies or TV shows anymore. This is my entertainment.
there's a fourth option you didnt think about when it came to the mariposa military base and your stealth character.... probably wouldn't have worked for the heavy guns one but hey. ... you can give yourself up to the mutants, allowing them to capture you... this lets you get to the higher levels of the base (you still have to walk through a few forcefields but whatever)
See the Killian thing is why I love Fallout so much. In the later games, NPCs will ask you to complete quests for them before theyve even see how you deal with combat. You can be fresh out the vault in FO4 and NPCs act like they trust you with their lifes. In Fallout though, that has to be earned by your actions and what you say to them, its brilliant.
Pro tips: 1.) The alien blaster is a random encounter that occurs at luck 6 or higher, you can always find it in the same square on the map, just look up which square that is, getting that gun means you’ve won the game. 2.) With luck 6 or higher, you will generally win 6 out of 10 bets, so going to the nearest gambling table, and holding down the 1 and 5 keys for like 10 minutes, will net you tens of thousand of bottle caps (results may vary). 3.) Never put luck above 8. There’s a guy in one of the towns who can raise your luck stat. However, he’s only supposed to do this by one, but by exploiting the game, you can get him to give you a second boost. The same is true for intelligence, as you can get a buff from the Brotherhood of Steel, and then take stupid pills to trigger the dialogue for the stupid character to get the buff, and get a second buff. Stupid characters have to do this in reverse, and take smart pills after getting the first buff.
You have changed me not only as a gamer but as a person....In the best way possible of course. I have watched this video in particular more than 10 times, not because I felt I missed somthing or I felt I needed to copy what you did in game.it was mostly due to the outstanding writing and plot. But what I really love about your videos and this video in particular is how genuinely you love this title. Your experience and excitment in these old titles has made me chase those same feelings. Feelings that can only come from an old school crpg experience. I cannot thank you enough for opening my fucking eyes. Cheers mate!
Good stuff as always, glad to see you doing more regular content. Only gripe is that "Divine Favor" is only a perk in Tactics and its still pretty shit. At least Fallout 2 made Charisma better by letting you have a party of companions.
Msi after burner comes with a software calls rivia(almost certain I spelt that incorrectly), anyway it works like a charm for frame limiting I use if for Skyrim, New Vegas and a few others.
juat started my first real playthrough of this game about a week ago, after dropping it a few times, due in large part to your channel. you really made me want to try crpgs based on your other vids. love your content man, some of the best on the platform.
I've only played Fallout once but i managed to keep all of my companions alive. it was done through having all of them hanging out in the background while i was taking advantages of the inconveniently small-framed door arch in Mariposa military base
Rewatching this video makes me a bit sad that he didn't finish the fallout 2 series because this is such a well put and excellent video. I hope he finds the time to finish the fallout 2 video
Both Fallout 1 and 2 I maxed Agi, Sneak and Steal and just pick pocketed my way through the game. That led to the live explosive in people's inventory trick, I used that a lot to get past parts of the game. Fallout 2 had Outdoorsman so you didn't need Luck for the encounters anymore.
I've played nearly all the modern Fallout games (except for 76, I'm not touching that with a 10 ft pole), and I got the original Fallout in a bundle a while ago. So far I haven't played yet, but this video has motivated me to give it a try. Wish me luck.
I remember hating Ian with a passion. His "friendly" fire killed me more times than any of the enemies in the game. So my advice: forget the companions in this game, they are a death trap. Just create a viable character with at least one combat skill adn experiment with your other tagged skills in your playthroughs. I always end up playing small guns and lock picking and then I transition to energy weapons as plasma rifles are super powerful in this game.
I finished my first Fallout 1 playthrough about a month ago and don't understand this. I knew Ian's reputation wasn't good but decided to take him anyway hoping the extra manpower would outweight the friendly fire. Turns out there wasn't as much of it as i was expecting; I kept him with me the entire run and only remember it happening 4 times in total. Hell, the companions were shooting each other more than they were shooting me. I played on 1.2 without any fan patches. Maybe setting my Luck stat to 7 was the reason? Is the usual expirience with companions terrible and i just happen to be an exception?
wasn't there a secret achievement or something for taking dogmeat all the way to the endgame? I remember there being something like that. Or was it just a challenge?
You travel with Virgil, Sogg Mead Mugg, Dog and the talking orc from the museum. Dog dies from attacking golems with his teeth and you replace him with the Dwarf from outside Schuylers despite his annoying pure-good alignment. You can either fight OR talk depending on how you feel. (Crawl through the Dredge? No thanks. Open that sweet secret door.) Fight the final boss or talk him down? Flip a coin.
Someone just informed me that my voice reminded them of yours. When I started your video, there were a few seconds that I honestly thought it was me. Creepy. But amazing video/channel!
Brothers, we have gathered here today, in reverence of the holy RLM. The holy trinity of Plinkett, Dick the birthday boy and Jay Baumans sexy hair. Let us pray to Space Cop for forgiveness and the longevity of Mike's liver! Amen.
The moment I saw this in my feed, my first thought was, "Awwwwwwwww yeaaaaaah. Another Strat-Edgy vid- my night just got a whole lot more interesting, and full of awkward sexual references." Tasteful, but awkward, as it turns out.
Fallout was a story about a man saving his vault from dying of thirst and the wasteland from super mutants. Fallout 2 was a story about a pornstar drug addict who gambled his way to success and blew shit up.
I loved Fallout 1 so much in highschool. I would stay up late to play it and when they had a late start I would get up early to play Fallout! It truly is a brilliant game.
@@radech2285 oh how I loved flirting with the pious miss wright after being blamed for being a sinful; porn actor lmao. Always ended up doing both bishops as well. Can't ever skip the boxing ring either. I do rarely take miro with me. Usually I just keep kicking him in the groin till he dies.
Shush, there are no retcons and Bethesda never did a fallout game, I've also heard stories of something called Fallout:BOS but it's all just vicious rumours and reckless speculation. My main gripe with Fallout 2 is that there is a lot of great locations in the world, but very little to tie them together, unlike 1 where the world seemed a lot more cohesive and intertwined.
Canonically, Dogmeat dies in the Military Base running towards a force field to save you :( Dogs are colourblind and she didn't see the forcefield. Supposedly, the dog in FO2 is a descendant of Dogmeat in FO1.
Wut? Where is the canon. I need to read it. Was there like a book released?
@@StratEdgyProductions just reread it and it didn't say anything about TRYING to save you, but I like to think she did. I can't find the source about the dogs being descendant of Dogmeat, but I'll look again. Forgot to mention that I love your video btw
@@jeremyalexander135 is not a side quest, but a special encounter event. Inside the Cafe, you can recruit Dogmeat, you just need to use your vault suit. Also, Dogmeat will join you even if you had reached the limit of companions.
The FO2 Dogmeat was a non-canon easter egg, not a real descendant of FO1 Dogmeat. Also I'm PRETTY sure Dogmeat was a boy!
So until Bethesda messed with the story with the travesty we call Fallout 3, there was only ever 1 Dogmeat. And he was a good doggo who died in Mariposa. =(
Dogs being colorblind is a misconception though :c Dogmeat didnt have to die!
I remember my dad's playthrough with high Luck; in the beginning of the game, heading towards Shady Sands (or just past it) he ran across a crashed spacecraft and got the alien blaster.
The random encounter I would pray for to all the gods early in all my Fallout 2 playthroughs is the one that yields you the solar scorcher. A laser pistol with nearly unlimited ammo when you're level 3? That's beyond broken.
@@abadenoughdude300 wow luck is God tier. Getting an alien blaster at like level 2-3 or a laser gun with practically infinite ammo at a time where you barely even get any money to buy ammo? Yeah that's beautifully busted
This just happened to me on the way to vault 15 right as I had made a new character for a melee only build. safe to say that didn't last long
I’ve honestly never seen a UA-camr put out 40+ minute videos almost weekly, and have them be of this quality. Really enjoying your content and I hope this works out for you, if any channel deserves success right now, it’s you man.
Check out whitelight he basically posts twice a month with long videos as well, he even has a 7 hour video on death stranding
I have no idea how a person can make two videos a month that are that are hours long like that. Like, how do you capture the footage, sort through a label it, write the script, find music, record narration, and edit it all together in two weeks. Like, does he have an editor or what? That's insane.
For instance, I averaged 3 minutes of footage edited per hour on this video.
What about that oxhorn guy
The Fallout 1 intro is, for me personally, the most brilliant moment in the history of video games.
For me its F2 intro and soundtrack oh my god the soundtrack
Its amazing. I also love the second intro where the heavenly music is in the tune of the other song in the intro, a kiss to build a dream on. Fucking amazing.
Zerg intro in SC?
@@sqly3129 I love the intro song, some of the older musics fit post apocalypse games in a strange way
I don't get why the Enclave would just open fire on the Vault 13 residents though. They needed pure humans, why gun them down and send Deathclaws to mop up the survivors?
War story: Player (level 2) manages to piss off Joey in conversation, runs into Becky's chased by thugs, and hides behind Rebecca. Joey fires at player and hits Rebecca, casino guard fires at Joey and hits gambler. Eventually gamblers and townspeople are fighting each other and guards, guards are shooting gamblers and thugs, and Joey gets killed by Rebecca while still trying to shoot player. Then guard misses and kills orphan outside, two orphans storm the casino and even score a critical hit before being gunned down by the guards.
Meanwhile, a guard accidentally hits another guard, guards start shooting each other, and as one guard runs out the door the entire battle spills out into the street! A few more people are killed out there. Combat ends, one of the surviving guards turns and walks back into the casino, while five or six guards and casino patrons remain outside, most of them severely wounded. One gambler, standing out in the street, comments: "Damn, Becky's was the only place to gamble around here!"
THAT is how you Fallout
Oh man what I would have given to see that! So funny!
Incredible
w8 how did you made guards kill guards? As far as I know NPCs from the same "faction" never target each other unless it's accidental. They are ready to take the D... I mean hits for the group and even die for it. At least in my playthroughs
Even if this wasn't true.... I still enjoyed myself while reading it. I feel like I could picture how amazing it'd be to witness such an event. Bravo!
It's a life hack really, hang around successful people and over time you start absorbing their xp along with other vital fluids.
The highway to lvl100.
Their vital fluids... This took a very Epsteinian turn.
@@StratEdgyProductions Diddy is here too
"Metal armor that looks like a cosplay outfit for a GWAR concert"
God
Hey, what's the source for your profile pic??
I remember when I was on one of my countless playthroughs of Fallout as a wee lad (it came out when I was 14) and I discovered I could defeat the Master by telling him why his plan wasn't going to work and showing him evidence.
Fallout and Fallout 2 are the gold standard I've been comparing choice-based games against my entire life, and the only one that hasn't come up lacking is New Vegas.
Nah bro Skyrim. An open world game where the quests are on rails and you can’t make any meaningful decisions. I love Skyrim but it kinda sucks. Until you mod it.
28:23 seeing alien blaster on the selling table breaks my heart.
Nothing like the dual wield p90 burst full auto build.
the SMGs in this game were savage. I love burst firing into a crowd of enemies could be absolutely devastating, even if (or especially if) you had low accuracy
Until you give it to Ian
I used to amuse myself by trying to get the most ridiculous damage numbers with miniguns, things into the high thousands of hp. Burst crits in old Fallouts are preposterous.
@@waveplay3978 AND sniper
of course if you want an Extra long cRPG UnderRail is an outstanding game
I tried it, and I still have to continue it.
The game is very complex and allow a ton of different builds and object combinations...
Anyway I found the game really unappealing, I hate the graphic style and the absence of gore.
I also found that the beginning of the game was really long and boring with a ton of dialogs and only little involvement into an epic quest...
Instead I've played fallout : Nevada which is crazy good and with a ton of content, I highly recommend it !
One of the best CRPGs ever. I think I love it more than Fallout. Don't shoot!
As long as you don't mind investing 15 hours in a playthrough only to have to hard restart because you didn't use one of the eight "viable" meta builds from the wiki.
The game isn't just "punishing", it objectively prevents you from playing how you want to since there are three different hard progression walls you run into before the game actually opens up, with zero indication as to why you can no longer progress as you'll repeatedly get overrun by enemies with resistances you haven't yet seen or can even fully wrap your head around.
Fuck the Junkyard in particular, genuinely feels like the dev is taking the piss and actively did everything they could to make the game as much of an unresponsive rubix-cube as possible, definitely doesn't help that the entire community surrounding the game is of one of two camps - they either agree with me or just prattle off "git gud" empty platitudes because they're unwilling to admit they had to look up a build and end up coming off as a tryhard.
Maybe it's just me, but the comparison to classic Fallout is at best, aesthetics based only and at worst, a classic case of not actually remembering how classic Fallout actually functions.
@Greig91 As in, either they acknowledge the game has serious balancing issues that the devs refuse to correct because the userbase that jerks their e-peen would throw a fit, or their response is "just git good", but no, I'M the asshole here for pointing out how obnoxious it is to blatantly refuse to accept criticism of something you subjectively enjoy. If people like this game, that's fine, but that doesn't make it NOT BUSTED.
It's not about my opinion here, the game objectively doesn't let you play how you want to and "disagreeing" with that is to just ignore reality because you feel like it.
Edit: Also notice how a majority of the people talking about it haven't beaten it. Looking at steam analytics of achievements, that's pretty much an across the board phenomena, seems really weird imo.
@blurred no game is perfect, if you think that fallout was well balanced you have nostalgia goggles. If you're playing fallout 1 without looking up what perks are good and you just throw points wherever you're gonna have a bad time. Some perks are actively damaging depending on your build.
If you're having a hard time in an area you probably should go somewhere else to level up, complaining about difficulty spikes in it is the equivalent of walking to New Vegas or Fallout 1 wandering the desert to end game areas first thing.
With the exception of old junktown if you're doing the main quest as fast as possible. That place is legitimately terrible.
Point is if you made it through Fallout you can and will enjoy underrail if you get through a few rough patches. It's not perfect but it's a damn sight better than any other cRPG I've played that came out in the 10's.
Dude... ur videos are awesome. Im deployed overseas and ive just been binge watching them. Thankyou.
Stay safe, bro.
I'm looking forward for your coverage of the rest of Fallout. Fallout and The Elder Scrolls are my favorite series, and I'm excited for you to cover the rest of my favorite games. I had never finished classic fallout because I never learned to gain the systems. This helped me start to do well in Fallout 1. Thanks.
Nice. I love it when someone tells me that I've rekindled their passion for a game.
@@StratEdgyProductions I'm already almost finished with the game. I am loving it, I'm excited for your video on Fallout 2 especially.
Look up Fonline 3. Newest fallout online series based 2 years before the events of Fallout 2. Very updated and active community. Worth checking out.
I miss some of the dialog in the Fallout Demo. it was changed for the full game, when you punch someone in the dick they would yell out "My Crotch is the crotch of fire!"
Jeremy Alexander you should get that checked it might be an std
Stellar video my dude. Great stuff.
u should do a vid on fallout 3 new vegas its rly epic you can slow time and go pew pew
lol, that should be the script for the entire video.
*Archvile detected*
That'd be a great video
That sounds epic
Ring-a-ding-ding baby.
@Fui Gebhardt1 incorrect.
@Fui Gebhardt1 nobody does that.
Ring a ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding BABYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
I don’t know if you’re ever going to see this but If you do I just want you to know I think your content is top notch. Excellent job on everything.
Thanks!
Brilliant channel. I'm glad it popped up on my recommended feed, you have some good insightful content
Much appreciated!
Love when games let you make really specific builds, especially when there's a way to make it viable.
I think I'm currently in a phase of status ailment builds in the few games where they can be useful.
I was not expecting you to read the next column after SPECIAL. The laughter almost caused me to launch my half-rolled spliff across the desk but luckily that didn't happen
I would've felt guilty for that.
@@StratEdgyProductions instead, feel proud that you caused sudden and intense laughter
I really liked this video. The different ways that different characters interact with the world is something I really love about the old fallout games, and the narration was good and funny.
I'm so happy I discovered this channel. Your analysis and insight into gaming is just incredible.
This art style is so good to me. I started with fallout 3 and to me it always looked like this game in first person I wish they never changed with 4.
Really damn good video man!
Man is melee viable. One of my favourite builds was a martial artist with high luck. One-shots Deathclaws in their squishy ball sockets.
This is why Fallout 1 and Fallout 2 are so compelling to play, even today.
And yet, so little amount of people play, and they claim FNV as the best among the series.
Just looking at this comment section gives you the idea. How many of them are actually talking about the game itself?
@@JohnnyCasey Probably because there's a lot of console people or they just have a disinterest in the combat of fallout 1&2. It took me a bit of adjusting to get myself to play them as I'm younger and mostly grew up with fps and third person shooters/rpgs.
@@BullFrogFace
That's funny, given by the current status of Fallout fanbase where they crap on any Bethesda Fallouts(namely 4 and 76) despite fact that they offer far appealing gameplay that are suited for modern gamers such as yourself and the majority of "Fallout fans".
A game that they're constantly crapping on it has just the right thing that you wanted, and the ones that people praise them as the most compelling don't even interest people. How ironic.
@@JohnnyCasey Just seems to me like a lot more people have played the newer games and I tried to offer reasoning for that. Also, are you implying that people who've only played Bethesda era Fallout games aren't real fans? Or am I just misinterpreting your comment? I don't disagree with your comment but not everyone can get into crpgs/turn based combat... Even if every other aspect of the game is great.
@@BullFrogFace
No. What made you think that way? The fact that I quoted 'Fallout fans' in my previous comment?
I did that as a mockery against the mismatch of what they're saying and thinking. Their mouth says Fallout 4 and 76 are not a real Fallout or RPG, yet their mind wants to shoot and loot things in those two games. And they call themselves fans of the series. That's a laugh.
Your voice is like getting forcefed delicious, creamy, and smooth Swiss chocolate.
Well of course Hawkins is bad at running.
He's Dead.
He did ran out though. Of his vitality.
I remember the first time i played Fallout 1. Immediately after leaving the Vault on my way to Shady Sands i ran into the overturned nuka cola truck random event. I had something like 10k caps before the game even properly started. I went through the whole game buying shit left and right. It's part of the reason why this series has stayed so close to my heart.
You are a god! Sorry, but thats exactly what I needed but more important with the perfect person to make this video about. These kind of videos are so intriguing, they really make you as viewer get the same analytical perspective and wrap your head around from a extremly niche but most true perspective one could have over a game, i deeply respect that kind of work, not to mention the balance in teaching the viewer but also entertaining him.
I'm on UA-cam since 2008, and thats the content why I'm still here, passion pure passion, thanks for sharing!
Well done dude, really well done. I’m really enjoying this “How To” series.
"TENHNGK" - Japanese for measuring the warmth and moistness of duck meat.
I adore your sense of humor and delivery. Publishers not wanting to print you's down right criminal.
"Lyudmila the sniper wench form hell"ooooo hooo i love historical humor.
Have you taken a look at Wasteland 2? Wasteland 3 comes out soon, and I found Wasteland 2 and Underrail: Expedition the closest things to Fallout 1 and 2 in the modern age.
Unerrail is savage, but it lacks some little quality of life improvments. Other then that its great
I played wasteland 2 on the playstation. It was the most buggy game ever, constantly crashing the ps4. But finished it. Had some problems but I loved the style and the really messed up world. Hope there will be more games like this in the future. And less fortnite shit.
Wasteland 2 is so good, got to try it on PC gamepass and I bought it on GOG afterwards.
Wasteland 2 was terrible, they were too lazy to even make armor appearance change when you equipped any.
Wasteland 2 is great on the first play through, and then on replays it's great... eventually. But on replays it's really samey for like the first 10-15 hours and there's not really much escaping that.
But aside from that, the world building is great, the throwbacks to the original that you likely haven't played are really good, the decision making between skills and quests are fucking hard, and a lot of the side quests are really fun.
Love your videos, dude. You’re a great writer and despite having a real life, you’re still very passionate about games.
Also, these are really great to fall asleep to. I can’t explain it.
Nice timing, just sold my husband into slavery in Fallout 2
Watcha be needin'?
The year is 2020 and yet people like you are making great videos about one of my favourite games.
The format you used for video is sooooo good and entertaining, really enjoyed it whole time!
> "Have 10 Luck, like you should"
> Me: plays with 1 Luck on EVERY character in EVERY Fallout for my entire life
thanks but no
"I make my own luck"
*flips same sided coin
...but why
@@clownworldhereticmyron1018
Just be good at video games.
"I don't need luck, I have ammo"
-Grunt, Mass Effect 3
4 luck at the least bro
Making a power setting profile in windows that lowers your processor power "might" fix the force field issue. Its helped me fix problems in older games before.
Ive been wanting to buy Fallout and use this second build here. So this has helped a lot. Thanks! Also, I am a Hemophiliac and that joke had me laughing pretty good. Nicely done
As a comedic note, your delivery with "my god.... the carnage" was perfect as it was, and had me laughing literally out loud at work.
Slightly marred by the extra bit after, but it was damn funny 🤣
9:23 well that would of saved me many headaches, i ran into that damn radscropion right outside the vault multiple times regardless of what build i had.
thx lad. :)
Good work on the video, can't wait to see your thoughts on Shadowrun and Fallout 2!
The sheer amount of effort and information in this video... Amazing dude. lil hint of comedy too :') i love it
Mega con? That means you're in my area. Last megacon I went to was a while ago but was such a blast. Represent!
Hey Strat, great stuff as always, but since we're here I feel like it's important to be honest and say I only came for Lyudmila's well-toned, Amazon Goddess vault booty. Some other stuff happened too, I guess, but I don't remember what specifically because my Intelligenece stat iz 2.
You and me both. I play Fallout 1&2 and Chrono Trigger every single year, at least once. Games that stand the test of time, till the end of time itself!
Man I've never really payed much attention to your content, but the references and jokes hit a lot of my interests
Good Video
0:43 Your speaking has Hank Hill inflections to it.
About to start a shadowrun campaign so that next video would be so good!
I'm so happy for your new wave of popularity and subscribers... keep up the good work!
Funny story: I started with Fallout 4 and enjoyed it so much that I replayed all the games in reverse order. Now Fallout 1 is my favourite of the bunch and 4 is my least. Haven't touched 76 though due to the negativity it received.
I remember how proud I was of a 9 agility character that's saving grace was that he could fire two bursts of his night sight FAL in one turn, good shit
pretty basic looking back though lol
I got here from the recommended, good to know sometimes UA-cam gets it right. Great video!
You should do this for every fallout game and at the end talk about the difference between each experience
I've got one of your videos recommended like two month ago when I had to stay at home for a week, because I had to wait for the results of a corona test, before I could go back to work. So I had a lot of time to fill. I bingewatched basicly all the videos you had uploaded at this time even though I hadn't heard about some of those games. I just enjoyed your way of analyzing a game, as well as the unique style of "structuring" your analyses. Great work.
I have only discovered this channel a month ago but I’m so happy to see it growing
Thanks for your 2nd Answer in the Q&A. Fallout 3/New Vegas, Oblivion and Dark Souls 1/Demon's Souls are hands down my all time favorite games. But I haven't even played any of them for probably over 5 years. I never understood the draw of watching let's plays until somehow I fell into watching them here on UA-cam a few years ago. I can't even begin to guess how many hours I've spent watching other people enjoy these 5 games in ways that I didn't play them now. Not a great use of my free time at my age, I'm sure, but I don't watch movies or TV shows anymore. This is my entertainment.
This is a 🔥 video homie. Subscribed. Your tone makes a lot of this work well.
Appreciate that
Not sure if I understood most of it but I will use this when I start playing fallout 1 for the first time
That guy got squashed by a Super Mutant Behemoth. Legends say there were super mutants that grew as tall as a building.
there's a fourth option you didnt think about when it came to the mariposa military base and your stealth character.... probably wouldn't have worked for the heavy guns one but hey.
... you can give yourself up to the mutants, allowing them to capture you... this lets you get to the higher levels of the base (you still have to walk through a few forcefields but whatever)
the version on GOG lets you pick your framerate in options, so thanks for the heads up.
Rawr, you don't talk about the dumb-dumb build! But amazing job.
See the Killian thing is why I love Fallout so much. In the later games, NPCs will ask you to complete quests for them before theyve even see how you deal with combat. You can be fresh out the vault in FO4 and NPCs act like they trust you with their lifes. In Fallout though, that has to be earned by your actions and what you say to them, its brilliant.
wait this video was 40 minutes? the time flew by so quickly. such a great vid
Pro tips:
1.) The alien blaster is a random encounter that occurs at luck 6 or higher, you can always find it in the same square on the map, just look up which square that is, getting that gun means you’ve won the game.
2.) With luck 6 or higher, you will generally win 6 out of 10 bets, so going to the nearest gambling table, and holding down the 1 and 5 keys for like 10 minutes, will net you tens of thousand of bottle caps (results may vary).
3.) Never put luck above 8. There’s a guy in one of the towns who can raise your luck stat. However, he’s only supposed to do this by one, but by exploiting the game, you can get him to give you a second boost. The same is true for intelligence, as you can get a buff from the Brotherhood of Steel, and then take stupid pills to trigger the dialogue for the stupid character to get the buff, and get a second buff. Stupid characters have to do this in reverse, and take smart pills after getting the first buff.
My first build was the smart and charismatic character and it was more satisfying than my later pew pew pew runs. Nice video.
You have changed me not only as a gamer but as a person....In the best way possible of course. I have watched this video in particular more than 10 times, not because I felt I missed somthing or I felt I needed to copy what you did in game.it was mostly due to the outstanding writing and plot. But what I really love about your videos and this video in particular is how genuinely you love this title. Your experience and excitment in these old titles has made me chase those same feelings. Feelings that can only come from an old school crpg experience. I cannot thank you enough for opening my fucking eyes. Cheers mate!
I have the GOG version of Fallout 1, and it doesn't have that "fast forcefield" issue.
I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS
okay but like this was actually helpful since I was planning on picking up one of the classic fallouts
Good stuff as always, glad to see you doing more regular content. Only gripe is that "Divine Favor" is only a perk in Tactics and its still pretty shit. At least Fallout 2 made Charisma better by letting you have a party of companions.
Msi after burner comes with a software calls rivia(almost certain I spelt that incorrectly), anyway it works like a charm for frame limiting I use if for Skyrim, New Vegas and a few others.
juat started my first real playthrough of this game about a week ago, after dropping it a few times, due in large part to your channel. you really made me want to try crpgs based on your other vids. love your content man, some of the best on the platform.
I've only played Fallout once but i managed to keep all of my companions alive. it was done through having all of them hanging out in the background while i was taking advantages of the inconveniently small-framed door arch in Mariposa military base
*literally anything goes over halfway okay*
*quicksave*
Look up Fonline 3. Newest fallout online series based 2 years before the events of Fallout 2. Very updated and active community. Worth checking out.
Rewatching this video makes me a bit sad that he didn't finish the fallout 2 series because this is such a well put and excellent video. I hope he finds the time to finish the fallout 2 video
23:41 Dogmeat is actually a reference to "A boy and his dog". It's an insult the main character calls his dog.
1:44
Tshi
Nice reference, I love you for it
Both Fallout 1 and 2 I maxed Agi, Sneak and Steal and just pick pocketed my way through the game. That led to the live explosive in people's inventory trick, I used that a lot to get past parts of the game. Fallout 2 had Outdoorsman so you didn't need Luck for the encounters anymore.
The time you release these videos is making Australians very happy, thank you my dude.
This is really well done, thank you for the content.
I've played nearly all the modern Fallout games (except for 76, I'm not touching that with a 10 ft pole), and I got the original Fallout in a bundle a while ago. So far I haven't played yet, but this video has motivated me to give it a try. Wish me luck.
I remember hating Ian with a passion. His "friendly" fire killed me more times than any of the enemies in the game. So my advice: forget the companions in this game, they are a death trap. Just create a viable character with at least one combat skill adn experiment with your other tagged skills in your playthroughs. I always end up playing small guns and lock picking and then I transition to energy weapons as plasma rifles are super powerful in this game.
I finished my first Fallout 1 playthrough about a month ago and don't understand this. I knew Ian's reputation wasn't good but decided to take him anyway hoping the extra manpower would outweight the friendly fire. Turns out there wasn't as much of it as i was expecting; I kept him with me the entire run and only remember it happening 4 times in total. Hell, the companions were shooting each other more than they were shooting me. I played on 1.2 without any fan patches. Maybe setting my Luck stat to 7 was the reason? Is the usual expirience with companions terrible and i just happen to be an exception?
Ian was extremely helpful to me. Just stay out of his line of fire and youre fine. Got winged by him once or twice but never fatally.
wasn't there a secret achievement or something for taking dogmeat all the way to the endgame?
I remember there being something like that. Or was it just a challenge?
Probably a challenge as I'm pretty sure this game came out long before achievements were really a thing. Unless there's in-game achievements...
Remake Steven in Arcanum and try that build there.
You travel with Virgil, Sogg Mead Mugg, Dog and the talking orc from the museum. Dog dies from attacking golems with his teeth and you replace him with the Dwarf from outside Schuylers despite his annoying pure-good alignment. You can either fight OR talk depending on how you feel. (Crawl through the Dredge? No thanks. Open that sweet secret door.) Fight the final boss or talk him down? Flip a coin.
Someone just informed me that my voice reminded them of yours. When I started your video, there were a few seconds that I honestly thought it was me.
Creepy. But amazing video/channel!
@1:46 I GOT THE REDLETTERMEDIA REFERENCE AND I CLAPPED!!!!
It made me gag. Fuck that tshi
I KNOW WHAT THAT IS
Brothers, we have gathered here today, in reverence of the holy RLM. The holy trinity of Plinkett, Dick the birthday boy and Jay Baumans sexy hair. Let us pray to Space Cop for forgiveness and the longevity of Mike's liver! Amen.
The disappointment in the cooking of the duck meat
Keep up the good work man! I've had some free time on my hands and rolled through a bunch of your videos. They are getting better as you go.
The moment I saw this in my feed, my first thought was, "Awwwwwwwww yeaaaaaah. Another Strat-Edgy vid- my night just got a whole lot more interesting, and full of awkward sexual references." Tasteful, but awkward, as it turns out.
finished both Fallout 1 and 2 this year, while the gameplay is kinda strange, it's easy to understant, kinda like The Witcher 1
Fallout was a story about a man saving his vault from dying of thirst and the wasteland from super mutants. Fallout 2 was a story about a pornstar drug addict who gambled his way to success and blew shit up.
I loved Fallout 1 so much in highschool. I would stay up late to play it and when they had a late start I would get up early to play Fallout! It truly is a brilliant game.
Fallout 1 is still my favorite fallout cRPG.
Look up the unofficial Fallout guide/walkthrough and play as a gifted sniper and you'll thank me later.
Completely agree, while New Reno is probably one of my top 3 rpg towns(with maybe Sigil and Tarant), it really doesn't fit the universe.
@@radech2285 oh how I loved flirting with the pious miss wright after being blamed for being a sinful; porn actor lmao. Always ended up doing both bishops as well. Can't ever skip the boxing ring either. I do rarely take miro with me. Usually I just keep kicking him in the groin till he dies.
@@radech2285 New Reno fits the universe perfectly if you only look at 1, 2, and NV ans ignore the retcons bethesda pulled out of their ass
Shush, there are no retcons and Bethesda never did a fallout game, I've also heard stories of something called Fallout:BOS but it's all just vicious rumours and reckless speculation. My main gripe with Fallout 2 is that there is a lot of great locations in the world, but very little to tie them together, unlike 1 where the world seemed a lot more cohesive and intertwined.
@@radech2285 This guy gets it.
Just found your channel a little while ago, now I’m constantly checking for new vids. Love your narrating style and humor. Great work!
21:25 I decided I love your editorial style
Man just made a GWAR reference, liked and subscribed.