@@Lunartic_ Yes, there's also a 70 speech check where you can mind break a depressed ''under age'' girl and call her ''your little slave girl.'' The writing team in the mod was incredibly bad.
Just wanna note, at 3:30, if you pick the "you'll retreat?" option, the negotiation fails and Lanius attacks you. Lanius is too prideful to admit that withdrawing from the Dam is a retreat. I really like that, dialogue that is solved by picking the right things to say instead of having a big enough number.
That detail doesn´t really have a lot of power when the rest of the conversation was highlighted by "speech 100". I would like to return to the original Fallout´s dialogue system. Having the appropriate speech will open up the correct answers, but it´s up to you to know what to pick.
"To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting." -also Sun Tzu
Very cool detail I haven’t seen anyone mention, Lanius calls himself “the East” but later in this conversation he calls you “Man of the West” showing that at this point he sees you as an equal and a parallel to him.
He sees the Courier as a true equal. Someone who while may not seem much, is indeed a true foe, not by gun, nor sword, but he understands history, and that is the greatest weapon of all.
This dude has: A Strength of 9 A Perception of 8 A Endurance of 8 A Charisma of 7 A Intelligence of 6 A Agility of 7 A Luck of 7 920 Hit Points 100% Poison Resistance 100% Radiation Resistance 85% Fire Resistance A Damage Threshold of 19 100 in Melee Weapons And a 100 in Unarmed This guy is literally a super solider, better than your average man in literally every aspect. Edit: He is also 80% faster than the player character, allowing him to catch you even with both legs crippled. He has one of the highest fatigue points in the game, making it almost impossible to stun/knock him out. He is nearly impossible to disarm. He has a 15% chance of knocking down the player with each hit. And he is 6’11, making him the tallest human non-player character in New Vegas.
@@piyo744 Lanius is a respectable man, driven by ambition and honor. The legion are a bunch of glorified bandits. They rape, plunder and destroy all they touch. They were made to be pure villains, unfortunately. They held such promise too, if they were a little more fleshed out. Obsidian didn't have enough time though :
@@aceclover758 Imagine a Skyrim done by Obsidian but with the budget of Bethesda, a lot more good actors/actresses, and a reasonable amount of time to create.
@@piyo744 I respect your opinion but in my mind I don't really agree. The Stormlcloacks are fighting for a god(Who would eventually return once the Empire can defeat the dominion) and weakening the empire instead of strengthening it. General Tulius even hints at the end at the end of the game peace won't last. Skyrim can only survive against an attack with the help of the empire, because even if stormcloaks wim the province will be weakened. The Empire is more of a long term solution in general.
Incredible. I imagine those who reached this point and saw the "Speech 65...Speech 75..." options genuinely felt a rush of excitement in discovering for themselves that there is an alternative to the final boss fight. What a great way to design the ending.
Once i realized speech was hella useful on my first playthrough i just statdumped the hell out of it. That was exactly what i thought when i reached lanius. I was still using an old (maxed out tbf) varmint rifle and a marksman carbine, along with leather armor, i was stealthy, BUT NOWHERE NEAR ABLE TO FIGHT THIS GUY. Then i see "Speech 55...Speech 65...75...90..." Thank fucking god I put points into speech
Lanius is the luckiest character in all of fallout history because he got to survive an encounter with the courier with little more than a calm discussion about logistics and the wisdom of not overtaxing your military.
@theshadows1416 and the courier: Survived 2 shots to head (it was 2 shots but 18 months cut content moment search it up if you don't believe me) Cannonically has wrestled a death claw Is capable of fighting through the lucky 38 through big robots (potentially armed with rockets) Has access to a bunch of implants (all stat enhancing ones, sub dermal armour and healing implant) Able to take enough drugs to kill a supernatant behemoth And has the sheer power of determination that only someone with schizophrenia induced by brain damage can have
Not exactly, sure he'll take the west, the NCR will stop existing, ever. and He'll win, but then what ? he can't administer and lead both the east AND west, he'd have to meander around, and spread his legions apart, where they'll be vulnurable to rebellions, raiders, and the plethora of crisis we see the fallout world going through.
Looking back on this again, it's another thing that makes this so great. People expect strong individuals to defeat anyone through strength, yet others are able to neutralize supersoldiers without laying a scratch on them. One of the biggest lines for here was how the weakness of the NCR will be the problem, not what makes them strong. Lanius was infamous for scanning weaknesses like sharks sensing a single drop of weaknesses, yet couldn't see that in his own army. You were able to show them that without ever having a single threat to violence: meekness ≠ weakness
2:50 I love Lanius’ reaction to that line. “Your weakness? You seek to thwart me by claiming the Legion is too strong for you?” like he sounds genuinely confused. The conversation up to that point was point and counterpoint, but the Courier throws that curveball and catches Lanius off guard, he never expected you to make such a claim. Little touches like that help make this a masterwork of dialogue exchange.
At that point he begin to realize the issues with the campaign. All the points the courier makes edges away at the stone in Lanius’s mind that is the war. When you mention the issues of the NCR, he sees now what may happen should they expand. Conquest can only carry an army so far, sooner or later when there’s no food or supplies to maintain the legion or nation altogether, it will collapse. The Legion is Lanius’s life, and he seems only to better it and protect it through the will of Caesar. So when you pick all of the options correctly, he eventually admits to his desire to keep the legion together, albeit indirectly. And this culminated finally into his eventual “surrender” where he reminds the Mojave that he is not going to be gone forever. Masterpiece, absolute masterpiece
Imagine being Lanius, getting that far, commanding all those forces, just to realize that it was all a stupid idea anyway, and everyone was better just staying at home.
I think it takes great strength for someone like lanius who is so enthralled in war to admit that courier is indeed right, that they can take the west, but that they in the process would lose the east as their army can't hold both territories
pretty sure the fact the the courier single handedly slaughtered dozens of Legionaries throughout the battle was also a factor that influenced Lanius' decision to leave
I now believe Caesar was slowly driven insane by his braintumor and embarked on this mythical quest to fulfill his twisted view of hegelian dialectic, whatever the cost
@@louiscachet7681 So, his tumor is what is making him crazy and seeing the things the wrong way? Maybe, we should save him, i mean, whitout side with him, he is of the few persons in the Mojave that has a great mind that can be very usefull, like House
From lanius pov you stand right before him and considering how ruthless the courier can be (I'm talking killing Benny in his own home Killing house and possibly even Caesar and vulpes ) And starting with near nothing And the NCR not being able to do any of that despite having so many tools for it . Yea. I'd be more spooked from the courier
Courier is just a man, lone wolf in vast wasteland filled with many people like him. but what make him difference from other? his determination give him strength to kill his 'killer' in his own home, his persistent give him endurance to survive in wasteland chaose, his understanding,perception and intelligence let him to befriend with many important people from various factions by him solving their problem, and lastly but not the least that his experience giving him actual skill and strength to kill his enemies. the thing he does are not something exceptionally rare but usually it's done by a group of people or community but him doing it alone as a lone wolf proving himself to lanius that he is indeed an equal to him in terms of survival of fittest. the double headshot making courier 6 stronger instead of killing him is what lanius see as courier 6's catalyst
Given how hard Legion had been spanking NCR ever since First Battle, and how courier is the only person that managed to undo all that, yes one can get an idea why Lanius would think that way.
Fallout 4 dialogue. And who are you to come before me... you bear the insignia of Bear, yet you do not wear it as a soldier of the West wears it. 1. Yes I am -> leads to a fight 2. No I am not (lie) -> leads to a fight 3. *some sarcastic comment* -> leads to a fight
[Charisma check] You'll never take this place, best turn back. Lanius: I'm suddenly convinced, farewell sole survivor. (Piper/Preston/Hancock/Deacon/Valentine/Codsworth/Curie liked that.) (Cait/McCready/X6/Strong disliked that.)
I'm amazed Lanius could even be talked down at all. Everything you hear about him makes him seem like a dumb angry brute, especially when compared to the pragmatic and level-headed Graham. Yet, when the truth is staring him in the face, he accepts it, swallows his pride, and moves on. It reminds me of the conversations you have with Saren in the first Mass Effect. Top notch writing.
I always assumed that it was a deliberate play by Caesar to spread stories about Lanius as a blood thirsty savage in order to scare the NCR and weaken their morall. And in reality as we can see here Lanius is actually a pretty intelligent and well spoken person.
@@Jinxbreaker It's even higher than Caesar's Intelligence stat. Lanius is definitely way smarter than what the tales consider him to be. And if you play your cards right, he knows when to fold them as well. His character is incredible.
"Violence gave you that strength, awakened you - I can see it upon your face, where two bullets left their mark." ~Legate Lanius~ Did Lanius just speech check 100 me?
@@localafghanshepherd7414 in the beginning of the game your just a regular guy doing a job and all of a sudden you are taken and shot in the head twice, but it didn't kill you. With 2 bullet holes in the head you rose up from your shallow grave and were fueled by revenge or something more. It caused you to go on a adventure unlike any you could have imagined and all that was unlocked by violence. Instead of shrinking away from it your rose to the occasion. Lanius saw that in you and he was wise enough to to know it was the 2 bullet wounds that awoke you.
"...And then I totally kicked Legate's ass!" *everyone in the bar:* "YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! Damn, man. You're so badass!" "Aren't I, though?" _takes swig of whiskey and chokes on it_ "...Smooth." *guy in the back:* "I don't believe you!" "[Speech 100] Yes you do." *guy in the back:* "Yeah, I do."
it isn't just him saying "oh my god you're right i'm so dumb your the smartest person ever" its an actual dialogue between the player character and a character that you persuade, not dominate. He doesn't completely agree with you but still there's a sense of respect towards the player character and i love it.
It's my belief that this mutual respect and understanding is a large motivator behind his eventual decision to stand down. It's certainly quality writing, and the delivery is top-notch by any standard.
@@majik5194 that's due to a programming bug, not something specifically added to happen. Lanius is supposed to move at 160% speed in combat, and the cutscene where he walks off is incorrectly flagged as combat. It's a problem with the engine.
This dialogue alone is making me consider playing this game even though it's a genre I've never really been interested in. New Vegas seems to actually have a soul, like the writers actually wanted to make you think.
That's actually an extremely appropriate argument. Had the Legion taken the west, they would have repeated the fate of the Roman empire, which got bigger than it could handle.
@@Meme_Knight it doesn't matter unless you purposely do not your going to be level about 20 minimum which means that your almost definitely going to have 100 speech or barter the game is just structured that way so that speech is over powered and almost entirely needed it doesn't matter what your role playing your having 100 speech or your having a bad time Also this goes against literally EVERYTHING we have heard about lanius a soldier so obsessed with fighting he turned against his own tribe and doesn't care about casualties he is regarded as barely sane to anything besides fighting and yet the argument or "hey dude California is really large" turns him away aka completely going against everything that had been said about him You can even claim that caeser and lanius are talking him up because Ulysses and Joshua Graham both agree that he is a mad man and they both have no reason to talk him up
@@EveryoneElseIsWeirdImNormal First of all, Speech and Barter are all roleplaying skills, therefore if you play casually and go OP perks and skills then that's your fault, not the game, and besides, you don't need it to progress, If You Couldn't Convince Lanius then you can Beat the shit outta him. Second of all, the first thing to learn about Lanius is that he's all about honor, even in this Encounter after you convince him, if you pick the dialogue option "So, You'll Retreat?" He immediately gets defensive, and goes hostile instantly, which reinforces the idea of him being all about honor, because he sees Retreating as cowardice and he ordered the death of his tribe because they surrendered and lanius saw that as cowardice, and asked Caesar to kill his tribe, Because he's all About HONOR, yeah he's a warrior but he's not stupid. And who or what told you that he decides to quit the attack on The Mojave?, all you do is Delay the inevitable not stop it. Also, it could be extremely possible that Caesar said all that the prop up Lanius as "The Monster of the East" and whatnot, because at this point you didn't join The legion yet and Caesar wants to remind you(Their potential enemy) who you're facing against, and it could also be possible that Caesar is lying to you about Lanius not caring about the Legion and is only loyal to him to make it seem like you can't provoke him by killing Legionaires, and even IF that's true, Lanius still has to care about the Legion because Caesar is the Leader and Lanius is loyal to him, it all could be a lie to prop up lanius With Caesar same with his hegelian dialectics.
@@Meme_Knight slow clap* Congratulations you managed to iqnore everything I said in your last paragraph iqnore the major part in your second and also iqnore the fact I was talking about the structure of the game in the first Slow clap*
Obsidian has worked with less time before and made equally polished games. Obsidian simply sucks at managing time, which is why nearly every game they release falls under the same template of having to cut half of the game's planned content, launching broken, and having loyal fans blame anyone but Obsidian.
Comic Sans Even if that were 100% true, you still cannot deny the content, depth, and story we get in New Vegas, which trumps anything that Bethesda had made for Fallout. Named characters in NV have logical dialogue sequences, in-depth stories to tell, and meaningful interactions for the player. In 4, the dialogue has the verbosity and detail of a children's story, plus occasional _non sequiturs_, a big writing no-no. In NV, there can be dozens of ways to talk to someone, as does real life. In 4 you are granted a meager four dialogue choices. And don't even get me started on the illusions of choice inherent with many FO4 dialogues. FO3 is even worse in terms of optionality; your plot is fixed with no possibility of non canon endings such as joining the Enclave. An RPG needs optionality that the script allows. New Vegas does that better than 3, 4, and the abomination prequel known as 76.
@@comicsans1689 Yeah. That happened with KOTOR 2: The Sith Lords as well. Many SW fans prefers it over BioWare's original KOTOR (which is also an extremely great RPG) because the characters and companions aren't just "light-sided, dark-sided" but because Obsidian rushed it almost half of the game's contents were cut and, without a mod that restores said cut-contents, the ending fell very flat.
@@yvainestoion4629 Even with restored content, I still think that the game falls flat. It doesn't help that the game's narrative and mechanics contradict each other. Kreia spends the entire game lecturing you on not being mindlessly good or evil, but if you follow her advice you weaken your own character. Funny enough, Kreia is also about doing things to strengthen yourself, which you can only do by min-maxing either light or dark. The game doesn't help by giving you promoted classes that are tied to only lightside or darkside characters. Ironically, playing a neutral character in KOTOR 1 is more viable than KOTOR 2.
Legate Lanius, legendary for his ability to sense any weakness of an army failed to sense the weakness of his army. In fact, his weakness is the complete same as the weakness of the NCR: being spread too thin.
@@zyxluz4645 Have you ever heard the tragedy of Legate Lanius the wise? I thought not; it's not a story the NCR would tell you. It's a Legionary legend.
@@Jupiter__001_ He was a Legate of the Legion so powerful and so wise that he could sense weaknes in an enemy army and exploit it. With this power he menaged to keep the Legion alive throughout the aftermath of the first battle of Hoover Dam up to the second one. --He... kept the Legion alive? --Caesers will leads the pathway to abilities some consider to be... unnatural. --W... what happened to him? --He became so powerful that the only thing he was afraid of was losing his power. Unfortunatelly he explained his plans to a courier who pointed out the weakneses in his plan... causing him to retreat. Ironic, isn't it? He could see weakneses in enemy's armies and plans but not his own. --Is it possible to learn this power? --Not from a Ranger.
"Violence gave you that strength, awakened you - I can see it upon your face, where two bullets left their mark." After all these years of playing this game I just now realized that two bullets awakening you is a metaphor for the player taking control of the courier because before your shot in the head you have no control until after the opening cutscene.
Sort of like The Fledgling from Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines. He/she is another human and the moment the player take control, they become, if the player choose violence as playstyle, "An engine of Cainite Fury" as Andrei The Tzmisce would call it.
"There is victory in wisdom" has to be one of the coolest/most applicable quotes to life that ive ever seen in a videogame before. Definitely some "speech 100" typeshit lol.
@@sage5036 A pity Oliver wasn't capable of introspection like that. Oh well, the 'trons will figure out a way to get that smear off of the dam someday.
@@Father_Wendigo Oliver can also be convinced to back down but it isn't a nuanced because it's incredibly stupid of him to think he can fight all of your securitrons in the first place. Convincing someone to not throw his life and the lives of his men away like an idiot isn't as satisfying as convincing someone that even if they win this battle they will lose the war eventually due to logistics.
@@Abdega That wasn't what was implied. Lanius said after you convince him that he knew that Caesar himself was already suffering from the problem; "even now, Ceasar drew too much of the Legion's blood needed there for... this." He didn't actually think he would hold both as that wasn't his concern; all he thought of to do was to win the battle. "That does not mean we cannot succeed." He was convinced afterwards after the Courier sets in the reality the Legion would lose the East. And before "BASIC MILITARY STRATEGY", this is a larping ancient Rome, who already suffered from overextension as well.
a nice detail: succeeding the speech checks doesn't simply convince him instantly, it just means that the conversation doesn't devolve into violence right there you, the player, have to actually think like legate, talk to him as an equal, and actually use real arguments to convince him to leave without violence and even after he"s convinced, saying the wrong thing can start up the boss fight anyway the best rpgs aren't just numbers and killing things, they have good writing to go with it, and new vegas' writing is top notch if i ever get this game, i might just use a speech build at some point, could be cool
Far Harbor in Fallout 4 did something similar. When you're trying to convince the Far Harbor people to not massacre the Robot/Synth Colony it's not enough to have max speech/charisma, you had to do all the sidequests to get the individual people on your side first.
@@ShadowSonic2 it's really a shame that morality didn't play into fallout 4 as much as it did in Far Harbour. For me the answer is simple and you don't even get allowed to do it Minutemen or Brotherhood cease control of Institute HQ stop synth production.
Some things to remember if you do end up doing a speech build: Don't forget that you have to solve some things yourself Don't dump everything in Charisma: make it 1, tag barter and speech, and use the SPECIAL points somewhere else If you want a pacifist build, one of the many things you'll need it terrifying presence That's all for now
Retreat? Retreat. I was a fool to listen to you... you know nothing of who I am. Your owrds have done nothing but delay the inevitable. Now, see what my hounds and my blade will bring to you.
@@triheadwar1996 The big problem with Fallout 4 is that it was made in the thought of making it primarily a console game. Don't know why they couldn't just make it for PC then tweak it for it to fit on console but it speaks volumes about Obsidian's Fallout and Bethesda's Fallout.
It's crazy how Lanius almost seems like a better leader than Caesar he's willing to give up the Mojave campaign because he recognises that it would overextend the legion and lead it to its death. Meanwhile Ceasar is obsseded with the idea of conquering Hoover dam because he's obsseded with emulating the real Julius Caesar. And in his drive to satiate his own ego Caesar will probably just overextend the legion
Caesar is a visionary, driven to great things by dreams of conquest and power. But Lanius is a warrior and conqueror of a simpler sort, which means he’s given to more practical thinking about his objectives and the opposition he faces. To Caesar, the Dam was the Rubicon, his everything, and Vegas the gemstone to set in his new crown, the NCR his ideological rivals. To Lanius? The Dam is another fortified position, Vegas another city to burn, NCR another tribe to conquer. Why rush things? He isn’t dying of a brain tumour.
Fallout is a shooting game (mostly, unless you go full melee build on your first playthrough intentionally lol). Fights tend not to be interesting when all you do is just pull the trigger over and over and run around like a chicken without a head. Guns are boring. Change my mind.
@@masterblaster2678 I mean, doom is pretty highly rated, cod and battlefield, Red Dead pulled it off, Halo, Destiny. I mean there are a ton of games that are beloved by many millions and the primary gameplay is to shoot guns. You might have an opinion, but the masses lean to guns. Guns are epic.
One of the greatest written dialogue segments in the entire franchise, which is no easy feat when we consider things like one or two of Joshua Graham's monologues. Brilliant writers behind New Vegas, and that's one reason why it has a stronger legacy than any other Fallout game.
@@ShadowSonic2 In this context yes, but If you play lonsome road before you reach the dam it all makes senses, Ulysses was supposed to be in the base game and he was the companion that sympathize with the legion, this whole conversation was made with that in mind since Ulysses most likely would have used the same conversations and dialogues in the base game In the end, it’s not “the West is big” is more, “and what are you but a puppet of your own desire for blood” after listening to Ulysses, all makes sense 10/10
@@ShadowSonic2 What Chech said, but if you compare it to say.. Game of Thrones season 8, the difference is night and day. The writing in shit like that is the opposite of thought-provoking and the wording is about as subtle as a sledgehammer through a door. Also the fact that you can have such a conversation and talk down someone who has the reputation of a mindless brute of a man is one great aspect of this sequence.
Too bad it is far and few between the great dialogue and the regular ass dialogue. I like new vegas, but I think people overestimate to absurd degrees.
Yeah I really miss the old conversation style. it's a shame they implemented a streamlined conversation style like that of mass effect. to shame Bethesda, to shame! But everything else is amazing lol
Back when you had options for beating the boss. I have NEVER been so shocked and happy at the ending of a video game. You literally TALK the strongest character in the game down from a fight, and you end a war with words. So much creativity and power in this ending. We need more video games out there that give you the ability to make decisions and change gameplay like this. New Vegas is still my number one for RPGs.
jabi babi What’s sad is the story and horrendous writing they thought was acceptable. For example: this amazing speech with Lanius vs Colonel Autumn. Autumn: I aM iN cHaRgE hErE! I Am ThE eNcLaVe! And when you tell him to stop Eden’s plan: StOp? NoW? ArE yOu oUt oF yOur MiNd?! I hope I’ve made my point clear lol
I wonder what it was like for legate growing up. His mom be like "legate, get in here and clean up this room right now", and legate responds "And who are you to come before me?
Levi Skardsen And considering the Latin origin of that name I doubt it's his original one as well, probably something he adopted when joining the legion.
*"Save your speeches, we will take Hoover Dam and move forward until our feet crush the setting sun beneath them."* Incredible line. Incredible delivery. Gives me chills.
@@damsen978 Using this engine cut down dramatically on the development time since they were able to reuse assets from Fallout 3 and basically the entire gameplay mechanics and functions. I doubt it would have been possible to create New Vegas in the same timespan in a different engine, since they would to basically build all those assets and mechanics from the ground up, which would have probably taken 1 year of development alone without even working on content, like quests.
Completely ruined it with him running away at the end, he should've walked out of there slowly and calm, this quick dash in a blink of an eye as he finish talking kind of made me laugh, its hard to take it seriously like this.
At the beginning, they were basically enemies. At the end, they were still enemies, but they respected each other. And that's some really powerful writing, right there.
I finished the game some days ago and had max speech just for fun, but got intrigued when I saw the option to use it in the dialogue, I used all types of chems and magazines before the battle, but once I talked with him, I was happy that I didn’t need to use violence and that he was more than just a great warrior, this is the first game I ever played that i convinced the villain to stop the fight just by talking with them and it wasn’t something like “Yes you’re right I’m the bad guy i regret everything”, it felt surreal, and I wish I played more games with this type of writing.
@@Fumerail Yes, i felt like that especially in Mass Effect. There the diologue goes like "You're bad" "No, you don't get it." "I do, and you're bad" "You're right" And this game was genious to make you convince the guy based on his philosophy.
"Violence gave you that strenght, awakened you. I can see it upon your face, where two bullets left their mark" This line is just perfection, It sums up all of our journey *goosebumps*
What a chad. I mean, some people can't survive getting punched stiff across the face, let alone two nine millimeter cases of solid lead. The Courier survived because something in him awakened when he was shot. Probably just a determination to see change in the wasteland. That's basically why the player is so powerful and the only character who levels up so frequently.
Fallout New Vegas: Lanius can be convinced in a number of ways that the Legion cannot win this day. You can use your high understanding of economics and infrastructure to make him understand that Legion supply lines could not carry a campaign west, and that the NCRs weakness is their greatest strength. You can remind him of history, that the Malpais Legate failed because of the same reasons Lanius was about to fail. The Legions infrastructure can be criticized against him, causing him to fall back to defend his own position within the Legion. If all that fails, if you're honorable you can challenge him to one-on-one combat, making the fight against him slightly easier. If nothing comes together you fight him and several elite Legion soldiers, proving that he truly is the Monster of the East by being fast as a Cazador, hitting like a Deathclaw, all with the tactical mind a Legate needs. Fallout 3: you again
I think I remember convincing him he’s taking the dam so easily because the NCR want to get the majority of his forces inside and slaughter them whilst they’re trapped in the NCRs concrete walls, the most dangerous animal being a desperate one, but now I’m not sure if I just made that up or not.
I think it’s because I kept Ulysses from lonesome road alive, and asked him how he would beat lanais, so he said to make him think the NCR is more capable than he thought, using his fear of failure to delay his victory.
"We shall see how brave you are when nailed to the walls of Hoover Dam, your body facing west so you may watch your world die." chills down my spine every single time.
You know, what i find most appealing about This is that everyone tells you "legion dies with Caesar's death" But you just convinced a bloodlusted 'lone wolf' Monster to show pride in his own tribe and realize mindless violence is not always the best strategy for survival I fully believe whenever Caesar lives or dies during the game, Lanius will challenge him and his ego to a duel in front of everyone, beat him and then become a way better leader for the legion
This is exactly the kind of synthesis Caesar was talking about when arguing why he wants to overthrow the Mojave, the conflict between the nations would create something greater, and this exchange to me is exactly that conflict and Lanius hopefully will convert into the synthesis the Legion needs to rise greater than before
Funny you say that, if you choose to side with the Legion and get the Enclave remnants to support you Caesar recognizes their power and lets them depart after the battle while Lanius would pursue them, losing hundreds of men and get nothing in return.
His whole speech is badass my favorite not said here is “We shall see how brave you are when you’re nailed to the walls of Hover Dam…..you’re body facing west…so you can watch it die”
Instead of this savage but smart military leader continuing to smash his forces against the dam and eventually dying, weakening the legion as leaving its leadership uncertain, he saves his remaining forces and develops and stabilizes the legion internally, with a core loyal force to ensure compliance even if he was defeated at the dam A legion victory is a loss to NCR for sure, but the long 15 is just as much, if not more of a choke point as the dam, and far longer. Mojave airport itself would likely hold out for some time, and the legion would bleed. Independent Or House Vegas is far from ideal from the NCR's perspective, but either is a buffer zone against the remaining legion and a trading partner, once they pull themselves together about the defeat. It's arguably even less able to invade NCR in ether route, and in terms of expansion theres nothing stopping NCR from spreading north into Washington and South into Mexico instead of east. Outright annexation is their ideal, of course, allowing them to fortify the dam and even the east side of the Colorado, putting an end to raids, as the legion likely collapses into infighting after not only Cesar but his second in command and at least a few other higher ups all are died or disgraced along with its greatest forces.
@@Joesolo13 With House or Independent, some of your actions end up benefitting the NCR anyways, like them investigating and reinforcing their trading if you give the evidence during Cass' personal quest or letting Chief Hanalan off the hook as he then returns to become a popular senator protesting against Kimball and Oliver. With the defeat Kimball's thrown out and replaced with a more competent president if I recall correctly. For me personally I see House as the ending that benefits all three as he has a legitimate plan for the Mojave, Lanius can reinforce the Legion better than Caesar ever did, and the NCR can focus better on the home front.
@@BlazinVoid59 Mr. House's ending with very good karma is the best imo, it stops the expansionism of the ncr and the legion, while humanity will benefit of house's intelligence and the empathy of the courier, i said empathy because in one of the ending's slides it says that the courier makes sure that Mr. House doesn't do anything that degrades humanity, like being corrupt for example, so the courier makes sure that he stays on the right path, one thing people seem to forget is that The courrier works with Mr. House and for him, simply because House knows he could get killed anytime by him.
@@SakakiSyndrome Don't forget the tec from BIG Mountain, the courier can with help of House and the brains can pretty much make New Vegas a really shining place in the Fallout universe
Fallout NV: "There is wisdom in victory" "And there is wisdom in your words. Know that I shall return, and on that day, the strength of the bear will be tested". Fallout 3: "You again?"
Joseph Townsend here we go Vegas fanboys comparing something that’s a better fallout game to a mediocre game like Vegas that doesn’t embody fallout at all. 🤦🏾♂️
2:28 I noticed he crossed his arms after he learns of the plan failing. I don’t know if they thought this far ahead. But generally crossing arms is a defensive posture (not for combat) but in terms of body language.
I’m pretty sure all Fallout NPCs in Fallout 3 and New Vegas start crossing their arms at random anytime in dialogue. Sometimes I get bored listening to conversations I already heard before and start noticing their body language.
And this is why I will forever love this game. The amount of genuine effort and passion this game has, dsmn I wish we could get a sequel. Walking the Mojave will always be a blast. Just wish I was a Arizona Ranger
So Bethesda saw this and thought it was a good idea to put just 4 kinds of answers based of basic colors and not let you Knowing what the you were going to say? Damn they know it's public
No, it's because they wanted to experiment with a voiced protagonist for once. But the voicing cost a lot of money so they had to limit the dialog options.
Joshua Graham is on the same level. His "oh daughter of babylon who ought to be destroyed" speech is sensational. Bethesda does a great job developing their characters. Are there other games like these? (protip: Have Skyrim)
This final conversation with Lanius is amazing, I gladly rewatch it when YT decides it's time for it to show up again. Fallout: New Vegas is such an amazing game!
The Courier can end a whole war and spare hundreds of thousands of lives using only his inhumanly persuasive skills. A golden tongue, an unshakable frame, and willpower of steel: those were the weapons who impended a huge war with no blood spill. How truly amazing.
Actually, you still have to murder, like, 80 legion soldiers to get to Lanius, and if you don't kill them, NCR will. But yeah. Minimal bloodshed. Definitely.
Funny enough, for a while I always thought about how this speech was sort of pulled out of the ass of the Courier for a speech check alone. It felt like logistics alone wouldn't have convinced Lanius, only loyal to Caesar, and that a mere stranger from his perspective would've done nothing to dampen his momentum. But in the Lonesome Road, when you talk to Ulysses at the end as he overlooks the Divide, it made sense where The Courier got this from. Ulysses tells that Lanius has his strength and weakness are the same - in his title. Putting the fear of losing and damaging his image would stop him cold. Ulysses also says to remind him of past failures in reference to Graham's attack of the Dam would pause him like nothing else, in fear of removing his legendary status. You can see this subtlety laid in the dialogue. This especially holds true if you bring up Graham's failure as a bluff too, but even without, I can see why this shakes Lanius. The Speech check is entirely in convincing that this battle would destroy what he represents: an undefeated conqueror. Once Lanius' momentum is paused cold by this, and the fear of losing worms into him with the history of Hoover Dam and the campaign of the East, only then does the logistics and attrition become justification to leave. It wouldn't have been without the essential touch of his reputation at stake. That's why this isn't an Intelligence check, its Speech alone. The outcome was obvious, anyone with intelligence including Lanius would see it, but the only way to make Lanius care was piercing his status. *That's* some brilliant writing.
@Joshua Salsman id say its an improvement, more chonky looking power armor and improved graphics, the terrible thing about fallout 4 is that it was more of an FPS game rather than an RPG game.
@Joshua Salsman It totally is worth wearing! The damage and rad resistance is amazing! Infact the old power armor sucks, it was terrible in older games.
"My point is Legate, there are settlements in the East that need your help."
Furthermore, another settlement needs your help.
sauercrowder I’ll mark it on your map
And I thought I could escape my fallout 4 PTSD
By Caesar you're right. There are many who need conquering still.
Here I'll mark it on your raven
Deathclaw Matriarch: *RRRRAAAAAAAARRRGGGGBLAAAAAAR*
Courier: [SPEECH 100] nah
Deathclaw Matriarch: k
Lol
Lol exactly, this whole game can be beat with speech and bare fists if you wanted.
Dude that's friggin' hilarious. Thanks
no you
The Matriarch
Meanwhile in the frontier:
[Speech 80] Baby if I could rearrange the alphabet I would put U and I together
I have heard a lot of about Frontier's dialogue. Is it really that bad?
@@Lunartic_ I am quoting directly from the game bro, an 80 speech check that's word for word exactly what I typed.
@@sigmaritearchlector5869 That's really a quote from Frontier!? It really is garbage.
@@Lunartic_ Yes, there's also a 70 speech check where you can mind break a depressed ''under age'' girl and call her ''your little slave girl.'' The writing team in the mod was incredibly bad.
So where's the ACTUAL negotiation or does that take speech 10 and intelligence 10?
Just wanna note, at 3:30, if you pick the "you'll retreat?" option, the negotiation fails and Lanius attacks you. Lanius is too prideful to admit that withdrawing from the Dam is a retreat. I really like that, dialogue that is solved by picking the right things to say instead of having a big enough number.
I remember picking that line in my first playthrough, siding with the NCR.
Half my health was gone before I could even draw out my AMR.
I think how it uses personality/behavior instead of the check
@@tvgaming2132 You still need to pass checks to get that far in the conversation.
@@somm150I know that, I'm talking about how lanius would attack if he told if he's going to surrender
That detail doesn´t really have a lot of power when the rest of the conversation was highlighted by "speech 100".
I would like to return to the original Fallout´s dialogue system. Having the appropriate speech will open up the correct answers, but it´s up to you to know what to pick.
'The greatest victory is that which requires no battle' - Sun Tzu
"To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting."
-also Sun Tzu
Sun tzu said that
@@mateuszw.7905 and I'd say he nows a little more about fighting than you do pal because he invented it
@@analothor and then he perfected it so that no living man could best him in the ring of honor
@@mateuszw.7905 AAAAAAAaaaaaahAAAAAAAAHHHHR!!!!!!!
Killing him is better because you get a unique melee weapon for a whole 5 seconds before the game ends...
I've heard that if you enter your pipboy before the NCR arrives you can fast-travel out of there.
@@saulesalejos4483 you cant i actually tried it
@@TheONLYFeli0 oh that's a shame. Guess Imma search for mods to keep playing after the war
@@MatheusRodrigues-gm5tf Seeing as there is cut content for post-hoover dam, I wouldn't be surprised if there were mods to implement them
@@Sketch_Kami there are, also some UA-camr post the cut post game content. There were voice lines for it and everything.
Very cool detail I haven’t seen anyone mention, Lanius calls himself “the East” but later in this conversation he calls you “Man of the West” showing that at this point he sees you as an equal and a parallel to him.
He sees the Courier as a true equal. Someone who while may not seem much, is indeed a true foe, not by gun, nor sword, but he understands history, and that is the greatest weapon of all.
@@skull7650 Someone that have been live a lot of things, things that make him strong, like the two bullets that hit his brain
@@mateoreyes6921 “Violence gave you that strength, awakened you - I can see it upon your face, where two bullets left their mark.”
@@skull7650 yeah but he's pretty skilled with a gun anyways
@@MrHenry-ru2xf *Laughs in melee build*
This dude has:
A Strength of 9
A Perception of 8
A Endurance of 8
A Charisma of 7
A Intelligence of 6
A Agility of 7
A Luck of 7
920 Hit Points
100% Poison Resistance
100% Radiation Resistance
85% Fire Resistance
A Damage Threshold of 19
100 in Melee Weapons
And a 100 in Unarmed
This guy is literally a super solider, better than your average man in literally every aspect.
Edit: He is also 80% faster than the player character, allowing him to catch you even with both legs crippled.
He has one of the highest fatigue points in the game, making it almost impossible to stun/knock him out.
He is nearly impossible to disarm.
He has a 15% chance of knocking down the player with each hit.
And he is 6’11, making him the tallest human non-player character in New Vegas.
920 Hit Points! WTF!? This is a monster.
He's just built different
Intelligence of 6 but his vocabulary is pretty good.
@@anthonymendez5493 to be fair, it may just be an insulting way to rank him based on his beliefs. Being with Caesar's Legion and all.
Yes I too read the wiki
"You speak in circles- what of the East? I am the East, and I will prove it this day."
That is too badass for me to handle.
@@ULTRAOutdoorsman
I hope this is a joke.
Kolbo
Absolutely bad ass!
too bad the legion are actual shitheads
Like Caesar said himself:
"I AM THE SENATE!"
@@piyo744 Lanius is a respectable man, driven by ambition and honor.
The legion are a bunch of glorified bandits. They rape, plunder and destroy all they touch. They were made to be pure villains, unfortunately. They held such promise too, if they were a little more fleshed out. Obsidian didn't have enough time though :
This made Skyrim's peace council looks like a baby arguing.
Skyrim's peace council under Obsidian wouldve actually been epic.
DAMN IMPERIALS WAAAAAAAAA I WANT MARKARTH WAAAAA
@@aceclover758 Imagine a Skyrim done by Obsidian but with the budget of Bethesda, a lot more good actors/actresses, and a reasonable amount of time to create.
@@someguyontheinternet.3318 i mean, the stormcloaks are right, so
@@piyo744 I respect your opinion but in my mind I don't really agree. The Stormlcloacks are fighting for a god(Who would eventually return once the Empire can defeat the dominion) and weakening the empire instead of strengthening it. General Tulius even hints at the end at the end of the game peace won't last. Skyrim can only survive against an attack with the help of the empire, because even if stormcloaks wim the province will be weakened. The Empire is more of a long term solution in general.
Incredible. I imagine those who reached this point and saw the "Speech 65...Speech 75..." options genuinely felt a rush of excitement in discovering for themselves that there is an alternative to the final boss fight. What a great way to design the ending.
I was sppech 75 and was so happy but badadum i need sppech 100
Only for that excitement to die when I realised my speech was only at like 90.
@@jonbradley4044 party time mentats fixes that situation
Once i realized speech was hella useful on my first playthrough i just statdumped the hell out of it.
That was exactly what i thought when i reached lanius. I was still using an old (maxed out tbf) varmint rifle and a marksman carbine, along with leather armor, i was stealthy, BUT NOWHERE NEAR ABLE TO FIGHT THIS GUY.
Then i see "Speech 55...Speech 65...75...90..."
Thank fucking god I put points into speech
@@-TakingSomeLs You *didn't* get the All American, Rat slayer or YCS/186?
Lanius is the luckiest character in all of fallout history because he got to survive an encounter with the courier with little more than a calm discussion about logistics and the wisdom of not overtaxing your military.
Did we play the same game? Because i think the lucky one is the courier. Lanius will straight up devour your ass
Real recognizes real
or the courier is lucky he could convince such a beast
the legate is stronger than a Mother Deathclaw
@theshadows1416 and the courier:
Survived 2 shots to head (it was 2 shots but 18 months cut content moment search it up if you don't believe me)
Cannonically has wrestled a death claw
Is capable of fighting through the lucky 38 through big robots (potentially armed with rockets)
Has access to a bunch of implants (all stat enhancing ones, sub dermal armour and healing implant)
Able to take enough drugs to kill a supernatant behemoth
And has the sheer power of determination that only someone with schizophrenia induced by brain damage can have
Thing is though. Both men are legends in one way or another. And it's just them respecting each other and going on their own ways
YOU CAN TALK TO HIM? JESUS CHRIST I JUST ROCKET LAUNCHER THE GUY THE MOMENT I SAW HIM
I mean, he is a douche.
Yeah, Annabelle does the talking for me.
Crazy people learning things about this game even now, fucking lmao. I wonder how much I’ve missed.
Hahahahahh
*Ends war with maximum speech skills*
*Pulls out his Fat Man and shoots after he turns around*
tl;dw:
"I WANT THE WEST!"
"YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE WEST!"
sounds like FO4 dialogue lol
My west is to strong for you Lanius
Basically what Fallout New Vegas if it's made by Bethesda.
Not exactly, sure he'll take the west, the NCR will stop existing, ever. and He'll win, but then what ? he can't administer and lead both the east AND west, he'd have to meander around, and spread his legions apart, where they'll be vulnurable to rebellions, raiders, and the plethora of crisis we see the fallout world going through.
@@alibouk227 Exactly the point.
The fact that the final boss of New Vegas can literally be a thoughtful debate makes it the best D&D campaign ever
FNV-themed D&D set when?? 👀
@@reptiliannoizezz.413 don't get me excited like that 😩
I would SO play this with others. It has so much potential!
There was a greentext retelling some roleplay server alot like that, had a pretty good story if you've got the stomach for chanspeak.
Looking back on this again, it's another thing that makes this so great. People expect strong individuals to defeat anyone through strength, yet others are able to neutralize supersoldiers without laying a scratch on them. One of the biggest lines for here was how the weakness of the NCR will be the problem, not what makes them strong. Lanius was infamous for scanning weaknesses like sharks sensing a single drop of weaknesses, yet couldn't see that in his own army. You were able to show them that without ever having a single threat to violence: meekness ≠ weakness
2:50 I love Lanius’ reaction to that line. “Your weakness? You seek to thwart me by claiming the Legion is too strong for you?” like he sounds genuinely confused. The conversation up to that point was point and counterpoint, but the Courier throws that curveball and catches Lanius off guard, he never expected you to make such a claim. Little touches like that help make this a masterwork of dialogue exchange.
He got mindfucked by the best
At that point he begin to realize the issues with the campaign. All the points the courier makes edges away at the stone in Lanius’s mind that is the war. When you mention the issues of the NCR, he sees now what may happen should they expand. Conquest can only carry an army so far, sooner or later when there’s no food or supplies to maintain the legion or nation altogether, it will collapse.
The Legion is Lanius’s life, and he seems only to better it and protect it through the will of Caesar. So when you pick all of the options correctly, he eventually admits to his desire to keep the legion together, albeit indirectly. And this culminated finally into his eventual “surrender” where he reminds the Mojave that he is not going to be gone forever.
Masterpiece, absolute masterpiece
He doesn't expect you to claim the NCR is weak and then say the legion will inherit it
999th like.
It's a literal fight with words.
The Courier just hooked Lanius with a verbal right that he didn't see coming.
"I AM the East."
-NOT yet.
"It's war of attrition, then."
-Are you threatening me, master courier?
Ah yes the negociator
Before Courier: Your (dam) will make a fine addition to my collection
After courier: Time to abandon (campaign)
@@Badchi take a cross, young profligate
UNLIMITED ACTION POINTS!!!
Imagine being Lanius, getting that far, commanding all those forces, just to realize that it was all a stupid idea anyway, and everyone was better just staying at home.
It takes an impressive man to realize that and give up, instead of doubling down on the stupid idea out of pride.
I think it takes great strength for someone like lanius who is so enthralled in war to admit that courier is indeed right, that they can take the west, but that they in the process would lose the east as their army can't hold both territories
pretty sure the fact the the courier single handedly slaughtered dozens of Legionaries throughout the battle was also a factor that influenced Lanius' decision to leave
I now believe Caesar was slowly driven insane by his braintumor and embarked on this mythical quest to fulfill his twisted view of hegelian dialectic, whatever the cost
@@louiscachet7681 So, his tumor is what is making him crazy and seeing the things the wrong way?
Maybe, we should save him, i mean, whitout side with him, he is of the few persons in the Mojave that has a great mind that can be very usefull, like House
Lanius views the Courier as a greater foe than the whole of the NCR. That is insane
I mean, does the NCR have 100 in explosives, a Fat Man in perfect condition, and about 100 mini nukes?
I think not
@@Kurbasker You mean Esther
From lanius pov you stand right before him and considering how ruthless the courier can be
(I'm talking killing Benny in his own home
Killing house and possibly even Caesar and vulpes )
And starting with near nothing
And the NCR not being able to do any of that despite having so many tools for it .
Yea. I'd be more spooked from the courier
Courier is just a man, lone wolf in vast wasteland filled with many people like him. but what make him difference from other? his determination give him strength to kill his 'killer' in his own home, his persistent give him endurance to survive in wasteland chaose, his understanding,perception and intelligence let him to befriend with many important people from various factions by him solving their problem, and lastly but not the least that his experience giving him actual skill and strength to kill his enemies.
the thing he does are not something exceptionally rare but usually it's done by a group of people or community but him doing it alone as a lone wolf proving himself to lanius that he is indeed an equal to him in terms of survival of fittest. the double headshot making courier 6 stronger instead of killing him is what lanius see as courier 6's catalyst
Given how hard Legion had been spanking NCR ever since First Battle, and how courier is the only person that managed to undo all that, yes one can get an idea why Lanius would think that way.
The courier : "if you east the west then how can you west the east ?"
Legate lanius : damn son u right
I can imagine him biting his finger and going
*"Damn, he got me fucking good... Ok now let me think of a rebuttal... Shit... He's right!"*
hahaha basically
I want him to read me bedtime stories
+Medivhmen that doesn't sound calm at all
+Medivhmen Calm down.
no i did now ;)
+furstenfeldbruck i want him to say something at my funeral lol.....
And so the cow jumped over the moon...
Fallout 4 dialogue.
And who are you to come before me... you bear the insignia of Bear, yet you do not wear it as a soldier of the West wears it.
1. Yes I am -> leads to a fight
2. No I am not (lie) -> leads to a fight
3. *some sarcastic comment* -> leads to a fight
[Charisma check] You'll never take this place, best turn back.
Lanius: I'm suddenly convinced, farewell sole survivor.
(Piper/Preston/Hancock/Deacon/Valentine/Codsworth/Curie liked that.)
(Cait/McCready/X6/Strong disliked that.)
@@fuzzyapplepie6940 LMFAO!
4- Why do you think that? -shitty explanation, leads to a fight.
Drake Blackley True true
No that first line wouldnt be so well written.
I'm amazed Lanius could even be talked down at all. Everything you hear about him makes him seem like a dumb angry brute, especially when compared to the pragmatic and level-headed Graham. Yet, when the truth is staring him in the face, he accepts it, swallows his pride, and moves on. It reminds me of the conversations you have with Saren in the first Mass Effect. Top notch writing.
Lanius is never implied to be dumb, just incredibly ruthless and cruel.
@@Hawkent based
I always assumed that it was a deliberate play by Caesar to spread stories about Lanius as a blood thirsty savage in order to scare the NCR and weaken their morall. And in reality as we can see here Lanius is actually a pretty intelligent and well spoken person.
Lanius has an intelligence stat of 6 so is definitely not just a dumb brute
@@Jinxbreaker It's even higher than Caesar's Intelligence stat. Lanius is definitely way smarter than what the tales consider him to be. And if you play your cards right, he knows when to fold them as well. His character is incredible.
"Violence gave you that strength, awakened you - I can see it upon your face, where two bullets left their mark." ~Legate Lanius~
Did Lanius just speech check 100 me?
yes
More like Perception 10
What does he mean where two bullets left their mark?
@@localafghanshepherd7414 in the beginning of the game your just a regular guy doing a job and all of a sudden you are taken and shot in the head twice, but it didn't kill you. With 2 bullet holes in the head you rose up from your shallow grave and were fueled by revenge or something more. It caused you to go on a adventure unlike any you could have imagined and all that was unlocked by violence. Instead of shrinking away from it your rose to the occasion. Lanius saw that in you and he was wise enough to to know it was the 2 bullet wounds that awoke you.
@@localafghanshepherd7414 at the start of the game u get shot in the dome twice
"...And then I totally kicked Legate's ass!"
*everyone in the bar:* "YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! Damn, man. You're so badass!"
"Aren't I, though?" _takes swig of whiskey and chokes on it_ "...Smooth."
*guy in the back:* "I don't believe you!"
"[Speech 100] Yes you do."
*guy in the back:* "Yeah, I do."
This one made my day xD
@@danield.h3193 same:)
_waves hand_ "You will go home and rethink your life."
"I will go home and rethink my life."
@@Wignut Lol i guess speech checks make more sense in KotOR
This was funny but it would be "the legate's". His name is not legate thats his rank
it isn't just him saying "oh my god you're right i'm so dumb your the smartest person ever" its an actual dialogue between the player character and a character that you persuade, not dominate. He doesn't completely agree with you but still there's a sense of respect towards the player character and i love it.
It's my belief that this mutual respect and understanding is a large motivator behind his eventual decision to stand down. It's certainly quality writing, and the delivery is top-notch by any standard.
@@jthomcres yea till they make him jog off like a bitch. Totally kills the moment
@@majik5194 that's due to a programming bug, not something specifically added to happen. Lanius is supposed to move at 160% speed in combat, and the cutscene where he walks off is incorrectly flagged as combat. It's a problem with the engine.
@@majik5194
"omaewa mou, shindeiru"
@@majik5194 JOG? BITCH HE RAN AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT.
That's some extremely satisfying dialogue
Lmao that sentence
Who wrote the dialogue for this game?
It feels like forever since I heard an actual intellectual conversation within a videogame
This dialogue alone is making me consider playing this game even though it's a genre I've never really been interested in. New Vegas seems to actually have a soul, like the writers actually wanted to make you think.
Chris Avellone, he was working in Dying Light 2 if i'm not wrong
Play Divinity 2
@@mateoreyes6921 Any other writing credits?
@@elijahbrink4596 I think he worked in Star Wars Kotor 2, i don't remeber
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting - Sun Tzu
You most likely just murdered at least 40 Legion soldiers on your way to Lanius. Still, better than killing him I suppose.
And I'd say he knew a little more about fighting than you do son because he INVENTED IT!
AND THEN HE PERFECTED IT SO THAT NO LIVING MAN COULD BEST HIM IN THE RING OF HONOR!
@@Tumbleflop AND THEN HE GOT TWO OF EVERY ANIMAL ONTO A BOAT
*AND BEAT THE CRAP OUT OF EVERY ONE OF 'EM*
AND THAT IS WHY IT’S CALLED A ZOO
...
UNLESS IT’S A FARM!
That's actually an extremely appropriate argument.
Had the Legion taken the west, they would have repeated the fate of the Roman empire, which got bigger than it could handle.
bobmcbob49 Same thing with the NCR and their continuous expansion.
Ellijah De Leon the NCR would fall because of corruption and if i was feelin smart would argue thats why Rome fell
Coconutszz Corruption and bureaucracy ;]
Michał Łuczyński Coconutszz And lead plumbing.
In a way that's ironic how defeating the NCR leads them to fail in the same ways as the NCR.
This single encounter had more roleplaying and more characterization than the entirety of fallout 4 did
It really doesn't
@@EveryoneElseIsWeirdImNormal it really does
@@Meme_Knight it doesn't matter unless you purposely do not your going to be level about 20 minimum which means that your almost definitely going to have 100 speech or barter the game is just structured that way so that speech is over powered and almost entirely needed it doesn't matter what your role playing your having 100 speech or your having a bad time
Also this goes against literally EVERYTHING we have heard about lanius a soldier so obsessed with fighting he turned against his own tribe and doesn't care about casualties he is regarded as barely sane to anything besides fighting and yet the argument or "hey dude California is really large" turns him away aka completely going against everything that had been said about him
You can even claim that caeser and lanius are talking him up because Ulysses and Joshua Graham both agree that he is a mad man and they both have no reason to talk him up
@@EveryoneElseIsWeirdImNormal First of all, Speech and Barter are all roleplaying skills, therefore if you play casually and go OP perks and skills then that's your fault, not the game, and besides, you don't need it to progress, If You Couldn't Convince Lanius then you can Beat the shit outta him.
Second of all, the first thing to learn about Lanius is that he's all about honor, even in this Encounter after you convince him, if you pick the dialogue option "So, You'll Retreat?" He immediately gets defensive, and goes hostile instantly, which reinforces the idea of him being all about honor, because he sees Retreating as cowardice and he ordered the death of his tribe because they surrendered and lanius saw that as cowardice, and asked Caesar to kill his tribe, Because he's all About HONOR, yeah he's a warrior but he's not stupid.
And who or what told you that he decides to quit the attack on The Mojave?, all you do is Delay the inevitable not stop it.
Also, it could be extremely possible that Caesar said all that the prop up Lanius as "The Monster of the East" and whatnot, because at this point you didn't join The legion yet and Caesar wants to remind you(Their potential enemy) who you're facing against, and it could also be possible that Caesar is lying to you about Lanius not caring about the Legion and is only loyal to him to make it seem like you can't provoke him by killing Legionaires, and even IF that's true, Lanius still has to care about the Legion because Caesar is the Leader and Lanius is loyal to him, it all could be a lie to prop up lanius With Caesar same with his hegelian dialectics.
@@Meme_Knight slow clap*
Congratulations you managed to iqnore everything I said in your last paragraph iqnore the major part in your second and also iqnore the fact I was talking about the structure of the game in the first
Slow clap*
lanius build vs the frontier pls
Lmao
oh boy lmao
lmao, the hell you doing in here
what the fuck are you doing here
fuck you mocks
And to think that this game had only 18 months to make. And Bethesda still treats like the black sheep of the family.
IKR!
Obsidian has worked with less time before and made equally polished games. Obsidian simply sucks at managing time, which is why nearly every game they release falls under the same template of having to cut half of the game's planned content, launching broken, and having loyal fans blame anyone but Obsidian.
Comic Sans Even if that were 100% true, you still cannot deny the content, depth, and story we get in New Vegas, which trumps anything that Bethesda had made for Fallout. Named characters in NV have logical dialogue sequences, in-depth stories to tell, and meaningful interactions for the player. In 4, the dialogue has the verbosity and detail of a children's story, plus occasional _non sequiturs_, a big writing no-no. In NV, there can be dozens of ways to talk to someone, as does real life. In 4 you are granted a meager four dialogue choices. And don't even get me started on the illusions of choice inherent with many FO4 dialogues. FO3 is even worse in terms of optionality; your plot is fixed with no possibility of non canon endings such as joining the Enclave. An RPG needs optionality that the script allows. New Vegas does that better than 3, 4, and the abomination prequel known as 76.
@@comicsans1689 Yeah. That happened with KOTOR 2: The Sith Lords as well. Many SW fans prefers it over BioWare's original KOTOR (which is also an extremely great RPG) because the characters and companions aren't just "light-sided, dark-sided" but because Obsidian rushed it almost half of the game's contents were cut and, without a mod that restores said cut-contents, the ending fell very flat.
@@yvainestoion4629 Even with restored content, I still think that the game falls flat. It doesn't help that the game's narrative and mechanics contradict each other. Kreia spends the entire game lecturing you on not being mindlessly good or evil, but if you follow her advice you weaken your own character. Funny enough, Kreia is also about doing things to strengthen yourself, which you can only do by min-maxing either light or dark. The game doesn't help by giving you promoted classes that are tied to only lightside or darkside characters. Ironically, playing a neutral character in KOTOR 1 is more viable than KOTOR 2.
Legate Lanius, legendary for his ability to sense any weakness of an army failed to sense the weakness of his army. In fact, his weakness is the complete same as the weakness of the NCR: being spread too thin.
Poetic. He is famed for his ability to look at the enemy, yet fails when he needs to look at his allies.
God I love this game.
TL;DR
"Ironic, he could see other's weaknesses but his"
@@zyxluz4645 Have you ever heard the tragedy of Legate Lanius the wise? I thought not; it's not a story the NCR would tell you. It's a Legionary legend.
@@Jupiter__001_ He was a Legate of the Legion so powerful and so wise that he could sense weaknes in an enemy army and exploit it. With this power he menaged to keep the Legion alive throughout the aftermath of the first battle of Hoover Dam up to the second one.
--He... kept the Legion alive?
--Caesers will leads the pathway to abilities some consider to be... unnatural.
--W... what happened to him?
--He became so powerful that the only thing he was afraid of was losing his power.
Unfortunatelly he explained his plans to a courier who pointed out the weakneses in his plan... causing him to retreat.
Ironic, isn't it?
He could see weakneses in enemy's armies and plans but not his own.
--Is it possible to learn this power?
--Not from a Ranger.
@@danilopetrovic5697 Nice
"Violence gave you that strength, awakened you - I can see it upon your face, where two bullets left their mark."
After all these years of playing this game I just now realized that two bullets awakening you is a metaphor for the player taking control of the courier because before your shot in the head you have no control until after the opening cutscene.
What
😹😹😹@@olivercharles2930
Sort of like The Fledgling from Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines. He/she is another human and the moment the player take control, they become, if the player choose violence as playstyle, "An engine of Cainite Fury" as Andrei The Tzmisce would call it.
"There is victory in wisdom" has to be one of the coolest/most applicable quotes to life that ive ever seen in a videogame before. Definitely some "speech 100" typeshit lol.
You can just feel how Lanius' mindset is changing through his talking. Great acting.
Yeahh not so much his mindset changing but rather a realization. A moment of "huh, didn’t think that far ahead"
@@sage5036 A pity Oliver wasn't capable of introspection like that. Oh well, the 'trons will figure out a way to get that smear off of the dam someday.
@@Father_Wendigo Oliver can also be convinced to back down but it isn't a nuanced because it's incredibly stupid of him to think he can fight all of your securitrons in the first place. Convincing someone to not throw his life and the lives of his men away like an idiot isn't as satisfying as convincing someone that even if they win this battle they will lose the war eventually due to logistics.
Good dialouge but pretty bad voice-acting. His cadence remains exactly the same. Having a cool voice is not the same as good acting.
@@loganrenfrow2544 "Chances are bretty gud :DDD He just vaporized FOUR RANGERS. Oh, this should be good...shut the FUCK up
if you know you know
‘But have you considered that California might be a bit big?’
Lanius: Ain’t bigger than Texas
‘But Texas + California is bigger than Texas’
Lanius: Well shoot! I guess you’re right!
BRAVO SAWYER
@@seronymus This whole dialogue tree was really good, unironically.
California, Nevada, and likely Utah and Arizona.
@@Abdega That wasn't what was implied.
Lanius said after you convince him that he knew that Caesar himself was already suffering from the problem; "even now, Ceasar drew too much of the Legion's blood needed there for... this."
He didn't actually think he would hold both as that wasn't his concern; all he thought of to do was to win the battle. "That does not mean we cannot succeed."
He was convinced afterwards after the Courier sets in the reality the Legion would lose the East.
And before "BASIC MILITARY STRATEGY", this is a larping ancient Rome, who already suffered from overextension as well.
a nice detail: succeeding the speech checks doesn't simply convince him instantly, it just means that the conversation doesn't devolve into violence right there
you, the player, have to actually think like legate, talk to him as an equal, and actually use real arguments to convince him to leave without violence
and even after he"s convinced, saying the wrong thing can start up the boss fight anyway
the best rpgs aren't just numbers and killing things, they have good writing to go with it, and new vegas' writing is top notch
if i ever get this game, i might just use a speech build at some point, could be cool
Far Harbor in Fallout 4 did something similar. When you're trying to convince the Far Harbor people to not massacre the Robot/Synth Colony it's not enough to have max speech/charisma, you had to do all the sidequests to get the individual people on your side first.
@@ShadowSonic2 it's really a shame that morality didn't play into fallout 4 as much as it did in Far Harbour.
For me the answer is simple and you don't even get allowed to do it Minutemen or Brotherhood cease control of Institute HQ stop synth production.
I did a speech build on my first run. I only killed like 250 things in total, it’s surprising the amount you can do as a diplomat.
Some things to remember if you do end up doing a speech build:
Don't forget that you have to solve some things yourself
Don't dump everything in Charisma: make it 1, tag barter and speech, and use the SPECIAL points somewhere else
If you want a pacifist build, one of the many things you'll need it terrifying presence
That's all for now
Crazy to think you can convince a guy who's more violent then all super mutants and more blood thirsty then easy Pete to actually retreat.
Well, he is violent, but not stupid.
Retreat? Retreat.
I was a fool to listen to you... you know nothing of who I am.
Your owrds have done nothing but delay the inevitable. Now, see what my hounds and my blade will bring to you.
No one is more blood thirsty than easy pete
That's easy Pete you're talking about... If it was difficult Pete, then not even a 400 speech check could stop him.
Now i understand why people say New vegas is the best Fallout game
Btw fallout 2 is also a great gem too
the story and the choices you make in this story makes for the best game ever.
bruh, a team of modders are making new vegas on the fo4 engine. it's going to be glorious
@@lavendar1358 who said the FO4 engine is good?
@@Alcor151 sure beats fo3's engine
@@lavendar1358They're remaking fallout 3 not new vegas
A. Why are you doing this?
B. Sarcastic
C. Whatever
D. Lets fight
+derek jones are you saying NV is bad?
+Crispy Zeke No, If NV Speech choices we're that of FO4, which was horrible.
yep
@@triheadwar1996 The big problem with Fallout 4 is that it was made in the thought of making it primarily a console game.
Don't know why they couldn't just make it for PC then tweak it for it to fit on console but it speaks volumes about Obsidian's Fallout and Bethesda's Fallout.
King dragon sends his regards
It's crazy how Lanius almost seems like a better leader than Caesar he's willing to give up the Mojave campaign because he recognises that it would overextend the legion and lead it to its death. Meanwhile Ceasar is obsseded with the idea of conquering Hoover dam because he's obsseded with emulating the real Julius Caesar. And in his drive to satiate his own ego Caesar will probably just overextend the legion
Caesar is a visionary, driven to great things by dreams of conquest and power. But Lanius is a warrior and conqueror of a simpler sort, which means he’s given to more practical thinking about his objectives and the opposition he faces.
To Caesar, the Dam was the Rubicon, his everything, and Vegas the gemstone to set in his new crown, the NCR his ideological rivals. To Lanius? The Dam is another fortified position, Vegas another city to burn, NCR another tribe to conquer. Why rush things? He isn’t dying of a brain tumour.
This is depressing, knowing we probably won’t ever get a game like this again dam
I feel ya, mate.
Best you can hope for is a remaster
Не нужен ремастеринг этой гениальной части , утомили уже с этими ремастерами
Dam
Hoover dam
"And who are you to come before me" lmao Im going to use that toward everyone that approaches me from now on.
Was just thinking the same thing bro.
A girl once said that to me... in different context...
RandomGuy1994
xD
RandomGuy1994 Is it bad that I imagined that in Lanius' voice?
lmao yesssssss
This is honestly much more satisfying than fighting.
I dunno, the fighting was pretty satisfying...
To be fair, combat was never fallout strongest aspect
Fallout is a shooting game (mostly, unless you go full melee build on your first playthrough intentionally lol). Fights tend not to be interesting when all you do is just pull the trigger over and over and run around like a chicken without a head.
Guns are boring. Change my mind.
@@masterblaster2678 from a guy named master blaster..
@@masterblaster2678 I mean, doom is pretty highly rated, cod and battlefield, Red Dead pulled it off, Halo, Destiny. I mean there are a ton of games that are beloved by many millions and the primary gameplay is to shoot guns. You might have an opinion, but the masses lean to guns. Guns are epic.
One of the greatest written dialogue segments in the entire franchise, which is no easy feat when we consider things like one or two of Joshua Graham's monologues.
Brilliant writers behind New Vegas, and that's one reason why it has a stronger legacy than any other Fallout game.
How is this great writing? It's a lot of pretentious dragged out conversations that come down to "The West is too big".
@@ShadowSonic2 In this context yes, but If you play lonsome road before you reach the dam it all makes senses, Ulysses was supposed to be in the base game and he was the companion that sympathize with the legion, this whole conversation was made with that in mind since Ulysses most likely would have used the same conversations and dialogues in the base game
In the end, it’s not “the West is big” is more, “and what are you but a puppet of your own desire for blood” after listening to Ulysses, all makes sense
10/10
@@ShadowSonic2 What Chech said, but if you compare it to say.. Game of Thrones season 8, the difference is night and day. The writing in shit like that is the opposite of thought-provoking and the wording is about as subtle as a sledgehammer through a door.
Also the fact that you can have such a conversation and talk down someone who has the reputation of a mindless brute of a man is one great aspect of this sequence.
@@chechenko_9430 Love that second paragraph especially.
Too bad it is far and few between the great dialogue and the regular ass dialogue.
I like new vegas, but I think people overestimate to absurd degrees.
I have to say this scene works so much better with this music
I love the music!
@@yourson8637 whats the name of the song?
@@edgarb.6187 It's the end slideshow music
Yeah, the hoover dam battle one feels weird
@@SrDaedricoCO I always mute music in this part. Only time I do it in this game.
Oh man, remember when Fallout had interesting conversations?
Yeah I really miss the old conversation style. it's a shame they implemented a streamlined conversation style like that of mass effect. to shame Bethesda, to shame! But everything else is amazing lol
rodkimble11 They dumbed down the rpg bits of Fallout. I'd say Fallout 4 is a great rpg-style shooter, but a bad rpg.
+juanjoseph Bethesda is good at making a sandbox exploration but bad at RPG elements and dialogue.
Ellijah De Leon I agree. They were good ten years ago, now their dialogues are EA quality.
+juanjoseph Fallout on an Fallout 4 engine made by obsidian entertainment (same studio which made New Vegas) would be an awesome game.
"Until the day when our armies meet again, NCR - I shall wait for you on the battlefield"
*6 years i wait for him ....*
It's all just a part of his grand strategy.
he went to buy some milk
Watch them release New Vegas 2
8 years now :(
Legends says that the courier is still waiting his return....
Back when you had options for beating the boss. I have NEVER been so shocked and happy at the ending of a video game. You literally TALK the strongest character in the game down from a fight, and you end a war with words. So much creativity and power in this ending. We need more video games out there that give you the ability to make decisions and change gameplay like this. New Vegas is still my number one for RPGs.
Fallout New Vegas:
“I see now that my brazen wishes would lead to my own end.”
Fallout 3:
“I will never do this”
“Are you sure?”
“Ok I will do this.”
Fallout 4: HATE NEWSPAPERS
Jesus Christ people are hating on fallout 3
That's sad
jabi babi What’s sad is the story and horrendous writing they thought was acceptable. For example: this amazing speech with Lanius vs Colonel Autumn. Autumn: I aM iN cHaRgE hErE! I Am ThE eNcLaVe!
And when you tell him to stop Eden’s plan: StOp? NoW? ArE yOu oUt oF yOur MiNd?!
I hope I’ve made my point clear lol
@@brysonkuervers2570 well, at least Fallout 3 was better than the shitholes fallout 4 and 76 are.
@@whydoyoucum6181 idk man fallout 76 is prettye good right now as multiplayer open world game
It's funny how the most brutal and savage Legion member is also the most eloquent one.
Death has a way of ostending men's feelings before it slips over them.
I wonder what it was like for legate growing up. His mom be like "legate, get in here and clean up this room right now", and legate responds "And who are you to come before me?
You know his name isn't "Legate", right? Legate is his title. His name is Lanius.
Levi Skardsen fool my title is legatus not legate
Levi Skardsen
And considering the Latin origin of that name I doubt it's his original one as well, probably something he adopted when joining the legion.
Metrocop I think Caesar explains that he gave Lanius his name.
Lanius means butcher in latin, the butcher legate most likley named that becuase of his fighting skill.
*"Save your speeches, we will take Hoover Dam and move forward until our feet crush the setting sun beneath them."*
Incredible line. Incredible delivery. Gives me chills.
Beh, this whole thing is anticlimactic really.
@@ShadowSonic2 Why is it anti-climactic?
@@ShadowSonic2 hey dude, where's your answer to their question?
@@rastas4766 He talks a big game, all you need is to spam Speech 100 and that's it.
@@Kagetora- He talks a big game, all you need is to spam Speech 100 and that's it.
Only 1 year of development on a horrible out of date shitty engine and they managed to come up with this gem of a moment.
New Vegas could've been the greatest video game (not even RPG) ever made if they had had enough time
@@user-iw1nw4du8x8 Nope. But it would have been a masterpiece.
@@user-iw1nw4du8x8would more time to work on it mean the gunplay would not suck
@@damsen978 Using this engine cut down dramatically on the development time since they were able to reuse assets from Fallout 3 and basically the entire gameplay mechanics and functions. I doubt it would have been possible to create New Vegas in the same timespan in a different engine, since they would to basically build all those assets and mechanics from the ground up, which would have probably taken 1 year of development alone without even working on content, like quests.
Completely ruined it with him running away at the end, he should've walked out of there slowly and calm, this quick dash in a blink of an eye as he finish talking kind of made me laugh, its hard to take it seriously like this.
+beepIL Agreed.
+beepIL hahaha, welcome to Fallout ;)
Lmao 5 minutes of epic speech ruined with 5 seconds of crappy running
+beepIL xD
+beepIL Welcome to all Bethesda games
At the beginning, they were basically enemies.
At the end, they were still enemies, but they respected each other. And that's some really powerful writing, right there.
I finished the game some days ago and had max speech just for fun, but got intrigued when I saw the option to use it in the dialogue, I used all types of chems and magazines before the battle, but once I talked with him, I was happy that I didn’t need to use violence and that he was more than just a great warrior, this is the first game I ever played that i convinced the villain to stop the fight just by talking with them and it wasn’t something like “Yes you’re right I’m the bad guy i regret everything”, it felt surreal, and I wish I played more games with this type of writing.
@@Fumerail Yes, i felt like that especially in Mass Effect. There the diologue goes like
"You're bad"
"No, you don't get it."
"I do, and you're bad"
"You're right"
And this game was genious to make you convince the guy based on his philosophy.
@@janugur2241 Well in mass effect 1 you can skip half of the final boss fight if you connvince him thats hes indoctrinated
@@Fumerail in my first playtru I just blasted him into brazil so I didn't even speak with him 😂
i mean at the end they are not exactly enemies since he said "my coming would've saved you set your people free in ways they cannot see"
This dialogue is more epic than the fight, this is why New Vegas is a masterpiece
Epic spech like Planescape:torment.
Damn, if I had a voice like that I would never shut up
"Violence gave you that strenght, awakened you. I can see it upon your face, where two bullets left their mark"
This line is just perfection, It sums up all of our journey
*goosebumps*
Where did he get the second bullet wound? I thought he only had one from benny
@@A.N.A.R.C.H. Funny thing is, even with two in his face, the courier still survived.
What a chad. I mean, some people can't survive getting punched stiff across the face, let alone two nine millimeter cases of solid lead. The Courier survived because something in him awakened when he was shot. Probably just a determination to see change in the wasteland.
That's basically why the player is so powerful and the only character who levels up so frequently.
Pretty cringe comment
@@santicheeks1106 In the cut intro Benny actually shot him twice
"Battle"
-Sun Tzu, a fucking long time ago.
Wise
Courier: You're wrong. Go home.
Lanius: You're right. I'm going home.
The End. 10/10
New Vegas is the GOAT!
Still more compelling facial animations than father
Shauns character is interesting. He takes features from his parents. It’s pretty cool.
Lmfao, tbf all fallout games barring 1&2 have trash facial animation.
Fallout New Vegas: Lanius can be convinced in a number of ways that the Legion cannot win this day. You can use your high understanding of economics and infrastructure to make him understand that Legion supply lines could not carry a campaign west, and that the NCRs weakness is their greatest strength. You can remind him of history, that the Malpais Legate failed because of the same reasons Lanius was about to fail. The Legions infrastructure can be criticized against him, causing him to fall back to defend his own position within the Legion. If all that fails, if you're honorable you can challenge him to one-on-one combat, making the fight against him slightly easier. If nothing comes together you fight him and several elite Legion soldiers, proving that he truly is the Monster of the East by being fast as a Cazador, hitting like a Deathclaw, all with the tactical mind a Legate needs.
Fallout 3: you again
Fallout 3: I aM tHE EnCLavE!
TOTMGsRock xD tHe MAsSeS WilL FLoCK
I think I remember convincing him he’s taking the dam so easily because the NCR want to get the majority of his forces inside and slaughter them whilst they’re trapped in the NCRs concrete walls, the most dangerous animal being a desperate one, but now I’m not sure if I just made that up or not.
I think it’s because I kept Ulysses from lonesome road alive, and asked him how he would beat lanais, so he said to make him think the NCR is more capable than he thought, using his fear of failure to delay his victory.
Ticker Chicken He's a monster but a monster with some reservations, who knows to back down but only if total defeat is inevitable otherwise
[SPEECH 100] If you go East you are not West
Lanius: _Understandable I will now retreat_
4:16 Gives me goosebumps every time, the voice acting and dialogue is SO good.
"We shall see how brave you are when nailed to the walls of Hoover Dam, your body facing west so you may watch your world die."
chills down my spine every single time.
Nefarias Bredd h
DEATH TO PROFLIGATES
Seriously good writing.
three years late buttt timestamp? plss??
@@minimalisthobo7616 Quote is not in this vid but it's at 13:39 in this one below
ua-cam.com/video/IxhBVROsVo8/v-deo.html
You know, what i find most appealing about This is that everyone tells you "legion dies with Caesar's death"
But you just convinced a bloodlusted 'lone wolf' Monster to show pride in his own tribe and realize mindless violence is not always the best strategy for survival
I fully believe whenever Caesar lives or dies during the game, Lanius will challenge him and his ego to a duel in front of everyone, beat him and then become a way better leader for the legion
This is exactly the kind of synthesis Caesar was talking about when arguing why he wants to overthrow the Mojave, the conflict between the nations would create something greater, and this exchange to me is exactly that conflict and Lanius hopefully will convert into the synthesis the Legion needs to rise greater than before
If people brought up this scene up in a "legion would eventually die" argument this would be a good reason why the legion would live longer
Funny you say that, if you choose to side with the Legion and get the Enclave remnants to support you Caesar recognizes their power and lets them depart after the battle while Lanius would pursue them, losing hundreds of men and get nothing in return.
Tbf in the Legion ending, Lanius doesn't have the Courier as his antithesis.
Lanius was unironically the better leader for Legion
The virgin “I AM IN CHARGE HERE! I AM THE ENCLAVE!”
vs the chad “I am the east, and I shall prove it this day.”
I always talk him down. Discussing economics and logistics with Lanius is the greatest victory.
this wa sa great moment
***** I'm not sure where I should start correcting your sentence ..... Your* great* and you confused his mom with yours.
Soooo you're scared of him? Exposed.
BeefyLevinson You know what isn't a great victory? Selling your slaves out because you're too much of a coward to fight. Lol.
I wanted his mask tho...so
Yea
100 Speech my ONLY weakness :(
and 100 barter
Lightning Dustt That too >:(
why cant i take your mask and Armour after i kill you?!?!?
Legate Lanius It's OK, Lanius, you're still a badass villain, and it was an honor fighting you.
Imposter! Ego te crucifigam. excindēris ab legione
I love how he just ZOOMS out of the screen after the conversation
*"If the West is one day filled with ones such as you, perhaps it shall be a worthy fight, indeed."*
I fucking love that line
His whole speech is badass my favorite not said here is
“We shall see how brave you are when you’re nailed to the walls of Hover Dam…..you’re body facing west…so you can watch it die”
I like to think canonically this speech changes how Legate Lanius handles leading when Caesar dies, at least when handling war.
Funny enough this speech may be one of the most dangerous endings for NCR, especially if what you say is true.
Instead of this savage but smart military leader continuing to smash his forces against the dam and eventually dying, weakening the legion as leaving its leadership uncertain, he saves his remaining forces and develops and stabilizes the legion internally, with a core loyal force to ensure compliance even if he was defeated at the dam
A legion victory is a loss to NCR for sure, but the long 15 is just as much, if not more of a choke point as the dam, and far longer. Mojave airport itself would likely hold out for some time, and the legion would bleed.
Independent Or House Vegas is far from ideal from the NCR's perspective, but either is a buffer zone against the remaining legion and a trading partner, once they pull themselves together about the defeat. It's arguably even less able to invade NCR in ether route, and in terms of expansion theres nothing stopping NCR from spreading north into Washington and South into Mexico instead of east.
Outright annexation is their ideal, of course, allowing them to fortify the dam and even the east side of the Colorado, putting an end to raids, as the legion likely collapses into infighting after not only Cesar but his second in command and at least a few other higher ups all are died or disgraced along with its greatest forces.
@@Joesolo13 With House or Independent, some of your actions end up benefitting the NCR anyways, like them investigating and reinforcing their trading if you give the evidence during Cass' personal quest or letting Chief Hanalan off the hook as he then returns to become a popular senator protesting against Kimball and Oliver. With the defeat Kimball's thrown out and replaced with a more competent president if I recall correctly. For me personally I see House as the ending that benefits all three as he has a legitimate plan for the Mojave, Lanius can reinforce the Legion better than Caesar ever did, and the NCR can focus better on the home front.
@@BlazinVoid59 Mr. House's ending with very good karma is the best imo, it stops the expansionism of the ncr and the legion, while humanity will benefit of house's intelligence and the empathy of the courier, i said empathy because in one of the ending's slides it says that the courier makes sure that Mr. House doesn't do anything that degrades humanity, like being corrupt for example, so the courier makes sure that he stays on the right path, one thing people seem to forget is that The courrier works with Mr. House and for him, simply because House knows he could get killed anytime by him.
@@SakakiSyndrome Don't forget the tec from BIG Mountain, the courier can with help of House and the brains can pretty much make New Vegas a really shining place in the Fallout universe
That background music is so damn mesmerizing.
darude - sadstorm
I was listening to strong warriors respect one another and the music fit so perfectly. I wanna play fallout again
*"I shall wait for you on the battlefield."*
Lanius: 🏃♂️🏃♂️🏃♂️💨
"All warfare is based on deception."- Sun Tzu's The Art of War, Line 17.
Fallout NV: "There is wisdom in victory"
"And there is wisdom in your words. Know that I shall return, and on that day, the strength of the bear will be tested".
Fallout 3: "You again?"
You and your ilk seems hel bent on destroying everything our goverment has worked so hard to accomplish
Joseph Townsend here we go Vegas fanboys comparing something that’s a better fallout game to a mediocre game like Vegas that doesn’t embody fallout at all. 🤦🏾♂️
@@vemis124 nice troll
@@vemis124 >New Vegas doesn't embody Fallout.
You've only played Fallout 3 haven't you?
@@Krenki5555 you fell for it
2:28 I noticed he crossed his arms after he learns of the plan failing. I don’t know if they thought this far ahead. But generally crossing arms is a defensive posture (not for combat) but in terms of body language.
Good eye. That's really cool to see tbh
5head
I’m pretty sure all Fallout NPCs in Fallout 3 and New Vegas start crossing their arms at random anytime in dialogue. Sometimes I get bored listening to conversations I already heard before and start noticing their body language.
Luftwaffle from Ingen server?
@@MisterJohnDoe You noticed these things when you’re on your 57th playthrough lol.
Every time a new Bethesda game comes out, I come back here and remind myself of what a high quality product looks like.
And this is why I will forever love this game. The amount of genuine effort and passion this game has, dsmn I wish we could get a sequel. Walking the Mojave will always be a blast. Just wish I was a Arizona Ranger
This video is nice, but y’wanna know something else? ..... patrolling the Mojave makes you wish for a nuclear winter
Almost.
r/usernamechecksout
Allow me to grant that wish. [nukes the Long 15]
Thought for a second you were gonna say that a settlement needs my help.
Patrolling the mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter
I love how he just runs as fast as he can when they are done talking.
He just has a far above average movement speed, which also stacks with his increased movement speed from his height.
@@nathanniesche6380 no he just runs like a pussy
@@redditastic6711 He runs because they didn't code in him walking away
@@redditastic6711 No, he runs like a chad
@@lukescrew1981 Chads don't run
"I AM the East, and I WILLL have the West!"
"[SPEECH 100]"
*"Understandable, have a good day."*
"Violence gave you that strength, awakened you - I can see it upon your face, where two bullets left their mark."
New Vegas is a fucking masterpiece.
Even at the end of the game, the writers make you remember how your adventure started and made you get here
What's the second bullet
@@goastem2991 I think Benny shot him twice at the beginning.
@@urmemegay7929 character overhaul mod let's you choose a preset option for the courier which shows a bullet scar across the side of their face
@@wyattwachter5986 Or another prior to the events of the game
I wish they did more with Lanius, he is such a badass character and definitely one of my favorite characters in the Fallout Series.
Obsidian said they were interested in a New Vegas 2 which could give us more Lanius
Suwat Saksri Really? That's interesting.
KickassW7 i hope it will happen, especially IF the writing in Fallout 4 ends up not being great
Suwat Saksri yeah :/
Suwat Saksri ua-cam.com/video/GE2BkLqMef4/v-deo.html well the tables have turned.
"im going to conquer California"
[SPEECH 100] Nuh uh
the fact its an actual mod
So Bethesda saw this and thought it was a good idea to put just 4 kinds of answers based of basic colors and not let you Knowing what the you were going to say? Damn they know it's public
No, it's because they wanted to experiment with a voiced protagonist for once. But the voicing cost a lot of money so they had to limit the dialog options.
@@ShadowSonic2 The voice actors did a great job (will never forget "Shamus McFuckyourself" and "FAAAr Habah") but man that was a shit idea lmao
He's probably one of the best voiced NPC's in all of fallout :o
only to be beaten by frank horrigan
What about the Master from the first Fallout?
If you just didn't know him, go ahead and listen to it
Joshua Graham is on the same level. His "oh daughter of babylon who ought to be destroyed" speech is sensational.
Bethesda does a great job developing their characters. Are there other games like these? (protip: Have Skyrim)
ArTofPvT they only published this, not develop it, it was Obsidian that developed it
ArTofPvT
Bethesda DOES NOT.
Obsidian DOES.
Skyrim and Fallout 3 were ABYSMAL for that.
The absolute legend Chris Avellone wrote all the dialogue for Lanius.
Wait, really?
Source?
Wasnt he the lead writer on the whole game?
@@randomguy6679 no it was John Gonzalez. Avellone only wrote some area and few companion like Cass
Pretty sure he did a lot of the old world blues dialogue as well but I'm not certain
The music fits this scene so well
This final conversation with Lanius is amazing, I gladly rewatch it when YT decides it's time for it to show up again. Fallout: New Vegas is such an amazing game!
The Courier can end a whole war and spare hundreds of thousands of lives using only his inhumanly persuasive skills. A golden tongue, an unshakable frame, and willpower of steel: those were the weapons who impended a huge war with no blood spill.
How truly amazing.
"The greatest victory is that which requires no battle"
That's power of the mailman
Actually, you still have to murder, like, 80 legion soldiers to get to Lanius, and if you don't kill them, NCR will.
But yeah. Minimal bloodshed. Definitely.
@@Resi1ience old comment but you can make legion smoothie with one of the dam’s fans
@@MarioSantos-zx4bj man...
Funny enough, for a while I always thought about how this speech was sort of pulled out of the ass of the Courier for a speech check alone. It felt like logistics alone wouldn't have convinced Lanius, only loyal to Caesar, and that a mere stranger from his perspective would've done nothing to dampen his momentum. But in the Lonesome Road, when you talk to Ulysses at the end as he overlooks the Divide, it made sense where The Courier got this from.
Ulysses tells that Lanius has his strength and weakness are the same - in his title. Putting the fear of losing and damaging his image would stop him cold. Ulysses also says to remind him of past failures in reference to Graham's attack of the Dam would pause him like nothing else, in fear of removing his legendary status.
You can see this subtlety laid in the dialogue. This especially holds true if you bring up Graham's failure as a bluff too, but even without, I can see why this shakes Lanius. The Speech check is entirely in convincing that this battle would destroy what he represents: an undefeated conqueror. Once Lanius' momentum is paused cold by this, and the fear of losing worms into him with the history of Hoover Dam and the campaign of the East, only then does the logistics and attrition become justification to leave. It wouldn't have been without the essential touch of his reputation at stake.
That's why this isn't an Intelligence check, its Speech alone. The outcome was obvious, anyone with intelligence including Lanius would see it, but the only way to make Lanius care was piercing his status. *That's* some brilliant writing.
"My coming would have saved you, set your people free in ways they cannot see." lives rent-free in my mind since 2010
If Bethesda wrote this the first speech check would have gotten him to turn around
"i am the east" fucking chills. favorite dialog in the game for sure
“L’etat ce moi”
I am the Senate
protoss dragoon Not Yet
"I am the Enclave!"
Tom Plank * L’ État, c’est moi!
*THIS GAME NEEDS A DAMN REMASTER*
The fallout 4 new Vegas mod has been in development for years now one day it will arrive.
@@TheGamer801 hope so...
@Joshua Salsman id say its an improvement, more chonky looking power armor and improved graphics, the terrible thing about fallout 4 is that it was more of an FPS game rather than an RPG game.
@Joshua Salsman Good point.
@Joshua Salsman It totally is worth wearing! The damage and rad resistance is amazing! Infact the old power armor sucks, it was terrible in older games.
“You speak in circles” just means “Hey you’re cornering me you bastard.”