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For the seirra madre, don’t quote me but I’m pretty sure the holograms are what take the items. I think elijah got around it because in his words “Machines are meant to bend to our will” or something. Also he didn’t enter like we did, He has been a while. Supposedly just hanging around but never entering “correctly” like we did so he was never searched
Just double checked, He does go there Whilst awake, as he found the cloud, and made a distillery in the bunker. And given the Villa’s shall we say “Cheap construction” It’d be pretty easy to find a way in without the holograms
I've played New Vegas for nearly 14 years. I had no idea about the bomb collar victim in Freeside or the the conversation with Sarah about it... Mind Blown!
I think it's mainly because players usually do the Helios One question before meeting and going on Veronica's quest. If you do so, then that choice on her quest isn't possible. And as most players comple Lucky Old Sun since it is an early quest, most players never see the bomb collar plot
Yeah Honest Hearts was the worst DLC in my opinion, which isn't to say that it was actually bad, but it definitely pales in comparison to the others. Randal and Joshua's stories were definitely the most memorable aspects and if neither of them were in the DLC, then my God would it have ended up being forgettable.
@@Choso_GOAT Wouldn't surprise me, a reoccurring theme with New Vegas is that a lot of things could have been better with the right amount of time and budget. Shame, I would have loved to see FNV and its DLCs without any of the developmental issues Obsidian had.
Edit: I might have gotten this point wrong in the video!! I did not know obsidian generated facial animations based on audio files. Usually there is a cleanup afterwards or tweaking to get just right with software like that. Probably didn’t save money but might have saved time not having to worry what the facial animations look like
@@alexilyin6134 That's my mistake if that's the case, but I would assume it must saved some time in the case of Old World Blues. Make one model, copy and slightly change colors for each scientist. Haven't used the Creation engine, but I did use Audio2Face software for the puppet and it's rare it comes out perfect the first. Usually there always some cleanup that has to happen.
I don't know if I'd say Obsidian specifically is genius for this, it probably wasn't something revolutionary at the time. There are lots of little cost cutting techniques that are widespread in the industry, but you'd only ever notice or think of them when they bugged out or were executed poorly.
Regarding the Sierra Madre taking your items but Elijah still having his belongings: I believe it's because Dog dragged you there, while Elijah found his own way in, presumably bypassing the security check entirely. This also goes for Christine who also found her own way to the Sierra Madre and therefore wears her own gear. Elijah relies on Dog to bring people to the Madre, and Dog takes the simplest, expected route where he encounters the security system.
The Elijah part makes sense, but Christine doesn’t because we know she got caught in one of Elijah’s traps, and while unconscious Dean put her in the auto-doc. I’m leaning on the fact Elijah is lying
@@Boofcan Did she get trapped like the Courier, or did she make her way to the Sierra Madre and try to sneak in using her Stealth Suit, only then to get trapped/found by Dog? I honestly can't remember the exact details, and the wiki lacks a source. Either Elijah is lying, Christine was brought in by Dog a different way to the Courier, or it could be a property of the BigMT tech, the stealth suit, that bypassed the security systems?
@@Boofcanthat, or the specific trap she went in (and we know from his dialouge that Elijah had multiple) put her through a different route than us. One that could possibly bypass the system
Either Elijah is lying, or yeah, Christine was brought in another way. I thought she had tracked Elijah to the Sierra Madre (gotten there on her own), then fallen into a trap nearby; Dog then found her and brought her into the Madre Villa? It could just be that the route Dog used to drag the Courier into the Villa has the security system, and Elijah is talking about how in that specific circumstance it is unavoidable that the Courier's items are removed. Alternatively, it could be Christine's BigMT stealth suit that somehow circumnavigated the Madre's security systems, as both technologies come from BigMT.
@@BoofcanMaybe, but there is no guarantee that she was beyond the security when caught. It's just as likely he was trying to catch one of the ghosts to test on.
I don't think that's the intended takeaway from Lonesome Road at all. I doubt it was trying to make you feel guilty or bad at all-Ulysses' anger is meant to be so very irrational. Almost ridiculous; he's a character that uses so many big words and yet is driven by such a petty and primal emotion and is unable to look at the fact of reality. I might be misremembering but I don't even think there's a way to agree with him and try and make amends and apologize-only to make him realize HOW irrational he is being.
I felt that way with the whole forced to launch the Ashton Missle Silo to progress through the game and then having Ulysses bitch about it, but I definitely get what you're saying. Ulysses is one unhinged and sad man
You can't agree with Ulysses, but you ARE able to convince him that it was all an unintended consequence and not something he should get his hair in a twist over. You just have to pass the most difficult speech check in the game before fighting off a horde of marked men.
@@chesterstevens8870 You can alternatively either find all of ED-E's upgrades or all of his logs to bypass the Speech check for the epic Marked Men horde battle.
@@chesterstevens8870you don’t even have to use speech skills to talk him you can literally lead him through his own logic with the idea of launching the nukes at the nations with no speech checks needed and you get him to stand down it’s hard but I did it on my first run through
One thing I love about the DLC’s is that the first three can be played in any order almost. If you play Old World blues before Dead Money then it really feels like you’re following the trail on Elijah or if you play it after you can see how long Christine has been on the watch for him.
My read on Ulysses is that he's Colonel Kurtz from Apocalypse Now, in that he's just rambling the whole time desperately trying to make sense of everything he's seen an done. In the end when Willard kills Kurtz, he has his epiphany, which is that he can't make sense of it, it's all just horror. His final lines are the only ones that actually mean anything. Ulysses is similarly grasping for an epiphany, and over the course of his rambling podcasts he tries to come to terms with the destruction of the Divide. He believes is home couldn't have possibly been destroyed by a random accident, it HAS to mean something. He seems to take a pessimistic view that the world is doomed to keep repeating the same cycles of destruction. Society tried to rebuild and it rebuilt wrong, and it's best to just get the next apocalypse over with. You can choose to either kill him, in which case he dies believing the world is doomed and it's all just horror, like Kurtz, or you can talk him down and he finally has his epiphany for his final podcast recording, "if war doesn't change, men must change."
I haven’t seen that movie yet, but I remember reading or hearing a while back that Kurtz and Caesar have a lot of similarities. This makes a lot of sense Beak. Also love the videos man. You’re crushing it.
I have't seen the film. But i've read Heart of Darkness. Cool book. It's shocking how clearly they based Ceasar on Kurtz. Like him dying, when we meet him, im guessing that the courier then is supposed to be Marlow. But interestingly, Kurtz in the book says that he wants to civilise the natives. But we obviously know this to not be the truth, he is, despite his idealistic ramblings, one of the biggest exploiters and destroyers of the Congo. We can see this in the real world, how colonialism utterly destroyed the Congo into one of the most impoverished places in the world. And of course all the death, exploitation and destruction that happened while Leopold controlled the place at the time of the book. This is basically Caesar, we are led to belive that despite his brutal tactics, he will civilise the wastes just like how Kurtz wants to civilise the natives of the Congo. But i think Caeser will only end up destroying it even more than it already is, just like Kurtz.
at 1st I hated dead money, but after I returned on a different playthrough I found the holo tapes, the terminals, and figured out how to avoid the traps it's now my favorite of the lot. even the secret ending when you ally with elijah is great, rip Richard Herd the voice actor for father elijah.
same, first playthrough I barely found any of dean's stashes or the other supplies lying around. My guns focused courier struggled a lot when I had to resort to melee and unarmed after putting no point in it. Hated it. Then I found out just how much I actually missed in the dlc, went back replayed it and it became my 2nd favourite after lonesome road.
Another cool bit of gun symbolism is how while the New Canaanites and by extension the Dead Horses use Colt M1911s, the White Legs are armed (or at least supposed to be armed, but the level scaling can switch those for 12.7 SMGs) with Thompsons, another weapon in .45 ACP that they aptly named "storm drums". Given the Thompson's reputation as the deadly trench/bunker cleaner and the iconic weapon of the less-than-scrupulous groups in its different modifications (which NV kinda meshes together with how you can slap the drum mag mod on it, even though it was meant for the different model, specifically the one that you can find in F2 in New Reno), it makes for a nice juxtaposition with the "grandfather of all handguns" which the New Canaanites gave practically religious context to. Meticulous ritual, tradition, and past getting mowed down (swept away, if you will) by the thunderous cannonade of many a Tommy Gun. Meanwhile Bethesda just slaps some wiring on a Volksgewehr 45, makes it somehow do "radiation damage" (I guess it gives you terminal cancer the very prospect of having which makes you die on the spot), and adds it into their game set in 2280s in American East Coast. It's not even a collector's piece like Gizmo's Mauser was, it's a mass-produced weapon.
5:27 - Fun fact: If you have Power Armor training from the Brotherhood of Steel, you can also call out Ricky's BS regarding the t-45b and its helmet design when he says he killed one of them. I had no idea that was a thing until the last few years.
Whats a tad fascinating about Daniel and Joshua is they basically represent two sides of missionary work with native cultures. Daniel believing that those of another culture are little better than children, that they are "innocent yet ignorant". As he ignores the traditions that The Sorrows have, all while espousing his own patronizing beliefs as if they were the only correct option. We actually seen in real life the damage that Daniel's line of thinking can cause from the schools in america meant to reeducate native american children while also stripping them of their heritage (hairstyle, clothes, religion, even language). Especially since these schools were seen as something as doing the tribes "a favor", and that what was being done at these schools was a "good thing". While for Joshua, he was given the power by the Dead Horses as acting warchief by comparison. As Joshua actually bothered to understand The Sorrows and Dead Horses under his care and sees the people of those tribes as equals. In turn, those same tribes also see him as an equal and someone they can look to for guidance and leadership. He is much more humble and level-headed when dealing with people that are not from his tribe.
It’s also very interesting from an ex-Mormon perspective. I can’t say how much a more faithful person would like it, but it’s pretty clear to me at least that the writers have a decent understanding of Mormon culture, both the pros and the cons. From a certain perspective- one that I know some people hold- Joshua is something of a failure of a member. Not for his crimes as a member of Caesar’s Legion, since he is trying to atone, but for his failure to put his faith first in his actions. Doctrinally, Daniel’s perspective is encouraged. And yet, Joshua putting practicality and understanding first is what allows him to be a better leader than Daniel ever could be. That said, Joshua’s philosophy isn’t necessarily non-Mormon either. There are many who absolutely subscribe to the idea that proselytizing isn’t the end-all-be-all of missionary work. The church actually had a whole branch of missionaries dedicated to service, rather than teaching. It would seem that Joshua believes that leading by example is his way of spreading the gospel. After all, outright proselytism can feel extremely patronizing, whereas actually being a good person will build up goodwill and get more people interested. So what I said earlier about Joshua being less Mormon might be a bit unfair.
imo one's not worse than the other, considering what joshua really intended to do in zion was to enact violent genocidal revenge against the white legs at the cost of (at least a few) sorrows' and dead horses' lives. plus the sorrows also looked to daniel for spiritual guidance and leadership. joshua isnt "putting practicality and understanding first", hes just prioritising getting revenge over proselytising. he does do a better job with cross cultural communication, but that has nothing to do with him being a "good" missionary lol neither of them are there purely for the good of the tribes
19:20 there are a few explanations. The jumpsuits and the specific collars were from Big MT, the plave where much of the technology came from. It's possible the systems didn't reconize them as "foreign", so left them. For Elijah having his stuff, there are also multiple possibilities. 1.) He used an alternate emtrance to the Villa, and wasn't caught by that system. We only know that we got caught through a specific trap, and got brought to the Villa by Dog following some kind of route. Given the failing infrastructure, there could have been a gap that Elijah could have originally took to get to the Villa, but not available to his capture method for us. 2.) He hacked the systems. This isn't unprecedented, as he was able escape the Dome and hack Dr 0 and 8. Heck, this wouldn't be the 1st time he hacked a Sierra Madre system, as a terminal in the bunker reveals he hacked it to make the systems give him constant free chips
1:15:36 I'd just like to add that the sign is a reference to a fan made web series called "Nuka Break". On a separate note, and luckily, the very next weapon you discuss, is my new favorite weapon. I've been playing New Vegas every year since 2015. And it was only around a year ago that I actually bothered with the build able wea0ons. MFC Clusters are the greatest Tool of Destruction ever wrought upon Fallout. A "Handheld Carpet Bomb", throws like a grenade, and explodes on proximity like a mine. Excellent for laying down a minefield in 5-10 seconds, or turning any part of the horizon green for as long as your enemies legs can withstand the constant bombardment. Truly an underrated gem. In some ways, I am sad I didn't know about them sooner. On the other hand, it's proof that New Vegas is the gift that keeps on giving
People never really give Ulysses a chance. Yeah, he's wrong, but he's supposed to be. He makes you examine your actions but it's up to you if you change your view on them. He's intentionally framed as being emotionally charged and letting that cloud his judgement despite his immense wisdom. Everyone is somewhat hypocritical, but that doesn't mean there can't be truth behind their ideology. And honestly besides Ulysses hatred for the Courier, his ideology makes sense based on what he's seen, what he's had to endure, the roads he walked. Ik you didn't do it in this video but I hate how many fallout fans just write him off as "mucho text" and then act like thats a writing failure when they weren't paying attention to what he's saying anyways. Ulysses is incredibly well written whether you like him or not, he has a lot of philosophical wisdom. Depending on what type of playthrough ur doing, he really is just a reflection of the Courier. What we could become if we let greif and anger consume us. Ulysses talking about preserving the past but also having partsken in the destruction of a whole people is an intentional contradiction. He knows the importance of preserving it not just from his own participation in the destruction of it, but also comparing it to the destruction of his own tribe. Realizing that his tribe lives on and dies with him shakes him and is part of his reason for leaving the legion. He doesn't let his past define him. However, he does let the past of others define him, and he let's the last define others, which is his biggest flaw and one that you can open his eyes to. He realizes that no matter how good of a reason he has, using old world tactics, the same ones that destroyed the world, won't make things any better. Even in a world that will chew you up and spit you out at the first sign of weakness, we still must choose to be bigger than our predecessors, not make the same mistakes they did bu waging war for the sake of it.
But he's just such a hypocritical freak that hates on the player for no reason. The player did nothing wrong but he basically wants to gas-light us into beliving so, even though he did something way worse by destroying New Canaan. He talks in a "profound" way, because that's what the ceasers legion does, they are just a bunch of babbling serial killers pretending to be wise.
so many similarities with joshua graham too (in true fnv fashion) with all that hypocrisy. so weird how ive seen some of the same people who hate ulysses turn around and talk about joshua graham as some super cool perfect example of a born again christian and a beacon of morality/justice in the wasteland, completely neglecting the whole "genocidal maniac whos lying to himself and everyone around him about the nature of his motivations at the cost of entire cultures" thing. i guess ulysses didnt have enough quotable one liners or something
new vegas DLC is so unique to me because of all the foreshadowing in the base game and all 4 DLC actually connected to each other and the base game so much that it trully does expand the base game I don't know if I know any other game that does the same
For me, my personal theory as to why you don't get your stuff, while Elijah keeps his stuff and the bomb collars is due to the fact that: Elijah wasn't the one that grabbed and dragged your unconscious body to the Siera Madre. Dog did, Elijah knows enough of the Madre's inner working that he's probably found work arounds to keep his stuff on him. The bomb collars? Already there, brought by Elijah. Dog just puts them on you after arrival. That's my personal head canon anyways.
Love seeing someone continue to show love for these DLC'S and their characters, and teaching me even more about them as well. Awesome video, made my evening
This is the first time EVER that I've seen the foreshadowing for Dead Money with the Veronica quest and that was exactly what got me to do another playthrough of NV because that blew my mind!! This is the one and only video I could find regarding this option for her quest
the Lord literally works in mysterious ways, all paths lead to his Grace. glad you come back, brother. same as me but not via joshua, he's just a bonus haha
If I’d played Lonesome Road without going through the previous DLC or even finishing the base game, I wouldn’t have liked it. As it is, because I did do those things beforehand, I adore Lonesome Road for the message and themes behind it. I never felt like Caesar or Mr. House were the big bad for my courier, but Ulysses represented something personal, something deeper and meta about the experience of Fallout : he makes you aware (as you pointed out with Elijah) of the player aspect and desires affecting the digital world we’re in. He voices the frustrations of those around you that you would call yourself “good” when every action you take has some effect elsewhere in the Mojave. Not only that, but the extremely personal nature of his hatred for you “just doing a job” and destroying what he saw as his new start, his “begin again” moment, ties back to all the other themes present in the DLC. Also I personally dig his voice.
Can't believe I found this channel with so few subs still. This man's is about to have a good journey I feel it. Amazing video and absolutely cannot wait to see what you're cooking next. I've watched this and the new Vegas base game video like 5 or 6 times just on repeat almost lol
I didn't know you could do any of that stuff to find the range finder with the headless dude in freeside,I swear there's always something new in this game💀
This video was a bit longer but felt myself talking in circles / going on and on. It’s always a struggle figuring out what I should and should not keep
Randall Clark's story is a big reason I love honest hearts.(along with my love for histor.) But old world blues is just too fucking good to not be my favorite.
I'm not big on reading every piece of written lore in a game but when I stumbled across his journals I was surprised how gripping the story was despite being spread across terminals.
This one was a blown out out pun not intended but i absolutely love the 3d animation and that moment about aqua pura i laughed my ass off due to the fact he just foled and thw physics engine died it was funny. Good video, good editing, a good sequel to the original video, and another thing I still find it suprising that the last video was made by the same person.
Holy this video is so good, even possibly flawless, the YT algorithm recommended your video and was immediately hooked, not because of Fallout New Vegas, but because the edits are hella funny to me, don't know if you're also using a script because the way you explain and breakdown things is very simplified and easy to follow! Also, I don't know what software you used to animate your character like that, but the movements gave me a little bit of old-school Gmod vibes!!! Long story short, congratulations, you got yourself a new subscriber!!!
I didn't even know that Dead Money was rated so low, I love it! Granted, the first time I was panicking (esp in that part where you're on a tower launching the party, and then like ten ghost people spawn below you and you have to go through them), and I still do each time I hear the ghosts' breaths, but I love it. The whole theme of letting go, the remnant of the old world's decadence crumbling around you, no Johnny Guitar every two seconds - just this old casino, the ambience, and an explosive collar on your neck. I noticed they've used the Metallic Monks music from the first Fallout, and it's insanely fitting here (then I heard it in the Honest Hearts and realized that it's not confined to the Sierra Madre, it's a part of the game's ambience, I just didn't hear it once being to busy banging my head to Jingle Jangle Jingle). 10/10, thanks for inviting Laura Bailey.
Just played the DLC's, sped run them to be able to watch this video and find out your thoughts on em. Had to pause at the end cause I hadn't finished Lonesome Road until I did. Totally agree with your rating except I'd swap Dead Money for Old World Blues cause I'm a sucker for survival horror. Loved your videos both on the base game and this one, keep pumping out moar!
@@Boofcan don’t mention it! You’re a phenomenal content creator. Don’t give up. You gotta talent for this. Keep up the amazing work 🤝 earned yourself a life long sub from this vid
@@Boofcan all of it they pretty much reworked the theme of the entire game Vietnam is less downloadable content than it is a full fledged expansion to Bad Company 2 and at that time it wasn’t really heard of to do that in a fully multiplayer based game it’s just one of those things that holds such nostalgia idk if it would keep up now to todays standards but at the time it was truly ground breaking and I have so many memories of friends gone by I even still listen to the sound track to this day it’s very hard to sum up why it was so good as multiplayer games once there sequels come out and a lot of the players are gone it’s hard to have that same pure experience like you can do with single player games so unless they do a remaster which is unlikely but I would love it if they did
I absolutely love your optimism and enthusiasm. We choose completely different paths through the base game, but I can hear the love in your heart and the smile on your face when you share the good word.
@@Boofcan For only five videos on the channel and the base game analysis being the middle one you're doing rather well so far. The first Fallout was the reason I purchased my own first personal computer. I know that dates me some, but I've played every Fallout game aside from the console-only Brotherhood of Steel and there's something to love in all of them. (I was in the beta for 76 and keep checking back in on it from time to time. XD ) Of the middle trilogy (3, NV, 4), NV is definitely my favorite and the closest in feel to the original games.
Elijah has been to the Big MT, the place the tech was created for the Sierra Madre. He's probably found loopholes around the scanners and probably everything else there.
I had to cut down on a lot. I felt like I was rambling LOL. I will keep this in mind for the next Fallout upload for sure. I'll get around to doing Fallout 3 eventually
When I first played through the New Vegas DLCs I thought the same thing as you did about Lonesome Road, but as a few years have gone by and I have played through all of the DLCs again countless times, Lonesome Road sits as my second favourite DLC behind OWB. I find Ulysses to be an extremely fascinating character and no matter how many times I play Lonesome Road I take the time to find and listen to his audio tapes. I notice something new every time. I love exploring the Divide as well. Despite seeming like practically a straight line from start to finish, there are so many hidden twists and turns along the way that I feel compelled to explore every inch of the place to make sure I didn't miss anything, and even then, I find things online that I've missed along the way. I love all four of them so it makes it hard to rank them, but Lonesome Road has really grown on me with time.
This interrelatedness is something I'm glad stays as a core design principle for Obsidian in their other games too, such as Pillars of Eternity and Outer Worlds.
If you do end up killing the tribes, he does follow you through any of the other DLCs. Repeating those same words. Nuka Cola sign was added because of the very ambitious and rewarding Fanmade Show "Nuka Break"
WOW dude I never realized they were talking about Elijah wreaking havoc at big MT ! I always thought they were referring to Ulysses. Also great video man I have NEVER actually watched a yt video longer than half of an hour but I could NOT STOP watching this !! Great storytelling man you totally earned me as a subscriber !!!
6:12 This cave is special; Randall Clark buried Sylvie (the vault 22 woman who escaped the other vault 22 members and fell in love with Clark) in that cave. We know that the vault 22 spores take a while to germinate, implying that the fungus stays dormant in someone's body until it germinates and kills/converts their host. This is also the only Survivalist cave that has spore creatures. I've always interpreted Cueva Guarache as Sylvie's unfortunate past rearing its head; after she died of the pregnancy complications and got buried, the fungal spores awoke and caused the Spore Plants to take root. As people went into those caves and died from the booby traps, rather than just becoming skeletons (as you can see in the other Survivalist caves) they became spore servants.
I love the fact that the DLCs vary so much in scale. From a local tribal conflict fought with clubs to holograms and laser shooting scorpions, all the way to nukes aimed at the Mojave, it's an incredibly diverse set of stakes, which I feel is what Fallout as a series does best. You can do anything from looking for a kid that ran away from home all the way killing presidents and ruling the wastelands yourself.
I know it’s an unpopular opinion, but I love the narrative Dead Money drives. My 21st birthday fell on COVID. My planned trip for my 21st to Vegas became my 23rd. I think Dead Money encapsulates all the greed I felt during a 4 day trip to Vegas. I loved how it felt and the DLC mirrored it for me.
OWB will ALWAYS be my favorite DLC of any game ever. It's hilarious, the references are great, and you get Venture Bros voice acting thrown in on top. Think Tank and Mobius dialogue just fit my sense of humor way too well. Now if you'll excuse me, my lights are fighting each other over the juiebox, theres some very loud seeding going on, the toaster is threatening to burn the world again (and Muggy), and my stealth suit is being vocally needy.
I also thoroughly enjoy Dead Money's gameplay, it's one of the reasons just before I enter Any Fallout DLC (in ones that don't already do this) I ditch everything I own in a player home just to get that fresh start high all over again as well have a reason to use every single one of the new weapons/armor which I normally would never have a reason to do so. Then for the structuring of the dlc itself it's a nice change of pace from the usual everything Open World, allowing you to thoroughly explore every little area in greatest detail. I also just love systematically hoarding EVERY SINGLE THING in this one "town" leaving as the richest mf'er even before I help Elijah "Let Go..." -of that thick cranium of his which is then stuffed with 36 Gold Bars to be dragged to the elevator easier. (I personally don't like locking him in the Vault via stealth because even though that would be a Much better death for him, there was a Cut Interaction where if you did so, roughly 1 week later he could appear as a random encounter to hunt you down with a couple robots. I can't even entertain the Chance that prick could feel the excitement of escaping the supposed unbreakable tomb.)
Uhh idk about anyone else but I was able so save Chet at the start of honest hearts no mods no internet just the game of the year edition version of new Vegas he talks to you about needing to find a way out of Zion dlc goes on as usual and at the end if you do the good ending the cutscene says “Chet master son and the happy trails caravan company prospered” or whatever the good ending dialogue normally is
For me, Randall Clarke and Joshua made Honest Hearts a favorite dlc for me and i always join with Joshua to spite Daniel because he is low brain as hell.
bro you just came outta nowhere and dropped great videoessays, the writing is great, so is pacing and the editing is top notch too, you are genuinly very talented, keep it up big man!
Bro i just found ur videos and honestly love ur style and im not a fan of long videos but yours have something that i truly love and dont mind, man keep it up honestly keep it up ❤️
Whats awesome about dead money is when you travel with dog and see him eat the ghost people, you can talk to him about it and get a perk that actually kills them when you down them. Extremely useful
So something that doesn't come up much is that the original Fallout, as well as FNV, were prototyped as tabletop rpg sessions in the early concepting phases to help determine likely player decision points and creative solutions. I know Tim Cain did this, and iirc Sawyer and Avellone also did; most retrospectives on Dead Money highlight the survival horror direction and the Bioshock influence (though I don't see that one, personally), but I rarely hear that it draws clear inspiration from early ttrpg dungeon crawls. The Sierra Madre is basically Fallout's Tomb of Horrors, a killer dungeon meant to test player skill in navigating, surviving, and mastering a hostile space; move slowly, test everything for traps and hazards, scrounge for anything that can save you, and when conflict is inevitable enter it swiftly, brutally, and with every advantage you can muster. When I started DM'ing myself I translated the SM into a megadungeon myself, backporting it into D&D (in Eberron's Mournland, for fellow nerds who care).
The fact that the use of images on screens being a budget restriction makes it so much more fascinating to me. I’ve always though the screens just had such an impact visually and it’s examples like this that just go to show how well obsidian can turn a limitation into a gem.
I’m glad he addressed the voice actors. I kept having the weirdest feeling that NPCs were about to show up with power gauntlets that did electric and piercing damage. Finally makes sense why now.
Hey, writer that spoke to you of the boomers here. I appreciate the amount of detail you went into on these, even catching details I missed. I actually wholly agree with you on the forced part of lonesome road. I blame the lack of development time, but they are not Toby Fox. They wanted to give you a direction that had entirely vague consequences(Might have hit harder if I had met that town before I blew it up because I have a hard time believing that it was not already wrecked if it was in the divide) so they could shame you for it, but they were basically counting on me doing what I was told to complete the DLC and that is just a "supposed to lose" cutscene in disguise. If Ulysses had special dialogue for if I walked away, or if there was a special ending for doing so, I would feel more rewarded, but they knew what they were doing. Railroading us for the sake of making their point. I blame the lack of development time, but it was obvious. The other missed thing, which I understand from the mindset of the player, is I've never met anyone who didn't leave with all the gold in at least one playthrough. They did the best they could to drive home the letting go message, but they failed to account for the stubbornness of players. And the fact that they would shame players for rushing through Big MT says a lot about how well they knew us despite their limited time. But more than anything, have you ever tried a run where you killed both Daniel and Joshua and just bail on the whole thing? I did for a laugh because my character was very pro science and he thought the whole Zion Valley was a waste of his time, as well as all the backwards people that lived in it. That character was a laugh riot to me, because he was just a literal autistic neurotic mess... and I say that as an autistic Neurotic Mess. Finally, I never knew about that ending of Dead money and I might have to do an anti-NCR run just to see it myself. So thank you for the new information
I love new Vegas, though 4 was my first fallout game that I played in 2015 on release, I love all the dlc’s and there was stuff you showed I never knew EXISTED in Big MT, I love lonesome road for its difficulty, even though I can beat it on lvl 1 on very hard and survival, it proves a worthy challenge.
My favorite DLC is Lonesome Road because I love everything it does. I also don't like the forced launching of the nuke and how ulesses reacts to it, but I really love the aesthics of this brutal city that was destroyed by years of war, radiation, and erosion. I love that it doesn't pull any of its punches with the numerous death claws and those cave crawler guys and that elevator sequence is just like nothing else. I also really like Ulesses as a character, someone so obsessed with pre-war history that he ends up unintentionally falling into the same pitfalls as the pre-war governments did. Old World Blues is definitely tied tho
I’ve been watching your vids all day on my tv (bf’s acct is on the tv) and checked to see if I was subbed on my phone. HOWWWW do you rake in these views and have only 50k subs!? It’s asinine! Your videos are awesome and you deserve more recognition.
Aw man that means a lot!! I don't really know lol. It might be that I don't ask people to subscribe until the very last second of the video, but it is what is. RUclips is a weird place. I've seen someone get 1 million views and get 200k subs and I've seen people get 4 million views and only go up 40k subscribers. I try to ignore the sub count and just try to make a better video than the last one :)
Cannot believe that I have put off playing fallout 3 and nv, I’m 24 now just out of uni and making my way through them, feel like I’m experiencing my favourite game for the first time all over again
I felt like you forgot to mention that, despite Ulysses yapping a little too much about The Bear and The Bull, he does have some great lines. A particular noteworthy one is during the ending slide where he says "War.... war never changes. Men do, through the road that they walk." which I feel like is such a good end to this ironic phrase, really tying everything together.
elijah got there before the facility was online and then when he started it up he ot trapped inside and he has dog trained to bring people into the sierra madre from the bunker and he does that untill you come along and hes able to use your pipboy connection as a conduit for his control on outside elements.
@@Boofcan it is also a insanely easy way to make your money back like at the dinosaur shop the guy plays caravan and you can buy all the unique items he has and then play caravan and get all your money back
It shows how beautiful this game is. If only more games understand that depth and a story that can come around full circle, it’ll make gaming so much more enjoyable. The fact that we are talking about a game that is over 10 years old and still finding out more is almost unfathomable. This is by far the greatest story telling any game has ever achieved. If they remastered this game, even with an ending still, but made the combat like fallout 4’s in terms of modern gameplay and added sprint, I don’t think I would even need to play another game again.
Elijah is using the vending machines to make what he needs. He explains this near the end of the DLC when talking about his plan to use the Sierra Madre as his citadel. Theres also environmental storytelling at the end of the DLC that as good as confirms he was using the vending machines - Elijah's terminal has messages from the Sierra Madre implying he hacked the casino to consider him a 'high roller' and awarding him 100 chips every few days (this also doubles as a way for the player to get chips at the end of the DLC). He also has a vending machine in his bunker and multiple crafting benches nearby.
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For the seirra madre, don’t quote me but I’m pretty sure the holograms are what take the items. I think elijah got around it because in his words “Machines are meant to bend to our will” or something. Also he didn’t enter like we did, He has been a while. Supposedly just hanging around but never entering “correctly” like we did so he was never searched
@@randomfolk9545nothing the "dead money keep your stuff" Mod can't fix
DUDE THESE ARE SICK
Just double checked, He does go there Whilst awake, as he found the cloud, and made a distillery in the bunker. And given the Villa’s shall we say “Cheap construction” It’d be pretty easy to find a way in without the holograms
I've played New Vegas for nearly 14 years. I had no idea about the bomb collar victim in Freeside or the the conversation with Sarah about it... Mind Blown!
Was the biggest reason I made the video. I’d seen the body in Freeside but never put two & two together
I think it's mainly because players usually do the Helios One question before meeting and going on Veronica's quest. If you do so, then that choice on her quest isn't possible. And as most players comple Lucky Old Sun since it is an early quest, most players never see the bomb collar plot
I was about to type this. I was in the exact same boat. 1500 hours in and never put two and two together.
Same, and I've had the range finder in every playthru, even when the Helios is destroyed!
Lol, “mind blown!”
I get it :D
Saying Joshua carried that DLC is the least controversial thing I've heard come from a New Vegas review.
Him and Randal Clark. That man's story was the main reason behind me siding with Joshua.
Yeah Honest Hearts was the worst DLC in my opinion, which isn't to say that it was actually bad, but it definitely pales in comparison to the others. Randal and Joshua's stories were definitely the most memorable aspects and if neither of them were in the DLC, then my God would it have ended up being forgettable.
@@私の名前を翻訳しないでください If I remember correctly, they had troubles with making and getting the dlc out.
@@Choso_GOAT Wouldn't surprise me, a reoccurring theme with New Vegas is that a lot of things could have been better with the right amount of time and budget. Shame, I would have loved to see FNV and its DLCs without any of the developmental issues Obsidian had.
@@私の名前を翻訳しないでください I agree, it is a shame we don't get to see a lot of great content in game.
Obsidian is a genius they cut the budget of the animations but you never nitpick it cause how amazing they write characters damn.
Edit: I might have gotten this point wrong in the video!! I did not know obsidian generated facial animations based on audio files. Usually there is a cleanup afterwards or tweaking to get just right with software like that.
Probably didn’t save money but might have saved time not having to worry what the facial animations look like
@@Boofcan FNV engine is making auto animation. So they did not really safe on that
@@alexilyin6134 That's my mistake if that's the case, but I would assume it must saved some time in the case of Old World Blues. Make one model, copy and slightly change colors for each scientist.
Haven't used the Creation engine, but I did use Audio2Face software for the puppet and it's rare it comes out perfect the first. Usually there always some cleanup that has to happen.
I don't know if I'd say Obsidian specifically is genius for this, it probably wasn't something revolutionary at the time. There are lots of little cost cutting techniques that are widespread in the industry, but you'd only ever notice or think of them when they bugged out or were executed poorly.
Regarding the Sierra Madre taking your items but Elijah still having his belongings:
I believe it's because Dog dragged you there, while Elijah found his own way in, presumably bypassing the security check entirely. This also goes for Christine who also found her own way to the Sierra Madre and therefore wears her own gear.
Elijah relies on Dog to bring people to the Madre, and Dog takes the simplest, expected route where he encounters the security system.
The Elijah part makes sense, but Christine doesn’t because we know she got caught in one of Elijah’s traps, and while unconscious Dean put her in the auto-doc.
I’m leaning on the fact Elijah is lying
@@Boofcan Did she get trapped like the Courier, or did she make her way to the Sierra Madre and try to sneak in using her Stealth Suit, only then to get trapped/found by Dog? I honestly can't remember the exact details, and the wiki lacks a source.
Either Elijah is lying, Christine was brought in by Dog a different way to the Courier, or it could be a property of the BigMT tech, the stealth suit, that bypassed the security systems?
@@Boofcanthat, or the specific trap she went in (and we know from his dialouge that Elijah had multiple) put her through a different route than us. One that could possibly bypass the system
Either Elijah is lying, or yeah, Christine was brought in another way. I thought she had tracked Elijah to the Sierra Madre (gotten there on her own), then fallen into a trap nearby; Dog then found her and brought her into the Madre Villa? It could just be that the route Dog used to drag the Courier into the Villa has the security system, and Elijah is talking about how in that specific circumstance it is unavoidable that the Courier's items are removed.
Alternatively, it could be Christine's BigMT stealth suit that somehow circumnavigated the Madre's security systems, as both technologies come from BigMT.
@@BoofcanMaybe, but there is no guarantee that she was beyond the security when caught. It's just as likely he was trying to catch one of the ghosts to test on.
I don't think that's the intended takeaway from Lonesome Road at all. I doubt it was trying to make you feel guilty or bad at all-Ulysses' anger is meant to be so very irrational. Almost ridiculous; he's a character that uses so many big words and yet is driven by such a petty and primal emotion and is unable to look at the fact of reality. I might be misremembering but I don't even think there's a way to agree with him and try and make amends and apologize-only to make him realize HOW irrational he is being.
I felt that way with the whole forced to launch the Ashton Missle Silo to progress through the game and then having Ulysses bitch about it, but I definitely get what you're saying. Ulysses is one unhinged and sad man
You can't agree with Ulysses, but you ARE able to convince him that it was all an unintended consequence and not something he should get his hair in a twist over. You just have to pass the most difficult speech check in the game before fighting off a horde of marked men.
@@chesterstevens8870was that intentional?
@@chesterstevens8870
You can alternatively either find all of ED-E's upgrades or all of his logs to bypass the Speech check for the epic Marked Men horde battle.
@@chesterstevens8870you don’t even have to use speech skills to talk him you can literally lead him through his own logic with the idea of launching the nukes at the nations with no speech checks needed and you get him to stand down it’s hard but I did it on my first run through
One thing I love about the DLC’s is that the first three can be played in any order almost. If you play Old World blues before Dead Money then it really feels like you’re following the trail on Elijah or if you play it after you can see how long Christine has been on the watch for him.
It is really cool playing old world blues first. Hear about this legendary techno wizard and finally discover him at the madre
My read on Ulysses is that he's Colonel Kurtz from Apocalypse Now, in that he's just rambling the whole time desperately trying to make sense of everything he's seen an done. In the end when Willard kills Kurtz, he has his epiphany, which is that he can't make sense of it, it's all just horror. His final lines are the only ones that actually mean anything. Ulysses is similarly grasping for an epiphany, and over the course of his rambling podcasts he tries to come to terms with the destruction of the Divide. He believes is home couldn't have possibly been destroyed by a random accident, it HAS to mean something. He seems to take a pessimistic view that the world is doomed to keep repeating the same cycles of destruction. Society tried to rebuild and it rebuilt wrong, and it's best to just get the next apocalypse over with. You can choose to either kill him, in which case he dies believing the world is doomed and it's all just horror, like Kurtz, or you can talk him down and he finally has his epiphany for his final podcast recording, "if war doesn't change, men must change."
I haven’t seen that movie yet, but I remember reading or hearing a while back that Kurtz and Caesar have a lot of similarities.
This makes a lot of sense Beak. Also love the videos man. You’re crushing it.
I have't seen the film. But i've read Heart of Darkness. Cool book. It's shocking how clearly they based Ceasar on Kurtz. Like him dying, when we meet him, im guessing that the courier then is supposed to be Marlow. But interestingly, Kurtz in the book says that he wants to civilise the natives. But we obviously know this to not be the truth, he is, despite his idealistic ramblings, one of the biggest exploiters and destroyers of the Congo. We can see this in the real world, how colonialism utterly destroyed the Congo into one of the most impoverished places in the world. And of course all the death, exploitation and destruction that happened while Leopold controlled the place at the time of the book. This is basically Caesar, we are led to belive that despite his brutal tactics, he will civilise the wastes just like how Kurtz wants to civilise the natives of the Congo. But i think Caeser will only end up destroying it even more than it already is, just like Kurtz.
I like that every New Vegas' DLC is having the same theme, letting go.
There was old world blues… and new world hope
"Make no mistake. God willing, you will not leave this valley"
Cold 🥶
Terrifying presence
The man has the power of the Coen Brothers and God on his side...
Guys I think he might like fallout new Vegas
fallout 3 will get its day - it’s in my sights
@@Boofcanare you gonna do all fallout games? Cause that would be pretty epic sauce. "War,war never changes"
at 1st I hated dead money, but after I returned on a different playthrough I found the holo tapes, the terminals, and figured out how to avoid the traps it's now my favorite of the lot. even the secret ending when you ally with elijah is great, rip Richard Herd the voice actor for father elijah.
same, first playthrough I barely found any of dean's stashes or the other supplies lying around. My guns focused courier struggled a lot when I had to resort to melee and unarmed after putting no point in it. Hated it.
Then I found out just how much I actually missed in the dlc, went back replayed it and it became my 2nd favourite after lonesome road.
Another cool bit of gun symbolism is how while the New Canaanites and by extension the Dead Horses use Colt M1911s, the White Legs are armed (or at least supposed to be armed, but the level scaling can switch those for 12.7 SMGs) with Thompsons, another weapon in .45 ACP that they aptly named "storm drums".
Given the Thompson's reputation as the deadly trench/bunker cleaner and the iconic weapon of the less-than-scrupulous groups in its different modifications (which NV kinda meshes together with how you can slap the drum mag mod on it, even though it was meant for the different model, specifically the one that you can find in F2 in New Reno), it makes for a nice juxtaposition with the "grandfather of all handguns" which the New Canaanites gave practically religious context to. Meticulous ritual, tradition, and past getting mowed down (swept away, if you will) by the thunderous cannonade of many a Tommy Gun.
Meanwhile Bethesda just slaps some wiring on a Volksgewehr 45, makes it somehow do "radiation damage" (I guess it gives you terminal cancer the very prospect of having which makes you die on the spot), and adds it into their game set in 2280s in American East Coast. It's not even a collector's piece like Gizmo's Mauser was, it's a mass-produced weapon.
5:27 - Fun fact: If you have Power Armor training from the Brotherhood of Steel, you can also call out Ricky's BS regarding the t-45b and its helmet design when he says he killed one of them.
I had no idea that was a thing until the last few years.
Yeah that's in there! The player can mention the eye slits are bulletproof
Whats a tad fascinating about Daniel and Joshua is they basically represent two sides of missionary work with native cultures.
Daniel believing that those of another culture are little better than children, that they are "innocent yet ignorant". As he ignores the traditions that The Sorrows have, all while espousing his own patronizing beliefs as if they were the only correct option. We actually seen in real life the damage that Daniel's line of thinking can cause from the schools in america meant to reeducate native american children while also stripping them of their heritage (hairstyle, clothes, religion, even language). Especially since these schools were seen as something as doing the tribes "a favor", and that what was being done at these schools was a "good thing".
While for Joshua, he was given the power by the Dead Horses as acting warchief by comparison. As Joshua actually bothered to understand The Sorrows and Dead Horses under his care and sees the people of those tribes as equals. In turn, those same tribes also see him as an equal and someone they can look to for guidance and leadership. He is much more humble and level-headed when dealing with people that are not from his tribe.
Spot on
It’s also very interesting from an ex-Mormon perspective. I can’t say how much a more faithful person would like it, but it’s pretty clear to me at least that the writers have a decent understanding of Mormon culture, both the pros and the cons.
From a certain perspective- one that I know some people hold- Joshua is something of a failure of a member. Not for his crimes as a member of Caesar’s Legion, since he is trying to atone, but for his failure to put his faith first in his actions. Doctrinally, Daniel’s perspective is encouraged. And yet, Joshua putting practicality and understanding first is what allows him to be a better leader than Daniel ever could be.
That said, Joshua’s philosophy isn’t necessarily non-Mormon either. There are many who absolutely subscribe to the idea that proselytizing isn’t the end-all-be-all of missionary work. The church actually had a whole branch of missionaries dedicated to service, rather than teaching. It would seem that Joshua believes that leading by example is his way of spreading the gospel. After all, outright proselytism can feel extremely patronizing, whereas actually being a good person will build up goodwill and get more people interested. So what I said earlier about Joshua being less Mormon might be a bit unfair.
imo one's not worse than the other, considering what joshua really intended to do in zion was to enact violent genocidal revenge against the white legs at the cost of (at least a few) sorrows' and dead horses' lives. plus the sorrows also looked to daniel for spiritual guidance and leadership. joshua isnt "putting practicality and understanding first", hes just prioritising getting revenge over proselytising. he does do a better job with cross cultural communication, but that has nothing to do with him being a "good" missionary lol neither of them are there purely for the good of the tribes
Was looking for a video about the DLC right before I started 15 mins ago. 7 mins later this is posted.
Divine timing
@@Boofcanright? Just started honest hearts at level 15 as first dlc
19:20 there are a few explanations. The jumpsuits and the specific collars were from Big MT, the plave where much of the technology came from. It's possible the systems didn't reconize them as "foreign", so left them.
For Elijah having his stuff, there are also multiple possibilities.
1.) He used an alternate emtrance to the Villa, and wasn't caught by that system. We only know that we got caught through a specific trap, and got brought to the Villa by Dog following some kind of route. Given the failing infrastructure, there could have been a gap that Elijah could have originally took to get to the Villa, but not available to his capture method for us.
2.) He hacked the systems. This isn't unprecedented, as he was able escape the Dome and hack Dr 0 and 8. Heck, this wouldn't be the 1st time he hacked a Sierra Madre system, as a terminal in the bunker reveals he hacked it to make the systems give him constant free chips
That is true! Those explanations line up for me. Definitely shows Elijah is an unreliable narrator. Aka lying out of his teeth.
1:15:36 I'd just like to add that the sign is a reference to a fan made web series called "Nuka Break".
On a separate note, and luckily, the very next weapon you discuss, is my new favorite weapon. I've been playing New Vegas every year since 2015. And it was only around a year ago that I actually bothered with the build able wea0ons. MFC Clusters are the greatest Tool of Destruction ever wrought upon Fallout. A "Handheld Carpet Bomb", throws like a grenade, and explodes on proximity like a mine. Excellent for laying down a minefield in 5-10 seconds, or turning any part of the horizon green for as long as your enemies legs can withstand the constant bombardment. Truly an underrated gem. In some ways, I am sad I didn't know about them sooner. On the other hand, it's proof that New Vegas is the gift that keeps on giving
I didn’t know that! I remember watching that a long time ago man. That’s actually really cool
People never really give Ulysses a chance. Yeah, he's wrong, but he's supposed to be. He makes you examine your actions but it's up to you if you change your view on them. He's intentionally framed as being emotionally charged and letting that cloud his judgement despite his immense wisdom. Everyone is somewhat hypocritical, but that doesn't mean there can't be truth behind their ideology. And honestly besides Ulysses hatred for the Courier, his ideology makes sense based on what he's seen, what he's had to endure, the roads he walked. Ik you didn't do it in this video but I hate how many fallout fans just write him off as "mucho text" and then act like thats a writing failure when they weren't paying attention to what he's saying anyways. Ulysses is incredibly well written whether you like him or not, he has a lot of philosophical wisdom. Depending on what type of playthrough ur doing, he really is just a reflection of the Courier. What we could become if we let greif and anger consume us. Ulysses talking about preserving the past but also having partsken in the destruction of a whole people is an intentional contradiction. He knows the importance of preserving it not just from his own participation in the destruction of it, but also comparing it to the destruction of his own tribe. Realizing that his tribe lives on and dies with him shakes him and is part of his reason for leaving the legion. He doesn't let his past define him. However, he does let the past of others define him, and he let's the last define others, which is his biggest flaw and one that you can open his eyes to. He realizes that no matter how good of a reason he has, using old world tactics, the same ones that destroyed the world, won't make things any better. Even in a world that will chew you up and spit you out at the first sign of weakness, we still must choose to be bigger than our predecessors, not make the same mistakes they did bu waging war for the sake of it.
But he's just such a hypocritical freak that hates on the player for no reason. The player did nothing wrong but he basically wants to gas-light us into beliving so, even though he did something way worse by destroying New Canaan. He talks in a "profound" way, because that's what the ceasers legion does, they are just a bunch of babbling serial killers pretending to be wise.
Ain't readin allat 😂😂
@@LeeYohjanbro single-handedly proved his point
so many similarities with joshua graham too (in true fnv fashion) with all that hypocrisy. so weird how ive seen some of the same people who hate ulysses turn around and talk about joshua graham as some super cool perfect example of a born again christian and a beacon of morality/justice in the wasteland, completely neglecting the whole "genocidal maniac whos lying to himself and everyone around him about the nature of his motivations at the cost of entire cultures" thing. i guess ulysses didnt have enough quotable one liners or something
new vegas DLC is so unique to me because of all the foreshadowing in the base game and all 4 DLC actually connected to each other and the base game so much that it trully does expand the base game
I don't know if I know any other game that does the same
I'm sure there are some, but I can't think of any off the top of my head.
For me, my personal theory as to why you don't get your stuff, while Elijah keeps his stuff and the bomb collars is due to the fact that: Elijah wasn't the one that grabbed and dragged your unconscious body to the Siera Madre. Dog did, Elijah knows enough of the Madre's inner working that he's probably found work arounds to keep his stuff on him. The bomb collars? Already there, brought by Elijah. Dog just puts them on you after arrival. That's my personal head canon anyways.
Love seeing someone continue to show love for these DLC'S and their characters, and teaching me even more about them as well. Awesome video, made my evening
too freaking kind!! I'm glad you enjoyed it. It means a lot truly
This is the first time EVER that I've seen the foreshadowing for Dead Money with the Veronica quest and that was exactly what got me to do another playthrough of NV because that blew my mind!! This is the one and only video I could find regarding this option for her quest
I was pretty mind blown by it!!
bro says its controversial to say that Joshua carried the DLC like im pretty sure he's actually made people religious
My best head cannon attempt is Elijah's manipulation of the vending machines and the pip boy can't be removed. (Example operation Anchorage)
may be. may be
It can be removed tho, you can get the Pimp-Boy 3 Million at Mick and Ralph's aswell as alternating between it and the Pip-Boy 3000
@@RandomNoNamePT I think he’s referring to how in Fallout 3 operation anchorage dlc. We learned Some pip boys are locked to the user.
@@RandomNoNamePT though with that it is the user removing it. The outcasts couldn't remove the pip boy from a person forcibly without issues.
First time I played Honest Hearts I killed Follows-Chalk because I didn't realize he was on my side.
I did that my second or third time lol. I got trigger happy and he blended right in
You nailed this one, you were busy these last few months.
I was!! I’m still trying to get the 3D parts better. I know the boof boy needs some work
The Honest heart dlc unironically made me return to church
Leon talks a lot was right. Joshua graham did make people go to church
Graham was the reason re found my faith as a Roman Catholic
the Lord literally works in mysterious ways, all paths lead to his Grace. glad you come back, brother. same as me but not via joshua, he's just a bonus haha
If I’d played Lonesome Road without going through the previous DLC or even finishing the base game, I wouldn’t have liked it.
As it is, because I did do those things beforehand, I adore Lonesome Road for the message and themes behind it. I never felt like Caesar or Mr. House were the big bad for my courier, but Ulysses represented something personal, something deeper and meta about the experience of Fallout : he makes you aware (as you pointed out with Elijah) of the player aspect and desires affecting the digital world we’re in. He voices the frustrations of those around you that you would call yourself “good” when every action you take has some effect elsewhere in the Mojave. Not only that, but the extremely personal nature of his hatred for you “just doing a job” and destroying what he saw as his new start, his “begin again” moment, ties back to all the other themes present in the DLC.
Also I personally dig his voice.
FINALLY, the ballad of gay tony gets the recognition that it deserves
That DLC was GAS
Can't believe I found this channel with so few subs still. This man's is about to have a good journey I feel it. Amazing video and absolutely cannot wait to see what you're cooking next. I've watched this and the new Vegas base game video like 5 or 6 times just on repeat almost lol
I was wondering where you went, Boofcan! Excited for this one, cuz I loved the FNV one
Yeah! I’m trying to get faster at these without sacrificing quality. Hopefully I can strike a balance haha
I didn't know you could do any of that stuff to find the range finder with the headless dude in freeside,I swear there's always something new in this game💀
Was the biggest reason I made the video lol. Was mind blown
1:08:54 That is the most insane sound I've ever heard
Sounds like the sound effects they be using in that Fire Force anime lol
Damn this made me realize how much i miss on the dlc and that’s why i thank you well need to do another playthrough.
they are so freaking goood!
Great video, but honestly I would love to see you actually cover these in more detail, especially old world blues.
This video was a bit longer but felt myself talking in circles / going on and on. It’s always a struggle figuring out what I should and should not keep
1:08:50 That is the scariest fucking sound I think I've ever heard.
I lowered the gain by -30db too, that shit was LOUD
BOOFCAN UPLOAD 🥵🥵🥵Edit: No way bro just said "M1 911"
looking back on it - I could have just said "nineteen-eleven" LOL
Randall Clark's story is a big reason I love honest hearts.(along with my love for histor.) But old world blues is just too fucking good to not be my favorite.
I'm not big on reading every piece of written lore in a game but when I stumbled across his journals I was surprised how gripping the story was despite being spread across terminals.
This one was a blown out out pun not intended but i absolutely love the 3d animation and that moment about aqua pura i laughed my ass off due to the fact he just foled and thw physics engine died it was funny. Good video, good editing, a good sequel to the original video, and another thing I still find it suprising that the last video was made by the same person.
Too freaking kind! Im glad you enjoyed
Holy this video is so good, even possibly flawless, the YT algorithm recommended your video and was immediately hooked, not because of Fallout New Vegas, but because the edits are hella funny to me, don't know if you're also using a script because the way you explain and breakdown things is very simplified and easy to follow!
Also, I don't know what software you used to animate your character like that, but the movements gave me a little bit of old-school Gmod vibes!!!
Long story short, congratulations, you got yourself a new subscriber!!!
Thank you man!! Definitely not flawless and pretty rough around the edges but I’m trying to get better each time!! I’m glad you enjoyed.
bro cooks the videos, my new favourite youtuber
If Vera NEVER cared about Sinclair, she wouldn't have confessed. I think she cared, just a little too late.
You've never dated a woman before, women will say one thing and do another in the same breathe
I didn't even know that Dead Money was rated so low, I love it! Granted, the first time I was panicking (esp in that part where you're on a tower launching the party, and then like ten ghost people spawn below you and you have to go through them), and I still do each time I hear the ghosts' breaths, but I love it.
The whole theme of letting go, the remnant of the old world's decadence crumbling around you, no Johnny Guitar every two seconds - just this old casino, the ambience, and an explosive collar on your neck.
I noticed they've used the Metallic Monks music from the first Fallout, and it's insanely fitting here (then I heard it in the Honest Hearts and realized that it's not confined to the Sierra Madre, it's a part of the game's ambience, I just didn't hear it once being to busy banging my head to Jingle Jangle Jingle). 10/10, thanks for inviting Laura Bailey.
Just played the DLC's, sped run them to be able to watch this video and find out your thoughts on em. Had to pause at the end cause I hadn't finished Lonesome Road until I did. Totally agree with your rating except I'd swap Dead Money for Old World Blues cause I'm a sucker for survival horror. Loved your videos both on the base game and this one, keep pumping out moar!
46:15 "this might be a controversial thing to say but..." Immediately gives THE coldest take I have ever heard
dead money environment always scared the shit out of me lol
really? I didn't find it annoying just tedious when i first played it
Dude this video is too fucking good! Everything from the editing to V/O and how informative the script is. 10/10 keep up the great work
that honestly means a lot!! thank you so much
@@Boofcan don’t mention it! You’re a phenomenal content creator. Don’t give up. You gotta talent for this. Keep up the amazing work 🤝 earned yourself a life long sub from this vid
Doctor 0 is also James Urbaniak aka Dr. Venture so even his voice fits into the lore of "absolutely batshit insane scientists"
IMO Bad Company Vietnam DLC is one of the games that did it too
Never played that DLC. what's the best part of it?
@@Boofcan all of it they pretty much reworked the theme of the entire game Vietnam is less downloadable content than it is a full fledged expansion to Bad Company 2 and at that time it wasn’t really heard of to do that in a fully multiplayer based game it’s just one of those things that holds such nostalgia idk if it would keep up now to todays standards but at the time it was truly ground breaking and I have so many memories of friends gone by I even still listen to the sound track to this day it’s very hard to sum up why it was so good as multiplayer games once there sequels come out and a lot of the players are gone it’s hard to have that same pure experience like you can do with single player games so unless they do a remaster which is unlikely but I would love it if they did
I absolutely love your optimism and enthusiasm. We choose completely different paths through the base game, but I can hear the love in your heart and the smile on your face when you share the good word.
That means a lot man!! I really love Fallout. This videos aren’t perfect but I try really hard to show the things that make really love these games
@@Boofcan For only five videos on the channel and the base game analysis being the middle one you're doing rather well so far.
The first Fallout was the reason I purchased my own first personal computer. I know that dates me some, but I've played every Fallout game aside from the console-only Brotherhood of Steel and there's something to love in all of them. (I was in the beta for 76 and keep checking back in on it from time to time. XD )
Of the middle trilogy (3, NV, 4), NV is definitely my favorite and the closest in feel to the original games.
Elijah has been to the Big MT, the place the tech was created for the Sierra Madre. He's probably found loopholes around the scanners and probably everything else there.
joshua graham became my absolute favorite or one of the most favorite written characthers in my view
fantastically written character.
man you kept saying how you skipped stuff because you didn't want this to be longer but i would have listened to a 4hr version of this😔
I had to cut down on a lot. I felt like I was rambling LOL. I will keep this in mind for the next Fallout upload for sure. I'll get around to doing Fallout 3 eventually
When I first played through the New Vegas DLCs I thought the same thing as you did about Lonesome Road, but as a few years have gone by and I have played through all of the DLCs again countless times, Lonesome Road sits as my second favourite DLC behind OWB. I find Ulysses to be an extremely fascinating character and no matter how many times I play Lonesome Road I take the time to find and listen to his audio tapes. I notice something new every time. I love exploring the Divide as well. Despite seeming like practically a straight line from start to finish, there are so many hidden twists and turns along the way that I feel compelled to explore every inch of the place to make sure I didn't miss anything, and even then, I find things online that I've missed along the way. I love all four of them so it makes it hard to rank them, but Lonesome Road has really grown on me with time.
They added a new feature to have a yellow line pop up for in video ads made by the creator that’s cool
I added that myself so people would know :)
This interrelatedness is something I'm glad stays as a core design principle for Obsidian in their other games too, such as Pillars of Eternity and Outer Worlds.
I wasn't the biggest fan of Outer Worlds but i'm hoping the sequel will be a lot better.
Man i never encountered that range finder plot line that's crazy.
Was mind blown when I put the pieces together
@@Boofcan keep up the work man I was looking back at the channel hoping to see more content from you it’s all bangers
If you do end up killing the tribes, he does follow you through any of the other DLCs. Repeating those same words. Nuka Cola sign was added because of the very ambitious and rewarding Fanmade Show "Nuka Break"
WOW dude I never realized they were talking about Elijah wreaking havoc at big MT ! I always thought they were referring to Ulysses. Also great video man I have NEVER actually watched a yt video longer than half of an hour but I could NOT STOP watching this !! Great storytelling man you totally earned me as a subscriber !!!
6:12 This cave is special; Randall Clark buried Sylvie (the vault 22 woman who escaped the other vault 22 members and fell in love with Clark) in that cave. We know that the vault 22 spores take a while to germinate, implying that the fungus stays dormant in someone's body until it germinates and kills/converts their host. This is also the only Survivalist cave that has spore creatures.
I've always interpreted Cueva Guarache as Sylvie's unfortunate past rearing its head; after she died of the pregnancy complications and got buried, the fungal spores awoke and caused the Spore Plants to take root. As people went into those caves and died from the booby traps, rather than just becoming skeletons (as you can see in the other Survivalist caves) they became spore servants.
I love the fact that the DLCs vary so much in scale. From a local tribal conflict fought with clubs to holograms and laser shooting scorpions, all the way to nukes aimed at the Mojave, it's an incredibly diverse set of stakes, which I feel is what Fallout as a series does best. You can do anything from looking for a kid that ran away from home all the way killing presidents and ruling the wastelands yourself.
I’ve watched countless fallout essays and this is one of the best, I appreciate this video a ton. Subscribed yo
I know it’s an unpopular opinion, but I love the narrative Dead Money drives.
My 21st birthday fell on COVID. My planned trip for my 21st to Vegas became my 23rd.
I think Dead Money encapsulates all the greed I felt during a 4 day trip to Vegas.
I loved how it felt and the DLC mirrored it for me.
Is Vegas worth traveling to? I don't gamble or drink but i hear there is a lot of entertaining shows and eateries?
OWB will ALWAYS be my favorite DLC of any game ever. It's hilarious, the references are great, and you get Venture Bros voice acting thrown in on top. Think Tank and Mobius dialogue just fit my sense of humor way too well.
Now if you'll excuse me, my lights are fighting each other over the juiebox, theres some very loud seeding going on, the toaster is threatening to burn the world again (and Muggy), and my stealth suit is being vocally needy.
I also thoroughly enjoy Dead Money's gameplay, it's one of the reasons just before I enter Any Fallout DLC (in ones that don't already do this) I ditch everything I own in a player home just to get that fresh start high all over again as well have a reason to use every single one of the new weapons/armor which I normally would never have a reason to do so.
Then for the structuring of the dlc itself it's a nice change of pace from the usual everything Open World, allowing you to thoroughly explore every little area in greatest detail. I also just love systematically hoarding EVERY SINGLE THING in this one "town" leaving as the richest mf'er even before I help Elijah "Let Go..."
-of that thick cranium of his which is then stuffed with 36 Gold Bars to be dragged to the elevator easier.
(I personally don't like locking him in the Vault via stealth because even though that would be a Much better death for him, there was a Cut Interaction where if you did so, roughly 1 week later he could appear as a random encounter to hunt you down with a couple robots. I can't even entertain the Chance that prick could feel the excitement of escaping the supposed unbreakable tomb.)
I love Dead Money for its atmosphere and characters, but good god the collar mechanic drove me crazy in the final stretch.
Dude i've blown up so many times on the stairs lol before reaching the Vault
Uhh idk about anyone else but I was able so save Chet at the start of honest hearts no mods no internet just the game of the year edition version of new Vegas he talks to you about needing to find a way out of Zion dlc goes on as usual and at the end if you do the good ending the cutscene says “Chet master son and the happy trails caravan company prospered” or whatever the good ending dialogue normally is
i rubbed my eyes to make sure i wasnt dreaming YOU POSTED!
We so back!!!
For me, Randall Clarke and Joshua made Honest Hearts a favorite dlc for me and i always join with Joshua to spite Daniel because he is low brain as hell.
bro you just came outta nowhere and dropped great videoessays, the writing is great, so is pacing and the editing is top notch too, you are genuinly very talented, keep it up big man!
I appreciate that! trying to get better each upload
Bro i just found ur videos and honestly love ur style and im not a fan of long videos but yours have something that i truly love and dont mind, man keep it up honestly keep it up ❤️
I wish I saw this comment sooner!! Thank you so much!!! I’m trying my best hahah ❤
@@Boofcan all great videos from beginning to end keep grabbing franchises my friend honestly ❤️❤️❤️
Whats awesome about dead money is when you travel with dog and see him eat the ghost people, you can talk to him about it and get a perk that actually kills them when you down them. Extremely useful
So something that doesn't come up much is that the original Fallout, as well as FNV, were prototyped as tabletop rpg sessions in the early concepting phases to help determine likely player decision points and creative solutions. I know Tim Cain did this, and iirc Sawyer and Avellone also did; most retrospectives on Dead Money highlight the survival horror direction and the Bioshock influence (though I don't see that one, personally), but I rarely hear that it draws clear inspiration from early ttrpg dungeon crawls. The Sierra Madre is basically Fallout's Tomb of Horrors, a killer dungeon meant to test player skill in navigating, surviving, and mastering a hostile space; move slowly, test everything for traps and hazards, scrounge for anything that can save you, and when conflict is inevitable enter it swiftly, brutally, and with every advantage you can muster.
When I started DM'ing myself I translated the SM into a megadungeon myself, backporting it into D&D (in Eberron's Mournland, for fellow nerds who care).
terrific video, great work all around
nice job _!_
edit: I kept moving my mouse because I thought it was hovering the video but no, it was yours 😂
thank you!! Also I was so mad at that but didn't want to play ALL of Lonesome road again.
The fact that the use of images on screens being a budget restriction makes it so much more fascinating to me. I’ve always though the screens just had such an impact visually and it’s examples like this that just go to show how well obsidian can turn a limitation into a gem.
Fun fact: the 9mm pistol is a Browning Hi-power which was the last gun Browning designed but hw died before he actually made it.
16:09 the theme of Dead Money is letting go... letting go of poverty, yeah-yuh!! I took all the gold for myself!!
Take out Elijah. Rip a limb, stuff it with gold, carry it out
I’m glad he addressed the voice actors. I kept having the weirdest feeling that NPCs were about to show up with power gauntlets that did electric and piercing damage. Finally makes sense why now.
I never knew about the guy with the Vault 22 jump suit and I have damn near 10,000 hours on this damn game. Genius world storytelling.
Love the environmental storytelling in this game.
You can find Christines sniper rifle in OWB showing that she tracked elija everywhere he went
Boof will never beat the good content allegations
Hey, writer that spoke to you of the boomers here.
I appreciate the amount of detail you went into on these, even catching details I missed. I actually wholly agree with you on the forced part of lonesome road. I blame the lack of development time, but they are not Toby Fox. They wanted to give you a direction that had entirely vague consequences(Might have hit harder if I had met that town before I blew it up because I have a hard time believing that it was not already wrecked if it was in the divide) so they could shame you for it, but they were basically counting on me doing what I was told to complete the DLC and that is just a "supposed to lose" cutscene in disguise. If Ulysses had special dialogue for if I walked away, or if there was a special ending for doing so, I would feel more rewarded, but they knew what they were doing. Railroading us for the sake of making their point. I blame the lack of development time, but it was obvious.
The other missed thing, which I understand from the mindset of the player, is I've never met anyone who didn't leave with all the gold in at least one playthrough. They did the best they could to drive home the letting go message, but they failed to account for the stubbornness of players. And the fact that they would shame players for rushing through Big MT says a lot about how well they knew us despite their limited time. But more than anything, have you ever tried a run where you killed both Daniel and Joshua and just bail on the whole thing? I did for a laugh because my character was very pro science and he thought the whole Zion Valley was a waste of his time, as well as all the backwards people that lived in it. That character was a laugh riot to me, because he was just a literal autistic neurotic mess... and I say that as an autistic Neurotic Mess.
Finally, I never knew about that ending of Dead money and I might have to do an anti-NCR run just to see it myself. So thank you for the new information
I love new Vegas, though 4 was my first fallout game that I played in 2015 on release, I love all the dlc’s and there was stuff you showed I never knew EXISTED in Big MT, I love lonesome road for its difficulty, even though I can beat it on lvl 1 on very hard and survival, it proves a worthy challenge.
I couldn't image myself doing a Lvl 1 build on hardcore unless I used a very cheesy stealth build.
My favorite DLC is Lonesome Road because I love everything it does. I also don't like the forced launching of the nuke and how ulesses reacts to it, but I really love the aesthics of this brutal city that was destroyed by years of war, radiation, and erosion. I love that it doesn't pull any of its punches with the numerous death claws and those cave crawler guys and that elevator sequence is just like nothing else. I also really like Ulesses as a character, someone so obsessed with pre-war history that he ends up unintentionally falling into the same pitfalls as the pre-war governments did. Old World Blues is definitely tied tho
If you have wild wasteland you can find a guy in honest hearts named two-bears-high-fiving, peak comedy
that is true!! I didn't mention is because so many other videos already talked about it lol.
left my heart in the sierra madre
I’ve been watching your vids all day on my tv (bf’s acct is on the tv) and checked to see if I was subbed on my phone. HOWWWW do you rake in these views and have only 50k subs!? It’s asinine! Your videos are awesome and you deserve more recognition.
Aw man that means a lot!! I don't really know lol. It might be that I don't ask people to subscribe until the very last second of the video, but it is what is.
RUclips is a weird place. I've seen someone get 1 million views and get 200k subs and I've seen people get 4 million views and only go up 40k subscribers.
I try to ignore the sub count and just try to make a better video than the last one :)
@@Boofcan That’s a good way to look at it! Can’t wait for the next one!
Cannot believe that I have put off playing fallout 3 and nv, I’m 24 now just out of uni and making my way through them, feel like I’m experiencing my favourite game for the first time all over again
If you're on PC try the tale of two wasteland mod; that combines Fallout 3 and New Vegas together into a seamless cohesive experience.
I felt like you forgot to mention that, despite Ulysses yapping a little too much about The Bear and The Bull, he does have some great lines. A particular noteworthy one is during the ending slide where he says "War.... war never changes. Men do, through the road that they walk." which I feel like is such a good end to this ironic phrase, really tying everything together.
elijah got there before the facility was online and then when he started it up he ot trapped inside and he has dog trained to bring people into the sierra madre from the bunker and he does that untill you come along and hes able to use your pipboy connection as a conduit for his control on outside elements.
38:21 "cut it will you?"
bro was so unbothered lol
1:11:51 bruuuhhh. Took me a sec but I picked up what you put down 😂 dawg chiiilll 💀
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Lonesomeroad and dead money at first time was tragic for me :D
what level did you do them at lol?
Cavervan is pretty fun once you learn to play it
Love me some caravan!
@@Boofcan it is also a insanely easy way to make your money back like at the dinosaur shop the guy plays caravan and you can buy all the unique items he has and then play caravan and get all your money back
I just finished watching ur fallout new vegas video from 7 months ago
Back to back bangers
The moment Daniel doesn't held up the end of his bargain. Me and Joshua made the river red.
It shows how beautiful this game is. If only more games understand that depth and a story that can come around full circle, it’ll make gaming so much more enjoyable. The fact that we are talking about a game that is over 10 years old and still finding out more is almost unfathomable. This is by far the greatest story telling any game has ever achieved. If they remastered this game, even with an ending still, but made the combat like fallout 4’s in terms of modern gameplay and added sprint, I don’t think I would even need to play another game again.
Elijah is using the vending machines to make what he needs. He explains this near the end of the DLC when talking about his plan to use the Sierra Madre as his citadel.
Theres also environmental storytelling at the end of the DLC that as good as confirms he was using the vending machines - Elijah's terminal has messages from the Sierra Madre implying he hacked the casino to consider him a 'high roller' and awarding him 100 chips every few days (this also doubles as a way for the player to get chips at the end of the DLC). He also has a vending machine in his bunker and multiple crafting benches nearby.