FALLOUT (World War 3 & Nuclear Devastation Lore + History) EXPLAINED
With the recent release of the Amazon Prime adaptation of the beloved Fallout video game series, I thought it would be a good idea to explore the games and their lore in depth, so viewers can understand what made them so special.
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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Walking out of that vault in Fallout 3 for the first time was one of my most exciting moments in gaming.
Finding the ufo in the original version of the game before the dlc was the coolest thing to me, and the t 50 armor u can find at fort Constantine ahh what an amazing game
Thanks to the TV series I'm back playing fallout 3 the nostalgia this game was the goat and I don't mean that test
One trope that is starting ti get old is "Global upheaval due to dwindling resources such as oil,etc" Especially in a world where the U.S government has been claiming that we would run out of oil since the late 1890's
Bro it's so good. So is new vegas
meh. Fallout 3 an 4 are for normies.
There's something poetic about civilization stagnating and Bethesda's refusal to expand the world beyond the Brotherhood and rusty villages.
TBF kind of hard to rebuild civilization with different fractions always trying to kill one another.
@@MegaDman16Yes this. I don't know why some fans don't understand.
@@hermos3602its incredibly ignorant and stupid how you completely miss that even with bethesda writing the lore there is still progress. brotherhood went from foot-mobile expeditions to a fucking airship and atleast 100 suits of power armor. there is plenty of growth in fallout, as of recent none of it is narrative
Kinda cringe that you care so much
@@thatorangeguy3646to be fair it tooo the brotherhood decades of trial and error to even make the first fleet of airships (most of if not all of which were destroyed) and it took them 6 year's and a nuclear reactor from an Aircraft carrier to get the Prydwen airborne Progress comes but i wouldnt expect massive societal progress
War...war never changes...
tell that to Snake
69th like.
@@addison_v_ertisement1678muy basado y rojopillado
- Nate the war criminal
As someone who was seen this same vid from other channels about 7 times imma still watch this one all the way
But it’s Niyat, that’s enough to get me to watch even though I’ve never played the game!
The things we do for the fallout youtube community xP
Amen
@@TheStoodUpKid the things we do for all our boy niyat
Those Ron Perlman intros 👌
The fact he's a legit communist now is even darker.
@@ohandanotheronebitesthedus6247 Wait, what?
@@ohandanotheronebitesthedus6247 pfft, yeah, sure.
Definitely missed him in the show
@@ohandanotheronebitesthedus6247Lol yeah sure just because he doesn't agree with you makes him a commie
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.
Other nations destroy the whole world. Pretty sure their "internalized xenophobia" would be more than warranted
Europe tore itself apart canonically during the resource wars before the invasion of anchorage
@@alros1212 Yeah, and it had 200 years to pull itself back together since then. It has historically done so in much shorter time frames, even without this much technological and scientific know-how. Sure, it will have splintered into local communities fending mostly for themselves initially - but that was the default state of Europe for the past several millennia: Small kingdoms, duchies, countdoms, dukedoms, etc. loosely connected by some common ancestry or shared history. No reason it would be worse off than during the late middle ages once the nuclear winter clears. And scientific re-discovery would pretty quickly return it to an at least semi-modern state. You'd probably see some wave of radical forced "unification" in the wake of societal collapse (like we saw with Napoleon or Hitler), which will cause more chaos, sure. However, those ironically create a common cause for the rest of the continent to rally behind and grow closer. Allying with others means you won't get bulldozed that easily - and many may take this as an opportunity to reunite into a semblance of the old countries. That's a process that has historically played out over the span of decades. No reason it couldn't happen over two centuries.
Since fallout 1 I’ve been super curious about Europe too, it’s be really cool to see a game based in Germany or France. It’d probably be way different then what we’re use too in fallout games, especially since there would be no vaults like we know them or vault tech
Me as well, sadly fallout will never leave america, it makes sense considering the timelines style, themes and music of 1920s to 1950s era of american culture, just doesnt work outside of the USA if you think about it @@etholus1000
Whoever did those animatic scenes with game assets...You are awesome!!! Keep them coming. Id definitely watch a series made like that!!!!
If you're talking about the scenes where NCR and Brotherhood are fighting, those are SODAZ' animations on KZhead
@@brayedin thise i recognized cause I saw the videos. Im talking about the rest.
never clicked on a video so fast! you have no idea how long I've been wating for you to cover this!
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.
pretty much every game points towards China causing the war. Vault Tec and American corpos doing it is an entirely nonsensical conspiracy theory at best
@@compatriot852 The games allude to Vault-Tec instigating the nuclear war too. This has been a theory long before the show. It's not nonsensical - it has always been vaguely implied since the first games.
Not only that, but vault tec doing it and making it look like the Chinese did it is a great way to shift the blame
@@lordhighunggoy5156 also incredibly stupid given their entire corporation works off of the fear of a nuclear apocalypse not the apocalypse itself. all their plans and experiments were there only IF the bombs dropped, they are still a corporation afterall and the destruction of large scale society would completely remove that. the show has the dumbest reason for the bombs
They could have been mislead by the Zetans and thought the chinese launched first but it was the aliens
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
Thanks To You American. Capitalism Won The Game.😂
Elon musks "Boring" company, designed for easy drilling of mass tunnels into the earth aswell 😂. If that really is true he'll make a killing digging out the fallout shelters, although what good that money will be after nuclear annihilation isn't gonna be worth a while pile 😂
Self fulfilling prophecy.
Yes it will happen Jesus loves you repent
@@mibraddamibradda9474 🥴🙄😂
From what I can gather, culture did advance (rock music in tactics etc) however WW3 brought back a resurgence in 50’s era patriotism.
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
They never fully utilized the transistor. It was just gaining popularity when the war happened. So nearly all electronics use vacuum tubes
Honestly, Technologic, why we being held back
It was the transistor. They were just coming into use when things kicked off. Most devices still use vacuum tubes.
@@CodeBonYTthe microchip also was never invented
Roswell never happened in this world in 1947. Because of this the transistor was never "invented" in 1947 keeping the technology from shrinking.
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
ha ha. Imagine Biden, Putin and Xi Jinping put onto an island somewhere, in their under wear and told last man standing wins. Remember the movie Robot Jocks?
There were far more wars in those days then there are in the post nuclear age.
@@user-js4zx1lr2uPutin was old school KGB he’s little but he ain’t no bitch
Well, do you know we have the right to gather, imagine a new system, vote it, and live happily ever after?
@@anthonydjeguede694 lmfao, no, we really dont. there is no land to find, claim and develop now.
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.
I was excited to see your take on the Fallout series...well done!
Thank you for finally covering the fallout franchise been waiting for awhile
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.
The plot sounds eerily like the real life plot that is outplaying right now
Exactly what I was thinking. The future is scary
No, no it does not.
No it doesn’t at all bruh
No it doesn’t lol
@@mr.fridayatholidays5642yes it does, y'all are just ignorant
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!
They really do but new season doesn't come until 2026
That's a straight up lie.
Watch the review of Creetosis. The show is bad and you're full of sh*t.
@@aaroniscool7521I know I was really disappointed when I heard 2026. Fuck it though, there's plenty of games to be played while we wait 😊
Scenes from the movie Terminator. When it comes to “all out nuclear war”, they can’t be topped.
AHHHHHH!! Was my literal response when I got the notification! 🖤🖤🖤
This video is great!!!! You get straight to it. And what a clear explanation 10/10. Bro!!!!
i remember being in love with your 28 days later comic book videos; are the gone forever?
Another top tier video, so glad I'm subscribed to this channel
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?
It'd have tto be the T-51 & the Deathclaws! What about you?
@@filmcomicsexplained OMG you replied! Huge fan! Mine would be X-01 power armor and then I'll have to choose the deathclaws or gatorclaws. There's also the scorchbeast from Fallout 76 that I like a lot! Have you thought about making a video about deathclaws and its other species or heck the power armor? Just a thought. There are a lot of cool creatures in the wasteland of Fallout! Keep up the good work man! Have you seen the Civil war movie yet?!
WOW it never occurred to me until now, I never had a clue how spell his name! “Nyatt” 😂 Been watching for years and only now I’ve found out! Thanks man 😅
The show was awesome! It's great to finally be early to another upload - it's gonna be another awesome video, Niyat!
Ending with strpping out of the vault was the perfect way to end the video. Chefs kiss.
I've been hoping for this upload from this channel, bless FCE
This was freaking awesome, thank you.
Thanks for the episode. I found it informative and enlightening.
Well done, as usual.
Thank you! Cheers!
you did this so professionally i forgot it was even about fallout multiple times
great video! great channel! I'm a huge fallout fan and there is some dialogue and visuals in here I've never seen before! well done!
This new fallout show has created so many new good KZhead videos
That Film of Explanation of the Events Leading Up to the Great War of 2077, Was Very Very Very Very Good, If I Had Not Known Better, I Would Have Taken This Lore As Very Factual and Honest Truth Of Exactly What Will Happen In the Future!!!!! It Would Be Ironic If Indeed In 2077 Someone Comes To Watch This Film and Notices the Similarities of Life in 2077 With Events in This Film Production!!!!!!
Even before they said it on the show, it sas always my assumption that Vault Tec dropped the bomb. It only makes sense
Yo, did Ron Pearlman do the voiceover?😮😮😮
Yuppppp that's what made the older games gold
Excellent! I’ve played all the games going back to Fallout 1. This makes me want to go back and play them
I never stopped playing FO3 & NV, 1000s of hours and it never gets old
Wasn't expecting to watch the whole thing in one sitting, but that's exactly what I did. I've been a fan of Fallout since Fallout 1 first came out. So glad the show was a huge success, and Fallout is bigger than ever.
Patrolling the Mojave makes you wish for a nuclear winter
This video is really Okie-Dokie
Finally, was waiting when this will drop.
This is now one of my all time favorite KZhead videos.
Excited for your other fallout vids!
The nuke going off sounded familier to Civ 6's nuke sound effect
war never changes
We almost to 1 mil baby good job!!!
Anybody watching this should watch love life and anarchy's video on the philosophy of Fallout. Its a great Fallout video.
Link please.
55 minute video of FilmsComicexplained 🔥🔥💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼
I never get sick of these videos ❤
Hey Nyatt, have you considered doing a video about A Canticle For Leibowitz? One of my favourite Sci-Fi books ever, and it's very apparent the original Fallout creators borrowed heavily from it
High quality video as usual
It's hilarious seeing fallout pop up everywhere now
Love how everyone in our reality loves to cycle alot of the "Judgement Day" circa 1990s Terminator 2 "nukes destroy the World" sequences.. Really hope the Live series is good..
Wow I have never seen videos of the old world before the bombs fell. Where I can I find them? Cool video man. I've been playing fallout since fallout 3 was released. Glad to see we finally got our chance with a live action show.
Alot of this is stock footage from WW2, 1950s cold war era and such
Farmland could be used to create pine and palm tree you can create turpentine (substitute for gasoline) and palm oil (substitute for diesel) it would be expensive but sustainable... we'd adjust by developing smaller more fuel efficient vehicles and engines. We'd adjust....
When asks me questions of my choices in the FALLOUT universe I can go for hours. But here's my top 5. 1. I joined the Legion in New Vegas. 2. I'm a Sunset Sasperella man. 3. I joined the Institute in Fallout 4. 4. I destroyed everything when I became Overboss of NukaWorld. 5. I poisoned the water purifier for the Enclave in Fallout 3.
No one asked
@bills7595 just putting it out there. So, are you NCR, BOS, LEGION, or other?
@@bills7595 I did.
We’ve got the Top Boss of the Edgelords here, ladies and gentlemen. Hide your kids!
@@ShamooseTheMoosebruh lmfao
Playing Fallout Right now im so happy its getting a resurgence maybe Bethesda will fix the DLC issues on PS5 😊
If you aren’t playing it on Xbox you aren’t getting the full experience.
Thanks ! (but as i haven't seen the serie yet, i'll watch it another time to avoid visual spoilers :)
Thanks to the show will be seeing a influx fallout lore videos
I LOVE YOU FILM COMICS EXPLAINED
Good vid broski
Man I hope Amazon prime does a prequel fallout series covering much of what you covered in your video
I love your content 🔥🔥🔥
I’m just now starting the fallout world, starting at fallout4, I JUST got to diamond city. 😅 I’m loving it
Actually from what I've read over the years (and yes there's disputes/variations on this), the Chinese _mostly_ dropped smaller fission weapons (like Nagasaki or larger) but in *huge* numbers and *ground burst* many of them, not air burst. The area around Las Vegas, for example, was targeted by 77 nukes for example! That caused massively more physical damage than a few airburst megaton bombs, is more reliable (a smaller number of megaton weapons would be more prone to being foiled by glitches or interceptors) it also ensure more firestorms ("Ring of Fire" effect), and produce vast amounts of fallout which would kill far more folk than blast, fire and direct radiation (Note this is based on real science!) Added to which all the fusion or fission powered vehicles, factories etc got blasted and reactor materials exposed, fission reactors produce WAY more radioactives than bombs ever could adn with *much* longer half-lives. Ergo, the Chinese ensured the destruction of America by long term as well as short term destruction!
One of those nukes just went off in my head. Truly mind-blowing history/documentary.
Great Job!
finally been waiting 😀thanks
I’ve been to those Quincy quarries in real life, they’re pretty sick
Can't wait for you to explain fallout 1 and 2! FEV, The Chosen One, The Master! SO PUMPED!
Don't forget the N.C.R, Brotherhood of Steel, Enclave, Leigon, TLW, the Mutations of Wildlife and Much Much More
I used to think that the Storyteller was the best source for fallout lore but Niat (i hope that's the right spelling) is right up at the top.
Lore...lore never changes.
I would've loved to see a VAULT acronym, like Varitable Authentic Underground Living Terrarium. Or something...
Bro thats Genius
Even though i know all this i still enjoy your presentation.
It would be beyond amazing if they got Ron perlman to be the unrevealed CEO of the vault tec corporation, breifly shown in the shadowy background of the corporate meeting in episode 8 of the show. It would explain how he was present as the narrator in all of the games as clearly Vault tec did not simply vanish after the war... Buds bud's showed many dozens more unopened pods, and who's to know there isnt a secretive command vault out there where they are still continuing to plot?
Is that Terminator 2/3 footage in the begging mixed in?
You're at 998k subs!! Almost 1m!!
Mind-blowing literally
Well done! Gotta love lore/history 😉👍.
The lucky ones watch the flash with a glass of good whiskey..
Thanks for this video. I love Fallout lore.
No problem! Hope you enjoy it buddy :)
Dang! I was bummed when you ended it , this was so good! I was on the fence about watching the series being on Amazon but I'll give it a go thanks to your explanation.
Good to know the history behind it all. I haven't played any other than Fallout 76, and it's about time I had another journey.
There's a movie on Tubi I watched called either plankface or Barkface. Do you think you could cover that film please?
You should do a series where humanity travels in space in a realistic fashion.
Conan O Brien should've been in that series. He literally looks like he's from the 50's.
Love the graphics do they have a pack to upgrade 4 to that graphics level?
Vault tec did some dark stuff dude to the world
I would love a spin off game (even if it is just a DLC for the updated Fallout 4) where you play in the period BEFORE the bombs drop and the story is about trying to stop the nuclear exchange in the first place. Could be an RPG or a Phantom Doctrine style game.
What is the animated great war portions of this video from? I dont recognize it fro. Any game. Kinda looks like a cartoon rendition of fallout?
This video should have been two.
First. From Warsaw, Poland.
I was excited at first (and genuinely liked the show) I just hope this doesn't have a negative impact on fallout as a whole, we gamers and wasteland lovers are a devoted group. Like the fact everyone playing 76 now with no reference other than the show. If you are one of these people I beg ya, check out New Vegas, 4, and 3 (Pref 1 and 2 fu*k tactics but they are so old most average players prlly wont like them).
Why am I the only one who thought the show connected pretty well with NV? Saying Vault-Tec launched the nukes was injuriously dumb tho i think Bethesda is liable
@@greenkoopaevery fallout game has implied that vault tec had a hand in the great war
@@greenkoopabruh, fallout lore heavily points to vault tec encouraging nukes being dropped. The show never states that vault tec actually did it but showcased their willingness for it to happen.
Fallout 76 is the premier Fallout experience. Why play anything else?
@@FAWP00 uh this bait seems to be made of bait😂
Great video sad part this is happening to us now. Good luck all!
Phenominal Video
HE MADE A FALLOUT THING YEEEEESSS
Totally finish the 28 days later comics!
Hey, Niyat? Would you ever cover a book series that hasn't been adapted to film or graphic novels yet? There's this one series that I've been reading that I'm super intrigued by and I'd love to hear your take on it. It's called The Raceling Chronicles. Book 1 is called Blood of The Side (there was recently a reprint so the new cover is a clean piece of a person hanging upside down over fire NOT the red girl on fire. The new version is way better) There's currently 4 books in the series and tbh I'm a little lost on some of these subplots.