Fallout 4 Opening Scene Entering the Vault

The beginning of Fallout 4

[@anonymousmobster2444]

They're real lucky the salesman arrived on the exact same day they'd need him lol

[@urbainleverrier1]

The vault tek guy was also denied admission... poor guy

[@parousia4580]

@@urbainleverrier1 and became a Ghoul.

[@stevedixon4179]

Main Character's wife even says he had been trying to catch the husband for days.

[@KingChiggy]

They are also pretty lucky that the vault was literally right behind their house and not like, across town

[@clockwork2943]

Vault Tec has some really quick secretaries filing that paperwork, too, and their computer network is lightning quick!

[@TheEnemy159]

meanwhile a cowboy is running with his daughter in a horse

[@joshjohnson2753]

In?

[@YoSoyHabid]

Fallout Episode 1

[@ukrainefighter2456]

Hey theenemy159, THEn. The cowboy turned into the most badass ghoul in the fallout universe.😏🤣

[@rorybeyer4489]

A giant mushroom, maybe it's friendly.

[@MicroageHD]

Rory Beyer From Super Mario i know that mushrooms are never friendly

[@thelastfeelbender]

Rory Beyer God damnit Sokka!

[@Lightacre.]

Mushy giant friend!

[@sour_peckanmix]

It just wants a hug

[@XCrafterZoneX]

@@thelastfeelbender That episode of Avatar was hilarious 😂

[@smokyskies6188]

"We're gonna be okay." Then bomb explode.

[@Horenramon]

most of them become blind

[@mr_red685]

Horenramon do you mean became?

[@ale-skate]

Skibidi bop m dada (boom)

[@matthewsoucy9073]

… In the afterlife

[@mrwolf84]

"ehi listen me! everything is gonna be fine"

[@Desmundo96]

I want to see this from a military perspective maybe the guy in the super advanced office seeing all the red bleeps approaching the US coast from both sides and being able to send nukes of your own before you get bombed, thatd be an interesting intro

[@Desmundo96]

Yeah im talking about maybe the first responders inside the white house seeing the nukes being launches towards them and firing back before theyre hit

[@paperspleaseenespanolcanal2007]

+Richard Mervis One nuke was fired directly to the white house, but the goberment wasnt there at that moment, you could be in a Silo, you shot nukes, and then you escape because you know you wont survive a direct hit

[@Desmundo96]

exactly what i was thinking

[@SonsOfSevenless]

You should play the game DEFCON

[@benpowell5682]

DEFCON is so underrated.

[@Rayman2457]

Plot twist: It was Gandhi from Civ V that nuked everyone.

[@10airsoftguy]

+Tesla Fan 97 Damn it I hate that guy

[@MultiJdoyle]

Tesla Fan 97 Gandhi haunts my dreams because of that

[@iceddphantom6512]

I'm a year late but I just peed myself

[@GeneticAlgorithm]

*The secret peacemaking agenda*

[@dbhllproductions6544]

Oh my!.....l

[@Arundodonax]

At that range, pretty sure they'd all be cooked alive by the heat flash by the time the elevator even started moving. Or at the very least, blind and severely burned.

[@PointReflex]

+Arundodonax Yep, they were already dead long before the shockwave hit them, no to mention that the woman (main character) would be totally blind since she saw the blast directly xD.

[@TheArianman]

exactly what I was thinking

[@TheArianman]

They reach temperatures higher than the surface of the sun. not center.

[@nerysghemor5781]

Yeah, I was thinking something similar. Not to mention you would THINK these people would have known in a "1950s" world how to duck and cover instead of STARING where the flash was. Granted most people my age in OUR world wouldn't know how, but I've watched the old civil defense videos. I would've expected Bethesda to have watched those vids too.

[@joshuaw3157]

Yeah. And the location shown isnt even where the crater is in the game. The mushroom cloud looks like its southeast of concord.

[@pineli6752]

10:05 The sheer realization of that newscaster after reading out the reports, as you hoped a nuclear war would ever happen but it does happen, that's WHEN you really lose faith in humanity.

[@MolotovKiller]

Fallout 4 have tons of bad choices and shitty ideas but that intro is fucking amazing. The "calm" and totally ignorance of what gonna happens, the newscaster revealing the falls of the bombs with a tremble voice and when the siren start, everything descend into chaos. People hugging their loves ones, others crying. Something i really want is a Fallout game but shortly after the fall of the bombs.

[@martol7169]

@@MolotovKiller I agree, 4 has a really good introductions, it not usual oh i was born in the vault or I was born in Mojave, no it more ur character was born in the pre-war era , 4 gameplay is good, writing is horrible but since there no writers, it could have got worse

[@ggt47]

I always loved that scene.

[@srbrant5391]

You can hear the hope draining out of his soul as he realizes that everything he loves, hates, knows and never knew is being cooked at 300,000 degrees.

[@logiqed]

@@MolotovKiller Fallout 76 is pretty close.

[@shazamuel8950]

And to imagine that this did happen twice in Japan.

[@danle5569]

Shazamuel 89 no it didn't

[@phoenixprivate2977]

Dan Merry hello? Atom bombs?

[@BigT.Larrity]

Dan Merry... Yes, it did.

[@danle5569]

Phoenix Private big T. Larrity people evacuated to luxury bunkers and were frozen for 200 years?

[@P99AT]

Ohayou gozaimasu! Varuto-teku desu!

[@digitaldefault191]

11:44 gives me chills every time.

[@deadakus]

SKIBIBI BOP MM DADA

[@saiplayz1138]

Dude same

[@garrettfairley3401]

I personally like it more when the wife says "Oh my God!" instead of the husband. You can hear more terror in her voice than the husband's, that may just be me though.

[@P99AT]

Imagine how tense the first couple of months in the vault would be. "So... most everyone you know is dead too, right?"

[@perk_a_licious6506]

I know ita been 4 years but like, they were cryofrozen. I dont think you can talk after being frozen like a popsicle dude.

[@josephfrechette9916]

​@@perk_a_licious6506and everyone but the player was killed.

[@alfredohumberto2222]

​@@perk_a_licious6506 You are still connected to the machine and you can comunícate like that

[@trevoranderson7182]

At 11:44 when the bomb explodes, its hard to tell whether some sounds were screams or part of the music. IMO, its better if we leave it to your imagination...

[@connormac4401]

pretty sure it's just a sound effect that happens to sounds like human screams. but it makes sense if there are people actually scream

[@Dienow3xw]

That, was the sound wave from the nuke falling.

[@beavus1269]

@Lack of a better name so oddly satisfying

[@godrift1799]

its the music

[@paulgibbon5991]

Ever have one of those days when you ask your husband if you can use the bathroom, and he just stands there for half an hour, morphing into dozens of different men?

[@DarkoFitCoach]

All the time

[@bobbafett6235]

Damn. The first two minutes made me tear

[@Dienow3xw]

The whole entire beginning of the game scarred me for life. And very few things have been horrible/saddening enough to do that

[@BlueBerrySherry]

Me too q-q

[@themac7915]

Although I wasn't a big fan of the voiced protagonist and the Vault-Tec rep signing you up a few minutes before the bombs go off, the news caster scene was perfect. Seeing him go from cheery and upbeat to barely containing his fear while reading the report shows how truly horrible the Great War was.

[@mish375]

If I remember right, I think the news reporter was Ron Perlman. He did a fantastic job of conveying the sheer horror of this reporter doing his job as he knew he was about to die.

[@jsullivan2112]

@@mish375 It was! Htf did I miss that?

[@mish375]

@@jsullivan2112 When the performance is so good, you don't even think about the actor. His delivery gives me chills as he describes the bombs dropping.

[@pwndad]

First time I played this I beelined to the vault, never looked back. The next time, I played, I was a father, and I followed the spouse and baby the whole way. Didn't notice my changed gameplay behaviour 'til the end of the sequence.

[@DonMyrda]

Beautiful.

[@JackGriffin745]

Very well-done intro. I love the details in the intro like the people hugging and panicking outside as the news talks about the bombs going off in other areas in the country and seeing all the soldiers and army vehicles as you're running for the safety of the vault.

[@gp3328]

Funny thing is that all of the people on that platform would have had their eyes burned out of their sockets immediately.

[@MattWesss]

Indeed. Never look at the explosion.

[@NovaExeRegent]

Fallout 4 blindfold challenge (but involuntary)

[@garfield2804]

"Can you beat Fallout 4 while being blind?"

[@laqu.]

When she says you're gonna knock 'em down at the veteran thingy, you can find that place later in the game

[@backwardsbrain2255]

And you can literally knock a few super mutants dead there

[@mrcomp1971]

The nuke could've sounded much more intimidating to be honest.

[@MicroageHD]

The sound was coming in way too early anyway. If the sound of the explosion only lags behind the light this little you would be roasted instantly anyway.

[@zpirryz]

FYI: Real nuclear explosions sound just about how it sounds in this video, there is no huge *boom* just like in movies. There is a video here on yt that shows one of the few if not the only recording of a nuclear explosion, and it sounds pretty similar to this one. The fact that it sounds real just makes it even much more scary.

[@Caedus696]

The nukes in Fallout are different from the ones developed in real life. They have a lower explosive yield but a much higher radiation fallout.

[@SirKolass]

@@Priyo866 The nuke is crappy as fuck, you're the only one crying here. Shitty fanboy

[@user-xx5yr5bu9s]

You seem to be able to hear planes overhead and a distant swelling roar as you go into Shaun's room.

[@jimmiller5600]

"you may not be interested in War but War is interested in you".

[@joaquinhernandez6940]

"We'll drive to the coast! That's gotta be far enough!" at 10:22

[@_baki-hanma_]

OOF

[@a_random_user_1510]

With a nuke there is no where to run

[@connormclernon26]

I wonder, did those military personnel realize what they were sending those people into? Were they part of the enclave? Or were they people genuinely trying to save as many lives as they could?

[@connormac4401]

Enclave is the most elite portion of the army and the government. These are merely "front line" cannon folders so they probly won't know what are the vaults for.

[@connormclernon26]

Connor Mac I want to believe that the lower level enlisted and junior officers weren’t culpable in the Enclave’s dickery, that there were still decent people in that complex. I’m also a little surprised it took 100 years for civilization to start pulling itself back together

[@HolyknightVader999]

@@connormac4401 Even most Enclave personnel aren't privy to what the higher-ups are up to. Heck, look at the New Vegas Enclave. They don't hate all mutants, ghouls, and lower-class folks. In fact, one of them even works for mutants when the player finds him. As far as they were concerned, they were just trying to civilize the wasteland. They even admit that the higher-ups were kind of crazy.

[@duncanharrell5009]

@@connormclernon26 Imagine, right now, nukes go off and you only have what knowledge, skills, and supplies you have with you rigth this second. I’m honestly surprised they haven’t reverted to Feudalism and still have the ideals of republicanism and democracy when, with how the wastes are, it’d be more effective and make more sense to have a feudal hierarchy.

[@connormclernon26]

Duncan Harrell mostly aviation related, however I live in a part of the country that’s probably less affected by the nukes with plenty of good farmland, so it’d be tense, but civilization could hold on for a bit.

[@APmyre]

Rewatching this again, with all that's happening now. When I played fallout games, I always thought how it's very possible to happen someday. I hoped that it won't be when I'm still around. Hopefully now, it won't get this far. Nothing good comes out from this kind of catastrophe

[@heliax9924]

i doubt we are ganna die from that prabably global warming or something else well as messed up as it is at least if we die we will all die together but hey as the guy above me said better to enjoy the life you have rather than just watch it tick down no?

[@KingDuken]

Still gives me goosebumps every time I start a new character.

[@Ch4osKing66]

"I love you" *BOOOM* Gives me goosebumps every single time.

[@XDrang93]

Ron Perlman did the voice-over intros for Fallout 1, 2, 3, and New Vegas, as well as coining the famous "War...War never changes" quote. In Fallout 4, he did the voice of the anchorman at 9:38 during this game's prologue.

[@writergarrett]

Best opening moments of any Fallout game to date. Bravo, Bethesda. I'm having a BLAST playing. ; D

[@DoomGuyPictures]

Oh my god

[@CarlMarx]

Have you played fallout3?

[@naterdttr]

I see what you did there lol

[@rise9666]

@@CarlMarx I have but Fallout 3s intro wasn't even close to being this great of an intro! ;D

[@Jonathan-js3bx]

Rise this was corny and cheesy

[@Dienow3xw]

This introduction to the game was THE MOST DEPRESSING THING EVER

[@lancelot1953]

Pretty realistic scenario if using current status of nuclear weaponry. Following the action of this video clip (I have not seen the entire program), calculating the flash/shock wave delay gives a distance of 3.6 ~ 3.8 km from ground zero to the ground shelter elevator. The radius of thermal damage will entirely depend on the yield of the device, detonation height (surface up to ? meters), atmospheric conditions. For example, since there are very little advanced warnings of incoming missiles, we could assume that the first detonations were SLBMs or SLCMs (Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missiles or Cruise Missiles) or SLCM. Considering the SLBM trends towards smaller yield but more numerous weapons such as MIRVs per launchers as years went by, the "dial-a-yield" over the last several years has been (roughly) 5~150 kt. An average yield burst, assuming OPTIMAL height for blast effects, would give 3rd degree "flash" burns on exposed skin at a range of up to ~3.4 km. A ground detonation would give you less instant exposure (but more later as fallouts) because of the flash protection afforded by various ground obstacles. Flash blindness may occur if the individual is looking at the fireball (duration ~ 1.2 seconds, from detonation down to 10% peak in our example above) and could last up to ~ 2 min in daylight depending on how accurately (how close) the individual was looking in the direction of the detonation when it occurred. Bottom-line, the scenario depicted could be very close to today's reality considering modern military technology and nuclear weapon use policies in effect a few years ago. Ciao, L

[@MrSkeleton131]

Keep in mind the power of the bombs in the fallout universe aren't as powerful as the ones in real life, hence why the whole landscape of the map isn't completely decimated .

[@Elfnetdesigns]

At the moment of detonation you would not actually hear anything until the shock front arrived (speed of sound) so in the game the "pop" is incorrect. A nuclear detonation is a lot more intense than what sounds like a towel being popped. There are audio recordings of atomic blasts online if anyone wants to hear what one sounds like. Depending on location and yield and altitude of detonation would determine how badly burned they would actually be also. Judging by the flash duration I put the bomb in this scene in the low kiloton range around the same as Little Boy or maybe less like around 10 - 15 Kt.. Not a city destroyer but definitely an attention getter.

[@JMcKaySV]

you wrote all of that for 4 likes, nice one

[@lancelot1953]

A "pop" or static could be heard if there was any kind of electronic gear near the "camera view point" - part of the EMP, just like the static heard on a radio as lightning strikes (before the sound-wave thunder is heard). Ciao, L

[@lancelot1953]

I like to educate people, for what it is worth. Some people may learn something; besides, I spent part of my life in the business, Ciao, L

[@toxendon]

Bethesda NEEEEDS to work on their animations. It's painful to watch that salesman talk.

[@nickt3608]

it's fine the way it is

[@Darknes2DWC]

+Nicolas Toro He looks like a fucking muppet bro.

[@rasdan1192]

For me it's pretty decent. Knowing the salesman is both excited and very anxious.

[@pcstudios182]

so true his mouth isnt open when he's talking

[@junebug8485]

ikr

[@srbrant5391]

The scariest part about this is that the world ended on a perfectly normal day.

[@IsabellaNicoleZent-sc8td]

I lived thru something that was way to similar. It was a the march 2nd 2012 tornado outbreak. The day started with a total blue sky and sunshine with temps in the 60s. Then around 3pm, storms developed and started rotating, and the town Ive lived in my entire life was completely destroyed. No power, entire buildings (including the high school) completely leveled, sirens going off. Would of never expected it because at 12pm, the rain chance was 10%

[@nerdyworld938]

Who’s here after the show released?

[@PeryitePeritus]

me!

[@Josh-xh9qn]

Yep

[@arsenalfeet]

And to think vault-tec were the ones who started it all by dropping the bombs! Amazing show.

[@LnEREcruit_]

Man i had to pause once inside and think for a few minutes....it was hard to play first time really broke my heart..

[@robinlee1032]

Anyone else hear that last bit of gunfire at the end? Sounds like people got desprate enough to rush the gate

[@revan6614]

First starting the game This is beautiful. Doesn't look like fallout at all. 9:40 Oh shit *please stand by* Oh fuck

[@katherinaarcos5341]

42 years to go guys, we gotta go reserve a place in the vault early

[@RadagonTheRed]

Speaking as a British gentleman, I must say to whoever voiced Codsworth - they came SO close to sounding English, just not quite. The odd word such as “calm” just gave it away as totally wrong.

[@robotpanda77]

Didn't sound gay enough?

[@SallowDawn]

@@robotpanda77 lol

[@kwc0435]

It's kind of fitting though, considering its an american made robot with a faked british accent

[@RadagonTheRed]

@@kwc0435 That’s actually a very good point! I hadn’t thought of that.

[@jsullivan2112]

Stephen Russell is the man! I think it's pretty safe to say he was going for John Cleese. I like to think that anyways.

[@StraytheSkies]

sarcastic options are the best

[@rextheraptor285]

I genuinely agree, dude, girl or pal!

[@javiarcamaro7178]

One very small but very sad thing is that you can actually go to that veterans hall yourself in the post apocalypse, it's sorounded by super mutants but some good blaster shots always does the job for me. Well once your finished you can go up to a stage with a microphone 🎙️ and press 'Activate' and you will say "War never changes" but the actors for both do it differently if you can hear the subtleness, for the male he sounds empty and depressed and for Nora she sounds more sad and almost like she wants to cry probably thinking about how much she misses her husband and that it should have been him on that stage tp say those words, while the male sounds like he's thinking more of how much the war has taken from not just himself but from the world. I always make it a point to go their own every playthrough.

[@river7702]

The fact that the salesman got them into the system that quickly though

[@owenbrown3816]

To be fair, he did say that they’d already been cleared for entry

[@meau2049]

Ladies and gentlemen, we're back to worrying about nuclear war once again!

[@animeistrash3567]

there was 666 comments so I had to comment to make it 667 beacuse fuck satan

[@melkroll6962]

You’re a proper lad

[@dawidwarszawski4486]

Bhagavad-Gita "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of Worlds." - Robert Oppenheimer.

[@andrewparker4218]

Was that from the 100?

[@chriscampos2943]

The feels. Oh. My. God. I cannot wait to play this. 😫

[@opiumfields3285]

@@JiggyMcCue Jesus what the fuck dude.

[@oldworldblues4953]

@@opiumfields3285 they didn't know it was bad

[@dreadcthulhu5]

So Ron Perlman is giving us the news now? Nice :)

[@ianrulesminecraft]

to heck in a hand basket I'm dying

[@NylaTheWolf]

Watch your language!

[@G_Silent]

One of the most beautiful video games in the 2010s.

[@Apparently_I_am_everywhere]

9:01 This is deep but think about doing an ending where you bomb the institute and kill Shawn. Then go back here and listen to the theme. It makes you think of everything your character has to go through only for his son to die regardless.

[@55robloxmaster]

That baby couldn't give two shits about any of it. Must've been a damn fine nap.

[@Masuba]

I watch the opening sequence at least 10 times now but the news report never fails to give me chills

[@BlueStone-qt9md]

I think the thing that gets people the most is the reality of this scenario. A nuclear holocaust can happen at literally any time, even as I am typing this or you are reading. It's a real threat that looms over our heads constantly, with a mere wish by a single man wiping all that we hold dearest away. The luckiest of us would be those that are vaporized immediately. It could be us. It could happen whenever. I can only pray that it never does.

[@corplftw]

since I finished playing Fallout 4. given how delayed the shockwaves are and the distance of the detonation area it means that is indeed a huge explosion!

[@Xtars]

Idk probably 3 megatons?

[@St0ner1995]

anyone else notice the inaccuracy that is you hear and see the explosion at the same time? you would hear it when the blast wave hits the vault

[@AM-nu8ue]

A friend of mine, a good old GenX-er, told me he used to have nightmares like this. Very effective intro.

[@gianasap422]

when the baby music plays from spinning the crib, it plays the music from the first scene of 3 when you're a baby in a crib

[@AdrianFahrenheitTepes]

Also voices from Fallout 3

[@KillerQueenDopamine]

Imagine playing without subtitles

[@griffin20]

I was at the peak of my life when this game released it brings back great memories

[@apertureAI-jw1iz]

Why would I romance someone in this game if I had a wife and son?

[@darkblade8660]

Anyone find it ironic that directly after she signed up for the vault the nuclear bomb went off

[@ukchris64]

That is one of the best game cinematic's I have ever seen

[@yittmashups]

Awesome!! I was beginning to think after watching every other gameplay video (having not played the game myself) that there was no way to remove the subtitle text when characters talk. I hope dearly that you made a video like this up to when the player first leaves Vault 111.

[@nextgentacos123]

8:45 ITS JUST ONE OF THOSE DAYS WHERE YOU DON'T WANNA WAKE UP

[@huluandebayman]

And now we know who the narrator is.

[@BillyQ.]

Would you belive me if I said that news reporter was voiced by Ron Perlman?

[@xenomorph2258]

11:44 that moment haunt me.

[@mikedawolf95]

11:05 imagine if you said no and the army didn’t let you in and the nuke goes off a few seconds later, that’d be kind of cool and the game forces you to say yes anyway but that’d be a nice little game over.

[@donalshaw8271]

When I hear that song I always tear up

[@Wartooth6]

this intro is so well done

[@YourLocal_AverageViewer]

Them: We doing anything we can* Also them: no money no protection

[@jojobobbubble5688]

Man, that intro cut scene, feels pretty similar to right now.

[@supermariofan03]

11:45 It was all because Spongebob dropped a pie on Squidward's face. Never forget.

[@h1ghfructose682]

Only certain people were chosen to survive. My God.

[@colinsterken609]

my friend had this game too it's really awesome

[@GuathixStarDust]

Man, seeing the nuke in VR will be lit...

[@MarketableNPlushie]

Fun fact: if you turn subtitles on and it’s the scene right before the nuke explodes when you get to the vault and the nuke goes off you can see the subtitles saying Solider: SEND IT DOWN NOW!

[@MementoDespair]

If you listen closely you can hear

[@Socialisten]

Sound, travelling at speed of light ...

[@m4dmaxx363]

One of the best Intros in the Series, still the Original Intro from Fallout 1 is my favorite, but the modern touch... and the first time telling/see something right before the war starts... makes it so good.

[@YourLocalCamaroFan]

I wonder what it would look like if we saw it from the perspective of the guard at the gate.

[@joshr8666]

Man that intro... I feel like we are headed that way unfortunately

[@kantoshibak5912]

I'm just coming back here. I hope the news of nuclear detonation being reported live here is not gonna happen irl anytime soon.

[@SimonKatzell]

I feel so bad for the vault tec rep he worked for them for 20 years and then got turned away when then the bomb went off he was denied access because he wasn't on the list... Then he got turned into a ghoul

[@jadenyuki3138]

Based on future events

[@amalgamnoir4417]

One day soon the flashes will come.

[@KrautGoesWild]

The intro narrative... it never changes...

[@WHIMSICALLLAMA]

And then you definitely can imagine it's all controlled

[@stephengrimmer35]

If you just saw the flash, you've just been hit with a nasty burst of x-rays and gamma rays.

[@paulavoshall9586]

Dogmeat and Codsworth are one of the sweetest and best characters

[@oliviaklassen4606]

*cries because it's so beautiful*

[@fifteenbyfive]

Is that awesome book on the floor in Shaun's room at the beginning of the game right here? I remember finding it after I returned from the vault...I prob missed it when I played bc I didn't really explore the house.

[@Nitekiller-vt2rl]

Chills every time I see the nuke go off

[@farelrajwa1300]

From all the small chances of being a ghoul, vault tech rep literally become a ghoul

[@teknostyle5555]

The guy at the door had the same voice actor as the original Max Tennyson we all know and love.

[@joshthompson4864]

I almost shit my pants when the bomb went off

[@getgaijoobed6219]

0:59 it shows a B-24 Liberator (instead of a B-29, the bomber than actually dropped the two fission bombs) pulling its gear up at cloud altitude for some reason lmao

[@glipk]

Great soundtrack

[@laf1993]

I guess this will happen this day, 57 years from now.

[@TwiggyArmstrong]

9:44 the fallout 3 death music

[@supersmashbro596]

i just noticed but at 9:01 you hear wind. only, you notice the trees aren't moving. that exact moment when you spin baby shauns mobil.... is when the first bombs detonated.

[@ED9306]

1:43 That blast sound!!