Fallout: Harold's Story

[@doctorthrax2076]

That's some quality voice acting.

[@karmitdafruge1]

Alot of the voice acting in 1 and 2 are extremely high quality. The overseer of the vault in 1 saying you're a hero and you must leave is read so perfectly. Amatas same line just doesn't have the same impact

[@brenscott5416]

Indeed it is. If you haven't already I recommend looking into the other voiced characters. A fun fact (if you didn't already figure it out) fallout 1 came out in 1997, and fallout 2 in 1998. Makes all of it so much more impressive considering the standards of the time were games like the resident evil games 1,2, and 3 all came out around the same time and have such legendarily awful voice acting

[@jamess.7811]

​@@brenscott5416half life 1

[@ConeFlower-gx2qk]

@@brenscott5416I will say I think MGS1 is very comparable to the voice acting but also I mean MGS basically revolutionized games

[@brenscott5416]

@ConeFlower-gx2qk I didn't mention it because it's part of the outliers but you are right, the voice acting is good. I think it's not quite on the level of fallout 1 and 2 but then those games are comparable to today lol

[@greetkaninibs5651]

"How'd you survive?" "Didn't...I died" *"WHEEZE"*

[@OpelsiSq]

i laughed my ass of

[@211Appolo]

RIP Harold 2072-2277 When I was doing my evil playthrough and I had to burn him, I really felt bad. I know it's just a game, but damn.

[@Tony-The-Motherfucking-Tiger]

But not like that, he asks you to shoot his heart.

[@MrVodka-ie8jw]

YOU FUCKIN MONSTER,WHY YOU BURN HAROLD AND BOB ,YOU MANIAC!!

[@CPorter]

you ever go back a few days later and see his burnt corpse?

[@WhyDidntIInventYT]

even in my evil playthroughs, I always let Harold live.

[@elevatormusic4000]

@Ties de Jong Evil would be making sure he lives. The good choice is to shoot his heart. The neutral/lazy choice is deciding to burn him.

[@leohex8767]

"This is canonicaly one of the most important conversations in fallout."

[@Magunnnny]

Fable: "We promise that if you plant a seed in the beginning of our game, you can watch it grow into a tree..." Never made it in the game. Fallout:"...so you wanna see this guy with this weird thing growing out his head?" Three games later the guy is a tree.

[@arkotheuhh7297]

Peter. The false prophet

[@bigj3508]

The voice acting, the dialogue, the aesthetic, the lore, the art...what else...everything about this game was great. I wish I could forget about it and play it through all over again.

[@impatienstheshmuck5348]

@Nicolas d'Avout You're not thinking of the third game, are you? I've got 1 on GoG and it runs pretty nicely with Fallout Fixt, even on Windows 10.

[@TheNinja94a]

@@impatienstheshmuck5348 My Fallout runs fine, too-crashed one or two times, though, but that's stacked along with over thirty days of playing it. Hope he figured out whatever problems he was having.

[@jeremiaha5167]

I played Fallout 1&2 many times... Believe it or not, but when I found Harold in Fallout3 and he explained that Herbert (I mean Bob) grew around him, and asked me to kill him later - I had tears in my eyes seriosuly... The only really emotional moment for me (Those who don't know: This is Fallout(1) footage. In Fallout 2 you meet him again and he has a tiny tree growing on his head)

[@atomicninja4847]

Fallout 3 has lots of good parts.Its not perfect no fallout game is perfect but its a great game

[@hunlepto2239]

I say that until Obsidian doesn't confirm Harold really became a talking tree, I will still think that Harold is alive and good. Fallout 3 is Bethesda's mediocre version of Fallout, they weren't very lore-friendly either, so let's pretend it's not canon, only New Vegas is right now. And I don't care if he had a little tree on his head in Fallout 2, I want a clear confirmation from Obsidian about that first.

[@atomicninja4847]

I dont see how its mediocre.Its a great game

[@hunlepto2239]

Alright, I'd say that yesterday I was in my Fallout purity mood, but today I just say that Fallout 3 didn't have as much of an interesting story. People in Fallout 3 were very white and black, the creators didn't care too much about the older Fallout stories and tried to create their own instead (Harold is an exception, but his appearance in 3 is something that I think Obsidian wouldn't have wanted). The ending could have been better if the Broken Steel update wasn't added (although, Fawkes' dialogue in the original ending is so stupid). I kinda liked Fallout 3's story, but there was barely any lore to know and barely any explanation why these guys do these things. In Fallout NV, I have beaten every faction's ending, because all faction has some interesting backstory and good ideologies with flaws and I wanted to know them all. Also, it felt good that my choices finally mattered, it felt more like I was truly playing in the world itself, not I'm the world itself. The difficulty was also harder (with JSawyer's mod, the difficulty is even harder) which was a great change for me, considering I did Operation Anchorage first in my Fallout 3 playthrough and immedietly gotten the best armor and weapon in the game (which I call total bullshit, because something like this shouldn't be given away that easily). I just feel that Fallout 3 is a linear open-world FPS shooter with some RPG aspects meanwhile New Vegas is an open-world RPG with some FPS aspects. But everyone have their own opinions on each game, so I will respect that you liked 3 more.

[@atomicninja4847]

I feel still that Fallout 3 is a open world rpg win first person.That was with the dlc Fallout 3 bulit its story with exploration and side quests not the main quests which i agree while to me it was exciting i can see it being boring.

[@samhenson8177]

Ok but every time, I mean every single time, even when I know it’s coming, when Harold says “Didn’t! Got killed!”, I die laughing. The dark humor of Fallout is one of a kind.

[@thenortherndoge]

gives $25. gets called an idiot at the end

[@theidiotchefs8920]

$45

[@Excalibursin]

+Rush Roque He doesn't like thinking of how he never got to see his old friend again.

[@tylerlackey1175]

Simp moment

[@themanthemyth111]

@@tylerlackey1175 what

[@tylerlackey1175]

@@themanthemyth111 Just look up simps donating to twitch thots or something

[@rue-2843]

Wow... He met the Lone Wanderer, The Chosen One, The Master, The Initiate, Diana and even The Vault Dweller, also one of the few 'merely' successful FEV subjects. Sad the way he died, after 200 years of living.

[@LoverOfManyArts]

I'm not sure that Harold dying in Fallout 3 is the canon ending.... I mean the game does give you the option to keep him alive...

[@w3ss3x]

@@LoverOfManyArts bro... 7 year old comment

[@wallamazoo01]

@@w3ss3x it had to be done

[@asteriusblack]

@@w3ss3x who cares

[@kvatchero]

​@@w3ss3x9 now

[@danielhernandez2575]

Whatever happened to Mark? To this day, I don't know. He never made it back here, and...well I...couldn't face the wasteland again, so I...I never looked. This sent chills down my spine and made my heart ache with sadness.

[@gosteponyourmomslego5053]

2 years late i know. Fallout: New California, a fanmade mod for NV that gained popularity, actually has Mark. He’s basically trying to bring back the Unity and is acting as a successor to the Master. If I’m right, some Obsidian people did kinda nod towards the whole thing

[@ganjaericco]

Quality piece of voice acting.

[@pedrofromrio645]

I think that Mark was actually the one who *saved* Harold from Mariposa. After blacking out, he woke up in the wastes with no knowledge as to how he got out of Mariposa. We know that Mark and Harold knew each other on a first name basis, so it makes sense that Mark would go back for him. (TBH, I would go back to get him.)

[@oneinathousand2156]

It’s pretty sad that Harold and Richard Grey never realized what really happened to the other. As far as Harold knows, Richard drowned and even in the sequels he never found out, plus if you ask him about the Master in the tell me about box he asks if the Master is a sex therapist. As for Richard, in his audio diary he says that he’s sure Harold is dead because otherwise he would have tried to rescue him from the vats, unaware of how Harold passed out and was later rescued.

[@TheBigG2000]

"hell you couldn't even fart without hitting one." Holy hell I almost pissed myself laughing.

[@Mancyofsouls]

One of the options after that is, "You farted in the northwest?"

[@CopiousDoinksLLC]

@@Mancyofsouls I spotted that too, cracked me up something awful

[@ViktoriaMagrey]

@@CopiousDoinksLLC I always answer with that. It's hilarious!

[@kylemurphy597]

@@Mancyofsouls Harold's reaction to that is great!

[@PaddyRoon7]

I like how the only place to find out the entire origin of the Master, as well as the presence of Super Mutants across the wasteland is found in dialogue with a random ghoul beggar.

[@LCTesla]

the story of richard grey and harold, surviving alone in that underground base while the rest of them died in droves, always stuck with me. that nasty reality combined with the mystery of what went on in that base, and how it ended on such an inconclusive note... chilling

[@bearmasksenpai1391]

he's a tree now..........

[@graafixzgaming6652]

devils tree?

[@nothanks8387]

its the devil's lettuce

[@chefmike8177]

Nothanks Either or, I guess.

[@nothanks8387]

its never been called the devil's tree.

[@x-Abraham-x2]

Yeah

[@hudesko5397]

Then he walks across the United States for no reason or explanation while turning into a tree and starts to sound like Stephen Russell. I had to let him out of his misery due to Bethesda treating him.

[@roberthebert2826]

Hudesko to be fair him turning into a tree makes sense with what began in fallout 2, although it would have made more sense for him to be in Mohave then Captial

[@user-dq6hs4ry6z]

@kat gravity unless the canon is that harold didn't get killed

[@tylerlackey1175]

@@user-dq6hs4ry6z I thought he was dying anyway? Or maybe not, it's been many years since playing it. I do remember him begging you to kill him but I thought he was dying anyway

[@user-dq6hs4ry6z]

@@tylerlackey1175 you could put some shit in him so he would bring life to a massive fauna. So u could have saved him if u wanted to.

[@MisterJohnDoe]

I just assumed he sounded different due to the mutations roughing his insides.

[@BlazeRhodon]

I love voice of Charles Adler (also known as Charlie Adler), he is a very good actor. His voice is perfect for Harold from Fallout series.

[@MysteriousStrangerVA]

Charlie Adler should do some more serious voice acting if he hasn’t already. He’s got legitimate chops for it.

[@docbaker3333]

Yeah he can do all kinds of roles from genuinely menacing villains to hammy and comical characters, he is good I didn't recognize him until I visited harold's page Wiki he just sounds so different from what I normally hear.

[@axtel6879]

I hated how there was a lack of explanation on why he went to the East Coast. Or at least mentioning why he left Gecko in the first place.

[@desolatortrooper7196]

I agree it was just make him appears Marcus would make more sens since he was going to East looking for Master army remnants and heard about Vault 87. Also a logic personnal theory/opinion he was looking for a cure and travelled a lot to stop his tree to grow.

[@MrPickles1987]

They explain IN Fallout 3 why he went to the East. Hell, you can find so much reading on it now. As for Marcus, there's a theory out there saying he's the Mysterious Stranger that shows up to help you. I suggest looking that up and reading it. Really interesting!

[@desolatortrooper7196]

@@MrPickles1987 can you give me a link please ? I never play Fallout 3 and a may missing some elements.

[@509Gman]

I’m pretty sure an ending card in 2 said he wandered eastward

[@Pactastic042]

@@MrPickles1987 fallout 3 has a garbage story and bad writing can't blame people for not bothering to look around

[@samuraiidol]

#rememberHarold

[@LoydAvenheart]

I like the conversations in this game.

[@adam2727cc]

The MOST tragic character in video game history.

[@RjGoombes]

Craig Boone

[@hideokojima.]

@@RjGoombes Boone didn't deserved what happened to him :(

[@skyboy4341]

Cannibal johnson

[@asteriusblack]

@@RjGoombes one dead wife aint as sad as living misery harold.

[@Sobergrey]

Fallout and Fallout 2 were a huge part of my childhood.

[@marineduard8816]

herold is just a charming guy and interesting guy and such longevive in fallout franchise

[@Helperbot-2000]

if you talk to him with low intelligence he'll say: "Geez. You're worse off than i am, friend. Luck to you."

[@microscopetimbs]

Spare change, old friend, old pal?

[@donovan942]

Love the old stop motion feel of the old games

[@dantenastasi2278]

This is my favorite interaction in the game. The voice acting is incredible and the storytelling is so vivid. Harold lived such a hard life. And it only got harder for him.

[@SomethingWithZ]

If I was you. If I had more caps then anyone did in fallout 1, I would have gave it all to him by bartering. He's my favorite character in the fallout series.

[@sometimesIjustWarri]

why is this voice acting 10 times better as in new vegas

[@peppermillers8361]

+Corvinus Iscariot he wasn't in NV.

[@sometimesIjustWarri]

i meant fallout 4 and not nv. i also mean the voice acting in general: the dialouges etc.

[@peppermillers8361]

Corvinus Iscariot because Fallout 1 has a good script.

[@sometimesIjustWarri]

excellent point

[@samrodrigues3199]

New Vegas also had a good script. It's made by the same folks who made the first 2. No, the voice acting isn't as good because very few characters in the first 2 Fallouts HAD voice actors. Most of the time, you'd click on an NPC and you'd get text to read. It was only key characters like Marcus, The Master, Harold, etc who were voiced.

[@ElCarlosT]

I loved how Harold foreshadowed the Master

[@khalifakush7297]

It would be crazy having Harold as a companion. Oh my god I just imagine Harold seeing Richard- no The Master as soon as The Vault Dweller and Harold got to where the fuck ever the master was at. I don't remember because the first fallout I played was New Vegas.

[@oneinathousand2156]

There’s only four companions in the first Fallout, but it would be cool if there were a remake and there was a special ending if you had Harold with you and the Master was surprised at seeing Harry.

[@clan_boyd_3]

@@oneinathousand2156 Master: *Harold?* Harold: [wheeze] Oh, God! *Richard?* What the hell happened to you, man?

[@ChazMcGutter]

2:45 one of my favorite lines

[@arkanjoteixeira]

Now that's how you make a Fallout game Bethesda.

[@fernie-fernandez]

Worst move ever...

[@funkmetal1234]

Bethesda didn't even make Fallout 1 and 2 so stop crying

[@LoneDrifter0]

I can just imagine interplay being a teacher to some kids that are story writers and game design for Bethesda

[@LoneDrifter0]

Omiah Andasola they shoulda at least remasterd them rather than making whole new games under the title of fallout with boring storyline’s

[@PLANDerLinde99]

They know. Because Harold was in Fallout 3 you damned idiot!

[@blitzeditzccp]

I'm surprised that he does not know about Richard Grey as the super mutant master.

[@oneinathousand2156]

In the first game if you ask him about the Master, he asks if he’s a sex therapist. He does know about the Master by 2 but he never found out he was Richard.

[@blitzeditzccp]

Yes good thinking

[@Unknown-hb3id]

Well, he did say he ran away out of fear and assumed he died.

[@slasher3428]

6:45 Triggered

[@The_Chosen_Heretic]

The voice acting for Harold is mesmerisingly good!

[@ostaruempire]

Harold by far is now my favorite Fallout character

[@sergiomunoz4443]

is he the same harold as the tree guy in oacis?

[@StylesV13]

sergio munoz Unfortunately yes he is the same Harold.

[@sergiomunoz4443]

oh okay, thanks

[@kobracommander9676]

sergio munoz yes, its a tragic story, FEV fucked him properly

[@sergiomunoz4443]

fucking vault tec

[@Pili117]

sergio munoz No he's not. Because you cannot take "Fallout 3" as a Fallout game. :)

[@towinrei]

Lol the ending

[@schoolskillz2393]

This was such a sad story

[@foxmccloud4807]

can't believe he's in fallout 3

[@suchiuomizu]

Why not? It made enough sense…what Bethesda did to him on the other hand…

[@DominatorLegend]

For those praising the voice acting (which I also think it's great) you may be surprised to know this is also Winnie the Pooh.

[@emerl298]

Lord Starscream, True leader of the Decepticons Jim Cummings (Winnie the Pooh) voiced the Master, not Harold. Harold was voiced by Charles Adler.

[@oneinathousand2156]

2 years late but nah, you’re thinking of the Master, Set and Gizmo.

[@No-kb9oy]

“I sure hope I don’t become a wise mystical tree…”

[@CarlosMedina-mx1jl]

Harold is the best Fallout character ever.

[@Darnell_23]

2:52 line goes incredibly hard

[@TacSon]

Fallout 1 and 2 were grimdark as shit. Wish they could have made Fallout 3 and New Vegas as dark as this.

[@TacSon]

That's the spirit, ponyboy.

[@joeycoolstar1]

Fallout 3 was a lil dark, fallout nv HAH no it is a good game but doesn't have a "good exploration" layout like fallout3, and the hidden stories in both were good!

[@TacSon]

I hope they will make the next Fallout more grimdark and spooky.

[@joeycoolstar1]

They might!

[@joeycoolstar1]

Lol

[@MrJason005]

that finale

[@Ghoster9x]

I farted North-West.

[@riboh3324]

How did he get to the East Coast?

[@arkanjoteixeira]

Because Bethesda... that's why.

[@quintincastro7430]

+Rico theDemonSlayer he went ther to trade with the brotherhood of steal

[@quintincastro7430]

+Rico theDemonSlayer witch is a theary of mine sens the time the bhs and the time he came are so close

[@riboh3324]

Tree magic

[@angeloluna529]

by walking, but i wish there could be an explanation how he got there

[@PLANDerLinde99]

Wtf that's the talking tree from Fallout 3

[@Bob-b7x6v]

Charlie Adler the GOAT! Buster Bunny, the animated Crypt Keeper, Ed Bighead, The Red Guy, Him, and Legion more. He, Rob Paulson, and Tress McNeil were great heirs to Mel Blanc and deserve Lifetime Achievement Oscars for their omnipresent voice work.

[@Bob-b7x6v]

Cow, Chicken, and The Red Guy in one. Charlie Adler contains multitudes, he is Legion...

[@meeeeewe]

3:21 unironically funniest thing in the franchise, I lose it every time

[@KingLich451]

*wheeeeeez*

[@CatManThree]

Something amazing I dont think much of anyone ever points out online is that Harold's backstory is a reference to the plot of Wasteland.

[@THEEGOBLINNE]

and now, harold is a tree.

[@THEEGOBLINNE]

in the oasis.

[@lordiverson4159]

alpaca llama burning..

[@learner9631]

I love fallout

[@WickedJ133]

So sad that he won't be in Fallout 4

[@MIC2077]

Or will he....?

[@zupergozer]

MIC2077 Tree! I am no tree! I am an ent

[@darthkotya]

+MIC2077 He most likely won't. I do believe that by the time that Fallout 3 & 4's prologues end (2277),he's already a tree,stuck in the ground forever.

[@charleystarks5972]

I killed him in fallout 3

[@GUSHIKEN11]

+tazeris I killed him too, he was suffering too much

[@jaileneleonard773]

then he comes in to fallout 3

[@ganjaericco]

"You farted northwest?" XD

[@Ro-Ghost]

Ghouls in this game look 10x better than fallout 4 even the ones in New Vegas look better

[@learner9631]

I wish I could see what happened to him first hand

[@peppermillers8361]

+Jacob Miller He was dipped in FEV.

[@petrifiedtoaster8572]

That would make a great spin off game. Playing as a initial survivor of the war and meeting up with Harold and the expedition.

[@Armorion]

3:23 is why I am here

[@thegrangranny]

Wait, was grey the master, cause this guy said that the master was hit by a crane and fell into the FEV, but harold said the exact same thing in his perspective

[@dragonkeeper19600]

Yes. If you find Richard Grey’s diary at the military base, he mentions Harold by name and describes his transformation into the Master.

[@rougeelite1446]

Weird part is that he is in fallout 3 which he is a tree that you can kill and I'm still wondering why no one has made a fallout 3 reference or Easter egg videos with him

[@Model3140digitalalarmclock]

He isn’t an Easter egg. He’s an actual character.

[@alternax9751]

harold

[@jinleonardo8419]

So harold is from vault 76

[@ebookjapan8054]

And somehow he ended up in Washington D.C. Good writing.

[@EmiliaTanWho]

Yeah no one in fallout has ever travelled across the country, just absolutely inconceivable

[@Model3140digitalalarmclock]

It’s not like he had 36 entire years

[@Model3140digitalalarmclock]

Oh, and additionally, Marge Lebarge from Fallout 2 travelled 2157 miles from Lake Lebarge in damn near northernmost Canada to Redding Nevada

[@normanred9212]

Harold is a true mutant, while Ghouls are just heavily disfigured with slow aging

[@thegamingbread1635]

What happens if you ask the master about Harold cus the master and him has history

[@oneinathousand2156]

The Master won’t answer to anything you type into the Tell-Me-About, he just shuts you down, which is too bad cause I wish they had a unique response if you typed in Harold, idk something like “How do you know about Harold? Never mind, you’re trying to distract me with sentimentality.” It could have been a neat little Easter egg for people who were paying attention to the lore. As for Harold, if you ask him about the Master he’ll ask if “he’s some sort of sex therapist.”

[@spooky882]

Poor guy turned unto tree

[@mickeygs5843]

Make this a movie

[@do3120]

In fallout 3 harold becomes a living full grown tree if kill him you get a perk and harold is happy in heaven or apply 2 kinds of sap that stops growth and othere alccrate the growth which will make him sad cant move and stuff

[@KanonHara]

dindo ong we dont take kindly to people who mention that shitty game round these parts

[@phonewithoutquestion80]

TheKanonHara You neckbeards pull the silliest shields.

[@KanonHara]

come back when you've played the originals, loser!

[@Misanthropolis]

+TheKanonHara Hey dumbass, FO3 and NV were masterpieces aswell. The creator of FO1 said he likes FO3, so you hipsters are going against your own "god".

[@KanonHara]

I don't care... Not liking a game doesn't make me a dumbass or a hipster... I don't care if the creator said that, FO3 is still the anus of the Fallout franchise.

[@Fallout76marine]

Ah cool i knew there was a point at looking at the older games

[@donovan942]

3:21

[@ceaser3002]

Is cool how he made it all the way to new Vegas

[@johnfurlong2400]

Yes Kay ... he didn't

[@childishoracle719]

He was in every game BUT New Vegas...

[@MrMattslam101]

Yes Kay Kakashi is that you?

[@joeycoolstar1]

You mean the capital wasteland?

[@peppermillers8361]

+childishOracle he wasn't in Tactics.

[@knock090]

3:21 me too 😄

[@hunlepto2239]

I'm wondering if Grey was the Lieutenant in the Military Base.

[@axtel6879]

Hun Lepto Grey is the Master

[@hunlepto2239]

Was there any information about that whatsoever? Harold said he got into green shit, from green shit come super mutant. The Master lived under a church, not in a military base. Harold also said that he was smart and because he was radiation free at the time (they lived in a Vault), he lost no intelligence in the super mutant process. Therefore, I think the Lieutenant being Grey has more proof.

[@likeppl]

Hun Lepto I think there is a log in the vat control computer (or whatever it's called) that are entries from Richard that talk about his transformation. Grey was dipped for MUCH longer than any of the other mutants, hence why he's is so much more melted than the others. It goes on to describe how he started dipping other humans. Richard Grey is, without a doubt, the master.

[@hunlepto2239]

I actually started looking at it in Fallout wiki and yes, Richard Grey is The Master. I just don't understand how he got from the Military Base into the Cathedral. Also, I wish there was a dialogue or something that could reference Harold or Harold could reference him in anyway. It would make sense, since while you need high speech checks for The Master to convince him that his plans are doomed to fail, if you could have the option to bring Harold somehow to the Cathedral and make him talk with The Master, it would be easier to convince him, since he would listen to his friend more openly than a stranger.

[@delta.6160]

fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Richard_Grey%27s_audio_diary Check this out. It's basically Grey's story of what happened to him after he fell into the FEV in his own words.

[@eru.maewos7673]

#PoorHarold

[@mrpotato4124]

Richard Grey maybe are the master because he fell in a acid/FEV tank☣️☣️☣️☣️

[@nile2128]

yeah... wouldn’t that be funny if it were the case

[@DPCP-h9u]

If you play FO1 and check the Mariposa Army Base, you will find some computers with information about him. Richard Grey IS the Master. He became a puddle of meat, absorbing rats and moles. Then a raider entered and he absorbe it, becoming his angry side. Then, a female vault dweller who got lost went inside, becoming his caring side. With those minds combined, plus the fact he had a mental connection with the mutants, it created his twisted dream of a mutated humanity and unity.

[@mrthms3247]

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[@TomasiñoAlbarracin]

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[@vrock6767]

#NationalTreasure

[@vogueinferno]

3:22

[@TomasiñoAlbarracin]

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