The Most Interesting Unused Map in Fallout 3

The Most Interesting Unused Map in Fallout 3
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[@Senokot-Gaming]

It would have nice to have more areas with denser forests. The burnt-out trees makes this cell look more creepy.

[@ncrxghost8075]

Probably hardware limitations at the time

[@Joe_the_Shmoe]

@@ncrxghost8075 We know how much Obsidian was constrained by the consoles because they were open about that in interviews. Bethesda never really talked about the creation process quite as much so it'd be interesting to see just how much they had to cut for that reason too

[@mrquirky3626]

@@ncrxghost8075 The Xbox 360 had only 512 Mb of RAM and the PS3 had only 256 Mb. It's amazing we got any open world games with that little memory.

[@truelies9187]

It’s supposed to be you bati

[@SNAKE.LOVER.69]

It gives off the vibes that if they made a game or DLC in West Virginia in the 2000's, that it would look exactly like this.

[@TeCHnORiOT]

Shame 76 is where you can explore West Virginia in the Fallout universe, maybe in another game they'll go back to it.

[@isaacsrandomvideos667]

is it just me or does this comment kinda make sense but also not?

[@AVerySexuallyDeviantOrange]

@J 2000s as in when the game came out, WV as in the entire state looks like this year round, green haze included

[@SNAKE.LOVER.69]

@@AVerySexuallyDeviantOrange Sometimes it's brown, but that's in the fall.

[@demolisherbpb3390]

I love going to Bethesda test cells, they always are so strange. Oblivions Testing hall being the most strange with the amount of other testing rooms and strange NPC's there, their names being particularly amusing in some cases.

[@isaacsrandomvideos667]

Yeah

[@explodingbearz]

The Todd one cracks me up

[@bothatguyyoudontknow]

Imagine a world where we got an anniversary edition of FO3/FONV for new consoles that added all these cut areas/content......yeah, that's a nice imagination.

[@isaacmayer-splain8974]

That'd be great, especially if FO3 could run on windows because of it

[@calebdrake3544]

What do you mean?

[@bigangenbygang]

Unironically Bethesda could make bank if they just kicked their feet back and let Obsidian tackle remaking 1+2 and a second shot at making New Vegas with 3-4 years instead of 18 months. Fans would be happy, Bethesda would make a ton of money and have their goodwill restored, and Obsidian would get to have their second shot that they've always deserved.

[@Gunstorian]

LOVE the new outro brotha! That perfect Mr. New Vegas quote for your content, "more classics coming right up!" Maybe even better than the Fisto quote!

[@c.a.k.comedy692]

No

[@Gunstorian]

@@c.a.k.comedy692 Yes

[@Shinzon23]

I miss the " get fucked"

[@Gunstorian]

@@Shinzon23 that was the OG great one!

[@garbagepailkid]

I appreciate it; but maybe just lower the volume on that clip a tiny bit. It seems much louder than the rest of the video to me.

[@ComfortsSpecter]

Ok that’s looks way cooler than most of the environments I remember from FO3

[@nbain66]

I think the console limitations meant trees and busy terrain were leveled out. 512mb of ram was a big limitation for a Bethesda game

[@Bon5oir]

There is a swamp area with a lot of trees in Point Lookout, if you like that type of landscape ;)

[@raw1465]

this shouldve been how DC actually looked out of the city IMO. having been there myself theres not too much wide open fields lol

[@puddingpop6058]

There would be after it gets hit with nukes tho

[@kegmonkey5648]

Trees aren't fucking indestructible IRL. A nuke would obliterate most of them and leave *mostly* flat plains.

[@McBanditHope]

That would make Gamebyro cry tho

[@furiousapplesack]

@@kegmonkey5648 Nah, that would depend on the yield and type of nuke and from what I know of Fallout, they were using the equivalent of specific tactical nukes with which the radius of raw explosive power isn't their strength, it's the radiation. Areas extremely close to the impact point would be flattened, but the actual explosive action of those nukes don't actually extend that far.

[@whydontyouhandledeez]

@@McBanditHope Nah Gamebryo could handle it fine, it's the PS3 that would have a heart attack.

[@TheBHAitken]

Seeing as the park would have a fixed location in the DC area, what was in it's place in the final game?

[@ScottieDont456]

As far as I know it was a test location, some test cells are nonsensical and just random while others are more coherent, this was probably to test terrain building

[@mpg272727]

@@ScottieDont456 this. I imagine this was a way for them to test map creation and said map was never meant to be in the base game

[@okotoko]

Assuming it would have been placed in the map proportional to it's real life location, it would probably be somewhere just slightly Southeast of Wheaton Armory and the Bethesda Ruins. Probably wouldn't work well for gameplay reasons as well as console limitations. They could have made Oasis to compensate for that dense forest feel.

[@smuppyers]

It'd be north of DC, probably just up from Rock Creek Caverns. The IRL Rock Creek Park is in DC proper but it's sandwiched between neighborhoods. That would've looked really cool in game.

[@johnmoan366]

It's me again, Mr. New Vegas, reminding you that you're nobody 'til somebody loves you. And that somebody is me. I love you.

[@LalkeBanditen]

People often ask me if there 's a Mrs. New Vegas. You're her. And you're just as beautiful as the day we met.

[@yt_pablo_actual]

Rock creek park is a super interesting location and is actually where they’ve been dumping old bricks from the capital building each time they replace them. That area of the park in real life has almost an apocalyptic feel to it.

[@souptime9511]

Is there any articles or anything on the bricks? I’m genuinely pretty interested but scrolling through the parks wiki I can’t find anything about it, do you remember where or when you heard that? I believe you I’m just lost searching

[@ragmayor]

Wish we had more dense forests in fallout

[@hate2191]

They're fun to fight in

[@puddingpop6058]

F76 😢

[@ragmayor]

@@puddingpop6058 i would playe that if steam didntg uninstal it

[@vechmaster]

I'd love to see a fallout game set in a heavily forested area. Things like Radspiders dropping from the trees. Ghouls armoured up due to mutated tree bark and lichen growing through their bodies, etc

[@vicarus8425]

The terrain looks awfully similar to parts of the Sacred Bog. I think they may have reused the layout in the end.

[@gustavodeque]

0:05 these mirelurks are so cute lol

[@MidnightFireHuntress]

WOW, I've never seen this before and Fallout 3 is one of my favorite games, I love how it looks! Thank you for posting this!

[@hiijjh100]

It's always cool to see Bethesda devs true vision for fallout3. So much cut content due to time constraints or just the limits of the hardware they had to work with at the time.

[@LucyWest370]

They had 6 years to make this game and willingly chose to use that hardware, think you might be thinking of new vegas

[@ImJustBob]

@@LucyWest370 "muh muh new vegas!! New vegas!!! Muh muh"

[@LucyWest370]

@@ImJustBob please stop getting offended because I absolutely hate those kinds of people, but also its literally just a true statement so I dont even know why youre here

[@TeCHnORiOT]

@@LucyWest370 That was the only hardware available at the time, so of course they had to choose it. Yeah they could have just not released on PS3 and 360, but they would have made less money that way.

[@LucyWest370]

@@TeCHnORiOT I thought bethesda willingly chose to use that engine because it was the easiest to work with or do I have my dates wrong?

[@Garrett0451]

Fucking amazing, I never knew something like this existed in Fallout 3. You learn something new everyday. Thanks Mantis!

[@drinkinbuddy8264]

Darn looks like a good area to explore

[@stormcry8202]

Ok, the new ending using Mr. New Vegas HAS to stay. It is the best one you have added :)

[@CheffBryan]

Looks like it may have been cut due to limitations of consoles at the time. I can only guess at what the poly count and scripting looks like compared to the parts of Vegas that crash PS3s.

[@evilotis01]

"it may have been cut due to limitations of consoles at the time" same old story sigh

[@tylernicolas]

I remember my first F3 play through, I wanted to get to the broken bus that you see in the intro cutscene, is there a way to get there with CCs, or modding?

[@fiveinline2685]

There's a mod made by 'bigpete' called 'Intro Street Bus and Dupont Alignment' that does exactly that, and realigns Dupont Circle with how it looks in the intro. There's also a TTW conversion of the same mod if you'd rather play F3 in the NV engine.

[@ashleycornett6812]

Roybatty, one of the people from the TTW mod team made a mod that does exactly that. Requires TTW and NV IIRC

[@Evan-or6ip]

Yeah coc intro01

[@michaelrosenstock9187]

Ive looked for it for agessss

[@Clodical]

@@michaelrosenstock9187 coc intro1

[@redpichu1009]

I really like the design and roads of this map. Makes me wish there were more places like this in the game. Though because Fallout's an open world, I can see why it would be hard to do that without putting the player on a linear path.

[@Keleigh3000]

If you go into Kiddie Kingdom in power armor Oswald has a special taunt: "What's wrong, Tin Man? Having trouble finding the Wizard? Personally, I would have figured you for the Scarecrow."

[@JDMSpecYugo]

This looks like a test placeholder to get ideas on how the game wasteland should look on paper

[@Badookum]

Помните, что когда вы вытаскиваете чеку, мистер Граната больше не является нашим другом.

[@isaacsrandomvideos667]

feels like a place I’ve been in in my dreams

[@rafal8560]

That looks like the place where the big punga fruit is

[@MisterJohnDoe]

Makes me think of Point Lookout.

[@thechurchoftoddhoward6820]

Thanks for the content bro

[@TKsMantis]

Thanks for watching!

[@Chuked]

@@TKsMantis the atmosphere of this location would have been great

[@encross8058]

Todd bless

[@n0waybro]

Yessssssssss was good hearing mr New Vegas at the enddd

[@someonespecia123]

This might be one of my favorites that you have done. This is fascinating

[@Hyperion-5744]

A modder can definitely add this area back into the game but the only way to enter it should probably be the same boat that's used to reach point lookout.

[@evanbohn]

You're nobody 'til TK posts a video ...

[@Toxin___InterHalfer]

It looks a lot like the Glowing Sea

[@Zinfandelthered1979]

I dig the new end quote.

[@AidenRKrone]

It has a distinctive Point Lookout vibe. I wonder if the ideas for Rock Creek Park were recycled into Point Lookout.

[@michaelrosenstock9187]

From rock creek to hargenfell they roamed

[@ejsmith2246]

I love the new outtro clip bit!!!

[@bobsumbodylol]

That house looks a lot like the one with the sniper in it near the death claw sanctuary

[@schaefer_hund]

I always wondered why they never added Rock Creek Park to the game, specifically because it would make for such a variant setting so close to downtown.

[@Lavender_Fox]

In fallout 4, if you pick up the laser musket before Preston notices you (easiest with a stealth boy) he has slightly different dialogue.

[@blampfno]

Would you say I have a plethora of pinatas?

[@kekula69]

The curse of grandma sparkle strikes again

[@LunasOnlyLover]

that place is oddly beautiful.

[@Amig186]

Looks like they went for this style in the starting areas of F4

[@JB-kx1he]

I love the fallout community still lives ❤️

[@pizzatime6125]

reminds me of the glowing sea

[@evanbohn]

can we get more unused area videos?

[@invineron7450]

What what? No assume the position?!! Im shocked!

[@greatscott175]

More cell explorations!

[@capricorn878]

Definitely gonna see it today, thanks for the info

[@switchclicks7587]

Hey mantis. How bout when you give Veronica a dress. She has some unique dialogue. I always give her the dress from the Sierra Madre

[@kale.online]

How often do the outro lines update? I loved cook cooks cut dialogue

[@gunkid6368]

ay yo wtf ain't this the area outside the vault in the new California mod

[@asra-5180]

You could've explored this place more thoroughly.

[@ooze9808]

Seeing everything that was removed from fo3 and nv makes me sad

[@Blue-vs6fj]

alright, someone make a mod using this map

[@slycooper1001]

the intro sequence is not a cutscene if you know the command you can walk into that bus Edit: here is the command coc intro01

[@loganmcintire1837]

A remaster with all the cut content idc if its so buggy it blows up my system i just want a remaster for NV or fo3

[@door_productions4896]

Nice outro

[@Elizabean1984]

Wish they used this.

[@ghillieguy52]

honestly the severe lack of burnt trees in fallout 3 prevents alot of it from really looking like the areas around DC. if you ever get a high up view of the area you tend to see a forest with buildings poking out even if its urban

[@1truthbegettingtold275]

The 2 outros you use should be interchangeable. Assume position and classics. If you switch between them, a small percent of people will watch your videos more, not specifically for the outro. But if you start switching back and forth on new videos, some will try to anticipate which outro message you will use. Sub-consciously they might watch another video due to this. Compared to hearing the same thing everytime.

[@HUNGRY4EGGS]

Keep up the awesome videos :)

[@Draco100Round]

Can we get the most uninteresting used map next

[@insertnamehere4088]

Well that's odd .

[@baileywooof493]

looks like something outta point lookout

[@marcusarce6739]

This could be used for a mod

[@hekkenschutz]

I like this new ending better! Very nice video Thank you

[@unoriginalperson72]

I'm pretty sure anyone can finish this map but fallout 3 has about 2 mods every 5 weeks so I doubt it.

[@Patrick.Weightman]

Tbh it reminds me a lot of Morrowind for some reason

[@cornpowa]

Oh, I thought it was just part of point lookout. It seems like it gets the least love. I very, very rarely see any vids about it pop up.

[@passiveincomeband8984]

I wanna say this was cut because the are scared Todd Howard a little too much.

[@JohnSmith-td7hd]

For any game developers listening, please make your unused content available in in-game video games or in-game simulations as an easy way to still use your ideas if they're playable!

[@etamlix]

Outro is dope))

[@theskoomacat3106]

I hate when content gets cut. Just like with New Vegas and the Legion. If Obsidian had more time to make the game, the Legion would have been more complex instead of being the obvious Villain group.

[@DMTInfinity]

*Fallout: Deez Nuts*

[@BENKYism]

Looks a little bit like fallout 4

[@cjrstudios4100]

Would this be north of DC?

[@RegularCody]

Thanks for the company

[@trdraider1196]

My I love this channel it's like oxhorn but alot better

[@mrbrocephus3849]

Oblivion fallout 3 NV for how old they people are still finding stuff 🧐🙌🏻💥

[@PonderousEclectica4383]

would’ve made the game look less homogenous

[@FMmathias]

Fascinating

[@LIITEMIES]

1 of the most stupid desing choises.

[@dungeondeezdragons4242]

Cool

[@baconshock9883]

Ha ha first

[@AmbientMike]

Ha ha ha ha that's so funny bro

[@baconshock9883]

Ha ha ha @metalmike04 -you ain’t from round these parts, partner?

[@AmbientMike]

@@baconshock9883 second

[@baconshock9883]

Third

[@chrisdonian6263]

Giving some hope Whatever you have done, no matter how bad you life is, there is hope. Jesus died in our place, that all our sins could be forgiven, so we can spend eternity with Him instead of hell. He saved me from an addiction to lustful websites and is with me through depression. He has given me new life, a new heart and saved me from my sins through the cross( even the ones you dont tell people about). He can do the same for you, only if you believe and become saved by his grace not your own works(since we all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God and his holy justice only forgiven by the Sons undeserved sacrifice on the cross, look at the ten commandments to see how we all are guilty without Gods grace through the Christ).

[@snowdogs5432]

I live right near Rock Creek Park! So cool to see they wanted to include it in the game.

[@swank8392]

That cool

[@transonxiana]

Although this is most likely isn't true, i have a feeling that the unused map was originally going to be put in Point Lookout, since it looks extremely similar to the area where you get knocked out by the Plant, it has mirelurks, is naturally locked out, maybe Bethesda could reuse the base of this cell as the cell of the Point Lookout?

[@-EJ-]

Maybe it served as a proof of concept for something in point lookout, but considering that Rock Creek begins west of Olney and goes to DC IRL, it’s probably just a testing area that the devs named Rock Creek as an Easter egg.

[@KneeCapHill]

For all it's faults fallout 3 still seems like they at least made an honest good will try