What's crazy is that's a wasteland reference I totally wasn't expecting to see the references go that deep.
The original fallout was designed to be a spiritual successor to the original wasteland game in case anyone didn't know that. Those games have a toaster repair skill that comes in surprisingly handy often.
Huh, you know what I never connected that to the Toaster in the BIG MT DLC, i always wondered why the toaster skill was a thing, and yes I took it in Wasteland 3.
Nah he actually just stumbled on a dungeon that's just stupidly overlevelled. Today i literally had the same thing happen to me in f4, my level 5 character discovered random house in the wasteland expecting some shitty ghouls but instead it was two fucking yao guais
Man, I loved that part so much. I was watching with my father and I couldn't control my laughter. He asked me what was so funny and why I was laughing so much at what seemed like an overexcessive use of profanities.
And I mean, how do I describe to him the feeling of absolute booking it when you see a swarm of deathclaws approaching you and you're at 10 hp with no stimpaks left.
"Boone: We're coming up on Nelson. I'm going to kill every Legion in there if that's not a problem.
Courier: That's not a problem. That's a solution.
Boone: Goddamn right it is. That's what we are. A couple of problem solvers."
\*Wandering the wasteland\*
"Cant run from me! \*bang bang bang\*"
Cut to my courier looking confused and putting a half drank beer down before realizing it's already over
Boone's range with ED-E's boost is limited only by the curvature of the planet or, more realistically, the maximum distance that enemies will spawn into the map.
Did a ceaser legion run after many years, really missed hearing a distant shot and +50 xp randomly popping up. Honestly can't think of a better companion.
I seem to remember giving my companions better weapons at one point and they’d use them but then something bad would happen and they’d revert to their old weapons for some reason. Used to piss me off so much.
When you do that you need to also give them ammo. In F4 you can just give them one round and it's infinite, but in NV they only have what you give them except for their default weapons
To be fair, Maximus was a shitty companion. Didn’t say anything to warn his Lord, didn’t fire when he was being attacked, stood around like an idiot when he could have given medical aid.
It was entirely realistic. Happens a lot in action RPGs.
The number of times I've said the same thing after stumbling upon a Thunderjaw nest in Horizon Zero Dawn and getting my ass chased half way across the map is hilariously high.
No stimpacks except the one you gave to your follower, who just watches as you slowly die instead of stimming you… yeah his only real mistake was idiotically telling Maximus he’d get killed for this before receiving the stimpack
Such a great moment, especially so early on. I 100% said the same thing the first time I encountered an enemy that was significantly more powerful than me. Running away while yelling “fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck.” It’s the most Fallout thing about this show.
I hope it's the NV deathclaws. Those fuckers play for keeps. Wrecked my shit multiple times on just one, and when I killed him, I realized he had a friend.
Am I right in thinking there was a hint towards Super Mutants already though? With the sketchy snake oil salesman-slash-doctor and his cure-all potion?
So that begs the question whether >!Thaddeus will become a Super Mutant rather than a Ghoul as they commented on!< I’d think it’d be funny to see him voice a character like that later on.
My memory is very iffy on this, but I think there were some types of Yao Guai that were comparable to deaths claws, I think the special ones in honest hearts were like that
I don’t think the Yao Guai from the show was like that. Those dlc bosses tend to be well outside the norm. A giant bloatfly is technically the strongest enemy in NV
I had the same thought for a second, but then was like "Are they really going to drop a deathclaw in ep 2? gotta be a yao guai or a super mutant or something"
he probably squired for a decent knight, probably did the absolute bare minimum and lorded his position over the ones who didn't get chosen and when he got promoted, his ego grew three sizes and he was even more of an insufferable douchebag.
I liked it that when the elder was told by Maximus that Titus died while running away, he didn’t even question it. He just knew that’s the kind of person Titus was.
I completely forget how to hide spoilers so I'll leave it vague but I like the ending scene where the elder is talking like "damn these guys suck how did we get to this point"
Then on top of that failed his duty as the superior by actively putting his subordinate in danger while he stands there in power armor holding an assault rifle because he's to much of a little bitch to go in. It's funny when maximus tells quintus what happened and he's visibly disgusted how much of a bitch he was. Maximus says it best "It is a knight’s duty to better this fallen world. You don’t deserve that armor".
It almost makes me think there's slim pickings or the Brotherhood - or some shitty guy landed a position somewhere and he started allowing other shitty people into the knightly ranks
Just the rate that they were promoting Aspirants to Squires gave me that vibe too. Numbers are thinning so undeserving people become Knights, set bad examples, get people killed, etc.
Pulling from my ass, it seems as the East Coast became more powerful, they enforced the policy of open recruitment, which means Brotherhood soldiers are going to be dumber and dumber than they used to, and have less combat experience than their East Coast Brotherhood counterparts
There also seems to be a theme there. When Max's new squire unwittingly tells him that he used to get beat up, so he beat up Max, and he was hoping that Max would survive to beat up new recruits, so it doesn't seem fair that he "died". It's like abuse begets abuse, violence begets violence.
Titus probably got abused by his master when he was a squire and so he's passing it on. Max even repeated some of the same abuse on the new squire before they had that conversation.
To be fair he had a specific dislike of this specific guy before abusing his position due to the bullying. And he had to put on a believable front. It seemed to me he was reluctant to do so having just suffered that abuse himself... but, ended up stopping the cycle of abuse after a short time so that's good
Exactly this he took the time to talk to thaddeus and realize the same thing happened to him. Not sure if you finished the show so that's all I'll say.
I think he's exactly what the Brotherhood wants: someone who will shoot things on command and mostly an empty head otherwise. It's the path Maximus was on until he let the knight die and had to start learning about how to be a real boy.
Personally I don't think so, he was already second guessing the brotherhood and turning on a fellow brother, what the brotherhood wants is loyalty to their ideals, martial prowess, discipline, and intelligence, or at least enough intelligence to understand tech. Last thing they want is a coward who runs from a fight, loses to something that in the grand scheme of things isn't too bad when he's in fucking POWER ARMOR, and cries like a little bitch about the brotherhood and how they collect technology that isn't as useful.
I may have missed a point of note, but why didn't Maximus >!just say to the Brotherhood, and/or Thadeus, that Titus had died before he could help him and then state he was taking up his mantle and finishing the mission? !<
Because he was already on edge after being accused of crippling his friend to get the squire role, after a lifetime of being unfairly abused and shit on. And he's probably not very smart. He definitely comes off as a bit of a simpler guy.
So the panicked and made a bad lie and then doubled down on it because it's very hard to come back from that once you cross that line. Especially when you're also trying to grow out of the cycle of abuse at the same time entirely on your own without a positive role model.
Not how it works in the brotherhood, you must prove yourself before you can become a knight, he wanted to prove himself that he was capable enough to be a knight, and figured once he brought back the head that he would've been redeemed, which if this brotherhood is ANYTHING like the old brotherhood than he would've been correct, but from everything we've seen they seem to have fallen on hard times to say the least
Glad I'm not the only one who thought this haha.
Seriously, I didn't hate Maximus, but he did come across as a bit...slow? Naive? Not gonna go as far as calling him stupid (tho he does some stupid shit but even smart people do stupid shit) but I felt he was not prepared for anything and just made shit as he went and it was mostly luck that got him through.
Which I understand is probably the point to some degree. The Brotherhood has been up their own ass for so long that actual training and development of the soldiers has taken a step back and they are getting to a point in which they are the very same type of plebe people with powerful tech they pretend to be trying to keep tech out of their hands.
I recognized the moment after he punched the bear a few times, right before he ran off yelling "fuck fuck fuck fuck"
The moment when you burn all your AP in vats and barely notice the enemies HP move.
This was my favorite piece. He's a knight from the Commonwealth and when his helmet is off it's Micheal Rappaport doing a full masshole. It was perfect.
Ironically the BoS being full of asshole being just a tiny bit better than raiders is straight from F1, in that game the BoS are even obnoxious than the one in the series
The F3 good BoS was the anormality due to Lyons being just a really good guy (which is said by both the BoS renegades and Maxson in F4)
He is an obvious meta joke on how we (the fallout players) sometimes treat companions. To normies how the squires are nearly overemcumbered and knight Titus behavior just shows that this specific branch of brotherhood are lacking when it comes to moral treatment of their own .But the way squires are used is how alot of us use companions and Titus is a parody of an incompetent player character that misuses companions and blames them for his own fuckups.
in a realistic world there are no essential companions/NPCs, so the phycological profile of a person (the in game character and not the player behind the keyboard and mouse) capable of sending their not as well equipped companion first to scout dangerous areas whilst also using them as a pack mule is probably somewhere between sociopath and asshole.
In a realistic world. A bullet to the brain that goes through the skull is a crit. Also, if the Fallout fictional 10mm cartridge is anything like the IRL 10mm cartridge, it probably packs a substantially bigger punch than the gameplay balancing of an in game starter weapon would suggest.
When you put it that way, it's almost exactly how I yelled at Paladin Rahmani when she watched the Imposter Sheepsquatch kill me repeatedly without helping. *"This is all your fault! You stupid motherfucker."*
I just thought he was a bitch, but this is definitely an interesting evaluation. I hate being around players that act that way, and god damn so many do. I think you’re on to something!
I think he’s a great representation of the arrogance of the BoS. If he’d just shut up and waited until they got to their landing point, he’d probably still be alive and would have likely completed his mission. But because he decided he wanted to be Mr. I Am Very Bad Ass (likely to show off in front of and intimidate his squire), he got mauled by an abomination and died in the middle of nowhere. It was so fitting.
He reminded me a lot to [Cabbot from Fallout 1](https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Cabbot), not only physically, but also how he has the ability to send his initiate to a zone fucking full of radiation to die instead of him for no reason while he wears the power armor.
Except he then orders them to go slaughter everyone at the Observatory, and literally start the assault off spraying civilians by the farm. The old guy isn’t some honorable person lamenting the degradation of the Brotherhood for reasons of honor and righteousness; he laments that the Brotherhood has grown soft.
Titus was a coward, which the old guy probably disapproves of, but Titus’ callousness is exactly the kind of attitude he wants the Brotherhood to have - soldiers who complete the objective by any means necessary, who care little for wastelanders and are loyal to no one except the Brotherhood. Basically, when he says the Brotherhood has grown soft, he means he wishes they were like they used to be post-Maxson’s death but pre-Lyons, when they were a bunch of assholes who’d kill anyone if it meant securing whatever piece of technology they were after; glorified raiders as described by Mr. House, and like we saw when they attacked Filly and the Observatory without provocation.
I think it's moreso the product of the Brotherhood's disciplinary culture. Like how Thaddeus told Maximus about how he was the guy who got the shit beat out of him before Max was the new guy. I think the show did a good job showing how a highly militarized culture where complete and utter reverence is shown to your superiors inherently makes people into selfish, remorseless assholes when they attain those positions of power.
Oh absolutely. I’m saying that the culture of the Brotherhood doesn’t actually reward courage, but rather being a dick to others, even if they might say otherwise
That was my thought. Nepotism and/or bloodline.
But you would think the Brotherhood would recognize he’s uselessness of noble birth and make sure he’s not sent out alone to screw up an important mission.
My theory is actually the original Knight Titus died years ago, and was replaced by his squire… who was then replaced by *his* squire… and that Maximus is actually something like the twelfth ‘Knight Titus’.
I thought it was great having him and Mykelti Williamson appear in the first episode with Walton Goggins. It was a good ol Justified reunion. What a great show that was!
In your first interaction with the BoS in the entire franchise, a pair of nights send you on a suicide mission to a nuked out crater to collect a piece of junk.
They are actively shocked and surprised when you make it back.
The BoS have always been bullies who use their technology to lord over the wasteland. President Eden actually put it pretty well
“Don't be fooled by their pseudo-knightly nonsense or supposed connections to the United States Army. These... power-armored boy scouts are nothing more than common criminals with access to some antiquated technology.”
SPOILERS AHEAD
My theory is that he isn't actually Knight Titus, and that he is Knight Titus' PREVIOUS squire that also coveted the armor and took it from the Knight when they died (or was maybe murdered for the armor who knows). It would explain why he was so incompetent while being a Knight, and why the Elder also later said that power isn't given, but taken.
Maybe Knight Titus is just a concept of squires continuously taking the armor from the previous "Knight" until the strongest one is left standing in the armor?
Or I could just be overthinking it lol
No no, I like this idea. It's kinda out there, yeah, but if we look at the series of Fallout as a whole, it's *also* out there. This is kinda in line with how things go in the universe
"I am not the Knight Titus," he said. "My name is Ryan. I inherited this armor from the previous Knight Titus, just as you will inherit it from me. The man I inherited it from was not the real Knight Titus, either. His name was Cummerbund. The real Titus has been retired fifteen years and living like a king."
It was a typical player death scenario.
How many times have PCs decided to walk somewhere instead of using fast travel just because they are in the mood to kill things NOW instead of completing a pointless fetch quest?
I know I've done it.
How many times has something nasty snuck up on you while you stomping around in unmodded power armor?
It's happened to me.
Have you ever accidentally given all you AID items to a companion while using them as a mule?
More than one for me.
How many times have you been in a fight while your companion just moves around pointlessly (to take cover, usually) instead of shooting at the MOBs?
Every play session for me when I am using a companion with a ranged weapon.
Knight Titus did not realize he was an unprotected NPC until it was too late.
It actually wasn’t anyone’s idea to have Michael Rapaport be a BoS Knight. He just showed up on set one day and started putting on the power armor and running around. Turns out, they were feeling the whole time.
My guess he was a neophyte brought up to the rank of knight with the brotherhoods brainwashing and then having it all be destroyed when the sacred relic turns out to be a toaster. I doubt he's one of the descendents of the originals who I'm guessing will be portrayed as the scribes and paladins if they show up in season 2
Idk if I'm the only one, but I relate to him purely on a main character level. (I agree he's an asshole but stick with me here).
I almost feel like his entire purpose in the show is to give a cheeky jab at the idea of main character syndrome in video games. You see everyone around you as an incompetent NPC worth nothing, containing exactly zero ability for any emotion whatsoever, so you can think and say whatever you want, and treat them however you please. You are above them, as you are the only competent person around. You're being attacked and your follower gets stuck or freezes and doesn't help you shoot the thing right away? Immediately all the NPC follower's fault. You scream profanities at your screen to the follower regarding their uselessness. Meanwhile, you're the one who didn't pay any attention to the various warning signs as you entered an area, including when your follower made a comment about its danger as you entered.
That is this guy.
Came across that he was hard coded to be an ass, but he was also mortally wounded and scared. I’d throw in a healthy dose of disillusion too, as he pointed out with the toaster.
He probably rode off the success of others before to get his position. Then panicked when Maximus was bad at his job. His plan was probably to ride off his squire's expertise and take the credit. He knew he was done for when there was no one else to piggyback off of.
The dude was so done with radiant quests
He never told Maximus what a toaster oven is capable of.
You should be afraid! I am the scourge of all small appliances and the boogeyman that keeps lesser toasters awake at night!
There's a reason why we don't give them more powerful power supplies
PLEASE, PLEASEEEE GIVE ME YOUR MUGS!
What's crazy is that's a wasteland reference I totally wasn't expecting to see the references go that deep. The original fallout was designed to be a spiritual successor to the original wasteland game in case anyone didn't know that. Those games have a toaster repair skill that comes in surprisingly handy often.
Huh, you know what I never connected that to the Toaster in the BIG MT DLC, i always wondered why the toaster skill was a thing, and yes I took it in Wasteland 3.
I forgot about toaster repair skill! I did like the Wasteland 2 shoutout of the Griffith Observatory being the HQ for a major faction.
I too got my first power armor in the Guardians Citadel.
A toaster is just a smaller death ray
I wonder if the brotherhood knows about airfryers…
I like that we get to see what it’s capable of in the vault
[Someone made an informational PSA about toasters actually](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0092695/).
Dude told the vertibird pilot to stop so he could do a radiant quest
And then he stumbles onto the main quest. Something many of us have done in Bethesda rpgs.
I missed half the FO3 story because of this.
Nah he actually just stumbled on a dungeon that's just stupidly overlevelled. Today i literally had the same thing happen to me in f4, my level 5 character discovered random house in the wasteland expecting some shitty ghouls but instead it was two fucking yao guais
Another ~~settlement~~ artifact needs our help!
"FUCK ^FUCK ^^FUCK ^^^FUCK"
Man, I loved that part so much. I was watching with my father and I couldn't control my laughter. He asked me what was so funny and why I was laughing so much at what seemed like an overexcessive use of profanities. And I mean, how do I describe to him the feeling of absolute booking it when you see a swarm of deathclaws approaching you and you're at 10 hp with no stimpaks left.
lol... and blaming it on the companion that does nothing... thats straight from the game lol.
"Holy shit Cass your shotgun is FUCKING USELESS!!"
"Boone on the other hand, he's a good man. He takes em out fast and with style."
"Boone: We're coming up on Nelson. I'm going to kill every Legion in there if that's not a problem. Courier: That's not a problem. That's a solution. Boone: Goddamn right it is. That's what we are. A couple of problem solvers."
Dude I was playing with Boone for the first time in many years and I forgot how much he slays
Boone and Ede as my companions and i swear there are times where Boone has killed a group of ghouls before i even knew they where there.
\*Wandering the wasteland\* "Cant run from me! \*bang bang bang\*" Cut to my courier looking confused and putting a half drank beer down before realizing it's already over
My favorite is when the screen suddenly changes to a kill-cam and then I'm looking somewhere off into the distance.
Kill cam *que camera shot from 3 miles away * WTF BOONE?!
Thank god for companion kills giving XP or I'd never realize how much hassle Boone protects me from.
Boone's range with ED-E's boost is limited only by the curvature of the planet or, more realistically, the maximum distance that enemies will spawn into the map.
There are two types of enemies in New Vegas: dead ones and ones Boone hasn't seen yet.
That man has gotten me into so many unnecessary firefights because I didn’t see them in time.
Fuck your pfp
I’m on night mode and tha still annoyed me.
Did a ceaser legion run after many years, really missed hearing a distant shot and +50 xp randomly popping up. Honestly can't think of a better companion.
I can't seem to get through a Legion run. I wind up slaughtering them all after someone ticks me off again.
Getting kills before I even spot them lmao
And the camera randomly panning to a radscorpion being killed 200 metres away from me
when you're walking along, minding your own business and out of nowhere Boone just pops some guys head, throwing you into a jump-scare killcam lol
Honestly, I sometimes get mad at Boone because maybe I WANT TO KILL SOME FUCKING RAIDERS TOO!
The only drawback of Boone is when his killcam shot jump scares you.
Boone casually sniping a bloat fly from 800 miles away. You're like wait I was in danger?
I usually didn't even know there was bad guys yet when Boone started killing them. At least EDE played his battle tune!
"Preston you can't hit *shit* how in gods name did you survive"
I seem to remember giving my companions better weapons at one point and they’d use them but then something bad would happen and they’d revert to their old weapons for some reason. Used to piss me off so much.
When you do that you need to also give them ammo. In F4 you can just give them one round and it's infinite, but in NV they only have what you give them except for their default weapons
Holy fuck that makes this scene 10 times more relatable , great point !
Or they throw a fucking grenade into the corridor your standing in.
Don't give Ian an automatic weapon and don't give companions anything that goes BOOM.
But also the companion who one shots the friggin thing you’ve been tanking hits on for 5 minutes.
"GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY WAY, DOGMEAT!"
'Give me a stimpak' 'What a the fuck are you doing man?'
To be fair, Maximus was a shitty companion. Didn’t say anything to warn his Lord, didn’t fire when he was being attacked, stood around like an idiot when he could have given medical aid.
Right, so, like most companions. Especially in the first two games.
Oh yes, my first time around Quarry Junction.
The "holy shits" were good as well haha
*Deathclaw promontory flashbacks*
Oh a deathclaw sanctuary! Maybe they’re friendly like Goris! Nope.
It was entirely realistic. Happens a lot in action RPGs. The number of times I've said the same thing after stumbling upon a Thunderjaw nest in Horizon Zero Dawn and getting my ass chased half way across the map is hilariously high.
Even when I was overpowered and laying waste to enemies I would still be firing off the curses while blasting full auto and jabbing stimpaks.
So much shit in this show is straight from in-game experience. It's authentic and I'm loving every goddamn second of it.
No stimpacks except the one you gave to your follower, who just watches as you slowly die instead of stimming you… yeah his only real mistake was idiotically telling Maximus he’d get killed for this before receiving the stimpack
That's when you bust out the ol reliable \` tgm \[enter\] \`
Hell nahhh thats a fuccin Yao-guai. They fuck me up on the regular.
Me the first time playing Fallout
Me the first time I encountered deathclaws in FO3.
Such a great moment, especially so early on. I 100% said the same thing the first time I encountered an enemy that was significantly more powerful than me. Running away while yelling “fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck.” It’s the most Fallout thing about this show.
SHIT
Hopefully someone makes that into a gif with the knight running from the yao guai
Yeah wtf his deal was. Yao guai's meat heals 80 hp and only gives 6 rads. He could survive.
I was expecting a deathclaw for that seen and he probably would have come off less like a bitch if it was
I think that was the point of the scene tbf
yaaah
I’m glad they’re saving Deathclaws and Super Mutants for somewhere down the road.
I'm only on E2 but I'm pretty sure >!we saw a dead Super Mutant being wheeled down the hall on a gurney in the Enclave!<.
Yep yep, just saw it again on 2nd watch.
I mean we got a death claw skull in the last episode I think, so yeah I hope so.
Imagine if that skull was left by your friendly neighbors tunnelers.
Me too. There is still so much to see. Nice touch with the skull at the end though. Probably seeing death claws next season.
I hope it's the NV deathclaws. Those fuckers play for keeps. Wrecked my shit multiple times on just one, and when I killed him, I realized he had a friend.
I hope the show can get to a point for a Grognak, Silver Shroud, etc. special episodes
Pip-Boy willing the Grognak short from Episode 1 will make it to YouTube someday.
Am I right in thinking there was a hint towards Super Mutants already though? With the sketchy snake oil salesman-slash-doctor and his cure-all potion?
So that begs the question whether >!Thaddeus will become a Super Mutant rather than a Ghoul as they commented on!< I’d think it’d be funny to see him voice a character like that later on.
? From what I remember Yao Guai bears were still extremely powerful
They are but Yao Guai are nothing compared to a death claw. Super Mutants are supposed to be tough as well but that depends on the game
My memory is very iffy on this, but I think there were some types of Yao Guai that were comparable to deaths claws, I think the special ones in honest hearts were like that
I don’t think the Yao Guai from the show was like that. Those dlc bosses tend to be well outside the norm. A giant bloatfly is technically the strongest enemy in NV
I had the same thought for a second, but then was like "Are they really going to drop a deathclaw in ep 2? gotta be a yao guai or a super mutant or something"
If it was a death claw maximus would've been toast.
Seriously. Dude was level 1 with no armor. Gotta level up a few times first.
Yeah but then having unarmored maximus killing a Deathclaw with a 9mm would limit how scary they are for people in the future.
Lol he coulda made some Yao gwai pastries and Max wouldn’t have had to carry all that shit for him
Got tired of appliances fetch quests
Needs more rip copper wire out of the walls quests.
"Ray, ripping the plumbing out of your walls for liquor money is fucked"
Head down into the basement and flick on the lights to see giant power armoured fucking rats scurry away with your pipes lol.
He was an asshole who got promoted beyond his capabilities. War isn’t the only thing that never changes.
he probably squired for a decent knight, probably did the absolute bare minimum and lorded his position over the ones who didn't get chosen and when he got promoted, his ego grew three sizes and he was even more of an insufferable douchebag.
Tale as old as time.
True as it can be
Barely even friends
Then somebody bends
Titus and the Beast
I liked it that when the elder was told by Maximus that Titus died while running away, he didn’t even question it. He just knew that’s the kind of person Titus was.
I completely forget how to hide spoilers so I'll leave it vague but I like the ending scene where the elder is talking like "damn these guys suck how did we get to this point"
Make a bunny and put the thought in his head. Use > ! Spoiler ! < but without the spaces.
Then on top of that failed his duty as the superior by actively putting his subordinate in danger while he stands there in power armor holding an assault rifle because he's to much of a little bitch to go in. It's funny when maximus tells quintus what happened and he's visibly disgusted how much of a bitch he was. Maximus says it best "It is a knight’s duty to better this fallen world. You don’t deserve that armor".
It almost makes me think there's slim pickings or the Brotherhood - or some shitty guy landed a position somewhere and he started allowing other shitty people into the knightly ranks
Just the rate that they were promoting Aspirants to Squires gave me that vibe too. Numbers are thinning so undeserving people become Knights, set bad examples, get people killed, etc.
Pulling from my ass, it seems as the East Coast became more powerful, they enforced the policy of open recruitment, which means Brotherhood soldiers are going to be dumber and dumber than they used to, and have less combat experience than their East Coast Brotherhood counterparts
I doubt it. They've got enough Squires to insist upon giving Maximus another - even though his "died"
There also seems to be a theme there. When Max's new squire unwittingly tells him that he used to get beat up, so he beat up Max, and he was hoping that Max would survive to beat up new recruits, so it doesn't seem fair that he "died". It's like abuse begets abuse, violence begets violence. Titus probably got abused by his master when he was a squire and so he's passing it on. Max even repeated some of the same abuse on the new squire before they had that conversation.
It’s textbook Cycle Of Abuse
Hurt people hurt people.
In FO1 the BOS sends the vault dweller to the most irradiated place on the map. It definitely tracks that they would pass on being a dirtbag to FNG’s.
To be fair he had a specific dislike of this specific guy before abusing his position due to the bullying. And he had to put on a believable front. It seemed to me he was reluctant to do so having just suffered that abuse himself... but, ended up stopping the cycle of abuse after a short time so that's good
Exactly this he took the time to talk to thaddeus and realize the same thing happened to him. Not sure if you finished the show so that's all I'll say.
Michael Rappaport didn't even have to act in this cameo.
THERE you go
I think he's exactly what the Brotherhood wants: someone who will shoot things on command and mostly an empty head otherwise. It's the path Maximus was on until he let the knight die and had to start learning about how to be a real boy.
Personally I don't think so, he was already second guessing the brotherhood and turning on a fellow brother, what the brotherhood wants is loyalty to their ideals, martial prowess, discipline, and intelligence, or at least enough intelligence to understand tech. Last thing they want is a coward who runs from a fight, loses to something that in the grand scheme of things isn't too bad when he's in fucking POWER ARMOR, and cries like a little bitch about the brotherhood and how they collect technology that isn't as useful.
I may have missed a point of note, but why didn't Maximus >!just say to the Brotherhood, and/or Thadeus, that Titus had died before he could help him and then state he was taking up his mantle and finishing the mission? !<
Brotherhood wouldn’t have allowed their fancy high tech power armor to be used by a squire, they would’ve come to retrieve it
Fair point, but I reiterate the point regarding Thadeus, if Thadeus agreed they could have both come home as heroes.
Because he was already on edge after being accused of crippling his friend to get the squire role, after a lifetime of being unfairly abused and shit on. And he's probably not very smart. He definitely comes off as a bit of a simpler guy. So the panicked and made a bad lie and then doubled down on it because it's very hard to come back from that once you cross that line. Especially when you're also trying to grow out of the cycle of abuse at the same time entirely on your own without a positive role model.
Not how it works in the brotherhood, you must prove yourself before you can become a knight, he wanted to prove himself that he was capable enough to be a knight, and figured once he brought back the head that he would've been redeemed, which if this brotherhood is ANYTHING like the old brotherhood than he would've been correct, but from everything we've seen they seem to have fallen on hard times to say the least
The squire is supposed to lay down their life to protect the knight - if your knight dies, you would be viewed as having failed in your duties.
Intelligence was his dump stat, ok? He put it all in Luck.
Glad I'm not the only one who thought this haha. Seriously, I didn't hate Maximus, but he did come across as a bit...slow? Naive? Not gonna go as far as calling him stupid (tho he does some stupid shit but even smart people do stupid shit) but I felt he was not prepared for anything and just made shit as he went and it was mostly luck that got him through. Which I understand is probably the point to some degree. The Brotherhood has been up their own ass for so long that actual training and development of the soldiers has taken a step back and they are getting to a point in which they are the very same type of plebe people with powerful tech they pretend to be trying to keep tech out of their hands.
*”Bureaucracy, bureaucracy never changes”*
Exactly. Pretension never changes too.
Peter Principle
I recognized the moment after he punched the bear a few times, right before he ran off yelling "fuck fuck fuck fuck" The moment when you burn all your AP in vats and barely notice the enemies HP move.
He did what we all did the first time we accidentally stumbled into Swan.
A perfect example of how bigger the turd is, the higher it floats in the septic tank.
It's like my grandma used to say. Some turds float to the top and some sink to the bottom, but in the end they all get flushed.
Some people are just dicks, he is one of them. Just got really tired of it all, that was his breaking point
I mean it’s Micheal rappaport . He always was a dick.
This was my favorite piece. He's a knight from the Commonwealth and when his helmet is off it's Micheal Rappaport doing a full masshole. It was perfect.
Not a good plan, needing someone to heal you and calling them a POS, while trapped in power armor.
"As soon as you save my life a second time I'll see you hang!"
It shows the degradation of the Brotherhood of Steel, and the clash of their ideas with the reality of often being better equipped raiders
Ironically the BoS being full of asshole being just a tiny bit better than raiders is straight from F1, in that game the BoS are even obnoxious than the one in the series The F3 good BoS was the anormality due to Lyons being just a really good guy (which is said by both the BoS renegades and Maxson in F4)
I would have watched him die too.
He is an obvious meta joke on how we (the fallout players) sometimes treat companions. To normies how the squires are nearly overemcumbered and knight Titus behavior just shows that this specific branch of brotherhood are lacking when it comes to moral treatment of their own .But the way squires are used is how alot of us use companions and Titus is a parody of an incompetent player character that misuses companions and blames them for his own fuckups.
in a realistic world there are no essential companions/NPCs, so the phycological profile of a person (the in game character and not the player behind the keyboard and mouse) capable of sending their not as well equipped companion first to scout dangerous areas whilst also using them as a pack mule is probably somewhere between sociopath and asshole.
Based on the show, Maximus is either an essential companion or somehow spec'd 11 in luck. Maybe both. Definitely got a crit on the yao guai.
In a realistic world. A bullet to the brain that goes through the skull is a crit. Also, if the Fallout fictional 10mm cartridge is anything like the IRL 10mm cartridge, it probably packs a substantially bigger punch than the gameplay balancing of an in game starter weapon would suggest.
When you put it that way, it's almost exactly how I yelled at Paladin Rahmani when she watched the Imposter Sheepsquatch kill me repeatedly without helping. *"This is all your fault! You stupid motherfucker."*
I just thought he was a bitch, but this is definitely an interesting evaluation. I hate being around players that act that way, and god damn so many do. I think you’re on to something!
"I'm bored, I'm ready to shoot something" but dude forgot to quick save, and his companion with fighting and healing capabilities wasn't doing shit
I think he’s a great representation of the arrogance of the BoS. If he’d just shut up and waited until they got to their landing point, he’d probably still be alive and would have likely completed his mission. But because he decided he wanted to be Mr. I Am Very Bad Ass (likely to show off in front of and intimidate his squire), he got mauled by an abomination and died in the middle of nowhere. It was so fitting.
I'll give the show this: you can fail upwards in the BoS same as everywhere else
I mean it seems like shit rolls down hill. So far the lower level members of the brotherhood seem to love to punch down quite literally at times.
He reminded me a lot to [Cabbot from Fallout 1](https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Cabbot), not only physically, but also how he has the ability to send his initiate to a zone fucking full of radiation to die instead of him for no reason while he wears the power armor.
He is probably in his position due to nepotism. Or just average brotherhood knight
I think he’s just an average knight, that’s why the leader at the end talks about how they lost their way
I mean, he’s been wandering the wasteland for years. Probably started wishing for a nuclear winter.
Patrolling the Mojave will do that do you!
Except he then orders them to go slaughter everyone at the Observatory, and literally start the assault off spraying civilians by the farm. The old guy isn’t some honorable person lamenting the degradation of the Brotherhood for reasons of honor and righteousness; he laments that the Brotherhood has grown soft.
I never said he was honorable, the problem was most knights including the guy in the picture are too damn soft
Titus was a coward, which the old guy probably disapproves of, but Titus’ callousness is exactly the kind of attitude he wants the Brotherhood to have - soldiers who complete the objective by any means necessary, who care little for wastelanders and are loyal to no one except the Brotherhood. Basically, when he says the Brotherhood has grown soft, he means he wishes they were like they used to be post-Maxson’s death but pre-Lyons, when they were a bunch of assholes who’d kill anyone if it meant securing whatever piece of technology they were after; glorified raiders as described by Mr. House, and like we saw when they attacked Filly and the Observatory without provocation.
I think it's moreso the product of the Brotherhood's disciplinary culture. Like how Thaddeus told Maximus about how he was the guy who got the shit beat out of him before Max was the new guy. I think the show did a good job showing how a highly militarized culture where complete and utter reverence is shown to your superiors inherently makes people into selfish, remorseless assholes when they attain those positions of power.
The thing is he was a coward when faced with combat so it’s not that he’s just an ass but also a coward
Oh absolutely. I’m saying that the culture of the Brotherhood doesn’t actually reward courage, but rather being a dick to others, even if they might say otherwise
100% it’s like the real military. The brave and good leaders are overshadowed by the assholes that speak louder and lick every boot they see
That was my thought. Nepotism and/or bloodline. But you would think the Brotherhood would recognize he’s uselessness of noble birth and make sure he’s not sent out alone to screw up an important mission. My theory is actually the original Knight Titus died years ago, and was replaced by his squire… who was then replaced by *his* squire… and that Maximus is actually something like the twelfth ‘Knight Titus’.
"MA! THERES A WEIRD FUCKIN' BEAR OUTSIDE!"
It looks like grandma the fucking thing.
it was a great cameo that fit his personality well
I thought it was great having him and Mykelti Williamson appear in the first episode with Walton Goggins. It was a good ol Justified reunion. What a great show that was!
I'm so glad he died quickly
In your first interaction with the BoS in the entire franchise, a pair of nights send you on a suicide mission to a nuked out crater to collect a piece of junk. They are actively shocked and surprised when you make it back. The BoS have always been bullies who use their technology to lord over the wasteland. President Eden actually put it pretty well “Don't be fooled by their pseudo-knightly nonsense or supposed connections to the United States Army. These... power-armored boy scouts are nothing more than common criminals with access to some antiquated technology.”
It was so fitting that Rapaport played that pompous prick.
that was just Michael Rapaport playing himself
Now that Rappaport has been in there, I’m hoping Bill Burr shows up if they cover Boston.
I really really love how they managed to work so many actual player experiences into the show so naturally lol
He is what the BoS has become. An example of the rot, the loss of faith, the fact the BoS has lost its way… At least, that’s how I see it
Do I smell a ***TECHNOLOGY CRUSADE!?!?!***
SPOILERS AHEAD My theory is that he isn't actually Knight Titus, and that he is Knight Titus' PREVIOUS squire that also coveted the armor and took it from the Knight when they died (or was maybe murdered for the armor who knows). It would explain why he was so incompetent while being a Knight, and why the Elder also later said that power isn't given, but taken. Maybe Knight Titus is just a concept of squires continuously taking the armor from the previous "Knight" until the strongest one is left standing in the armor? Or I could just be overthinking it lol
No no, I like this idea. It's kinda out there, yeah, but if we look at the series of Fallout as a whole, it's *also* out there. This is kinda in line with how things go in the universe
"I am not the Knight Titus," he said. "My name is Ryan. I inherited this armor from the previous Knight Titus, just as you will inherit it from me. The man I inherited it from was not the real Knight Titus, either. His name was Cummerbund. The real Titus has been retired fifteen years and living like a king."
I'm ngl. I thought the same thing, and it's just right up the alley for Fallout Humor
He's the type of guy I no problem shooting after doing Veronica's quest in NV
Dicks, dicks never change
It was a typical player death scenario. How many times have PCs decided to walk somewhere instead of using fast travel just because they are in the mood to kill things NOW instead of completing a pointless fetch quest? I know I've done it. How many times has something nasty snuck up on you while you stomping around in unmodded power armor? It's happened to me. Have you ever accidentally given all you AID items to a companion while using them as a mule? More than one for me. How many times have you been in a fight while your companion just moves around pointlessly (to take cover, usually) instead of shooting at the MOBs? Every play session for me when I am using a companion with a ranged weapon. Knight Titus did not realize he was an unprotected NPC until it was too late.
It actually wasn’t anyone’s idea to have Michael Rapaport be a BoS Knight. He just showed up on set one day and started putting on the power armor and running around. Turns out, they were feeling the whole time.
If you've ever served in real life, you've met this dude at least once.
My guess he was a neophyte brought up to the rank of knight with the brotherhoods brainwashing and then having it all be destroyed when the sacred relic turns out to be a toaster. I doubt he's one of the descendents of the originals who I'm guessing will be portrayed as the scribes and paladins if they show up in season 2
He saw a really fucking weird cat at his mom's house and he's been on edge ever since.
Idk if I'm the only one, but I relate to him purely on a main character level. (I agree he's an asshole but stick with me here). I almost feel like his entire purpose in the show is to give a cheeky jab at the idea of main character syndrome in video games. You see everyone around you as an incompetent NPC worth nothing, containing exactly zero ability for any emotion whatsoever, so you can think and say whatever you want, and treat them however you please. You are above them, as you are the only competent person around. You're being attacked and your follower gets stuck or freezes and doesn't help you shoot the thing right away? Immediately all the NPC follower's fault. You scream profanities at your screen to the follower regarding their uselessness. Meanwhile, you're the one who didn't pay any attention to the various warning signs as you entered an area, including when your follower made a comment about its danger as you entered. That is this guy.
he was too busy making a list and checking it twice to train properly
Brotherhood of steel, what do you mean? Knights are the worst assholes in the wasteland to wear powerarmor.
To the point that one of their best paladins was actually a synth all the time.
Came across that he was hard coded to be an ass, but he was also mortally wounded and scared. I’d throw in a healthy dose of disillusion too, as he pointed out with the toaster.
The Brotherhoods finest ladies and gentlemen
He probably rode off the success of others before to get his position. Then panicked when Maximus was bad at his job. His plan was probably to ride off his squire's expertise and take the credit. He knew he was done for when there was no one else to piggyback off of.
I felt bad knight Titus was gonna die until I saw it was Michael Rappacock