Fallout 3has been available for nearly 14 years, yet it and its spin-offFallout: New Vegasremain two of the franchise’s most beloved games. With so much time passing sinceFallout 3’s release, it’s perhaps no surprise that it has been pored over by players. AllFallout 3’s secrets have been laid bare, including an incredible amount of the action RPG’s cut content. One content creator is doing what they can to catalog this cut content, with their latest video focusing onFallout 3’s main storyline.
In a series dubbed “Fallout 3: The Cutting Room Floor,” YouTube channel TriangleCity is going through different aspects of the game detailing interestingcut content fromFallout 3. PreviousFallout 3videos from the content creator include “GURPS in Fallout 3?!,” “Fallout 3 Cut Weapons,” and “More Fallout 3 Cut Content.” Their latest video is perhaps TriangleCity’s most interesting entry in the series yet, as it’s an hour-long delve into cut content fromFallout 3’s main storyline broken into several different key sections.
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The first key area of the game that saw massive reworking is the opening sequence, starting with theFallout 3player’s birthday party. The video details further details regarding the player’s father, different paths toescape the Vault, and rebooting several generators in order to open the Vault door. TriangleCity theorizes that this entire chapter was streamlined and changed to focus on a faster-paced, action-focused experience.
Other areas of focus in the video include Rivet City, Vault 112’s Tranquility Lane, the fate of the player’s father, The Citadel, Little Lamplight, Vault 87, Oasis,Liberty Prime, Project Impurity, the Pipboy, andFallout 3’s endings. Suffice to say, Bethesda cut a lot of different story elements from the main quest line, including some things that could have dramatically changed the experience, for better or worse.
It’s not necessarily a surprise that a game likeFallout 3has such a massive amount of cut content; it’s a huge game, after all. Sometimes, plans change and large amounts of content has to be cut for time or because there are new limitations thatBethesdawasn’t aware of yet. Often, though, content is simply refined to tell a better story.
What’s also important to remember is thatFallout 3was Bethesda’s first time taking theFalloutfranchise into third-person. It likely learned a lot of lessons in the process. Those lessons were taken into the development ofFallout 4and will likely be carried into the development ofFallout 5in the future.
Fallout 3is available on PC, PS3, and Xbox 360.
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