Fallout in 5 Minutes (IGN) [WARNING: Spoilers for Fallout 1, 2, 3, and New Vegas!] - General

[QUOTE=Coyoteze;48975204]The Fallout lore is nuts, man. There's so much. Just going through the timeline on the Fallout wiki from start to finish is hours of reading material in it's own.[/QUOTE] Plus there's the Fallout Bible which is included with the GOG.com version of Fallout 1 and 2 that includes a lot of lore insight and behind the scenes stuff. One of the best parts in when Chris Avellone told the story of when Ron Perlman threatened to beat the crap out of him when he was recording a hundred lines of dialogue in 2 hours during Fallout 2's production.

[QUOTE=Mr. N;48975245]The BoS and Outcasts talk a shitton about old Fallouts, even namedropping Midwest BoS. Then there is Harold. The Enclave also talk about their journey east and the whole oil rig incident. Yeah, the didn't exactly ignore it. I think people are mad about the application.[/QUOTE] Oh they certainly were, hell I was at least annoyed. I just brought it up because of the earlier claim that there isn't any reason to play 1, 2, NV prior to 4.

if super mutants become behemoths with age why isn't fawkes super swole questions that keep me up at night

If anyone's looking for an even more extreme in-depth explanation of the lore and history behind Fallout, I'd recommend watching this video series on YouTube: [video=youtube;nvqm_pPD-aQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvqm_pPD-aQ&list=PL7pGJQV-jlzD17YNNbt103xp0PkkUCoPU[/video] The playlist contains 50+ videos explained in detail about Vault-Tec, the factions, the Brotherhood of Steel, the Enclave, etc. This would be especially useful for people who are going to be playing Fallout 4 with no background about the series whatsoever.

I have read about anything related to Fallout.. When New Vegas came out it was double christmas for me. First of all there was a whole new Fallout game but second of all this would mean that for the upcoming weeks/months we will be getting fresh new loads of information regarding the Fallout universe. And that was just Fallout New Vegas which sorta kinda did not had a massive impact on the existing Fallout lore, Fallout 4 however.. How it all happened 200 years after the nuclear war... God fucking damnit is am hyped. :blaze:

[QUOTE=Vasili;48971149]Uh I remember quite vividly how people cried that Fallout 3 raped the lore. Am I the only one who remembers that vicious Fallout board that went on an outright propaganda campaign against Fallout 3? There was a thread about it on FP years ago. Even before I came to FP, I remember friends who loved F1-2 raging over the third instalment for its numerous lore/mechanic changes.[/QUOTE] Was the site No Mutants Allowed? Yeah, I remember they were VERY vocal of how much they didn't like FO3 - i think it was mostly the BoS rape that they were pissed off with

[QUOTE=RichyZ;48970418]The BoS are largely a sect of assholes though, with the outcasts in 3 being a sect of a small sect.[/QUOTE] tbh after playing through the first two again they're really not that bad

[QUOTE=Fire Kracker;49000444]tbh after playing through the first two again they're really not that bad[/QUOTE] In the first one they literally send you on a suicide mission just so you won't bother them any more. Granted they begrudgingly honor their word when you succeed. They're not remotely evil or anything, just insular and a bit "holier than thou" when it comes to dealing with non-members.

[QUOTE=Anderan;49006531]In the first one they literally send you on a suicide mission just so you won't bother them any more. Granted they begrudgingly honor their word when you succeed. They're not remotely evil or anything, just insular and a bit "holier than thou" when it comes to dealing with non-members.[/QUOTE] they weren't really assholes about it though, one of the doormen even warn you about the radiation and is even quite nice about it(not the talking head guy, but the one next to him) and after you beat the first game they spread their technologies out to the wastes and take a position as a research facility rather than leaders and this is seperate but i remember a lot of people complaining about how the Bethesda games looked too apocalyptic, but fo1 was literally all ruins and desert, and in fo2, that was because the ncr was rebuilding everything, and their presence is non-existent in the places the Bethesda games take place i mean you could argue that Bethesda didn't have as many towns/or their world wasn't as populated as the original games, but that's a problem with all of their games [editline]29th October 2015[/editline] and the BOS in the original game DOES care about the people of the wasteland, atleast from being wiped out from mutants someone(i don't remember who) did say "we're the only ones standing between them, and everyone in the wastes"

[QUOTE=Fire Kracker;49008985]they weren't really assholes about it though, one of the doormen even warn you about the radiation and is even quite nice about it(not the talking head guy, but the one next to him) and after you beat the first game they spread their technologies out to the wastes and take a position as a research facility rather than leaders and this is seperate but i remember a lot of people complaining about how the Bethesda games looked too apocalyptic, but fo1 was literally all ruins and desert, and in fo2, that was because the ncr was rebuilding everything, and their presence is non-existent in the places the Bethesda games take place i mean you could argue that Bethesda didn't have as many towns/or their world wasn't as populated as the original games, but that's a problem with all of their games [editline]29th October 2015[/editline] and the BOS in the original game DOES care about the people of the wasteland, atleast from being wiped out from mutants someone(i don't remember who) did say "we're the only ones standing between them, and everyone in the wastes"[/QUOTE] they were assholes about it in the sense that they sent you on a fool's errand to get you killed, you weren't supposed to come back, the guy is even surprised that you managed to do it without fucking dying. it's like in a cartoon where a guy wants to be a knight and everyone laughs and tells them to find the holy grail and then they actually come back with it.

The Fallout Bible probably puts it best [quote]The Brotherhood are generally good guys, but they have their faults - (1) they don't care for mutants, (2) they worship technology, and in many cases, put it above human life, and (3) they don't like to share their choicest technological bits, despite the obvious benefits their technology could bring to the wasteland. It's commonly accepted within the Brotherhood that the people of the wasteland are not responsible enough to use (and maintain) all of the technology the BOS has at their disposal. They are known trade some of their technologies with frontier communities and NCR states, but they keep the more sensitive technologies to themselves. [/quote]