The amount of betrayal I feel being told this was a video about Fallout 3, then being told it was actually a video about Fallout Tactics, and then being told it was actually ACTUALLY about Fallout 3 is unmatched.

Canadian Navy member here, there is a reason why naval ships have absurd amounts of doors. They are designed to have numerous watertight compartments that can be isolated. The reason for this is in case of a hull breach, and we take on water because of it - we can seal off that compartment (which already would be sealed normally) and only lose that compartment to sea, as opposed to the entire ship filling up with water.

Annoying for game design? Absolutely.

Realistic to real life? Very much so.

"Games for Windows, Games for Windows never changes."

Bethesda Dev Here.
The main reason half the buildings were empty is because Todd Howard had told us "If it has more then 15 bathrooms its important"
In all fairness I did catch Todd eating plywood and sheet metal in the breakroom.

23:00 As someone who served in the US Navy on an aircraft carrier, that is EXACTLY the feeling you get trying to find anyone anywhere on a carrier.

Spiffing voicing Sid, is just the best thing ever, our money gremlin offering money

One of my favorite memories of this game was when I was wandering the wasteland at night, enjoying the pleasant ambiance music, and I came across Uncle Leo, a random encounter character. Uncle Leo was a kind, patient and philosophical dude who happened to be a super mutant. The player can demand that he hand over all his possessions, but he misunderstands the malicious intent on your part. He apologizes for "being a poor host," and gives you a dirty pre-war suit as a gift. When you respond to his generosity with "you don't seem to understand, I'm robbing you," he replies sincerely: "no, you're not. I wanted you to take it as a gift. I meant to give it to you anyway." And then follows that up with something that I have not forgotten ever since I first heard it:
"Have you ever watched the moon rise over the Wasteland? I only wish I had something as wonderful as that to give to you."
I don't know why that struck me so deeply. Maybe it was the fact that we were both standing under a wash of moonlight, alone together in a vast and empty wasteland, my character having just tried to mug him, and he responds to it all with such profound wisdom and grace. He was such a great character that I really wish we could have done more with. I'm also upset that we're really only able to get that gem of a line of dialogue by being mean to the poor guy. :(

Fallout 3 actually scared me on my first play through. The creepy background, and running into your first versions of enemies while holding a pistol and a bat. Then, once you have enough ammo and weapons, you become a complete badass.

What annoys me the most of the ending. Is that if you do make Fawkes activate the purifier. The game only shits on you saying Fawkes is the true hero of the story, nevermind that making the mutant that is IMMUNE to radiation is the smartest decision and that you single handedly defeat the Enclave.
But no, pointless suicide is the only way to be recognized as a hero.

The funniest thing to me about Colonel Autumn is that, back when I first played Fallout 3, like, eight years ago, I legit thought that he was two different people. I thought there was one Enclave dude who died with your dad, and Autumn was just some other Enclave dude in a trench coat. That’s how unclear his survival was and how unremarkable he was as a character

I remember loving that "ah ha!" moment when, at the conclusion, you realise you have recruited Fawkes, who is immune to radiation. It felt like some of the better moments from the original Fallout games. Only to be then met by "Great idea, but no. Because...reasons."

As someone in the navy, River City perfectly encapsulates what it's like to live on a vessel, there's too many doors, you don't know where the fuck you're going and EVERYWHERE LOOKS THE SAME

I would always be afraid when playing this game on my PS3, not because it was intense or scary, but because it would eventually freeze out of nowhere, making me lose about an hour of progress.
Good times.

the funniest thing about Fallout 3 is that, if you get "Tale of Two Wastelands", the Capital Wasteland is way too easy for the arsenal that New Vegas has.
so the Courier becomes a unstoppable killing machine of destruction without their natural predator around: Morality Choices.

You’re right with the “it” statement. Look at Far Harbour in comparison to Fallout 4. If FO4 had had half the heart and effort that it’s dlc had been so lovingly crafted with, then we’d have definitely been onto a winner.

Fawkes' refusal to enter the irradiated chamber at the end is some of the worst and hokiest writing I've ever seen. He needlessly sentences a human to certain death because of some contrivance about how each person has to follow their own path. So he's basically saying your fate is to die here in an effort to do what he could have easily done without anyone dying. It seems he's really keen on ending your lineage.

I'd like to offer a correction, Fallout 1 and 2 were both made by the same people, they just renamed their RPG-team to Black Isle mid development of FO1. They just didn't have a logo until after release.

I still can't get over the fact that Bethesda randomly picked a German town 10km from where I grew up as Stanislaus Braun's hometown. I was SO convinced that it must have been some sort of easter egg that picked a place near you based on your IP address or something when I first came across it in the game😄

Technically, Interplay and Black Isle weren't different studios. It was still more or less the same team under different branding.

My favorite part of the game is the absolutely obtuse way you’re given the code for the final mission, in that it was given to you at the VERY beginning of the game. Your dad doesn’t just quote revelations 21:6 for no reason, it’s LITERALLY the code for running the water purifier (216). Of course, you have to infer that this is the code and there’s no direct hint to it aside from a few dialogue choices early on in the enclave prison. All it would’ve taken was just a note or something aside from James just quoting revelations.