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Having literally learned what videogames could be from this era of games, I really enjoyed this video, and I enjoyed your perspective and I think your voice is soothing. Please keep it up!

Solid video, I'm not even 30 and I've seen gaming change so much, not for the better (except the indie scene is killing it). It's nice to see older games, glad i got to enjoy it while it was good.

This deserve more attention, I watched till the end without even realizing.

Why do we rarely get games like this anymore? Because its harder to sell a product to people that isn’t easy to understand with simple concepts and easy to grasp, simple gameplay that anyone can understand.its especially hard for people who have no idea how to show players things effectively and without 15 terminal entries.

Fallout 2's departure from what one provided was acceptable. different but good. fallout 3, 4, 76, and vegas(still great but its different) aren't what I wanted from the series

fallout 1 to me is the most tonally and thematically consistent game in the series. great video, you deserve more subs and WAY more views

Well, then don't play the open worlds of Bethesda, what's the problem

I'm glad to see someone appreciating Morrowind's combat. It's far from perfect, but it had a lot of interesting ideas that was killed before it got a chance to be polished and iterated on.

Open world games feel empty, The combat is boring and unimpactfull ussualy a quest is just about fetching some items (bethesda). The loot is either too plenty or respawns so frequently that there is no point to moving locations (Unturned). and whatever loot you do get is either completely useless or so overpowered that you can finish the game with. Then there is games like dying light where you kill a horde of enemies for you to turn you back and have them respawn all over again ALMOST no one can get it right and to those who do I have incredible amount of respect for. A lot of open world games are releasing this year and I don't know if I should glad or scared because it is my favorite type of game but barely done right.

Im sick of ussesless small channels popping into my feed, you are not such a channel I saw that from the titel alone keep it up.

I have a hard time playing games that are mission/level based like Doom Eternal for example (fucking love Doom tho) i like having some down time in between the big stuff and just be in the world at all times. I thought i loved open world games because of that, but i slowly gravitated towards games with hub worlds like Yakuza, map based like Monster Hunter and Souls games, overall smaller but much denser worlds.

Most open world games are trash these days

I started Skyrim after playing Oblivion naturally. It was still very confusing at first. Took me years to find out what was happening between the war and politics

How do you have ONLY 800 subs! This is crazy

I'm coming back to this amazing game now and loving it so much. Play it in little episodes and soak it in. Even talk back to the characters as they talk to you. Immerse yourself. This game is awesome.

When i have 10x as many hours as the game reviewer:🗿

If you hide during the Ghost Town Gunfight and don't do anything else to offend the powder gangers you can still do their quests. I don't know if you always can my save is a bit weird but so far on my no kill run the powder gangers have shunned me but I can still do their quests.

Examining? Exa Mining? I understand that english is your second language but i still can't beleive it

This is my all time favorite game. I prefer to play it the right way, and not kill any humans (except for the ones in the mission after Frontline where you're on the rail car and you have to in order to finish the level.) I suppose it's okay to kill human enemies in 2033, as the bad ending is canon, and you're supposed to learn that killing is bad and unnecessary by the end. If I remember correctly, Artyom doesn't kill anyone in the novel. By the time of Last Light, Artyom should have regretted his decisions in 2033, and Last Light should definitely be played through without killing human enemies. The story and atmosphere of Metro is unmatched by anything else. I prefer the claustrophobic tunnels of 2033 and Last Light. I did enjoy Exodus, but my favorite part of that game was Novosibirsk.

you know you can side with goodsprings against the powder gangers and not lockout the quest at the prison you just gotta make sure you don't actually kill any of them and only chip their health down for the others to kill them not to ruin your point but there is a middle option with all the reward or you can do the prisons missions and go back to goodsprings

FNV creates a theme park for you to explore at your own pace. Games written by Emil Pagliarulo are made for linear games with unskipable cutscenes, and written poorly.

New Vegas only works because of the faction reputation system. Without that, the individual stories would feel as hollow and isolated as they do in Fallout 4. But because all these isolated quests feed into a bigger system that flips switches and changes variables for other quests, it allows isolated quests and stories to have impact on the whole game world. This is where the illusion of impact comes from with it's narrative design. It's not the quests themselves that have any actual impact. Most quests don't do anything beyond their specific locations. But they do typically change faction reputation values. Other quests throughout the game then change what choices are available to you based on your faction reputation values. This gives the various isolated parts of the world the illusion of impact on the whole world. If you were to completely disable the reputation system entirely, the quests would instantly stop feeling impactful.

7:00 reason why many HATE bethesda

The one thing I don like about new Vegas is that killing powder gangers gets you good karma, but taking their stuff makes you lose karma

Probably the 15th video if watched on New Vegas from a small channel. I've 100% re-caught the NV bug

Sadly Emil Pagliarulo talking about Fallout, it annoys me that he treats storytelling as garbage. People actually do care about lore and consistency.

Yes! That's what I've been trying to say about New Vegas. It's NOT realistic in any way but the logic within the world of the game is consistent and somewhat grounded!

I laughed at you saying the story of New Vegas is excellent and brilliantly written. I've just finished my first playthrough and I've been scratching my head as to why people love it. The story keeps coming up as a reason but the player character has literally no motivation from act 2. The hunt for Benny makes sense. You get to mete out justice if that's what you're into, you find out why you were attacked. Fine. But then what follows assumes you have a vested interest in the fate of the Mojave, which frankly I did not. You go on to say the way the story unfolds is in the players hands... kinda... but it's really just doing different fetch quests to queue up a different slide show at the end. Are there any in-game changes to your actions other than getting attacked by factions that don't like you? I went with the independent ending because I really didn't care about any of the factions (apart from maybe the Boomers) by the end of the game and so my motivation was killing out of boredom and so I could see the credits roll. You go on to talk about how skipped content has a failsafe state like it's not common in these kinds of games but also, guess what? New Vegas absolutely sucks at this too. I have a list a mile long of instances where the game doesn't account for these sorts of things. Eg if you talk to Veronica about the Vegas Strip she says she's never been there, even if you've been there with her multiple times. A member of the Legion told me I'm close to making an enemy of Caesar, after I'd blown Caesar's head off and was reviled by the Legion. I learned about the history of the Boomers and how they planned to raise a plane from a lake. In doing so I passed a skill check to suggest raising it with ballasts. When I later had to talk to the guy about raising the plane, the only way to progress the dialogue was to say I didn't know about it, nor how to raise it. I spoke to Diane at the Khan's camp, then her partner. After he mentioned Diane, the only option I had to talk about her was "who is Diane?". Factions also don't seem to react to you joining, which seems odd. This isn't nit-picking either: stuff like this happened so often that it became distracting. So good on them for figuring that people might run straight to New Vegas, but they missed out a lot of other things. You mention Vault 22 and maybe I just misunderstood, but when I picked up There Stands the Grass having already visited, I still had dialogue suggesting I'd not been there and when I handed over the data immediately the guy thanked me for going and my options were things like "you didn't warn me about the danger"... so again it seems they've figured these things out for some areas and not others. And maybe I just had an unlucky playthrough finding instances contrary to what you're suggesting. TL;DR the writing really isn't as good as you're making out imo.

One way to look at being able to slaughter so many in faction and still join them later. If there is no survivor, there is no one to tell that faction who killed all of the members, therefore they have no way of knowing what you did, especially since there is no modern technology to find DNA evidence or cameras to capture what happened.

There is a general philosophical difference between how bethesda and obsidian write everything in their games. One is, on paper, the more attractive option. Bethesda gives you the philosophy that a game should allow the player to "go anywhere they want". They focus heavily on creating bigger and bigger worlds. Every single todd howard speech is almost exactly the same. A heavy focus on size and freedom. This approach is instantly attractive to most (inexperienced) players. After all, so many games limit your experience to predetermined questlines and linear or semi-linear world design. The type of open world fps/slasher that bethesda tends to make, therefore hits a specific spot many people crave. There is a major downside to this though. Obsidian's philosophy, for new vegas at least, implies that freedom ISN'T doing any possible action at any given time, going anywhere you want whenever you want. Or if that IS freedom, it at least isn't the good kind. Their philosophy revolves around choice leading to consequences that are meaningful within the world, for the gameplay, as a reward, or to progress the story or develop the characters. This is the fundamental difference, and I believe, what drives so many people to new vegas' design rather than Bethesda's copy-pasted worlds. A world that is filled with choices and consequences, all being meaningfully connected, remembered by characters, commented on by npc's, is a far more interesting, thought-provoking experience, then simply being dropped in an empty sandbox and told we can go "anywhere". Think of it like this: Every day I can make an infinite amount of choices in my life. I can decide to do any random number of oddly specific things, all specifically chosen by me. Some of them more relevant or practical than others. However, only every once in a while do I need to make a choice that is actually meaningful to me, my life, the people around me... We do not generally tend to think of freedom as the infinite amount of possibilities within a given time-frame. If this were the case, a slave working the fields should consider itself free whenever they choose to do the same generic things day in day-out. Every choice they make, is a choice, no matter how you look at it. We are fundamentally FREE, in the subjective sense. However, absolutely nobody would actually believe the slave to be free in a MEANINGFUL SENSE. Only if the slave is freed from their bonds and allowed interaction with the world on THEIR terms, can such a thing be possible. Bethesda gives the player a million tiny freedoms, that add up to basically nothing. You are free to go in any direction. But why should I? You are free to kill any opponent anywhere in the world at a beginner's level, but is this rewarding to me? You are free to be "good" or "evil", but why should that choice matter to me? Bethesda gives you the OPTION of doing something, without giving the player proper REASONS for it. Or if they do, it happens far too rarely. Fallout 4 felt incredibly empty, boring, lifeless, despite being the "biggest" fallout they had made so far. Every enterable building was huge and filled to the brim with STUFF. With CONTENT. But not with anything meaningful. New vegas, on the other hand, has smaller buildings, a more tightly-designed open world map, more limitations to how people can move around and explore, which makes CONQUERING those limitations through resourcefulness, skill, or plain experience a MEANINGFUL thing. In the end, Obsidian's philosophy of freedom through consequence, is a far more meaningful, memorable and enjoyable experience than the TOTAL freedom that is Bethesda's philosophy. There is something attractive about the latter as well, but it quickly becomes stale. If bethesda WANTS to improve (they don't. skyrim brought in the big bucks, and the only thing they do nowadays is just copy-paste mainstream successes, removing player enjoyability in exchange for microtransactions and actually scam people repeatedly. Their creativity is dead.) they need to suck up their pride and admit new vegas' design was superior in pretty much every single possible manner, excluding the bugs and crashes. And players too need to recognize this. This is the reason I won't get tired of new vegas essays. Ever. This stuff needs to be said a hundred times over until other developers learn. (Also new vegas' combat and stats design is far superior to any roleplaying combat mechanic I've ever come across. Damage treshold and ammunition types are a gamechanger, and nobody freaking talks about it.)

Nice and all but it's still just a game. Takes forever to really get started because you can't make it anywhere with weak guns and constantly being hit by bugs and creatures

And Warhorse just announced the sequel. Perfect time to take another dive and play KCD again.

You have know idea how much I respect you for modding FNV but not using the Character Overhaul

I need the mods you're using

Ordinary people don't want RPGs, they want RPG flavoring. Then again, BG3 sold amazingly, so maybe there's a turn coming.

no wonder i have 300 hours in this game

you can delay the Goodsprings defense until you do the Powder Gangers' quests

Not to diminish the point about choice, because it still stands, but it's entirely possible to side with Goodsrings and only receive only a "shunned" relationship with the Powder Gangers. It requires some effort on the players part. For one thing you need to pass all the conversation checks for the people of Goodsprings to get them on board with helping Ringo; specifically getting the meds from Doc Mitchell (which has no check actually, he's a good guy and gives them), Chet's leather armor, and Trudy; to get as many other people from the town in as you can. You need the people of Goodsprings to join the fight and to have some DT and health recovery because they will have to do all the kill'n. During the fight avoid killing Powder Gangers, especially Joe Cobb (so be carful with dynamite). Use VATS to disarm and cripple them, but try not to actually kill any yourself. Ringo also needs to survive if you want the cap and rep reward, he will usually finish off Cobb, but you might need to help him. You will almost always get "Shunned" by the Power Gangers. But 'shunned' doesn't make them hostile. You can still go to Eddie at the NCRCF (after paying Dawes at the door) to do the quests for the Powder Gangers; eventually improving rep with them... Unless you betray Eddie to the NCR.

But how does every member of a faction know who you are and what you have done?

3:25 That's not 100% true. You can equip their armour and quickly pass by powders guard and find their leader and do their quest line. Also if you don't kill any powder during goodsprings defending their town, you'll still lose rep with powders but way less allowing you to do their quest line

Putting a clip of Emil make me laugh as if he can write

My favorite game of all time and I love how you ended it saying we were the art piece all along. New Vegas is the ultimate rpg in my eyes, again my favorite game ever.

As a Fallout 1 and 2 enjoyer I was super sceptical about playing New Vegas...I'm on my 2nd playthrough now...ave Caesar (in this walkthrough))

why are you playing with project nevada 💀

"Video essayist or A YAPPER". Subscribed instantly.

"No likey, no lighty!"

Modern Bethesda’s solution to players “making paper airplanes” is to superglue the pages into the book. New Vegas and BG3 meanwhile had the pages made to be as aerodynamic as possible

Cool to see the younglings re visiting the classics. Have you gotten around to knights of the old republic my man? Or jedi Knight series for that matter.

Always makes me happy to see a filthy frank refrence

No other games made me felt like this game ever made. Knowing the consequences of my actions from previous quests, I had to decide the fate of Freeside. I became paralysed, literally had to lay down and search every single path that leads to goodness but none of them are optimistic. If there is a time limit, I would have chosen every single worst choice and worsen the Mojave.