Not false necessarily, there was indeed a bonus for a metacritic score of 85+ that they did not receive. But nobody at Obsidian thought they were "screwed", it was always just an extra and not one that they were like expecting or desperately counting on. So the framing of it being a screwjob is for sure completely dishonest.
@@bruhvenant I guess it would be fairer to say that Obsidian's reputation after New Vegas caused them to nearly go tits up. No idea how big the bonus was, but the idea that Bethesda negotiated a contract with a company that forgoes royalties, REALLY makes me pissy because that is one company screwing the other because they are passionate and will agree to it. Just like the game studios screw workers with passion. It hits a very particular nerve.
@@bruhvenant Eh, I feel like you can acknowledge that nobody at the studio viewed it as being screwed and still think that a 1 pt metacritic difference still smells like a screwjob. Its the whole "I'm used to working 60 hrs a week" thing. I think a person can be okay with that schedule and that other people who would mind can call it out for being a shitty overworking schedule on average too. That's sortof the situation with the bonus, imo. Obsidian didn't mind and so we shouldn't be angry on their behalf, because its inane and inaccurate, but we can still say it was a shitty, good-will-destroying way for Bethesda to handle it.
"It is said that Vinnie Glitter still frequents the restrooms of New Vegas to this very day. Though no one who has seen him has come forward out of embarrassment" - Doc Mitchell
Vinnie Glitter build idea: A focus on sneak along with Confirmed Bachelor to really get the guys with their pants down. Next step is to go bare handed. While you can't outright fuck a man in the ass in this game, you can sure as hell simulate what its like to make him take it up to the elbow like a raunchy Jeff Dunham show. You can also feel free to take leather armor or not for that....added flavor (I won't judge).
Still kills me how little time they were given, but that's probably the contractors fault. At the same time the fact that it's the best in the series really shows how lacking Bethesda in the...everything but the maybe gameplay department after NV.
@@SteefPip The original Fallout was my first, not on release mind you. I was late to the party. NV was the third game I've played actually, played it before Fo3. Baseless assumptions get you nowhere my friend.
I feel the same way about classic graphics, the only texture pack ill use for loz Majora's Mask is Nerrels texture pack because its literally just uped resolutions of the og's.
I'm sorry but the paladin who calmly says "hello" after you and Veronica discover a shack full of dead followers fucking kills me 😂love the ai to death
I don't know if I'm really lucky or if everyone on RUclips is exaggerating, but in my 300 hours of vanilla New Vegas it crashed maybe 5 times and no file corruption. Much better than some modern AAA games.
@@AbaddonAlmighty To be fair that describes most playthroughs of CP2077, at the beginning you'll barely survive a one-on-one fight but by halfway through the game you're mowing people down like nothing Doing a fists only game after my next playthrough, looking forward to it
Something I love about New Vegas' storytelling is how your decisions can make entire characters and plotlines totally irrelevant. Like, if you side with the NCR, killing Caesar is a huge deal. He's target #1, the most important goal in taking down the Legion for the NCR is to take him out. It marks a tidal shift in the NCR's plans when you kill him. But if you follow House? If you take his orders and don't attack Caesar? He dies _offscreen._ The entirety of the Fort just gets wiped out by the Securitron army, and you don't even see his death. He becomes _inconsequential_ to the story. And I love that.
In fact, the Platinum Chip, the mcguffin of the entire game, is nothing to the NCR. If you play for them, you don't need to ever get, or meet Benny at all, or meet Ceasar. In fact the only person you have to kill for the NCR is House, which you need to do in 3 of the 4 endings. So in a way House is more important than Ceasar, Kimball, Lanius, Olivier and the rest. At first it looks like you always do the same things but with different results for every ending, but in fact every story is different. With the NCR you don't interact with the White Gloves at all. With all the others, you don't need to meet the Kings. It's a game where you should really experience the 4 storylines.
@@AgusSkywalker bruh, deadass didn't even know that. Played tons of hours of new Vegas but never finished the game. Thats crazy. What always keeps me coming back is how varied each playthrough is. 2022 and I find missions I never even knew and im not even done
@@rikifromplanetk8305 If you are in pc install the functional post game ending+living desert to experience the cut content that devs intended for the game coupled with all the dlcs it is quite an experience lorewise and gameplaywise since lonesomeroad ties it all together
I remember when my buddy was going through the game and I was watching him, he massacred the entire Kings of School of Impersonation because one of them harassed Veronica and they all turned hostile once he killed one of them. He didn't do any of their quests. I never would have thought to approach the game that way because I just like the Kings and usually do their questline
I really want to see a fallout set in a snowy region (maybe finally see what happened to post-US annex and post-nuclear canada turned into) just to hear what would be the reverse of that line.
@@Viennas_Sausages Most of PN features can be replaced with distinct more recent mods, granted it's not a one stop shop, but a bit of effort you'll end up with alot more polished and complete package that utilize new features of NVSE. PN is simply out dated and can be replaced with more user and performance friendly options that don't require continous script running to operate as intended.
Dude left out the entire encounter with Benny including telling his partners what he did. The snow globes. The kings missions shows how the NCR works with citizens vs non citizens. Left out every single follower. Wouldn't expect him to have actually done research or put in effort
That graphics tangent is exactly how I feel about Oblivion. I just like the goofiness in the delivery of the dialogue mixed with everyone looking like caricatures of themselves. It’s just stupid, campy goodness that I can’t help but enjoy.
I remember the first time I boot up nv on my Xbox 360, having my eyes raped by the graphics and quiting the game in half an hour. Fuck this shit is ugly! Thankfully I gave it another shot a couple months later and falling in love with it. Bitch may be ugly, but fuck she is interesting
I just can't do it, I can't mod out the ugly models. It just doesn't feel the same anymore. The textures and models look oh so dated but I just can't stand the sight of them being "improved". This is oh so much more obvious in Stalker games, tho not the environment but the character models, I can't use the HD models because it makes me sick, they look really good, but they're not the same. Tho I do funnily enough enjoy weapon mods
If you're using Mod Organizer 2, you can have multiple mod lists you can swap around. I'd recommend using Viva New Vegas in your spare time. It's the definitive modlist, and keeps the game (mechanically) vanilla and generally makes it awesome to play. You can even pick and choose to not have certain mods if you don't want them. Speaking of things you can choose not to give, you don't have to give Veronica the video tape given to you by Father Elijah in Dead Money. It normally buffs her attack speed, but you can cuck her out of character development and keep it for yourself.
Was gonna post this same exact thing. If you want to mod new Vegas, pls for the love of god check out viva new Vegas. Why? Because it explain to you why each mod work and most importantly, you don’t spend another 4 hour trying to fix your mod list. Having Viva new Vegas is like building a solid concrete foundation for all your other whacky mod idea.
Question, i’ve been a NMM/Vortex user for years but have been really wanting to transfer to MO2. Problem is I got huge modlists for all my nexus based games and I cant really be f*ckef to transfer them all manually. Can MO2 detect my Vortex modlist and copy and paste it like so?
More than anything Viva New Vegas is THE place to start if you're just getting into modding. It's essentially a simple, straightforward guide on how to mod the game properly. It guides you step by step, making it so unlikely you're gonna mess up anything. It's great, even as a foundation to mod upon further if desired. But really, if you're playing New Vegas just to experience New Vegas, you don't need all the fancy mods.
Ever consider that house only had the last years of his mortal life to make the platinum chip data, but had 165 (minus a "couple decades") to just... code a new one
@@StratEdgyProductions econmies of scale, some technology requires a cities worth of stuff, tell a nuclear scientist to make a hydrogen bomb and give him 165 years, doesn't matter he doesn't have the people or economies of scales to manufacture a nuke even if he had another 100 scientists and workers with him
As house describes he spent like 40 years just trying to survive. The man is primarily a business man. Sure a programmer but he wasn't and egghead eccentric.
One thing I definitely recommend you try since you’re a fellow punching things enjoyer is stacking all of the attack speed items at once. Slayer perk, greased lightning power fist (or saturnite fist), and some Rushing Water. You’ll punch so fast that the game can’t register the sounds to match the punches, quite the sight. 😂
at a certain point though the game does force you to pick a side, a stealth build that can kill w/o affecting rep much can play the factions against eachother and be loved up until the very end
Yeah you can go a pretty decent way through every faction, but there is a point where you are forced to commit to one or the other. I always try to progress through all of them as far as I can; killing House for Caesar, installing Yes Man into the Lucky 38, upgrading House's Securition Army, and I usually just end up committing to the NCR anyway lol
It is very tricky to do but, if you hold a save before certain main faction missions, it IS possible to have the Legion, NCR, Followers, Brotherhood, Novac and, Lucky 38 safehouses all accesible in one file. The only real way to do this is to do every quest that upsets the Legion before Vulpes gives you the pendant outside of Chanandler Bong's hotel.
In regards to modding: Project Nevada is dogshit. It’s spaghettini code on top of spaghetti code. I recommend the Viva New Vegas guide if you want a comprehensive modding guide, which includes the do’s and don’t’s on mods. The guy who wrote it does modernized compatibility patches as well to cut down on crashes between mods. Personally the only graphical mod I use is Titans of the New West, which makes power armor look like power armor from 1,2 and 4.
Just use Just Mods and the stand alone project Nevada cybernetics mod. Those two approximate PN functionality plus other great modern game stuff. I think viva new Vegas recommends those too
Idk why games, bethesda in particular, still have to use face sliders when dragon's dogma made it very clear that picking all your features from a list is a thousand times nicer. Must be a time limit thing
You know the fact that it took me like about maybe like near 8 years to realise that Matthew Perry voiced Benny really tells you how well he voiced that character, he was not just doing Chandler but he really gave the character a voice of its own to such a degree that you just love to hate Benny in a way that you just want to listen to his dialogue again.
The thing about Perception is that it isn't directly important, but a few very big skill checks require Perception of 6. One of which is required to get access to a quest in New Vegas, and the others are in the DLC such as being able to understand Christine. I normally go Perception 3 for this reason. This being that it is fairly easy to raise Perception 3 points on a moments notice with a hat and some mentats.
Agreed. To this day buying a game and not getting a fucking actual disc with the data on it, makes me feel cheated somehow. And as always around midnight or early morning next day the download is done too, not even 10 years ago, even today as I'm Australian and our internet consists of copper wires, duct tape and dixie cups attached with string. Because old people don't know what the internet is besides Facebook and ebay
1:20:50 I've heard this complaint a lot, and I understand where you're coming from, but I think you're ignoring something fundamental about role playing games: you're supposed to use your imagination. We think of all these graphics and 3d models as a replacement for imagination, but they're not, they're just a more complex version of the miniatures you would play with on a game board. The towns and cities are small because you're supposed to fill in the blank spaces yourself, and all that's physically there is the important stuff you're actually going to interact with as a player. It reminds me of that one joke from Zoolander where Ben Stiller is looking at a model of a building and he's like "What is this, a center for ants!? Make it bigger!" The joke being that he confused what was obviously meant as a representation of a thing for the thing itself. RPG towns are the same way, they're a "town for ants" because they're just supposed to give you the idea so your mind can imagine what they're trying to get across, it's not supposed to be 1-to-1.
I love the way New Vegas actually lets you roleplay, unlike what Bethesda's Fallout games do. (especially Fallout 4, where you are forced to roleplay as Ethan Mars from Heavy Rain no matter how you build your character) Some of my favorite roleplays include a super hero who solves most problems with his flame sword and martial arts, an NCR knockoff of John Rambo, an Agent 47 style hitman, and a violent schoolgirl lost in time. As a fan of the first 2 Fallout games myself, I fully agree with you about the Brotherhood of Steel. It's clear Bethesda doesn't get what they are at all, especially when they threw them into Appalachia so haphazardly in Fallout 76 despite that game taking place around the same time as Fallout 1.
LOL you kids and your obsession with a rushed and small game. There's little difference in how your decisions effect gameplay. The only thing you get for your "roleplaying experience" is a different voice over at the end. Fallout New Vegas, though a very good game, isn't as good as you all make it out to be. I feel the same way about the original Fallout because it was my first Fallout game too, it doesn't prevent me from seeing the obvious flaws in the game.
Lol violent schoolgirl lost in time 😂🤣 that’s great. This game is so legendary for letting you actually pull that off. One of the greatest games of all time
@@SteefPip First, I'm not a kid, I'm over 30 years old. Second, I never said Fallout New Vegas was flawless. Third, my argument that Bethesda's Fallout games are badly written is valid. "Who wants to roleplay in a roleplaying game?" is one of the silliest questions I have ever been asked. Why would I want to build a unique character all my own, with their own goals and backstories? In Fallout 4, your character, no matter how you build them, already has a backstory and goals that revolve around your character's son Shaun. In short, you're Ethan Mars from Heavy Rain. There's even a "Press X to Shaun" mod for Fallout 4 mocking this fact.
Strat, when I found your work I gotta say I've really enjoyed everything you do. You have a way with words and insight, not to mention the jokes. I definitely love this game. It's got a charm about it and is way more vast than I expected. I've put so much time into it, but my first playthrough I didn't do much. That changed when I decided second run to branch out and try everything I could. I also love how this games DLC all intertwine with each other in story and weave into the lore and story of the vanilla game. Brilliant stuff. PS you should eventually in the future cover the DLCs for this game
"And that's why I like the Legion; Not because I wanna be a member, but because it's an extreme version of the subtle Legion that we're already apart of." Fuck.
Wild thing about game development is that half the time is dealing with authentication and legal mumbo-jumbo, so only a fraction of that 18 month dev time was actually used to develop. Amazing what a dedicated group of ppl can accomplish when they give a fug.
To be fair, a LOT of the conceptual groundwork was laid down beforehand in the Fallout:Van Buren project. That, combined with using Fallout 3’s engine, meant they could use most of that time for implementing ideas rather than needing to spend as much time troubleshooting the engine and the like
@@spindash64 Didn't they also mostly use assets from Fallout 3 as well. Many textures, animations, objects and sound effects are copied from Fallout 3. Fallout NV feels more like a huge expansion pack for Fallout 3 than a complete new game (doesn't take away anything from the game though). I don't have an issue with that as I honestly really enjoy the engine even if it obviously has issues, but they did some great improvements to the gameplay as well (adding iron sights for example).
I always thought it was interesting that the game starts with a Rorschach test as the game itself is a big psychological test. Even if you know the game is asking you telling questions about your principals and morality in major choices it still presents itself in minor ones and you can tell things like how you feel about protecting the weak, being self-sufficient, how many Ayn Rand books you own, if you detest authority and still won't clean your room, etc.
I always have a strong urge to go with the Yes Man ending. In the end, I can rule as I see fit. Will be a sort of Switzerland? A fortress among superpowers? Will I side with the NCR yet maintain sovereignty in return for exclusive access? Will I side with the Legion and wreak havoc on degenerates of the world? Or will I simply walk away, and leave New Vegas in the hands of Yes Man, with a final order to "do what is right" as I go and live my life in the wasteland, doing whatever I do? In the end, it's all my choice. I'm not beholden to any superior except God, I am not a victim of circumstance locked into a potentially unwinnable situation, I am the one that decides what to do and what the future holds. It's a liberating feeling.
@@StratEdgyProductions Not too bad thanks man! Hope you've been recovering well from hospital 🙂I took your recommendation to play Disco Elysium in a video and I thoroughly thoroughly enjoyed it 😄 So thanks!
BOS had alliance options with NCR and House that was cut due to release time before it went gold. There's a mod that just turns back on the dialog option too
"This game looks tired". Holy fuck that's the best description I've heard. That feeling when you start the first time, with the melancholic music and the tired voice of the doc, etc. I'm also tired of spending more time patching and modding Bethesda games than playing them so I don't even install them anymore.
New Vegas was the first steam game I had because of that same code in the box - problem was we had monthly home data limits though - i spent a solid year trying to download the game, as each time I got anywhere close for it to download, my dad would get pissed about me using all the data It was only after moving to the states more than a year later that I could play the game - screw Telstra
First playthrough: I was tired of the NCR, losing a war they once won. Met House, decided I was going to side with him because I liked the way he ran things. Then I met Caesar, who recounted everything I did against him, which was literally everything that could be done to injure the Legion at that point. He threatened to kill me, then offered to buy me a beer. Hell, only my friends talk to me like that. So I made a backup save, and went all in with Caesar.
My first playthrough consisted of me being a NCR fan until I met yesman and Mr House. Before this though, I had gotten pretty geared up before arriving to new Vegas, including robbing the entirety of that plasma gun store with a stealth boy, so I killed Benny by throwing plasma grenades at him while invisible so nobody else got mad, I then went and made every casino bankrupt before I killed Mr House as soon as I was able to, then I became friends with funny robot, stormed ceasars base killing everyone and beating up ceasar with a supersledge, and killed the NCR president with an orbital strike (which yesman actually discouraged me from doing but fuck it, not like he can say no). I also became friends with Arcade up until he brought out his Tesla coil armor. I acquired 3 sets of enclave power armor for my boys back at Mr Houses.... House. I then bought lonesome road, acquired my favorite armor, elite riot gear, and launched a nuke at both the NCR and the legion. Some time within all that I became friends with the brotherhood, after acquiring power armor training I blew up their bunker but only after abusing a glitch which gives unlimited fusion cell and other ammos like that. I destroyed the bunker with all the securitrons accidentally without realizing what I was doing, which then meant I had to do pretty much everything on my own. I pretty much put the Mojave into mass anarchy. Oh well. I reaaaaally like yesman. 😂
9:53 (Paraphrasing) "...no matter the jankiness of graphics, they never took me out of the game...I feel exactly the same way about Morrowind." Exactly, thank you!
They do well enough to serve the purpose of the game. Would I maybe like to see higher resolution textures? Absolutely. But honestly that's about all one can give it before it actually starts looking very weird due to the animations. And to upgrade the animations you'd need to overhaul the entire engine. Or you can keep the janky animations and we get Fallout 4, lol
@@vincentmarcellino7183 👍 Agreed, however I was really referring to the Morrowind part of his observation. Morrowind players either played it upon release, or they played it later. Nothing wrong with either choice, but the ones who played at release have specific, timeline related memories that can never be duplicated by players who came later, memories from when the game graphics were NOT dated. Of course, you could say that about almost ANY game from mid-90s to mid-10's because graphics were improving rapidly from year to year, it's slower now. Since TES3 took several years to complete, it was technically already at least slightly outdated at release, but that was a result of fast-moving tech, and thus completely unavoidable. There's less excuse for devs now. And I think his statement was more about aesthetic than resolution, anyway.
Absolutely splendid. Can’t wait for the DLCs where you do a combined 6 hour analysis on why Ulysses isn’t that interesting and quite boring. (Sexy voice aside)
An og tribal & former legionaire, one who (mostly) turns against his master b/c of the history he repeated in his name. One who makes you question sht on a meta level not just tangible to the game, but life itself. Whole dlc & his character's motivations may as well be a giant ad for the yes man ending. One to correct the timeless insanity of imperfect men ruling over imperfect men ala the other 3 endings. His prob is learning most-all the wrong lessons, still using the very same crafts of force & coercion that jaded his entire being. If you dont like being questioned on sht, i can get why you dont like ulysses, but that's basically fnv as a whole. Ulysses is just figuratively & literally the end game to that
So in regards to the Fallout 3 brotherhood, I don't dislike them. While they are vastly different from what exists in the original games, they writing explained that away sufficiently. Owen Lyons was part of Brotherhood a brotherhood mission east (like the ones in the spinoff games made before Interplay folded), but along the way, he had a change of heart to a more Veronica like perspective on the Brotherhood's role. Being in a position of power, he acted on it and his collogues were divided on his policies.
In addition, being so far away from the Main chapters in the West meant that he _could_ pull off some internal reforms without everyone flipping a tit.
something else that's notable in FO3 is that there are holdouts that hated Lyons' changes and formed their own splinter faction-the outcasts. The outcasts are pretty close to what FO1 and 2 BoS is like
Good to see you still making vids man, I remember you talking about being super sick and and depressed a while ago and glad to see you're still around bro, your vids got me through a lot of bad nights, especially your kotor vids 🔥🔥🔥 much love man keep on keeping ok
Great video, the only correction I'd make is the one regarding the bonus from Bethesda for meeting an arbitrary score, Chris Avellone, a founder of Obsidian and one of the writers on New Vegas, and Josh Sawyer who was the director have talked about this a good number of times, the bonus was never a part of the original deal and was only negotiated for after by management, all signs point to Feargus Urquhart for that one, and it wouldn't have staved off any of the firings at the studio. To quote Chris Avellone himself from his Medium page, specifically his new ongoing Fallout Apocrypha: "OMFG DID BETHESDA LIKE, TOTALLY, SCREW OBSIDIAN OUT OF A BONUS ON METACRITIC???!!! Nope. The “Metacritic bonus” if the game got above an 84 review score was something Bethesda offered above and beyond the New Vegas contract. We didn’t ask for this, they offered it, and it was our responsibility to hit that review score. We did have to have layoffs at Obsidian around this time period, but the bonus from Metacritic wouldn’t have prevented that from happening." Either way, superb video, nice to see someone not immediately jerking off the NCR, haha.
Indeed.. it always annoys the hell out of me when people go "f*cking bethesda totally screwed obsidian out of money" when its really not the case even tho if I were the one in bethesda at the time making this decision I would have given out the bonus but I certainly do not blame bethesda for not doing so or somehow screwing obsidian..
Fair enough, but regardless they obviously still deserved the bonus, so I still have little sympathy for Bethesda. I've literally worked with cutthroat biopharma companies that would be more honorable and generous lol
@@Ellimist000 Yeah, in hindsight I maybe would have given them the bonus if I was in charge since they were just a point off, but it is true that the game was extremely buggy at launch and took a further nine months of patching just to stabilise it, which adversely effected the development of the DLC. At the end of the day, it is a shame but it is what it is.
As intriguing as your speculative fictional idea of what a faction like Caesar's Legion could become, the fact of the Legion not having those kinds of developed aspects isn't entirely a matter of Obsidian not having time to finish them. The fact of the matter is that they are a newly-established faction that has not been around long enough for its founder to even grow old enough that he's incapable of fighting and putting up a vicious fight. Everyone currently alive in the Legion was either part of the early push willingly or they were among the tribes brutally conquered to grow it; he's managed to psychologically break most of the conquered ones to believe in his cause even if this means believing he did them a favor by slaughtering their fellows wholecloth. But there have not been any people who have *grown up* in the Legion yet. If New Vegas ever got a sequel, then it might have come to be something like what you described as Edward Sallow's descendents or chosen successors consolidated their power over those born into their society, but these are the Legion's early days and there's not really any reason for the faction to *be* more than it is. Which isn't to say that they couldn't have executed what's here a little more smoothly, but you were kind of putting the cart before the horse with the direction you took that particular tangent, I think. We saw the underdeveloped early days of what would become the NCR long before we saw the NCR in its golden days and we saw that before we saw them in their New Vegas decline. I think it's important to acknowledge that, had Obsidian had the chance, this stage of the Caesar's Legion "arc" could have provided a similar effect for this newer faction as a recurring story element.
9:03 yeah I'm like this too for example with Halo 2 The anniversary graphics are nice but the elites lose that iconic spiky silhouette they had And the old school silhouette just has charm to me
@@floatingscrib That's cause a different company did Halo 2 than the one who did Halo CE which is basically just putting reach models and graphics on everything and it sucks. I love Reach, but it doesn't fit Halo CE style wise. Also Blur Studios, who did the cutscenes for the Halo Wars games and H2A should just make an digital Halo movie at this point, or any movie for that matter. They would kill it.
My character walked funny after that unconscious stay at the Doc’s… now I don’t want to jump to conclusions, but if there’s a sudden outbreak of Monkey Pox in Goodsprings and they both have symptoms… I think someone should get the Sheriff to ask some questions.
It’s amazing how people are still making content on this videogame, quality content, I love this community as the videogame itself Waiting for the remake makes you wish for a nuclear winter 🥶 Cheers from Italy 🇮🇹
Some corrections, Hoover Dam wasn't annexed until 2075. The NCR had water resources that they ate through from mismanagement and over expansion. There were also Several Presidents before Kimball. Kimball won his Presidency after he led the soldiers who defeated a raider tribe in the Mojave. So he did have some sort of Popular mandate for expansion into the Mojave. Also based off the way you talk about FNV's open world, you would probably love the Wasteland Series or Underrail
Don't. Bethesda is a good company & in the results of The Garbage Game known as OuterWorlds is proof that Obsidian would have turned Fallout into woke crap if they kept the rights to it.
I feel like you should have mentioned that Liam O'brien is the other half of this games voice acting with Sam Riegel guest starring as the ghouls, like, all of em.
@@futurewario9591 don't really dig FO4 but that's because it felt like FO3 Light, too few dialogue options, story was ok though, base building did nothing for me, great dlcs and gameplay wise it was great (shooting mechanics, etc). I just vibe more with the whole wasteland cowboy mad max stuff really. Soundtrack was spot-on in new vegas ❤️
Thank you for this, you reminded me of reasons I love this game that I didn't even consciously consider myself. Genuinely made me smile, gonna have to set up for another playthrough soon.
Legion is the best faction simply because their quests are all fun. Every other faction has boring quests, but Legion makes you blow up monorails, blow up the brotherhood, and assassinate the president. It's like picking the Al Qaeda faction.
Well, your Fallout 4 video got me to finally dive into that game for real, and god damnit Strat you've done it again. I never did play the DLCs for NV anyway, been wanting to jump in at some point!
The NV dlcs are definetly all worth it, I can definetly see why people have a dislike for dead money with some of the new mechanics but between the style it had and how good the story there is i'd still give a reccomend.
The hello by the brotherhood paladins when you enter the follower outpost even though it's just a proximity idle talk soundbite sets such a dark tone that is incredibly fitting for what has just occured literally rewatched that little snippet multiple times for how cinematic it felt
While I was watching the two Fallout 2 videos last night, I wondered when a New Vegas one would come out. Seeing this video appear on my recommended is like finding a $100 bill on the sidewalk. It's a great feeling :]
"you might wanna mod the graphics" oh lordy I'm still downloading custom wads for doom 2 to play in project brutality, I think I'll survive the brown wave that is new vegas
As someone who recently bought a pc and played New Vegas on it. Man you have mod the shit out of it to get it to run for longer than 20 minutes but damn is it worth it. Plus the modding scene for this decade old game is still active. The dlc sized mods are alright. Don't play The Frontier unless you want to vomit though. It crashes more than the vanilla game and it's writing is god awful. I feel sorry for the people who got hyped for it. New California is a great mod for those who want a new back story or head canon for the courier. Dust is a fantastic survival simulator and changes the game enough that exploring it all over again doesn't feel the same as every other time. And the Someguy Series is a master class of amateur writing acting and design.
You never actually studdied rome did you? Roman legionairys were paid in land (of the recently conqured usually) when they completed their 25 year service (if they lived). And considering cesars obsession with rome i cant imagine he wouldnt do this.
i played new vegas from start to finish including the DLC's with zero crashes. because i was smart enough to buy it from GOG instead of steam. never ever buy old games on steam. they don't even make an effort to make these old games playable without the user doing the work themselves. compare that to GOG that sells the game with pre-applied fixes that just works "out-of-the-box".
Hope you end up going through the DLCs too, they're all the best of what the game has to offer in my opinion. I'm also way more invested in the tale of Paulie Walnuts throughout post-post-apocalyptic Vegas than I probably have any right to.
If it was intentional, then bethesda did a fantastic job at showing how easily people - in this case players - will support the wrong side if said wrong side looks cool
@@nobodyimportant4778 Yeah I played only the brotherhood's quests in my first playthrough and didn't even really know what a synth was, the Danse twist probably should have made me question things but I guess I was pretty dumb back then.
Legion in the lore: Diverse territory that is larger in total scope than the NCR and a much more complicated culture and ethos than the developers were able to include while getting screwed in the butt by Bethesda. Legion in the game: Renaissance Faire in rural Mississippi
Yeah, they really dropped the ball on showcasing The Legion. I have a hard time believing they could even be a thorn in NCR's side with how they appear in-game. "There's thousands more just beyond the hills!" If they had the chance to revisit it I would definitely at the very least have done some progression to show the Legion encroaching more as they built up for invasion, rather than a single fighting pit with a throne beyond it.
Josh Sawyer, the game director, literally said that them getting screwed out of the bonus was false
Exactly. But i guess its still "Edgy" to tell this Tale till the end of Time.✌😁
Not false necessarily, there was indeed a bonus for a metacritic score of 85+ that they did not receive. But nobody at Obsidian thought they were "screwed", it was always just an extra and not one that they were like expecting or desperately counting on. So the framing of it being a screwjob is for sure completely dishonest.
@@bruhvenant I guess it would be fairer to say that Obsidian's reputation after New Vegas caused them to nearly go tits up. No idea how big the bonus was, but the idea that Bethesda negotiated a contract with a company that forgoes royalties, REALLY makes me pissy because that is one company screwing the other because they are passionate and will agree to it. Just like the game studios screw workers with passion. It hits a very particular nerve.
Speaking of people getting screwed let me tell you a story about a man named Vinny Glitter.
@@bruhvenant Eh, I feel like you can acknowledge that nobody at the studio viewed it as being screwed and still think that a 1 pt metacritic difference still smells like a screwjob. Its the whole "I'm used to working 60 hrs a week" thing. I think a person can be okay with that schedule and that other people who would mind can call it out for being a shitty overworking schedule on average too. That's sortof the situation with the bonus, imo. Obsidian didn't mind and so we shouldn't be angry on their behalf, because its inane and inaccurate, but we can still say it was a shitty, good-will-destroying way for Bethesda to handle it.
"It is said that Vinnie Glitter still frequents the restrooms of New Vegas to this very day. Though no one who has seen him has come forward out of embarrassment" - Doc Mitchell
DLC origin story.
Vinnie Glitter build idea: A focus on sneak along with Confirmed Bachelor to really get the guys with their pants down. Next step is to go bare handed. While you can't outright fuck a man in the ass in this game, you can sure as hell simulate what its like to make him take it up to the elbow like a raunchy Jeff Dunham show. You can also feel free to take leather armor or not for that....added flavor (I won't judge).
@@slyzthaman "while you can't outright fuck a man in the ass"
You clearly don't know how deep the mod rabbit hole goes 🤣🤣
Legend has it that he was the one who programmed Fisto
Never understood why people like New Vegas, the game is rigged from the start
BENNNNNNNNYYYYYYYYY
I have to say: this is the funniest comment I have read for a while :D
*bugged from the start
Yes, and the odds are in MY FAVOR!
@@charles2703 this is more accurate than the original comment
Rest in peace, Mathew Perry, aka Benny.
Man, you playing a Wiseguy in New Vegas was hilarious as hell.
Still kills me how little time they were given, but that's probably the contractors fault. At the same time the fact that it's the best in the series really shows how lacking Bethesda in the...everything but the maybe gameplay department after NV.
It's not the best of the series, it's just the first one you played so it stands out above the rest.
@@SteefPip It was the third one I played, and is the best to me. Sorry that people have different opinions to you, but that don't make them wrong.
@@SteefPip
The original Fallout was my first, not on release mind you. I was late to the party.
NV was the third game I've played actually, played it before Fo3.
Baseless assumptions get you nowhere my friend.
I was really hoping to get Strat's take on the DLC's, especially Dead Money.
Almost spit my drink on my screen when Caesar said "Et Ketera", what a gangster
That feeling you’re describing is resignation, and it’s a nightmare.
I feel the same way about classic graphics, the only texture pack ill use for loz Majora's Mask is Nerrels texture pack because its literally just uped resolutions of the og's.
I am so fucking excited for this holy shit. I’ve seen your how to morrowind video so many fucking times let’s fucking gooo
I'm sorry but the paladin who calmly says "hello" after you and Veronica discover a shack full of dead followers fucking kills me 😂love the ai to death
The funny thing is that the voice actor for Mom in Futurama also voiced Jain in the original Fallout .
throwing knives use melee weapon skill, not explosives. That's why they added them, to balance melee build feasibility
"That was a paranormal event" got me good.
1:02:24 Well sire, I do believe I have been personally attacked.
Its always fun when the general villain thinks they're so smart, just to die in less than 5 seconds. Top of the food chain didn't enter their brain.
I don't know if I'm really lucky or if everyone on RUclips is exaggerating, but in my 300 hours of vanilla New Vegas it crashed maybe 5 times and no file corruption. Much better than some modern AAA games.
"Yes Man, throw the good General off Hoover Dam, will ya?
Feels so weird to have you explain the mechanics of I game I know to death.
I like how you gradually transformed into Joe Pesci over the course of this video
I prefer 3 but new Vegas is great. Take of Two wastelands is an amazing mod
Thank you Strat
RIP. Rang-a-dang-dang baby.
Between this and Strat-Edgy’s TES series I think he just likes beating the crap out enemies with his fists in any RPG he can.
Yeah, pretty much. I'm also terrible at shooters, lol.
“Parry this mother fucker!”
*closes distance*
“Snipe this ya piece of shit!”
I've been doing a largely fists run through Cyberpunk 2077. It was pretty terrible at first but later on I'm OP as shit.
@@AbaddonAlmighty To be fair that describes most playthroughs of CP2077, at the beginning you'll barely survive a one-on-one fight but by halfway through the game you're mowing people down like nothing
Doing a fists only game after my next playthrough, looking forward to it
In alot of games fist seem to have high knock back and you can animation lock them enemies into a stumbling loser.
Something I love about New Vegas' storytelling is how your decisions can make entire characters and plotlines totally irrelevant. Like, if you side with the NCR, killing Caesar is a huge deal. He's target #1, the most important goal in taking down the Legion for the NCR is to take him out. It marks a tidal shift in the NCR's plans when you kill him. But if you follow House? If you take his orders and don't attack Caesar? He dies _offscreen._ The entirety of the Fort just gets wiped out by the Securitron army, and you don't even see his death. He becomes _inconsequential_ to the story. And I love that.
In fact, the Platinum Chip, the mcguffin of the entire game, is nothing to the NCR. If you play for them, you don't need to ever get, or meet Benny at all, or meet Ceasar. In fact the only person you have to kill for the NCR is House, which you need to do in 3 of the 4 endings. So in a way House is more important than Ceasar, Kimball, Lanius, Olivier and the rest. At first it looks like you always do the same things but with different results for every ending, but in fact every story is different. With the NCR you don't interact with the White Gloves at all. With all the others, you don't need to meet the Kings. It's a game where you should really experience the 4 storylines.
@@AgusSkywalker bruh, deadass didn't even know that. Played tons of hours of new Vegas but never finished the game. Thats crazy. What always keeps me coming back is how varied each playthrough is. 2022 and I find missions I never even knew and im not even done
@@rikifromplanetk8305 If you are in pc install the functional post game ending+living desert to experience the cut content that devs intended for the game
coupled with all the dlcs it is quite an experience lorewise and gameplaywise since lonesomeroad ties it all together
I remember when my buddy was going through the game and I was watching him, he massacred the entire Kings of School of Impersonation because one of them harassed Veronica and they all turned hostile once he killed one of them. He didn't do any of their quests. I never would have thought to approach the game that way because I just like the Kings and usually do their questline
Indeed, I agree, it's very well done.
Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.
There's a mod for that
it's called fallout new vages frontier
Patrolling the comments section of a fallout new Vegas video almost makes u wish for death
I really want to see a fallout set in a snowy region (maybe finally see what happened to post-US annex and post-nuclear canada turned into) just to hear what would be the reverse of that line.
Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.
That ending with Lee and Vinny Glitter was fucking amazing.
Thanks. I actually improved the last 30 minutes of this video, so I'm glad it worked out.
@@StratEdgyProductions I haven’t watched the sopranos and I just assumed the whole time it was some gay Italian character from the show
Seconded, that bit had me in stitches the punchline at the end was the cherry on top!
@@StratEdgyProductions I thought it was based on the Scariest Debt Collector documentary. Real tough crap and interesting.
And it's just bad enough that it fits. Notice how uncanny valley Outer Worlds look compared to New Vegas, it's somehow worse despite looking better.
Can't wait for Nerbit's "Can you beat Fallout: New Vegas as Vinny Glitter"
High Strength and high Charisma, Wild Wasteland, Melee, Speech and Barter, Confirmed Bachelor, Cannibal
@@vincentmarcellino7183 Have to do the collections quest for the Atomic Wrangler
One guy had a novel idea, now there's an assload of doorknobs shitting out "Can you beat ___" videos
@@ericdykstra4545
Yeah, but at least Nerbit has a consistent upload schedule and a voice that doesn't make me want to blow out my eardrums.
@@ericdykstra4545
It’s a nice simple way of showing a condensed playthru of a game that also has something unique about it.
My dude project Nevada is outdated, I would suggest playing this following viva new Vegas guide
Very important ping.
I endorse this recommendation.
it may be outdated but the engine is even more outdated then morrowind
@@Viennas_Sausages Most of PN features can be replaced with distinct more recent mods, granted it's not a one stop shop, but a bit of effort you'll end up with alot more polished and complete package that utilize new features of NVSE. PN is simply out dated and can be replaced with more user and performance friendly options that don't require continous script running to operate as intended.
Dude left out the entire encounter with Benny including telling his partners what he did. The snow globes. The kings missions shows how the NCR works with citizens vs non citizens. Left out every single follower. Wouldn't expect him to have actually done research or put in effort
That graphics tangent is exactly how I feel about Oblivion.
I just like the goofiness in the delivery of the dialogue mixed with everyone looking like caricatures of themselves.
It’s just stupid, campy goodness that I can’t help but enjoy.
I remember the first time I boot up nv on my Xbox 360, having my eyes raped by the graphics and quiting the game in half an hour. Fuck this shit is ugly!
Thankfully I gave it another shot a couple months later and falling in love with it.
Bitch may be ugly, but fuck she is interesting
oblivion looks really fucking good when nothing alive in in a scene
the problem is Bethesda and Toddy boy really thought they were being serious about 90% of the time.
I just can't do it, I can't mod out the ugly models. It just doesn't feel the same anymore. The textures and models look oh so dated but I just can't stand the sight of them being "improved". This is oh so much more obvious in Stalker games, tho not the environment but the character models, I can't use the HD models because it makes me sick, they look really good, but they're not the same. Tho I do funnily enough enjoy weapon mods
First time I played Oblivion I spend 5 minutes laughing at default face in character creation
If you're using Mod Organizer 2, you can have multiple mod lists you can swap around.
I'd recommend using Viva New Vegas in your spare time. It's the definitive modlist, and keeps the game (mechanically) vanilla and generally makes it awesome to play. You can even pick and choose to not have certain mods if you don't want them.
Speaking of things you can choose not to give, you don't have to give Veronica the video tape given to you by Father Elijah in Dead Money. It normally buffs her attack speed, but you can cuck her out of character development and keep it for yourself.
Was gonna post this same exact thing. If you want to mod new Vegas, pls for the love of god check out viva new Vegas. Why? Because it explain to you why each mod work and most importantly, you don’t spend another 4 hour trying to fix your mod list. Having Viva new Vegas is like building a solid concrete foundation for all your other whacky mod idea.
Question, i’ve been a NMM/Vortex user for years but have been really wanting to transfer to MO2. Problem is I got huge modlists for all my nexus based games and I cant really be f*ckef to transfer them all manually. Can MO2 detect my Vortex modlist and copy and paste it like so?
@@superspartan243 I think you can transfer the files to the MO2 folder, but I'd recommend just burning it to the ground and starting over.
More than anything Viva New Vegas is THE place to start if you're just getting into modding. It's essentially a simple, straightforward guide on how to mod the game properly. It guides you step by step, making it so unlikely you're gonna mess up anything. It's great, even as a foundation to mod upon further if desired. But really, if you're playing New Vegas just to experience New Vegas, you don't need all the fancy mods.
...gotta love cuckin' em out 😂😅🤣... never heard tit put like that LOL
That legion section had me thinking about the cut legion companion. Imagine that character's journey
Thatd be ulysses & you get a clear enough picture to the roads he walked thru the dlcs
It was supposed to be vulpes inculta
@@shastealyomeal nah, Ulysses
Ever consider that house only had the last years of his mortal life to make the platinum chip data, but had 165 (minus a "couple decades") to just... code a new one
lol, that's a damn good point. Could explain it away with encryption, but they never did, lol.
@@StratEdgyProductions econmies of scale, some technology requires a cities worth of stuff, tell a nuclear scientist to make a hydrogen bomb and give him 165 years, doesn't matter he doesn't have the people or economies of scales to manufacture a nuke even if he had another 100 scientists and workers with him
Mate the chip contained an operating system
As house describes he spent like 40 years just trying to survive. The man is primarily a business man. Sure a programmer but he wasn't and egghead eccentric.
@@ewqe1-2223 funny you say that, there's an anime about that
One thing I definitely recommend you try since you’re a fellow punching things enjoyer is stacking all of the attack speed items at once. Slayer perk, greased lightning power fist (or saturnite fist), and some Rushing Water. You’ll punch so fast that the game can’t register the sounds to match the punches, quite the sight. 😂
Bugthesda games need more ways to break them like this, not less.
STANDING HERE I REALIZE
STANDO POWAH!
Hokuto no shinken!!!!!
at a certain point though the game does force you to pick a side, a stealth build that can kill w/o affecting rep much can play the factions against eachother and be loved up until the very end
Yeah you can go a pretty decent way through every faction, but there is a point where you are forced to commit to one or the other. I always try to progress through all of them as far as I can; killing House for Caesar, installing Yes Man into the Lucky 38, upgrading House's Securition Army, and I usually just end up committing to the NCR anyway lol
It is very tricky to do but, if you hold a save before certain main faction missions, it IS possible to have the Legion, NCR, Followers, Brotherhood, Novac and, Lucky 38 safehouses all accesible in one file. The only real way to do this is to do every quest that upsets the Legion before Vulpes gives you the pendant outside of Chanandler Bong's hotel.
Steam codes in retail game cases, the first sign the industry was going to shit
In regards to modding:
Project Nevada is dogshit. It’s spaghettini code on top of spaghetti code. I recommend the Viva New Vegas guide if you want a comprehensive modding guide, which includes the do’s and don’t’s on mods. The guy who wrote it does modernized compatibility patches as well to cut down on crashes between mods. Personally the only graphical mod I use is Titans of the New West, which makes power armor look like power armor from 1,2 and 4.
My guy really recommended Project Nevada in the video.💀
I remember playing with PN but it was years ago.
You can make you experience with DUST even worst with this mod, no joke...
Just use Just Mods and the stand alone project Nevada cybernetics mod. Those two approximate PN functionality plus other great modern game stuff. I think viva new Vegas recommends those too
@@Ellimist000 juust mods are great qol improvements, but you still need some sort of unoffical patch or general bugfix/optimalization mods
@WoodPileDenmark look at the viva new Vegas mod list, it has mods in it that do something similar with less hacky coding
Idk why games, bethesda in particular, still have to use face sliders when dragon's dogma made it very clear that picking all your features from a list is a thousand times nicer.
Must be a time limit thing
I hate face sliders. It turns out I have no idea what a normal nose is supposed to look like when it comes down to it.
Not even, Saints row came out in 2006 and it still has better customization than half of modern "RPGs"
They dont usw sliders no more
Just embrace the face sliders abolity to make monstrosities. 🗿
You know the fact that it took me like about maybe like near 8 years to realise that Matthew Perry voiced Benny really tells you how well he voiced that character, he was not just doing Chandler but he really gave the character a voice of its own to such a degree that you just love to hate Benny in a way that you just want to listen to his dialogue again.
The thing about Perception is that it isn't directly important, but a few very big skill checks require Perception of 6. One of which is required to get access to a quest in New Vegas, and the others are in the DLC such as being able to understand Christine. I normally go Perception 3 for this reason. This being that it is fairly easy to raise Perception 3 points on a moments notice with a hat and some mentats.
Agreed. To this day buying a game and not getting a fucking actual disc with the data on it, makes me feel cheated somehow.
And as always around midnight or early morning next day the download is done too, not even 10 years ago, even today as I'm Australian and our internet consists of copper wires, duct tape and dixie cups attached with string. Because old people don't know what the internet is besides Facebook and ebay
1:20:50 I've heard this complaint a lot, and I understand where you're coming from, but I think you're ignoring something fundamental about role playing games: you're supposed to use your imagination. We think of all these graphics and 3d models as a replacement for imagination, but they're not, they're just a more complex version of the miniatures you would play with on a game board. The towns and cities are small because you're supposed to fill in the blank spaces yourself, and all that's physically there is the important stuff you're actually going to interact with as a player.
It reminds me of that one joke from Zoolander where Ben Stiller is looking at a model of a building and he's like "What is this, a center for ants!? Make it bigger!" The joke being that he confused what was obviously meant as a representation of a thing for the thing itself. RPG towns are the same way, they're a "town for ants" because they're just supposed to give you the idea so your mind can imagine what they're trying to get across, it's not supposed to be 1-to-1.
Buildings do look a bit like table top props, and characters have weird look to them .... visually the comparison with table top is excellent.
I love the way New Vegas actually lets you roleplay, unlike what Bethesda's Fallout games do. (especially Fallout 4, where you are forced to roleplay as Ethan Mars from Heavy Rain no matter how you build your character) Some of my favorite roleplays include a super hero who solves most problems with his flame sword and martial arts, an NCR knockoff of John Rambo, an Agent 47 style hitman, and a violent schoolgirl lost in time.
As a fan of the first 2 Fallout games myself, I fully agree with you about the Brotherhood of Steel. It's clear Bethesda doesn't get what they are at all, especially when they threw them into Appalachia so haphazardly in Fallout 76 despite that game taking place around the same time as Fallout 1.
LOL you kids and your obsession with a rushed and small game. There's little difference in how your decisions effect gameplay. The only thing you get for your "roleplaying experience" is a different voice over at the end. Fallout New Vegas, though a very good game, isn't as good as you all make it out to be. I feel the same way about the original Fallout because it was my first Fallout game too, it doesn't prevent me from seeing the obvious flaws in the game.
Lol violent schoolgirl lost in time 😂🤣 that’s great. This game is so legendary for letting you actually pull that off. One of the greatest games of all time
@@SteefPip First, I'm not a kid, I'm over 30 years old. Second, I never said Fallout New Vegas was flawless. Third, my argument that Bethesda's Fallout games are badly written is valid.
"Who wants to roleplay in a roleplaying game?" is one of the silliest questions I have ever been asked. Why would I want to build a unique character all my own, with their own goals and backstories? In Fallout 4, your character, no matter how you build them, already has a backstory and goals that revolve around your character's son Shaun. In short, you're Ethan Mars from Heavy Rain. There's even a "Press X to Shaun" mod for Fallout 4 mocking this fact.
@@SteefPip Genuinely an embarrassment. Quite literally had to suppress the cringe reading this garbage.
FO4 is alot better than you think try playing survival mode it makes it amuch richer experience.
New Vegas is CRAZY over hyped.
S'pretty fuckin' good tho
Give Fallout 3 & Fallout 4 a chance to shine they must.
Strat, when I found your work I gotta say I've really enjoyed everything you do. You have a way with words and insight, not to mention the jokes. I definitely love this game. It's got a charm about it and is way more vast than I expected. I've put so much time into it, but my first playthrough I didn't do much. That changed when I decided second run to branch out and try everything I could. I also love how this games DLC all intertwine with each other in story and weave into the lore and story of the vanilla game. Brilliant stuff.
PS you should eventually in the future cover the DLCs for this game
I'm hoping I can get the patrons to vote for the DLCs after Baldur's Gate.
@@StratEdgyProductions Old World Blues is The Best New Vegas DLC!
@@futurewario9591 big L. Lonesome road supremacy
@@MrRastawannabe NO! OLD WORLD BLUES BEST 💙!
@@footballdesk4417 YES WE NEED BALDUR'S GATE 1 & 2 which I own on the Nintendo Switch.
"And that's why I like the Legion; Not because I wanna be a member, but because it's an extreme version of the subtle Legion that we're already apart of."
Fuck.
Wild thing about game development is that half the time is dealing with authentication and legal mumbo-jumbo, so only a fraction of that 18 month dev time was actually used to develop. Amazing what a dedicated group of ppl can accomplish when they give a fug.
To be fair, a LOT of the conceptual groundwork was laid down beforehand in the Fallout:Van Buren project. That, combined with using Fallout 3’s engine, meant they could use most of that time for implementing ideas rather than needing to spend as much time troubleshooting the engine and the like
@@spindash64 Didn't they also mostly use assets from Fallout 3 as well. Many textures, animations, objects and sound effects are copied from Fallout 3. Fallout NV feels more like a huge expansion pack for Fallout 3 than a complete new game (doesn't take away anything from the game though). I don't have an issue with that as I honestly really enjoy the engine even if it obviously has issues, but they did some great improvements to the gameplay as well (adding iron sights for example).
I always thought it was interesting that the game starts with a Rorschach test as the game itself is a big psychological test. Even if you know the game is asking you telling questions about your principals and morality in major choices it still presents itself in minor ones and you can tell things like how you feel about protecting the weak, being self-sufficient, how many Ayn Rand books you own, if you detest authority and still won't clean your room, etc.
I always have a strong urge to go with the Yes Man ending. In the end, I can rule as I see fit. Will be a sort of Switzerland? A fortress among superpowers? Will I side with the NCR yet maintain sovereignty in return for exclusive access? Will I side with the Legion and wreak havoc on degenerates of the world?
Or will I simply walk away, and leave New Vegas in the hands of Yes Man, with a final order to "do what is right" as I go and live my life in the wasteland, doing whatever I do?
In the end, it's all my choice. I'm not beholden to any superior except God, I am not a victim of circumstance locked into a potentially unwinnable situation, I am the one that decides what to do and what the future holds.
It's a liberating feeling.
you're an exceptional storyteller, good sir.
Hey Strider I didnt expecting see you there :D
@@DocVolteer Hiya Doc :)
Thanks! How goes it?
@@StratEdgyProductions Not too bad thanks man! Hope you've been recovering well from hospital 🙂I took your recommendation to play Disco Elysium in a video and I thoroughly thoroughly enjoyed it 😄 So thanks!
That's great! Do you have any recommendations for me? 😁
BOS had alliance options with NCR and House that was cut due to release time before it went gold. There's a mod that just turns back on the dialog option too
They can ally with the NCR in the base game. They cut the option for it with House as it didn't seem right for his character.
@@Justin-rq6kf it’s the only way to keep them alive outside of yes man too
"This game looks tired". Holy fuck that's the best description I've heard. That feeling when you start the first time, with the melancholic music and the tired voice of the doc, etc.
I'm also tired of spending more time patching and modding Bethesda games than playing them so I don't even install them anymore.
New Vegas was the first steam game I had because of that same code in the box - problem was we had monthly home data limits though - i spent a solid year trying to download the game, as each time I got anywhere close for it to download, my dad would get pissed about me using all the data
It was only after moving to the states more than a year later that I could play the game - screw Telstra
Mang, that's like dial-up on crack and steroids! At least my 2kb/sec downloads used to save where they were at when my parents picked up the phone.
Subbed immediately when the sopranos references started. "Whaddaya know, Whaddaya say!?"
"Remember Pearl Harbor!"
First playthrough: I was tired of the NCR, losing a war they once won. Met House, decided I was going to side with him because I liked the way he ran things. Then I met Caesar, who recounted everything I did against him, which was literally everything that could be done to injure the Legion at that point. He threatened to kill me, then offered to buy me a beer. Hell, only my friends talk to me like that. So I made a backup save, and went all in with Caesar.
This is absolutely fantastic
Based
My first playthrough consisted of me being a NCR fan until I met yesman and Mr House. Before this though, I had gotten pretty geared up before arriving to new Vegas, including robbing the entirety of that plasma gun store with a stealth boy, so I killed Benny by throwing plasma grenades at him while invisible so nobody else got mad, I then went and made every casino bankrupt before I killed Mr House as soon as I was able to, then I became friends with funny robot, stormed ceasars base killing everyone and beating up ceasar with a supersledge, and killed the NCR president with an orbital strike (which yesman actually discouraged me from doing but fuck it, not like he can say no). I also became friends with Arcade up until he brought out his Tesla coil armor. I acquired 3 sets of enclave power armor for my boys back at Mr Houses.... House. I then bought lonesome road, acquired my favorite armor, elite riot gear, and launched a nuke at both the NCR and the legion. Some time within all that I became friends with the brotherhood, after acquiring power armor training I blew up their bunker but only after abusing a glitch which gives unlimited fusion cell and other ammos like that. I destroyed the bunker with all the securitrons accidentally without realizing what I was doing, which then meant I had to do pretty much everything on my own. I pretty much put the Mojave into mass anarchy. Oh well. I reaaaaally like yesman. 😂
9:53 (Paraphrasing) "...no matter the jankiness of graphics, they never took me out of the game...I feel exactly the same way about Morrowind."
Exactly, thank you!
They do well enough to serve the purpose of the game. Would I maybe like to see higher resolution textures? Absolutely. But honestly that's about all one can give it before it actually starts looking very weird due to the animations. And to upgrade the animations you'd need to overhaul the entire engine. Or you can keep the janky animations and we get Fallout 4, lol
@@vincentmarcellino7183 👍 Agreed, however I was really referring to the Morrowind part of his observation. Morrowind players either played it upon release, or they played it later. Nothing wrong with either choice, but the ones who played at release have specific, timeline related memories that can never be duplicated by players who came later, memories from when the game graphics were NOT dated. Of course, you could say that about almost ANY game from mid-90s to mid-10's because graphics were improving rapidly from year to year, it's slower now. Since TES3 took several years to complete, it was technically already at least slightly outdated at release, but that was a result of fast-moving tech, and thus completely unavoidable. There's less excuse for devs now. And I think his statement was more about aesthetic than resolution, anyway.
Absolutely splendid. Can’t wait for the DLCs where you do a combined 6 hour analysis on why Ulysses isn’t that interesting and quite boring. (Sexy voice aside)
Ulysses rocks.
Glad im not the only one
Yea he's cool and all, but like he wasn't as deep as people made him out to be.
THE BEAR AND THE BULL THE BEAR AND THE BULL THE BEAR AND THE BULL THE BEAR AND THE BULL THE BEAR AND THE BULL THE BEAR AND THE BULL
An og tribal & former legionaire, one who (mostly) turns against his master b/c of the history he repeated in his name. One who makes you question sht on a meta level not just tangible to the game, but life itself. Whole dlc & his character's motivations may as well be a giant ad for the yes man ending. One to correct the timeless insanity of imperfect men ruling over imperfect men ala the other 3 endings. His prob is learning most-all the wrong lessons, still using the very same crafts of force & coercion that jaded his entire being. If you dont like being questioned on sht, i can get why you dont like ulysses, but that's basically fnv as a whole. Ulysses is just figuratively & literally the end game to that
Fallout New Vegas is my favorite fallout game.
New Vegas is good, but Fallout 4 is my favorite.
@@futurewario9591 yuck lol
Bethesda will never make anything even close to Fallout New Vegas
@@poopcelBPC In Fallout 3 & Fallout 4. CHARISMA ACTUALLY MATTERS!
@@Sehtlimbo FALLOUT 4 CHARISMA & PERCEPTION ACTUALLY MATTERS!
Jury Rigging and repair is how i made my money in New Vegas. That shit breaks the game if you give it enough time it's great.
So in regards to the Fallout 3 brotherhood, I don't dislike them. While they are vastly different from what exists in the original games, they writing explained that away sufficiently. Owen Lyons was part of Brotherhood a brotherhood mission east (like the ones in the spinoff games made before Interplay folded), but along the way, he had a change of heart to a more Veronica like perspective on the Brotherhood's role. Being in a position of power, he acted on it and his collogues were divided on his policies.
Basically how the tactics chapter changed.
In addition, being so far away from the Main chapters in the West meant that he _could_ pull off some internal reforms without everyone flipping a tit.
something else that's notable in FO3 is that there are holdouts that hated Lyons' changes and formed their own splinter faction-the outcasts. The outcasts are pretty close to what FO1 and 2 BoS is like
Ave true to Caesar!
Based
Good to see you still making vids man, I remember you talking about being super sick and and depressed a while ago and glad to see you're still around bro, your vids got me through a lot of bad nights, especially your kotor vids 🔥🔥🔥 much love man keep on keeping ok
Same to you :)
Strat if you really think I would watch another hour essay of why my favorite game is one the best game ever your 100% correct.
Glad it does this for you but it's not nearly the best game ever.
Ok
@@SteefPip it's subjective
@@SteefPipwhat’s better
Great video, the only correction I'd make is the one regarding the bonus from Bethesda for meeting an arbitrary score, Chris Avellone, a founder of Obsidian and one of the writers on New Vegas, and Josh Sawyer who was the director have talked about this a good number of times, the bonus was never a part of the original deal and was only negotiated for after by management, all signs point to Feargus Urquhart for that one, and it wouldn't have staved off any of the firings at the studio.
To quote Chris Avellone himself from his Medium page, specifically his new ongoing Fallout Apocrypha:
"OMFG DID BETHESDA LIKE, TOTALLY, SCREW OBSIDIAN OUT OF A BONUS ON METACRITIC???!!!
Nope.
The “Metacritic bonus” if the game got above an 84 review score was something Bethesda offered above and beyond the New Vegas contract.
We didn’t ask for this, they offered it, and it was our responsibility to hit that review score. We did have to have layoffs at Obsidian around this time period, but the bonus from Metacritic wouldn’t have prevented that from happening."
Either way, superb video, nice to see someone not immediately jerking off the NCR, haha.
Indeed.. it always annoys the hell out of me when people go "f*cking bethesda totally screwed obsidian out of money" when its really not the case even tho if I were the one in bethesda at the time making this decision I would have given out the bonus but I certainly do not blame bethesda for not doing so or somehow screwing obsidian..
Fair enough, but regardless they obviously still deserved the bonus, so I still have little sympathy for Bethesda. I've literally worked with cutthroat biopharma companies that would be more honorable and generous lol
Ehhh some Zenimax shareholders also had roles in media companies that could have gamed the score up or down.
@@Ellimist000 why do they deserve the bonus? I don't get it
@@Ellimist000 Yeah, in hindsight I maybe would have given them the bonus if I was in charge since they were just a point off, but it is true that the game was extremely buggy at launch and took a further nine months of patching just to stabilise it, which adversely effected the development of the DLC.
At the end of the day, it is a shame but it is what it is.
As intriguing as your speculative fictional idea of what a faction like Caesar's Legion could become, the fact of the Legion not having those kinds of developed aspects isn't entirely a matter of Obsidian not having time to finish them. The fact of the matter is that they are a newly-established faction that has not been around long enough for its founder to even grow old enough that he's incapable of fighting and putting up a vicious fight. Everyone currently alive in the Legion was either part of the early push willingly or they were among the tribes brutally conquered to grow it; he's managed to psychologically break most of the conquered ones to believe in his cause even if this means believing he did them a favor by slaughtering their fellows wholecloth. But there have not been any people who have *grown up* in the Legion yet. If New Vegas ever got a sequel, then it might have come to be something like what you described as Edward Sallow's descendents or chosen successors consolidated their power over those born into their society, but these are the Legion's early days and there's not really any reason for the faction to *be* more than it is.
Which isn't to say that they couldn't have executed what's here a little more smoothly, but you were kind of putting the cart before the horse with the direction you took that particular tangent, I think. We saw the underdeveloped early days of what would become the NCR long before we saw the NCR in its golden days and we saw that before we saw them in their New Vegas decline. I think it's important to acknowledge that, had Obsidian had the chance, this stage of the Caesar's Legion "arc" could have provided a similar effect for this newer faction as a recurring story element.
10 minutes in and I realized that it’s over 2 hours long. Had to go make my tea first to truly enjoy my night.
9:03 yeah I'm like this too for example with Halo 2 The anniversary graphics are nice but the elites lose that iconic spiky silhouette they had
And the old school silhouette just has charm to me
I thought the Halo 2 Anniversary graphics looked pretty faithful to the art design of Halo 2... unlike Halo CE Anniversary with Halo CE.
@@floatingscrib That's cause a different company did Halo 2 than the one who did Halo CE which is basically just putting reach models and graphics on everything and it sucks. I love Reach, but it doesn't fit Halo CE style wise. Also Blur Studios, who did the cutscenes for the Halo Wars games and H2A should just make an digital Halo movie at this point, or any movie for that matter. They would kill it.
@@xAxLxExCx I think the live-action Halo series has unfortunately killed that one in the intervening time
Video was excellent. also gotta love the veteran players all saying one thing and one thing only: Viva New Vegas
I feel like New Vegas is the Deus Ex of the 2010s.
Janky as fuck at times and held together by duct tape, but almost universally beloved.
My character walked funny after that unconscious stay at the Doc’s… now I don’t want to jump to conclusions, but if there’s a sudden outbreak of Monkey Pox in Goodsprings and they both have symptoms… I think someone should get the Sheriff to ask some questions.
It’s amazing how people are still making content on this videogame, quality content, I love this community as the videogame itself
Waiting for the remake makes you wish for a nuclear winter 🥶
Cheers from Italy 🇮🇹
The announcement of a remake would make me wish for a nuclear winter. No way they could make it today without ruining it.
You see that tower on the Strip? The one you can see for miles? Can't miss it.
Some corrections, Hoover Dam wasn't annexed until 2075. The NCR had water resources that they ate through from mismanagement and over expansion. There were also Several Presidents before Kimball. Kimball won his Presidency after he led the soldiers who defeated a raider tribe in the Mojave. So he did have some sort of Popular mandate for expansion into the Mojave. Also based off the way you talk about FNV's open world, you would probably love the Wasteland Series or Underrail
Fuck I actually hate Bethesda now man
Don't. Bethesda is a good company & in the results of The Garbage Game known as OuterWorlds is proof that Obsidian would have turned Fallout into woke crap if they kept the rights to it.
Also Fallout 3 & Fallout 4 are masterpieces.
I love how you used Paulie Walnuts on the thumbnail
I feel like you should have mentioned that Liam O'brien is the other half of this games voice acting with Sam Riegel guest starring as the ghouls, like, all of em.
Critical Role is shit.
Best 3D Fallout game!!
Every main series Fallout game (counting New Vegas) is a masterpiece in their own beautiful way.
@@futurewario9591 don't really dig FO4 but that's because it felt like FO3 Light, too few dialogue options, story was ok though, base building did nothing for me, great dlcs and gameplay wise it was great (shooting mechanics, etc). I just vibe more with the whole wasteland cowboy mad max stuff really. Soundtrack was spot-on in new vegas ❤️
I didn't know Bethesda did that to Obsidian. That's straight up evil.
They didn't, it isn't true as confirmed by devs who worked on the game.
You gave the best explanation of the legion & NCR . Not even lore channels explained them as well as you did.
Thank you for this, you reminded me of reasons I love this game that I didn't even consciously consider myself. Genuinely made me smile, gonna have to set up for another playthrough soon.
Legion is the best faction simply because their quests are all fun. Every other faction has boring quests, but Legion makes you blow up monorails, blow up the brotherhood, and assassinate the president. It's like picking the Al Qaeda faction.
Every faction wants you to blow up the Brotherhood
“Ave, true to Allah”
Well, your Fallout 4 video got me to finally dive into that game for real, and god damnit Strat you've done it again. I never did play the DLCs for NV anyway, been wanting to jump in at some point!
I should be doing a DLC video shortly after Baldur's Gate.
The NV dlcs are definetly all worth it, I can definetly see why people have a dislike for dead money with some of the new mechanics but between the style it had and how good the story there is i'd still give a reccomend.
@@Hatsworthful The potential rewards for it are spectacular too if you put the work in
The hello by the brotherhood paladins when you enter the follower outpost even though it's just a proximity idle talk soundbite sets such a dark tone that is incredibly fitting for what has just occured literally rewatched that little snippet multiple times for how cinematic it felt
You are the only RUclipsr I will turn off AdBlock for. And oh my gosh this is the video I've been waiting for! Hope you're doing well, Strat!
Centurians use Thermix Lances and Veterans use Guns because its all about self reliance
Thanks for the effort put into the videos/content, it's greatly appreciated.
Oh thats why spears were not very powerfull in my nomad playthru. Explosives and plasma are op tho. This game have the climat that newer series lack.
I think k melee still effects them but that may be with unofficial patches
While I was watching the two Fallout 2 videos last night, I wondered when a New Vegas one would come out. Seeing this video appear on my recommended is like finding a $100 bill on the sidewalk. It's a great feeling :]
It coulda been a much better game but sadly _it was rigged from the start_
yes
"you might wanna mod the graphics" oh lordy I'm still downloading custom wads for doom 2 to play in project brutality, I think I'll survive the brown wave that is new vegas
As someone who recently bought a pc and played New Vegas on it. Man you have mod the shit out of it to get it to run for longer than 20 minutes but damn is it worth it. Plus the modding scene for this decade old game is still active. The dlc sized mods are alright. Don't play The Frontier unless you want to vomit though. It crashes more than the vanilla game and it's writing is god awful. I feel sorry for the people who got hyped for it. New California is a great mod for those who want a new back story or head canon for the courier. Dust is a fantastic survival simulator and changes the game enough that exploring it all over again doesn't feel the same as every other time. And the Someguy Series is a master class of amateur writing acting and design.
You never actually studdied rome did you? Roman legionairys were paid in land (of the recently conqured usually) when they completed their 25 year service (if they lived). And considering cesars obsession with rome i cant imagine he wouldnt do this.
i played new vegas from start to finish including the DLC's with zero crashes. because i was smart enough to buy it from GOG instead of steam. never ever buy old games on steam. they don't even make an effort to make these old games playable without the user doing the work themselves. compare that to GOG that sells the game with pre-applied fixes that just works "out-of-the-box".
Yep, that was my mistake.
You should have built your game setup using the Viva New Vegas guide. NV is a supreme bitch to get running on Win10+, VNV alleviates that.
Hope you end up going through the DLCs too, they're all the best of what the game has to offer in my opinion. I'm also way more invested in the tale of Paulie Walnuts throughout post-post-apocalyptic Vegas than I probably have any right to.
To be fair to Bethesda, they did depict the Brotherhood as pretty fascistic in FO4, especially with their dogmatic hate for synths.
If it was intentional, then bethesda did a fantastic job at showing how easily people - in this case players - will support the wrong side if said wrong side looks cool
BASED BROTHERHOOD OF STEEL!
See?
@@nobodyimportant4778 Fascism is BASED!
@@nobodyimportant4778 Yeah I played only the brotherhood's quests in my first playthrough and didn't even really know what a synth was, the Danse twist probably should have made me question things but I guess I was pretty dumb back then.
Legion in the lore: Diverse territory that is larger in total scope than the NCR and a much more complicated culture and ethos than the developers were able to include while getting screwed in the butt by Bethesda.
Legion in the game: Renaissance Faire in rural Mississippi
Yeah, they really dropped the ball on showcasing The Legion. I have a hard time believing they could even be a thorn in NCR's side with how they appear in-game. "There's thousands more just beyond the hills!"
If they had the chance to revisit it I would definitely at the very least have done some progression to show the Legion encroaching more as they built up for invasion, rather than a single fighting pit with a throne beyond it.
Fallout New Vegas is the best FPS fallout ever made.
What about Fallout 4? It does the FPS better.
@@futurewario9591 I'll admit Fallout 4 has better gunplay and movement, but I like the story in New Vegas Better.
You basically became a cultist yourself "do you have a moment to hear about our lord and savior venny glitter?"