The Complete FALLOUT Timeline Explained!

The Fallout franchise has a long and complex history and timeline that has been expanding its post-apocalyptic future ever since the original game’s release back in 1997. With 4 mainline games, a handful of spin-offs, and now a TV show that’s set within the same universe, the series has a big, meaty timeline to wrap your head around. And with the Amazon Prime TV show expanding on the franchise’s lore, and extending the timeline further into the future, there is no better time to dive back into the lore of Fallout than now.
This is the Fallout timeline fully explained.
From the Pre-War origins of RobCo. and Vault-Tec all the way through to Lucy MacLean’s journey to find her father via the stories set in the Capital Wasteland and the Commonwealth, this video breaks down the long and complex timeline of the Fallout franchise.
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00:00 - INTRO
06:58 - FALLOUT 4 PROLOGUE - 2077
07:51 - FALLOUT (TV) - 2077
08:48 - FALLOUT 76 - 2102
12:09 - FALLOUT - 2161
14:38 - FALLOUT TACTICS - 2197
15:44 - FALLOUT 2 - 2241
18:20 - FALLOUT 3 PROLOGUE - 2258-2274
19:11 - FALLOUT 3 - 2277
25:01 - FALLOUT: NEW VEGAS - 2281
30:27 - FALLOUT 4 - 2287
35:37 - FALLOUT (TV SHOW) - 2296

[@adammason555]

A Nuka Cola to anyone that gets the reference on my jumper (sweater to any Americans!)

[@NoMoreLies2501]

It looks like it's from Tintin, going by the look of the rocket!

[@j1mski]

Tintin: Destination Moon was my first vhs

[@Jer1024]

Red rocket station?

[@nodd1264]

come fly with me quest from fallout new vegas?😂

[@jnerdherder2588]

I'm gonna need that nuka cola mate.

[@huntsman1999]

You forgot to mention a big history point. The integrated microchip was NEVER invented in the Fallout universe. So all their technology is analog and nuclear based. This is the main reason why their technology is stuck in a 50s futurism look.

[@noluckst2]

Except the Platinum Chip is a microchip.

[@fazsum41]

@@noluckst2that was new though. Even by NV standards it was new as it was the only one. The chip was created a day before the great war in 2077 so it had not been implemented into anything other than what Mr House already had set up for it.

[@noluckst2]

@@fazsum41 Well okay, in that case we have to fall back on Jack Cabot's mention of them in a terminal entry dating from 2023.

[@Bazonga-fx1oq]

It actually was invented.

[@Flyhazeman22]

The electrical transistor was never invented so the world pursued nuclear based power

[@OliOrlowski]

To be fair, the future of Shady Sands was indeed looking very bright for a brief moment...

[@dardarkbinks9105]

She doesn't get it

[@eagleowl833]

"Lets just say that joke *bombed* 😅"

[@jurt1294]

@@eagleowl833I understood that reference

[@OhBenWhyKenobi]

Shady Sands to Brighty Sands to just Sands in that particular order.

[@Orlando_Furioso]

​@@OhBenWhyKenobimore like Glass tbh

[@abepl]

101097 passcode .Fallout was released on October 10, 1997

[@Nogard-Nys]

Glad I'm not the only one who caught that

[@Ethan_Coble]

Ah, so that's the what it was reffering to hahah... I thought it was gonna be some important code for a future game or maybe was a code that could be input in Fallout 76 at some terminal for an easter egg or something 😂

[@rustydouglas33]

Cool!

[@blakestewart5781]

The day before my birth. I was destined to be a fan

[@GAB-vq7re]

That my birthday and month! Yo I really need to play the original 2. I've heard their amazing rpgs for their time

[@timwhite5562]

I have to say, watching the chain of nukes detonating was a pretty terrifying visual.

[@natashaw.7315]

Especially considering how real it could be

[@cock_sauce8336]

Hope we won't ever have front row seats for such an event. Nukes really can give you the existential dread from destruction beyond your comprehension.

[@johnathonballantyne3588]

Its coming soon irl

[@yoboyfargoth1208]

@@johnathonballantyne3588Can’t wait for LA to get levelled!

[@johnathonballantyne3588]

@@yoboyfargoth1208 im in uk, literally 10 miles away from our nuclear weapons storage facilitiy, it was nice meeting u 😂♥️

[@rochstahr]

Mr. House being a Gen Alpha makes so much sense

[@Hoganply]

OK, atomboomer.

[@bobs_toys]

​@@Hoganplywhat you did there? I see it!

[@s4ndr3x98]

Bro is probably watching tiktok right now

[@TheKrislaf]

@@s4ndr3x98 didn't know they had tiktok in kindergarden

[@s4ndr3x98]

@@TheKrislaf he's probably an ipad kid

[@Pulpos999]

Fallout lore is a complete insanity, in the best possible way

[@piyapansarmprateep243]

Yeah if fallout series is a game I think I need to reload save 20 time than

[@russianoverkill3715]

Insanity in a way that it is retconned constantly

[@Mr.TamOShanter-em6jm]

@@russianoverkill3715 How so?

[@russianoverkill3715]

@@Mr.TamOShanter-em6jm I'm gonna give couple of examples because there are many retcons from Bethesda, Fallout 3 misunderstood the whole setting of a Fallout, making it 1950s, when original games were future as it was imagined by people from 1950s, Fallout 4 retconned ghouls into being some kind of vampires who don't need food and water, Fallout 76 retconned Brotherhood of Steel from Fallout 1, by making them explore the wasteland, and now this TV show retcons Shady Sands into being destroyed, and ghouls yet again being retconned.

[@username1660]

@@russianoverkill3715 The only reason we have Vault Experiments, possibly the biggest revelation in the series, is because Fallout 2 retconned that in. This series has been nothing but retcons since 1998. Quit crying about Evil Todd Also also: An [alleged] misinterpretation of artstyle isn't a retcon, please pick up a thesaurus.

[@haloguylevi]

There’s a lot to Walton’s Goggins ghoul that we don’t know and the end of the tv show left us with more questions, he is by far the most interesting character in the show

[@r.edward5701]

Absolutely. Like, where's his daughter

[@ThereYouGoAgain]

@@r.edward5701I think n vault 31 cause that’s where all the vault tech higher ups got sent into

[@aaaaaa-wd3eb]

@@r.edward5701 Probably dead? They were in the open when the bombs hit, goggins turn into a ghoul and the daughter likely died

[@aaaaaa-wd3eb]

@@ThereYouGoAgain Did you miss the part where they were together when the bombs hit? she dead

[@mintoc8853]

@@aaaaaa-wd3eb In the show he asks were his family is, not only his wife. To me it's pretty obvious they aren't dead or at the very least he's not sure they're dead.

[@pdbsstudios7137]

mr house is a 4 year old at the moment.

[@konrad1916]

But God has helped me to this very day; so I stand here and testify to small and great alike. I am saying nothing beyond what the prophets and Moses said would happen- that the Messiah would suffer and, as the first to rise from the dead, would bring the message of light to his own people and to the Gentiles. Acts 26:22-23

[@marcellinma6169]

@@konrad1916 Thanks, Joshua Graham

[@mistyarcher802]

The idea that Robert house, possibly one of the worst people in the fallout universe, was born in 2020 just tracks a little too well😅

[@cokoctepannx5864]

​@@mistyarcher802 is the coronavirus canon on the fallout universe?

[@mistyarcher802]

@@cokoctepannx5864 no lol I just thought it was funny, almost felt like a weird Simpsons prediction or something.

[@gangsterHOTLINE]

It's also worth mentioning that Mr. Robert House created the RobCo Patcher, making modifying Fallout 4 as easy as apple pie.

[@Jz9222]

Seriously, how underrated is Walton Goggins? No matter the show or role, he's never disappointed me.

[@josepacheco154]

His role in Righteous Gemstones is A1

[@youdisnohavapray254]

totally his sons of anarchy role still blows my mind

[@benjames7932]

He had the best performance in The Hateful Eight in my opinion. Dude knows how to play those charismatic roles well.

[@KingOfMadCows]

Fallout's style isn't based on the 1950's. It's based on what people in the 50's thought the future would look like.

[@Guwarutoni]

not entirely accurate, it's based off of what would happen had cultural development in America stalled/diverted during that of the cold war due to the ever increasing tensions and wars; the reason it looks like what the people of the 50's thought the future would look like is because technology was forced to be developed at a rate far exceeding normalcy

[@gangsterHOTLINE]

I believe it was called art deco? Mixed in with some Jetsons.

[@Jaysin412]

​@@gangsterHOTLINEretrofuturism, or atompunk more recently

[@mahockey3]

​@@gangsterHOTLINE art deco is the 1910-30's iirc

[@fazsum41]

Otherwise known as retro future

[@_Besconte]

The fact that vault tec could literally stop the war with their cold fusion making me question “ what the world will be in the next 5 decades with this atompunk technology “

[@Mr.TamOShanter-em6jm]

Some theorize that Vault-Tec themselves orchestrated the Great War in order to "start over" with humanity. The idea being that they and their rich compatriots would live in normal "control vaults" and monitor various social experiments to create a perfect society run by their descendants after the radiation settled.

[@A-J17]

A lot of fallout content lately, and I'm all for it

[@robertdyer339]

I thought I was the only one the tv show need to hurry with that season 2

[@glorbog]

New show and fo4 remaster. So yea... They're gonna milk it

[@stablish4314]

⁠They should have had a New Vegas Remaster ready to go.. massive missed opportunity 🙄

[@theroebuck123456789]

it's just a show and, most likely, an underwhelming DLC. There would have been a lot of content if Fallout London wasn't delayed

[@jamiehobson6336]

@@glorbog Welcome to Capitalism

[@summerwimmer9329]

has anyone checked on 4 y/o Robert House lately??

[@RichSmithson]

Iv never really thought of the Pip Boy being the Fallout Universe's Iphone, but it pretty much is. Only ever playing Fallout 3 way back in 2008 I phones were still quite new, so I didn't quite make the connection back then. Fallout's universe really its the culture that halted, while everything else accelerated further then beyond even our own time line. We might have affordable 70 inch flatscreen tvs, but they had nuclear powered CRT's that could run for 1000 years. The people of the fallout universe (before the great war) would look at our own technology and think we were backward.

[@frosthammer917]

Their tech went a different direction. Since they never invented the microchip and the electronic revolution never happened, they went down a path of nuclear power and analog mechanisms. So they are missing a lot of tech that we have, but in returned advanced far beyond us in tech they did have.

[@gsmith2000994]

@@frosthammer917 They eventually got round to transistors though albeit 100+ years later, in 2067. There was no focus to miniaturise it though due to the wars etc. They were also more susceptible to EMP than vacuum tubes(reason from Devs). There's several things in FO that contain transistors such as MR handy, Platinum chip and probably the pip boy and terminals, its just they were used in less quantity due to size.

[@Hoganply]

They'd see our tech as gold-plated lead.

[@cozy2]

Yeah you can even play skyrim on it

[@austinthurman2157]

In the TV show the prop is literally made from an iPhone, which is why it's been referenced so much lately

[@zakuukaz4322]

The explosion at the beginning was perfectly done.

[@vizionclxps]

I could feel my heart about to jump out of my chest

[@davidfchuk969]

no

[@landonrichmond]

You mean how nobody at the party but a little girl noticed several nukes denoting just out the very large window a few miles away?

[@vizionclxps]

@@landonrichmond it was only 1, and when a nuke goes off the explosion is so fast that you can’t hear the first 5-10 seconds of it.

[@landonrichmond]

@@vizionclxps a detonation that close would cause tremors, and the flash is so bright it blinds you if you look at it. www.atomicarchive.com/science/effects/flash-blindness.html

[@MonochromeWench]

One important timeline difference between Fallout and the real world is that the transistor and Microchip were not invented during the mid 20th century in the fallout timeline.

[@vincenttt8289]

I invented the transistor

[@sskatin7878]

@@vincenttt8289thanks vincent

[@agebissa9835]

⁠@@vincenttt8289thanks vincent

[@DJMarcO138]

Everyone always mentions that Matthew Perry played Benny in FNV, but I never hear people mention that Doc Mitchell is played by the same dude who played Colonel Saul Tighe in Battlestar Galactica. I think Danny Trejo is in FNV too. They had some dope VA's over the years.

[@aardappelmethoed1151]

Meanwhile while the english dub already had like 20 people trying to voice all characters, german localisation consisted of 10 or so.

[@user-rq5sd1sq8o]

Yeh Trejo plays Raul, the ghoul companion locked up by Tabitha in Black Mountain

[@quadphonics]

Richard Dean Anderson, the guy who stars in the series MacGyver, was in the original Fallout 1 voice acting, and Richard Moll, who played Bull Shannon in the 1980s series Night Court, also did voice acting in the Fallout 1 game as a guard to the first Brotherhood of steel base you come across

[@lukaskrincvaj7294]

@@quadphonics The name's Killian. Killian Darkwater. I'm a mayor of this fine town. And who might you be?

[@zezubat8900]

@@lukaskrincvaj7294 GIZMO SUPREMACY

[@noekie9786]

as someone who has almost zero knowledge about the games (except for a few vague memmories about 4) this is a perfect video to get me back on track with the new tv show. Thank you! Well done

[@blakekenley1000]

Sorry to hear that. There's lots of subtle things you're missing out of lack of context.

[@killerbee1974]

In the prologue section you missed the fact that in 76 some us troops in a training simulation watched the bombs fall. Its all in recordings and is important to the lore of the brotherhood of Steel

[@deenaxic9134]

Keep 76 out of this, the series a success. 76 was a scandale with scams and corporate lies. No .

[@jacktrades5103]

Only YOU can stop corporate espionage!

[@R3GARnator]

@@deenaxic9134 In the show they did indeed say Reclamation Day was a failure.

[@bunnitomoe3866]

​@@deenaxic9134 76 is pretty good rn, don't let the abysmal launch and the scam after that ruin the game for you

[@NacatlRider]

Shady Sands wasn't destroyed in 2277, it's downfall began in 2277.

[@fray3dendsofsanity]

correct, Todd Howard recently corrected this. Shady Sands gets destroyed shortly after the events of F:NV, so roughly 2282

[@kat6976]

I thought that it just got bombed or was it getting attacked then it was bombed a bit after?

[@EQOAnostalgia]

Lol this show... f'ing 36k people playing FO76 right now. . . BRUH. I was there week 1, that game was on life support until this show lol.

[@thehalfmanTL]

That's a good thing right?

[@EQOAnostalgia]

@@thehalfmanTL Yeah. I still need to login and check out this madness... this insanity! This. . . fallout of newcomers. Sorry, i'll see myself out now.

[@TheLastFoust]

As a week 1 player, can you confirm that the game is actually playable now?

[@bunnitomoe3866]

​@@TheLastFoust pretty much, almost all the problem that the players complained, Bethesda already fix them. It's an actual good game now

[@AaronShegrud]

Hank's wife in the show discovered a clue about a settlement on the surface. She then found shady sands and wanted to stay. Hank then took the kids and destroyed the settlement.

[@joshjwillway1545]

I feel like destroyed is an understatement, glassed to oblivion would be more fitting I think

[@Thebeautiful11]

​the woman said burned it to the ground.

[@joshjwillway1545]

@@Thebeautiful11 Hank nuked it

[@BosiusNobius]

@@Thebeautiful11 hank set off an atomic bomb I think he did more than burn it to the ground (insert clip of massive crater I mean shady sands now)

[@artorhen]

@Thebeautiful11 you see the crater of the atomic bomb where shady sands existed quite a few times throughout the show, it's also where Maximus is originally from and what he survived.

[@InvaderG]

Fallout 3’s intro of you growing up is the best fallout intro and it’s not close.

[@derka_james]

Agreed, it is perfect.

[@wttruax5816]

i feel like jumping from the cold war to 2020 without explaining what happened inbetween is extremely confusing lol

[@Svenskanorden1]

When there are big jumps either little is known or its not important enough

[@hanneswiggenhorn2023]

I'm pretty sure the soviet union just never collapsed and Europe left the US sphere of influence more and more, but that's about it

[@BADVlBES]

Nothing of importance happened

[@dazzaMusic]

Society got stuck in the 50s so there isn’t anything to talk about

[@user-mn4nc3cb6y]

Everyone knows the cold war i think

[@Senorcyborg]

"coop is like the John Wayn-" it's easy to see the mistake but he's more in line with the Audey Murphy of that world. he's a war hero turned movie actor much like coop was in the show.

[@theRealpizzabandit]

Yes. The Duke is one of my favorite cowboys, but was not a war hero. I don't think he ever served. Murphy on the other hand was a legit badass war hero who made a film or two.

[@a_makarov]

Fun fact: reading that comment makes you hear a whistle

[@isaacanderson7208]

I think a pre-war Fallout game or TV show would be so dope.

[@loudmikedxb]

Really appreciate this vid. Great research and production. Also managed to make the fallout timeline understandable. Thanks very much!

[@ghostfifth]

One thing i like about fallout is how the characters you play have names that aren't a name, it's a title. The lone wonderer The chosen one The currier The sole survivor

[@wvguy7238]

Fallout 76 is such a good replica of WV. I enjoy nothing more in life than the 5 minute walk from the capitol of Charleston in Central WV to the beautiful cranberry glades in northeastern WV.

[@superspinosaurus1]

Shady Sands was NOT NUKED IN 2277! The "Fall of Shady Sands" occurred in 2277 and the nuke happened afterwards. At what year, we don't know.

[@digitalbarrito3555]

Yeah, it's heavily suggested it was sometime in the 2280s likely '82 or so, but certainly not 2277.

[@kepasamekcuka8538]

then why are all other dates were correct? what for did they make that mistake?

[@TheBarneStorm]

@@kepasamekcuka8538 according to showrunners there was a date under the nuclear blast on the board, and was removed for inaccuracies. so i guess they're just leaving it to be ambiguous and write something about it in season 2, since we roughly know the ages of Lucy and Max we can make a guess.

[@ArkoTheFool]

@@kepasamekcuka8538wasnt a mistake it showed the start of the fall of shady sands started in 2277. It didnt fall in a day. The nuke was a few years later. The show just didnt put a year on it

[@crevilla98]

its with this lazy story writing Bethesda ruined a awesome franchise.

[@tomasoneill9908]

It would be amazing if Danny Trejo played Raul again in the second season as its set in nv. Raul is a ghoul so he should still be alive.

[@levijonathansix]

This has been discussed ad nauseum. Shady Sands was not nuked in 2177. The timeline describes that the decline of the NCR happened in 2177 and then (separated by a dash) the town of Shady Sands was nuked sometime after. Shady Sands existed and is mentioned by members of the NCR during the events of Fallout New Vegas in 2281 so it had to have been blown up after the Second Battle of the Hoover Dam and after the conclusion of the DLC for FO:NV.

[@noahcorum8853]

It was not no surprise that her father was not who he said he was considering playing majority of the fallout series. You would smell it a mile away on the start.

[@Kukezh]

Errm. I don't think vault 76 was the first one to open. Vault 8 (which became Vault city) opened 10 years after the war and I think that there was some vault that opened just a year after.

[@JenEricLive]

Love this video!! Great work! One thing though: Shady Sands was nuked closer to 2281. Todd Howard confirmed in an interview recently with IGN that it was nuked after the events of Fallout: New Vegas. People just misread the timeline. The Nuke on the timeline in the show indicated an event AFTER the denoted "Fall of Shady Sands" meaning they are actually separate events.

[@Colonel_Frosty]

It was closer to 2286

[@TheSammyAberdeen]

Just to clarify (also mentioned by Todd Howard), Shady Sands wasn't destroyed by a bomb in 2277. The "fall" of Shady Sands happened then, which could've been a number of things like an uprising or some kind of societal downfall that we don't know about yet. The bomb actually fell some time shortly after the events of New Vegas (after 2281).

[@richardholland1910]

I ABSOLUTLEY LOVED this video. Thanks for making such a comprehensive timeline video. Cheers!

[@jameswashington1163]

Thank you for this video as a new player because of the new show, great to have more knowledge of the lore!

[@qbobgaming7277]

thank u love this series great to see so many fans come together this show has put some new life back to the series

[@MeatwoodFlak]

Thank you for the timeline breakdown.

[@Moohasha1]

Great overview! I've played NV and 4, and loved the TV show, and I was looking for a good overview of the full series to fill in the gaps. Thanks!

[@J.Rocha54]

Great Video! As someone who only had some knowledge of fallout but never truly played the games I thank you for all of the information and attention to detail. I just started watching the show and this is exactly what I was looking for prior to watching it. Thank you!

[@kizunadragon9]

"you're a hero... and you have to leave"

[@eduardoarmenta9232]

I'll give you one better, "You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain" a line written by Jonathan Nolan for The Dark Knight movie, and who's now responsible for the new Fallout TV show

[@That-AI]

Guess I made a relaxing music mix right on time! Nice!

[@abiscan00]

Best time line video bro ! loved it

[@Colonel_Frosty]

The bomb on shady sands was dropped closer to 2286, the takes place i. 2296, Maximus was a child when the the bombs dropped between the age of 8-10 therfore the show being set in 2296 means Maximus is between 18-20. This was confirmed in the Todd Howard Christopher Nolan interview.

[@m.jmanlunas1111]

This is great! Love to see the older games get a shout out, though I think it would had been better if you did a series explaining each game in the timeline as the clip notes for each are kinda haphazard and not entirely right with a lot of neat important lore glossed over. Also I'm not sure if 76 should be considered canon since it really breaks the lore established down the timeline, from the brotherhood, to super mutants, the tech and what have you (I'm aware they have some hokey justifications but it still really doesn't make sense in the scheme of things) Would be nice if you also did a look into the Fallout Bible/ original Fallout 3 (Van Buren) since quite a number of ideas did seep into the Bethesda iterations. *also a tiny editing gripe since it's a bit misleading to those who didn't play it, when mentioning killing the head of the Enclave at the end of Fallout 2 part, that's not the president but Special Agent Frank Horrigan the baddest Gen1 Super Mutant! Ah I can still remember the 1st time you meet him good memories! poor family...

[@gingergreek]

I was hoping someone would make this type of video. I'm a fan of the games but loved the show so this helped it make sense

[@filip9587]

Tremendous video showcasing the tremendous lore of Fallout. I can't wait to see who the man in the shadows of Vault-Tec really is in Season 2 of the show.

[@rach3092]

Thank heck someone made this because the timeline was good but really jumpy for me to figure out 😅

[@n00bstacle]

Thanks for this

[@DiLLyzHoH]

Awesome havent seen 1 and 2 for EVER! My bro used to play it i was always so lost! But it had an awesome interface! Cheers 4 a great work!

[@derekjones4]

I love all the in game music you added to the video. The world music is the best

[@jackmcintyre7465]

Do you know the name of the song at 30 min at the beginning of the fallout 4 screen?

[@cameronhulsey92]

You did a great job man. 👌

[@Pugo167]

Just finished the show and I thought it was pretty good

[@whosthere660]

Man it's crazy how good to show was

[@zworg2]

thank you... never got into the games, but was at least aware of them..... this has made it all make a lot more sense!

[@lucifer73]

Thank you! That was exactly what I needed.

[@thealphafox64]

Something also worth mentioning is the creation of the BoS as the ancestor of the group of soldiers tasked with overseeing Mariposa (the place where the FEV was researched on) before the great war. Additionally the cursedness of the newly mutated wildlife is also thanks to said FEV ending up in the atmosphere shortly after the apocalypse, causing the virus to mutate due to radiation and essentially turning the usual mutation caused by nuclear fallout up by 100000

[@elvisibra]

Correction: Shady Sands got nuked after 2277, probably after New Vegas events (Maximus was 8-10yo in his flashback). And NCR didn't get cold fusion, The BoS did..

[@coleabrams4534]

We don't know his age for sure though. We can speculate but we're not told it explicitly. We do, however, find out from Lucy that her mom died in 2277. Considering two dates point to the same event happening in 2277, I think it's more likely this is the date the writers intended. I'm not exactly bothered by the mistake itself but it is an error.

[@elvisibra]

@@coleabrams4534 Lucy was also about 7-8yo in her Shady Sands Flashback. Either way if we put Lucy and Maximus at about 20-21yo, then Shady got nuked 4-5 yrs after 2277. 🤷 We will probably learn more, then we will know.

[@versaii5519]

The show is literally so good dude I’m gonna go back and play the games now or something I need to get more of this universe. They did a great job with the show.

[@crownego4449]

Small detail, but ty so much for telling us to skip a minute to avoid spoilers

[@amandarose4469]

38:00 Destroyed by a nuclear blast "after" 2277, its crazy out there and people are fighting over this.

[@davidsurtees4439]

If it was after 2277 then why didnt ithave a date when they would have know

[@amandarose4469]

@@davidsurtees4439 pointless as this has been confirmed.

[@amandarose4469]

@@davidsurtees4439 simple answer, the show runners wanted to keep it as a surprise twist, which they did.

[@Aminuts2009]

I really enjoyed Fallout Tactics. It was a lot of fun. "My name is Sgt. Arugula."

[@deenaxic9134]

Sir, there are many of us. But we are not welcome in here.

[@RobinMaddock]

As a dev on that game its always nice to hear :)

[@deenaxic9134]

@@RobinMaddock No. You also worked on BoS. It evens out.

[@RobinMaddock]

@@deenaxic9134 I did not. BoS was a completely different studio than Tactics

[@Pharoyar]

This was the KZbin we all needed. Thank you very very very much.

[@archieprendergast1720]

I've always been mildly interested in fallout and finally installed fallout 4 on gamepass so I thought I'd like to find out a bit more about the lore of the place and luckily this video released on the same day. Needless to say there is now so much information it just took all my points out of intelligence.

[@mpb6491]

Hold of until April 25th! It's getting a next gen update on that day. Then It will look spicier

[@JimiGosu]

I highly recommend you play the previous games. Fallout 1 & 2 are made by the original developers of the franchise and it really shows. They are the most Fallout games of the Fallout franchise.

[@akuma_saint]

The people hating on Fallout 76 clearly need our support. For 5 bottle caps you can get them the help they need to move on and touch grass.

[@sasquatchsenpai4554]

It was incredibly bare at launch. It's great now, but you can't pretend it wasn't awful at launch and didn't feel like Fallout.

[@akuma_saint]

@@sasquatchsenpai4554 oh yeah, I played at launch. It looks like it's worth checking out. And prime just put it out for free. I'm will to check it out.

[@anthonyvaccari4607]

I'm not a massive fan of role playing games, partly because I can't make time for them having a family plus the way they play.. That being said, I did completed Cyberpunk 2077 and I finally understood the grind and leveling up process. I would like to give Fallout another chance because I do like the world building. I own both a PS5 and Xbox X but don't know what to start with. Anyone got suggestions?

[@SuperCasperman]

​@@sasquatchsenpai4554noone is pretending though...y'all seem to always be judging it on its launch, rather than what it is now and completely ignore that part

[@willlliorca7024]

I mean, it was so bad at launch that you can’t blame them for not even wanting to try it now. Plus it’s gameplay is practically Fallout 4 but reskinned and without mods to fix it lol

[@DanielF305]

Shady Sands wasn't exploded in 2277, more likely to be exploded in 2282

[@davidsurtees4439]

Then why didn't it say that on the chalk board.

[@renanpereira5487]

I am just so happy to see the fallout series getting all this lore. Is such a good game and world overall.

[@GameRealmofSandy]

Kudos to the effort, quite vivid description! I have started a channel primarily with FALLOUT 4 base building!

[@XKathXgames]

House being born in 2020 makes so much sense

[@hiroshimablast1945]

In real life his name is Enzo, he is yet four years old and possibly related to Elon Musk

[@chloecat5335]

Ipad kid

[@fillbert6690]

I'll have to disagree with the point of Shady Sands being destroyed in 2277, instead proposing it actually happens somewhere around 2282 I've got a few points I want to make that backup my theory, which isn't all that unpopular in the Fallout community that isn't huffing paint fumes. 1. The "Fall of Shady Sands" drawing we see points from the "Fall" towards the nuke, so we can assume that the fall predated the destruction 2. We don't hear any NCR soldiers in New Vegas talk about Shady Sands as a "never forget" topic and it's never mentioned to be destroyed at all and since the game takes place in 2281, we can assume that Shady Sands was around at least until the events of Fallout New Vegas 3. How did the NCR fall this much since the events of New Vegas? Well, it's pretty clear that the NCR was heavily stressed in their extended campaign in the Mojave after the First battle of Hoover Dam. The first battle of Hoover dam was in 2277, which was also the year that we saw the "Fall of shady sands" happened. We can easily assume that a combination of economic stress from their unchecked expansion into the Mojave and the toll of the battle, as well as a possible supply chain issue and even something like political corruption or scandal with President Kimball prior to his reelection in 2278 could start to cause the "Fall" of Shady Sands and the NCR as a whole. The destruction of Shady Sands was more a nail in the coffin of the NCR than anything else. 4. The ages of Lucy and Maximus as portrayed in the show appear to be early to mid 20's, and since Lucy had no memory of Shady Sands but Maximus did, we can assume that Lucy was around 6 years old and Maximus was around 10 years old when Shady Sands was destroyed (Based on the flashbacks), leaving the earliest possible date for the nuke being around 2282. Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.

[@LuigiGamesful]

THANK YOU, someone with an actual comprehensive explanation

[@LezMackrel]

So many clever word plays i was more so sat waiting for the next one rather than actually paying attention 😂

[@nathanlobono5818]

The New Vegas DLC actually take place concurrently to the story of New Vegas, all of them reference the coming of Ulysses, but when Ulysses arrives, he prepares you for the "Final Battle of Hoover Dam." So that actually is where the New Vegas story ends. With a well journeyed Courier leading the charge on the future he sculpted.

[@stati00on45]

So the biggest lore argument is about when shady sands was nuked?

[@NCG92]

Yup

[@jukebox1096]

Ditto

[@jm329]

That’s a why they said it was right after the events of New Vegas in the interview.

[@AnInsaneOstrich]

One small additional thing about the chronology of Vault 101: Expeditions outside of the vault started in 2241 at the latest - the same time Fallout 2 takes place. Megaton is already a place and the Giant Ants that blight the raiders of the nearby school 36 years later are also documented, this is all in the Overseer's Terminal as you leave Vault 101 for the first time, though it's probably still there if you return later.

[@Nosnevets]

So hard listening to you say Arroyo. But meticulous detail! This is fantastic!

[@JarodFarrant]

5:00 a fantastic actor who deserves an Emmy!

[@Christian-eq7uh]

Robert House is 4 years old now. He better get to work.

[@guyinc0gnito]

Lol’d at the thumbnail with the dollar store version of Ella Purnell

[@MsAirsoftdude]

love how the railroad has an intricate hidden door way and the password to get in is just their name

[@Thezerohgee]

The first divergent events from our timeline actually happened well before world war 2 which led into the larger and more noticeable shift around that post war time.

[@thedigital1]

Sheesh man, great work!!

[@TheNightcrwaler]

Rivet city was a carrier not battleship my dude

[@davidsurtees4439]

Its funny to me that ppl making fallout content and dont know the lore.

[@scjdg]

At 38 minutes in minor error (Cause we dont need the timeline conflict, Which even had ol Todd Howard come out and clairify) , Shady Sands was NOT nuked in 2277, more like sometime around 2281 say the day after Fallout New Vegas ends as the first available date.

[@TimeCircleBlue]

I find it humorous that describing the deathclaws as savage beasts is voiced over a scene of one talking to you. I know it’s probably intentional, but still funny.

[@stochasticity729]

27:57 Bro, what are you trying to do with poor Benny?

[@yellomellow9481]

wanted to see if anyone else saw that 😂

[@Mando44646]

I love that you pronounce Caesar correctly in Latin ("Kai-sar"), rather than use the English pronunciation

[@gangsterHOTLINE]

I pronounced it See-zar until I played FONV. Since then my Italia girlfriend and family seem to respect me just a bit more.

[@RustyX2010]

@@gangsterHOTLINE Or Say-Zar

[@larsreissberg]

but doesnt this pronunciation implies that Gamespot is leaning towards the Legion? :D

[@TimmyTheNerd]

@9:32 NPCs were in the game at launch. They were mostly robots and a travelling Super Mutant Merchant called Graham. It was meant to show how all humans and non-feral ghouls were wiped out by the scorched plague. Wastelanders added human and non-feral ghoul NPCs, as they were coming to Appalachia from other parts of the east coast chasing rumors of a treasure hidden in the mountains of Appalachia.

[@M0rt86]

That's an impressive summary, thank you!

[@I_Know_Your_Exact_Location]

Technically speaking, Mr. House could have been watching skibidi toilet videos if he were born in our world. Something to think about.

[@vzerby]

To be more clear in Fallout 3 Operation Anchorage you don't actually go there it's a Military Simulation of the Operation Anchorage events that happened during the Great War. Further note there are other known Vaults that opened earlier, one at 50 Years after the bombs closed.

[@von...]

27:56 uhhhh nice option #1 with Benny, gotta love the modding community

[@PrinceAlhorian]

Your Dogmeat plush is so ADORABLE!

[@super_terram]

Correction: The "brotherhood of steel" is actually a pre-war faction, because Maxson began his insurrection just before the bombs.

[@davidsurtees4439]

Ueah and if anyone played fallout 76 would know about that too

[@super_terram]

@@davidsurtees4439 Well... people are finding out now finally... most players ever in the game at the moment.

[@Vorusen]

Figured this would be a real timeline and not just a summery of each game and the year they took place. Especially with the show coming out and many important things getting dates and pre war reveals ... literally spent 10 seconds on pre war fallout

[@DuelTwilightChaser]

I appreciate this and glad my timing was perfect as I just started watching the TV show today.

[@shark_bytes_666]

Way to go gamespot. This is actually a great video!