The Stories of Fallout’s First Survivors

[@zacherytaylor]

11:18 the line here about cereal and games and it all is heartbreaking. It’s obvious that he’s still so innocent despite seeing the literal end of civilization

[@JasmineMartinForeverASaint]

Literally just trying to fall asleep to this playin in the background and now I’m SOBBING. Colonel’s story rips at your soul 😭

[@bybdbp]

Omg SAME i’m just crying instead lmaoo

[@thesweetone]

76's "advantage" was upon release they didn't have NPC's to tell stories so they had to use terminals and such to tell them. I joined very late but found that yeah, the terminals are a good read.

[@jeffdroog]

It's just sad that upon release fallout 76 wasn't a game lol At least some people were able to struggle through the bullshit to find the interesting stuff worth passing on.

[@freepkm]

thank god i wasn't the only one who thought the terminal stories were good af

[@atreyu558855]

Honestly, hearing these stories kinda want me to try out 76. All you hear is how shiet it is but damn.. the storytelling feels human.

[@squidiz496]

@@atreyu558855 it's pretty good now. Not perfect by any means but lore wise its quite good.

[@sos9286]

@@atreyu558855 oooooow

[@sos9286]

@@atreyu558855 owiiowoooiioooiiioooiwiwo

[@sos9286]

@@atreyu558855 oioooiooooooiiwoiooooiowioooooooioioo

[@p.mosheshamah4307]

Fun fact: Dassa Ben-Ami's name has an interesting metaphorical meaning, when one understands what the name means. "Dassa" is short for Hadassah, which means Myrtle in Hebrew, but also an alternative name for Esther. Her surname, Ben-Ami, translates to, Son of my People. Or "Son of my Nation" in Hebrew. So this person, who is "One of the People" carries the name of the Jewish Queen who put herself directly in danger to save others, and help bring light and liberation to her people in impossible odds - and furthermore- the Book of Esther, story of the holiday of Purim, is literally a record written by Esther herself. Much like Dassa records what happened, in the Fallout universe. Helps add a bit more life and flavour to this small flourish of a character :)

[@thenoteworthy1298]

That is beautiful.

[@simplyselina]

I thought it was French, bien aime. Good friend.

[@vexile1239]

Interesting...

[@bybdbp]

Colonels story :(( i fucking teared up when i heard the second letter after he grew up, forgiving his father and trying to excuse him for leaving him. Just heartbreaking

[@s7robin105]

While 76 isn’t the traditional experience and has its issues. The world building surrounding much of the world is great and it’s always fun exploring new areas. I hope the devs behind it get utilized for the next mainline game, whenever that may be

[@GeekToMyNerd]

76 is probably the best written Bethesda Fallout, it’s just a shame we can only experience it only through journals…

[@jillthecivic5650]

There are NPCs now, however it is unfortunate that there aren’t that many with local lore about WV

[@MerrillDragonAge]

Also the best map in a fallout game

[@TattleDelta]

@@MerrillDragonAge And best non-radio soundtrack.

[@diany3061]

Imagine if Fallout 76 was put in the oven a 3 or 2 years to be a single player game with all the lore llkklllllldjdk

[@Jelkitosix666]

​@@TattleDeltano, they cabt top fo 1 and 2 soundtrack

[@joseybryant7577]

R.I.P. Perry. The goodest boy in the apocalypse after Dogmeat.

[@justsomerandombirdwithinte5896]

all dogs are good boys, and good girls too.

[@babycarrotz32]

Goodest boys in Fallout Dogmeat Rex Perry EDE (I guess they're a good robot.)

[@CaptoftheHaggister]

@@justsomerandombirdwithinte5896 we use the gender neutral good boi to describe all dogs.

[@BobPantsSpongeSquare97]

It's honestly unsurprising that 76 had these good stories because initially there were no real quests and no npcs to interact with so everything revolved around reading about events that happened as you roam around

[@agustin12689]

I hope in Fallout 5 we can finally talk with the CEO of Vault Tec and get the answers we need.

[@TheRandomSandwiches]

Awesome video as usual. It's amazing what just a voice actor can do to really drive home all the different emotions to the player.

[@CorvoFG]

Colonel’s story shows that Bethesda is occasionally capable of meaningful writing when they want to.

[@treaty7337]

the kid did a good job on the recording too. it had me tearing up listening to it.

[@callumjoyce1712]

The good writer comes in every second Tuesday

[@why_wait]

@@callumjoyce1712 the rest were just free interns

[@ImYourCherryBomb]

His story actually made me cry. I wasn't a very good kid and it was because of ongoing abuse, and then said abusers used that exact same thing. That this wouldn't be happening to me if I wasn't bad. Bethesda does have some fantastic writers, they just get overshadowed by the mess.

[@rko218932]

I don't want to be that guy, but the Responder logs were recorded in 2096, and Colonel states he's 13 years old. How could he have been alive before the bombs for him to believe bad things happen because he was bad if he was born in 2083?

[@drfreshey]

The Responders may be the only legitimately righteous faction in the entire series.

[@connorschultz380]

@@justsomerandombirdwithinte5896 the mm are the most boyscoutey botscoute group ever

[@aerth6946]

@@justsomerandombirdwithinte5896 MF really put the dictatorial and facist factions in "good"

[@harrisonhurst6480]

The Minutemen? They are just there to protect the community from the dangers of the waste and they do it for free.

[@rexcornelius7760]

I headcannon Followers of the Apocalypse from New Vegas as the Responder's offshoot.

[@evanulven8249]

Responders, Followers of the Apocalypse, Desert Rangers, The Minutemen. It's hard to write Good and Righteous organizations in video games. Mainly because so many gamers are pop-nihilist internet tough guys looking for bigger numbers and more spikes and skulls on their gear.

[@hunterwetz4742]

Man, I follow a lot of fallout lore channels but Norte is one of the best. I’m glad to see some 76 content, and I’m really glad to see a longer video like this one! Thanks Norte!

[@definitelyjustcj4148]

Reverend Delbert Winter's story is such a warming one. From thinking he's been forgotten to him realizing helping others is his true task of his life and during the whole players journey he manages to still help the player by recipes and even though he was murdered I'm sure he was content with his life and didn't have any regret.

[@jr3414]

The Appalachian lore is so cool that it's just an insane shame that due to the game not having regular NPCs, Bethesda had to cook up a "well they're all dead now lol" for EVERYONE. What a waste of cool ass lore.

[@mapleflag6518]

But then again, they did at least do it by showing the scorched as a huge threat.

[@k.s.vilrod1964]

I must admit, the stories and world building I discovered in 76 were one of the only things I genuinely enjoyed about the game.

[@RomeoEchoDelta]

Sometimes I wished 76 hadn't garnered the reputation that it had. These stories are legitimately some of the best in the series.

[@finn_in_the_bin5263]

Nah it earned that reputation, that's the sad part. All these amazing stories in what in many opinions is literally the worst game of the series, feels like a massive waste of wonderful writing

[@mapleflag6518]

@@finn_in_the_bin5263 Those people never heard of Brotherhood of Steel

[@Illstatefishing]

Exactly, not just written history, but oral history is just as important, great work!!

[@marshaltito7232]

People are still mad about the hivemind response to the release of 76, but they're wrong. 76 has some of the best writing in the whole series, a lot of the stories and quest lines are absolutely heartbreaking. If you've never actually spent time with the game, I very much encourage you do.

[@housemouseshorts]

it was not a hivemind response bethesda tryed scam after scam after scam. Cope harder no writeing can fix a scammer

[@ZombieKitty321]

Lore wise, yeah its great, gameplay wise and how un polished it was at relase is the reason people were mad about it. Also considerimg they lost a class action lawsuit, where it was deemed obvious that they were realesing the game unfinished with the plan to patch it too finished. Nobody was hating it for the lore and writing.

[@290-n2x]

​@@ZombieKitty321 A LOT of fallout new vegas fans hate the fallout 76 lore i always see them saying they retcond a lot of stuff but they only mention one thing an thats the brotherhood expedition

[@ZombieKitty321]

@@290-n2x does not take away from the point i made so w/e. Fallout 76 lore seens fine, but no one likes retconning for no reason. Them critzing one part of it does mean they hate everything about it

[@290-n2x]

@@ZombieKitty321 re read what i said

[@angel06xpr25]

The kids story where he asked for his dad to come back almost made me shed a tear. Never played F76, but I watched oxhorns vids, and now Norte. Strong stories, meh game.

[@snokey1153]

I’d say good game. The gameplays good, and the RP is fun, but the lore… is probably the best of any games, like huntersville

[@sanguiniusonvacation1803]

Well...I hope by some fluke Tabitha didn't end up as well...Tabitha

[@ericnox2069]

The stories of these people are what makes Fallout good. When they are good, they make the game amazing..when they are boring, doesn't make sense, or it is seemingly out of place, it detracts from the game.

[@thestrangechannelofjeff7426]

Sophie's story shows the mindset and the conditions that led to Raiders gangs and culture

[@Kastor774]

Original FO76 stories are underrated. While the delivery (holotapes, notes, terminals) was stunted, there's something neat about uncovering what happened to the people who are now gone. Basically, it scratches that same itch Soulsborne lore does.

[@jacobcallahan4813]

God this really reinforces how sad and deviating the aftermath would be. Something a lot of us either can't comprehend or try not to in order to stay sane

[@Seventh_Bean]

You hit hard at the end, man. Thank you for this, and all your content.

[@youtubersdigest]

I love the really long videos. They’re great for bedtime playlists. I catch pieces of it each night until I’ve watched it all. Thank you for all the hard work as always Norte

[@Jaysin412]

Awesome way to start my Saturday double kitchen shift!

[@jeremycarnes1656]

I'm a dad, and the Colonel passage broke my heart.

[@endergamer7483]

Willy Mae is peak Appalachian and Southern Grandma, probably called everyone “sugar” or “babydoll” and told the people not to look in them trees.

[@oblivexx]

Would you do a video of the real world General Atomics and relationships with the Fallout version. We are 55 years away from the Fallout Great War.

[@TheREALSimagination]

Sophie is contradiction personified. She's part of the Responders but chooses to not help; she claims everyone's out for themselves when she's the only one not willing to lift a finger for others as she witnesses those words being defied for years in front of her own eyes. I understand the bitterness and lashing out at others - it's something we all do at times yet know it's not alright - and she's clearly in need of comfort and understanding as to what she's gone through, but she's always been the one I wouldn't have wanted to meet if this had been a normal Fallout game.

[@lolbit1232]

Delbert gave me such “why do you keep Giving me your toughest battles?” Only to be responded with “you are my strongest soldier” vibes

[@Zthewise]

People like to complain about Bethesda's lack luster writing, these stories are the hidden gems. Truly beautiful.

[@kye4216]

Kinda feels like a WWZ ripoff with someone documenting peoples experience. Still good tho.

[@jeffdroog]

It's not their writing people complain about.Its their lack of commitment to pairing those writings with games that actually function.

[@TattleDelta]

It's mainly the lack luster writing in the main quests. The random holotapes and journals, even the side quests, always seems to be where Bethesda put their most talented writers to work for some reason.

[@BorgWolf359]

I loved these in game! I love the Responders storyline! They should have kept Gary's story tape in game it is really good! Great video!

[@judalove6707]

I still don't understand how anyone survived the amount of nukes detonating in Appalachia

[@tinaherr3856]

Life finds a way. Appalachia wasn't hit nearly as bad as other places. A more meta explanation is that radiation works differently than the real world, and nuclear weapons are more advanced.

[@royalpain6338]

Contrary to popular belief it's pretty easy to survive a nuclear blast, especially the air burst warheads we use in our world. For fallout it's hard to say if the bombs work the same way explosion wise, based on some of the craters we see in game fallout nukes seem to have a super low yield. For the airbursts you only need to be a few meters underground even in the center of the explosion, radiation is also a non-factor for the most part as the airburst is so powerful the radiation gets blown way up into the air and can't really settle. The issue is the fallout warheads have to be something like a cobalt bomb due to how many rads you take in some areas.

[@GemmaLB]

There weren't very many in the Great War, there's a pair of craters where a military structure used to be (now the Foundation Outpost) the prewar resident of Johnson's Acre describes a mushroom cloud and there's one South of Mama Dolce's. For context, there are places in Fallout 3 that are covered in craters. For a map the size of Fallout 76's (it's most of WV) that isn't much, and the nukes in Fallout are low powered compared to our world's nukes. Post-war of course the place gets nuked all the time, but the NPCs just put on a hazmat suit and carry on.

[@mapleflag6518]

@@GemmaLB Plus the nukes seemed to deal more radiation damage.

[@GemmaLB]

@@mapleflag6518 Yeah they definitely cause more damage to the environment!

[@philipc8259]

This is my head cannon now, Tabitha left Appalachia and headed west where she was abducted and turned into a nightkin and saved by the courier repairing her robot atop black mountain in Nevada

[@TeaJay83]

The most heartbreaking story to me is that woman that was left alone in the grocery store with her dead parents, i can even imagine how that would feel going through that

[@averagetoast467]

I found you like 1h ago but I love that you are a fallout lord channel there’s not to many and I love love love your videos ❤❤❤

[@doctadeath8500]

This video is spoken like a well written essay, I love it.

[@Romey1son]

I wish I payed more attention to story's when I started 76, now I try to read everything. And your not wrong about how good the storys are in 76

[@CaptoftheHaggister]

Let's take a minute to give respect to Kesha. Think about this. They first hear about the Responders in a radio from Flatwoods. The bombs fell in 2077. Flatwoods camp wasn't established after the Christmas flood drove them out of Charleston in 2082 and before 2086 when they reached thier height of influence. So Kesha kept these teenagers safe and lead them for somewhere between 5-8 years. Almost guaranteed to also in that time to have children (since the original high schoolers would be in their early 20s by then). Then to have a almost eventful trek from somewhere through who knows how dangerous area. Since we know how dangerous the Cranberry Glads area are. Then figuring out the water problem there. *The only broken lore here though is that she was supposed to have been in Watoga when the bombs fell doing a science fair. But other lore established that the Operation Free Watoga attack that reprogrammed the Watoga bots to be violent was done the day before the bombs dropped. So I doubt that they would just have proceeded on with the Science Fair like normal while that chaos was going on.

[@emilandersen8628]

I just found your channel, great videos!

[@zacherytaylor]

First sentence is a pure bar

[@harrisonhurst6480]

Though not in 76, the story of Randall Clark from New Vegas is an amazing story and is about someone surviving on the surface after the bombs

[@BaldingClamydia]

Oh. I knew Fallout was dark, but I didn't know it was going to make me cry. That poor boy :(

[@Pendragon667]

Putting glue in mashed potatoes is more than just bad misbehavior 😳 Boy was a walking time bomb at that time.

[@splitscreenshenanigans2678]

Dude hearing the voice actor for the colonel it brought me to tears especially the end

[@sugar1905]

Scott was dangerously close to achieving CHIM

[@thehalfnegativeoptimist4578]

The Survivors Story series (and Flatwoods as a whole, really) is hella underrated. Colonel’s story is one of the few times I’ve actually gotten emotional at a video game.

[@LeveyHere]

One of the things that's the most sad about all of these is knowing that 200 years into the future from there, it's still chaos in the world. All the people trying so hard to rebuild just for it to be messed up further

[@creamdon3083]

Honest hearts in new vegas the story of the survivalist Randall Clark guys a full blown God... quite literally now

[@severalracoons9315]

The VA for Colonal deserves a lead role. Bravo

[@f1b0nacc1sequence7]

Thank you for this

[@snokey1153]

As sad as Colonels story is… bro was fucking savage, like, god damn

[@knottiemunkie8323]

The voice actor for Colonels tape.....MY GOD! Give him a medal!

[@MerrillDragonAge]

Don't you love it when a know-it-all game reviewer hears of fo76 and immediately responds with the oh-so-funny 16 times joke and dismisses all that those devs were able to achieve?

[@meowlentine3342]

What if Tabitha really did make it out west…and met the Master? Perhaps she even eventually settled down somewhere near Vegas with a friendly robot named Rhonda and a few other…kinfolk. 😏

[@jaebob]

I wonder how the rest of the world is dealing with and has been dealing with the aftermath of the great war in the fallout games

[@lampoonism5014]

Colonel’s story hits way too hard to home. Thats some real pain thinking you are “bad” and something is fundamentally wrong with you.

[@dire2293]

the kid was a bit of a shit, def made a turnaround though, very unfortunate it took the end of the world to show him its better to be a good person

[@nicolewolcott]

Dude even despite the retcons and some of the issues 76 has had, I consider the storytelling some of the best. 76 has been fun to catch up on. Looking forward to a good FO5

[@The-three-eyed-Prophet]

scott shepard might not be completly wrong ...

[@VicariousReality7]

Nothing can make the Universe bigger.

[@ConnieVeenuhs]

Why do I keep tearing up ? ,Man

[@vicnedel02]

Every quest in this game is just: Finding corpses and reading journals. Damned depressing. When I find a rare NPC that's actually alive and has more than 2 sentences of dialogue, its extremely refreshing.

[@VRJacky]

fallout 76 probably beat 4 for me, at least in its current state, i just like the appeal of "you are the first" more than "you are one hundred years late" if fallout made an entry where maybe you were a vault dweller from right at the start (like fo4) but the vault door opens for whatever reason (like vault 13 with the water chip) but like significantly earlier, like when the nuclear fallout had only settled months prior or something like that, I would like that allot

[@zCREz]

That last sentence tho, lmao! Can relate...

[@bobwalsh3751]

13:51 Keisha McDermott sounds kinda like Loretta Swit here...

[@mikeschultz5551]

Its Dawnn Lewis, she's done a lot over the years. Most recently she's the voice for Captain Carol Freeman on Star Trek Lower Decks.

[@julscatten2640]

I’m not surprised you think 76’s terminals are best - that was the bulk of the story building for the game, since they had no NPCs in the original game.

[@thenoteworthy1298]

Even at the end of all things, humans persist.

[@itsViirtueYEAH]

tbh this really makes me tempted to buy 76

[@dot2562]

Cut holes in the bottom of gym shorts🤔 if they didnt already have holes how would their legs fit in?

[@NewBootScoobin]

Her name sounds like something Jar Jar binks would say

[@PikaJune]

Dassa Ben Ami is a Jewish name.

[@NewBootScoobin]

@@PikaJune it still sounds like something jar jar binks would say or something a sim would say

[@PikaJune]

@@NewBootScoobin because you don't know Hebrew

[@NewBootScoobin]

@@PikaJune I really don’t care 🤷🏻 her name sounds funny and if me saying that offends you and your Jewish roots well I don’t care

[@PikaJune]

@@NewBootScoobin not so much offends but it makes me laugh. Like a toy wind up monkey clanging cymbals together sorta funny.

[@oxymoron02]

This video could be half the length if we didn't have an explanation of the tapes, preceding the tapes themselves.

[@wayneigoe6722]

Plot twist: Tabitha DID make it out west... Until she ended up being made into a super mutant in the Mojave... then decided to try to raise a new army of super mutants... ... Maybe she'd have been better off staying in Applachia.

[@ogwubba]

Who else here thinks tabatha got turned into a super mutant and found their way into fallout nv?

[@bigmac8168]

Great video 👍

[@captainbrad9866]

Am I the only one who put two and two together to recognize that Tabatha might very well be Tabatha the super mutant from Black Mountain in new Vegas cause Ronda her personal mr handy if you fix her does mention how they came a long way and still have a long way to go

[@TattleDelta]

Far from the only one, and I'm a firm believer that 76's Tabitha is absolutely the same Tabitha in NV.

[@biostemm]

Where was the nuclear missile strike that irradiated WV, though? That's one thing that always bugged me about FO76. Are we to assume the radiation came from a rad storm or perhaps contaminated water that eventually made its way to WV?

[@TattleDelta]

There's a couple large nuke craters in the south eastern part of the map.

[@Stray7]

That's generally how nuclear fallout works, yes. The big problem with fallout is when it gets into the weather cycle, it can spread quite far.

[@briannewman5614]

The little boy talking. As a father it is heartbreaking.I try not to be too hard on him,but the world is cold and cruel. He needs to realize.

[@finn_in_the_bin5263]

But if the world is so cold and cruel, why can't you be the one place of respite from it all? He's gonna realize, that's inevitable. But why does it have to be from you?

[@CigaretteTheChannel]

Wouldn't a Fallout game set mostly in the immediate aftermath be pretty cool?

[@Xxanity_]

The worst part of all this is theres potential for all this to happen accurately in our lifetime like remember when we thought nuketown 2025 was so far in the future... its literally next year

[@giantmonsterdad]

i appreciate this video, because even though i wish f76 kept the responders alive so we could interact with them, hearing their stories is important. i do want to say, you read most of the notes and whatnot, but you specifically left out miguel's entries about gary, and when reading the terminal entry about miguel's end you stopped short from him talking about gary. i get that it may be awkward to read, especially if you're a straight man, but you do have queer male viewers like myself, and the representation is so important to us. edit: okay i admit i left this comment halfway through the video and didn't realize you included the cut gary story that i didn't know about. thank you!

[@ptbunz2501]

Good video! Look forward to any 76 content.

[@Silvereyes83]

I wonder if Tabitha was the same one as New Vegas. Would be nice if she was.

[@mikedawolf95]

They had to go extra hard on the readable stories because there wasn’t any NPCs when the game first came out.

[@DovahGoatt]

Hi

[@Andy-ly2li]

80%of the 76 shade is by ppl who never opened it or because they don't want to earn "atom" and don't like the real world money price of atomic aesthetics. But 76 has to be one of my favorite time periods in the fallout universe

[@N_orte]

It’s currently the closest game, timeline wise, to the Great War. There are plenty of folks in that game who lived during the Pre-War era. Definitely a great source for lore

[@alekkryz]

it’s just so weird seeing things from the 1900’s but more futuristic in some ways. it’s like going to the middle of the country to a town seeing a tesla when theirs like plastic seating and metal houses.

[@avenpreston2001]

who let pastor delbert take care of the kids?

[@tombakabones274]

No you had it right the first time 10 because all you did was just continue colonels story so those two count as one

[@diversifiedplural6294]

These are devastating

[@xenostra]

Would love to see a falllut in some other states like Missouri or Arkansas or Tennesee or texas or new york etc

[@kevkevplays5662]

I just realized that eventually the fallout world is gonna go back to fuedalism, sure fuedalism with modern technology but feudalism none the less

[@tinaherr3856]

Could you please explain?

[@jerichohill487]

There's a reason thatvits some of the best. Way back when, when FO4 came out, there was all thus complaining about how Bethasda should make a co-op game. The funny thing is, all the cool edgelords kn reddit, KZbin, and Facebook all agreed; it would be easy all bethasda had to do was build an online game, and since they're so good at environmental story telling, they wouldn't even hadta have NPCs. Bethasda listened to the fans. They gave them EXACTLY what they asked for, and all they did was trash talk Bethasda and say, "How could you make a game like this, Hoi suck." When the truth of the matter is, they gave you what you wanted, and you bitched and cried about it. He'll half the comments on here are people still bitching.

[@mikehunyady9076]

Sounds like the colonel caused all of the problems in fallout and if he was just a good boy none of it would have happened

[@DarthNilum]

Hey, could you do a cut with just colonel's story? it would be a guilty view of anyone who wants to cry. not a quick way to the top but definitely something to keep the algorithm happy for repeat views

[@intelmaciek]

@ 25:25 i swear it's Dave Chappelle speaking 😂