the toilet paper was a vision from the future? XD i mean... covid tp madness its now a extended meme but this friking GOD did it before XD, new suscriber here, excellent video
All the bugs aren't Bethesda's fault, West Virginia is just like that. Every time I leave my house there's a good chance I'll be someone different and fall through the ground.
I really like the "not up to the Fallout standard" with the rum. It makes me imagine that it was actually good once, and they needed the delay to make it terrible.
I mean, Fallout 1 and 2 were masterpieces, as was New Vegas, and a fair number of people quite enjoyed 3 and 4. It's not exactly hard to do the bare minimum with merch and your games. At this point, that sounds about right-- purposeful sabotage.
i was just gonna say this! i agree with that i feel like they made a frosted glass bottle and Bethesda was like "nah that would be us doing something right cant have that lol" especially when they said how many hours and money went into the plastic WTF?! why do that then
I think people have definitely forgotten far too quickly about all the shady shit. Everyone remembers the bugs and lack of content and are worried about 1000 planets, but nobody talks about the duffle kerfuffle etc
Honestly a rushed mess made by the b team, what did they expect haha. I mean fallout 3 and 4 are pretty barren but with mods they can be totally awesome, but this was just a joke I guess compared to this dark souls 2 isn't thaaat bad as another rushed game by the rookie devs but at least they didn't pull any crap like that It's still super janky and crap compared to all the real Miyazaki led games
@Ethan H not even a 2.5% refund you could get a burger with, it was a gift card... The duffle kerfuffle was a brutal triple gut punch for a singular frivolous purchase you were probably on the fence about. You fall victim to false advertising, receive a laughable refund you are obligated to spend in the shitty game you paid a premium for, and the final cherry on top... You are doxxed for filling out the form to receive the product you rightfully paid for... I wonder how that class action lawsuit is developing
@Arai ye, I'm also being slightly facetious. I have no problem with tones and sarcasm, I exhibit next to no symptoms of autism, but maybe it's just my cynicism that makes me want to argue with strangers in a KZclip comments section for the dumbest reasons lel
@Lymbic don't have to be autistic to make use of tone tags. It is usually harder for most to get meaning behind writing as compared to speech. My brother is autistic and he finds speech to be more difficult to interpret than writing, so it's an individual thing really
Things that weren’t mentioned in this video, because either Internet Historian missed them or because they happened after this video came out. - Todd’s incredible idea to have no NPCs and acting like that was a major innovation. - The loot-eating storage boxes. - Thousands of helmets from the Power Armor Edition had to be recalled because they didn’t have silica pouches and, as a result, contained dangerous levels of mold in it that would cause people to get physically ill from it. Multiple Game Stops were getting, “refurbished,” helmets months after launch. - The game went live so early, stores like Game Stop ended up having to break street date when it was supposed to be a true midnight launch. - The Fallout 1st $100 paid-subscription to the game that was even worse and more broken than the ordinary subscription. - During a brief period of time there was a glitch/exploit where it was actually possible to spawn in items from a completely different game. - It’s possible to use an exploit where you can take another player’s entire inventory. - They never unbanned the players who just played the game fairly as intended that the game was meant to be played as, who just played the game to get good gear. In fact Bethesda actually told them, “Sorry, once you’re banned, we can’t do anything about it. Looks like you’re just going to have to make a new account and start over.” There was actually a guy who paid a hacker to get his account unsuspended and get all of his stuff back because of this. Guess what? It actually worked! The guy successfully managed to get his account and all of his stuff back, thanks to him. Here’s the real kicker, though. The hacker even said that it was, “surprisingly easy”. Yeah, let that sink in. If I’ve missed anything, feel free to reply to me, so I can expand this list.
@wuzz not really. The crap Providence Investments and Bethesda tried to pull with 76 is likely a key factor in the Microsoft deal. The tanked sales and class action suit almost bankrupted Bethesda.
I was so excited for this game, then I got hit twice with a fast-travel glitch that put my character in a limbo that even the GM's couldn't get me out of. So I went in on the class-action suit when that rolled around, got a hundred bucks out of it, and never looked back. Great video on this!
Wow! Can you tell us more about that class action? Was it the same one featured in this video? And how did you sign up? (Did you need a receipt or just the game for example?)
@martk fartkerson It was a cool idea. I only heard about it a few months before it came out and loved 4, but waited for reviews. Thank God I didn't convince anyone to buy it. Can't believe it wasn't even made by actual Bethesda.
I held out and just started playing during the holidays to see if it was still a shit show. Not a bad game. Sucks that all of the early adopters got screwed over.
The music, the jingles sprinkled around like “bugs bugs bugs”, the small digressions where he speaks more softly so that the flow is less repetitive, the fact that the video itself is a travel down a rabbit hole, from bugs down to a lawsuit. This video is a masterpiece
I've worked retail customer service for a while now, and that's a pretty regular occurrence. Maybe not to such a degree, but someone throwing a tantrum because you can't help them is. He's probably more annoyed about having to clean up after the guy than anything else
Fallout 3: I'm looking for my dad. Fallout New Vegas: I'm looking for the man who shot me. Fallout 4: I'm looking for my son. Fallout 76: I'm looking for a refund.
When the customer service sends back an Email saying "We aren't planning on doing anything about it." you know even Bethesda employees are done with company bullshit.
@Andrew Barsky People buy Apple products. If one day the cellphones started bricking it's still 100% their fault, not the people buying into the corporate image overprize bullshit.
76 is a prime example of people showing Bethesda that they're willing to eat shit covered in sprinkles and willing to have seconds if offered a bit more sprinkles to put on the turds they're gladly eating. Point being those aren't real fans, because real fans would look at what they love and question why it's being fucked up.
Yknow, after the last 3 or so years of AAA game releases being almost exactly like this to a T (for example, Pokemon Scarlet Violet, Callisto protocol, and Security breach are the first to come to mind but I know there's more) it's kinda crazy to realize that this was, in fact, one of the first instances of this being normalized.
Anything new on this? There's plenty of other things to talk about, too. Like the helmets were infested with mold and had to be recalled. Then they sneakily put them back onto the market at a discount. I bought one for ten bucks at my local Gamestop. It's a cool shelf piece, but it smells heavily of disinfectant on the inside.
I always come back to this as a comfort video, and after seeing it x amount of times, I’m still always baffled at how badly Bethesda dropped the ball on all of this rollout
The cloth bag thing is hilarious because they did the exact same thing with skyrim. The collectors edition was supposed to come with a "cloth map" of skyrim. It was a glossy paper map in the box.
Dude completely trashes a GameStop and you just hear "Thank you for calling GameStop, this is Bryan, how can I help you?" Man's not even angry. Respect to that guy.
@nash0089 sure you say it's good, but the damage has already been done and the public perception stays solid. I don't think 76 has any chance at redemption right now
@Shad0wzno where am I yelling, so stop picking up your own energy and putting it at me. :V you're the one asking me why I dislike them and all I stated pretty calmly since the beginning of this pointless endeavor of FPS fanboys is " FPS are just not my cup of tea" I don't have to explain anything to you? so establishing that fact doesn't make it victim mentality, it makes it a fact. XD
I've watched this video about 50 times, and I just now noticed that almost everyone and everything in this video is Todd Howard, and it makes this video that much more beautiful.
21:50 I remember watching this video on the very day it came out, laughing at all the things as they were unfolding. I've watched this video dozens, if not hundreds of times through out 3 years it's on the platform... And after 3 years, just now I've realised the meaning behind Historian's "surprised" reaction
Todd Howard blindfolded in a teletubby outfit flailing around and firing a shotgun might just be one of the most bizarre yet hilarious edits I've seen.
I remember hearing about the duffle kerfuffle at the time but I’m truly shocked at how this Bethesda PR nightmare managed to just get worse and worse and WORSE, did they have a team of 500 sociopaths on staff or something wtf
To be fair it is pretty impressive how they managed to cram every single thing wrong with the modern games industry into one huge clusterfuck of a release
@Morgan Cooper Bethesda has a track record of releasing broken nightmares that barely run and graphics always were behind the standards. What makes them good are the mods and the community modders fix their mess Bethesda Bethesda can't bother
@Azurelectrium exactly. The diehard fallout fans i knew had no interest in an online game let alone an mmo...this setting isnt built for it, its dull and barren, not MMO material
This video is just a masterpiece in pacing and comedic speech. The delivery is top notch, and though the "umm.."s get weirdly annoying at the start, going further in the video they are just essential to the video now!!
11:41 the fact that he is getting the date here super on target is terrifying but also understandable (how else can you document internet history without studying it first) from what i understand its a "decent" game now
You should do a history of the Elder scrolls mess during the making of Morrowind. It was over budget and daddy Robby Trump saved the day. Not to mention the history of the developers, including how one of the developers wrote the lore for Morrowind binged on drugs - which somehow ended up making the greatest staples of the Elder Scrolls lore. This would be fucking sublime.
This popped up in my feed, and for some reason I found it hilarious. That montàge which included the "traveling merchant" made me almost spit herbal tea..
I have never played this game until a couple of weeks ago, but I still love the way he presents this story which has no repercussion on the world but is just hilariously made,
I love the "shortage of material" excuse for the bags. It's literally one of the earliest fabrics ever invented and is so common and cheap that it's the go-to for practicing sewing patterns and then throwing out. It's woven cotton for god's sake
@TheFunnyMan yeah exactly, like imagine if they just said "you'd get a free bag" instead of saying what material it is, none of this would've happened, they got what they advertised, but nah, put canvas in there.
Finally playing this with a friend, we're both level 12, and haven't found much missions to do, still super laggy from time to time but having fun walking around and exploring and killing things but I havent found many missions. And WAAAAAAYYYYY too many microtransactions, I dont mind cool cosmetics to buy but my God there's some essential stuff that is just part of the past fallout games, there's literally a micro traction for anytime in the game
@Tavion Taylor nah man, I did the most soul-crushing work for Ryanair customer service for 2 years, it doesn't matter, copy pasting the same shit is the easiest work you can have it doesn't matter if there's a lot of it. The hardest stuff is when there's a lot of work and everyone is asking about different things, cuz then you have to actually think about what you do, rather than just copy paste.
@David Bodor yeah now imagine having to do this so many times to the point it doesn’t even matter aka reached your limit. Like this was controversy after controversy after controversy these people were not getting a break with all the stuff going on I’m not saying they were in the right for sending that email but it’s pretty understandable.
It's been 3 years, I've seen this video about 10 times now, I never even bought the game and still... everytime I watch this I get so fricking angry at Bethesda.
I only started playing this game about a year ago, and I really enjoyed my time with it. By that time it wasn’t any more buggy than any other Bethesda game, and there was plenty to do. Was it the sequel I wanted to Fallout 4? No. But it was nonetheless really fun to me. There’s a lot of exceptional storytelling and lore-building. Give it a try! The game’s very much not the same game it was at launch; you might be surprised :)
The Fallout 76 mess was insane. Didn't even mention the thousands of Power Armor Edition helmets that had to be recalled due to containing dangerous levels of mold.
Hahhhhaaahah my cousin worked at GameStop, the only USA vendor for the helmets, and it's even funnier. There were 20,000 helmets made by some cheap collectible company. However...only 32 were ever sold. 32/20,000. GameStop was able to successfully contact every customer 🤣 But Bethesda really thought "oh the gamers will just eat this crap up"
As someone else in the comments mused (considering the rum), perhaps they had to bring the stuff to "usual Fallout standards", that is, make it shittier.
10:52 If this is real, then wow. I feel SO bad for those GameStop employees. I've been in a similar situation as them. Dude had no right to do that at all. Those people are not to blame, and he just pretty much ruined their day at least, especially those who had to stop what they were doing and spend all day cleaning all that shit up. Just... wow.
Stop trying to defend Cybertrash. The game was a complete and total distaster. So many people expected the game to put all other RPG titles to shame, to be the true "next-gen" experience, made by the "reputable" company CDPR. That might have been true, if the game released on the fucking dreamcast. CDPR lied to the consumers, refused to allow reviewers to show their own footage, literally BRIBED said reviewers to give the game a perfect score, and after all the backlash from such a disgraceful launch of a game so unfinished and buggy it might as well have been in alpha stage, they uploaded a half-assed apology video to youtube where some condescending jackass just went in circles for five minutes about how it was the consumer's fault that the game failed. Cyberpunk and CDPR deserve no mercy for the shit they pulled, and we as gamers need to remember the past or else it can and will repeat itself.
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Won't lie, I'm probably still gonna preorder Starfield.
Definitely still preordering 😅
@Daahman Daahman 3 years late to the party but it's 13ounce - OKAY.
22:02.....That's what she said.
the toilet paper was a vision from the future? XD i mean... covid tp madness its now a extended meme but this friking GOD did it before XD, new suscriber here, excellent video
I reported you. 😂
this is why you shouldn't skip 72 games in the series
Lol
@TatodziadekPL 69 actually
What about new Vegas
true
Test
The guy that mailed Todd Howard a box of bobby pins with a note that said, "weigh these." Might be one of the funniest people ever
My god, you just changed my life with that - I was absolutely sure it was one of those unfunny pun jokes, but it's actually funny now
@lephiro most sane american dude :
TIME stumps
All the bugs aren't Bethesda's fault, West Virginia is just like that. Every time I leave my house there's a good chance I'll be someone different and fall through the ground.
@GUTS He's funnier than you weeb, bet you're fun at parties. *guts theme plays*
With all the mine shafts around there. You could very well fall into the ground lol.
@Catboy451 as another wv goon, absolutely
So you’re saying they accurately depicted West Virginia?
Yeah last time I went to West Virginia, i shot the wrong gun at the rifle range and got consumed by the void :/
I really like the "not up to the Fallout standard" with the rum. It makes me imagine that it was actually good once, and they needed the delay to make it terrible.
I mean, Fallout 1 and 2 were masterpieces, as was New Vegas, and a fair number of people quite enjoyed 3 and 4. It's not exactly hard to do the bare minimum with merch and your games. At this point, that sounds about right-- purposeful sabotage.
LMFAO
Bethesda is going to need to release a patch to bring me back to life from reading that one.
i was just gonna say this! i agree with that i feel like they made a frosted glass bottle and Bethesda was like "nah that would be us doing something right cant have that lol" especially when they said how many hours and money went into the plastic WTF?! why do that then
Goated comment
"oh crap it's actually good. DOKTOR! TURN OFF THE RUM FILTERS!"
- Todd Howard, probably
I think people have definitely forgotten far too quickly about all the shady shit. Everyone remembers the bugs and lack of content and are worried about 1000 planets, but nobody talks about the duffle kerfuffle etc
It's just ironic that all the elder scrolls and fallout games basically require the fanbase to fix and improve their games
Honestly a rushed mess made by the b team, what did they expect haha. I mean fallout 3 and 4 are pretty barren but with mods they can be totally awesome, but this was just a joke
I guess compared to this dark souls 2 isn't thaaat bad as another rushed game by the rookie devs but at least they didn't pull any crap like that
It's still super janky and crap compared to all the real Miyazaki led games
@Ethan H not even a 2.5% refund you could get a burger with, it was a gift card... The duffle kerfuffle was a brutal triple gut punch for a singular frivolous purchase you were probably on the fence about. You fall victim to false advertising, receive a laughable refund you are obligated to spend in the shitty game you paid a premium for, and the final cherry on top... You are doxxed for filling out the form to receive the product you rightfully paid for... I wonder how that class action lawsuit is developing
Everyone talks about the duffle kerfuffle.
I swear Internet Historian has the most rewatchable content on this god forsaken platform
Kilian experience
@Lymbic I get that lol debating is pretty fun
@Arai ye, I'm also being slightly facetious. I have no problem with tones and sarcasm, I exhibit next to no symptoms of autism, but maybe it's just my cynicism that makes me want to argue with strangers in a KZclip comments section for the dumbest reasons lel
@Lymbic don't have to be autistic to make use of tone tags. It is usually harder for most to get meaning behind writing as compared to speech. My brother is autistic and he finds speech to be more difficult to interpret than writing, so it's an individual thing really
@Arai Maybe you're right, maybe I'm autistic.
“$5 worth of in game currency” is the Bethesda equivalent of “an extra hour in the ball pit”
Extra Hour In Ball Pit Is Amazing!
I think the pre-order players wasted over 250$ over a nylon bag and a helmet that contracted dangerous mold
@Dick Bong the event organizers didn't even own the ball pit either
@parkourbrosgaming
Things that weren’t mentioned in this video, because either Internet Historian missed them or because they happened after this video came out.
- Todd’s incredible idea to have no NPCs and acting like that was a major innovation.
- The loot-eating storage boxes.
- Thousands of helmets from the Power Armor Edition had to be recalled because they didn’t have silica pouches and, as a result, contained dangerous levels of mold in it that would cause people to get physically ill from it. Multiple Game Stops were getting, “refurbished,” helmets months after launch.
- The game went live so early, stores like Game Stop ended up having to break street date when it was supposed to be a true midnight launch.
- The Fallout 1st $100 paid-subscription to the game that was even worse and more broken than the ordinary subscription.
- During a brief period of time there was a glitch/exploit where it was actually possible to spawn in items from a completely different game.
- It’s possible to use an exploit where you can take another player’s entire inventory.
- They never unbanned the players who just played the game fairly as intended that the game was meant to be played as, who just played the game to get good gear. In fact Bethesda actually told them, “Sorry, once you’re banned, we can’t do anything about it. Looks like you’re just going to have to make a new account and start over.” There was actually a guy who paid a hacker to get his account unsuspended and get all of his stuff back because of this. Guess what? It actually worked! The guy successfully managed to get his account and all of his stuff back, thanks to him. Here’s the real kicker, though. The hacker even said that it was, “surprisingly easy”. Yeah, let that sink in.
If I’ve missed anything, feel free to reply to me, so I can expand this list.
What, did they put in the code for the BFG or something in fallout 76?
awful game by an awful dev.
@wuzz not really. The crap Providence Investments and Bethesda tried to pull with 76 is likely a key factor in the Microsoft deal. The tanked sales and class action suit almost bankrupted Bethesda.
@Matthew Hill yeah would like to hear more about this. I'm picturing doom guy in fo76
Items from other games?!??
Every few months, I come back and watch this video. Unlike the actual game.
You should give it a try again, Bethesdas picked up the pieces really well. Plus, the communities great. Good, reliable, and nice people everywhere.
@The Gamer 4 is offline which means tons and tons of mods. 76 will never have anything close to that and will likely die obscure.
I want to play fallout 4 more than 76, and 76 still sucks
I was so excited for this game, then I got hit twice with a fast-travel glitch that put my character in a limbo that even the GM's couldn't get me out of. So I went in on the class-action suit when that rolled around, got a hundred bucks out of it, and never looked back. Great video on this!
@martk fartkerson i second that opinion although getting it on game pass maybe makes me less harsh
Wow! Can you tell us more about that class action? Was it the same one featured in this video? And how did you sign up? (Did you need a receipt or just the game for example?)
@martk fartkerson It was a cool idea. I only heard about it a few months before it came out and loved 4, but waited for reviews. Thank God I didn't convince anyone to buy it. Can't believe it wasn't even made by actual Bethesda.
I held out and just started playing during the holidays to see if it was still a shit show. Not a bad game. Sucks that all of the early adopters got screwed over.
If you have watched this video and still have any hopes for Starfield, you missed the entire point. The "1000 planets" is the new "4 times the size"
@Boris kelkun lol
@Boris kelkun the meat riding is crazy
@Boris kelkun I’m looking forward to Starfield solely for the shitshow
@Boris kelkun Cope harder, not a single Bethesda game has reshaped the industry.
No joke, I’ve listened to this video at least 30x now. I don’t know why but it’s just so good, great to have playing in the background while I work
The music, the jingles sprinkled around like “bugs bugs bugs”, the small digressions where he speaks more softly so that the flow is less repetitive, the fact that the video itself is a travel down a rabbit hole, from bugs down to a lawsuit.
This video is a masterpiece
People want a sequel to this masterpiece more than they'd ever want another fallout game
Next up: The Fall Of 77 which will prob never happen.
I want a video game where you play as a alien and explore a alien planet
Another fallout game by bethesda* :/
@Rampant AI sad, true, and hilarious
Sad but true
I still sometimes find myself internally shouting “light wood laminate! light wood laminate!” and have to come back to this masterpiece of a video.
"Thank you for calling GameStop my name is Brian how can I
help you today" give this dude a medal of honor and a raise lmao
he edited that in. ive seen the original video years ago, its dead silent as the guy walks out lmfao
I've worked retail customer service for a while now, and that's a pretty regular occurrence. Maybe not to such a degree, but someone throwing a tantrum because you can't help them is. He's probably more annoyed about having to clean up after the guy than anything else
Remember, always come back here whenever Toddy starts telling us about a new project
The fact that Todd Howard hasn’t hired a personal assassin to take down Internet Historian for this video is miraculous.
“I bought a lifetime supply of toilet paper thinking it would save me money.”
If he only knew…
But then the crows got it.
@Cymes (over the horizon starts playing ominously)
Anything you buy can last you a lifetime , if you're feeling *REALLY* sad.
I don’t know why but I always end up rewatching this every so often. It’s just so well done
100%. I'm literally rewatching right now.
I watch this at least three times per year
i wish there was part 2.
He didn’t even talk about the moldy helmets 😂
Same. A masterpiece.
Fallout 3: I'm looking for my dad.
Fallout New Vegas: I'm looking for the man who shot me.
Fallout 4: I'm looking for my son.
Fallout 76: I'm looking for a refund.
Whenever I think about getting really excited for Starfield I come back to this video to get my expectations in check.
When the customer service sends back an Email saying "We aren't planning on doing anything about it." you know even Bethesda employees are done with company bullshit.
The funny funny part is that he telling it to you strait, instead of wasting your time.
He should get Todd's job, "it just works".
i think the world is ready for a follow-up video, mister historian
Entire agreed. The Rise of 76
I agree
"Oh God! Yes we have Todd!"
One of my favorite IH quotes of all time.
'Anyone who paid $200-300 for the Power Armor edition, is hereby entitled to $5 worth of in-game currency' gets me every time.
Check what the helmets sell for...
@RonMo Light Wood Laminate! Light Wood Laminate!
Worth VIRTUALLY nothing lol
@Andrew Barsky People buy Apple products. If one day the cellphones started bricking it's still 100% their fault, not the people buying into the corporate image overprize bullshit.
*Angrily Grits Teeth*
This entire saga was hysterical. Bethesda found ways to fuck up at every possible opportunity.
I come back to this video and the no man sky video a few times throughout the year. They're just so entertaining.
Me too, the cyberpunked video of big boss as well, they are funny.
Same
76 is a prime example of people showing Bethesda that they're willing to eat shit covered in sprinkles and willing to have seconds if offered a bit more sprinkles to put on the turds they're gladly eating. Point being those aren't real fans, because real fans would look at what they love and question why it's being fucked up.
Yknow, after the last 3 or so years of AAA game releases being almost exactly like this to a T (for example, Pokemon Scarlet Violet, Callisto protocol, and Security breach are the first to come to mind but I know there's more)
it's kinda crazy to realize that this was, in fact, one of the first instances of this being normalized.
Reject modernity, return to retro gaming.
Anything new on this? There's plenty of other things to talk about, too. Like the helmets were infested with mold and had to be recalled. Then they sneakily put them back onto the market at a discount. I bought one for ten bucks at my local Gamestop. It's a cool shelf piece, but it smells heavily of disinfectant on the inside.
That is absolutely fucked up lmao
The moment you realise this video has been watched more times then copies of Fallout 76 sold
*than
Thats every game
Why would people want to watch copies of Fallout 76 getting sold?
Than*
@PanHSA irony is not conicidence.
I'm glad you made this. It feels like everyone has forgotten this fiasco, but it will forever be immortalized in one of the few IH videos
I always come back to this as a comfort video, and after seeing it x amount of times, I’m still always baffled at how badly Bethesda dropped the ball on all of this rollout
This has the be the “best” worst launch for a game. Just remembered this video fondly and had to watch it again
The cloth bag thing is hilarious because they did the exact same thing with skyrim. The collectors edition was supposed to come with a "cloth map" of skyrim. It was a glossy paper map in the box.
I thought it was a one time offense to the customers. I guess that's their modus operandi
Gotta come back here every once in a while to remind myself of what perfection truly is
This is more well made than the actual game.
Thats an insult to this video, you basically said hes the smartest kid on a short bus
obviously 😂
Ahem... Weller* Maked*
nothing against the guy, but that isn't something hard to achieve
As of the time of me writing this reply, fallout 76 has sold 2.5 million copies and this video has 30M views on it. Lol
Dude completely trashes a GameStop and you just hear "Thank you for calling GameStop, this is Bryan, how can I help you?"
Man's not even angry. Respect to that guy.
lol Why would he, it's not even his property. I think that whole thing was exposed as being fake anyway iirc
The fact that they all laughed in sync at 22:47 says a lot.
Potentially.
But to play devil's advocate, it is a funny self-deprecation on a mechanical oversight.
They sell a literal glass skull with liquor in it for like 30 bucks. Can't believe they messed up so bad with the nuka rum.
i always find myself coming back to this video for some reason. it’s just so perfectly made.
Your production is second to none dude. I applaud you 👏 🙌
this video has more replay value than the entire game
@Solar Onyou then why were you here lmao
@nash0089 sure you say it's good, but the damage has already been done and the public perception stays solid. I don't think 76 has any chance at redemption right now
@Shad0wzno where am I yelling, so stop picking up your own energy and putting it at me. :V you're the one asking me why I dislike them and all I stated pretty calmly since the beginning of this pointless endeavor of FPS fanboys is " FPS are just not my cup of tea"
I don't have to explain anything to you? so establishing that fact doesn't make it victim mentality, it makes it a fact. XD
I come back to this video strictly for so how well done it is. Never ceases to not make me laugh.
I've watched this video about 50 times, and I just now noticed that almost everyone and everything in this video is Todd Howard, and it makes this video that much more beautiful.
I probably shouldn't admit this ,but I've watched this video at least 15 times. It's great.
WE NEED A PART2, considering all the stuff afterwards like the loot eating storage boxes, dangerous mold growing in the 76 helmets they sold, etc.
21:50 I remember watching this video on the very day it came out, laughing at all the things as they were unfolding.
I've watched this video dozens, if not hundreds of times through out 3 years it's on the platform...
And after 3 years, just now I've realised the meaning behind Historian's "surprised" reaction
Todd Howard blindfolded in a teletubby outfit flailing around and firing a shotgun might just be one of the most bizarre yet hilarious edits I've seen.
@scottski02 I think he says "this just works"
Lmao 😂
@Bo-dine yess!!! Glad to know I’m not the only one. I come back to watch this sometimes just to see that 5 second clip
lol
@Mister Bubbles I was about to say, that feels like a very apt depiction of Bethesda ever since 76's disastrous release.
It's insane how before Fallout 76 Bethesda was known for selling a "little" buggy games but weren't seen as complete scumbags like how they are today
God, that compilation of bugs at the beginning... So well made, pure gold right there
I remember hearing about the duffle kerfuffle at the time but I’m truly shocked at how this Bethesda PR nightmare managed to just get worse and worse and WORSE, did they have a team of 500 sociopaths on staff or something wtf
Internet Historian, I wish you well. I just wanted you to know that every video you make is a straight banger and we appreicated it a bunch.
Buying Fallout 76 is a war crime.
To be fair it is pretty impressive how they managed to cram every single thing wrong with the modern games industry into one huge clusterfuck of a release
Not easy thing to do
@Morgan Cooper Bethesda has a track record of releasing broken nightmares that barely run and graphics always were behind the standards. What makes them good are the mods and the community modders fix their mess Bethesda Bethesda can't bother
There's a little bit of disaster for everybody's taste 👍
@Dave Fish well, that and the offline games can be fan-patched, and had actual content. You couldn't do that with FO76
Behold, the newest iteration, Battlefield 2042
Rewatching this in 2022 and I still scratch my head at why anyone was excited for this game lol
@Azurelectrium exactly. The diehard fallout fans i knew had no interest in an online game let alone an mmo...this setting isnt built for it, its dull and barren, not MMO material
I mean it was online only which is a basically big fuck you to all their earlier games and the ORIGINAL games like 1 and 2 which were single player.
watching this video every month has become a weirdly comforting tradition for me
If you can count this as a video essay, I’m pretty sure it’s the most viewed one on KZclip?
This video is just a masterpiece in pacing and comedic speech. The delivery is top notch, and though the "umm.."s get weirdly annoying at the start, going further in the video they are just essential to the video now!!
11:41 the fact that he is getting the date here super on target is terrifying but also understandable (how else can you document internet history without studying it first) from what i understand its a "decent" game now
The line “Not up to the usual fallout standards” is literally art. It’s the missing comedy of aristophanes
Nice flag bruh. Constantine the 11th will rise again to retake the eastern Roman capital.
To be fair, the rum probably *wasn't* to Fallout standards, they had to make sure it was the quality of FO76.
The plastic wasn't cancer causing like the helmets. Time to redo everything again
A true Roman
a bugged art we can say :)
This video has more views than Fallout 76 sold copies, *by a factor of **_ten_*
You should do a history of the Elder scrolls mess during the making of Morrowind. It was over budget and daddy Robby Trump saved the day. Not to mention the history of the developers, including how one of the developers wrote the lore for Morrowind binged on drugs - which somehow ended up making the greatest staples of the Elder Scrolls lore. This would be fucking sublime.
This video is SO good, I come back periodically to watch it again.
This popped up in my feed, and for some reason I found it hilarious. That montàge which included the "traveling merchant" made me almost spit herbal tea..
Jesus, that launch was 4 years ago? I'm officially a boomer
Ok boomer
The rona sped it up.
I remember being so in shock at how bad this was lmao and now I have a few hundred hours on the game
*spanish accent* you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means
Time sure flies eh
I still love that the 500 atoms apology wasn’t even enough to buy the digital version of the bag
just short.
@The Freddy Fazter WOOD LIGHT LAMINATE WOOD LIGHT LAMINATE WOOD LIGHT LAMINATE WOOD LIGHT LAMINATE
"sixteen times less the atoms"
@Bungalow Feuhler not people, though. They're gamers.
I have never played this game until a couple of weeks ago, but I still love the way he presents this story which has no repercussion on the world but is just hilariously made,
the only good thing i will say is that the community is so wholesome in my experience
I'm watching this every year and it never got bored.
I watch this documentary every once in awhile and the deep fried Todd with laser vision at 5:55 always makes me laugh
Everything that could go wrong, went wrong and then went wrong again.
Bethesda should write an essay about how important it is to actually launch finished games.
@Simon Hansen Starfield, prepare the popcorn or your respect. We waiting...
They'd just pay a PR team minimum wage to write it for them.
CD Project Red:
- Hold my beer
@Andrew Amann roasted
@chris b /thread 😂
I guess it’s about that time…. Yearly rewatch of all of historian’s main channel videos…. Light wood laminate LIGHT WOOD LAMINATE!
4 years from Fallout 76 and this video is still one of the best of YT. Sadly, I still love Todd 16 times more than when I met Skyrim...
Imagine the speedruns for this game.
I love how in the early bug section he just slipped in "An all consuming Void" and completely glossed over it
I come back to watch this atleast once every 3 months, it’s just so well made
I love the "shortage of material" excuse for the bags. It's literally one of the earliest fabrics ever invented and is so common and cheap that it's the go-to for practicing sewing patterns and then throwing out. It's woven cotton for god's sake
Everyone is using that excuse, on everything nowadays.
@TheFunnyMan yeah exactly, like imagine if they just said "you'd get a free bag" instead of saying what material it is, none of this would've happened, they got what they advertised, but nah, put canvas in there.
Exactly, I could go to an art store and suddenly be surrounded by this "rare" material
Well they lied so much what’s another?
Yeah, this isn't a Minecraft/Terraria situation where I gotta go farm some more canvas before I can make a bag.
Finally playing this with a friend, we're both level 12, and haven't found much missions to do, still super laggy from time to time but having fun walking around and exploring and killing things but I havent found many missions.
And WAAAAAAYYYYY too many microtransactions, I dont mind cool cosmetics to buy but my God there's some essential stuff that is just part of the past fallout games, there's literally a micro traction for anytime in the game
This is the most complete game-related documentary that I have ever seen. Applause.
Loved that "Enemy AI is far more A than I"
Dang. I never know any of this about this game. Meanwhile in those years 2018 2019 I was just playing breath of the wild. Impeccable game!
I'd love a part 2 on this
"We aren't planning on doing anything about it"
gotta give them some respect for having the balls to send people an email like this
That made me respect them way less than I already did. What an awful company.
@David Bodor agree to disagree
@Tavion Taylor nah man, I did the most soul-crushing work for Ryanair customer service for 2 years, it doesn't matter, copy pasting the same shit is the easiest work you can have it doesn't matter if there's a lot of it. The hardest stuff is when there's a lot of work and everyone is asking about different things, cuz then you have to actually think about what you do, rather than just copy paste.
@David Bodor yeah now imagine having to do this so many times to the point it doesn’t even matter aka reached your limit. Like this was controversy after controversy after controversy these people were not getting a break with all the stuff going on I’m not saying they were in the right for sending that email but it’s pretty understandable.
@Tavion Taylor Usually that's when you write a really nice e-mail and copy paste it to people.
Excellent video; on point, entertaining, witty, and hilarious!
The internet historian is a gem of a channel
It's been 3 years, I've seen this video about 10 times now, I never even bought the game and still... everytime I watch this I get so fricking angry at Bethesda.
I’ve watched this videos like a dozen times now and it still doesn’t get old
I only started playing this game about a year ago, and I really enjoyed my time with it. By that time it wasn’t any more buggy than any other Bethesda game, and there was plenty to do. Was it the sequel I wanted to Fallout 4? No. But it was nonetheless really fun to me. There’s a lot of exceptional storytelling and lore-building. Give it a try! The game’s very much not the same game it was at launch; you might be surprised :)
The Fallout 76 mess was insane. Didn't even mention the thousands of Power Armor Edition helmets that had to be recalled due to containing dangerous levels of mold.
the immersion to the world of fallout is only a plus
Hahhhhaaahah my cousin worked at GameStop, the only USA vendor for the helmets, and it's even funnier.
There were 20,000 helmets made by some cheap collectible company. However...only 32 were ever sold. 32/20,000. GameStop was able to successfully contact every customer 🤣
But Bethesda really thought "oh the gamers will just eat this crap up"
no fucking way, even to this day i find new things
@Burstein von Knackerthrasher You gotta love people sometimes....
I still come back to this every few months. This will go down in history as one of the videos of all time.
As a beta player, during the beginning,
The beta was more stable then the actual release
As someone else in the comments mused (considering the rum), perhaps they had to bring the stuff to "usual Fallout standards", that is, make it shittier.
3 years later and I still randomly chant "light wood laminate" to my bf
I genuinely enjoyed the sponsorship and laughed at it please keep it up
10:52 If this is real, then wow. I feel SO bad for those GameStop employees. I've been in a similar situation as them. Dude had no right to do that at all. Those people are not to blame, and he just pretty much ruined their day at least, especially those who had to stop what they were doing and spend all day cleaning all that shit up. Just... wow.
76 and 77 have to be the most cursed numbers in gaming history.
Also Security Breach
@umm • • • the worst game ever made. Cyberpunk 2077 was made by inexperienced amateurs and scammers
Yes. Cyberpunk was made by inexperienced amateurs and scammers
Stop trying to defend Cybertrash. The game was a complete and total distaster. So many people expected the game to put all other RPG titles to shame, to be the true "next-gen" experience, made by the "reputable" company CDPR. That might have been true, if the game released on the fucking dreamcast. CDPR lied to the consumers, refused to allow reviewers to show their own footage, literally BRIBED said reviewers to give the game a perfect score, and after all the backlash from such a disgraceful launch of a game so unfinished and buggy it might as well have been in alpha stage, they uploaded a half-assed apology video to youtube where some condescending jackass just went in circles for five minutes about how it was the consumer's fault that the game failed.
Cyberpunk and CDPR deserve no mercy for the shit they pulled, and we as gamers need to remember the past or else it can and will repeat itself.
@Neal Fowler wait, what happened??
“No Man’s Sky was a surprising comeback so maybe Bethesda can do it too.”
…Spoilers, they didn’t.
I wish IH would make more video game videos. Hes the hero we need, but dont deserve..