The Real Life Landscapes of Fallout 1, Fallout 2, and Fallout: New Vegas

[@pajamapantsjack5874]

I've personally traveled to goodsprings Nevada during a Christmas trip to vegas with my family. It was a truly amazing experience, and it's funny because in a bathroom there was graffiti that read "Hail Caesar". It was cool to know I wasn't the only one to make the trek.

[@Nitrodino7875]

Interesting. Hey jack why do you like using porn as a profile pic?

[@darthkek1953]

@@Nitrodino7875 - it appears to be a female face - hardly porn.

[@Mantis42]

@@Nitrodino7875 hentai is the artform of our times

[@jamesreuben5430]

@@Nitrodino7875 it's not porn it's a chinese cartoon. Get your eyes checked boy

[@marcelcummings7418]

lmao, moment i viewed the replies I knew it would be about the pic

[@comradegeneralvladimirpoot1313]

_first person Fallout_ I want the *real* Fallout experience. _isometric Fallout_ I said the *REAL* Fallout experience. _literally driving to_ _Las Vegas_ *perfection*

[@Blank55600]

Went there for 2 days. Wasn't the best, take my advice, avoid circus circus like the fucking black death.

[@viciousrage5548]

Comrade General Vladimir Pootis avoid Vegas. Explore the real wastelands of the Mojave and beyond.

[@isaacsrandomvideos667]

Cody Gore go to Lowell Arizona. Trust me lad

[@Sneedmire]

*literally driving to las Vegas* We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold...

[@TheIrishRushin]

I bought a shit ton of cocaine from a black dude last time I was in vegas. Get your priorities straight and party when in vegas.

[@LostCosmonauts]

11:23 Check out that commitment, you've even got your own Dogmeat.

[@borek92]

This awful graffiti though.

[@Bluehawk2008]

@@borek92 True American culture

[@michimatsch5862]

Wait....I know you. I was subscribed to you when I still played dota. The only way to play, right?

[@zeikjt]

Doggo as early as 1:58

[@SillyhAsH]

It's the Mad Max dog, an Australian Cattle Dog aka Blue Heeler

[@slamfire3851]

"Mid-century technology exudes confidence". So eloquent. Love it.

[@thetman0068]

I think that's why I've always loved mid-century tech.

[@blahblahsaurus2458]

I don't see it... it looks so clunky, and the welding isn't exactly seamless

[@w415800]

That's because consumerism and planned obsolescence hasn't taken root yet, things were still being built to last.

[@majik5194]

I wonder if we'll get that confidence this century? I honestly hope so

[@edwardcarrington3531]

@@majik5194 press x to doubt

[@scrofulaeggula]

I'm from the UK and one of my friends visited Boston and DC a couple of years ago. His partner wondered why he kept wanting to visit so many metro stations.

[@lsswappedcessna]

But did he participate in trench warfare at the National Mall before destroying a big green brute in the capitol building? That's arguably more Fallout 3 than the metro stations, as is going to the MIT Great Dome rotunda is more Fallout 4 than some bigoted tech pirates and Minutemen wannabes.

[@scrofulaeggula]

@@lsswappedcessna Yes, yes he did.

[@lsswappedcessna]

@@scrofulaeggula Good.He got the full experience.

[@enclave5901]

@@lsswappedcessna I highly believe that during what's going on in the us today if I were to go back to DC id see multiple raider groups

[@fancytyme]

Great video! And nice bus. I just picked up an '85 Westy.

[@broadcaststsatic]

They're amazing machines, and every one of them ends up being kind of unique to the driver as repairs and alterations add up. I was pretty stoked the bus made it, but it seemed happy to be out there so long as there wasn't *too* much uphill. Thanks for the games!

[@alphapolimeris]

As an European, I can't quite well explained how American this video feels. Road trip is just something we don't do. Alien, yet interesting and entertaining.

[@Baalur]

You can do a road trip through Europe. It just has a very different feel. You are right though: This is something specifically American. Our idea of what a road trip is supposed to be is heavily influenced by American Road Movies as well. So one can hardly help but feel a road trip in Europe is not the "real" thing.

[@Captain1nsaneo]

The US is roughly twice the size of the European Union while only having about half the population. I live in California's bay area; if I go North I run into a forest, if I go South I hit a desert, East is mountains, and West is the Pacific. If you want to see a hefty chunk of what nature has a couple days on the road out here is one way of doing it.

[@lorddervish212quinterosara6]

Imao a lot of European countries are much more smaller compared to the North American or South American ones, like Canada, E.E.U.U, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, or Mexico.

[@BackTheNerd]

@@Captain1nsaneo Yeah let's compare that to Eastern Ohio... If I go north I run into a rundown city on a lake, East passed the Ohio River I find Appalachia with a city in a ditch right before it, if I go south I find forest, and West lies Plains and more forest.

[@Captain1nsaneo]

@@BackTheNerd Sounds like you'd like more active fault lines. And for Guam every direction is the Pacific.

[@TheMissileHappy]

As a European who has never been to the US this is mindblowing. It's so surreal and hard to believe these landscapes and places really exist. I'd love to see it myself someday :)

[@Rogue_Nine416]

i grew up in the Sonoran desert around Phoenix and traveled to Vegas every summer, went up north to Sedona every Christmas and often went to Tucson i've been to Albuquerque, Denver, Mesa, Flagstaff and Boulder City and i still haven't seen it all this video, despite its depth, still only covers the surface

[@kamalindsey]

No kidding, I was so excited to see Goodsprings. Not just because its just like the game, but also because its like a real life western era town that is actually real and still exists. Not a tourist attraction or creation, it even has it's own saloon.

[@notstardream]

I live in one of those areas, the climate is so different, it almost makes you feel like you are playing in fallout. for an example, in my area, every plant will try to stab you, we have invasive goathead plants which are spiky and get stuck in shoes, or dried up sunflowers which are also spiky, etc.

[@heftyordinanceindividual4015]

In the same boat here. The only place i've been that ever came close was Gascogne (Southwestern France), which is big for europe but very small in America. While only 1 hour by car from Toulouse (a decently sized city) we'd find small churches and buildings so unimportant and forgotton nobody knows or cares how old they really are, remnants of farmhouses from vinyards out of business. Broken castle ruins still waiting for a threat that never came and no longer exists. Entire villages on a single mountaintop filled with quiet restaurants and amateur art galleries. If we ever get European Fallout You could very make it France and the benelux, L.A. CA to Arco Idaho is still a longer drive than The Hague to Toulouse (which is a drive from the netherlands, through belgium, through half of france).

[@Haloguydev]

"I'm sorry folks, but I had certainly INTENDED to be sober when I took this footage." good lord, that's a fantastic line

[@coopersmith9828]

Yes funny, but God damn do I hate the "Reno is a hellhole" joke. We're a nice town I think.

[@DStecks]

When he said that, my first thought was "I bet it won't even be that noticeable," and then we get Noah's First-Person Drunken Bender Adventure

[@megamike15]

he did not seem that drunk in the footage whitch i find more funny.

[@JimmyMon666]

@@coopersmith9828 Haven't got to that part yet. I'm guessing he's alluding to how it is in Fallout2. Been to Reno many times, it's fine. Sparks is a little dumpier, but still has decent areas. At least you guys don't have the crime problems we have down in Vegas.

[@MollyTheLag]

i read that right as he said it

[@trulyinfamous]

The American West is such a damn cool looking place. So much atmosphere in those deserts.

[@antispaghettigod1201]

It sucks and its hot, but like for a vacation I guess it would be cool.

[@da_dang_dog]

Antispaghetti God, go in the winter or early spring months. No part of the Southwest will ever get hotter than 80F that time of year.

[@A.Donohue]

it gets sick and tiring after a few months, especially when ur skin starts to dry up, then u go east and end up wanting to back west after a few months.

[@ethanwashoe5868]

I grew up in Reno. It’s hot in the summer time but no humidity so it’s not too bad. Winters can get cold and a lot of snow despite what people think.

[@metaldiscipline3955]

I lived in the Mojave. While it is beautiful, it can also be kinda boring. Us kids always made our own fun with exploring the area, however we were also cautious of the wildlife. Overall it sure was memorable for me in its own way.

[@DaughterOfFrankenste]

14:50 you can hear the hysterical disbelief in Noah's voice that any one person, let alone two people, cares enough about this topic to go so far as to do anything resembling research and correspondence on the matter. The smirk is audible. It's a beautiful moment.

[@DnAfilms405]

I was going through a really really tough time and finally got meds for depression, but I would watch about 10 minutes of this a night before I fell asleep and it brought me a lot of comfort. For some reason it helped when I had panic attacks and I really appreciate it.

[@MopeyN]

How are you feeling?

[@Braxmegaman]

Damn man, that sucks. Hopefully you're still doing okay. If you are, stay strong. It does get better. Not easier, but with enough time you yourself become stronger, better at handling it. Just remember, it doesn't matter if you fall under the weight -- all that matters is that you keep fighting. That, in and of itself, is enough. Good luck

Yearly checkup time. I hope you're doing well ❤

[@PsychadelicoDuck]

As someone who has driven these roads many a time, but never played a Fallout game, this was wonderful. A few addendums: - Bakersfield has some really good basque restaurants, should you ever be in the area. - If you're interested in rock art or military hardware, Ridgecrest has a museum dedicated to both (the Moturango Museum), and the military base occasionally allows tours. - The greater LA / San Diego areas have some _weird_ cities. Burbank is a mixture of public parks, old industrial and modern business, all set under the wiring of multi-hundred foot tall power lines. Temecula is a sprawl of faux-stucco pod malls and suburbs slowly crawling its way out into the hinterlands. - There's a military base near Klamath, which at least the one time I was in the area, was performing training exercises buzzing the town. Whether it was a regular occurrence or why it was done, I don't know. - For another town that might be Broken Hills (but probably isn't), there's Uravan, CO, which was shut down and buried sometime in the 80's (it's not as dramatic as that sounds actually visiting). Funnily enough nearby Moab, UT, which was also a uranium mining town, has gone on to have second life as a tourist town. - Goldfield is far from the only town in Nevada like it. Austin and especially Eureka (both NV) are pretty similar, the latter a slightly livelier version of Goldfield's "ex-mining town hanging on", the former a never-that-big town clinging to the side of the mountains where the biggest attractions today are the rock shop, the scrapyard, and a way not-great diner set in an old saloon (though I will admit, compared to the places described in the Las Vegas yelp reviews, it'd practically be paradise). I suppose my point is, I'm glad to see someone else's experience with the California southwest (and other areas of the Western US), and I would encourage people to explore their own homes. Also, hearing about how the fictional world maps onto and feeds off of actual places gives me a lot of respect for the Fallout developers.

[@MrSuperalan99]

Play fallout. 1, 2, and New Vegas. Skip the rest.

[@bandardantoly]

Bakersfield is actually featured in Fallout 1 (while it technically is closer to Barstow) as a safe haven for ghouls which is not far off from the actual city itself.

[@yamingoat]

If you think Burbank and Temecula are weird or interesting you really need to travel more, also never visit Bakersfield, ever.

[@DNITE1337]

@@MrSuperalan99 amen

[@bplup6419]

I genuinely expected a woman in leather to interrupt you in the saloon. "Cheyenne, stay."

[@robotdude343]

"Don't worry. She won't bite unless I tell her to."

[@Chuked]

Easy Pete wasn’t sitting in front ☹️☹️

[@aindatenhoconta]

@@Chuked That person hasn't been born yet

[@julien2983]

So, so many people covering games these days and nobody can come close to doing it with your style. Thank you Noah.

[@lollipophugo]

Australian who has never been to America here, this is a really interesting and well realised video. Thanks, it's rare to get... untreated, raw insight into the places of America, outside the hollywood/silver screen bubble. I also just realised I've never been to a desert despite it making up a huge portion of the landmass of my own country. Huh.

[@stevej71393]

That's very fascinating. Do you travel much? I love to travel and want to see as much of the US as possible. I'd love to visit Australia one day but I like to travel in more remote places away from all the tourists. I'd love to see the Australian Outback.

[@WastePlace]

@Khaki Shorts in my hometown of Torrance foggy mornings always look like Silent Hill set pieces. Super creepy when you’re the first one awake and nobody’s outside on the empty streets and sidewalks of the city

[@admiralhackett7686]

That's pretty wild, Aus. Is one of the only other places in the world I think of, that has deserts at all comparable to the western US.

[@DodderingOldMan]

@@admiralhackett7686 The thing is, in Australia our deserts are less accessible, and I would say less varied. The interior of Australia is vast, and empty. Driving from one town to the next can take days, and be boring as hell. There's an appeal to all that emptiness, sure, but it can be wearying too. I get the impression that the interior of Australia is kind of like taking the state of Nevada and stretching it out over the western half of the US. There are probably as many points of interest as there are in Nevada, but spread out over a much, much greater distance.

[@SCHMALLZZZ]

​@@DodderingOldManDays? I could drive from Mexico to Oregon THROUGH California in 12 hours.

[@kynakerisk]

There may not be a place quite like The Divide, as you said at 1:22:26, but i must admit that the first thing that came to mind when i saw that rocket at 4:53 was not the Vaults, but rather the missile silos of Hopeville

[@JimmyMon666]

I've been to many New Vegas locations, I was born and raised here. I may be the only fan who actually attended Goodsprings school (only for one year because of my dad's crazy idea to live in Sandy valley (West of Goodsprings). I've been to Devils throat irl, you don't need a 4x4, but should have good tires. As for hidden valley, you should have a 4x4 with aired down tires, the sand is very deep in places.

[@Becca-bm8rt]

One of the things I love about your videos is how you talk with so much fascination, fondness and poetry about both nature and civilisation. You manage to give off this sense of loving the world and the people in it, and you somehow do it without being trite or saccharine.

[@JoeNeutrino]

"Progress does a better job than apocalypse at burying the past." I like that line.

[@glassisland]

"There's a lot in Fallout that seems so absurd that it has to be made up, but then once you get out here, the real America rolls up it's sleeves and says "HOLD M'BEER, WATCH THIS!" This. Always this. Well-observed, as always, Noah.

[@admiralhackett7686]

One of the reasons I love fallout is that no other franchise captures the vibes of wild America in such a raw real way

[@Rogue_Nine416]

born and raised in Queen Creek and grew up in the Phoenix area, went to Vegas every year since my grandparents lived over there and no other game series besides Wasteland has ever really captured the feel of the southwest or the west it's insane just how...stuck in time and unique a lot of small western towns are - except for queen creek, we just keep on growing

[@gabrielledebourg2487]

I so vividly remember the feeling when I first ventured into the Mojave Wasteland of what I consider to be my all time favorite game. The magic vista with the mythological Strip far away in the distance. The old west feeling in the saloon. The detour through Nipton. Reaching Freeside and having to raise caps to get in. This video captured all of that magic and more. Almost hypnotic in it's presentation and with Noah's wonderfully philosophical analysis. Just… brilliant stuff.

[@masahige2344]

This video may be considered "old" by now, but I wanted to express what a wonderful achievement this is. I did something similar on a road trip, though not so devotedly, as experiencing the real-life equivalents of Fallout was only part of my goal. Your scripting is immaculate, and what made this project worthwhile was clearly your thematic understanding of Fallout as much as the locations themselves. Also, having been to Navarro, with its winding side-road through a lush and dripping coastal rainforest, I can say it bears the least resemblance to Fallout of perhaps any of these locations.

[@josephbell3248]

"Military bases are quite private about their layout" I sure asf hope so

[@xanaxodgrindcorelover9191]

what, you didnt raid area 51 with everyone else? smdh

[@melelconquistador]

Laughs in google maps

[@seeibe]

*laughs in fitbit tracking data*

[@TheKlink]

@@seeibe just laughs.

[@charlesherbig4502]

@@xanaxodgrindcorelover9191 I can't remember if I actually did or not. Weird, really.

[@seiban8455]

200 IQ move putting the NV rendition of Hoover Dam down as contested.

[@Gamenetreviews]

Level 10 intelligence

[@youmukonpaku3168]

only better version would've been the left side marked as Hoover Dam (Enclave)

[@garethjohnstone9282]

Im from the UK. I did very similar when I travelled across in 2003. I remember seeing the "Reno - the biggest little city in the world!" massive sign ad you enter Reno. I flicked through and didnt see this in your video. It's one of the more instantly familiar things from the Fallout games. I got to pier 39 in san fran, and stood at the end thinking "this could be where the Tanker was moored up!" Driving across Nevada, the Mojave, the whole thing makes you think of Fallout. It would be cool to do this with other OG fallout fans.

[@arcfire1589]

Thank you so much for all the incredible content you have put out over the years, from your critique inspiring me to replay dying light to this video helping me to procrastinate my english essay due tomorrow, i thank you for all of it.

[@jonwashburn7999]

Great sentiment.

[@alfredtg6762]

solidarity in putting off English essays

[@WIACZO]

stfu shill, no one cares.

[@elaxter]

@@WIACZO cringe and bluepilled

[@trainknut]

People who use the phrase "it's a small world"(or some variation of it) have clearly never driven on a desert highway before.

[@antispaghettigod1201]

Hell, even semi-arid ones.

[@froddobaggins]

I did the Vegas to LA drive. God damn that was a whole bunch of nothing.

[@IvanSN]

Desert Bus Simulator is accurate for a reason! :)

[@ignaciomelguizo9502]

@@antispaghettigod1201 you're pretty right. Crossing Castilla la Mancha, in Spain, is like a shitty infinite journey through a completely yellow plain, an its not even a desert.

[@misanthropicservitorofmars2116]

8 hours of driving straight not seeing a damn thing.

[@amouse213]

My family and I use to take road trips to Vegas all the time when i was younger. We lived in LA so it was like we were taking a similar trip to this almost once a year. By the time i first played Fallout New Vegas i had already known places like Primm , Las Vegas , Hoover Dam and others that are in the game very well. So when i saw them for the first time in New Vegas it struck a cord that everything felt familiar i was walking the roads virtually and comparing them to the actual places. It was amazing. Particularly Interstate 15 which is such a huge plot point in the game and by driving it in real life you get the sense of how long and lonely it must be for caravans in the game and how its such a vital supply line for the NCR. It shows how the developers really understood this part of America and were able to implement that in game wonderfully and naturally. To this day Fallout New Vegas is my favorite game of all time and i try to complete it every year start to finish. It must have been a perfect storm of the setting, story and gameplay that just keeps me coming back every year. To me Fallout NV is the best game of all time and that will probably never change for me. Its engraved into who i am as a gamer and as a person and i wouldnt have it any other way.

[@JJSP24708]

This is the exact video I was looking for, here five year's later but at the exact time I needed it...

[@zackbuschmann9005]

Great work as always, Noah. I really love your travel content and your appreciation for rural America and the desert southwest in particular is genuinely captivating. Edit: 30:28 "Progress does a better job than apocalypse of burying the past" Goddamn dude you really know how to turn a phrase.

[@Soladat]

I dont know why this started doing the rounds on tumblr five years later... but i appreciate it for introducing me to this series nonetheless

[@johnarmstrong5533]

Videogame deep-dive and Travelogue. Both aspects of this channel combined. This was a quality video essay.

[@Annaleebie]

I grew up in Mammoth Lakes, a ski town in California. It was an arid desert/mountain climate, close to the Nevada border. Sage brush and granite were everywhere. Traversing the desert in New Vegas and getting to Jacobstown - where it transtitions to snow - made me tear up the first time around.

[@DigitalNomad88]

I grew up with F1 F2 F3 and Fallout NV, this resonated with me, thank you so much for the trips down memory lane! All this will be missed!

[@ObiJohnKenobi67]

I went to Nevada years after playing New Vegas, and seeing the Hoover Dam really put the scale of the final battle in lore into perspective.

[@unap16]

This is one hell of an ambitious endeavour. Thank you for combining your par for the course, eloquence, with a real world journey and destinations. Also appreciate the incorporation of PIP BOY colours for texts.

[@Psycho_Yoshi]

I love how I can get lost in this video. It reminds me of when my family would go to Las Vegas to visit family (we live in Southern California) and I would just be glued to the window experiencing the vastness of the US. It really is a beautiful land. I wouldn't be introduced to fallout until my play through of fallout 3 in 2009. The lore of the game is so magical while also being so very real. You are a great narrator/speaker. Thank you so much I really enjoyed this it made me feel really good.

[@gabeslist]

The way you described Los Angeles was beautiful, it actually brought me to tears.

[@benny9406]

Your travelogues are some of my favorite youtube videos of all time, this one in particular I come back to a lot. its a treat to have this on while working on something, your writing is so vivid i can picture what you're talking about without even having to look, but if I glance over i really get to see it! like an audiobook with the most perfect companion picture choices.

[@birgirpall]

I love your videos Noah but could you please normalize the volume, I have to crank everything to max to hear you compared to other videos.

[@leoveas9965]

BirgirPall Stfu bitchboi

[@A_Moustached_Sock]

So weird to see you here

[@sinisterisrandom8537]

@@leoveas9965 no one was asking you.

[@nihoa9123]

get bigger ears

[@A_Moustached_Sock]

@@nihoa9123 If you know anything about Birgirpall its probably due to the amount he and Banzaii have yelled and scream laughed over the years

[@Timothy_Lawrence]

i recently moved from the high desert valley near barstow to another state on the east coast. a month in and im already deeply homesick. so thank you for making this video so i can watch and imagine im back home where i belong. i miss the mojave dessert, shes my wife.

[@fernandoorozco3751]

I was born in Ridgecrest and you pretty much nailed it. It was actually a boom town back in the 70's and 80's, but the skunkworks that was attached to China Lake Naval Weapons Center got defunded in the early 90's, eliminating more than half the jobs in town. It has been on a downward slide ever since. From what my family that is still there tells me, it is pretty much just a big giant meth lab with a Walmart attached. Funny story, my uncle used to work on the base as a carpenter. His job was to build houses out in the desert, complete with plumbing, electricity, carpet, furniture, the whole 9 yards. Then when the house was completed, they would wait until the big day, go up on the ridge and have a BBQ, drink some brews, and wait for the missile to come blow the house up. Good Times.

[@CassieCollision]

This is hands down one of the best youtube videos I have ever seen. This has been an hour and a half that I would be hard-pressed to take back. Thank you so much for making this.

[@scottleneau6221]

This is an amazingly cool idea man, thank you for making it.

[@Blacknight8850]

26:17 to 27:52 - That bug on the windshield is having the road-trip of a lifetime (well, the lifetime of a bug at least).

[@TheUnspokenKibbles]

This is possibly the most on-brand this channel has ever been, and I love it. I'm not a huge fan of the outdoors in general or deserts in specific, but damn if the Hoover dam isn't on my list of places to visit in person before I go.

[@SeruraRenge11]

The Lucky 38 architecturally seems to be based more on a combination of the Stratosphere and The Landmark, a casino that's now gone and most remember from being blown up in the movie Mars Attacks.

[@phaeton01]

Noah Gervais; The Atomic Pilgrim

[@jamesmason7761]

This must have been an amazing life experience, and I commend you for all that went into this video. Between the time, energy and money that went into the journey, to the sifting through hundreds of hours of editing, plenty of research.... And the way you speak of each location's feeling, and pinpoint what an area represents was absolutely gorgeous. This is by far one of the best pieces of content I've seen in all my years on this site (of course new vegas is my fave of all time so I'm biased as fuck). You're eloquent and the dedication and love for these environments, and what they represent, in game and out, it astounding. I can't imagine how affirming this kind of a journey must have been. Huge props to an amazing piece of work you've put together here, my man. You've done us all, the games, and these little slices of our grand country proud. god bless ya this video is so sick

[@gustafperax]

Mate, I have followed this channel for years, loving every minute of it, but this is by far the best stuff you have ever put out. We are lucky to have you. Thank you.

[@shadowgb]

since this video has been made. goodsprings has absolutely embraced thrir connection to fallout. the right corner in the dining room is a complete new vegas shrine. complete with an xbox 360 with a copy of the game ready to play.

[@Revan579]

This is amazing. This brings out the part of my soul that just wants to drive and never stop.

[@exmo74]

Despite what you heard here, Zion National Park is spectacular.

[@Xaublae]

One of my favorite places

[@roondar6141]

As someone who lives in the area you really can’t enjoy it nowadays due to the sheer crush of tourists ruining the mood and the sights, at this point you’re better off saving yourself the trip and looking at photos online; I can guarantee you most of the non-hikers who visit would be happier that way.

[@_grzehotnik]

So I've spent 1.5h watching this vid and i wanna tell you that was the best documentary i've ever watched. Thank you for this magnificent content, keep up the good work

[@mdogg094]

I got lucky enough to work out in vegas last year and made the latter portion of this pilgrimage myself. The desert really is a place for elevated thought. But seeing how well the new vegas map works as a miniature version of the real place was especially surreal and wonderful.

[@jibb1451]

When I was younger, my father and his now Ex-Wife got married atop the Stratosphere in Vegas. . . We all went up there (all five of us), and it was a brief ceremony. Stunning view of Vegas from up there! Not more than an hour later after getting some ice cream from the Ben and Jerrys underneath the Tower, my now Ex-Step mother and my Father got in a fight, and on the way back to Utah that night (my home), my Step mother tried jumping out of the moving vehicle while she was drunk and emotional. What happens in Vegas, follows you around for life sometimes.

[@penzorphallos3199]

Almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter....

[@ChudicusMaximus]

lol gay

[@yourlocalpunkposer8107]

@@jibb1451 brenton got you lmao

[@jibb1451]

@@yourlocalpunkposer8107 I mean fuck I guess so!

[@jacksonelh]

this was an incredible experience. I watched it on and off while sick, had to take a break to throw up and writhe in pain every once in a while, but just the wonder of seeing these places made me almost feel better. now looking back months later, I'm still in awe. I'd love to see one of these if you ever take a vacation down Washington or Boston way

[@moneychange2920]

Im wr

[@moseshamlett3887]

This was awesome, thanks! FYI I do believe they said the divide is on the long 15. Could have been any of the little towns on the 15 between the mountain pass and Barstow (heading west). I remember reading once that It was a flourishing hub for trade because of Currier 6 and his visits there from the Mojave Outpost. He encountered Ulysses there and ended up setting off the nukes under the town, but not all of them somehow, effectively turning it into the divide like a few years prior to FNV. So today it would just be some basic small town in the Cali desert.

[@TorneHeichou]

this is one of the best youtube videos i can remember. as having grown up in this part of the world, being shown a fallout inspired perspective on these locations in the american southwest helps brings life to the games i've played and the places i've been at

[@arifemreruzgar5517]

It's a video that has really been worked on and labor-intensive. I thank you very much for this masterpiece.

[@Brendissimo1]

Sorry you missed Zion. It's absolutely worth braving the crowds for. It is truly spectacular, IMO.

[@ralphrainwater]

The amount of work it must have taken for this travelogue is huge. Not just the research of where to go and how to get there, but the video recording, research into each of these places, crafting something interesting to say about them, and then recording the script -- well worth the wait. Perhaps soon, after buying my own RV, I'll have to swing by Goodsprings. Didn't know it was a real place until your video.

[@kamalindsey]

This is beyond a doubt one of the finest location explorations I have ever seen on YT. Clear narration, fun humor and hitting some locations I never knew you could relate to the games like the routes and stuff in FO1 and 2. Extremely well written and done. Subscribed.

[@benbariteau1413]

A few years ago, I did a cross country trip from Atlanta to San Francisco for a new job and I passed through Vegas on the way. Something that blew my mind was seeing the Ivanpah power plant, which was put into New Vegas as HELIOS One. It's extremely great to see something like that in person, especially given that it felt so science fictiony in the game. I had no idea it existed in real life until I drove past on I-15.

[@Stardyver]

I don't often write comments, but apparently it helps to spread your videos around via the algorithm, so I'll do it for that and also to tell you your videos, aswell as what little we can learn about you as a person, are an absolute treasure and I never tire of watching them. It's just such a perfect mix of eloquency, social commentary coming from a very well educated background. Bonus points for whenever you swear, it would seem hard to unite with your style of writing/talking, yet it never feels out of place.

[@stellacondrey4604]

As someone who has grown up in California, this video almost brought me to tears. I love this place so much. Sure you can go to anywhere in the world and buy a shirt telling you the joys of California and life on the beach but that doesn't mean anything about this place. It's this horrible place where I was petrified living in a small town to come out in. It's having to go up to redding to be with your grandpa and hating every moment of it. It's where your mom talks about people trying to kill her by running her off the road in Alturas because she was helping fight for abortion access. It's going to LA and being overwhelmed by the light smog and spread. It's having the history buildings at your school reek of pig shit from the pigs across the way during the hot months at school. It's being able to take the train to Reno and being blown away by all the pure beauty of it, it's getting into Sacramento and feeling like you are in a big city, it's stopping in Chico and making sure to get a pint of chico mint ice cream. It's meeting some of the kindest people you know. It's this unconditional love for this place and just a desire to help out all of these people, all of these people I just want the best for. It's a beautiful horrible place. It's fear and it's joy and it's this complex messy hard to decipher hard to understand combination of the rotten towns in the central valley that were abandoned when railways came and the new shiny growth of downtown San Francisco. It's wonderful to see all of the grit and detail of the place in full view in a way California often isn't shown this video makes me love this place more than I already do. I don't know if any of this made sense but this video made me feel things. Anyways now that I have the ooey gooey emotional stuff out of the way Bakersfield does suck, at least it ain't Vacaville

[@ExcludedGamer]

please don't chat shit about my home town only we're allowed to do that

[@benjaminencarmine]

Ah yes, the cesspool that is the U.S. Beautiful because it's pure detritus, like what people call modern art or those homeless people that build imaginative houses out of cardboard boxes and sheet metal.

[@nickirmen6671]

I'd wanna live in a place as lively as that and where there are palm trees so I've always wanted to settle in Cali

[@ExcludedGamer]

@@nickirmen6671 yeah no you don't, its heavily romanticized, it's really quite shit

[@stellacondrey4604]

@High Overlord Snarffie Beagle I mean that's everywhere you go, I mean I at least know I'm a dipshit so maybe you are at least a little right about us though.

[@realmboy9086]

the fact that he brought his dog though, providing with that fallout spirit

[@MiamiChicken]

Damn. 5 months into 2019 and the best video of the year has already been uploaded. Thank you for this masterpiece.

[@michaelschmidt7824]

There's an argument to be made for Arroyo being based off of the Table Rocks in Medford Oregon: a set of volcanic mesas, one of which has very steep, rocky cliffs just like the Arroyo borders in-game. It is about the same distance and direction the real life counterpart is from Klamath Falls as well.

[@catachandevilfang]

This is like a pilgrimage that my younger self always wished he could do (and now might do!). Thanks for the wonderful footage and commentary-you’ve earned a sub!

[@RossardJames]

Wow, this was a stunning piece of work. As a lover of Fallout someone who has grown up in California and has always had a fascination with the West coast / Southwest US, this really hit the spot. Makes me realize I don’t explore the world around me nearly enough. I’ve been in California for decades and haven’t sene nearly as many places as you covered in this single. Guess I’ll start up another playthrough of New Vegas as a temporary fix. Thanks for all your wonderful videos, Noah. Really one of the best channels on KZbin.

[@ZachBlackforest]

Dude, the sky lounge, and Hoover dam shots set off my acrophobia.... well done dude!

[@cascaozymandius9911]

Your travelogues are the only time I really enjoy listening to people travel and this in particular is a great adventure for you to share!

[@harr6656]

I am loving the drunk Reno fotage.

[@SeanAnglerfish]

As an Oregonian, it was so cool seeing you visit Opal Creek and Jawbone flats. I have pictures of myself in the drivers seat of some of those old trucks when I was a kid. Sadly alot of the land down there, alot of old trees, burnt down in the 2020 wildfires we had here. It sounds like some of it has stayed the same while alot of that area is changed forever. It was very surreal to see the area preserved in this video just as I had remembered it and I'm glad you took the time to see it. It goes to show how real alot of those emotions that fallout inspires can be, how fragile the world is around us, and how it can change so much in such a small amount of time to something so different.

[@CruiseControlFurCool]

I've lived in the midwest all my life and I just appreciate you so so much, my dude. Makes me see the views I take for granted in a new way.

[@cratecruncher6687]

The quality of writing reminds me of those Jim Lehrer News Hour Essays from the 2010's. (Your voice sounds like you might have actually done some of those.) I can't believe you traveled 6,400 miles to make this video. I've traveled through Bishop and Needles. I've been to Vegas too many times. But this was such an entertaining journey I'll likely watch it again. It also gave me a deeper appreciation for New Vegas and the isometric games. Thank you!

[@smartbluecat]

Awesome! :) Thanks Noah. Fantastic and thought provoking as always.

[@whitedragon1204]

:O surprise to see you here

[@quizzic8667]

55:00 My father lived in nipton! The population is literally 20 people strong and was “bought by a ton of stoners” the entire town when he was growing up was just a couple houses a general store a laundromat and a railroad track haha his trip to school took 45 minutes

[@jjforcebreaker]

Great project Noah. Many shots hit Fallout nostalgia HARD.

[@AdamMcDermott]

A staggering amount of work went into this video. Noah, you once again surprise me by the insane effort you put into your videos.

[@tajbaber9425]

I grew up in Mojave and my grandma went to Vegas a lot, frequently stopping in Primm. whiskey Pete's in the 80s was tiny and expanded several times till it got where it is. It always had that prospectors castle vibe, possibly as a nod to other desert castles, such as scotty's castle in death valley. Fun fact: primm wasn't named Primm until about the 80s. Before that it was just state line, Nv.

[@blackhawk65589]

This video needs more view! The amount of time, money, and resources you put in this video shows how much of a fan you are to the FO series! Thank you so much! I also did find a new vacation spot (the Lehman Caves, since I love caving)

[@KingsCountyLightHaus]

Noah, you've made my night with this release. Thanks for another awesome essay.

[@Whimsly]

Your writing is really evocative, and the idea behind this episode is something that I'd really love to do some day. This is quality content, A++

[@JBrander]

Thank you for this video. I always imagined how living life during Fallout 1 and Fallout 2 felt. Where everything is rusted down, decaying in the desert wind, bleaching under the sun. Where you take a look at a rusted down car or a crashed plane in the desert, and you'd think to yourself "This belonged in an era that was centuries ago".

[@iancooketapia]

Always a delight to experience these mini documentaries put together in a long-form. Like an audiobook of questionable origins, but the results more than convince that, sometimes, results are more intriguing than the seed concept.

[@robnickerson7819]

Wow. Didn't expect a vid from you so quick. I'll take it though. Hell yeah

[@jutajazz]

found something awesome to binge and just wanted to let you know - you grew up sounding like the reporters from Fallout as well, really good voice for these long types of videos and thanks for sharing the real life vibe, don't think anyone put it down as well as you did with the IRL 1:1

[@lightspaceman5064]

This game has crazy good graphics. Life needs way too many Mods though.

[@Kisseyhersh123]

This is definitely one of my favorite videos on the platform. As somebody who was born in Vegas, I never realized how much was truly around me. I've gotta take this trip when I'm older, definitely on my bucket list.

[@benjaminishere]

I'm a simple man. I see a NCG video, i watch it and like it. You're so good.

[@Juggaloyaknow]

This needs a million views because of the commitment to drive to these places

[@xandermijares342]

1:02:57 that’s Vegas Vic! Better known as Victor from New Vegas

[@DanMcLeodNeptuneUK]

@2:15 That run down shack in the middle of the desert there is SO Fallout! Oh I'll have to come and see some of the wonderful landscapes in the states someday....

[@ApexSpartanHD]

The amount of effort you put into the video alone, NOT TO MENTION THE ACTUAL ROAD TRIP across entire California and further is just insane. This video better get 1M views minimum. Go on KZbin algorithm, go do your weird magic and make this video pop off. It truly deserves it.

[@LynxsLowjinx]

I'm working on a conference paper on Fallout's re/deconstruction of the United States and as I can't afford to just cross the ocean to hit the road myself, these videos (and your 9 hour Fallout retrospective) have been an incredible boon. I really was able to situate the games' post apocalyptic reimaginings in a real world context. I'll definitely be citing you in my research. Thank you so much for your hard work!

[@cron1165]

Very accurate to the game that you dont get to see Caesars Legions land lol :( Great video

[@rlbroyles1]

“Progress, not the apocalypse, does a better job of burying the past.” Did you write the scripts that you’re narrating? Fucking poetry man