Fallout New Vegas, Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask made me want to be a postman. Encountering the postman around Hyrule in OoT. Getting the postman's hat in Majora's Mask allowing you to interact with the mailboxes around Clock Town. That made me want to belong to a small town, become a regular face townsfolk could trust. Even at a young age I appreciated that. New Vegas made me want to wander from small town to small town becoming someone everyone could trust. Whether I was taking it easy with Easy Pete, or sharing a sarsaparilla with Joshua Graham and listening to stories. I wanted a brother like Ulysses. Someone I could stand with at the edge of the world no matter what. Closest thing I've found in real life is Saul Williams...
What's also interesting about the way Fallout treats being a mail Courier is how when America was developing, as well as moving West, the postal workers as they started and grew were incredibly important to that effort of growth and expansion, as well as their job being far more dangerous than in the society of today. It likely was moderately similar to The Couriers of New Vegas's experience.
Couriers in that time was and should have been considered as one of the hardest jobs. Bruh even if you stay on the road, geckos and other disgusting mutated animals will come for you. At the same time their packages may be important so mercenaries or assassins may have been sent to Attack before
"Two couriers fighting beneath an old world flag." Even before Lonesome Road came out that line always sounded so damn cool and I was hyped to see it play out. Whether it's with him or against him, that's probably my favorite part thanks to that personal history you both have with each other, two legendary mailmen who can build or break nations.
*DEBEARR IS...HE CLAWS IN THE LAND, NEVER SEE ITS MARKS, KILL DE BEAR? NO. CUT OFF HIS THROAT... ZEE IT LOOSE IT'S BHREATH* *DHE DIVIDE* *YOU WALKED FROM WEST NEVER STAYED HOME* *YOU WALKED FROM OVER WEST, ME EAST* *YOU WALKED ALL OVER TE WEST* *HOUSE... FILFTHY GREEDY SPYRIT OF OLD WORLD, FUCK THAT GUY*
@@fatquickscope4150 You'd pick corruption, thievery, and lies, over strong stability amd security? The Bull is ironically the greatest solution for an already lawless wasteland. The NCR is meant to burn.
Ulysses does not hate Courier in the meaning of "You destroyed where could have been my home and the hope of the Mojave". Or he did, but is already past that. He just wants to ask one question: "Do you feel responsible for the changes you brought about, even if you did not intend any of them?" If your answer is "No, I don't care", then he might hate you for that, as your answer convinces him that the Courier is no better than anybody he has seen before. People having the power to change things but take no responsibility in that are the reason that war never changes.
@@primary2630 why do you think he named himself after grant? Just like that general he isnt built for peace- but unlike grant he knows what will happen to his flag (the legion) should they reach the coast. Either turning in on & destroying itself OR should caesar's vision of the ncr & legion merging come to fruition, w/e comes after would be no different than the govt that gave fallout its' landscape
His hate for not caring is still unreasonable and illogical, and the “you destroyed my home, I destroy yours” kind. Would you, as a mailman, care if you delivered something unsavory? You might. But if you hadn’t done it, it would have been someone else. That’s what the mail services are for. You get things to where they should be, regardless what’s in them. It will be delivered, and who delivers them isn’t quite important. Even in New Vegas, the Courier could be anyone. You choose who the Courier is, yours isn’t mine and mine isn’t yours.
"If you believe in something enough, you must be willing to let it burn ..." Ulysses "To believe in an ideal is to be willing to betray it ..." Darth Traya
I haven't played New Vegas in years. Now that I look back, I just remember everything about Ulysses being cool. His story, outfit, haircut, and especially his voice are all awesome.
When Ulysses talks about the Marked Men he says that they have been “Made equal in history’s eyes”. I think that’s an underrated line. He’s saying that what they have been through has stripped them of their allegiance and has only left their willingness to survive. They stop being people and start being *them*, contradistinct to the wholesome *us*. It reminds me in a way of how veterans who come out of the military as opponents to war and militaries. They’re called cowards, betrayers. Told that they aren’t fit to wear the uniform. They are stripped of their allegiance and have only been left with their willingness to oppose. They stop being people, people who have been through the worst of humanity, and become *them*, contradistinct to the wholesome *us*.
"Bull bear bull bear I know what you did courier History bull bear history courier Perhaps even more than that BULLBEARBULLBEARBULLBEAR SKY DIVIDE QUAKES BULL THEN BEAR"
Fallout New Vegas villains: explains Hegelian dialectic to you. Fallout 3: dad died because he wanted his name on the water bottles. Fallout 4: "you wouldn't understand our reasoning because we smart and you dumb"
Also fallout 4:"Oh you can also make the same damn water purifiers that had an entire story about it in franchise." sorry that always bugged me since I got fallout 4.
Alrighty, so you're copying and pasting this again because clearly a whole bunch of people who whine about Fallout 4 never finished it. Well, let me explain the Institute's motives, and where they came up in conversation, for you: During one of the most important moments of Fallout 4, on the rooftop of the CIT, Father/Shaun tells you exactly how he plans to save humanity. The Institute plans to wipe out pretty much all life above ground that has come into heavy contact with radiation, and replace the surface world with the underground world. The synths are created so that eventually the Institute can replicate natural life (example: Synth gorillas in the biology wing of the Institute, a creature that is not far from the human synths the Institute has already perfected). This comes up repeatedly in the game, so I recommend you make sure you understand the happenings of the game before you complain about errors in the plot.
@@MrSchplingle79 that's one way to look at fallout 4, if you want to give Bethesda so much credit. In reality, fo4 is full of lazy, garbage writing. (76 has better writing lmao)
@@Zenriesz just one question, that I ask you answer honestly: did you finish Fallout 4, and if so, did you do so more than once? I'll be honest, too, and say I have yet to finish New Vegas, not for lack of trying, but for lack of any way to properly run it.
@@MrSchplingle79 I did, after 40 painful hours I finished the game with the institute ending. Maybe I'm too harsh on fo4 (the shooting is pretty good) but the writing is ALMOST worse than fo3.
@@ShadowSonic2 If that's all you got from his dialogue than you are truly an ignorant person lmao I'd suggest actually reading from others who have clearly explained his beliefs and ideals.
@@butcanyoudothis3320 ruclips.net/video/N0e3n42kpZg/видео.html He's just Chris Avellone going overboard with a character again. He did this with Kreia in KOTOR2 too.
@@LordSerion but without Ulysses courier 6 would’ve never delivered the platinum chip, got shot in the head, and the second battle of Hoover dam would’ve never started and the ncr/legion conflict in the Mojave
Ulysses, Joshua Graham and Boone: easily the three best characters of New Vegas. All three have such complex and compelling histories and the bad-assery to back it up.
Ulysses was cool as hell to me in my first playthrough as he was black with dreads and I was black with dreads, that visual connection alone alongside his characters personality and philosophies had me stuck as a kid
BEAR,BULL,DIVIDE and the MOJAVE. DIVIDE,BULL,MOJAVE and the BEAR,COURIER SIX. THAT MACHINE,THAT PACKAGE. The DIVIDE,the MOJAVE,the BULL and the BEAR. COURIER SIX,the WEST,The EAST,BULL,BEAR,DIVIDE and the MOJAVE. But to be honest, Ulysses is one of my favorite New Vegas characters. Yes, he talks a lot, but that's what defines his character. First he was a scout for his tribe, then his tribe was destroyed by Caesar's legion, then he was a frumentarii of Caesar and a courier, met our character built the Divide with us only for it to be destroyed by the package from courier six. He survived the explosion of the atomic bombs and reached out to Big MT met Elijah and showed him where the Sierra Madre is, helped Chirstine, returned to Caesar, planned the attack on New Canaan and Joshua Graham and after all this happened he realized that what what he did was wrong. He became a courier again and when he heard that we were still alive he gave us the platinum chip in the hope that we would die. And the rest is history.
You have to listen to his dialogue like this; all condensed, not punctuated by the gameplay, to understand the point he's trying to make. What he missed was the divide was a community that was committed to surviving, but, just as that-a community. NCR and the Legion are expansionist nations; they survive by making everything into the nation. All else beyond the nation is to be subsumed, or destroyed. He criticized the NCR growing without structure; and knew the Legion would not survive Caesar's death, or the end of conquest. Strangely, his final message (spoken presumably before his final confrontation with the courier) has him almost get it: Men must change, as they always must have had to, so survive; to survive nature, war, and even their worse instincts. Thus, the greatest irony: launching the nukes, trying to pave the way for some glorious "something new", a new glory to replace the old glory, if you will, was simply repeating the errors of the old world; of the old nations, of the NCR, of the Legion, and of even the White Legs that understood only violence, copying his braids without understanding.
To think that Ulysses was originally a cut character because Obsidian gave his VA so many lines that they ran out of disc space so they eventually brought him back in a DLC when new advancements were made with gaming systems.
The divide, The divide, The divide, The divide, The divide, The divide, The divide, The divide, The divide, The divide, The divide, .... "Okay then you been here long"
Ulysses doesn’t mean “burn to the ground”, as in destroy. He means if you believe in an idea you must allow it to go through trials to prove it’s worth, I think.
What I get from it; is that if you follow an ideal closely, and believe in it. You're willing to let that idea weather the storm, you're willing to see the chances it will be successful. It may burn in the process and your ideals may fail, but you believed in them enough to see it through to the end.
18:37 "They breed fast, hunt in groups, more than enough to bring down the strongest in the Mojave. Once they draw blood... Seen them tear apart Deathclaws. Deathclaw might get some, but the rest will swarm it, tear it apart, like Denver hounds." This quote is one of my favorites.
Y'now, from what I can gather, Ulysses is angry with us despite the fact the Courier likely didn't even know what the package was in the first place, meaning it was a complete accident. As if he needs *someone* to blame for a fairly flimsy reason. Considering the arc words of the DLC, I think he has trouble letting go himself.
His point is that Courier 6 doesn't consider the consequences of his actions. Whether he intended it or not, the package he delivered destroyed the divide. That he has a tendency to do this, which is why he thinks he is dangerous and must be stopped.
@@Theviewerdude Though there's also hints you might not even be the same courier. Not to mention that looking at Ulysses' dialogue in the GECK implies he doesn't even believe his own words.
@@BradfortBottlenose hints you might not be the same courier? I'm unfamiliar. Seemed to me that Ulysses had been tracking you, or at the least piecing together your journey through stories and rumors. Much like how all the other factions in the game do.
@@Theviewerdude Fair enough. Even if you're the Courier responsible though, would we even remember after that shot to the head? Actually, I think that last one's left up to player choice IIRC.
@@BradfortBottlenose I was just reading some threads about that, supposedly one of the devs / writers stated there's no sort of amnesia going on. So that maybe the player's character had just forgotten as it was just another job, or the place was so beyond recognition. But idk, I think it's pretty fitting that he forgot a few things after head-bullet-itis, so that's what I believe :P
I really dont understand all the Ulysses hate. (TL:DR- Ulysses is Fascinating, I dont get why people hate on him) The whole "ALL HE SAYS IS 'THE BEAR' AND 'THE BULL' HUR-HUR" is either an intentional troll or just a lack of the ability to understand him cause, admittedly, he talks a little funny. But push past that, and he's relatively to the point. Though he does love a good side chat about some historical point. His dialogue is awesome, he has some good points, the lore he reveals is great, and his perspective is one of the most interesting in the game. His dialouge is some of the only legit lore we have on The Courier, and its damn interesting lore at that.
he wants to know If the courier is willing to take responsibility for their actions, whether they were unknowingly committed or not it's up to the player to decide if the courier cares for the effects of his actions, or holds no care for them at all
Sorry, I know this is an old comment, but it’s worth noting that Ulysses speaks English as a second language. He was taught English by the legion, who speak a distinct version of English. Less vulgar, more strict. It rubbed off on how Ulysses speaks.
This game can make being a mailman seem coolest, toughest and best job on the world
Fallout New Vegas, Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask made me want to be a postman. Encountering the postman around Hyrule in OoT. Getting the postman's hat in Majora's Mask allowing you to interact with the mailboxes around Clock Town. That made me want to belong to a small town, become a regular face townsfolk could trust. Even at a young age I appreciated that. New Vegas made me want to wander from small town to small town becoming someone everyone could trust. Whether I was taking it easy with Easy Pete, or sharing a sarsaparilla with Joshua Graham and listening to stories. I wanted a brother like Ulysses. Someone I could stand with at the edge of the world no matter what. Closest thing I've found in real life is Saul Williams...
Dont forget The Postman movie.
What's also interesting about the way Fallout treats being a mail Courier is how when America was developing, as well as moving West, the postal workers as they started and grew were incredibly important to that effort of growth and expansion, as well as their job being far more dangerous than in the society of today. It likely was moderately similar to The Couriers of New Vegas's experience.
It used to be. When dilevering messages was truly dangerous, couriers were well respected.
Couriers in that time was and should have been considered as one of the hardest jobs. Bruh even if you stay on the road, geckos and other disgusting mutated animals will come for you. At the same time their packages may be important so mercenaries or assassins may have been sent to Attack before
Ulysses only ran off to the divide because of his true fear, Easy Pete
because of riddick
*bUt eAsy pETe wAs a PrOSpEctOr, nOt a CoURiEr*
B A S T A R D
*Look at 'em go!*
@Andrew Sossaman *HARDCORE PETE*
Joshua Graham, Ulysses, and Mr. Fantastic, easily the 3 most badass characters in all of Fallout.
Murk Frank Horrigan too.
You're forgetting Boone!
The master is one of the best also
Forgot Primm Slim
Easy Pete
I love Ulysses’s story. You can find his footprints all over the Mojave, Big Mt and Zion and you succeed where he didn’t. He’s your opposite and equal
Thank you
Exactly
The Courier's foil.
Wait I haven't found anything about him in Zion, where is it?
@@youarenotmadenough655 When you first meet Graham I believe he says something about expecting a different courier.
THE BEAR. THE BULL. THE WEST. THE EAST. COURIER SIX. THE DIVIDE
Ulysses in a nutshell.
Lol
what a fuckin nerd lol
You forgot
OLD WORLD
i mean he's a tribal after all maybe his tribe didn't know english and that' could explain why he call radiation "invisible fires"
@@mineassasinlol6428 You're right because even in our timeline, a lot of Native American tribes called liquor, "Fire-water".
Ulysses' last message always gives me goosebumps. " Whatever your symbol...wear it proudly when you stand at Hoover Dam."
When did he say that, I just finished lonesome road
@@They_Hit_The_Pentagon The recording. It's legit the last line
@@CrypticStiles oh I haven’t listened to the recording yet, thank you
@@They_Hit_The_Pentagon No probs lol
THE FUCKING GOAT
"Two couriers fighting beneath an old world flag."
Even before Lonesome Road came out that line always sounded so damn cool and I was hyped to see it play out. Whether it's with him or against him, that's probably my favorite part thanks to that personal history you both have with each other, two legendary mailmen who can build or break nations.
Fallout has traces of badassery in its writing.
Hell yeah
Friend: "I just don't understand why people wouldn't just pick the NCR and kill Caesar."
Me: *slams fist on table* "THE BEAR AND THE BULL-"
I'd pick taxes over slavery, murder and tyranny
@@fatquickscope4150 "*tHe bEaR aNd tHe bUll*"
*DEBEARR IS...HE CLAWS IN THE LAND, NEVER SEE ITS MARKS, KILL DE BEAR? NO. CUT OFF HIS THROAT... ZEE IT LOOSE IT'S BHREATH*
*DHE DIVIDE*
*YOU WALKED FROM WEST NEVER STAYED HOME*
*YOU WALKED FROM OVER WEST, ME EAST*
*YOU WALKED ALL OVER TE WEST*
*HOUSE... FILFTHY GREEDY SPYRIT OF OLD WORLD, FUCK THAT GUY*
@@fatquickscope4150 Same thing.
@@fatquickscope4150 You'd pick corruption, thievery, and lies, over strong stability amd security?
The Bull is ironically the greatest solution for an already lawless wasteland. The NCR is meant to burn.
Joshua Graham, Ulysses, and God/Dog all have to be my favorite characters. Lots of story behind all three of them.
Imposter
4*
Ulysses does not hate Courier in the meaning of "You destroyed where could have been my home and the hope of the Mojave". Or he did, but is already past that.
He just wants to ask one question: "Do you feel responsible for the changes you brought about, even if you did not intend any of them?"
If your answer is "No, I don't care", then he might hate you for that, as your answer convinces him that the Courier is no better than anybody he has seen before. People having the power to change things but take no responsibility in that are the reason that war never changes.
a wise observation, thank you for this insight
my favorite comment, amazing take
I think context makes it more difficult then that but a good point to consider
@@primary2630 why do you think he named himself after grant? Just like that general he isnt built for peace- but unlike grant he knows what will happen to his flag (the legion) should they reach the coast. Either turning in on & destroying itself OR should caesar's vision of the ncr & legion merging come to fruition, w/e comes after would be no different than the govt that gave fallout its' landscape
His hate for not caring is still unreasonable and illogical, and the “you destroyed my home, I destroy yours” kind. Would you, as a mailman, care if you delivered something unsavory? You might. But if you hadn’t done it, it would have been someone else. That’s what the mail services are for. You get things to where they should be, regardless what’s in them. It will be delivered, and who delivers them isn’t quite important. Even in New Vegas, the Courier could be anyone. You choose who the Courier is, yours isn’t mine and mine isn’t yours.
This dude's voice certainly made over a million gamer girls pregnant.
ME
I don't fit into the gamer girl category but it still did its magic
Honestly tho... you aren’t wrong.
He made me pregnant and I'm a guy
Jimmy dude lays it real thick this man really acts the lone wanderer with manly conviction
Fedex and USPS see eachother at the same location and debate philosophy
Lmao
"If you believe in something enough, you must be willing to let it burn ..."
Ulysses
"To believe in an ideal is to be willing to betray it ..." Darth Traya
I mean they're both written by Chris Avellone.
Broooo I thought the same thing!
.
badass af
That doesn’t even make sense tho lol
The most badass voice in Fallout.
I thought Joshua Graham's was. But Ulysses'...wow....
nope, Frank Horrigan is baddas in voice and other things
@@username0479 The Master has the most memorable one.
@@username0479 *YOU AND YOUR MUTIE BASTARD FRIENDS ARE GONNA JOIN ME IN THE BIG OL' MUSHROOM CLOUD*
Mr. New Vegas: Am I a joke to you?
In a way, all this was Ulysses trying to process the trauma of nearly dying in a massive explosion.
This whole experience was Ulysses’s cry for help. A way for him to finally digest what happened and what he learned from the Divide’s destruction
25:32 fav shit, timestamp for me
Replying to remind you of this great timestamp!!
i miss obsidian writing
we need an obsidian conan the barbarian and a riddick the barbarian
Correction: you miss Avellone's writing.
After playing Outer Worlds, I don't think we'll be seeing them coming back so hot anytime soon lmao. Truly unremarkable in every sense
@We Wuz Kangz but not Avelonne. :(
@We Wuz Kangz Doe "Well, as long as we don't get another FO4 crappy plot again"
It was the same plot as Fallout 1, 2, 3 and the first half of NV....
ED-E: *[excited beeping]*
Me: I would give my life for you
ED-E: *getting chased by 12 cazadors*
Courier: "I will rip each one of your wings off one by one if you touch him"
I cant play hardcore mode because i need ede but he dies too much
I haven't played New Vegas in years. Now that I look back, I just remember everything about Ulysses being cool. His story, outfit, haircut, and especially his voice are all awesome.
God I miss the old game design where you had over a 10 minute dialogue with a lot of information in it.
Now, all we have is YES/NO/SKIP
Don't you mean YES/YES/YES BUT LATER?
@@atlasgraham154 yes/yes/later/sarcastic yes
Then you preety much had
YES/NO/EVIL YES/EVIL NO/LATER/PERK DIALOGUE/PERK DIALOGUE/SKILL DIALOGUE/S.P.E.C.I.A.L DIALOGUE
Edit:forgot and **Lie**
@@swordhere3396You frogot bribe
Shut up
Never heard a more amazing voice ever.
Legatus Lanius' was close but Ulysses' was godly.
*_Joshua Graham has entered the chat_*
@@Chozo_Ghost If Joshua Graham had the eyebot filter he would probably be better
@@jonahsomm5723eyebot filter?
@@concept5631 the filter Ulysses' voice has when he speaks to you through ED-E
@@jonahsomm5723 Ahhhh
Thank you for this. His voice is ASMR and I just listen to it whenever I'm bored
Eeew2a
@@ghostfox13 ???
listened to this while making and eating breakfast, p good
@@quadrillion92 😐
@@Sky-lz4jl that was a good breakfast bro fuck are u talking about
Your encounter with him with 100 speech is probably some of the best writing I’ve ever seen in a video game
Dude this voice is intense
imagine someone just speaking like that regularly for every conversation
When Ulysses talks about the Marked Men he says that they have been “Made equal in history’s eyes”. I think that’s an underrated line. He’s saying that what they have been through has stripped them of their allegiance and has only left their willingness to survive. They stop being people and start being *them*, contradistinct to the wholesome *us*.
It reminds me in a way of how veterans who come out of the military as opponents to war and militaries. They’re called cowards, betrayers. Told that they aren’t fit to wear the uniform. They are stripped of their allegiance and have only been left with their willingness to oppose. They stop being people, people who have been through the worst of humanity, and become *them*, contradistinct to the wholesome *us*.
Man, Obsidian's work is fine poetry, makes one think in ways beyond themselves
Take a shot everytime Ulysses says the divide
Gonna be drunk before reaching the warhead room.
the bear... and the bull... the long 15... the divide....
Liver failure speedrun
"Bull bear bull bear I know what you did courier
History bull bear history courier
Perhaps even more than that
BULLBEARBULLBEARBULLBEAR SKY DIVIDE QUAKES BULL THEN BEAR"
Do you want to kill me?
Fallout New Vegas villains: explains Hegelian dialectic to you.
Fallout 3: dad died because he wanted his name on the water bottles.
Fallout 4: "you wouldn't understand our reasoning because we smart and you dumb"
Also fallout 4:"Oh you can also make the same damn water purifiers that had an entire story about it in franchise."
sorry that always bugged me since I got fallout 4.
Alrighty, so you're copying and pasting this again because clearly a whole bunch of people who whine about Fallout 4 never finished it. Well, let me explain the Institute's motives, and where they came up in conversation, for you: During one of the most important moments of Fallout 4, on the rooftop of the CIT, Father/Shaun tells you exactly how he plans to save humanity. The Institute plans to wipe out pretty much all life above ground that has come into heavy contact with radiation, and replace the surface world with the underground world. The synths are created so that eventually the Institute can replicate natural life (example: Synth gorillas in the biology wing of the Institute, a creature that is not far from the human synths the Institute has already perfected). This comes up repeatedly in the game, so I recommend you make sure you understand the happenings of the game before you complain about errors in the plot.
@@MrSchplingle79 that's one way to look at fallout 4, if you want to give Bethesda so much credit.
In reality, fo4 is full of lazy, garbage writing. (76 has better writing lmao)
@@Zenriesz just one question, that I ask you answer honestly: did you finish Fallout 4, and if so, did you do so more than once? I'll be honest, too, and say I have yet to finish New Vegas, not for lack of trying, but for lack of any way to properly run it.
@@MrSchplingle79 I did, after 40 painful hours I finished the game with the institute ending. Maybe I'm too harsh on fo4 (the shooting is pretty good) but the writing is ALMOST worse than fo3.
Ulysses is one of the best written characters in fiction, period. His beliefs are so well-defined.
Geez Thanks
Please, he's nothing but a pretentious nihilist.
@@ShadowSonic2 If that's all you got from his dialogue than you are truly an ignorant person lmao
I'd suggest actually reading from others who have clearly explained his beliefs and ideals.
@@butcanyoudothis3320 ruclips.net/video/N0e3n42kpZg/видео.html
He's just Chris Avellone going overboard with a character again. He did this with Kreia in KOTOR2 too.
@@ShadowSonic2 if that is all you got from our history, then it was better left cast aside.
-Ulysees.
A mailman’s power fantasy
One of my favourite characters in all of gaming.
Ulysses is probably the most important figure in the Mojave
After the Courier.
@@LordSerion but without Ulysses courier 6 would’ve never delivered the platinum chip, got shot in the head, and the second battle of Hoover dam would’ve never started and the ncr/legion conflict in the Mojave
@@officialorangegoof9736 The battle would have happened regardless, the outcome might have been different.
@@officialorangegoof9736 that's true
@@officialorangegoof9736 well it probably would've been in Ulysses hands and he'd get shot in the head, but given his luck, he would have died.
Thank you for going through finding all the tapes. A difficult scavenger hunt, but well worth hearing it all.
“We’ll leave it to history than”
Love that line.
This voice acting is beyond insane
I like that the whole plot is about a Mailman getting revenge.
I want him to whisper sweet nothings into my ear
"you came, good." YEAH I SURE DID
Such a well written and amazing character.
It’s such a menacing voice
Ulysses, Joshua Graham and Boone: easily the three best characters of New Vegas. All three have such complex and compelling histories and the bad-assery to back it up.
Ulysses was cool as hell to me in my first playthrough as he was black with dreads and I was black with dreads, that visual connection alone alongside his characters personality and philosophies had me stuck as a kid
One of, if not the, best characters in the history of Fallout
Ulysses is like a wall of text embodied, and I like it! He is written so thoroughly, it's really interesting to listen to him
31:43 I love this line "No need for bombs, when hate will do", Ulysses knows the power and the potential of propaganda, to destroy.
1:23:59 "caesar's anger written on him like a book" this one takes the cake
This VA is 10000000/10. Is he in anything else? He should be......
The man's name is "Roger R. Cross".
He is also the horni biostation from OWB. Talk about the voice range...
BEAR,BULL,DIVIDE and the MOJAVE. DIVIDE,BULL,MOJAVE and the BEAR,COURIER SIX. THAT MACHINE,THAT PACKAGE. The DIVIDE,the MOJAVE,the BULL and the BEAR. COURIER SIX,the WEST,The EAST,BULL,BEAR,DIVIDE and the MOJAVE. But to be honest, Ulysses is one of my favorite New Vegas characters. Yes, he talks a lot, but that's what defines his character. First he was a scout for his tribe, then his tribe was destroyed by Caesar's legion, then he was a frumentarii of Caesar and a courier, met our character built the Divide with us only for it to be destroyed by the package from courier six. He survived the explosion of the atomic bombs and reached out to Big MT met Elijah and showed him where the Sierra Madre is, helped Chirstine, returned to Caesar, planned the attack on New Canaan and Joshua Graham and after all this happened he realized that what what he did was wrong. He became a courier again and when he heard that we were still alive he gave us the platinum chip in the hope that we would die. And the rest is history.
Fallout, for better or worse, will never top this level of writing
"Divide, bear bull something something, bear bull, divide," truly incredible writing
ulysses smokes 3 packs a day
More like a minute
Lol
You have to listen to his dialogue like this; all condensed, not punctuated by the gameplay, to understand the point he's trying to make.
What he missed was the divide was a community that was committed to surviving, but, just as that-a community.
NCR and the Legion are expansionist nations; they survive by making everything into the nation. All else beyond the nation is to be subsumed, or destroyed.
He criticized the NCR growing without structure; and knew the Legion would not survive Caesar's death, or the end of conquest.
Strangely, his final message (spoken presumably before his final confrontation with the courier) has him almost get it: Men must change, as they always must have had to, so survive; to survive nature, war, and even their worse instincts.
Thus, the greatest irony: launching the nukes, trying to pave the way for some glorious "something new", a new glory to replace the old glory, if you will, was simply repeating the errors of the old world; of the old nations, of the NCR, of the Legion, and of even the White Legs that understood only violence, copying his braids without understanding.
But to move forward in life or projects or anything, sometimes, you may have to repeat few steps to get back to the ultimate goal.
To think that Ulysses was originally a cut character because Obsidian gave his VA so many lines that they ran out of disc space so they eventually brought him back in a DLC when new advancements were made with gaming systems.
Ulysses needs a movie
Yes
He really does
And Graham
The uncontested god of yapping
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@@kushlord9042 NV fanboys when you give a minor criticism:
What a badass character
Me watching the entire video multiple times to try and emulate his speech
The idea behind Lonesome Road was pretty weird but this guy was surely memorable
Me at Wendy's at 2 am:
First heard his voice and thought I was trippin'. Homie sounds just like me.
Yeah ok
@@aubristreams Congrats, you win nothing.
must have a pound of res in your lungs
@@FalloutTactics Yeah, I smoke big tree everyday, Cuz.
Doubt it
The divide, The divide, The divide, The divide, The divide, The divide, The divide, The divide, The divide, The divide, The divide, .... "Okay then you been here long"
The voice actor did an amazing job
Unpopular opinion: ulysses has a better voice than corpse husband.
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corpse husband cringe
remove random crits
His voice personally just sounds better and nicer kinda. Wouldn't mind listening to him reading a book or such.
I remember the days corpse husband was cool
The voice work is so damn good it carries this character
One of my favorite edgelords in the history of gaming, directly next to Mr. House and Dagoth Ur
Dagoth Ur? Edgy? Such grand and intoxicating innocence.
@Flix Flox he's literally a gen-z libertarian. go into reddit and talk to a few of them. beware the edges though
Indeed
use this to go to sleep at night, thanks dude you rock
"If you believe in something enough, you must be willing to let it burn ..."
Could someone explain this phrase to me ?
I think it essentially means you have to be willing to take the risk to bring something to fruition even if you fail to make it happen.
Ulysses doesn’t mean “burn to the ground”, as in destroy. He means if you believe in an idea you must allow it to go through trials to prove it’s worth, I think.
What I get from it; is that if you follow an ideal closely, and believe in it. You're willing to let that idea weather the storm, you're willing to see the chances it will be successful. It may burn in the process and your ideals may fail, but you believed in them enough to see it through to the end.
18:37 "They breed fast, hunt in groups, more than enough to bring down the strongest in the Mojave. Once they draw blood... Seen them tear apart Deathclaws. Deathclaw might get some, but the rest will swarm it, tear it apart, like Denver hounds." This quote is one of my favorites.
I sound like Ulysses too...when I have a cold.
Bull Bear Bull Bear Divide Courier Bull Bear Bull Bear Divide Courier
Take a shot every time he says "The Divide" or "The Old World".
Or "The bear (NCR)" and "The bull (Caesar's Legion)"
This DLC was a religious experience, and I think it was because he didnt speak correctly
Gives me chills every time
45:38 Idk why this sounds so powerful to me
“The bear, the bull. The east, the west. Roads, flags, lands ands graves.
Bears, beets. Battlestar galactica”
Ulysses
Y'now, from what I can gather, Ulysses is angry with us despite the fact the Courier likely didn't even know what the package was in the first place, meaning it was a complete accident. As if he needs *someone* to blame for a fairly flimsy reason.
Considering the arc words of the DLC, I think he has trouble letting go himself.
His point is that Courier 6 doesn't consider the consequences of his actions. Whether he intended it or not, the package he delivered destroyed the divide. That he has a tendency to do this, which is why he thinks he is dangerous and must be stopped.
@@Theviewerdude Though there's also hints you might not even be the same courier.
Not to mention that looking at Ulysses' dialogue in the GECK implies he doesn't even believe his own words.
@@BradfortBottlenose hints you might not be the same courier? I'm unfamiliar. Seemed to me that Ulysses had been tracking you, or at the least piecing together your journey through stories and rumors. Much like how all the other factions in the game do.
@@Theviewerdude Fair enough.
Even if you're the Courier responsible though, would we even remember after that shot to the head?
Actually, I think that last one's left up to player choice IIRC.
@@BradfortBottlenose I was just reading some threads about that, supposedly one of the devs / writers stated there's no sort of amnesia going on. So that maybe the player's character had just forgotten as it was just another job, or the place was so beyond recognition.
But idk, I think it's pretty fitting that he forgot a few things after head-bullet-itis, so that's what I believe :P
Listening to this again in the context of the fallout show is really interesting.
Can someone post where he says. I was there when the bear and the bull collided.
Adjust the speed to 0.8 and listen to his sexy low grunt voice. I'm welcomed!
I love fallout dialogue
17:01 "For all you've seen behind you - there's worse along this stretch. Deathclaws - hunt the Marked Men, and they also hunt what burrows below."
Anyone notice how broken his English is. Like i can tell its not his first language
His native tongue would have been the language of the Twisted Hairs which no longer exists given they were exterminated and assimilated.
Right. It's a neat detail.
We will never get DLCs from fallout like these again
I really dont understand all the Ulysses hate.
(TL:DR- Ulysses is Fascinating, I dont get why people hate on him)
The whole "ALL HE SAYS IS 'THE BEAR' AND 'THE BULL' HUR-HUR" is either an intentional troll or just a lack of the ability to understand him cause, admittedly, he talks a little funny.
But push past that, and he's relatively to the point. Though he does love a good side chat about some historical point.
His dialogue is awesome, he has some good points, the lore he reveals is great, and his perspective is one of the most interesting in the game.
His dialouge is some of the only legit lore we have on The Courier, and its damn interesting lore at that.
He wants to kill a mailman because of the package they delivered?
he wants to know If the courier is willing to take responsibility for their actions, whether they were unknowingly committed or not
it's up to the player to decide if the courier cares for the effects of his actions, or holds no care for them at all
19:22 "They bear false versions of Legate Lanius' mask, the one Caesar fashioned for him. Thought it was an insult at first... know better now."
Something something the divide something something the bear and the bull
Gonna listen to this and use his voice and philosophy for my English test
he's way sexier than joshua graham if you'll excuse my love for him
Within 30 seconds of the clip starting, I was already wanting to fire the game up and walk the Divide again.
I like Ulysses. But he reminds me of the kid who’s just gotten Into poetry and suddenly quotes random poetic sounding shit in every breath.
Sorry, I know this is an old comment, but it’s worth noting that Ulysses speaks English as a second language. He was taught English by the legion, who speak a distinct version of English. Less vulgar, more strict. It rubbed off on how Ulysses speaks.
The Bear. And. The Bull
This DLC is awesome if you like having your character's backstory written for you
this is incredibly thorough, thank you very much!
This guy… the whole time idk if he loved me or just wanted to beat the life outta me 😆
we just need fallout: furya
BEAR AND BULL BEAR AND BULL.
BEAR AND SUSSY BALLS
his voice is so relaxing
His voice reminds me of the Black Mesa PA system.
You are literally waulysses
BEAR BULL BEAR BULL THE DIVIDE LONG 15 GRAHHHHHH