Loading screens

This page lists *Old World Blues* **loading screens**. They are selected at random and displayed in the main menu and while the game loads new and saved games. Each slide is accompanied by a quote from various characters throughout the game world and *Fallout* series.

## Gallery

### 4.0 loading screens

Walled CityShady Sands in the 2270sThe NurseryCouncil Hall

## Loading screen quotes

*"My Legion obeys me, even unto death. Why? Because they live to serve the greater good, and they know of no alternatives."*
- Caesar

*"These new governments, they think they've got all the answers. Blah, blah. Been there, seen that, got the scars."*
- Marcus

*"A safe people is a strong people."*
- President Tandi

*"You are the great western light of California, torch-bearers in the darkness, living reminders of all that is best in our republic."*
- President Kimball

*"<DEATH IS A PREFERABLE ALTERNATIVE TO COMMUNISM>"*
- Liberty Prime

*"They (profligates) live in pitiful squalor, undisciplined, intemperate. To enslave them is to save them - to give them purpose, and virtue."*
- Canyon Runner

*"Oh yes, raised in that tradition. And the teaching stuck. I was taught it was my responsibility to bring the torch of knowledge to the wastes."*
- Caesar

*"I don't enjoy killing, but when done righteously, it's just a chore, like any other."*
- Joshua Graham

*"Truth is, the game was rigged from the start."*
- Benny

*"We don't have to dream that we're important. We are."*
- Mr House

*"Success depends on forethought, dispassionate calculation of probabilities, accounting for every stray variable."*
- Mr House

*"If you want to see the fate of democracies, look out the windows."*
- Mr House

*"Calm is what you have to be when people look to you. And it's all you can be when things are out of your hands."*
- Colonel James Hsu

*"The last thing you never see."*
- 1st Recon's motto

*"Life has a way of punishing you for the mistakes you make."*- Boone

*"If you set aside his (Caesar's) leadership capabilities, extensive knowledge, and ruthless cunning... He's just another jerk who steps on people to get his way."*
- Arcade Gannon

*"The Kings are about an idea, you see? Where every man is free to follow his own path, do his own thing. Where every man is a king in his own right."*
- The King

*"Seems like wherever I go it's always the same. Folks just never leave each other alone."*
- Doc Mitchell

*"Burn away the flags. Begin again."*
- Ulysses

*"Bull and Bear over the Dam, at each other's throats... but a light from Vegas? Ball spinning on the wheel, more than two at the table."*
- The Forecaster

*"If war doesn't change, men must change, and so must their symbols."*
- Ulysses

*"People called me a hero after what happened at HELIOS, but I left that battle scarred by fear, and have allowed that weakness to govern my actions."*
- Nolan McNamara

*"War. War never changes."*

*"Another settlement needs our help."*
- Preston Garvey

*"Look at the scorched earth and the bones that litter the wasteland. Millions... perhaps even billions, died because science outpaced man's restraint!"*
- Arthur Maxson

*"Pledge in your hearts and minds, pledge by your guns that you will stand with them in battle until the end, trust each of them with your life."*
- Elder Lyons

*"The Republic of Dave is the only true sovereign nation in the Wasteland. The only really civilized place left in the world."*
- Dave

*"Tunnel Snakes Rule!"*
- Butch DeLoria

*"You really need to agitate the pandas to get them engaged in combat.
They're very docile by nature."*

*"Gary!
- Gary"*

*"Giraffes are heartless creatures"*

*"Restoring the greatest country in the world to its former glory, well... Well, that takes time, even for the Enclave.
- John Henry Eden*

*"There's nothing I like better than making some other poor bastard die for his country."*
- Sergeant RL-3

*"I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely."*
- Revelation 21:6

*"You're a hero... but you have to leave."*
- Overseer Jacoren

*"As long as there are differences, we will tear ourselves apart fighting each other. We need one race. One goal. One people... to move forward to our destiny."*
- The Master

*"The only way for true humans, and democracy, to be safe is to cleanse the mutants from the globe. We humans will take back that which is rightfully ours."*
- Dick Richardson

*"Stoppen or die young stumpy!"*
- Steiner Von Grinchenhauzen

*"To win a war you don't have to treat your people well. You just have to treat them better than they believe the enemy will."*
- The Kalomte Sebastián II

*"Be who you want to be. The people will love you for that."*
- The Ti'huun Clara Guzmán

*"The Master lives!"*

*"So what shall it be? Do you join the Unity, or do you die here? Join! Die! Join! Die!"*
- The Master

*"The Unity will bring about the master race. Master! Master! One able to survive, or even thrive, in the wasteland. As long as there are differences, we will tear ourselves apart fighting each other. We need one race. Race! Race! One goal. Goal! Goal! One people... to move forward to our destiny. Destiny."*

*"Do you remember the good old days where the Master ruled over us all?"*
- Best Friend Tabitha

*"The Master thought he could unify everyone. No more differences, no more war. Didn't end well."*
- Marcus

*"I am the chief of the Great Khans - the Khan of Khans, if you like. This is my tribe and these are my people."*
- Papa Khan

*"Cool. Scary, but cool."*
- Jack, describing Regis

*"I will show you fear in a handful of dust."*
- T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land

*"Maximilian is personally very nice, but I'm the president of Rio and he's the ghost of someone we already killed once. Of course we're hacking him."*
- Valentina Rosado

*"It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees."*
- Emiliano Zapata

*"I forgive everyone, and I ask everyone to forgive me. May my blood, which is about to be shed, be for the good of the country. Viva Mexico, viva la independencia!"*
- Maximilian I

*"History teaches us, gentlemen, that great generals remain generals by never underestimating their opposition."*
- General Santa Anna

*"I don't enjoy killing, but when done righteously, it's just a chore, like any other."*
- Joshua Graham

*"Maybe there is no place left in this world for mercy. But even if it tramples me into the dust, I will never accept it. And I will never condone it."*
- Daniel

*"Well, we got a chupacabra with an automatic weapon. And that's when they get real quiet, 'cause now they see the predicament we're in."*
- No-bark Noonan

*"Commie ghosts what don't know they're dead. Hoping to steal our rockets so they can fly up and paint the moon pink and draw a Lenin face on it."*
- No-bark Noonan

*"Walk with determination and a shotgun, breach action preferably."*
- Edward Jefferson Rusk

*"Hand me that Cigar, Kiddo."*
- Edward Jefferson Rusk

*"If the future isn't bright, at least it's colourful."*
- Lushanya Harjo

*"There are no Gods, only Death."*
- Chi-Pa, S'lanter Scout

*"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; / Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. [...] The lone and level sands stretch far away."*
- Percy Bysshe Shelly, Ozymandias

*"Do not be afraid; our fate
Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift."*
- Dante Alighieri, Inferno

*"There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors."*
- Frank Herbert, Dune

*"Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light."*
- Dylan Thomas

*"can we forget the flash? / suddenly 30,000 in the streets disappeared
in the crushing depths of darkness / the shrieks of 50,000 died out"*
- Tōge Sankichi, August 6

*"The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori."*
 - Wilfred Owen

*"I don't intend to wait for opportunity to knock; I am in the business of opening the door."*
- Baron Garcia

*"No Mas Iguales"*
- Sinaloa Creed

*"Let the ring decide"*
- Free Fighters Motto

*"I don't always gamble the lives of my people, but when I do, I prefer to win."*
- Generalissimo Vialla

*"The question sometimes changes, but speed's always the answer."*
- Will Faster

*"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something."*
- Pancho Villa

*"I am not an educated man. I never had an opportunity to learn anything except how to fight..."*
- Pancho Villa

*"Order from chaos, Justice from villainy, and Freedom from tyranny."*
- Arizona Rangers Motto

*"One must walk carefully between the footfalls of giants."*
- Sajal Tobias Rey II

*"Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."*
- J. Robert Oppenheimer

*"Did you know that even a child can apply enough pressure to the right spot in your kneecap to cripple you for life? Just thought you'd want to know. - The Vault Dweller*

*"My hair was scorched by swirling flame / My eyes grew dim, my eyes grew blind
Death came and turned my bones to dust / And that was scattered by the wind\"*
- The Byrds, I Come and Stand at Every Door

*"Our time's done
Red lost to autumn
The songs are sung"*

*"There's nothing I love more, than making some other dumb bastard die for his candidate."*
- Gold King, 2233

*"We make the future, folks. Whether we want to or not."*
- Maxwell Chase

*"SPEAK OH ORB, AND TELL ME WHETHER I WALK THE PATH OF GLORY!"*
- Chronicles of Samson, page 79

*"Outlook not so good."*
- The Infinity-Orb

*"It is in service of Steel and guardianship of one's Brothers that each man finds his purpose. My friends, stand with your Brothers. Guard them... Guide them. And in each of them find purpose."*
- Elder Patrocolus

*"So, I devote this to you, Mother, and to all who stood beside me. When a day comes where I perish - withered or bloodied - I rest easy, knowing that I was loved. And that I loved. And that, for a time, was enough to build a world."*
- Sentinel Honour

*"The world is a cruel place. It's important, knowing that, that we should always take care of one another."*
- Chief Orange-Sky

*"I have failed in my hopes of preserving peace, but I have protected these people from the fangs of bloody men like you. I have not forgotten how to slay a serpent on the side of the road."*
- Amgalan

*"I don't know what a Khan is, but I ain't seeing anything great."*
- Baron Bailey

*"Now it's come to my attention that those folks in Rawlins have fallen on some real hard times. With their people and herds in such dire straits I feel the only neighborly thing to do is to reintroduce some law and order in the area. They may not understand at first, but they'll thank me one day."*
- Baron Bailey

*"A tribe not ready for war is a dead tribe walking."*
- Esen

*"The biggest mistake you ever made was thinking you owned us."*
- the Bulleteater of Colorado

*"Grawwarrrmrmph"*
- Boss Morghorl

*"Smiles and patience be dammed. I'll do it myself, just give me a gun."*
- Saul A. Everett

*"You want a leader? A Prophet? A God? Darling, I'm yours and more."*
- Alumnus Archie

*"NO HABLA ESPAÑOL!"*
- Doki

*"Torch this fucking atrocity."*
- Jacobia

*"I knew I could do better... So I did."*
- Battery of Mesa Verde

*"We're suited up to protect you, not us."*
- Goddard, NCR scientist

*"The farther you get from the NCR, the more like animals they become."*
- General Coleridge, about disciplining his own men

*"I had been built two years too late for the reason I had been created. And there was nothing I could do when the End came."*
- the ZAX unit of Boulder
## Behind the scenes

* The New California Republic Council Hall loading screen is based on the real-world Council Chambers in Buffalo, New York's City Hall.

## References

1. ↑ **Saw some artwork of this mod and noticed that this NCR senate room is a piece for piece recreation of the Council Chambers in Buffalo NY's City Hall. Do what you will with this information.**
Nuclear-Forest: *"Yep, i used it as reference for this piece. Can you blame me? its a damn good looking council hall"*