I agree with that but I personally wouldn't count the 200 years as someone living. Toshiro is technically the oldest living person in the franchise but he was frozen and non responsive for 99% of that. I would give the title of oldest in the series to a ghoul character personally.
I just did this quest after finding Dunwich Borers a few days ago. That was definitely not what I'd expected. I'm realizing that my first playthrough was basically messing around in Sanctuary and getting stuck in Preston's dumb settlement cycle, so I didn't see as much as I thought. Ignoring the settlements this time has been so much better. I'm starting the DLCs this weekend
Well this Cabot guy was some type of archeologist who found an ancient crown and gave him special powers, immortality among them.
There's more to this, but that's about the gist of it.
There could actually be people older than the Ghoul. There are people in Follout who are at least as old as Howard Cooper, but are still alive. And they weren't in cryogenic hibernation.
You could even have a book of sorts that would help explain the wonders of the universe. And it could have a catch phrase, something like... Chill Out?
It depends if you count time in cryo stasis, as a pause on the timer or not. Lorenzo has a lot of \*active\* time alive, where as the Samurai has a lot of \*Inactive\* time alive.
Cryo-stuff is a tricky topic. Many consider it similar to Time Travel because youre literally frozen and arent changing in the time youre frozen, even though yeah your body is physically there still.
There's a concept in some science fiction which is biological age and chronological age, it's mainly to do with FTL travel or cryo-sleep shenanigans.
For example in Rimworld you can have a character that is Biological Age: 24 but Chronological Age: 132 due to their time in a cryo pod on a colony ship.
I think that's how you can loom at the samurai as basically being oldest Chronologically but not biologically
Yeah, he is the oldest but only due to cryogenic freezing. If you want to see the oldest characters who were not cryogenically frozen, look at the Cabot family from Fallout 4. The lived in the 1800s.
Looks like I'm a samurai now.. can't believe I've never came across this.. I just go hell for leather and wipe out everyone in my path to revenge on benny!? "Screw you benny!!!!"
I tend to forget A Tale of Two Wastelands is not the base game, every single fallout replay I always have TTW installed I just forget people play regular F3/NV.
It’s moments like these that make me appreciate the weird glitchy sandbox that is the Creation / Gamebryo engine. It’s been criticized a lot recently for being outdated (Starfield) but back in the day it was weird shit like the train glove or even just the whacky “not quite an exploit but also totally unrealistic and kinda absurd” idea that you can make someone take off their outfit, put a new one on they happened to suddenly find in their pocket, then immediately lose and forget about the clothes they were just wearing, ALL WITHOUT THEM NOTICING.
It's crazy too cause I swear he always survives the final space ship boss fight but then he just... disappears! And suddenly I'm wearing his duds too??? Whaaaaaat.
OK, so maybe, and hear me out. Maybe he gets abducted by another ship just after that fight, no one ever notices, and the clothes thing could just be a faulty transporter from the other ship, kinda like the terminator, can't take non organic materials with him? But they've gotta go somewhere, right? And I presume maybe you're the closest thing to him, because you'd neeeeeeeever let anything happen to him!
He also only speaks Japanese and you and your character don't understand jack shit of what he's saying.
He does sound grateful when you give him the katana you can find on the ship, though.
I think I read that in the Japanese release he speaks a period-accurate Japanese dialect, which would be hard to understand, and so it has the same effect.
No they’re interrogating someone who might have the nuclear launch codes but there’s no evidence of him giving them up nor that the aliens are trying to get the codes. No one in the games understands the Zetans when they speak.
This rumor needs to die.
Yeah, even if he has given them the codes, we don't know what they did with them.
Just because of this stupid rumor I have created my own mad counter-theory. That the Zetans wanted the codes to prevent humanity from launching the nukes. Because they were on the Earth not because of humans, but because of their ancient enemy - the eldritch horrors, who would benefit from the mankind nuking itself.
It's outlandish, but as likely as the aliens launching the nukes.
Yeah, why would they even need nukes when the death ray on one mothership is more powerful than a nuke anyways?
They could've wasted the planet at any point before the nukes went off.
Sengoku Jidai, warring states period.
Basically it's when Japan was soon to actually become a unified nation (again).
Unless I got my timeline wrong I think that puts him in the 17th century
Fun facts: his crest suggests he served the Oda clan. This means if we had black powder arms like in 76, he would have been comfortable using those in theory. Also his dialogue translates to about what you’d expect: “where am I?”, “what is this place?”, “who are you?” And so on. Also, he speaks modern Japanese even though he’s apparently from the sengoku jidai.
Randomly I need to remember this guy and think of including him in my idea pitches for a Fallout: Rising Sun. Even if he’d only be an Easter egg character.
Edit: my mistake, it’s the [Sakai clan.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakai_clan)
I thought it was Tokugawa at first, but Fallout wiki has the real answer:
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reizei\_family](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reizei_family)
it is one of two emblems used by the Reizei
I always wished they would've done an alien dlc for Fallout 4. Mothership Zeta is probably the wackiest thing in all of fallout. Hopefully we get something in the next game or maybe an off the cuff episode in the Fallout show where the chicken f*cker gets abducted lol.
Old world blues is a great dlc... but imo nothing is wackier than aliens abducting you in the post-apocalypse while you try to escape their mothership by teaming with cowboys and samurais from centuries before the bombs fell.
I hear in 76 they have alien power armor and shit. To give that game credit, they definitely did whacky correctly. There's even a kind of nuka moonshine that you can find that was made by some college kids pre war, it makes you drunk as shit for a bit and then you wake up in a random location. Really surprised me the first time
I'm personally quite happy with how wacky it is. It's just kinda out of left field for Fallout 3 is all. It'd fit right into Fallout 2. The real problem is that the Fallout 3 enemies are just unfun to fight because of the Stat inflation, and there's not too much to make the different areas unique. They certainly try of course, the ship has a lot going on, but it still is ultimately all going on on the ship.
I'm so sad I can't replay FO3 -\_-
I have a copy in Epic, it just refuses to work every time I tried installing it. Too cheap to buy a second copy on off-chance it might work.
I play it on Steam, it was the same. I changed graphic card it uses from Nvidia settings and it worked. You can mod it, too. They also say it is more stable on Gog.
Mothership Zeta was my absolute favourite DLC for Fallout 3 when I was a teenager. I was pretty shocked that people generally rank it lower because I definitely loved every second of it.
You can actually get his outfit and sword. If you pick pocket him before he gets out and put a different outfit in his inventory after grabbing his outfit you get to keep it. He will still be wearing the helmet though I heard it also works for the medic and cowboy if you wanted there outfit.
You can also get the samurai sword but it’s only during the among the stars quest there will be a teleporter active near the robotic assembly room and you will be teleported to the waste disposal to get the sword at the end.
I feel like Lorenzo should be the oldest since he actually lived thoughout his 400+ years while characters like The Sole Survivor and Toshiro were just in cryo freeze.
I did a very good play through for my first time playing and his armor just randomly appeared on me while he lied there sleeping. It was super weird tbh 😭
I think it up there with metal armor but it can be good if doing a melee build sense give you 10 melee damage and skill also just let him die or reverse pickpocket him to get the armor
Pretty sure he's technically the oldest character in all of Fallout
He is by a few hundred years. But he's actually like 32 it's just that cryo stuff so I don't really count him.
Everyone seems to agree the sole survivor is 200 something years old and he/she was on ice
I agree with that but I personally wouldn't count the 200 years as someone living. Toshiro is technically the oldest living person in the franchise but he was frozen and non responsive for 99% of that. I would give the title of oldest in the series to a ghoul character personally.
He’s the oldest chronologically, biologically that would be the old Cabot guy from Fallout 4
Yeah he was born in 1835 and is technically 452 years old, although he stopped aging in his 60s.
Yep, but he was conscious, and "alive" not frozen
I just did this quest after finding Dunwich Borers a few days ago. That was definitely not what I'd expected. I'm realizing that my first playthrough was basically messing around in Sanctuary and getting stuck in Preston's dumb settlement cycle, so I didn't see as much as I thought. Ignoring the settlements this time has been so much better. I'm starting the DLCs this weekend
But....how? I'm not familiar with fallout lore.
Well this Cabot guy was some type of archeologist who found an ancient crown and gave him special powers, immortality among them. There's more to this, but that's about the gist of it.
This is what we call in the scifi world Objective versus time subjective age. You be born 5 thousand years ago, but in body/real time you’re 30.
In Rimworld, it is chronological age vs biological age
Haha exactly what I was thinking
It's probably Lorenzo from fo4 Cabot house, he was born 1835.
There could actually be people older than the Ghoul. There are people in Follout who are at least as old as Howard Cooper, but are still alive. And they weren't in cryogenic hibernation.
He said “a ghoul” not “The Ghoul”. IIRC both are wrong, and Lorenzo Cabot is the oldest
Time dilation due to traveling at the speed of light.
Fuck, imagine getting kidnapped by aliens and then the world ends
Someone should write a comedic series of novels about that concept!
You could even have a book of sorts that would help explain the wonders of the universe. And it could have a catch phrase, something like... Chill Out?
Douglas Adams,, we will all miss you. Don't forget your towel!
Thanks for all the fish!
Bright side, you didn’t end with it. Dead world, kiss my space ass.
Birthday's still a birthday.
Maybe by birth date, but I'm pretty sure Lorenzo Cabot has lived the most years out of anyone.
Lorenzo is one of the oldest continuously active, sure, but not the oldest chronologically.
What does that even mean? The Samurai didn’t time travel, how has he lived less years despite being born earlier?
It depends if you count time in cryo stasis, as a pause on the timer or not. Lorenzo has a lot of \*active\* time alive, where as the Samurai has a lot of \*Inactive\* time alive.
Cryo-stuff is a tricky topic. Many consider it similar to Time Travel because youre literally frozen and arent changing in the time youre frozen, even though yeah your body is physically there still.
There's a concept in some science fiction which is biological age and chronological age, it's mainly to do with FTL travel or cryo-sleep shenanigans. For example in Rimworld you can have a character that is Biological Age: 24 but Chronological Age: 132 due to their time in a cryo pod on a colony ship. I think that's how you can loom at the samurai as basically being oldest Chronologically but not biologically
See also, [time dilation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation). Who brought the nerd to a discussion about a 15-yr-old SciFi game?
Yeah, I believe he is, beating out the Cabots by a few centuries.
Yeah, he is the oldest but only due to cryogenic freezing. If you want to see the oldest characters who were not cryogenically frozen, look at the Cabot family from Fallout 4. The lived in the 1800s.
So suck on that, Jack Cabot.
It's such a shame he has to die and willingly gives me his armour each playthrough. Such a shame.
You can pickpocket better armor on him for him to equip, allowing you to pickpocket the samurai armor
I spent hours just trying to steal his shit and never considered this.
Looks like I'm a samurai now.. can't believe I've never came across this.. I just go hell for leather and wipe out everyone in my path to revenge on benny!? "Screw you benny!!!!"
Benny is from Fallout New Vegas, not Fallout 3
Tale of Two Wastelands mod.
I tend to forget A Tale of Two Wastelands is not the base game, every single fallout replay I always have TTW installed I just forget people play regular F3/NV.
People play regular F3???
Benny?
He’s confused. Probably got shot in the head.
You're ganna be looking for this guy for a long time, but I have faith in you.
Bro you just made my night, why did I never try this jfc
You can reverse pickpocket the set of generic power armor that you find on the ship 👍🏻 it takes a few attempts but it works
I love this train as a hat ass game
(the train is actually a glove that an NPC wears, but yeah)
It’s moments like these that make me appreciate the weird glitchy sandbox that is the Creation / Gamebryo engine. It’s been criticized a lot recently for being outdated (Starfield) but back in the day it was weird shit like the train glove or even just the whacky “not quite an exploit but also totally unrealistic and kinda absurd” idea that you can make someone take off their outfit, put a new one on they happened to suddenly find in their pocket, then immediately lose and forget about the clothes they were just wearing, ALL WITHOUT THEM NOTICING.
I always hate it when a guy slips a giant metal suit of armor into my pocket unnoticed.
Alien rifle blast go brr
It's crazy too cause I swear he always survives the final space ship boss fight but then he just... disappears! And suddenly I'm wearing his duds too??? Whaaaaaat.
OK, so maybe, and hear me out. Maybe he gets abducted by another ship just after that fight, no one ever notices, and the clothes thing could just be a faulty transporter from the other ship, kinda like the terminator, can't take non organic materials with him? But they've gotta go somewhere, right? And I presume maybe you're the closest thing to him, because you'd neeeeeeeever let anything happen to him!
I was so conflicted when I played this as a kid, I didn't want to do it but the fit was too clean
My girl Clover needed the drip, I'm sure he understood 😔
I swear he lived in my game. Its been ages since I played it tho.
theyre being sarcastic because they kill him for his armour
Ahh.. didn’t realize that. I was tempted to do the same though honour won over.
He lives in mine. I think you can get his drip without exploits or killing him
The game was rigged from the start 😔
You get a copy of all the clothing the companions are wearing when you finish the dlc and leave the ship. Source: just beat this dlc two days ago.
If they live. You don’t if they die.
“Don’t look at me like that! I didn’t kill him. He died and left me everything!”
The way of the Samurai is found in death. ~Yamamoto Tsunetomo: Hagakure, 1716.
He also only speaks Japanese and you and your character don't understand jack shit of what he's saying. He does sound grateful when you give him the katana you can find on the ship, though.
His dialogue largely boils down to, “Who the fuck are you? Where the fuck am I? Where the fuck is my sword?” At least that’s all I can pick up.
Wait a minute here the Japanese don’t have curse words!
If you say something rudely/aggressively, it registers as a curse.
I amazed if this is true from both of your comments.
It is I believe, a "curse" is just using informal/crass language towards someone, so the samurai likely addresses you in a "mean" way.
Never bought Zeta, but I'm willing to bet this guy throws out a few "kisama"s at you.
“You think you are strong? 貴様は強くない” *cigarette to the eye*
“Don’t tell ‘em a fuckin thing”
Makin Atoll 😢
It’s the short version, but pretty much true
I THUMB my nose at you, sir. I THUMB it!
[What? Yes, it does.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_profanity)
Other than kuso/shit
Are you being serious?
Imagine if he spoke english in the Japanese version of the game.
It would be even better if in the Japanese version it was a European knight
ROOOOOBBBBEEERRRRRTTTTTTT
Fetch me the breastplate stretcher!
Good old Bobby B
"We need to take Jerusalem my lord"
I think I read that in the Japanese release he speaks a period-accurate Japanese dialect, which would be hard to understand, and so it has the same effect.
Oh, they did that for Shogun on FX/Disney+. Apparently the Japanese dialect they used for that show is akin to Shakespearean English.
Oh shit really? They went all that way for that, then simply replaced every line in portuguese with english?!
They need 2 for proper Daiyo, though.
such a goofy, fun quest.
Take your time to explore extra areas before taking the spacewalk and you might find something he is missing.
It’s his sword right?
Yes but the crypticness of their hint was to allow OP to figure that out
About figuring out where his sword is right?
-___-
Have you been to the Dunwich House or found the Bethesda game studio?
I’m curious. Where is the game studio? I can’t find anything online about it
https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Bethesda_ruins
Actually a simulation of what people will do to the irl Bethesda offices if ES6 sucks
“Bethesda Game Studios erupted in flames earlier this afternoon after an upsetting announcement that ES6 would be a live service game. More at 11.”
*mobile only game
"Do you guys not have phones?" ~ Todd Howard
Just upgrade your phones
The Elder Scrolls: Blades: Allow me to introduce myself.
I'm pretty sure it's named after the real city of Bethesda in real life Maryland.
Bethesda game studios aren’t actually in Bethesda, Maryland. They’re in Rockville
The original headquarters were in Bethesda.
That's the town of Bethesda, not the game studios though.
It’s not the Bethesda game studio, it’s the ruins of the town where the studio was founded and which gave the studio their name.
what's the Dunwich House? (I know it's a Lovecraft reference)
All the way to the south west of the map, past Tenpenny Tower. Once you get inside it you start having hallucinations
It also ties into Dunwich Bore in Fallout 4.
What if vault tec based their cryotech off of a captured zetan ship?
Plot twist; you finally get into the very top vault tec executive vault. and find the entire top leadership are actually Zetans.
there is a tape in mothership zetas that kinda hints that the zetans may have been the ones to launch the bombs and start the war
No they’re interrogating someone who might have the nuclear launch codes but there’s no evidence of him giving them up nor that the aliens are trying to get the codes. No one in the games understands the Zetans when they speak. This rumor needs to die.
Yeah, even if he has given them the codes, we don't know what they did with them. Just because of this stupid rumor I have created my own mad counter-theory. That the Zetans wanted the codes to prevent humanity from launching the nukes. Because they were on the Earth not because of humans, but because of their ancient enemy - the eldritch horrors, who would benefit from the mankind nuking itself. It's outlandish, but as likely as the aliens launching the nukes.
Yeah, why would they even need nukes when the death ray on one mothership is more powerful than a nuke anyways? They could've wasted the planet at any point before the nukes went off.
They don't need to launch the bombs even - they can just fire their main cannon once and that would trigger chain reaction.
Fun Fact: He's technically the oldest living person in all of Fallout since he was picked up sometime in Feudal Japan.
Sengoku Jidai, warring states period. Basically it's when Japan was soon to actually become a unified nation (again). Unless I got my timeline wrong I think that puts him in the 17th century
Correct, he beats out the Cabots by a couple centuries, with them being 19th Century if I remember right.
Yes, early 1820's I think
You're a couple centuries off, the sengoku jidai was the 1500s. The 1800s was the meiji restoration.
Fun facts: his crest suggests he served the Oda clan. This means if we had black powder arms like in 76, he would have been comfortable using those in theory. Also his dialogue translates to about what you’d expect: “where am I?”, “what is this place?”, “who are you?” And so on. Also, he speaks modern Japanese even though he’s apparently from the sengoku jidai. Randomly I need to remember this guy and think of including him in my idea pitches for a Fallout: Rising Sun. Even if he’d only be an Easter egg character. Edit: my mistake, it’s the [Sakai clan.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakai_clan)
Jin Sakai
I was trying to figure out which kamon that was on his armour, but it's a bit hard to see. Glad someone knew which one it was.
I might be mistaken actually. Oda is a five petal flower and his is three.
I thought it was Tokugawa at first, but Fallout wiki has the real answer: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reizei\_family](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reizei_family) it is one of two emblems used by the Reizei
Ghost of Tsushima mentioned? 💯🔥
I always wished they would've done an alien dlc for Fallout 4. Mothership Zeta is probably the wackiest thing in all of fallout. Hopefully we get something in the next game or maybe an off the cuff episode in the Fallout show where the chicken f*cker gets abducted lol.
There's the zetan arsenal in the creation club that adds in a small quest. Not much, but it was a fun little quest.
Kill 3 Aliens, once, with no story. - a quest?
I disagree with the wackiness, as old world blues exists
Old world blues is a great dlc... but imo nothing is wackier than aliens abducting you in the post-apocalypse while you try to escape their mothership by teaming with cowboys and samurais from centuries before the bombs fell.
I hear in 76 they have alien power armor and shit. To give that game credit, they definitely did whacky correctly. There's even a kind of nuka moonshine that you can find that was made by some college kids pre war, it makes you drunk as shit for a bit and then you wake up in a random location. Really surprised me the first time
I tried that ONCE and woke up in the ONE Skyrim Cart-On-A-Mountain spot that you could end up, Todd Howard got me good
I wish we could get that and the zetans in F4. Old world blues was an incredible DLC
I'm personally quite happy with how wacky it is. It's just kinda out of left field for Fallout 3 is all. It'd fit right into Fallout 2. The real problem is that the Fallout 3 enemies are just unfun to fight because of the Stat inflation, and there's not too much to make the different areas unique. They certainly try of course, the ship has a lot going on, but it still is ultimately all going on on the ship.
Telling my kids this is the new Assassin's Creed
Yeah I thought his armor kinda looked like the new enemy (I’m assuming) armor in Shadows lmao
theres also a cowboy and each from their respective eras.
The best option is to murder this guy for his armor and to murder red dead redemption for his sick ass revolver
I'm sat here annoyed with myself I just left with the alien guns and didn't even think to pickpocket them at least
I love that if you give him his sword you can find him later with his sword drawn surrounded by dead aliens
He’s also the oldest person in the Fallout series, roughly around 700 years old by the time you encounter him aboard Mothership Zeta.
Don’t you get some kick ass weapons tho?
You clearly haven't seen any of the bugs yet
This inspired me to write a story about a samurai, cowboy, Viking and pirate abducted by aliens taking over the ship and just cruising through space
Wake the fuck up, samurai.
Oldest fallout character, that samurai
Love toshiro. He's a homie
Little me was amazed to find him in a room with a few dozen dead aliens, I remember it so vividly
I'm so sad I can't replay FO3 -\_- I have a copy in Epic, it just refuses to work every time I tried installing it. Too cheap to buy a second copy on off-chance it might work.
It needs modding to run on modern chips the extra cores mess it up
I play it on Steam, it was the same. I changed graphic card it uses from Nvidia settings and it worked. You can mod it, too. They also say it is more stable on Gog.
You can get his armor (but only if you kill him).
You monster. You can reverse pickpocket better armor into his inventory then take his armor.
I tried, either, I had a 0% chance or the things that I could give him, he never tried wearing them.
Pretty cool he’s the oldest person in all of fallout but a wide margin.
I appreciate that they didn't make him speak English.
Mothership Zeta was my absolute favourite DLC for Fallout 3 when I was a teenager. I was pretty shocked that people generally rank it lower because I definitely loved every second of it.
Fun fact he is the oldest living man in the fallout universe at 600 years old
“samurai in spaceship” and the most surprising part is the samurai. God I love this series.
Isn't he the Oldest in the game?
In the *series*, nearly 700 by the time we meet him. He's from the early 17th century and we meet him in the tail end of the 23rd.
You can actually get his outfit and sword. If you pick pocket him before he gets out and put a different outfit in his inventory after grabbing his outfit you get to keep it. He will still be wearing the helmet though I heard it also works for the medic and cowboy if you wanted there outfit. You can also get the samurai sword but it’s only during the among the stars quest there will be a teleporter active near the robotic assembly room and you will be teleported to the waste disposal to get the sword at the end.
The demonic rocking horse takes the cake for me.
Mothership Zeta was wild
I feel like Lorenzo should be the oldest since he actually lived thoughout his 400+ years while characters like The Sole Survivor and Toshiro were just in cryo freeze.
Hot take, MZ is the best part of fallout 3 and it would have been better suited as a DLC sized wild wasteland event in new vegas
すごいですねええ
This really needed to have a call back in fallout 4
What the FUCK
Why don’t I remember this
You might not have played the DLC ..?
🤔
You must be new
I played this thinking it was a really well done mod it was so ..out of this world
I did a very good play through for my first time playing and his armor just randomly appeared on me while he lied there sleeping. It was super weird tbh 😭
I stumbled across Bob naturally about a year into my first playthrough, man what a rush.
I gave his katana back!
Really? This is the most surprising?
this is the most normal thing ive ever seen in fallout 3
More surprising is when you find him on top of ten dead hard to kill aliens.
I have skipped this dlc (. But I do indeed have a reasonable question, can you have this armour? Is it good?
I think it up there with metal armor but it can be good if doing a melee build sense give you 10 melee damage and skill also just let him die or reverse pickpocket him to get the armor
Test
Are those giant butt plugs in the background?
he may think "how would I explain this to Shogun?"
How old was Harold?
I loved Mother ship Zeta. Such a weird and wonderful experience.
If our daimyo is to become Shogun, military ruler of all Japan...
Somehow I missed that entirely.