History TearJerker / Fallout

*** Even worse: What if the kid were still in school? Notice how all the pre-war clocks seem frozen at late morning/early afternoon? The parents probably had a relative or a friend quickly drive to the school to pick the kid up so they could all die together. Obviously, the kid and the relative/friend didn't make it...

*** Even worse: What if the kid were still in school? Notice how all the pre-war clocks seem frozen at late-morning or early-afternoon? The parents probably had a relative or a friend quickly drive to the school to pick the kid up so they could all die together. Obviously, the kid and the relative/friend didn't make it.

** The log entries of the nurse in Germantown. Even up to the very end, running out of medication and dying of acute radiation exposure, she and her colleagues still went out every day and did everything they could for their patients, even if all they could offer was whiskey and painkillers. Her last log details her dismay that she couldn't have been the last to die, as she knew there were still people out there that needed care. [[{{Prioris}} This troper]] found herself experiencing two emotions at once: intense professional pride and intense heartache.

*** Its was "I think it's time for us to say goodbye, old buddy. Take care of yourself, okay?". This trooper shed some ManlyTears.

* I talked President Eden into destroying the Enclave at Raven Rock. My radio was off, and as I was fleeing the base and watching the security robots vaporize the Enclave soldiers, the background music turned into something that sounded like [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn_iz8z2AGw Taps]] played. I didn't bat an eyelash at anything else in the game, but this ''broke me.'' I kept wondering if those people under the armor were just [[PunchClockVillian Punch Clock Villains]].

* I talked President Eden into destroying the Enclave at Raven Rock. My radio was off, and as I was fleeing the base and watching the security robots vaporize the Enclave soldiers, the background music turned into something that sounded like [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn_iz8z2AGw Taps]] played. I didn't bat an eyelash at anything else in the game, but this ''broke me.'' I kept wondering if those people under the armor were just [[PunchCloakVillian PunchClockVillains]].

* I talked President Eden into destroying the Enclave at Raven Rock. My radio was off, and as I was fleeing the base and watching the security robots vaporize the Enclave soldiers, the background music turned into something that sounded like [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn_iz8z2AGw Taps]] played. I didn't bat an eyelash at anything else in the game, but this ''broke me.'' I kept wondering if those people under the armor were just [[PunchClockVillains.

* I talked President Eden into destroying the Enclave at Raven Rock. My radio was off, and as I was fleeing the base and watching the security robots vaporize the Enclave soldiers, the background music turned into something that sounded like [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn_iz8z2AGw Taps]] played. I didn't bat an eyelash at anything else in the game, but this ''broke me.'' I kept wondering if those people under the armor were just PunchClockVillains.

* Carol witnessed the destruction of... well, everything as a young girl, and still clearly remembers her father's death in the blast even after more than two centuries. Her transformation into a ghoul, the loss of those she knew both before and after that, her 'son' Gob disappearing, and over two hundred years in the ''[[CrapsackWorld Wasteland]]''-- How has this poor woman not lost her mind?! Yet she's still a sweet, motherly person who welcomes the character despite his/her being a 'smoothskin'; this troper hadn't had much sympathy for ghouls until then, possibly due to having killed so many ferals and dealing with [[JerkAss Roy]], but talking to Carol changed her opinion.

*** In that same house is a second, smaller room next to the above, filled with darts and baseball gear, colorful posters on the wall. This Troper was rummaging for lootable goods and "Damn, just junk" when she went into first-person to make sure she hadn't missed anything. Then she noticed the pair of rollerskates left by the bed, and it hit her: This was a ''kid's'' room. So the skeletons next door were his parents. But there was no child-sized skeleton nearby, so one can only assume the child died before his parents, who buried him and then decided to take their own lives.

* Arkansas, of Minefield. An old man still patrolling the settlement of his youth, which was wiped clean of life when slavers captured or murdered everyone save Arkansas, including his family. Now he's dedicated to killing anyone who tries to despoil the ghost-town that's left, and you can't even help him if you try; too many years in the Wasteland make him regard everyone as an enemy. He's just gonna keep his post on that tower until he dies, or someone kills him, or [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential you sell him into slavery]]. It just seems so... heartbreakingly lonely.

* Wandering through the [[RealIsBrown dead and barren]] wastedland and having America The Beautiful come on the radio squashed this British troper like a bug.

** ThisTroper doesn't have a good relationship with her (RealLife) father. So at first the scenes playing through the tutorial levels with James were only 'meh.' Then about five minutes after getting kicked out of the Vault, I realized that I had a recording of my father leaving the vault. I turned it on...and ''cracked.'' LiamNielson, why the hell did you have to be such a good voice actor? The desperation in his voice saying "Goodbye...I love you!" feels so real, like a man desperately hoping his child will forgive him (although believing the child won't) for abandoning her. At that point I really ''did'' want to find him. Then after reaching Vault 112, I played straight through up until reaching the last part of the Jefferson Memorial...and had to stop. I knew what was going to happen. I knew that if I went through that door [[spoiler: James would die.]] I couldn't do it. I knew I would burst into tears. I saved and could only come back to it after a few days so I could finish the quest with a more prepared steeled heart.

**** The alternative interpretation, one that is perhaps supported by previous characterisation, is that Three Dog is an exploitative, insensitive asshat that does little but loop a broadcast tape and occasionally add in extra sections when something major happens. He told you he knew where your father is and when he had what he wanted from you he gave you information he knew was out of date. Moira is a case of YMMV, but to many she was one of the few rays of hope in a long slog. I fully incourage people who hear the message deriding the guide (which made it into New Vegas as a very effective skill book.) to go murder 3 dog for Moira, I'm sure she could use the corpse for the raider interior design.