A long-lasting video shows content cut from Fallout 3’s main mission, from an early birthday party to an end-game meeting with a familiar family member.

Fallout 3 has been available for nearly 14 years, yet it remains one of the franchise’s most beloved games. Given how long it’s been since Fallout 3 was released, it’s perhaps unsurprising that gamers are still interested in it. In all that time, all the secrets of Fallout 3 have been revealed, including an incredible amount of cut content from the action RPG. One content creator is doing his best to catalogue this cut content, focusing on the main story of Fallout 3 in his latest video.

In a series titled “Fallout 3: The Cutting Room Floor”, the TriangleCity YouTube channel walks through different aspects of the game, detailing the interesting cut content in Fallout 3. The content creator’s previous Fallout 3 videos include “GURPS in Fallout 3?!”, “Fallout 3 Cut Weapons” and “More Fallout 3 Cut Content”. Their latest video is perhaps TriangleCity’s most interesting entry in the series to date, as it provides a one-hour deep dive into the cut content of Fallout 3’s main storyline, all broken down into several different key sections.

The first key area of the game to undergo a massive overhaul is the opening sequence, which begins with the Fallout 3 player’s birthday party. The video goes into further detail about the player’s father, the various ways to escape the Vault and the resetting of several generators to open the Vault door. According to TriangleCity’s theory, this entire chapter has been streamlined and changed to focus on a faster-paced, action-oriented experience.

Other topics covered in the video include Rivet City, Vault 112 Tranquility Lane, the fate of the player’s father, the Citadel, Little Lamplight, Vault 87, Oasis, Liberty Prime, Project Impurity, Pipboy and the ending of Fallout 3. Suffice it to say that Bethesda has cut many different story elements from the main mission series, including things that could have dramatically changed the experience.

It’s not necessarily surprising that a game like Fallout 3 has so much cut content; it is, after all, a huge game. Sometimes plans change, and large amounts of content have to be cut because of time or because of new restrictions that Bethesda wasn’t aware of. But often content is simply tweaked to tell a better story.

It’s also important to note that Fallout 3 was the first time Bethesda took the Fallout franchise into the third person. It probably learned a lot of lessons in the process. These lessons were carried over into the development of Fallout 4, and will likely be incorporated into the development of Fallout 5 in the future.

Fallout 3 is available on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 and you can read a retro review of the game here.