Fallout: New Vegas NOT An Absolute Nightmare - This Is Why
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I feel like "Fallout: New Vegas Is An Absolute Nightmare" has been kind of on my channel's radar ever since I did the New Vegas VR video. Happy I did it after reviewing all the Fallout games before it though, it gave me a lot more perspective on the series.
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Random thought: Please make a shirt with yourself dressed as the protagonist from Fallout 4, shaking your fist at Shaun in The Institute, while striking your iconic damn you sun pose and shouting "Damn you Son!"
This is golden
Brilliant
😂😂😂😂yess!
Yes
Yess dude
Funnily enough, Benny apparently shoots you in the face twice.
So he double tapped you in the brain and you just show up in his casino like a month later.
No wonder he panics the moment he sees you breathing.
I never draw my New Vegas character as a well put together _sane_ person
Because no sane normal person would survive a double tap to the god damn cranium
Anyways. RIP Benny and his heart
What in the goddamn?
@@elvingearmasterirma7241 >Because no sane normal person would survive a double tap to the god damn cranium
Actually. They could and actually HAVE.
The funny thing is: Between the Eyes is the single worst place you could ever shoot someone, considering it's THE thickest part of your skull. It's not like the side or back which is (relatively) thin, or the Orbits.
Imagine that happening and thinking about all the other people he shot who could be alive
@@floofyduccgang53 "I shoot myself with that caliber every day to build an immunity to them, Benny."
Just a bit of an fyi:
You can visit Goodsprings, Arizona. It looks nearly the same as in game, and once a year they hold a New-Vegas day where everyone dresses up as New Vegas characters.
Nevada
@@sunsetsarsparilla tato, tato, same thing.
November 16 & 17 this year I think. I'm planning to go.
@@DepthWave I would go but it's far too hot out there for me even in mid December - mid January.
Really? That sounds amazing id love to go to that, do you happen to know what date the event is?
Just realized the guy who won the lottery in Nipton is the same voice actor who plays Spiderman in the newer games. I’ll never be able to unhear that
Sasuke Uchiha?
Makoto yuki?
He's also the voice of just about every other character in Fallout New vegas. the Male PC, Ringo, Random characters, elder McNamara and more.
OH SHIT HAHAHA
Yuri Lowenthal voiced like half the game lol
26:59
No joke, my single favorite mod for New Vegas is just one that boosts the volume on Benny's first line of dialogue upon seeing you because it must be the single most appropriate demonstration of a character's mounting confusion, anger and horror.
"WHAT IN THE GODDAMN-"
Went to go look this up and jumpscared myself and through the stereo too 😭, ty for the laugh
Right after is quite the meme able situation since you can insert whatever hilarious quote from media as your Courier's next words to Benny. For my Unarmed Courier it would be an Iron Sheik quote "I put you in the Camel Clutch,I suplex you, Break your Back, and make you humble!" lols
@@scantrontheimmortal "I lived, bitch!"
The DLCs deserve their own video.
They’re all so seamlessly integrated with the main game and each other that it’s almost like the game is incomplete without them.
plus they're jsut....really really good (except honest hearts, that one's really skippable due to its weak story and characters and its length menaing it doesn't get enough time to make a good impression, though the sidequest involving fighting a demon bear while high is really fun)
@@sarafontanini7051The only good thing about honest hearts is Joshua Graham
@@pascalausensi9592 I think it does a really good job at world building, and it really gives us a better glimpse into how the more isolated parts of the country and returned humans to a more tribal nature- the breathe of the history and culture before someone like the Legion comes along and destroys it.
@@sarafontanini7051honest hearts has my favorite weapons, and the side story about the guy who helped the tribals was incredible. I cried a little when I pieced it all together.
And they have THE WORST "dialogues" in any game ever. Crowning achievement of the New Vegas writing.
You can be a spy. You just can't be a spy with Boone. Boone is essentially a broken man.
He no longer has the emotional capacity for such games. And he tells you that upfront. When you're going to the legion camp to meet with Caesar he tells you. If you want to go in guns blazing, bring him. If you want a more subtle approach, don't. He would rather die guns blazing than to pretend to be friends with the people that made him choose to kill his wife and unborn child.
Other companions such as Arcade Gannon are a little more malleable on this.
The factions are also fairly malleable. They'll tell you when you're clearly crossing a line and will be making an enemy out of them.
All in all, everyone has boundaries. And being a spy is within the confines of the game world. Though the information you'd get as a spy isn't that amazing.
Yeah, except the point where you can get close enough to Caesar to botch his surgery and kill him, the spy-iest spy thing you dreamed of in spy school, is past the point of no return for all the factions.
Fun fact about Vulpes' VA Jason Spisak, is hes also the voice of Silco from Arcane. Which I believe to be one of the best performances of all time.
It makes sense, both have this dead voice that makes you shiver
I have no idea how I didn't make this connection! I was so impressed by Silco as a character, and I thought Vulpes' voice sounded familiar, but I didn't bother to check (which I usually do)
Jason nailed it as Vulpes, he sounded so eerie, creepy and frankly nonchalant while describing the massacre of an entire town! He left such an impression on me that I honestly wanted to see and hear more about Vulpes, he's an interesting character. He seemed like the most fanatical and terrifying member of the Legion.
Is there anything as undoing as a daughter?
@@ruthlessxo99And yet you can kill him and his goons in a few minutes
It never ceases to amaze me how a game made in 18 months that was released in 2010 can be so good that it still bears discussion well over a decade later without losing any relevance. Well done on this one, I know I wasn't the only one looking forward to it.
Are you still talking about New vegas? Cause it was not made in 2010
@@SifGreyfang What are you on about? It was released in 2010
@@SifGreyfang released October 19th, 2010
@@SifGreyfang hows it feel to be that wrong? lmao
This is because 2010 was before the video game industry started having a secondary crash identical to the one in 1983 with the exception that it's become too bloated and spread out to fully collapse.
Back then, people were not disciplined to accept mediocrity and failure as the second coming of christ.
The only Fallout game whose tutorial is skippable is of course the only Fallout game with a tutorial I like to play.
Meanwhile the one that needs it the least is the longest and most interminable.
What’s that?
it is bizarre that Sunny decides not to do what she said she would if you do skip it, really breaks my immersion.
Fallout 1 *technically* has a skippable tutorial due to the fact it doesn’t really have a tutorial at all.
@@SadnessCentralF1 has the best tutorial in that its hidden. Sort of like the original Super Mario Bros didnt have a tutorial
My favorite thing about New Vegas's world building is the writers' attention to actual historical detail. Little things like Caesar being pronounced kai-zar by his followers because in ancient latin ae always sounds like "I" and then everyone else pronounces it see-zer like we do in English now. You can hear on the radio Mr. New Vegas talk about how Lanius "ordered a tenth of his own force be killed by the other nine tenths." This was an actual practice in Ancient Rome and is where the term "Decimation" comes from and why it starts with the prefix deci- for 10 even though we use it now to mean destroy completely. Or even how at the end of Mr. House's route he mentions wanting "to get the monorail to run on time" as a reference to the common fascist dog whistle "at least he got the trains to run on time*." There are a million other details I could gush about, but it really is the small things like that which show how much the writers cared about making the world feel real and fleshed out.
*In case anyone is unaware this was a common (and historically inaccurate) defense of Mussolini's fascist regime
I think the line after house's monorail line should also be noted, about the imprecision bothering him, as that relates to his obsession with being as meticulous and planned out as possible
@@thatonebritishidiot3037 yeah, tho I think more specifically it is being meticulous and planned about the things that directly benefit him and the flow of caps into New Vegas. He knows the monorail can help drive business to Vegas. It bothered him that it was not doing that as effectively as possible, so of course it will be one of the first things fixed, even in the wake of a huge battle that has probably created a million other issues that would be more humane to address than the freaking monorail, yet that is what he is focused on. We hear some Followers talk about how if Mr House would just share some of his medical data, not even any of his physical property, they could improve medical practices all across the Mojave and beyond. Does that lack of quality bother him like the monorail's tho? Nope, of course not because those people who'd need medical attention were never anything more than maybe customers to him. He's got the classic billionaire god complex where he thinks he and his city should be the center of things so that the benefits can trickle down to the rest of humanity because only he can truly know how to best use those resources. Anyway yeah TLDR IMO House only cares about being meticulous when he gets to directly benefit, otherwise he is happy ignoring the problems of others
@LivelyParadox well, of course, he cares about Vegas, and that's it, makes sense. Another small detail I like is the altered dialogue if you go to Nipton after meeting caesar
@@thatonebritishidiot3037 I mean it may seem obvious, but the way House is often talked about by his supporters irl the "and that's it" portion of your statement seems to be missed on many people.
Also yeah I appreciate that the dialogue from important NPCs can changed based on pretty much any order of doing quests/events in the Mojave.
I always though "the trains running on time" was more like, "yeah, where starving, I haven't seen my son in 4 months, and our town is being bombed daily, but at least the trains run on time."
I once watched a streamer play New Vegas for the first time. He killed Benny and said "okay I'm done, I got the guy who shot me. Why should I care about whatever war is going on?" Like, _did you not play the game?!?_
Wdym that is the game
Wait, what ? X ) The main objective was about delivering the chip and/or deciding what to do with the information gathered around it. I mean, the Courier also lives in this world, why shouldn't he care about the conflict ? Wasn't he role playing at least a tiny bit ? That stream must have been so frustrating...
@@TheSliderW it's a joke ya goober. If you want me to be serious. It actually doesn't matter and getting frustrated over a streamer like that is plain silly. Those things only matter if you're roleplaying the courier, in NV the courier is no more as they forgot literally everything but their survival skills. So realistically you probably wouldn't give a damn past getting revenge. It does make total sense to stop at Benny if that's how the person does it.
Don't take the first comment so seriously, it was a non serious exaggeration of truth
he traveled back in time to 2010 at release
@@unlostmaniac8735😂 ironyyy~
Benny really was a good villain, shame that his voice actor passed this year. He was such a huge fan of the Fallout series as well.
MrHouse's voice actor died years ago
@@sublimeade I didn't say Mr House. I said Benny. The guy from the beginning.
@@sublimeade Mr House wasnt really a villain
@@YokomichiSilver i agree. You showed no emotion for the death of Mr House. Who is actually more in the beginning than Benny, since he sent the Courier to bring the Platinum Chip
@@nickbilske8140 neither was Ceaser, or Benny for that matter
29:52 This is why you actually make the Old World Blues' The Sink location into your homebase. Teleportation device to get there from anywhere in the main map, only 1 singular load screen, access to a vendor, water, plants, crafting benches, autodoc and more.
This is what you do if you want to make the game abundantly easy and boring (playing Old World Blues at all. Abusing the resources offered in the home base afterwards is even worse.)
@@CrAzYpotpie Eh, by the time you're level 25 you're basically God anyway, so I don't see any reason not to. I love Fallout: New Vegas because of its atmosphere, aesthetic, and general insanity. I've never thought of it as a particularly difficult game, even on the highest difficulty (and yes, before you try to go there, even on Hardcore Mode).
@@josephschultz3301And shit it’s just an awesome player home with a dope view and funny personalities. Loading back into the sink after beating the DLC and having all the personalities cheer for you instantly made that place home for all my characters.
@@josephschultz3301 I agree. I just dislike the expansions since they just throw super OP stuff at you for little to no work (and I think they are mostly uninteresting compared to the main story, especially with how linear they are forced to be.) I get using The Sink, I think we all did.
I have only just learned that Old World Blues isn't just the name of the HoI4 mod, but actually also a name of a real dlc. Pretty funny how the the Hearts of Iron 4 mod has more searches than the official DLC to the game it is based on. Though tbf, OWB in HoI4 is amazing.
The game director (Josh Sawyer) held a really great presentation at my university! It gave me even more respect for the game. He seemed like a great guy to work with!
If anyone is getting motivated to play NV for the first time from this video, I'd advise playing on PC if you can and downloading the Viva New Vegas modpack. Makes the game significantly more stable, adds quite a bit of quality of life features and is simple to install since it leads you through the install step by step. Very useful if this is your first time modding a game. It even has an extra modpack called the Mojave Express Guide that focuses on stable mods that add more content and visual improvements. Both are super worthwhile to check out.
I'm going to try and play this game for about the fifth time based on this review and I will absolutely take your advice, thankyou
Honestly I've had the smoothest run of the game on my Xbox 1 S. Yeah the game will crash if you play it for too long, usually after like 4 hours of nonstop play. But I had a really smooth experience otherwise.
Something something Nuclear Winter
We won't go quietly, thr legion can count on that.
When I got this assignment, I was hoping there would be more gambling
Makes you wish for something something
Something Something on a cross
Something something ransom
This may sound a bit nitpicky but at one point you say that putting points in survival is not a good idea but if you get 55 survival and are level 20, you gain access to the “Them’s good eatin’” perk which basically provides an infinite amount of two of the best health items in the game, thin red paste and blood sausage. Thin red paste can be crafted into thick red paste with a couple more ingredients and these three items make it almost impossible to die even in hardcore mode. Just wanted to add this bit of info for anyone who didn’t know about it.
Started a new playthrough on hardcore and that’s the exact perk I’m shooting for, even the crafting recipes are worth it!
And if you’re feeling a little evil, if you go for the cannibal park too you’ll always have food. Survival can be broken especially for all you low INT builds.
@@junjiito337 other perks I recommend if you like energy weapons are vigilant recycler where you can recycle ammo efficiently and craft the best energy ammo in the game. Along with meltdown. Basically lets you one shot most creature and hoardes of enemies can chain plasma explode each other! Perks in fnv gotta be some of the best in the series for sure
@@junjiito337 also yeah I really love the later game crafting recipes though I found I had very little storage space when actively trying to craft
Everything that seems "useless" in the base game actually make sense and was integrated for hardcore.
The game makes the mistake of recommending NOT to use hardcore, but it's the only thing that actually makes the game involved plus mid game and DLC actually challenging.
Hardcore dead money is an actual hard core experience.
This’ll probably get lost but gotta say it. That is probably the best produced UA-cam video I’ve ever seen. Bravo to you sir.
To me, the best part about Yes Man wasn't the role-play as an independent-minded Courier or the wide-open choice in handling lategame quests or even the chance to stick it to the game's three main factions.
It was Dave Foley playing every scene like a Kids in the Hall sketch.
Yet another reason why the Goodsprings opening is awesome is that the whole quest - walking into a conflict between two factions with one about to invade the other, learning about each side and the context of the conflict, choosing a side, and gathering allies in preparation for the ultimate battle - is the _entire main quest_ in microcosm! Not only does it serve as an effective tutorial for the faction reputation system and the way your skills impact dialogue options, but it's a preview of how the entire rest of the game is structured. That's some really clever design, there!
Also, shoutout to New Vegas's awesome companion characters. Not only do they have strong personalities and incredible voice-acting, but since their personal quests unfold _while_ they travel with you, it really feels like you're traveling the Mojave with a friend and getting to know them along the way, rather than them just being a pack mule who shoots stuff for you.
Your point about the Companion quests is another reason I love Fallout 4, as it does that but they grow to trust you as they gain more affinity for you
R.I.P. Matthew Perry, one of the most iconic fallout antagonist, even if it's only for the first half
2 things
1: Cat is floofy must pet
2: she seems to kidnap you a lot
Benny: i guess no one told you life was gonna be this way.
**Bang bang bang bang**
Just want to say a hardy Rest in Peace for Mathew Parry (chandelier from friends)
His passing really didn’t get as much media coverage as I’d hoped and this game really wouldn’t be the same if he hadn’t portrayed Benny.
Chandler*
Woosh
@@landotucker I was referencing the jokes made a video I know I spelled it wrong
reminds me of roboto girlieman
@@landotucker Yeah, that's what he said Tucker. Duh.
I’m glad Upisnotjump, despite his clear love for the game, didn’t shy away from mentioning the… uh… multitude of flaws it has in terms of stuff outside the story.
Its the only way you can call yourself a true New Vegas fan
Because its something you have to accept and tackle as you play. please vegas stop crashing stop crashing STOP CRASHING
@@elvingearmasterirma7241at this point you can make it stop crashing basically completely with a couple of mods. Aka: StewieAI’s Tweaks and it’s dependencies.
My main issue with New Vegas, was and probably always will be the railroading at the start (and a creeping suspicion it was designed with vehicles or mounts in mind they didnt have time to implement), when you decide to head to Vegas you look at the map, check the shortest route turn left on the road out of Goodsprings and get immediately mugged by a huge group of angry Cazadores which is a pretty much gaurnteed reload, if you some how manage to survive them its Quarry Junctions Death Claws, either way its death and save reload.
Pretty much everyone has this experince at the start first time round because for the story to unfold properly you need to turn right and the game strong arms you into this, which is fine as a design choice, but the method isn't exactly subtle and leads almost every player to a frustrating death and reload early on their first playthrough.
@@cicero_21 The more I mod it, the less it crashes for me.
Usually it’s the opposite, but FNV is probably my most stable running modded game with a shit ton of loose files and archives. I have spent more time modding than playing these fcking games, going over every .ini setting, merging, cleaning ESPs, doing my own retextures and ports…
But can get a solid playthrough without a CTD to give me the most hours ever put into these games. I could never with 3 and 4.
I think it goes to show the quality and care from the community when it comes to the mods for that game. So much that still gets uploaded and updated with content new finds to fix something. Definitely worth getting the baseline mods just for stability and QoL alone to make it much less frustrating. I know there are vanilla purists that honestly think they’re taking away from the intended experience just from using something like NVSE or community bug fixes, but to hell with that bullshit. There is no reason to be loading up a vanilla FNV play through on PC in 2023 given what’s out there that benefits that experience greatly.
@@CrunchborgVery tsundere
What I like about the game is how it makes you feel like a post-apocalyptic cowboy (which I personally adore)
I like how in goodsprings, after the tutorial quest, when you meet trudy and joe cobb you can actually choose to side with the powder gangers
I also like how even though its the same as in fallout 3 with megaton's explosion, there is some benefits to siding with the powder gangers. That being the ability to go the the prison and get their quest and a more peaceful walk towards the south until you get to the outpost
Unlike fallout 3 where nuking megaton is just not all that rewarding compared to what you lose upon choosing the nuclear option
My favorite part of the later stages of New Vegas is how no matter which faction you start doing quests for, it makes sure to put a bad side of that faction at the forefront, posing the question of if it's really the horse you want to back.
-The main appeal of the NCR tends to be wanting to not see the Mohave be led with the brutality and oppression of the Legion. Having seen the Legion slaughter towns makes the NCR choice feel like a given, if just to avoid such violence. However, once you get deeply involved, The NCR quests all feel impersonal, coming down from a chain of command that sees very little nuance in how to handle their enemies. Nearly all they tell you to do is kill: They want you to dispatch the Khans, Mr. House, and the Brotherhood of Steel, and are recalcitrant to try to ally with them instead even if you insist. It's frustrating to see their leadership be so close-minded, and it makes you question their ability.
-As said in the video, part of the Legion's appeal is how they take a strict stance on trying to curb decadence and not retrace the mistakes of the past. However, to fulfill Caesar's ambitions you see the White Hand Society returned to cannibalism, and Caesar seems to not care in the slightest about this development so long as they are useful to him. The truly damning event that occurs in this chain of quests, of course, is when Caesar becomes bedridden due to a brain tumor. It is something that could be cured with ease using technology, or even just through having anyone learned around him, and despite this there is not a single soul in the fort who could help. It highlights the negative side of the Legion's no-tolerance policy on tech as well as showing the effects of their anti-intellectualism. I always felt that the reason why the option to intentionally kill Caesar during that sequence is because it would be at this point when many players were the most uncertain about siding with the Legion.
-For Mr. House, his veneer of rationality is dropped not only when you refuse to give him the chip, as you showed, but also if you wish to deal with the Brotherhood of Steel peacefully. A proper alliance with them is impossible, and he berates you for even suggesting such a thing. He initially seems like an option that may let you not pick a side between the Legion and NCR and work towards something better, but in the end all his route offers is the wholesale slaughter of both sides.
I feel like the story actively tries to show you that no faction is without flaw, and emphasizes this when you choose a side to help rather than letting it be ignored.
Gawd damn that is an awesome way to look at that. Props to you :)
And then, there is you, slaughtering anyone who don't behave.
Seems harsh? It's not. People understand 2 things: when you take their money, and when you torture them.
Why that? Most of the time they don't listen tonother people. They don't care. And they don't care about you, why you should Care about them? And at that Time they realise it's too late. Your fury is already unleashed.
that's why i always leaned towards the yes man route, almost all the small factions in the game seem to be doing fine governing themselves, so lets just let them govern themselves
No, it didn't. House's ending is legit a better ending for the NCR than an NCR ending 😂
How about the literal slavery and female subjugation for the Legion's negatives? Lol
As a kid, Fallout 3 was one of my favourite games of all time and when New Vegas came out, I remember being put off by its different approach to a Fallout story as well as the bugs and glitches that plagued the game on launch; but there was something about it that kept me coming back. When I got to Nipton and saw the Legion for the first time, that's when everything started to come together for me, and the game just clicked. I remember being kinda shocked that I could meet this villainous, evil character like Vulpes and just put a bullet in his head immediately instead of him going unconscious because he's a major antagonist that's too important to die. I went away from that encounter thinking 'well, that was kind of an anticlimax' - then all of a sudden I had Legion Assassins hunting my ass down to the ends of the Earth, and I realised just what kind of game this was. It was the kind of game where you truly shape the story, with no arbitrary limitations, no plot armour for any characters, tangible consequences for your actions that make sense, and I immediately fell in love with it.
Imagine a Fallout 3 where you could just blow your Dad's head off with a Combat Shotgun and have the story adapt to it instead of saying 'hey, buddy, uh... no!" and reviving him. New Vegas is that kind of game. I haven't put it down since. Truly the GOAT of RPG video games.
well said!
If you say so
@@TheScrubmuffin69 "if you say so"
Any counterpoints? :V
I love that Goodsprings was down to earth, gives you reasonable challenges to approach as a wasteland noob and also very realistic in terms of what a tiny village might look like 200 years after an apocalypse. Of course they'd be either building their own nice buildings to live in or very successfully renovating old run down ones and have a way to get food, communicate somewhat with other settlements and kind of defend themselves. Everything that I needed to believe Goodsprings was a real place was put front and center.
I love how Luna's voice reminds me of Eartha Kitt.
The writing is so good in game that when the game crashes, it's like re-reading a chapter of your favorite book. Except you control the book you are reading.
Never thought of that. Makes sense. Well done. 👍
if this ends up being an 18 min long video ima cry
Too short?? It's over 30 minutes
@@UpIsNotJump*3 hours*
@@UpIsNotJumpI agree with the other guy. It should be 6 hours.
@@randommemebean686Yes, yes... 12 hours does sound good. Totally agree you folks.
Guys, guys, guys. You won't be done watching this until Christmas
"I survived because the fire inside burned brighter than the fire around me. I fell down into that dark chasm, but the flame burned on and on."
my favorite quote
Joshua is the best written Character
“It even warms my icy heart with a cool island song”
Free hat free hat!!
Each of the DLCs would also pass as one of the best games in the genre when looked at in isolation.
Not so sure about Dead Money
@@durandolhonest hearts is the weakest one
@@durandolas is, probably not. Polished and expanded a bit it be a nice fallout stealth game
@@jakesimprich9155 no, dead money is the weakest one
Dead Money is by far the weakest one. It's cool your first time playing it I guess but it's just so restrictive and linear and painfully boring. I honestly think all of the dlc is the weakest part of the game. I rarely replay them.
I’m not sure if this has already been mentioned in the comments, but the attention to detail of the geography of the Mojave was amazing and really sucked me in. I was living in the Mojave when I first played the game, and when I can across Primm I was shocked. This is a real town outside of Las Vegas that has hotels with roller coasters! It is certainly not a 1-1 translation of Primm, but the fact that it was there is amazing. Add to the prison, small airport, and a small dune sea that are all approximately in the real life locations and I was a completely immersed player. It’s still one of the best games I’ve ever played.
Shout out to what happened when you meet Mr. House too. I won’t spoil it in case any are inspired to check this game out for the first time but wow. Just wow.
Dude that's awesome.. I've played this game so many times and had no idea primm was a real town lol. And I agree, one of the best I've ever played 👍
@@homesickNovalisgoodsprings is a real town too
@thecornfieldiii2069 I guess I never drove that direction, it was always toward Primm! 😀
I remember hearing the developers say that if the colorado was scaled to the rest of vegas, it would've only been 3 feet wide, and that they had gone to the mojave to learn the area.
This is the exact reason I enjoy Fallout 4 more than I probably should. Real towns in their correct geographical locations as well as a ton of local attractions that most people outside of the area will just assume are made up video game places.
The thing I loved about New Vegas was the many, MANY references to the first two games, Fallout and Fallout 2, because it was all on the west coast. And the reason we barely got references to Fallout 3 was because the events of that game were only 4 or 5 years before New Vegas and that it happened on the opposite side of America.
And it makes plenty of sense when you realise that Ike's IHS possibly never even happened in the Fallout universe (it wasn't finished until the 90s and the divergence is early 60s) so you were looking at months (69 days for the Army Engineers to get across the country during a survey which Eisenhower was involved in said crossing) to cross the USA BEFORE it got nuked.
We take a lot of things for granted today, but none moreso than how the major highway projects globally came with improved communication connections and logistics.
Tremedous review and analysis. Thank you.
The gags are fantastic and I really appreciate the amount of effort you put in.
Trivia: funny you showed a quick clip of The Wire which the actor that voiced Caesar, John Doman, starred in.
I remember the first time I found the dude running away, saying he won the lottery. I was greedy, so I killed him, took his ticket, and then found the town. When I realized what the lottery actually was, my jaw dropped, and I felt horrible
No need to feel horrible. That person just watched their whole community getting killed in gravely ways and is celebrating. Guy was a psychopath.
@@SarahAndreaRoycesChannel I'd be pretty stoked if I was the only guy who survived something like that intact, I dunno about you
One of the greatest moments in all of fiction coms out of this game. The simple interaction where if you kill President Kimball and report back to House, he asks why you did it. You can tell him "He tried to make me pay taxes." and House's response is "Understandable."
This is the most "Irish Texan" thing you couldve possibly commented about this 😂
@@codeine69 I guess it kinda is! Wasn't even thinking about being 'in character' to my namesake, just honest feelings! That moment in NV will stay in my mind until the day I die, I imagine.
As funny as it is, it unfortunately is edited :(
Yeah that's not in the base game at all
Too bad he didn't talk about how your stats actually matter, not just your skills. Give yourself an intelligence of 1 because you got shot in the brain and want to roleplay? All your dialogue options are... Simplified. Like when a guy asks you if you're a soldier or a scientist, and your options are "Me shoulder", "I is scientistic", or "Me pet animals". And you can still complete the entire game like this. Brilliant. 10/10
I would genuinely love/adore a longer indepth video essay from yourself regarding more of the sidequests, minor factions, environments, etc. I fully appreciate the time, dedication, research and set dressing you do for your videos; even something that doesn't involve that so it's easier to produce? Shot in the dark but your genuine love for this game *IS* clear. It'd be amazing to see it spilled out in other areas!
the dlc isn't bad either. I love how one of the endings to one of the dlc is you just end up trapped in a box for eternity and in another ending you can choose not to keep your brain. You can just leave it floating in a jar and carry on with no real penalty...granted most people don't really use their brains anyway but still you'd think that it would be at least a little necessary...your brain also has it's own personality and hates your guts for some reason...a lot of reasons actually, which it is happy to explain because ofcourse you can have a conversation with your removed brain.
Truly some of the most deranged and enjoyable dlc of all time. I love the atmosphere and feeling of Dead Money
@@timwalton3443 Dead Money was so good. I'll never forget the first time I played it, it really evoked some classic survival/horror vibes.
@@timwalton3443 Man that was creepy the first time i played through it.
It's an eery setting for sure. The dudes that dont die unless you remove their heads are just straight up creepy. The thing that I love most is the overall mood of it. It's...bitter-sweet? Lonely? I dunno. It's kind of hard to put into words. Father Elijah is only their for the money and is blinded by greed, even though there is true beauty in the place, and it's the feeling of sadness in a story that never got to be told (the bombs going off before the opening gala). I probably read too much into it, but I will always love that dlc for those reasons
@@timwalton3443Oh yeah, the whole lore behind the place with Vera Keys and Sinclaire was just heartbreaking. Dean was such a POS and I wanted to hate him, but he was just so charismatic.
May the algorithm bless this video.
The production value on these are always phenomenal.
oh great, the algorithm started a religion and now has people praying for blessings!
this was meant as joke; just so my intentions are clear lol
It introduced me to this great channel so its doing fairly well so far
Likes for the likes god! Comments for the comments throne!
Perks, weapons, Lore, locations, vaults (like 34), companions, quests, DLC (dead money my favorite). This game for the time it took to make is amazing, playing on hardcore is another level, even JSwayer mod is insane! Thanks for making this video!! So much fun!! Greetings from Mexico.
I'm 130 hours into the game and I have not even entered the strip
Before you realize it you'll be 400 hours in and still haven't met Mr house😂
Nothing special there pal
I love that Caesar's real name is Edward Sallow. When I first learned that through the Honest Hearts DLC, I said, out loud, "I've been working for Mr. Ed?!"
My video froze right as you were saying the intro conveyed what new vegas was like. 10/10 no notes.
If New Vegas is this good, just wonder what would've been if it was actually finished, or even better, imagine what Van Buren would've been like if it was allowed to exist in the first place, just take a look to Van Buren's design documents and you will see that while New Vegas is good, there was so much more potential behind an actual Fallout 3 made by the people who made the first games instead of the Skyrim with guns fanfic slop that Bethesda produces.
It's really not fair how every UpIsNotJump video can be long, but somehow the longer the video length is the faster it seems to go. From the excellent production values, to the snappy, well-timed, editing of cuts, and punchlines, is seems that not only does time fly when you are having fun, but the perception of time is inversely correlated to the amount of fun one has. What I mean to say is excellent work Matt. If your show never gets any better than this then at least you've already become great.
seriously. after watching it I clicked out and thought "great video, but too bad it was only 10 or 12 minutes" 😂
"What's in the BOX!" I still can't believe the amount of stuff that he released. The disco Elysium review was a turning point for this UA-cam channel and I am desperate to see what he has made next.
omg that's so nice of you!
@@UpIsNotJump Never thought I would get noticed by the Jump himself, sweet.
Yup, my first time in The Glow, didn't properly register that message; fully explored the place, then left only to keel over two squares away. Learning experience!
I think one of my favourite parts about New Vegas is how your perspective always changes on your first playthrough. For example, i thought nothing of the Powder Gangers, I helped Goodsprings, but I didn't care about them in anyway. I walked on one of the roads, saw a couple of them in the distance, as I approached closer, I saw a dead naked young woman and Powder Gangers surrounding her. Then I swore to kill them all. Many seemed shocked when they came into Nipton and saw what the Legion did and was horrified, I wasn't. I knew they deserved it.
One of the best parts of the game is that it's an actual role-playing game. You have so many options and the fact that the world reacts organically to almost all of them is absolutely insane! And each and every one is excellently written! I can't imagine the amount of work, code, writing, and voice acting it took to pull all of this together and it was done in 18 MONTHS! Screw the one reviewer who botched the metacritic score by 1 point and ruined the bonuses of everyone who worked there and subsequently caused the studio to shut down.
12 years. A lot of new vegas was ripped from Van Buren.
And that bonus wouldnt have saved the studio, their problems was a lot larger than that. Stop believing 12 year old fanboy lies, even Sawyer himself has said the bonus was just icing on the cake.
(Why are you both talking like Obsidian closed down ?? That was Black Isle/Interplay, long before NV)
Agree it was impressive what Obsidian achieved, I wish they had been given (or requested) another 6 months. Commercially it was a modest success. Did not beat F3’s sales but would have cost much less to make
The roalplaying aspect is pretty shallow. Yes, you get an option to do or say something, but it is almost always a short term change. Most of them are boring skill or perk checks that allow you to bypass a section of a mission, get a reward, new line of dialogue, etc. There are only a handful of options that actually do something interesting, like the Hard Luck Blues mission, where you can choose to kill or save the trapped vault dwellers. But even that is still pretty boring. If you save the vault dwellers, you can find them and collect some vault trinkets every few days. Save the crops, and you get a cool ending slide, great.
Obsidian is still kicking. They did work on The Outer Worlds, and are still working on the sequel game, but they are at a hugely reduced state then they could potentially be at if they had gotten those bonuses back in 2010
@@captainsinclair7954 I doubt it.
Thank you so much everyone! :D
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Edit: Rest In Peace Matthew Perry
I mostly finished this video before his passing. When writing the video I found I had accidentally mentioned Chandler so much I made it a running joke. I thought removing this would be a shame as I felt it wasn't distasteful to him.
Much love to all of you.
Have you ever heard of the S.t.a.l.k.e.r. games there a little bit like Fallout and I find them fun.
There is a fully naked chick 27:45 in your Baldur's Gate part. Not that I care but I love your channel and this will probably be the biggest video of the year for you and would hate for it to be demonetized. Not sure how you didn't catch that lol.
@@kupokinzyt Already commented the same thing and swiftly messaged on Twitter but no responses yet, Hope he sees it before YT gets mad.
He has blurred it somehow, it's good. I have no idea how you can even edit a video that fast but the power of big UA-cam creators ^.^ Good job Jump, loved the video!@@CataclysmicArmageddon
@kupokinzyt Wait you can do that? Well daaaamn, Surprised YT processed it that fast, Impressive.
I love how Luna’s voice have Yzma vibes
What I absolutely love about the start of the game is the tutorial is optional. If you've just picked it up for the first time you can ask Sunny Smiles to show you the ropes, but if you're more familiar with the layout of the strip than you are with the layout of your own home then you can just peace on out of there. You decide how much time you want to spend learning the game.
"I went over to my friends house" *shows dilapidated shack* well someone got the NICE university accommodation I see
23:52 I so badly need this but with black pomade hair and ai to synch the lips and extrapolate for his mode calmer moments and play it during his dialogue
Going through the Cazador area is the best way for a speed run w/o glitches. I went through there, got to the lucky 38, killed mr house, killed Benny with the black widow perk, met yes man, and took over the dam within 5 hrs
THIS !!!! It’s the perfect formula for you comedie🎉🎉🎉🎉 these amazing transitions to your different scene, luna/yzma as a diabolical side character, your witty commentary. “Perfection” 💜✨
I absolutely love this game, it's my all-time favorite.
I will always remember my first ever ending. I chose House thinking he would've been the best choice. I thought to myself that I would get the best possible ending, only to get hit by the end credits like a truck. Despite my "good" intentions and choices, my actions also had negative consequences for some people, that I didn't even thought about at this moment.
The best part about NV for me is how amazingly well thought-out and integrated the DLCs were. In FO3, all the DLCs were just small self contained adventures that have some interesting ideas but NV uses DLC to expand on the stories of the Mojave. Like Honest Hearts with Joshua and vault 22, Dead money and the brotherhood and lonesome road makes you realise (in an interesting and meta way) why YOU are the main character - 10/10, Todd can only dream of making an even comparable Fallout game
That's insane how different perspectives on writing can be xdd
In my memory Ulysses is one of the most insufferably edgy characters I've ever seen. The guy managed to turn the word "courier" into some grand philosophical concept and babble about it for an hour lmao
What i like about this game that few talk about is that Bennys plan altogether seems really smart and would probably work out in the end for him, if not for the courier.
I really want to see more elaborated vr games to be made. Not to play them, but for UpIsNotJump to make a is a nightmare video. What a blast
I think the biggest problem New Vegas has is that, because it had a relatively linear gameplay for an open world sandbox, there were some areas of the map that were basically useless except to just explore for your own curiosity. I've done numerous playthroughs but found areas like the entire south east and north west pretty pointless to adventure into if it was for one of the few quests that has you visit those areas.
I think because they worked so hard on the primary narrative, they couldn't write out enough smaller sub-plots to utilize their space.
This is kinda the interesting thing about F3 and FNV, they're opposites in that aspect where F3 side content is generally better(probably because the lead story writer isn't making them), but FNV has a great main narrative but because of the rushed development its kinda rigid as a result.
@Spiffyo the side content in new vegas is 100x better than any of the side content in 3.
@@marciamakesmusic Eh, side quests can be argued as better, but the setpieces themselves vary as things like Vault 22 are great, while the field of Ghoul Reapers and that one farm south of the entrance to the Honest Hearts DLC is very dismal, and even the Viper and Jackal gangs are just hastily added. FNV has a great mainline quest comparatively, but F3 has more consistently good side content to explore and enjoy.
You need to go to the south east to get to cottonwood cove but you're not wrong
That has nothing to do with “linear gameplay” whatever that means. A tons of areas just straight up weren’t finished. Jacobstown was supposed to be a lot more involved than it ended up being. That’s the problem with being given 18 months to work on someone else’s shit engine. New Vegas with 4 years of development would have been a sight to see.
I made the "mistake" of having my first playthrough of New Vegas be a fully modded one which used the Warhammer 40K conversion mod. When I got to Nipton the mod made Vulpes and his soldiers Chaos Space Marines. Combined with the atmosphere and voice acting... I regret nothing! That playthrough is still a highlight of my gaming experience.
What kind of psychopath mods their very first playthrough?
@@SorowFame The Nexus Mods is a pathway to many playthroughs some would consider to be _unnatural_ .
But yeah, I'd say 60% of my fun in gaming over the years has come through mods, so I've never hesitated to mod the crap out of something I haven't beaten yet. Though sometimes its out of necessity, like the no screen dimming when crouching mod for Cyberpunk.
the cat sounds like the woman from the emperors new groove
On my first play through in my early 20s I lost my shit when I first herd Odo"s voice as Mr House.
I didn't know anyone at the time who watched star trek and played Fallout NV so I loved that you mentioned it.
Great video!
I feel like this needs a part 2 where you talk about the boomers, the DLCs, Jacobstown, wild wasteland, the history of vault 21, legate lanius, the followers, the companions, etc
Your explanation of the beginning is what I was immediately impressed with when I started this game. It was different than any other that I had played and it kept me actually engaged with the dialogue. It's my first fallout game and by far my favorite experience with games of it's type.
"a piece of my original vive" /clip of a broken plastic pieces/
When I tell you I spit out my drink all over my kitchen counter absjdgakhslahsks
Well we were expecting this yet it still feels like a kick in the head
I'm so excited to watch this, of the 5 fallout games I've played New Vegas is my favorite! Soon as I don't have responsibilities I'm here! Also I was randomly gifted a subscription to the channel, so thank you friend who has done this!
luna is just yzma when she got turned into a cat
Obsidian really did do a great job with this game. And while that is not surprising considering the folks that made the game already their hearts in the material, what did surprise me is how much depth and great game play they had put into a free-to-play tank game years later. Armored Warfare had me hooked the entire time Obsidian were the creatives behind the game. As soon as they were removed from the game, it just turned into a World of Tanks clone with more modern vehicles. When Obsidian is allowed to do their thing, they can make some amazing things.
Luna sounds a lot like Izma from New Emperor's Groove and I love it.
Having to skip out on all of freeside must have been hard. The way they let you get so close to Benny just to put up one final, literal barrier of having to find a way into the strip hoowee.
Good content, guy
Personal favorite character analysis is Lanius. All throughout the game we hear tales about Lanius and his savage brutality, and we are witness to it once we face off against him, but if you’re charismatic enough to “fight with words” as he put it, we see he is more than that. He is practical, strategic, cunning and overall a good leader when it comes to war as opposed to Oliver who’s too prideful to admit when he’s defeated. He also is one of the only characters in the game to acknowledge how far you’ve come with one of the most bone chilling lines in the game: “Violence gave you that strength, awakened you. I can see it upon your face *_WHERE TWO BULLETS LEFT THEIR MARK_* “
I never tire of watching Up is Not Jump. Whether he's criticizing a game I love, praising a game I hate, or going on about things I've never experienced, both his humor and his actual points are punchy and eloquent. Keep up the good work, I always look forward to this incredible series!
I’m so glad you got to review this, it’s such a wonderful game. Have you considered reviewing the DLCs as well? They’re all very amazing experiences. Thank you for doing this video!
randomly stumbled upon this channel not a day ago, binged every single fallout is a nightmare video made so far but i KEPT wondering "where is his video covering New Vegas?!"
only to be rewarded for becoming a subscriber not even half a day later.
the planets aligned
the gods have smiled
new vegas is wild
Massive props for singing Big Iron without the accent, honestly it is so hard to sing that song along with "The Devil went down to Georgia" without doing a knock off southern accent.
"If you want to see the fate of democracies, look out the windows..."
Best writing, best game, best anything ever of all time
A new video from one of my favorite creators on my birthday? What a great gift! Can't wait to watch when it goes live!
Edit: It was in fact a great review! I'm not sure if you plan to review the DLC as well but I sure hope so! Thanks to everyone in the replies as well for the birthday wishes! 🥳
You will have to wait though.
Happy birthday
Happy Birthday!
Day birth happy!
I mean hapy day birth!
I mean happy birthday!
Happy birthday
I love how the open world aspect is extremely similar to Elden Ring, both being set up in the same way with organic barriers and whatnot. Sure you can go basically anywhere, but in certain areas you will get absolutely destroyed if you don't level up first.
Even the physical world space as well, the devs seemed extremely keen that you never (ok, rarely) meet a “You can’t go further in this direction” warning.
its legit a perfect game, if youre willing to spend an hour learning MO2 and installing about 30 utility mods and bug fixes. you will never crash again, your saves wont corrupt, you will load at the speed of light, and wonder if you even saw a loading screen. then since you now have the know how on MO2, then you can add 100+ more mods, while still having a stable game, and basically a whole new game to play.
I love New Vegas, but the lack of budget and especially time really shows in the base game. So many locations look as if they were placeholders with just the bare necessities, waiting for the devs to come back for a second round and fill them out, for example.
edit: Also, Davison is the best NPC in any Fallout game.
This doesn't excuse it, but quite a lot of the "shacks" and "abandoned" farmsteads/houses/caves/planes and so on, are quite handy little resource spots for hardcore, still though, the game would've benefited from some more areas with some more fleshed out story-telling. It's a crying shame it was rushed.
Honestly, the singing bits are the best part of these reviews. Like the Fallout 3 “welcome to the wasteland,” absolute bangers.
That is very nice of you to say
@@UpIsNotJump Oh man I mean it, love the creativity and the songs actually are super enjoyable to listen too. You may not be a professional but you got some chops my guy, those low notes are impressive as hell haha!
@@UpIsNotJump I fucking lost it when you brought out a golf iron and a ironing machine
It was prophesied! The day has come! Let us all bask in the nuclear winter.
This is the first video i ever saw from you.
I have to say amazing production quality, love the intro, the video and i love your kitty.
Please continue doing an amazing job
Jump: *sings Big Iron*
Also Jump: *holds up a golf club called a wood*
This was incredible. I am hoping dearly for a DLC review next!
My best friend and I went to Fallout day in Goodsprings Nevada a few weeks ago, very good timing on this video
The first time hearing Big iron influenced a lot of my music til this point, and the wanderer was another one. 50s bops and early western ballads are something I continue to listen to. Also new Vegas was my first rpg, and I always compare everything to its storytelling and world building, because the graphics and mechanics are really showing their age
Found the CD for "Gunslinger ballads and other trail songs" a while back, swear I has it on repeat for a month
One of my favourite examples of writing in Fallout New Vegas is the fact that there are encounters and lines you will only ever hear when you fulfill very specific requirements; Such as NCR Troopers attempting to politically assassinate you when you have a Wild Child reputation and attempt to pivot to the NCR questline without ever interacting with them first.
When attempting to meet with the ambassador of the NCR (at his invitation) located in the NCR Embassy in The Strip, when approaching the secretary to get directions to Crocker's office for your appointment, she will give you directions to go down an enter the room at the end of a Hallway, it turns out to be an ambush by troopers who wish to bash your brains in for the crimes against the NCR they don't approve of despite higher ranks, or the brass so to speak, have overlooked or forgiven.
I cant leave goodsprings without being idolized.
When I first saw your series, it was about Rick and Marty machinima episodes. Now you take your favorit game, pick it from piece to piece, and present to us the best part of the games in detail. Keep it up :D