nate being a sarcastic jerk (fallout)

original video: • Fallout 4 - Sarcastic ...
this took about 3 or 4 days and i just found out theres a part 2 so if i feel like doing so ill animatic a part 2
but yeah i love fallout 4
art: me
characters: fallout 4
music: Happy Go Lively - Laurie Johnson

[@roughfoxy101]

In the original video Nate just came off as an asshole, but in the animation he comes off as a likable person just having fun

[@roughfoxy101]

(Which is something I love about this animation)

[@firebuug]

@@roughfoxy101 Aww thank you lol! I do love me a goofy Nate

[@savagesavie1701]

After everything he's been through? He deserves a little fun.

[@DaxAxeOffical]

@@firebuug Like my egotistical and sociopathic, but has good in the deep in his heart. Y'know

[@GiordanDiodato]

he seemed more like "I'm all out of fucks to give"

[@basil3263]

"They turned.....carnivorous" Fucking kills me everytime

[@Thi-Sen]

It's my favorite video game quote of all time

[@uldisbergvalds1]

c a r n i v o r o u s

[@chicks_before_dicks]

carnivorous 😏

[@rulebritannia8438]

He says it in italics

[@basil3263]

The face sells it honestly

[@jacobsouth4560]

The fact that Piper tied him to the chair warms my soul.

[@firebuug]

u cant let breaking news make a break for it!!!

[@udamthewaster9454]

gives me mixed feelings... ;)

[@jacobsouth4560]

@@udamthewaster9454 Heyo hol' up

[@Mast3rKK]

**flashbacks to fallout 4 parody**

[@greywalker505]

“Oh my, how lewd! Huehuehueheheheheh!”

[@stoneforest2639]

God I love how brutal nick is right back at ya. He sounds like a disappointed southern dad.

[@firebuug]

RIGHT i love nick

[@jimmyoakmeister]

"You know what, why don't you just shut the hell up for once? I swear you care more about sounding smart than you do who has to listen to it." - Nick Valentine. Yep. Definitely disappointed

[@firebuug]

@@jimmyoakmeister maybe this explains why nick left us to get milk

[@coosarider5990]

I know the feeling

[@greywalker505]

@@jimmyoakmeister After what he said to prompt that, he more than deserved it.

[@phinneausreno3322]

I swear Nate's VA had WAY Too much fun with the Sarcastic voice lines, these are comedy gold!

[@MercuryTheVexilliologyNerd]

Nate's VA is one of my favorite, while yes its serious most of the time, he can be funny and some voicelines even sounds like breaking character, its just great

[@That1OneKobold2]

I swear, Nate did a lot better at the sarcastic lines than Nora.

[@lucaszoffka3309]

Especially in the dlc. "It's your old pal! Shamus McFuckyourself"

[@WarFoxThunder]

IKR

[@generalpeeps]

have to agree, its allways the best when a VA sounds like they're having a blast. Also tbf the power of his gutteral scream when you open Nora's pod shows he's 100% got the serious acting chops for the right moment. It was haunting.

[@FuzDoesStuff]

"DRINK, SOME, WATER."

[@tytanium654]

Best line in the game, hands down

[@goodguyguy5022]

The best ending

[@watchulookinat271]

*Wah Turh

[@Plungedspace337]

Just don’t turn into some damn Nuka cola hoarder

[@alexlineder8534]

made me realize how much better the dialogue in fo4 would have been if the characters were more expressive

[@DallyASMR]

Yeah it's always just blank face with slight face contortion and moving shoulders and neck a bit.

[@LuunieTuunie]

Its why i dont use the dialogue camera

[@lucaszoffka3309]

It's terrible that wearing a gas mask is more expressive than wearing no headgear

[@Trinitycore0720]

An AI is more expressive than the most eccentric character in Fallout 4

[@coughingbabie]

@@LuunieTuuniedid you have to find a mod for it

[@FuzzyDreamin]

Nate and Nora taking on the wasteland together would have been too powerful for this reason only - they are both major sarcastic assholes (with hearts of gold)

[@xenon3990]

They’re a couple. That alone would’ve been too strong. The banter we would’ve gotten….

[@tytanium654]

I wanna see a mod where Kellogg didn't deactivate the cryo pod systems in Vault 111, and they all come out in 2287

[@DeathcurseJR]

One would die in the end i already know that its happened to many times in other games

[@GunnerR3X]

@@tytanium654 Well.....problem with that, Shaun woulda never gotten out to thaw the player out, though ig you can make the argument that another director of the Institute had the same idea, to release the Vault Dwellers to see who'd survive, or the Enclave sent the all clear signal, unthawing the dwellers

[@tytanium654]

@@GunnerR3X I thought the reason the survivor thawed was because of the vault systems failing after 210 years of no maintanence

[@matthewcole395]

Sarcasm... Sarcasm never changes...

[@Doyoueverwonderwhywerehere]

I need a mod now that replaces the audio files with that

[@Porterpotty34]

Cute boat

[@GunSpyEnthusiast]

Really? and here *I* was, getting new pairs.

[@elite_enfield34]

nate as a catgirl saying meow instantly makes my day.

[@Prak_Giggles]

"nate as a catgirl saying meow instantly makes my day." -Adolf Hitler

[@plaguenplay3516]

*M E O W*

[@FrankieAmadeian.]

_m e o w ~_

[@oddtomato1049]

𝓶 𝓮 𝓸 𝔀 ~

[@DeathcurseJR]

no.

[@isaacbachman4246]

Honestly. 1 man with a thousand guinea pigs sound like something vault tec would do.

[@greywalker505]

You never know; they probably did.

[@crazyfire9470]

That guy with the puppet could need another friend…

[@elitusdelitus1509]

Well one test was just a straight up panther with ten men and twenty women, although I always thought that the panther was rather tame for vault tech

[@MetroXLR]

Not all of the 122 confirmed Vaults have been revealed yet, so for all we know there IS one that has something like that.

[@GigalassII]

There are 2 vaults that's just 1 man with 99 women, and 1 woman with 99 men For sure 1 man and 1000 Guinea pigs fits their bill

[@LaChicanitaLinda]

Nick looks so done with Nate

[@crowwithanxiety5459]

Can u blame him?

[@egg2949]

"Local man says 'No'."

[@GunSpyEnthusiast]

No.

[@connormcconnell7805]

2:11 fact is Nate was in the military, they didn't say what branch so it's actually possible for him to have been on an aircraft carrier. Compared to a carrier the prydwin is just a cute boat.

[@YourLocalEldritchHorror]

He served in the army

[@tugalord]

Army fatigues + uss constitution robots.

[@spongeboymebob771]

It was Army. I'd say they mention it a couple times, but then I just remembered he literally says it at the end of the intro. "If my time in the Army has taught me one thing..."

[@oolooo]

He was in the 108th Infantry Division , deployed to Canada and Alaska , possibly fighting at Anchorage .

[@Literallyryangosling777]

He commited war crimes

[@alcatrazthatguyontheintern1465]

FALLOUT 4 Nate: Kinda boring. Firebug's animated Nate: The MC we wanted and love.

[@Literallyryangosling777]

Nate the rake = peak

[@MrZomBie775]

If the characters were just a little more physically expressive and weren’t limited to the static dialogue camera and off putting facial animations, Nate would be regarded much higher as a protagonist by fans.

[@alexref6074]

​@@MrZomBie775i think they should have made it like: protagonist is voiced but when answers in dialogue camera doesn't turn to him, that would make face animating job easier

[@tintinlchevreau1135]

@@MrZomBie775they should have just went all in and make Fallout 4 a spin off with Nate and Nora being defined characters, so that the game would be more like rdr2 or witcher 3 with 2 main character (nate and nora, and you could play for a while before the war and then choose wich to play after the bombs) with names and a backstory instead of half-assing the game, so that its neither a proper rpg nor a proper characterdriven game

[@maried5473]

without the awful facial animations i can finally appreciate nates sarcasm

[@damianwaynerobin5984]

This is why I wear a helmet that covers the face and just imagine the facial expressions

[@ketaminepoptarts]

one of the benifets of playing older fallout games, you arent forced to see your characters ugly face everytime they say something

[@ProtoManiac2283]

for real though, this animation makes things so much more fun

[@mrpancake8889]

you guys should really disable the dialogue camera in display settings

[@maried5473]

​@@mrpancake8889genius man

[@jorgeruiz6855]

Now that we know he's a war criminal this is probably canon

[@thelivewire2401]

o_o excuse me he’s a w h a t.

[@jorgeruiz6855]

@@thelivewire2401 Nate is canonically a war criminal who hates Canadians

[@captainswagger2838]

@@thelivewire2401in either fallout 1 or 2 there’s a scene of two guys in power armor in Canada and one kills a p.o.w. While the other one watches and laughs. One of the writers I think said that the laughing one was Nate, but I think he backtracked soon after

[@arkhamshade2198]

​@captainswagger2838 literally, everyone hated it, so he backtracked like 2 days later

[@unterhau1102]

​@@arkhamshade2198hell nah, nate is absolutely based

[@matthewschoen9827]

This made me realize how much the rigid emotionless faces of the gsme drag down the stellar voice acting. Seeing with more expressive body and faces feels totally fresh and new

[@JackisJack_]

Things like this are one of the biggest reasons I love being a voice actor. Look at how much more emotion this artwork gives the performance than the static, boring, emotionless and robotic expressions the characters use in-game. Adds so much more to the performances done.

[@firebuug]

This means a lot to me, thank u :] The voice lines have a lot of potential, it’s a shame its limited by the medium they were used in

[@Beasthunter-rg1sc]

I dont care what anyone says about fallout 4 nate is my favorite protagonist

[@Southern_Crusader]

@@Beasthunter-rg1scHe’s not some destined savior or a spirit of vengeance, he’s just a guy who is officially done with the world after waking up to a shit storm!

[@NobelTheKnave]

Most people: Fallout 4’s dialogue sucks This video: *Well yes but actually no*

[@zaniatnik]

To be fair, it’s hated for limited options, rather than how they’re written. It’s always the lazy “Yes-No-What?-Sarcastic”. And only the latter had any actual effort put into itself.

[@sonnenblumefrau2048]

​@@zaniatnikMore like: Left: Sarcastic Up: Questions Down: Serious Right: Rude

[@tublar_stanley]

@@sonnenblumefrau2048 in reality its YES ^ YES< >YES v YES(Questioning)

[@GiordanDiodato]

Most people: NOOOOO!!!!!!! You can't have a voiced main character, it ruins the immersion!!!!! This video: HAHA, sarcasm button go BRRRRRRRR

[@GiordanDiodato]

@@zaniatnik pretty sure New Vegas was the same way, just with more choices.

[@gamignmaster6977]

Nate "The Rake" Howard is well known for his wit.

[@guardsmanlars6797]

Oh i fucking love the artsyle. This is perfect. my day is made

[@firebuug]

Thank u i am glad 2 be at ur service citizen 🤝

[@chocolatte8540]

1:39 This represents the first encounter with Rhys and the scene that played out in my mind perfectly.

[@-__-__-__-__-0000]

I like how Nate and Rhyes sound like 2 younger siblings fighting whilst Danse sounds like an older sibling trying to calm them down.

[@AltAcount-sf2sc]

They call it the Brotherhood for a reason, you know?

[@fearjunkie]

0:32 Nate, internally: Well well well, if it isn't the consequence of my actions-

[@thraxismoon2175]

I love the scraggly Nuka cola man he looks so precious in this

[@firebuug]

THANK U LOL i didnt mean to make him look cute but he kinda is now

[@MarkoDash]

1:30 nicks follow on sentence really adds to the comeback "It's synth, detective, jackass. If you're gonna be that way, you might as well get the make and model right."

[@skwyd3341]

I thought the lines were good before but you made them even better by adding express faces that doesn’t look like a Disney animatronic reject,

[@firebuug]

THANK YOU… LOL i do wish the game were more expressive but guess artists have gotta take matters into their own hands (cracks knuckles)

[@skwyd3341]

@@firebuug I mean it is Bethesda, leaving the fans to clean it up is kinda their thing

[@Doyoueverwonderwhywerehere]

@@firebuug the reason Bethesda never did anything is because just as because in Todd Howard's eyes IT JUST WORKS

[@99batran]

@@skwyd3341 If you take a look at it since Fallout 3, it's pretty much better

[@Cy-y5i]

I always loved Nick because he back talked. He didn't take it and move to the next line, he always had a silly comeback.

[@AngryCheeseGirl]

Sometimes I mourn for how we never got a part 2 of this masterpiece. This had so much effort put into it and it ends up way funnier than the original video because of that.

[@firebuug]

thank u for the kind words chief o7 i fell out of mt fallout interest but if i ever pick it back up again i will provide for the people

[@ST0NET0AD3.16]

@@firebuug Has the time come?... (not rushing just saying that as the fallout game series has picked up again)

[@KeyboardTarantula]

@@firebuug I summon thee for questioning.

[@firebuug]

@@ST0NET0AD3.16 I got back into it for a split second after watching the show but then immediately got swept back up by my DND campaign sorry brah

[@dandthenb]

1. I forgot the player has a canon name 2. I enjoyed this more than i should have

[@theautisticnerd8207]

this is one of the best animatic's i have ever seen in a while.

[@firebuug]

thank you so much!!!!! :-)

[@theautisticnerd8207]

@@firebuug no mate. thank you. i haven't enjoyed a video the much in ages. keep up the good work. can't wait to see more of your amazing animatic's. also, is there any chace for a part 2? : )

[@firebuug]

@@theautisticnerd8207 super glad you liked it!!! 🥺 also YEAH if i get the chance ill totally make part 2 i still love fallout

[@theautisticnerd8207]

@@firebuug thats great to hear mate. i can't wait! keep up the good work and i hope you have a lovley day. : )

[@mushroomsrcool1449]

This art makes Nate look super cute.

[@firebuug]

thank you!!!!🥺

[@TehEricAlmeida777]

From jerk to war criminal, what a trip

[@Bucket_Buffoon]

This is one of those things that make me like the protag from 4 with how expressive it is. Now animate him in Canada.

[@MTVhost]

I ABSOLUTELY- I CAN'T THIS KEEPS MAKING ME HAPPY WHY

[@firebuug]

Carnival Canary NATE RADIATES SEROTONIN

[@MTVhost]

@@firebuug HE IS SEROTONIN TF YOU MEAN- HE IS THE EMBODIMENT OF HAPPINESS AND HIS SARCASM IS JUST ABSOLUTELY 💗💕💗💛💗💕💕🖤💖💕💖💕💖💝💖💝💖❣💖💖💛💖💛🖤🖤❤💗❤

[@firebuug]

where are yall coming from this is such a lively video for me and i posted it forever ago edit:i havent been into fallout for a while so i dont think a part 2 will happen anytime soon sorey

[@Nomad958]

We showing up because this is nice

[@Nomad958]

Please keep it up

[@foethefox793]

the algorithm.... mainly...... also for the animatic

[@HenryChunn]

こんにちは、私はアメリカから来ました。あなたのビデオが大好きです。

[@sonnenblumefrau2048]

Been watching alot of Fallout 4 videos, and literally just got recommended your videos lol.

[@Tmalter]

That's my war criminal

[@mahega128]

Love how Valentine always has a comeback for him.

[@drear20486]

World's cutest war criminal

[@AzureSetsunai4345]

As someone who has beaten the game 50+ times, heard almost every dialogue option, and has played Nate almost every time, this made me very, VERY happy.

[@sailormenji]

fellow nate enthusiast???

[@AzureSetsunai4345]

@@sailormenji Nate the rake is a good MC

[@piecheese1214]

Nate: "It was just me and a thousand guinea pigs. They turned.... _Carnivorous."_ *A FEW DAYS LATER* DC Guard: "Hey, you were in the paper, right? Vault dweller with a thousand guinea pigs? What kind of twisted experiment was that?" Nate, inwardly: _Well, well, well, if it isn't the consequences of my own actions._

[@alexref6074]

I live how vault tec was such a messed up people with such a messed up experiments that carnivorous guinea pigs is not something people would be surprised with

[@DylanoRevs]

When this gets to Nate (or should i say Isaac) saying "Maybe i should get a secret decoder ring too". I imagine him wearing a stereotypical nerd outfit with a bucktooth and big round glasses while wearing a bowtie and suspenders. That would be amazing to see

[@Texascowboy68]

2:06 omg that drawing of dogmeat is so freaking cute 🥰

[@BayBrick117]

Nate the rake and war criminal

[@HansHammertime]

“I love work. I could sit and watch it all day.” Is my fav line in the entite game and I love using it when the opportunity arises

[@pigriziaportamivia6436]

I love the fact that piper tied nate to the chair

[@toomberrebmoot9244]

Aw, who’s my favorite little war-criminal~? You are~, you~ are!😂

[@JustSatori]

Nate being a sarcastic asshole in the apocalypse makes so much sense now that we know hes a war criminal that laughs during public executions.

[@eugeneflores6153]

Nora is a Saul Goodman in their time

[@LRodz279]

Honestly that something Vault-Tech would do 1:10

[@B1_1_9_7_5]

They turned carnivorous.

[@Drogabz]

I think the sole survivor, gains a soul being a sarcastic jerk

[@thereallifesaiyan]

How this somehow makes him sounding like a complete asshole into a genuinely likable guy is insane.

[@wadwiswell]

I just... 2:52.... it kills me to see the cat school boi Nate. I think the people next door think I have gone insane.

[@Diegobettv]

2:29 When im going to the school on the middle of summer and teacher asks what am I doing here:

[@helios6521]

“Here’s your headline!: Local man.. says no. :)”

[@jonathanhamilton6190]

These were very cute to watch

[@firebuug]

Thank you!!! :-)

[@TheJanooby]

Nate: patrolling the commonwealth makes you wish to be back in Canada

[@emknight2]

I would watch a whole show of just this

[@firebuug]

honestly me too i wish they made a show for fallout LOL. maybe ill just have 2 make more 😔😔💔

[@udamthewaster9454]

@@firebuug you should, its really good!

[@HmmNo]

Now that there is a show, what do you think of it?

[@Bold_Burnett_35]

This is one of my comfort videos

[@puglord87lol55]

Every time I play fallout 4 all roads lead back to sarcasm

[@-Commit-arson-]

I like to think Nate is trying to run from the fact his wife got shot in the face by Scarface McGee, and the racism gang2 electric Boogaloo

[@tedwardmauldin2172]

He’s still a war criminal in my cannon and it makes it better

[@johnb3587]

Not a war crime if there’s no one left to convict you

[@smittywerbenjagermanjensen5325]

One of my favorite interactions between nick and nate: "Wait, Nick, what're you saying? Theres been a war?" "Ha. Yeah. Nothing big. I'm sure we'll bounce back just fine."

[@DapperDanLovesYou]

Nate's Sarcasm is fantastic

[@Springal43]

the sarcastic dialogue is the best

[@Mast3rKK]

this is so much better than any of jjdani's videos the personality in their movements is what does it for me please, please remake the full series with animation IT IS SO FREAKING GOOD

[@firebuug]

bwahaha thank you that means so much! id never want to diss on the original or compare myself to them, but it means a lot that you think so :-) if i get the motivation to do so i definitely will try!!! i miss drawing the gang

[@SUYPERMRBATH]

I fucking love nicks voicelines. I would always be sarcastic with him cuz hes a goober

[@Purgious]

Nate the Rake takes no shit

[@shieldedgaming1589]

I would like to see more of this animation is beautiful

[@firebuug]

Awww thank u lol

[@masterofthetear8138]

The throat grab made me choke on my drink, the little ˢᵠᵘᵉᵃᵏ

[@LocoRoco2009]

Catboy nate was something I didn’t think I wanted to have in my head

[@meyzoranutile3211]

"local man says no" PERFECT

[@DinoRicky]

0:01 He was going war crimes in Canada That explains why he is so sarcastic

[@callmenick5982]

shut up

[@m3m3w1zard6]

They retconned that now

[@snarkatryta]

​@@m3m3w1zard6😢

[@B1_1_9_7_5]

​@@m3m3w1zard6no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no still canon it's definitely still Canon

[@Wulfsguy7039]

I love that Nick has a sense of humor too tho.

[@JoeMama-me2yj]

Honestly these animations make Nate's dry sarcasm funnier than they already were

[@ShadowBonnieVincent]

0:44 *D R I N K S O M E W A T E R*

[@Street_Demon]

It's just so much better when it's animated

[@MAD_MARD]

“I’m calling it right here, This world can officially bite my ass.” One of the best lines of media I’ve ever heard

[@Legion69420]

Sometimes I think that people in the wasteland don't understand the concept of sarcasm, but other times I think "oh, they know, they just don't give a shit"

[@Geshiko-GuP]

Nate's voice actor most definitely had a BLAST doing these

[@fazegabi8414]

What amazes me is that your animations have so much more character and expression than the in-game models. It turns what would otherwise be insufferable dialogue into genuine comdeic gold.

[@firebuug]

Thank you! 🥺🙏 It means a lot!

[@Crackheadcentral2188]

I love how nick doesn’t just put up with his bullshit, he actually reciprocates it- 1:29 1:35

[@giantpinkcat]

This is why Nick is the best companion

[@johnb3587]

Given he was in the army, this tracks

[@theoneheavymain4123]

How in Atom's irradiated green earth, am I just finding this now, It's beautiful

[@yazidefirenze]

Man went from "I'll find whoever did this... I promise." to "I hope the colour of my energy is blue."

[@greywalker505]

Coping mechanism.

[@firebuug]

nate is a dad first and a sole survivor second

[@yazidefirenze]

@@firebuug "Just 'cause I can't find my son doesn't mean I'm not Dad!"

[@Triedllama3275]

Dude piper and Nate “It was me and a thousand guinea pigs and they turned carnivorous” Dude had me dying😂😂

[@CyberController-]

Average war criminal moment

[@TokiMoniko]

I love how this animation shows more of characters personalities and how much itd be better if they were more animated in game aobbing WE WERE ROBBED

[@commanderAnakin]

2:49 Oh no, he definitely loves America. He REALLY loves America...

[@oilybat3269]

I love being a sarcastic dickhead in this game, it’s absolutely hilarious.

[@robbie_the_mastermind2176]

Mercenary Madness be like. Also Nate’s poor wife married him and stared a family.

[@Falloutboy76.4]

1:06 I know this video is old now… But I love how you added the detail of Nate being tied down, like the “Local man says no.” Actually happened! (btw love your artwork!)

[@firebuug]

thank you so much! ^_^ LOL yeah I liked that little detail I'm glad people noticed

[@matheusmelisguerrapeixe2330]

1:01 Sierra? The fact it's 101 is even funnier.

[@DashingSteel]

"Local man sees world burn, loses wife and child. Treats world like punchline and does chems about it."

[@TheTSense]

Not gonna lie, this makes so much more sense now that we know that Nate the Rake killed SO MANY unarmed Canadian children before the war. The total soulless way he cooks these burns

[@0uttaS1TE]

Wait, why are people calling him Nate the R-Oh right, the war crimes.

[@Royal-bk9hv]

Your animation brings these conversations to life instead of the soulless husk Fo4 usually has

[@firebuug]

thank you that is a high honor o7

[@joking_oregon1]

I love Nick’s back and forths with Nate

[@Fbispook]

Jerma really changed during the apocalypse.

[@firebuug]

NAUR 😭

[@Moonsoon803]

1:13, The delivery of *carnivorous* never fails to make me laugh