I can't bring myself to do _any_ of the Evil actions in this game. It being fictional doesn't help. I felt compelled to help and save the innocent every single time I've played and completed a playthrough of this game.
+mikeeditprofile I guess it's mainly because the main character got to spend more game time with his/her family compared to fallout 4's main character. I never felt like I got to know Shaun as much as I got to know James. Shaun still felt like a stranger to me. That's probably why that last 3 second shot of that father and son picture gave me some feels.
This story felt more personal and more sad than Fallout 4's. The ending of him walking with his only companion, and the line, "So ends the story of the lone wanderer..." and then cue music with a shot of you and your father in the picture frame. Sadness...
before broken steel, the lone wanderer never got to go past the age of 19 due to the lethal levels of radiation within the chamber... when he activated the purifier he died in a pile of goo.... when broken steel came the lone wanderer cheated death which made a massive lore gap... oh if only tale of two wastelands was a canon thing
This comment choked me up because in Little Lamplight you can tell a child a story based off the lone wanderer and all you can really end with is 'I'm still working on the ending'. All I can picture is how happy that child was to hear a new story, the impact it had on the lone wanderer, and those being their final words. Call me sappy, but that genuinely chokes me up.
lol it matters who goes there,who truly saves the wasteland,and if you pick Sarah,Fawkes,or other followers,they are the hero... now don't say I KILLED DEH ENCLAVE,I KILLED THE MUTANTS, that doesn't mean shit,all the brotherhood of steel guy killed enclave and mutants,but the true price of being a hero,is to sacrafice something you care about,as a wise man said ''What are you prepared to sacrafice''
Dyom Missionplayer Sacrificing yourself in that situation would be idiotic. Some would see it heroic, most would see it as a daddy's boy throwing his life away to follow in his dad's footsteps.
This ending shook me big time mainly because of all I invested into this wonderful game and how it was so unexpected. Fallout 3 is so immersive with the choices and consequences of such. The bitter-sweet beauty of the ending is about how your dad once sacrificed the future of the world for the safety of his only child and then how his child chose to sacrifice their life for the future of the world. That portrait at the end gets me every time.
This game really knows how to fuck with your psyche. It is the only game I have ever played where I actually feel very compelled to act morally, and very ashamed to act with evil. One of the only games where I've sometimes hesitated to start a fight.
Mankind - Redefined me too! In Skyrim, I pickpocketed everyone's clothes off and I was the leader of the thieves guild and dark brotherhood, but in Fallout, I couldn't even make a mean comment!
Holly Roscoe I think because everyone has a story and they are more human than characters in other games. There are no villains in fallout, only people like many others who got thrown in hell due to their ancestors fault who destroyed their own world, kicked themselves and their descendents into a hellish wasteland , a barbaric world where everyone tries to survive , a world of suffering.
Because this is before Bethesda forgot what made these games great. It's not about telling the player who they are. It's about giving them an importunity to show the player who they could become.
"The Capital Wasteland proved a cruel, inhospitable place. But the wanderer refused to surrender to the vices that had claimed so many others." Always gives me chills.
@@deedeedee123Yes you can. Did you forget about going along with Eden's plan of tainting the water with anti-mutant FEB, forever dooming the residents of the Capitol Wasteland and leading to genocide?
@@hewhoplugwalks of course you can be the bad guy. Im not talking about that mate. Like the story ends up giving you the desicion to honor your fathers death or make him crumble in his death bed. You can't choose to become the bad guy morally
Man, that final shot with the picture of The Lone Wanderer and his dad always hits hard. Something about the fact that you start the game hearing that exact music, and hear it in the end as you see that last frame is really sad. You leave the vault to find your dad, but you find much more. You become a hero of the wasteland, just as your dad did. And that last frame out the final touches on. Fuck the other endings though, they really don't feel canon. It was supposed to end with you finishing what your father started, in a heroic way, like Dad would have wanted. I also don't like Broken Steel. Completely ruins the vanilla ending and shits on it's beauty.
Fuck the ending where you die. The best RPGs are ones where your fate isn't restrained to one destination, like with Dragon Age Origins where you had multiple ways to determine your fate. Yeah it might seem "beautiful" to some that the LW died heroically but to some of us, if there's a better way to save the wasteland without throwing our lives away then we're going to take it. Like sending Fawkes in, fight smart so that you live longer.
"The capital wasteland proved to be a cruel and inhospitable place but the lone wanderer refused to surrender to the vices that had claimed so many others. The values passed on from father to child, selflessness, compassion, honor guided this noble soul through countless trials and triumphs"
its so sad when he putted in the memory of the lone wanderer when he was 2 years old.when james told him about his mother's favorite bible sentence. which was actually the code to the purifier. 216
I never liked how the narrator gave us shit for sending fawkes into the chamber. Seriously, its the most logical solution. No one dies and the wasteland gets water win win.
but Jesus doesn't sacrifice himself, he is sacrificed by God to appease God's wrath even though he is technically God. yeah, doesn't make any sense to me either
Devine That Bible Verse. What is GOD saying? Do you have to pay for the Mercy and Grace of GOD, or is it freely given to them that accept it? GOD paid your price, otherwise the temporary dust and ashes that you are without life of the soul would have no worthy meaning. Without Love, everything you are would be gone and pointless when the power goes out. Without love you would just be a digital character in a video game just like the one we're watching here.
Jesus could have decided to not get crucified. He had the power to bring down millions of angels and kill all the Romans if he wanted to. He sacrificed himself.
1:53 This song makes me weep. It's the music and context. You did great things. But you couldn't save everyone. In the end, the world is still a wasteland and everything meant nothing. Yet you did your absolute best and became the best of humanity despite everything that happened to you and everyone who tried to kill you. You are a hero and this is your funeral song.
With broken steel, it still does and either way the wonder story ends and then he disappears and then a biography written by more as written about him Being the hero wasn't the hard part that's letting go.
What makes this game become extremely sad is when you play a bad karma character up to this point and allow yourself to be sacrificed. It makes you feel like you only did one thing right, and fucked up everything else.
What is interesting is even with the lowest karma, sacrificing yourself is enough to bring you up to neutral. That one act of selflessness was enough for the wasteland to acknowledge that despite all you did, you did respect your father enough to honor his memory.
This ending would hurt my heart everytime. It felt like my heart broke. The last slide of dad and The lone wanderer make me just... made me cry. The ending of this game is genius.I swear no other game has an ending like this. Love this game period.
Like cTigon said, fallout portrays a very real world. A world with good and evil. I honestly could never bring myself to be an evil character unless a fully intended to. I always feel like I should play the good guy because it's just in my nature.
Link6456 good and evil in new vegas are blurred as fuck though. On one hand, Caesars legion could be considered evil, but at the same time, they punish bad people too. When I meet vulpes inculta, I had to admire him after first hating what he had done. When I look at what the people they burned and crucified had done, I felt it was just. The mayor had planned on selling his people into slavery, and the legion punished him the worst. And to me I would have done the same. They tied him to a stake, and let the dogs tear him apart while he was on fire, or something similar. I guess the way they punish bad people is more or less what could make them evil. Honestly the NCR is just as bad.
JanusCarrera Definitely one of the best games, but story? Not so much. The foundations already existed. Vaults, post-war timeline, clothing etcetera already existed due to Fallout 1 and Fallout 2. Project Purity played on a well known building of DC and the prior knowledge of water being irradiated. Everything else was very far-fetched. Eden being a robot. Enclave forces defying the president in favour of Autumn. The military forces seen at Raven Rock and not even attacking the Brotherhood. The motive to poison the water in order to 'save' humanity and kill all ghouls and mutants, when they could've just aided the Brotherhood with killing mutants. Lot of unexplained lore and illogical views/actions. Everything else about Fallout 3. The open world, the DLC, the customization... Perfect. Though the story wasn't its selling point.
JanusCarrera Except James was a fucking idiot. Keep in mind, the reason he "sacrificed" himself was because Colonel Autumn told him to stand down and relinquish control of Project Purity. Now, this would have been a noble cause for sacrifice, but there's one teeny tiny little problem that causes it all to fall apart. *PROJECT PURITY DOESN'T FUCKING WORK.* So, instead of standing down and working against the Enclave to regain control of it with the Brotherhood by your side once you get the GECK, James instead kills himself and Colonel Autumn for no reason. Except he doesn't kill Colonel Autumn, because.... oh wait, that's not explained, Autumn may as well have been resurrected by magic for all we know. The plot of Fallout 3 is an incoherent mess filled with plot-holes, and chucking a father-son story in there to attempt to pull heart strings doesn't change that.
I love fallout's 3 good ending. It is so meaning, so legendary, that no other game will ever be able to paint such a perfect picture. Perhaps the ending even able to capture the meaning of life itself, if you believe life has a purpose. I am unsure what the ultimate meaning is, but if I had to choose, it would be sacrifice. Humanity, much like the world we inhabit today, is not worth it. The world is cruel, there is no love, people are selfish, ignorant, or just plain sinister. There are pockets of good, but a vast majority of life is a wasteland where you try to survive in a dog (m)eat dog world. Life will always be like this, but if it weren't for people like the lone wanderer, the world would cease to be anything at all. Despite humanity's flaws, there is good in mankind, and it is worth serving, even if one must sacrifice one's self in doing so. Most people, living in self-interest, will not do that. But this game someone gives me hope. One day I am going to have to make that choice. Perhaps my life is that choice. And as the video comes to a close, I reflect on my own choices, and all the future choices I can make. Perhaps I won't save the world, perhaps it will fail miserably, but I hope that is not going to stop me from trying and never giving up. :) i
i know im 5 years late but yeah: "I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. " thats a thomas jefferson quote. basically describes the lone wanderers character because if you go in you're being "good" and all
I could've sworn that when he fell on the ground and the screen started to go black I was gonna see "You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you?" pop up then hear that fucked up laugh.
I ended it listening the message that your dad gives you from the vault, your first casset, almost made me cry, while it says " i love you son" while i was losing coscience by radiation, if you are planning ti end fallout 3 try putting that casset while entering the code
From a narrative perspective, I much prefer this ending as opposed to the Broken Steel add-on. Following the footsteps of your father to sacrifice yourself for the betterment of humanity is a powerful idea. But you know, that's just me
+Devin Wakesfield Maybe, but if you saved Hawkes it doesn´t make sense. He´s immune of radiation so it´s just absurd to suicide yourself. Anyway, the DLC makes possible to go in that Chamber and survive... Fallout and its things
I think using fawkes is correct, it not anly means you are the hero of fawkes and you are inteligent, its selfish to keep the hero estarus for yourself, fawkes is a very good person and he deserves it
@@gt362gamer Time was at the essence both the Lone wanderer and the sentinel knew that the facility gonna explode and even after they put the code the huge radiation gonna consume them. This was personal cause they knew the rads gonna consume them all your companions who are immune to radiation nearly faints (but will not die) but at the end as Docter Lee says it the huge radiation will leak regardless the difference if they don't turn it on the project is doom but if they do the radiation will still leak ( with the same amount) but the project will work with chance of survival as the project take the radiation away.
None of our Family lives forever. And that's why generations pass on from Parent to Child. The Lone Wanderer learned from his father to sacrifice for a greater good. Most of his loved ones are proud of what he has done. And We live a kinda happily forever after.
I prefer the original ending rather than Broken Steel's alternate ending, and unless Fallout 4 says the Lone Wanderer survived the events of FO3, any of the endings can be considered canon. The game begins with the Wanderer's birth and ends with his death. It makes the narrative beautiful.
I mean broken steel does still make it good though, because the wonder realizes it's Probably not his time yet, and that the world still needs him, and he does of what his family has been doing, bringing purity to the world of the waste Which is why he disappeared from the capitol before the events of new vegas and four Before he finally meets his end, because i'm he will never know how his story will really end.Until the final epilogue.
Inspite Of Adversity And The Horrors Of The Wasteland At The Center Of It All You Have Someone Influenced By The Small Time With There Father To Make The Wasteland A Better Place By Makeing Friends And Slowly Restoreing Hearts Then When You Finally See Your Father Again He Dies Trying To Provide Everyone Clean Water As His Last Request You Intend To Finish Your Fathers Work Ignoreing All The Evils Of The Wasteland When Given The Opportunity TheLoneWander Finishes His Fathers Projects And Dies In The Process He Will Not Get To See The Fruits Of His Labor Yet He Lost Everything The Entire Theme Is About Family And How Little Time We Get To Spend With Them : TheLoneWander Wanted To Be Like His Dad Thats Ultimately All He Wanted Was A Place In The World
I'm sorry for this but..... *Blows up megaton as I don't want to set the world on fire plays on the radio of the balcony of tenpenny tower as megaton is annihilated*
3:54 This bit is the icing on the cake to me. It gives you the impression that the Lone Wanderer managed to reunite with their father and mother in heaven. ...Until Broken Steel came along and fucked everything up by pulling a "Hey, you're finally awake"
It's still potitic because the world still needs and he accepts that he said it himself. He'll never know how his story will end until the epilogue finally begins I would really love to see the lone wonder return for his story to truly end
Alot of people get very emotional about the picture with James, but the thing that hits me hard is what comes just before that picture. When the narrator says "and war..." *picture changes to a cemetery* "war never changes". I feel like my heart moves up to my throat (it's kinda hard to describe) everytime that part comes. I think it hits me so hard because even though Fallout is set in a fictional universe, war is very real, and leads to a lot of tragic losses, regardless of who wins.
erodiumminer i feel the same way. I think that the cemitery is a perfect analogy to that phrase. It shows all the people that fought for their lives, and it shows that struggle for survival will never come to a close.
Yes that's what it means by saying war never changes, that no matter where you are or what God forsaken universe your in, war will always be the same. Death and suffering.
Even though Fallout 3 was my least favorite of the fallout games, the ending still gets me. That little bit at the end with you and your dad. Taken on your 10th birthday. Everytime I see it, alot flashes in my mind. I immediately think that you and your dad are both dead, sacrificed to the causes you both hold dear. You were both alive and happy in that picture though, so long ago. Once a peaceful time now passed. So much thought passes through my mind when I think of stuff like that.
My mom died when I was fairly young and my dad had to raise me and my brothers, so this Fallout is much more personal to me, and it’s why to me, it’s the best one.
In my opinion this game has the best storyline of all time (with good karma) with the growing up in the vault, with all the moments with your dad, and finally when you die to save mankind. It's such a beautiful heart warming ending to a great game. Especially at the end with the picture. The only game i know with a better storyline than this is dishonored
War... War never changes. Or does it? The war has changed. Did it? The answer is no... Unless it is yes... No! Of course it is. It's war! Yes... No... Yes?
The_Weasel_2012 here's your objective: bla, bla bla bla secret base bla bla bla bla plan bla bla bla nuclear missile bomb bla bla bla counting on you but most important: Win good luck!
This game actually shaped my moral compass lmao. I used to play this all of the time, and when I grew up I wanted to be a hero just like my character had been
I'm always getting Very Good on my General for this game, I can't do any evil. Same ending every time with that one heart breaking glimpse of you and your father. I treat Fallout like Real life. I do things in fallout I would've done in real life. I loved fallout since I was 4, Glad my dad picked it up before or I would've NEVER heard of this series :o.
Man they should allow you to play the rest of the game like you can in skyrim this ending is awesome and everything but I feel like I'm missing out on the other stuff that didn't do
Just to clear things up here guys: if you have the Broken Steel DLC, no matter what ending you choose, you can continue playing the game after completing it.
Such an underrated game. The storyline and Bible-inspired moral is the best part. I wasn’t able to understand it when I played it so many years ago but I do now.
I really love the quotes and sort of everything about this ending. Wow! I really feel proud about myself. I played this game and got the good karma ending.
I played every single fallout game and by far Fallout 3s is the most heartbreaking and emotional game in the series not only did you watch your own father die as you helplessly watch but in a way you’re the reason your mother died and you also got kicked out of the vault after saving and stopping the overseer but in the end you fulfilled your parents dream to help the commonwealth it genuinely made me tear up in the end, Fallout 4 tries to do the same in a way with shaun being taken and your spouse being murdered but after you kill Kellogg and get into the institute the plot just strays away from it and becomes generic
+Unibitrio It's a side quest on that note you find right in the beginning of the game about items owed to someone left in a scrap yard, I didn't find him until after finishing the main quest line.
I can't bring myself to do _any_ of the Evil actions in this game.
It being fictional doesn't help. I felt compelled to help and save the innocent every single time I've played and completed a playthrough of this game.
I actually only stole valuable things. But I spared many caps for the hobos, I just couldn't kill an innocent person :C
***** steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198060135418/
I seriously thought I was the only one, I know they're fake but my morals are bigger than my head, so I can't do it.
Same here white raven.
+White Raven I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
0:55
When I went into the purifier, I put on the "Better Days" holotape. Just so the Lone Wanderer could hear his mothers voice one last time....
lol. That's true.
+Meemsss yea she's like '' James stop it in an a flity voice''
Lol did anyone else do the same I did as well
@@themasterofgaming2260 😭
😭
The end shot of the picture of the kid and his dad always gets me.
Sergeant Waters I know, it didn't really sink in how fucking sad it was until after I watched the ending.
The part that always gets me choking up is when they talk about virtues.... I take the kind of stuff seriously and... it just got to me.
The_ Cutters Then you ought to play Ultima 4 through Ultima 7
:D
Jonathan Jensen ok. Let the feel train begin.
+Sergeant Waters its honestly the most depressing part of the game along with james dying, liam neeson did a great job voicing james
It is funny how a simple 3 second shot of you and your father right at the end with simple emotional music made the ending much better...
+mikeeditprofile yeah i completely agree with you! i connected better with the characters in Fallout 3 more than in Fallout 4!
0:22 if only that was actually in the game as a flashback
IT MADE ME CRY!!!
+mikeeditprofile I guess it's mainly because the main character got to spend more game time with his/her family compared to fallout 4's main character. I never felt like I got to know Shaun as much as I got to know James. Shaun still felt like a stranger to me.
That's probably why that last 3 second shot of that father and son picture gave me some feels.
That music is also the thing you hear in Fallout 4 before running to the tv to hear about the nuclear bombs dropping.
This story felt more personal and more sad than Fallout 4's. The ending of him walking with his only companion, and the line, "So ends the story of the lone wanderer..." and then cue music with a shot of you and your father in the picture frame. Sadness...
And the saddest part is that no matter what action you take, no matter what path you take, it really doesn't matter in the end.
before broken steel, the lone wanderer never got to go past the age of 19 due to the lethal levels of radiation within the chamber... when he activated the purifier he died in a pile of goo.... when broken steel came the lone wanderer cheated death which made a massive lore gap... oh if only tale of two wastelands was a canon thing
agreed broken steel fucked up the lore of fallout
Radiation can't melt broken steel---i mean lore
Bradley Mattingly Only way to be able to get power armor tho
"Humanity, with all its flaws, was deemed worthy of preservation"
There's a lot of great lines in this, but this is my favorite
Based. Jesus is King. God bless you brother
@@PavlovsobakaJesus is king first, carpenter second!
"Sorry kid, looks like i won't be able to tell you how my story ends." - lone wanderer
This comment choked me up because in Little Lamplight you can tell a child a story based off the lone wanderer and all you can really end with is 'I'm still working on the ending'.
All I can picture is how happy that child was to hear a new story, the impact it had on the lone wanderer, and those being their final words.
Call me sappy, but that genuinely chokes me up.
Vanity Vulpix what kid in Little Lamplight can you talk about yourself?
Broken Steel DLC wants to talk with you.
I literally got choked up reading ur comment cuz I just finished talking to that kid knowing I was about done playing the game
@@cycy287 Knock knock? (Who's there?) Noah? (Noah Who?) Noah place where I can get some food?
That picture at the end with his dad always chokes me up. Happy Fathers Day Dads!
+THOMAS SODOMIZER It always reminds me of me and my dad
+André Duarte me too he looked like my dad i think the hair are the same
I love my dad and my mom
THOMAS SODOMIZER my dad is a dad
I wish I had a better dad like james
I let Fawkes go in. Since hes immune to radiation, I figured it would be a win win.
I hate how the game calls you out for being a bitch calling fawkes the "true hero"
lol it matters who goes there,who truly saves the wasteland,and if you pick Sarah,Fawkes,or other followers,they are the hero... now don't say I KILLED DEH ENCLAVE,I KILLED THE MUTANTS, that doesn't mean shit,all the brotherhood of steel guy killed enclave and mutants,but the true price of being a hero,is to sacrafice something you care about,as a wise man said
''What are you prepared to sacrafice''
+Dyom Missionplayer *(SLOWLY CLAPS)*
Dyom Missionplayer Sacrificing yourself in that situation would be idiotic. Some would see it heroic, most would see it as a daddy's boy throwing his life away to follow in his dad's footsteps.
hah...it's either you or the fucking Wasteland...i rather die to save more people...rather than live forever alone
"Humanity, with all its flaws, was deemed worthy of preservation."
I don't know why, but that makes me tear up
This ending shook me big time mainly because of all I invested into this wonderful game and how it was so unexpected. Fallout 3 is so immersive with the choices and consequences of such.
The bitter-sweet beauty of the ending is about how your dad once sacrificed the future of the world for the safety of his only child and then how his child chose to sacrifice their life for the future of the world.
That portrait at the end gets me every time.
3:53
K, gonna cry now.
Yeah that part is really touching
+Thaal Sinestro i realized that picture is actually our first kill using the BB gun.. :'( R.I.P Dad and Jonas. :'(
+Thaal Sinestro he is the true hero of gaming may we always remember him
+SuperShah201 and your self if you go do the purifier so sad but at lest u got to spend your life with them;(
Kristian Kovacik
I did do the purifier in my game. which is the saddest ending in my opinion :'(
This game really knows how to fuck with your psyche. It is the only game I have ever played where I actually feel very compelled to act morally, and very ashamed to act with evil. One of the only games where I've sometimes hesitated to start a fight.
Mankind - Redefined me too! In Skyrim, I pickpocketed everyone's clothes off and I was the leader of the thieves guild and dark brotherhood, but in Fallout, I couldn't even make a mean comment!
Holly Roscoe
I think because everyone has a story and they are more human than characters in other games. There are no villains in fallout, only people like many others who got thrown in hell due to their ancestors fault who destroyed their own world, kicked themselves and their descendents into a hellish wasteland , a barbaric world where everyone tries to survive , a world of suffering.
It is Bethesdas way of portraying good to be the only way
RDR2 for me even more so...
Because this is before Bethesda forgot what made these games great. It's not about telling the player who they are. It's about giving them an importunity to show the player who they could become.
This ending, it just works.
*It Just Works!*
You dork, go back to the chess club
@@execute6200" yes i was in the chess club"
I just choose Fawkes to do it. I get it good guy and all but lone wanderer ain't stupid
Damn that ending bought a tear to my eye.
It's the photo taken during the lone-wanderers 10th birthday.
Makes me wish I never betrayed grove street...
Big Smoke two games I thoroughly enjoyed
Lol
Died In 1997
Played a 2008 game
LEGEND
That part make me cry this is real man to cry
El grande smoke
"The Capital Wasteland proved a cruel, inhospitable place. But the wanderer refused to surrender to the vices that had claimed so many others."
Always gives me chills.
Being Good human being is The coolest thing
@@Hjj.sjsjzksk yeah. You just can’t be the bad guy in fallout 3
Same. This video (especially with the editted clips) always makes me get emotional haha
@@deedeedee123Yes you can. Did you forget about going along with Eden's plan of tainting the water with anti-mutant FEB, forever dooming the residents of the Capitol Wasteland and leading to genocide?
@@hewhoplugwalks of course you can be the bad guy. Im not talking about that mate. Like the story ends up giving you the desicion to honor your fathers death or make him crumble in his death bed. You can't choose to become the bad guy morally
Man, that final shot with the picture of The Lone Wanderer and his dad always hits hard. Something about the fact that you start the game hearing that exact music, and hear it in the end as you see that last frame is really sad. You leave the vault to find your dad, but you find much more. You become a hero of the wasteland, just as your dad did. And that last frame out the final touches on. Fuck the other endings though, they really don't feel canon. It was supposed to end with you finishing what your father started, in a heroic way, like Dad would have wanted. I also don't like Broken Steel. Completely ruins the vanilla ending and shits on it's beauty.
Word. This ending was beautiful...
i have neutral emotions on the broken steel DLC i would have hate it if it wasn't for the epic final battle aganist the enclave
Fuck the ending where you die. The best RPGs are ones where your fate isn't restrained to one destination, like with Dragon Age Origins where you had multiple ways to determine your fate. Yeah it might seem "beautiful" to some that the LW died heroically but to some of us, if there's a better way to save the wasteland without throwing our lives away then we're going to take it.
Like sending Fawkes in, fight smart so that you live longer.
You aren't the hero, lol, your dad is.
@@joshuacarpenter7447 the fawkes thing was so lazy... You do that they still paint you a bad guy even though it makes sense
"The capital wasteland proved to be a cruel and inhospitable place but the lone wanderer refused to surrender to the vices that had claimed so many others. The values passed on from father to child, selflessness, compassion, honor guided this noble soul through countless trials and triumphs"
War... War never changes...
Le Lenny But men do.... Through the roads they walk.....
Ryan Pavey pls
Ryan Pavey FUCKIN DEEP
YEP
Red menace, Red menace never changes.
the last few seconds are so sad
I know always brings a tear to my eye
its so sad when he putted in the memory of the lone wanderer when he was 2 years old.when james told him about his mother's favorite bible sentence. which was actually the code to the purifier. 216
very emotional end
Dying Meme fuck you
I really like the extra touch you added with the flashback.
I never liked how the narrator gave us shit for sending fawkes into the chamber. Seriously, its the most logical solution. No one dies and the wasteland gets water win win.
They wanted to put a different ending, but they couldn't get Ron Perlman in time to narrate it
Hunter Richards your father sacrificed himself for you and expected you to do the same to save humanity
@@thebruh1883 Still stupid.
You are needed for the Catharsis.
The son who sacrifices himself for mankind despite of all its flaws, hmm....sounds familiar
All in a days work for them that use the Sword. Them that drink of the living water.
but Jesus doesn't sacrifice himself, he is sacrificed by God to appease God's wrath even though he is technically God. yeah, doesn't make any sense to me either
Devine
That Bible Verse.
What is GOD saying?
Do you have to pay for the Mercy and Grace of GOD, or is it freely given to them that accept it?
GOD paid your price, otherwise the temporary dust and ashes that you are without life of the soul would have no worthy meaning.
Without Love, everything you are would be gone and pointless when the power goes out.
Without love you would just be a digital character in a video game just like the one we're watching here.
Jesus could have decided to not get crucified. He had the power to bring down millions of angels and kill all the Romans if he wanted to. He sacrificed himself.
Jesus is the protagonist confirmed (I know i'm late as hell i m s o r r y)
When I walked in I put on the Better Days tape so my lone wanderer could hear her mother's voice and her parent's happiness one last time.
I did the exact same thing and once I started it at the perfect time so it ended right when the screen blacked out.
Alex Georgiadis I had the tape end right before i put in the code
coolhere45 when my lone wanderer steped in I played the music box song as a way for him to remember all his memories he held precious
1:53 This song makes me weep. It's the music and context. You did great things. But you couldn't save everyone. In the end, the world is still a wasteland and everything meant nothing. Yet you did your absolute best and became the best of humanity despite everything that happened to you and everyone who tried to kill you. You are a hero and this is your funeral song.
This was the ending Fallout 3 was meant to be ended upon.
With broken steel, it still does and either way the wonder story ends and then he disappears and then a biography written by more as written about him Being the hero wasn't the hard part that's letting go.
I cried when I had that sudden realization. Had to wipe the tears from my eyes before I typed the password.
Watching this makes me feel like there's actual hope for humanity
What makes this game become extremely sad is when you play a bad karma character up to this point and allow yourself to be sacrificed. It makes you feel like you only did one thing right, and fucked up everything else.
When you go inside activating machine to cleaning water you get +1000 no cut
What is interesting is even with the lowest karma, sacrificing yourself is enough to bring you up to neutral. That one act of selflessness was enough for the wasteland to acknowledge that despite all you did, you did respect your father enough to honor his memory.
Reminds of Arthur in rdr2
It was the Evil Wanderer's Chance to redeem themselves and be a hero for once
This ending would hurt my heart everytime. It felt like my heart broke. The last slide of dad and The lone wanderer make me just... made me cry. The ending of this game is genius.I swear no other game has an ending like this. Love this game period.
BIOSHOCK?
I know. I know.
StealthSnipe how about Spec Ops: The Line?
Nolan South AND Alen Xender What about pizzashock?
Siberia Strong you mean Biosock?
Like cTigon said, fallout portrays a very real world. A world with good and evil. I honestly could never bring myself to be an evil character unless a fully intended to. I always feel like I should play the good guy because it's just in my nature.
agreed
I second/thirdly that.
same
Link6456 good and evil in new vegas are blurred as fuck though. On one hand, Caesars legion could be considered evil, but at the same time, they punish bad people too. When I meet vulpes inculta, I had to admire him after first hating what he had done. When I look at what the people they burned and crucified had done, I felt it was just. The mayor had planned on selling his people into slavery, and the legion punished him the worst. And to me I would have done the same. They tied him to a stake, and let the dogs tear him apart while he was on fire, or something similar. I guess the way they punish bad people is more or less what could make them evil. Honestly the NCR is just as bad.
One of the best story lines and endings in game history
JanusCarrera Definitely one of the best games, but story? Not so much.
The foundations already existed. Vaults, post-war timeline, clothing etcetera already existed due to Fallout 1 and Fallout 2. Project Purity played on a well known building of DC and the prior knowledge of water being irradiated.
Everything else was very far-fetched. Eden being a robot. Enclave forces defying the president in favour of Autumn. The military forces seen at Raven Rock and not even attacking the Brotherhood. The motive to poison the water in order to 'save' humanity and kill all ghouls and mutants, when they could've just aided the Brotherhood with killing mutants.
Lot of unexplained lore and illogical views/actions.
Everything else about Fallout 3. The open world, the DLC, the customization... Perfect. Though the story wasn't its selling point.
Blackjax137 so you weren't moved by the story of a boy trying to find his dad only to lose him and find a cause to help humanity
JanusCarrera Except James was a fucking idiot.
Keep in mind, the reason he "sacrificed" himself was because Colonel Autumn told him to stand down and relinquish control of Project Purity.
Now, this would have been a noble cause for sacrifice, but there's one teeny tiny little problem that causes it all to fall apart.
*PROJECT PURITY DOESN'T FUCKING WORK.*
So, instead of standing down and working against the Enclave to regain control of it with the Brotherhood by your side once you get the GECK, James instead kills himself and Colonel Autumn for no reason.
Except he doesn't kill Colonel Autumn, because.... oh wait, that's not explained, Autumn may as well have been resurrected by magic for all we know.
The plot of Fallout 3 is an incoherent mess filled with plot-holes, and chucking a father-son story in there to attempt to pull heart strings doesn't change that.
+JanusCarrera You kidding me? The ending was shit.
+SikFuq86 Fallout 3's original ending is one of the shittiest endings in video games. This is coming from someone who loves Fallout 3.
I love fallout's 3 good ending. It is so meaning, so legendary, that no other game will ever be able to paint such a perfect picture. Perhaps the ending even able to capture the meaning of life itself, if you believe life has a purpose. I am unsure what the ultimate meaning is, but if I had to choose, it would be sacrifice. Humanity, much like the world we inhabit today, is not worth it. The world is cruel, there is no love, people are selfish, ignorant, or just plain sinister. There are pockets of good, but a vast majority of life is a wasteland where you try to survive in a dog (m)eat dog world. Life will always be like this, but if it weren't for people like the lone wanderer, the world would cease to be anything at all. Despite humanity's flaws, there is good in mankind, and it is worth serving, even if one must sacrifice one's self in doing so. Most people, living in self-interest, will not do that. But this game someone gives me hope. One day I am going to have to make that choice. Perhaps my life is that choice. And as the video comes to a close, I reflect on my own choices, and all the future choices I can make. Perhaps I won't save the world, perhaps it will fail miserably, but I hope that is not going to stop me from trying and never giving up. :) i
You're so fuckin damn right
Maybe fallout 4 can
Halo 3...
bastermaboy Clearly you haven't played mass effect paragon-renegade style with max war assets and synthesis ending.
nigga it would be victory. You can join Ceasar's legion with sacrifice fetishisms, I'm going to the moon with Mr House.
I love how you can see thomas jefferson when you activate the purifier. Was there symbolism behind that?
The father of the Declaration of Independence? There's definitely a lot of symbolism going on there.
Benjamin Fargason Or is HE the purifier?
I feel as though it symbolizes another beginning, another america.
i know im 5 years late but yeah:
"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
"
thats a thomas jefferson quote. basically describes the lone wanderers character because if you go in you're being "good" and all
I could've sworn that when he fell on the ground and the screen started to go black I was gonna see "You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you?" pop up then hear that fucked up laugh.
Nice reference
I ended it listening the message that your dad gives you from the vault, your first casset, almost made me cry, while it says " i love you son" while i was losing coscience by radiation, if you are planning ti end fallout 3 try putting that casset while entering the code
From a narrative perspective, I much prefer this ending as opposed to the Broken Steel add-on. Following the footsteps of your father to sacrifice yourself for the betterment of humanity is a powerful idea. But you know, that's just me
+Devin Wakesfield Maybe, but if you saved Hawkes it doesn´t make sense. He´s immune of radiation so it´s just absurd to suicide yourself. Anyway, the DLC makes possible to go in that Chamber and survive... Fallout and its things
I think using fawkes is correct, it not anly means you are the hero of fawkes and you are inteligent, its selfish to keep the hero estarus for yourself, fawkes is a very good person and he deserves it
@@gt362gamer Time was at the essence both the Lone wanderer and the sentinel knew that the facility gonna explode and even after they put the code the huge radiation gonna consume them. This was personal cause they knew the rads gonna consume them all your companions who are immune to radiation nearly faints (but will not die) but at the end as Docter Lee says it the huge radiation will leak regardless the difference if they don't turn it on the project is doom but if they do the radiation will still leak ( with the same amount) but the project will work with chance of survival as the project take the radiation away.
Having a founding father gaze upon you as you save the Capital Wasteland makes it 10 times better.
That 3 secound photo you can see the lone wonder smileing. That was probably one of the only moments were he or she is actually truly happy
Nope As They Were Dieing They Were At Peace And Probablely Smiled As They Perish
None of our Family lives forever. And that's why generations pass on from Parent to Child.
The Lone Wanderer learned from his father to sacrifice for a greater good. Most of his loved ones are proud of what he has done. And We live a kinda happily forever after.
I prefer the original ending rather than Broken Steel's alternate ending, and unless Fallout 4 says the Lone Wanderer survived the events of FO3, any of the endings can be considered canon.
The game begins with the Wanderer's birth and ends with his death. It makes the narrative beautiful.
*his*
his/her
@@lisaknott6286 Or if Fallout 3 was made today, him/her/they/turtle/pan etc
@@themanwiththeplan728 true
I mean broken steel does still make it good though, because the wonder realizes it's Probably not his time yet, and that the world still needs him, and he does of what his family has been doing, bringing purity to the world of the waste Which is why he disappeared from the capitol before the events of new vegas and four Before he finally meets his end, because i'm he will never know how his story will really end.Until the final epilogue.
No matter how many times I play this and get this ending I can't help but cry because its just that good.
OMG why am I crying to this?
I was the same, i swear its the part with the picture with dad
Good Karma playthroughs in general are big heart-warmers. That, and the final part of the ending.
Gojiramonsta505 crying?not really the history is good but there not reason to cry.
Inspite Of Adversity And The Horrors Of The Wasteland At The Center Of It All You Have Someone Influenced By The Small Time With There Father To Make The Wasteland A Better Place By Makeing Friends And Slowly Restoreing Hearts
Then When You Finally See Your Father Again He Dies Trying To Provide Everyone Clean Water
As His Last Request You Intend To Finish Your Fathers Work Ignoreing All The Evils Of The Wasteland
When Given The Opportunity TheLoneWander Finishes His Fathers Projects And Dies In The Process He Will Not Get To See The Fruits Of His Labor
Yet He Lost Everything
The Entire Theme Is About Family And How Little Time We Get To Spend With Them : TheLoneWander Wanted To Be Like His Dad
Thats Ultimately All He Wanted Was A Place In The World
"You're mother would be so proud of you, son!"
*walks into chamber, as Maybe plays on the radio*
Tears
I'm sorry for this but.....
*Blows up megaton as I don't want to set the world on fire plays on the radio of the balcony of tenpenny tower as megaton is annihilated*
3:54 This bit is the icing on the cake to me. It gives you the impression that the Lone Wanderer managed to reunite with their father and mother in heaven.
...Until Broken Steel came along and fucked everything up by pulling a "Hey, you're finally awake"
Broken steel does show his work on this earth isn't done yet. There is still much good to do on this bad world
It's still potitic because the world still needs and he accepts that he said it himself. He'll never know how his story will end until the epilogue finally begins I would really love to see the lone wonder return for his story to truly end
2:26
This Is my favorite part of the ending. The dialogue and the rising, epic, music just makes It feel so triumphant.
Alot of people get very emotional about the picture with James, but the thing that hits me hard is what comes just before that picture. When the narrator says "and war..." *picture changes to a cemetery* "war never changes".
I feel like my heart moves up to my throat (it's kinda hard to describe) everytime that part comes. I think it hits me so hard because even though Fallout is set in a fictional universe, war is very real, and leads to a lot of tragic losses, regardless of who wins.
erodiumminer i feel the same way. I think that the cemitery is a perfect analogy to that phrase. It shows all the people that fought for their lives, and it shows that struggle for survival will never come to a close.
Yes that's what it means by saying war never changes, that no matter where you are or what God forsaken universe your in, war will always be the same. Death and suffering.
Imagine doing things in life that changed people's lives forever and leaving a huge legacy behind.
when you think about it they could have sent in a robot in to do it
Or Fawkes, Charon, or any other ghoul. The radiation wouldn't hurt them.
agjami1 even the super mutant right behind him, they arent hurt by raditon either, I didnt like the ending
tonyantonio Someone doesn't have Broken Steel.
They didn't have much time or something
Robots Do Not Have Fingers And Albeit Intelligence Is Limited To Code Nothing About A Protocol To Avert Water Purifer
Even though Fallout 3 was my least favorite of the fallout games, the ending still gets me. That little bit at the end with you and your dad. Taken on your 10th birthday. Everytime I see it, alot flashes in my mind. I immediately think that you and your dad are both dead, sacrificed to the causes you both hold dear. You were both alive and happy in that picture though, so long ago. Once a peaceful time now passed. So much thought passes through my mind when I think of stuff like that.
That 3 second shot of you and father alwas make me sad
Selflessness, compassion, and honor lead this noble soul to so many trial and triumphs.
That part gets me every time.
My mom died when I was fairly young and my dad had to raise me and my brothers, so this Fallout is much more personal to me, and it’s why to me, it’s the best one.
The photo of the lone wanderer and James made me cry
In my opinion this game has the best storyline of all time (with good karma) with the growing up in the vault, with all the moments with your dad, and finally when you die to save mankind. It's such a beautiful heart warming ending to a great game. Especially at the end with the picture. The only game i know with a better storyline than this is dishonored
That is if you decide to do low chaos.
Shocktroll at least in this game the evil ending being bad makes sense
You don't die though. Something called broken steel dlc. :p
Great ending!
I was like "So, I die like my dad. How touching."
And at the very end, they show the picture of Dad and me.
I almost cried.
War... War never changes.
Or does it?
The war has changed.
Did it?
The answer is no...
Unless it is yes...
No! Of course it is. It's war!
Yes...
No...
Yes?
Duty Calls reference! Yeah!
The_Weasel_2012 here's your objective:
bla, bla bla bla secret base
bla bla bla bla plan
bla bla bla nuclear missile bomb
bla bla bla counting on you
but most important: Win
good luck!
War... War never changes...
ExampleJohn i am an enemy
Revolution 21:6 I am alpha and omega...war never changes
This game actually shaped my moral compass lmao. I used to play this all of the time, and when I grew up I wanted to be a hero just like my character had been
Beautiful story. Hopefully, if such a thing happens in real life we can be the same.
I was a evil character but when it came to tranquility lane and this ending I always chose the good side.
This ending always made me cry. But theres one thing that makes me even more happy. The dad waiting for his son in heaven with open arms.
The lone wanderer does live on, probably off to aid the innocent at the wastes at large
God this game rocks.
This is a bittersweet ending (depending on choices) the ending of fallout 1 is truly sad.
1:53 - this melody became iconic, but - ironically - not here. In New Vegas.
Man the music the narration gives me chills
Makes me choke man
I'm always getting Very Good on my General for this game, I can't do any evil. Same ending every time with that one heart breaking glimpse of you and your father. I treat Fallout like Real life. I do things in fallout I would've done in real life. I loved fallout since I was 4, Glad my dad picked it up before or I would've NEVER heard of this series :o.
Man they should allow you to play the rest of the game like you can in skyrim this ending is awesome and everything but I feel like I'm missing out on the other stuff that didn't do
I'm hearing that if you have broken steel then you can send fawkes (the super mutant companion) in in stead of you
+Sean McNaney if you have the dlc then you can go in yourself and you won't die
Just to clear things up here guys: if you have the Broken Steel DLC, no matter what ending you choose, you can continue playing the game after completing it.
+Shocktroll well unless you pick the "project purity explodes ending"
Such an underrated game. The storyline and Bible-inspired moral is the best part. I wasn’t able to understand it when I played it so many years ago but I do now.
God damn that photo from the 10th birthday...
Gets me every time. 😢
3:53 Top 10 Sad anime endings
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My all time Favorite video game ending
The last part of the ending of the picture with you and your dad makes me cry every time i see it
The little tune at the end always gets me
I'm surprised I got the passcode right without looking it up.
3:52 RIP James
I really love the quotes and sort of everything about this ending. Wow! I really feel proud about myself. I played this game and got the good karma ending.
I played every single fallout game and by far Fallout 3s is the most heartbreaking and emotional game in the series not only did you watch your own father die as you helplessly watch but in a way you’re the reason your mother died and you also got kicked out of the vault after saving and stopping the overseer but in the end you fulfilled your parents dream to help the commonwealth it genuinely made me tear up in the end, Fallout 4 tries to do the same in a way with shaun being taken and your spouse being murdered but after you kill Kellogg and get into the institute the plot just strays away from it and becomes generic
Holly fuck the part of the cutscene where it cuts to the picture of the player character and James really tugged my heart strings.
And that's the last we saw of the lone wanderer he lives only in my memories.
i remember the first quest of this game following his footsteps so sad
then he travels as a courier and becomes a Legend
Did you not pay attention to ALL the scenes in the ending?
@@almorium6216 yeah and the fact that California or Nevada or wherever Las Vegas is, is on the opposite side of the country from Washington DC
Anyone ever start a playthrough with plans of an evil character but cant bring them selves to do it and end up doing a Good karma run
Prefect edit with bible verse, pulls my strings hard
Gets me all misty eyed.
and so it was that the lone wanderer ventured forth from vault 101...
Who else cried at the last slide with the photo of you and Dad?
Personally I always choke at the "values passed on from father to child"
still never found that dang dog. friggin mutt
I found him but he fucking dies all the damn time.
+alexis diaz DLC's will give him a lot more health
+Unibitrio It's a side quest on that note you find right in the beginning of the game about items owed to someone left in a scrap yard, I didn't find him until after finishing the main quest line.
Yeah, just get fawkes
I almost cried on this ending.
Am I the only one who cried when I passed this game I spent weeks on I was 9 at the time it brings back horrible nightmare memories I love this game
The pic in the end made me broken
at first i tought that there was some kind of badass main villian inside that thing...i was dissapointed that it was just a statue
2: 49 Narrator: Sacrificing life itself for the greater good...
Cult Members: The Greater Good
Narrator: SHUT IT!
[Speech 59%] 2:20 sounds so peaceful and depressing, doesn't it?
+Shavin65 "[FAILED] nahh."
therealsebasfromcp [Karma] You're pretty cold hearted, aren't you.
"whoa, don't go there! I was just joking!"
therealsebasfromcp
"That's right, I didn't think so."
"Hey, don't worry about it."
>[Speech 34%] "Have we come to an agreement?"
[SUCCESS] yeah sure whatever, get out of my bar now!" {You Gained Karma}
if i have broken steel, will I still wake up 2 weeks later?
Yes
3:53 - 3:58 Man that lullaby, haunts me sometimes it makes me cry.
The ending when it zooms in the little photo with the lullaby still tears my heart to pieces.
One of the best endings👌
This was a great game. Easily one of the best endgame cinematics ever.