FALLOUT (World War 3 & Nuclear Devastation Lore + History) EXPLAINED
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Published 2024-04-20
Celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2022, Fallout started as an isometric RPG heavily influenced by tabletop RPGs. Created by Tim Cain and his team at Interplay Productions, the original Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role-Playing Game envisioned a world inspired by Mad Max, where bright Atomic Age aesthetics met the stark moral dilemmas of a harsh post-nuclear landscape.
Set in a future where an alternative history diverges post-World War II, American culture remains fixed in the 1950s until a catastrophic war with China in 2077 over scarce resources ends dramatically in nuclear fallout.
In the mid-2000s, Bethesda Softworks acquired the rights to Fallout, transitioning it into three-dimensional gameplay with Fallout 3, which was followed by several sequels and spin-offs.
Hey guys whats happening? Niyat here with film comics explained, and today we’re going to dive into the complex history and lore of the Great War that destroyed modern civilisation and led to the setting and fallout ridden world of the games. I’m planning on covering the mechanics of the Fallout series, the story in each of the main games, in addition to the entire television series, in two more separate videos, likely next week, but for the purposes of this video, we’ll be focusing on the events the led to the destruction of the world.
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All Comments (21)
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There's something poetic about civilization stagnating and Bethesda's refusal to expand the world beyond the Brotherhood and rusty villages.
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Walking out of that vault in Fallout 3 for the first time was one of my most exciting moments in gaming.
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War...war never changes...
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As someone who was seen this same vid from other channels about 7 times imma still watch this one all the way
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Just to make sure it's clear, Vault Tec said they would drop the bomb but we don't see them do it. In Fallout 2 the Eclave President, New Vegas Black Mountain, and 4 Switchboard all say that it was the Chinese that launch first.
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Those Ron Perlman intros 👌
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never clicked on a video so fast! you have no idea how long I've been wating for you to cover this!
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I'd love to see how the rest of the world fared after the war. Europe especially seems set up to recover decently well, all things considered. Not only does rebuilding after wars, plagues and societal collapses make up the majority of Europe's history since antiquity, it also was too busy with its own struggles to get involved in the war between America and China, or make grandiose self-sabotaging plans like the Enclave. With relatively few direct nukes (only targets of opportunity by other nation states or indiscriminate bombing by America/China) large parts of society would have survived the event itself. While already short on resources and now even shorter on time, they would have had enough time to at least somewhat prepare for the coming nuclear winter - re-establishing the disrupted communications, archiving knowledge and preserving crops in case the fallout ruins current harvests beyond repair. You'd see Europe largely regress into smaller communities of survivors, comparable to the fractured feudal landscape of the middle ages. However, with knowledge preserved, the end of the immediate nuclear winter would jump-start new growth, quickly returning Europe as a whole to a pretty functional state, all things considered. It would still take them the first century after the war until they can even consider making any attempts at re-connecting with the outside world, between disputes among nations and the slow establishment of new efficient power sources. Eventually they send out their first scouting parties, especially to their cousins in America. However, between the Enclave's manipulation and the dominant faction's stubborn pride (and to varying degrees internalized xenophobia) they make it very clear that these scouts are not welcome on American soil, preventing any other serious attempts for quite a while. Could make for an interesting faction for a future Fallout game: A European high-tech exploration ship off the coast of the region, trying to get an image of how America fared these past centuries. As the player you can decide to help them establish outposts (and inadvertently undermine the local power structure because the population flocks to these new amenities) or you side with one of the local factions and try to seize their advanced tech for yourself.
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Whoever did those animatic scenes with game assets...You are awesome!!! Keep them coming. Id definitely watch a series made like that!!!!
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I just find the timing of the Fallout tv shows popularity, about WWIII and a nuclear holocaust, coinciding with an ever increasing fear and nervousness about a possible WWIII scenario in reality as well
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Something i picked up on from a terminal maybe is that they never developed semiconductors or microchips, whatever the first step toward making our tech smaller they did not make
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From what I can gather, culture did advance (rock music in tactics etc) however WW3 brought back a resurgence in 50’s era patriotism.
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Nuclear war seems to be the most bitch shit a human can do.....I say we go back to when the king or president was first in line in the battle fighting with his people..I'm sure they would rethink world peace
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I was excited to see your take on the Fallout series...well done!
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The plot sounds eerily like the real life plot that is outplaying right now
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I love the 1950s - the architecture and Art-Deco style, the clothing - men pretty much always wore suits and women wore dresses - the cars, men smoking fine pipe tobacco in briar pipes, you name it. I wish that we were still in the 1950s style as the alternate reality in the Fallout series. Before the bombs dropped, natch. Not interested in giant roaches and Deathclaws.
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Just started the series, and as a lifelong fan of the games starting from the very first, I'm enjoying it, and feel like they're capturing the spirit of it all quite nicely!
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Thanks Nyatt for the video! Love your content man! Keep up the good work! Also I thought it was crazy who launched the nukes. I won't say for spoilers but man this series is amazing! What's your favorite power armor and creature from Fallout Nyatt?
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I’m super excited to watch this. I’m a huge fallout fan, even played Fallout 2 a little. Watched and done playthroughs of all 8 fallout games; watched hours of lore videos. It’s fun to see a creator I watch every now and then cover something that I enjoy.
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Scenes from the movie Terminator. When it comes to “all out nuclear war”, they can’t be topped.