When Fallout 4 Fooled the World

The fact that the guy behind it did a Reddit AMA and IMMEDIATELY received the flair "Villain of the Wastes -9999 points" has me on the goddamn floor, good lord

Bethesdas marketing team had some guy do their job for free

My favorite part of the survivor 2299 story is a very real fallout 4 leak happened right after and everyone just ignored it because of how burned out they were

Imagine how to creator of survivor 99 felt when fallout four came out with the main character being the soul Survivor set in Boston with one of the main fractions being the Institute. I mean, the man called it.

The real Fallout were the enemies made along the way.

BUT HOW DID IT GUESS THE DETAILS OF THE GAME DOWN TO A TEE

If you missed the survivor 99, there are no words I can use to explain how crushed everybody was at the time.

This is funny cause if you call the vault tech number from the show you get screaming then a text saying they get back to you in about 33 weeks

i mean the MIT guy was right so

Optimus Prime: "Elder Falls, Scroll Out."

Today is the day I found out the first ever Bethesda game I played was Ducati Moto. I always thought it was fallout 4

Boston in fallout 4 is less violent than Boston now.

Fallout community: give us fallout! Bethesda: releases Fallout 4 Fallout community: could you stop?!

For those curious about how the leaker managed to accurately predict so many details, around that time the community largely already suspected that Fallout 4 would be set in Boston and involve the Institute. This conclusion stemmed from hints in Fallout 3 suggesting Boston as a potential location, alongside reports of Bethesda employees seen in the Boston area for research purposes, similar to their activities in Washington D.C. before the release of Fallout 3. Bethesda has a tendency to drop hints about the setting or storyline of their next game in their previous releases. If I were a betting man Fallout 5 will take place in San Francisco, I mean it’s pretty obvious you go into Kellogs memory and see that he is from SF, we also see the Hubologist make a return in Nuka world who are from SF, and supposedly Bethesda told Obsidian to not mention SF in New Vegas as well as the writers of the TV show were told to not mention SF either.

The amount of info the guy guessed alongside the Cease and Desist order makes me believe he was either an employee or got some genuine info leak from one Wonder if they'll do something like this for Fallout 5, tho i don't believe i'll live till it's announcement in the year 2369

The fact the hoaxer actually got Boston and The Insistute right is alone impressive

“What’s on December 11th?” My birthday? I can’t believe my 10th birthday was that popular.

Imagine driving down the road in 2013 and your radio bugs out and accidently tunes in to this 16:12

Survivor 2299 successfully conducted a enormous hype train with every fallout fan as a passenger, then derailed it at the Tunnel Snakes junction, killing us all Also, your content is continually great Mr Cheesecake

That last comment about how Bethesda uses the same engine is insane but very accurate I played Starfield and it felt like Skyrim mixed with Fallout and Space.