Phil explains like 4 different perks his fans suggested and decides on Expert Lockpicking, a perk exactly no one suggested. Interactive streamer.
He changed the Pip-Boy color yet again, now it’s light blue.
Phil picks the persuade option every time despite knowing he has 1 Charisma. It would make sense if he was doing it to laugh at NPCs’ reactions when he fails it, but it seems like he’s so used to picking these options that he does it by reflex.
He is calling the Brotherhood “morahns” because he can take all their supplies, Paladin Danse just said you were working for them now so obviously they want you to be geared up.
“With my build I’m gonna need every stat boost possible cause it’s gonna be rough going otherwise.”
I’m always tickled by how Phil thinks that because he makes a bad version of a build and then doesn’t play it properly anyway, the build itself is bad. Just like his most recent New Vegas run, where he whined that the explosives build sucked because he kept blowing himself up using them at point-blank range.
“These are just laaahgs? I don’t care about these. I just wanted the experience points.”
He found a box of bobby pins and he’s more excited about that than anything he has found in the past 5 hours.
“I’m not listening to a word [Danse] is saying.”
“I have no clue where we’re going, by the way.”
If you’re very clever, oh my brothers, you can connect these last 2 statements.
He keeps acking about how he’s not listening to Danse. I honestly don’t get what people like Phil get out of games like Fallout. If you aren’t playing it for the story, characters, and setting, what exactly ARE you playing it for? The realistic character models? The seamless, elegant combat? The knuckle-biting challenge?
He’s mad because Danse keeps killing the enemies before he does. Stop running off into other rooms to loot and maybe you can kill something, Phil.
Phil and one of his idiots think crafted chems are better than found chems, they aren’t.
“What is Danse doing, I’m not paying any attention.”
Phil is lost in Arcjet Systems, he doesn’t know where Danse is.
Phil failed another terminal.
Phil failed the terminal again.
“Hacking’s gonna be the hard part because I’m a dunce.”
“I don’t even care, I just wanted the experience.”
Yeah those 10XP are really worth the 5 minutes of struggling with the Novice hacking puzzle.
Phil has failed hacking the mission terminal, which is even easier than a regular Novice terminal.
The game had mercy on him this time and let him remove 5 wrong words with the “shortcuts” (as he calls them), and he still failed it. “Soap” had 0 correct letters and he picked “seek”, which also had 0 correct letters, and he picked “them”. (The correct answer was “with”, if anyone cares.)
“No, this is a Novice-level terminal, but I’m an idiot. Because I’m a complete idiot, I can’t do these easily at all.”
My god, he took 3 guesses, got his tries reset to 4, removed FIVE wrong words, and still failed...I’m in awe, seriously.
“I took like no damage. I don’t think they hit me once.”
When you just run around while Danse kills them all, yeah, that would happen.
“The reward for liking the stream? How about the streams doing well? Does everything in life to you have to be like a piece of candy given to a child every time you see them? Life’s not like that, just so you know, there’s not just instant reward and gratification.”
Imagine that, whining that you aren’t rewarded for something you’ve done, that there’s no point to doing it other than that it’s fun and you like it? Some people should really learn that lesson. Some people on this very stream….
“I’m not using laser weapons, you buffoon.”
How is Paladin Danse supposed to know that?
“Righteous Authority, critical shots do double damage and the critical meter fills 15% faster. I don’t care.”
Yeah, Phil, don’t use one of the most powerful early-stage weapons in the game as a back-up for when you can’t or don’t want to get up in something’s face. It’s not an exact match for your build so fuck it, it’s worthless and the NPC is dumb for not knowing that.
Danse responds to Phil’s asshole-ishness about the reward with, “You should learn to be a bit more thankful about what you receive.” Phil acks at him even harder.
“And big rewards of experience, which was the whole point of me doing that.”
“Why’s it so white? What the fuck is going on?”
It’s fog, Phil.
It probably doesn’t need to be said, he has no strategy at all. Phil see super mutant, Phil run up to super mutant, Phil mash attack button. And also chug “healing items” like a crackhead because he’s bad at games.
“One correct, so it ends in ‘y’. It can’t end in ‘y’ cause none of the other words end in ‘y’. So that’s wrong, I did something wrong with my logic there.”
He’s singing “Mmm Bop” interchangeably with that Carmen San Diego song because God hates me.
He got attacked by 2 turrets that he couldn’t reach with melee and had to shoot them with a gun. Too bad nobody gave him a good weapon for just such a situation.
“Restricted to the lobby, yeah, okay.”
My guy you’re in the lobby, what the fuck are you talking about.
“My chat is consistently unwelcoming?”
Bruh if that’s news to you I don’t know what to tell you.
“Am I gonna have to read the lahgs to figure this puzzle out? Man, I am, aren’t I?”
“‘Gates and gloves only have a ‘g’ in common, so it has to start with a ‘g’.”
Aaaaand we’ve learned nothing.
“Wow there’s like nothing to help.”
Nobody tell him I beat this and other Fallout games multiple times without even knowing it was possible to remove wrong words and reset tries, I just solved the damn hacking puzzle.
“One correct in 'homes', so it’s gotta be the ‘s’ at the end.”
We've now abandoned that it has to start with 'g', yet it's by the exact same logic that it has to end in 's'.
“It ends with ‘s’. ‘Raids’, zero correct. It does not end with ‘s’. ‘Turns’, only 1 correct. This is ridiculous.”
No, you did not read that wrong. He said out loud “it does not end with s” and immediately chose “turns”.
He has failed this terminal a second time.
Someone asks, "Would you rather prefer [sic] Fallout 5 explore a brand new area or explore the LA area from the TV show?" "Uhhhhhhh…I mean I feel like it would still be a new area if it was the LA area from the TV show…we haven’t been there yet in a game, right?”
Okay…that wasn’t the question? Is he genuinely this dumb, or is it just Fence-Sitter Phil raising his Oddly-Shaped Head? He’s the worst goddamn streamer. How hard is it just answer the guy's question about your preference? Here, watch this: “It should be set in a new area, because Fallout media have always done that. I’d like to see them go outside US, say the Seattle-Vancouver area, or even London. That could shake up the series a bit so that it’s not the same old factions and creatures.” Even if you disagree, isn’t that a more interesting answer? Something that could, I dunno, generate discussion in chat?
Oh my brothers, try something with me. Let’s say you’ve never played a Fallout game before. You’ve learned that there’s a skill to open locks and a skill to hack terminals. You see a safe and a terminal next to each other. You lockpick the safe, then you hack the terminal and see that the terminal also opens the safe. How many more times would this need to happen for you to see the pattern here? Because Phil has lockpicked like 4 safes and then hacked the terminals next to them, saw that they open the safes, and declared having hacked them “a waste”.
And that’s not even mentioning that New Vegas also did this, which he just played in 2021. (Don’t remember if it also happens in Fallout 3, it’s been a good while since I played that one.)
Phil is trying to get into a room while a hole in its ceiling, he sees a hole in the ceiling of the room he’s in and is trying to stack objects to let him jump up there, it’s not going well.
“This is definitely the way you’re supposed to do it.”
No it isn’t.
Now he’s complaining that he “wasted so many chems” fighting super mutants. Why is it a waste to use power-ups to win fights? Especially when you said your build is partly based on chems?
“There’s two of them standing on top of each other?”
no
Someone asks Phil why he doesn’t just hotkey the stimpak instead of having to open the Pip-Boy (which pauses the game), scroll over to Items, scroll over to Aid, scroll down through like 30 items one by one to highlight the stimpak, and press the button to use the stimpak. Phil says his way means the stimpak takes effect immediately while with the hotkey there's an animation before it starts working. Leave it to Phil to do what’s easier for him rather than what would make his stream less boring.
On top of that, he’s wrong, you get the animation either way. Also, I don’t think he’s noticed that stimpaks heal over time in Fallout 4.
Phil has hotkeyed an improved 10mm pistol over the standard one he got at the beginning of the game. I thought you didn’t care about ranged weapons and Paladin Danse was stupid to give you a really good one?
He’s again complaining that he’s on a rooftop and there’s no point to it.
Phil opened the menu to manually select the gun he himself hotkeyed like 10 minutes ago.
Still hilarious watching him lockpick, he’s broken a bobby pin IMMEDIATELY on like the last 9 locks.
He’s getting wrecked by basic raiders again. He’s not dying because Normal, but…I just can’t adequately explain how bad he’s playing. He stands around going “Whoa, a turret” while Dogmeat gets blown up by TWO turrets (he doesn’t see the other because blind) and makes no attempt to time his shots in between the turret’s bursts, just stands in front of it blasting away while it blasts him. Fortunately for him he can level up (which put him back at 100% health) and the turret can’t.
Everybody’s got things they hate about Phil, and I probably can’t pick a single pet peeve, but right now I loathe the way he goes “Unh…unh…UNH YEEEEEAH!” as he beats to death a single basic enemy on Normal difficulty. Bruh, why the flex? What are you so proud of?
And this is only tangentially related, but personally, I think the standard should be Normal difficulty is you have to actually learn and use the core mechanics to complete the game. Again, I’m an average gamer at best, so I’m hardly one to say you have to git gud to finish an RPG. But imo that’s what Easy difficulty is for, Normal should require a functioning brain. Basically Easy: You can just unga bunga through; Normal: You have to kinda get what’s going on and at least master the basics of how to play (e.g. if it’s a cover shooter, you like, take cover). Hard: You have to know most of the ins and outs of how to play to make it through, and even then you fail/die every now and then. (Levels above Hard can be for the god gamers.)
“Super mutants. I’m not gonna go over there and fight them, there’s too many.”
Speaking of avoiding combat, he is running away from the super mutants.
“Are you guys aware that you got a bunch of dickhead super mutants right down the street?”
Yeah, Phil, they are, that’s why the Diamond City guards you saw fighting them...were fighting them.
Mouses over an NPC, the cursor labels him Mayor McDonough. “Tuhuh, he’s the mayor.”
Masterful commentary.
“I’m not gonna even bother with the persuasion anymore because it never works.”
Okay, I was wrong before, Phil was in fact intentionally choosing to persuade with 1 Charisma.
He is now selling all the crafting components he’s accidentally picked up. Again, hope he’s not planning to craft later.
Phil wants chat to tell him where the bobbleheads and magazines are so he doesn’t have to look for them.
Chat told him where a magazine was, Phil was displeased to find it was another minigame.
Mass Effect superfan Phil doesn’t recognize Garrus’s voice.
Phil thinks this run is more fun than his previous run because this time he’s not using a guide and is doing it all on his own.
Vadim floats the idea of killing Travis the radio DJ, and Phil picks (shocker) the noncommittal answer. Piper dislikes that, which earns her being called a “stoopid idiot” by Phil. Then Vadim says he was joking and Phil asks, “Wow, what if someone heard that and took it serious?” I guess they’d be a stoopid idiot, then.
Phil still thinks the chems he crafts are better, they still aren’t.
He looks for a cooking station. “Can I make anything?”
You haven’t picked up any ingredients, so no.
“Oh my gawd, did you see my health?”
A missile exploded right next to you.
Guys, this game isn’t part of RPG overload because the RPG overload was slow JRPGs like Baldur’s Gate 3(??) and Final Fantasy VII and this game is Western and it’s pertinent because there’s a show and because he hasn’t played it in 9 years.
Phil found a magazine to boost his energy weapons but he’s not using those so “thanks for nothing”.
“I’m gonna end up running out of healing items at this rate.”
“Am I not collecting items for crafting? If I level up crafting eventually, then maybe it makes sense.”
“There’s nothing in there. Aw man, it’s terrible. So there’s really nothing here. This whole place is just a bust.”
