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Corrections:

1. You CAN convince Colonel Autumn to leave peacefully. I don't know what made me believe you couldn't. You can even see the speech checks in the video. I believe you need to pass 2 consecutively to accomplish this.

2. Sarah Lyons will die if you send her into the purification chamber and won't be around in broken steel.

3. Pittsburgh has several essential waterways I wasn't aware of.

4. I keep seeing verbatim from the "we don't want politics in games" is "We like politics in MGS because nuance, and dislike when it's shoved in our face". Yet it crumbles when an LGBTQ+ character is introduced in any form of media and they then complain about it "going woke"

Not to mention that if any games shoves politics in your face it's MGS. What it really is is a deflection of the argument "all games are political in some capacity" whether that's in the game itself or through it's development.

They're real argument. What they are trying to say without saying it is that they don't like what they perceive as leftist politics or progressivism in their games. Including non-white characters? Woke. Discussing capitalism. Political. Get it out of our games.

The real crushing effect of your character never really feeling like your own (son/daughter of your father storyline) is the severe lack of companions quests or companions with meaningful personalities. I mean, that goes a long way of shaping your character and establishing them as more than the child of Liam Neeson.

When someone makes a 4 hour video essay on a game you’ve never played

If you stealth kill Roy after letting the ghouls live in the tower then he doesn't kill the humans

Fallout 3: Ayo mechanist, you’re scaring the Hoes
Fallout 4: ayo mechanist, you’re scaring the hoes

Something worth mentioning about Operation Anchorage,
The winterized T51B power armor you get at the end of the DLC is glitched, meaning it won’t lose durability over time.   Which is very very useful when you’re max level and randomly encounter 3 Super Mutant Overlords in the wide open wasteland with no cover

Tip for the subways: Pay attention to the subway maps!!!!!!!!!!! There are maps in each subway that tell you how to get between stations. Some stations are blocked off and do require some extra footwork, but the subway maps genuinely do help.

On the topic of Harold, they did sneak in an EXTREMELY low karma action that's never stated to you directly and that's the fact that you can take a flamer or shishkebab and set him on fire- screaming in agony all the while. It's so immensely fucked up in a way that benefits NOBODY

One of my favorite liberty prime lines is “Democracy is nonnegotiable” such an oxymoron it kills me every time I hear it. lol

Two things: 1) when Fallout 3 first came out, it was such a wile experience seeing my “hometown” depicted in a post-apocalyptic video game, and it was especially fun knowing that Bethesda is a local company; 2) thank you for mentioning the claustrophobic design of inner DC, it was something that always bothered me, too.

If Harold had stated more along the lines of, "If my suffering means the Wasteland will heal, then perhaps I can endure for a while longer," then I think his questline wouldn't feel as hollow as it does. Having it seem like he still wishes to die, but is willing to let the world recover and fill with life again before he does would've been much better.

Video made me think of Fallout 3 and my PC instantly crashed

I always appreciate these long-form video essays! They take so much time to make but they're always a gem to listen to

If you think I'm gonna sit here and waste my time with such a long video
Then you were absolutely right I'll be here for the whole thing

[3:57:48] Something of note too, I don't know if it was intentional or not, but The Chinese General, after being talked down, commits seppuku, which is a Japanese ritual suicide from the era of Samurai. This is not a Chinese tradition, nor a modern tradition, and obviously not what happened in the canonical Operation Anchorage.
The fact it was programmed in by the government/army is a sort of propaganda in itself, painting the Chinese in a negative, almost barbaric, light, while also being "cool" for the Americans to experience, similar to how modern recruitment paint the Middle East as backwards and uncultured.

Honestly, I didn't even pick up this discrepancy until I was telling someone else about the game, and which point I stopped mid-sentence realizing I played right into their stereotyping.

4:36:45
Supernatural or magic-like things have existed in the series from the very beginning. There are "psykers" in Fallout 1 which have a variety of powers such as generating electricity, telepathy, telekinesis, etc, but they wear devices to suppress them. The Master is also psychic. There is a kid in New Vegas who sees the future and he wears the same device as the FO1 psykers. A shaman talks to you in your dreams in Fallout 2. And one of the Treeminders in Oasis also sees the future.

To move away from psychic stuff specifically, there is also a literal ghost in Fallout 2. And another ghost appeared in Nuka World for Fallout 4.

my mans took 7 minutes and 26 seconds to even say Fallout 3 in his Fallout 3 Retrospective.  Bold.

People beat me into submission but I held the line until 2015 that fallout 3 was my favorite. 100% because it was my first exposure to the series. This game lived rent free in my mind all throughout middle school. I didn't even truly know about Xbox live until I learned about operation Anchorage and figured it all out. This game really was a gateway drug for me into the late 2000s era of online gaming which I find humorous.

Regarding the main quest and Three Dog: something I find interesting is that there's actually a locked gate in Hamilton's Hideaway (an otherwise unremarkable location) and the only way (that I know of) to get in is to get the key from Three Dog. It's actually the quest reward for doing Three Dog's quest AFTER finding out about Dad's location from Rivet City, instead of before, and if you follow Moira's quest before going to Galaxy News Radio, there are no less than two natural ways to find your way to Rivet City: first by doing the fire-ant quest and then trying to find the relative for the little boy who's orphaned there (which you can easily stumble on via the Super-Duper Mart task), and second by reaching the third chapter, where one of the tasks just takes you to Rivet City directly. The game basically has a reward for doing the main quest content out-of-sequence. It's kind of clever.

I still remember convincing my grandma to get me fo3 by telling her it was a historical game based in Washington DC