Lol, jesus christ Bethesda knocked that one out of the park.

In which general area might I find the tape(s)?

Yes i found 1 and 2, i dont get it though. Sounds like a kids story to me

Fiddlers green estates

You need to listen to them all.

Yes, I found them all with my first character. And I agree...you must listen to them all!

Yeah i found them,i don't understand the excitement?The moral is as old as storytelling,what's so special?

Yep same here, found them all but it's a just a story for kids to listen to their elders. Did i miss something?

Would have been fun to see in a tree some squirrels skeletons and some lazy cats around

The story is about racism/patriotism and it's teaching kids to not trust commies/other people with a different shade of skin. The fact most of you didn't get this makes me surprised and a bit sad.

As brutal and [censored] up as it is hilarious. I assumed most people got the gist of it by the third tape lol. Still, that ending was savage.

I think most of us did, thats why we praise them, because they are good mood setters and a good way to convey the Fallout setting.

yep, game is riddled with that kind of twisted funny stuff! it's great!

The ending was brutal. Here was the moral for those who don't get it: "Commies/Chinese people can't be trusted. Ever. If you do, you and everyone you love will die a horrible death. So listen to your bigoted elders, do what they say and never, EVER be friends with a Commie/Chinese person."


Beautiful. Twisted, but beautiful. It took me until the third tape to realize just what the story was really about, I had figured it was the usual "don't judge people based on their fur/skin color".

Loved it. The pre-war world of Fallout definitely has a "McCarthyism on steroids" feel to it.

One of the reasons I love the fallout games is the crazy, the moving, the shocking, the hilarious stuff you find in the games. Check out the waystation when you are on the way to Fort Hagen for "reunions", PSYCHO!!!

I still remember finding the tape from the father to his daughter in the hotel when you are rescuing the rangers in Fallout 3, it moved me.

Yeah "the new squirrel" sounds innocent and moralistic till you get to the last tape, I laughed.

I found 2 and 3, but never ran across the first one.

I figured something was up, but i though the newbie had an evil plan.

Also, one of the tapes is next to squirrel-based foods

I listened to them all and than I threw them into a radioactive pond at ground Zero in the glowing sea because I thought the world would be a better place without those tapes in it. That lesson should never see the light of day.

its just called the squirrel tapes?

parts 1, 2, & 3 don't let your children listen to them because it would warp their minds.

Moral of the story is to put your own country above another countries, because when it comes down to it, the other country you helped will [censored] you. That is pretty much what I got from it...but you'll have to listen to it for yourself.

Yeah I found all 3 I think it was. Is there any purpose to those tapes or is it just a lesson we should all adhere to about newcomers?

I totally got what it was about,like i said,old.

What i don't get is the excitement over it,it's something you can't have failed to hear somewhere else(though obviously not in the form of squirrels)

I mean,it already kinda permeates the fallout universe anyway.

I dunno,maybe it just makes y'all feel clever that you saw something so obvious and believe others didn't?

No, from what I understood, most who posted sound like it flew right past their skulls, so that confused me greatly. No, it shouldn't be something to praise, honestly, or feel clever about, it should mostly be a "oh, good thing this reminds me of their atmosphere I guess".

So no, it's nothing about cleverness, it's something I thought an average person would catch. My point wasn't focused on you, obviously, so no idea why you're responding.

What I thought was interesting about it had nothing to do with the moral or how it related to trust or commies or whatever. It was that it started out as a normal-seeming story that one might tell (or play for) the kids at bedtime, but then at the end, it took this turn towards horror and violence and suddenly wasn't much of a kid's story about cute, fluffy squirrels at all. I could easily see parents buying it for their kids without fully investigating its content, and then creating an uproar because their kids are now too traumatized to go to sleep at night. *That* is the part of the "humor" that impacted me, not the actual message.