Imagine after a decade not using any mods that fixes the problems and adds all the cut content which the game has, it's like stealing the best experience which you will ever have with this game.
@@EpsilonCobra Yeah having to install 21 mods just to get out of Goodsprings without crashing isn't fun either. I mean the mod folder i ended up using was twice as big as the game.
Fun fact about Cazadors: their jittery, erratic movements were the result of a bug. They were originally going to fly around and walk slowly when on the ground. Josh Sawyer saw their animations glitch out, resulting in the twitchy movements, and said "Hey, that's terrifying. Make them move like that intentionally."
@@adamniehaus5835 Josh talked about it on stream one time and everyone in the chat was replying with some flavor of "you're a monster" and he just started laughing. Dude knows exactly how much we hate those things.
JUST 18 MONTHS OF DEVELOPMENT. Just think about that. All these quests weaved together to immerse you with consequences and player impact on the world. Incredible
It really goes to show how amazing that development team was sadly a lot of them are gone now but for a moment they had maybe one of the most talented teams in the history of the industry and they made an all time great game in just 18 months just thinking how it could have been with 3 or more years of development maybe the best game of all time hell even now it’s top 5 for me and top 10 if I remove my fanboy bias lol
I was blown away when I ran into Boxcars for the first time and he called me 'The Reaper of the NCR' and offered to overdose on the spot out of fear. That's a hell of a reputation.
Incidentally, you CAN give Boxcars 15 Med-X as he requested, and he WILL take them. It does not cause him to overdose, though. You just get a giant karma boost for a lot of wasted time.
I am absolutely flabbergasted. I mod the game. I went through the game files a million times over and only with your video i found out about Karl going after you. New Vegas is the gift that keeps on giving.
@@BoofcanI didn't know fantastic said that after you activate archimedes untill you showed me,this coming from someone who has 1347 hours on new vegas btw
17:45 One of my favorite details about New Vegas is that a disproportionate amount of black-armor NCR Rangers are ghouls because their heartiness more often allowed them to survive long enough to reach that rank.
I was born and raised in Las Vegas, and lemme tell you when this came out I was so happy with the little touches they get right. They did an excellent job paying homage to real places and events. The crashed bomber in lake mead? A famous diving spot! The mormon fort? Been there! Quarry Junction? That's where I go shooting targets (thankfully no deathclaws) Even the voice of Mr. New Vegas is one I grew up with hearing. Wayne Newton's face and voice was all over town!
@ZimBeckler if you look at the concept art for the original full scale vegas they wanted to make, it probably would've essentially been 1:1. The artwork is just gorgeous too.
The moment I truly fell in love with this game was when I realized I didn't have to side with any of the factions in the end. This is my desert. My Nevada. My New Vegas.
I just wish the Yes Man ending was more fleshed out. It would be nice if you could win by uniting several smaller factions under your rule. I would turn The Kings into my muscle and rule the Mojave with a blue suede fist!
My personal headcanon for the Yes Man ending is that all the factions you are at least Liked by you end up brokering deals between, peace between, and so on. Likely spending the rest of your life doing so, depending on how many and how different the factions are.
And everyone around you suffers for it, lol. Guess you didn't pay attention during the endings for the Fiends, Followers, etc. Because you're a Wasteland Mailman, with no experience in governance or any other matters of statecraft. Even Arcade, who tries to talk you into an independent Vegas during play, admits during his ending that it wasn't what he thought it would be.
@@theveteransergeant if you try to make it work for as many people as possible no one will be super happy. Democracy runs on compromise. Faschism make the "right" people happy. Communism make everyone equal sad. So yes the democratic solution will not be glorious because compromise between groups.
Vulpes voice actor nailed it. Even though he doesn't have that big of a role, he's so monotone but so full of creep. I think corpse best describes that emotion, good point on that
True, Jason Spisak killed it, though I really wish there was more male VA’s for this game. I love Yuri Lowenthal, he’s one of my favorite American VAs to ever do it-but he voices like 70% of the male characters in the game, and once you notice it, it’s nearly impossible not to recognize him every time he pops up, which is extremely often.
@97javic The irony is, you couldn't stop complaining about people raving about the game, when the title of video showcases it will be praising the game. You're just full of aggression, this was your third comment on this video about this point lmao
Fun fact about the bar in boulder city, if you are wearing an NCR uniform and you don't have good NCR reputation, that store owner will tell you that NCR is not allowed to be in the bar, and you will get a dialogue that basically says, "I'm not actually in the NCR" (I don't remember the exact verbiage.
Actually, the opening quest with goodsprings is even better, because they (specifically sunny smiles) will teach you about magazines and how they can temporarily boost your skills, and if you explore first you might walk into the schoolhouse and learn this yourself. This generally means no matter how you built your character you still should be able to pass a few checks through magazine boosts. Additionally, if you somehow have 1,000 caps, you can give those caps to chet as a 'hidden' option that only shows up if you own that many caps when he initially refuses to help.
Man I was not expecting to see your name on the channel. Loved the warframe videos when I played. I’ve sunk so so many hours and your videos have helped me in the past haha. Don’t play much anymore. Too busy with work and editing these days.
I have been prepping a Tabletop Fallout RPG lately, and as part of it, i have been reading the Fallout Project Van Buren design documents. This being the cancelled Fallout 3 that Black Isle never got to finish, thanks to Wizards of the Coast buying the DnD franchise and cancelling Baldurs Gate 3: The Black Hound, also being made by Black Isle at the time, for no good reason, which made them go broke. Anyways.... The Van Buren design documents detail the idea that for each and every area, there should be a list of skill checks, and that each possible build should be considered in each area, so that the player can always leave feeling satisfied that their build was put to use. You can see that they brought this idea forward to New Vegas when they made it.
Can we all agree that the voice actor for Veronica when she gets her dress does the voice justice for sounding how excited a real girl would be for getting a dress
The encounter with Karl wearing his legion outfit has once again convinced me New Vegas is a living breathing entity that evolves and grows, but slowly enough we don't notice. Whenever nobody is looking, another branch of dialogue pops up.
@@thememeilator2633 true, for now i had high hopes adn expectations seeing Shadow of Doubt with the use of its AI for its Immersive sim. its like Tear Down or battlebit, for a blocky graphics game and indie title, all resources went to gameplay.
Try out fallout 1, 2, and Arcanum. Completely different gameplay and perfectly fine if that’s not your thing, but good god low int runs in those are amazing. Arcanum is probably the best at it (you can play someone literally too stupid to read, get loads of quests, and you can get literally everyone’s names completely wrong on purpose. Vergil, a companion, will be on the verge of tears constantly if you’re stupid enough, and you can call him by his REAL name, “Vghaghhhhyhtst”, which he will react to accordingly. It’s amazing), but the first two fallouts can be really dumb fun, literally, for a sentient rock
Something of note: you can just ignore the Ghost Town Gunfight quest entirely and leave it for later, and instead go straight to the NCRCF to do quests for the Powder Gangers and get some positive karma ahead of time. You can even double cross both the Powder Gangers and NCR at the same time, by stealing the plans for the attack, promising to help the attack, then sneaking in and taking out all the other Powder Gangers while Stealth Boy'd. Talk to Eddie afterwards, and if you never got spotted taking everyone out, you can throw the plans at him, sneak out, and talk to the NPC you were supposed to to start the NCR attack. You'll get the reward from Eddie, then turn in the reward to the NCR.
30:07 Another nice touch: if you were to walk down the Interstate from the north, away from Quarry Junction towards Goodsprings, there’s a dialogue change from Chomps. Stuff like that makes this game so great
You forgot to mention the underground fighting pits where you can collect eggs belonging to some wasteland creatures including deathclaws and getting them to compete against other creatures for caps. I haven't played NV for probably a decade now but if memory serves, you can access the fighting pits through the sewers of Freeside, which really solidified the world building in this game for me!
In a playthrough I'm doing, I've collected the Red Lucy eggs fighting monsters on the pits with satchel charges, grenades and a powerfist. Sometimes they carry eggs and you "just" need to get 12 and it turns into a pile that you can bring to her. Juicy caps and XP on the spot. Didn't know about the Ranger Takedown technique though, I may add that to the mix to get the final Deathclaw eggs I need.
By the way, the ghouls didn't do your boy Chris dirty. They kept telling him he wasn't ghoulified and overreacted to something. He kept not listening. At this point, the worst you can say about the ghouls is that they decided "if we can't get him to stop being delusional, might make the best out of that hand". Convince Chris of the truth, help him accept that the mess was at least in part the fault of his mule-headedness, course correct the rockets so they get closer, and the ghouls actually come back and help Novac later... And presumably pay Chris back.
@@anthonynorman7545 It's mentioned in the Novac ending that if you help the rockets get closer to their destination, they actually return and help during the final battle.
My brother passed away a few years ago. When I was around 10 I saw my brother play new vegas and used to watch him for hours all the time. Some of my best memories as a child.
I'm sorry I'm just now seeing this comment but this hits home man. My older brother use to watch me play New Vegas when I was around the same age. I hope you're doing okay
my brother passed away in 2019 and i watched him play fallout 3, new vegas, and 4. i remember making fun of his choices in the games haha. fallout will always have a special place in my heart
@@abadenoughdude300you are absolutely right. Bethesda has yet to get over the "fallout being a perpetual wasteland full of barbarians" thing. For some reason that's what they think everyone wants instead of a well-built world with a well-crafted story
@trite4654 I'm playing FO3 atm for the first time in yrs and as much I still love the game and have gotten proper sucked into it, I agree. It hasn't got shit on new vegas, I haven't even bothered going to 3 dog yet and I'm 37 hrs in, the world, atmosphere and some of the side quests are pretty great and that's pretty much it. New Vegas I get all of that as well as an amazing story with amazing characters. It's a fun open world game but isn't a good rpg. And NV showed that its acc not that great of a fallout game either
@@trite4654as much as I hate bethesda for their awful writing, outdated game design, and the atrocities they committed to the Fallout IP. They can still eat their cake and keep it around by simply *_setting their games much earlier after the Great War._* Now, the apocalyptic look and feel they always have in their Fallout games make sense. All that's left is to not constantly retcons shit. Such as shoehorning in factions that wouldn't exist until decades after onto the other side of the country. Or magically creating new prewar items despite said items not existing in the prewar period.
Which is interesting because it also shows how people feel about him. Arcade knows how to pronounce it correctly but still refers to him as Caesar since he dislikes him.
There are so many small touches, like if you wear a powder gangers uniform while trying to free Beagle in Primm he'll freak out saying "I've told you powder gangers all I know!".
Oh, and in Novac, a good town to get drunk by drinking 25 bottles of alcohol (to get the Daytripper Perk, which is VERY good), talk to the doctor with the 2 guards about curing your addiction to alcohol :)
dang you missed out on my favorite line by House, if you kill president kimball while doing the faction quests for him he asks for a reason why and you can tell him cause kimball wanted to make you pay taxes. "Understandable" as Mr House says
That’s ironic because if you visit the street vendor right outside the monorail she has to pay 50% of her profits to house. I should have added that to the video. Everyone makes you pay taxes lol
@@Boofcan Although funny it is actually not real, and uncharacteristic of him because he does indeed do taxes on the monorail, the strip and Prim (one of the endings), and he isn't a libertarian (a misconception many people have, but even he does call himself an autocrat)
@@TY-km8hj the street vendor dialogue is in the vanilla game. Just confirmed. She’s says: “To vend anything here on the Strip, you got to register with one of those police robots and sign a franchisee agreement. At the end of each day, you keep half of what you made. The rest, you hand over to those bots - and they know if you're cheating. Yep, he makes the rules. It's steep, but it sure beats living in North Vegas. Here on the Strip I can afford to eat, and no one tries to kill me."
I think it's interesting that no matter how awful and selfish House is he's still fucking mortified if you choose the Legion and tell him before you kill him. "Slavery... for the future of humanity.... WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!"
They were so obvious and tried so hard to be so obvious that the Legion are evil. But you’ll get people online that are like “well, the NCR makes you pay taxes, so…”
House ultimately only cares about his own success. He'll say anything to convince you that the other factions are bad for the wasteland (even when he is guilty of the same / similar shortcomings) because they're actually bad for him
He doesn't actually help. If you confront him about it, he reveals that he got remotely shut down to actively prevent participating in the gunfight even though he wanted to (House shut him down so that he would be present to help guide the Courier to New Vegas).
3:25 ultimate power move by throwing all of the guys food to the side and throwing his plate against the wall before talking to him that was hilarious.
Dude, Your commentary and oringal ideas are so refreshing. You don't deep fry your videos with Memes, You use the perfect amount. I think you just became my new favorite youtube channel. Never change your style. "The children of freeside are eating FUCKING RATS" Gold
Too many games are called rpg’s just because they have a few stats or damage numbers -things that technically are part of the rpg formula but when it comes to the actual role playing part very few games get that right and new vegas is one of them. So many (meaningful) choices in the game with actual repercussions and changes to the game world…..something Bethesda never got right and probably never will
Bethesda does a great job at making worlds worth exploring filled with a lot wonder, but they are subpar at the writing and making choices that feel impactful. I hope Fallout 5 can change that.
@@Boofcan Considering the trajectory they've been going since their earlier works (a solid downwards one), Starfield doesn't give me much hope for FO5 being all that good.
I think my favorite thing about the faction reputation is that fame and infamy AREN'T mutually exclusive, which leads to some fun faction rank names. As for "reactive" stuff 2 that I like are Killing Victor (multiple times even) and him still showing up, which you can ask about in Vegas ("I thought I killed you") and his response is basically "It's a lot harder to put ol Victor in Boot Hill than you think" and the other being sabotaging the Legion at every turn before visiting The Fort for the first time, Caesar ringing off all the trouble you caused him then being bewildered that you showed up is a lot of fun.
Another I like is how you can talk to Sarah from Vault 21 and she knows doc Mitchell. You can then talk to doc Mitchell again and learn more about what life was like in the vaults.
Yeah boxcars says something along the lines of oh great now the power ganger grim reaper shows up. I couldn't get that line to play when making this video but in previous playthroughs I could lol @@Shadow30.
I got this game on Black Friday 2010 on the 360. It was all I played for about 2 years. Truly a masterpiece. I think it was so good because obsidian didn’t really have to worry about making the engine or making any new sprites (almost everything was recycled/ used unused sprites from Fallout 3.) During the 18 months of development they just focused on world building and immersion. Bethesda honestly helped them by giving them a 18 month deadline imo.
Fun fact, most of Obsidian at the time was made up of inter-play higher ups, after Bethesda took over fallout they had to close but later reformed as Obsidian, so the old fallout guys made FNV, may have left out details but that is the barebones of it
It's a bit more complicated then that. The publisher Interplay had a development team called Black Isle, who made Fallout 1 and 2. Interplay closed the studio (don't know why) shortly after Fallout 2. Several members of Black Isle opened their own development studio, Troika Games. They made some much-loved but poor selling games (most notably Vampire: the Masquerade: Bloodlines) before going under. Some of those developers (including some from Black Isle) then opened Obsidian.
If you’re going for story, I HIGHLY recommend The Forgotten City. It’s not an RPG but it’s a cool mystery to solve through dialogue and situational puzzles.
If you want to get technical, this game was partially developed by Bethesda, because it borrows the same engine and a ton of the same graphics and sound assets, as well as a very similar combat system, from Fallout 3. The combat system from Fallout 3 was actually pretty good, but the New Vegas team did a much better job of making interesting characters, factions, and quests, which interact with each other in interesting ways.
@@syncmonism clearly we are talking about the quality of the writing, not the actual gameplay engine. whats the point in playing a game if the lore and story is generic and boring shit. good writing gives you a reason to want to be invested into the game.
In my first play-through, Sergeant McGee died from stepping on the Primm land-mines while I was over in Novac, helping Boone get revenge on his wife’s seller
@@Boofcan I couldn't agree more it's one of my favorite games of all time to the point I'm in the process of getting supplies to build a fallout new vegas nuka-cola machine that can actually make glass soda cold
Seeing how incredibly popular it is among a very large fanbase, calling it a cult classic seems a bit much XD it still is massively beloved for damn sure tho
It is. In one play through I did everything I could in a legion play through for Caesar and right before the battle of Hoover dam I took him out. Love that you can do that if you want.
Absolutely incredible video mate. Especially love the part about the Hegelian Dialectics, well constructed part + Im loving the fact that a dictator was using a wrong reference to make a wrong point. Makes the character much more alive and real.
It’s probably unsurprising to learn that Novac and Come Fly With Me are some of the earliest designed quests / areas in New Vegas and didn’t get the development and one-overs that I think most other areas of the game did
@@Boofcan absolutely. I still like them I just think that part of the map would’ve been even better with more polish. IIRC Goodsprings was one of the last completed areas.
I'd argue Novac is earliest point where the game truly becomes good even despite Come Fly with Me being long aah quest. While Goodsprings, Primm, Mojave Outpost etc all have good quest (singular mind you) but I feel like the early game of NV is a wee bit weak? Still better than F3 but also still very weak compare to when you reach Novac and especially Freeside
@@danielsurvivor1372Yeah, the game really doesn't pick up until you reach Freeside/Vegas and are around level 10-15. Before that it's kinda just jacking off in the desert, killing bugs and bandits
“I’m in charge of the arena, not the cooking pots.” “You’re a little bitch and your brother was too.” Haven’t played NV but this is the stuff I’m here for. 😂
There’s a good one for a female legion courier. Ulysses says something like I thought you needed a weapon between your legs to be in the legion. And you can reply: is that why you left?
Here's a thing I didn't know about New Vegas: If you enter the Big Horn Saloon in Boulder City wearing NCR armour, Ike the barman will comment on it & you have unique dialogue options with him. I've been playing the game for at least 5 years, I've never seen that before.
makes you wonder what they could have made if they werent forced into 1 year like give them 3 years and have them do next game and i can guarantee massive success. also just love how when you get into it ncr and legion have their own pros and cons and are weirdly realistic in their conflicts
When i got the us foreign policy joke i had to pause the video cuz how much i was laughing. Truly amazing video man. As someone that only played new vegas this year yet i already feel so strongly about it, thank you for your time and effort
Aside tha fact that this video is perfectly made, the fact that after basically every dialogue you show you either blow up, shoot, punch the person you're talking to, is something that made me laugh a lot every time, love it 😂
can't wait for a few years for "The Magic behind Baldurs Gaste 3" cus that game as a crpg is considered an immersive sim, it has the the same dynamic writing or reactivity
I fell in love with this game when I found out all I had to do to get one of the strongest power armor’s in game was to fight one of the biggest nests of Deathclaws 😂
might just be me but I found out recently how much of the game I've been missing because I accidently end up playing very similar from playthrough to playthrough. I made a conscious effort this playthrough to look for different weapons and unique ways to end quests and I'm baffled how much stuff I missed.
@@evelynsahoe8896 I've beaten the game and most of the quests in a multitude of way since the game released. Only found out a couple months ago that you can completely irradiate CottonWood Cove. Later on, when Caesar wants to meet you, the guy standing at the dock will have a radiation suit on lmao.
My playthrough was a very pro Mr. House run, making sure to help out Caesar's Legion so that the they can keep the NCR's forces tied up stopping them from consolidating their forces and capturing the strip.
i really hate Mr. House, but he is probably the only real option the Mojave has. the NCR is on the brink of collapse and we know that it doesn't get better until it is way to late. the Legion is going to burn itself out in a matter of weeks, and that is on top of being cartoonishly evil. House is going to make hell a real place, but he is probably genuine in his goals of investing in technology that is required to keep humanity going at the end of the world.
I went for the benevolent House ending myself -- helping the followers, the kings, beating the hell out of the legion everywhere I could, helping out the NCR but not committing to fighting for them -- with 100 barter you can secure what is arguably the best ending for the Mojave, a House-run Vegas protecting the outlying territories while having essentially open borders and free trade with the NCR. One thing I wish I hadn't done was wipe out the Great Khans, but I won't mourn a single powder ganger, who I wiped out to a man with an honest to God smile on my face. Also wiped out the fiends, because raiders of any stripe are bad for business. Also helped the Boomers, just because I thought they were neat.
You don't kill Boxcars, he is involved in 2 quests. Just don't give him any Med-X until you get the 2nd quest so he'll reveal the location you need, on your map.
@@Boofcan Booted is actually an important quest if your companion is Boone. As per the wiki, completing Booted gives +2 points to your relation with Boone, which you'll need to do his quest involving Bitter Springs.
@@ROBBiESMiTTENS Maybe cause you gave him Med-X the first time you met him ? It breaks the quest where the morons from the irradiated area, are sending you to find some radiation suits. THAT'S when you give him Med-X and never before.
Awesome vid, especially loved the addition of minor details like how having a low intelligence causes the Freeside vagrants mumbling's to become actual speech or how killing Vulpes before visiting Nipton causes him to be replaced with a different Frumentarii. Definitely going to revisit this game and try differing from a normal playthrough to try and find some more fun little secrets.
Thank you so much! I’m glad you enjoyed the video! Btw do you think the title accurately represented the video? I have no idea what to title the video at the moment haha.
@@Boofcan I think it's current title is good. Describes that despite some of it's dated factors (like it's combat/graphics) it's writing and world building is at a level where you feel as though it is a modern day game that simply sacrificed some standard gameplay factors for better writing, rather than an older game with engine limitations that has amazing writing.
This was honestly so well done! I have played FNV for easily over 500+ hours and gotten every achievement in the game. Yet somehow you showed me new/unknown ways and paths for quest/interactions I didn't even know about. I think that's what makes FNV so great! I'm glad you made a video such as this to showcase the beauty that is Fallout New Vegas!
Excellent video!! Fallout NV is in my top 5 games they simply don’t make rpgs like this is everything F1-F2 did but with the F3 engine. Hopefully it will be given the remaster it so truly deserves.
It's kind of sad that this game exists. It came out over a decade ago and nothing that has came out since is anywhere close to as good. Obsidian captured lightning in a bottle with New Vegas, it's the only semi-modern video game where every choice matters and you can help or hinder any faction you come across. There are no wrong answers and there is no true good or bad choice as each decision ends up screwing somebody over while helping another once you get past the early game. Fallout 3/4 were pathetic excuses for roleplaying because most choices were arbitrary in that they were wither black or white and playing an evil character would generally ruin your game or hinder your progress substantially while making nice decisions would open up a lot of routes that just made everything easier. I mean, if you turn in the synth in Rivet city you just get caps and a fairly useless perk, if you refuse to turn it in you get a fucking unique PLASMA RIFLE and if you nuke Megaton you lose access to the most convenient home in the game with a single loading screen, a follower, access to a few quests, and potentially a bobblehead, even the side quest for turning in scrap metal. There are almost no reasons to even do so unless you just want to witness it once or twice for the shock value. Even if you sacrifice your character in the end of the base game you just get plot armor that allows you to continue anyways, there is almost no reason to play evil save for a singe quest "Tranquility Lane". It's just weak game design. As for Fallout 4, good god... I don't even know where to begin. To even enjoy the game you have to pull up the console and type player.modav carryweight 99999 or you'll have to go back and forth to pick up all the junk you need for the retarded settlement system. Then you have Preston Garvey handing out side quests every single time your characters goes near him, then there is the shitty main story where all of the factions are equally uninteresting so you just pick the side with the best rewards or just type in the codes for the specific faction rewards because fuck the Railroad, fuck the BOS, fuck the Minutemen, and fuck the Institute. Also, the city of Boston has entire areas that are mostly unused save for collecting junk where you might run across a few rabid dogs or the rare ghoul but nothing else. Then there are the followers, there was a robot guy, the token mutant, the token dog, strong woman, female Redditor, oh... and the minuteman guy Preston Garvey who only masochists would use because of his never-ending quests. Your house robot is the only good one to be honest because you can modify it to shoot miniguns and lasers and basically turn it into a tank. Sorry, just really got zero enjoyment out of 3 and 4. 1 and 2 were pretty good with 1 being the easiest and shortest and 2 being punishingly difficult and taking forever. New Vegas and 2 are definitely the best though and it's not even close.
This was such a joy to watch. A thorough, wonderfully structured, told, and edited video essay in which you fully manage to convey the miracle that FO:NV is. Easiest subscribe in a long while
I had no idea about that legion event with Carl! That's the first new thing I've heard in a long time too. Thank you! This is already amazing. Much appreciated. I will never get enough of new vegas. And I love seeing everyone's experience and interpretations. You've done a spectacular job at conveying just how easy it is to love this game for the rest of time.
Funniest part of the Karl encounter is if you have Terrifying Presence. The legionaries he sends after you say “You don’t give up, do you?” To which you reply “Not while there are still spines left un-shattered.”
Bro, I have never seen some of these interactions that you are showing. I've done a full playthrough once every year since release and STILL missed things. Like I felt this way before but it's solidified this is THE greatest RPG of all time and it's not even close
Came for New Vegas. Stayed for the crash course on Hegelian Dialectics. Thank you. Always good to flex that muscle, to ensure I'm understanding dialectical materialism and how it might be applied to various material conditions. Great video!
41:10, you can confront victor about being in Novac. I think that option appears after asking “What are you doing in Novac?” near the bottom of the dialogue choices. New Vegas has a habit of hiding dialogue choices through multiple other dialogue choices, and you have to ask the same question a few times to access all the options.
Even though i played New Vegas for hundreds of hours at this point, every video essay about it just shows me how much stuff i've missed while playing. Also, great video!
true, even bugs that changes the atmosphere or world building of the game like the video circling youtube about the bugged suit attire of The Tops casino
I would like to. Honest Hearts & Old world blues the ones where I’m fuzzy on the themes and meanings. I’ll need to replay and really dig into all the lore.
@@BoofcanAs far as I can tell when I play, Honest Hearts is about the drives people have. Graham is driven by hate, Daniel is driven by the need to protect, Followe-Chalk is driven by wanderlust, The Sorrows follower is driven by missing a family member, and the White Legs are driven by wanting to join the Legion. OWB is about forgetting the past and moving towards the future- letting go, similar to Dead Money, but letting go of nostalgia rather than letting go of things like Hate, or Greed- This is shown by the Think Tank. Kept in a cycle of the past, kept in a loop of testing by Mobius, who is rightfully fearful that if the Think Tank stops obsessing over the past, they’ll ruin the future. The Courier is the one who either corrals their broken minds into a non-horrible future, or ends the problem by offing the Think Tank. Either way, the past is forgotten, and the future is there. All four DLCs share similar themeing. Honest Hearts has the Drives of Mankind, particularly Joshua’s past- and how the healthiest thing he can do is let go of his hate. This connects to Dead Money, as Dead Money has letting go, which connects to OWB of letting the *past* go, which connects to Lonesome Road- of the Past, of one’s Personal past- which loops right back to Graham.
@@spookyscarysteve Lonesome Road was mostly BEAR BULL BEAR BULL BEAR BULL BEAR BULL BEAR BULL BEAR BULL BEAR BULL, but at the end there was a line that summarizes Fallout perfectly (and which Bethesda doesn't get) - «if war doesn't change, men must change»
Great job narrating and portraying this game, I didn’t realize how thoughtful the script and storytelling was in the game. Makes me want to give it a replay soon
9:05 is the point where I decided to download the game and play. Four months later, I just beat the game, and I’m going back now to complete the DLC’s. Great video and thanks for getting me to play
Great video. Something I've to point out is that I could listen to you for hours. The way you talk, combined with your voice, makes it so easy to follow. You definitely have talent there.
FYI steam has new vegas on sale for 8$ + all dlcs until april 24th. One of my favorite games of all time but i never finished the dlcs so now i get to. Runs great on my potato laptop so nows a great time for anyone to hop in.
Just like how a lot of they ingame events are discovered by the player just stumbling upon them I somehow found this video. Wasn’t planning on watching the whole thing but this was much better than expected💯
I still love making my own faction with yes man and just becoming the man in charge. Of all the madness of the wasteland it feels good to be able to make your own story.
@@sadge2u Good thing I never take Cass, cause her father gets mad at me in Fallout 2. Something about "Killing children is wrong and you're a bad man!"
30:53 Theres actually a shortcut through the mountains in the middle called Primm Pass. Its full of radscorpions but it will take you straight to novac. Just another route in the mojave to award the explorers :)
Yeah, that's another one; Scorpion gulch takes you to Helios One and the one east of the train station has a blind deathclaw and then a gang of Vipers before you can reach Novac.@@ailonrouge
So I finished this video, thoroughly enjoyed it and said "oh golly-gee, I'd like to see more from this fellow." I was quite surprised to find out this is your third video! Major props to you, locking forward to seeing the videos to come!
two months to make this video, you definetly earned my sub, quality video man, ive played new vegas on and off over the years, and i mean very on and off, very little progress. but videos like this, especially this one, are gonna get me some hours soon on this baby
There *is* variety in how to complete the "Come Fly With Me" quest. For example, it's actually possible to talk to the leader of the nightkin and resolve the conflict peacefully - and if you figure out that the dino toys sold in Novac are radioactive, you can get a bunch of them instead of getting the proper rocket fuel. The Van Graffs *don't* "vaporize a man for wanting to negotiate on price". They disintegrate a man who stole from them in front of the man who tried to haggle to intimidate him.
In the final version of the game is the previous audio cut when you enter the building? Because I’ve never heard the stealing part in game. As for Come Fly with me this is true. The first half is decent. I liked the B plot with the ghoul and dealing with the nightkin. I might be in the minority but I just wasn’t a fan of the ending.
@@Boofcan Tbh, I might be misremembering that part, as it's been a few years since I last played the game :/ But they shoot a bound guy to intimidate a haggler, not the haggler himself, as you imply in the video.
Just discovered your channel through this video, which just so happens to be one of my favorite games. And this is so incredibly spot on. With only 3 videos, this is undeniable proof that you don't need a massive channel to make quality videos, especially long form like this
I remember when new vegas came out. it was labeled as a fo3 dlc. after a few months, people noticed how great of a game this was, to a point where even the largest game reviewers couldnt doubt the game anymore, where the entire community turned against the reviewers to bash on them. this is one of the first gane that made mainstream reviewers turn on them, and rightfully so.
You know it´s a good game when, despite it´s many MANY bugs, it still makes You want to play it.
I wholeheartedly agree
It doesn't
Imagine after a decade not using any mods that fixes the problems and adds all the cut content which the game has, it's like stealing the best experience which you will ever have with this game.
Pc player problems
@@EpsilonCobra Yeah having to install 21 mods just to get out of Goodsprings without crashing isn't fun either.
I mean the mod folder i ended up using was twice as big as the game.
Fun fact about Cazadors: their jittery, erratic movements were the result of a bug. They were originally going to fly around and walk slowly when on the ground. Josh Sawyer saw their animations glitch out, resulting in the twitchy movements, and said "Hey, that's terrifying. Make them move like that intentionally."
Yo, fuck that guy!
P.S. God bless that man.
I'm sorry I accidentally disliked this comment. Funniest sh*t I've seen today tbh🤣💀💀
That's fucking hilarious
@@adamniehaus5835 Josh talked about it on stream one time and everyone in the chat was replying with some flavor of "you're a monster" and he just started laughing. Dude knows exactly how much we hate those things.
Same in Bloodborne with sages/labyrinth madman, fast and deadly as cazadors.
JUST 18 MONTHS OF DEVELOPMENT. Just think about that. All these quests weaved together to immerse you with consequences and player impact on the world. Incredible
They honestly speedran masterpiece game making which is wild
And Bethesda will never forgive them for it. They would have you think it takes 7 years to crank out a dumpster fire.
It really goes to show how amazing that development team was sadly a lot of them are gone now but for a moment they had maybe one of the most talented teams in the history of the industry and they made an all time great game in just 18 months just thinking how it could have been with 3 or more years of development maybe the best game of all time hell even now it’s top 5 for me and top 10 if I remove my fanboy bias lol
Its funny, because they did the same thing with KOTOR 2
And star field had an 8 year development lmaooooooo. What a sick joke hahah
I was blown away when I ran into Boxcars for the first time and he called me 'The Reaper of the NCR' and offered to overdose on the spot out of fear. That's a hell of a reputation.
"The powder gangers grim fucking reaper"
Incidentally, you CAN give Boxcars 15 Med-X as he requested, and he WILL take them. It does not cause him to overdose, though. You just get a giant karma boost for a lot of wasted time.
You can also attack him nonlethaly and he will briefly forget that his legs are broken.
@@nathanlevesque7812On the Xbox 360 version he enters the wounded soldier animation.
"What the fug do you have against us huh?"
-boxcar the first time I met him since I usually exterminate powder gangers
weird how nobody remembers that Oliver is a real guy from Obsidian's forums that won a contest and had his likeness put into the game as reward.
Wait for real? Never heard of that lol
Imagine winning a contest just to be killed by every player that comes across your character
I guess really won a lottery
@@zanderdov5901 Isn't that what all fallout players want? People will still be killing his character 20 years from now.
Funniest idea ever given that he dies pretty much immediately afterwards if you don't kill him
I am absolutely flabbergasted. I mod the game. I went through the game files a million times over and only with your video i found out about Karl going after you. New Vegas is the gift that keeps on giving.
I genuinely believe there are more interactions like it. I just haven’t found them yet.
No mods or cut content restored all. All vanilla in this video
Every time I think I have seen it all.... that one got me too.
@@BoofcanI didn't know fantastic said that after you activate archimedes untill you showed me,this coming from someone who has 1347 hours on new vegas btw
@@Chrono-and-Co That is ten hours to much :)
@@Boofcan Gojira
17:45 One of my favorite details about New Vegas is that a disproportionate amount of black-armor NCR Rangers are ghouls because their heartiness more often allowed them to survive long enough to reach that rank.
Yeah you definitely don’t survive in the wasteland for 200+ years by pure luck. Ghouls are honestly badass
And experience and since they don't Age they don't retire etc etc
I'm still mad they removed Chauncey
@@Boofcan Well not all ghouls are 200+ but I get what you say
@@catsndogs98 Also mental fortitued for not going feral immediately or even 200 years after the bombs dropped
I was born and raised in Las Vegas, and lemme tell you when this came out I was so happy with the little touches they get right. They did an excellent job paying homage to real places and events. The crashed bomber in lake mead? A famous diving spot! The mormon fort? Been there! Quarry Junction? That's where I go shooting targets (thankfully no deathclaws)
Even the voice of Mr. New Vegas is one I grew up with hearing. Wayne Newton's face and voice was all over town!
I approve of this message 👍
Whoa, I had no idea about Wayne Newton. That makes New Vegas all the cooler. I love little local things like that
@@DNGNDriver they really did nail the little touches, of course it isnt 1:1 but I hardly need to open my map lol
@ZimBeckler if you look at the concept art for the original full scale vegas they wanted to make, it probably would've essentially been 1:1. The artwork is just gorgeous too.
You’re not slick Adam Friedland
The moment I truly fell in love with this game was when I realized I didn't have to side with any of the factions in the end. This is my desert. My Nevada. My New Vegas.
My desert. My dune. My Arrakis.
I just wish the Yes Man ending was more fleshed out. It would be nice if you could win by uniting several smaller factions under your rule. I would turn The Kings into my muscle and rule the Mojave with a blue suede fist!
My personal headcanon for the Yes Man ending is that all the factions you are at least Liked by you end up brokering deals between, peace between, and so on. Likely spending the rest of your life doing so, depending on how many and how different the factions are.
And everyone around you suffers for it, lol. Guess you didn't pay attention during the endings for the Fiends, Followers, etc.
Because you're a Wasteland Mailman, with no experience in governance or any other matters of statecraft. Even Arcade, who tries to talk you into an independent Vegas during play, admits during his ending that it wasn't what he thought it would be.
@@theveteransergeant if you try to make it work for as many people as possible no one will be super happy. Democracy runs on compromise. Faschism make the "right" people happy. Communism make everyone equal sad. So yes the democratic solution will not be glorious because compromise between groups.
Vulpes voice actor nailed it. Even though he doesn't have that big of a role, he's so monotone but so full of creep. I think corpse best describes that emotion, good point on that
I absolutely agree. I wish there was more quests around him.
I only recently realised he also voiced the fantastic villain Silco in the Arcane animated series
I actually kill him early when I do melee builds because he is the first one to have a strong melee weapon, a ripper
True, Jason Spisak killed it, though I really wish there was more male VA’s for this game. I love Yuri Lowenthal, he’s one of my favorite American VAs to ever do it-but he voices like 70% of the male characters in the game, and once you notice it, it’s nearly impossible not to recognize him every time he pops up, which is extremely often.
he's so unapologetically edgy and perfectly encapsulates a legion officer
Dam, rest in peace Mr Matthew Perry.
The Man in the Checker Suit, Benny.
As another comment said. The man with the platinum drip
o7
Ah man that's sad.....
RIP the coolest guy to die from drug addiction
@@AC-hj9tvyou seem like a pleasant person
I find that being able to get a cyborg dog from a group of elvis impersonators is evidence of how good the game is
@97javicyou should see a doctor about getting that sand out of your vagina, it’s clearly making you cranky. Does it itch?
@97javic Did Tim Cain kill your dog or something?
Because I can't imagine why someone would be such a pathetic naysayer like you are.
@97javiccall us cringe yet type a paragraph no one gives a shit about. ironic
@97javic The irony is, you couldn't stop complaining about people raving about the game, when the title of video showcases it will be praising the game. You're just full of aggression, this was your third comment on this video about this point lmao
@97javicur so mad over this as if it’s not cool asf regardless
Fun fact about the bar in boulder city, if you are wearing an NCR uniform and you don't have good NCR reputation, that store owner will tell you that NCR is not allowed to be in the bar, and you will get a dialogue that basically says, "I'm not actually in the NCR" (I don't remember the exact verbiage.
And now I have once again learned something new about New Vegas.
Actually, the opening quest with goodsprings is even better, because they (specifically sunny smiles) will teach you about magazines and how they can temporarily boost your skills, and if you explore first you might walk into the schoolhouse and learn this yourself. This generally means no matter how you built your character you still should be able to pass a few checks through magazine boosts.
Additionally, if you somehow have 1,000 caps, you can give those caps to chet as a 'hidden' option that only shows up if you own that many caps when he initially refuses to help.
Man I was not expecting to see your name on the channel. Loved the warframe videos when I played. I’ve sunk so so many hours and your videos have helped me in the past haha.
Don’t play much anymore. Too busy with work and editing these days.
Lmao oh wow, small world eh? @@Boofcan
I have been prepping a Tabletop Fallout RPG lately, and as part of it, i have been reading the Fallout Project Van Buren design documents. This being the cancelled Fallout 3 that Black Isle never got to finish, thanks to Wizards of the Coast buying the DnD franchise and cancelling Baldurs Gate 3: The Black Hound, also being made by Black Isle at the time, for no good reason, which made them go broke. Anyways.... The Van Buren design documents detail the idea that for each and every area, there should be a list of skill checks, and that each possible build should be considered in each area, so that the player can always leave feeling satisfied that their build was put to use. You can see that they brought this idea forward to New Vegas when they made it.
Honestly, it became the best when the dog brain mission came up and I had 3 options.
Which dog brain did you choose for Rex?
@@BoofcanI used Rex cause i didn't realize there were two other brains lol
ontop of that; i've got many options for guns; and even then, many options for what kind of bullets i want to use.
I always go for turbo brain for Rex
I had Violette's already, but decided to go talk to Lady Gibson instead.
Can we all agree that the voice actor for Veronica when she gets her dress does the voice justice for sounding how excited a real girl would be for getting a dress
Felicia day is pretty good when allowed to act
The encounter with Karl wearing his legion outfit has once again convinced me New Vegas is a living breathing entity that evolves and grows, but slowly enough we don't notice. Whenever nobody is looking, another branch of dialogue pops up.
It's insane how much detail they packed into the game. It's nutty
Huh... Evolves over time... Gives me an idea for a new RPG. In the age of A.I i think that can actually be done.
@@thememeilator2633 true, for now i had high hopes adn expectations seeing Shadow of Doubt with the use of its AI for its Immersive sim. its like Tear Down or battlebit, for a blocky graphics game and indie title, all resources went to gameplay.
@@R3TR0J4N Shadow of Doubt? I am immediately intrigued in this indie title. May i hear more about it?
@@thememeilator2633naa
The fact that they give you alternate dialogue for low INT runs was completely unnecessary, and I adore it.
You should play 1 or 2 they do the same but under 3 intelligence you speak in only grunts and moans
I m m e r s i o n
Try out fallout 1, 2, and Arcanum. Completely different gameplay and perfectly fine if that’s not your thing, but good god low int runs in those are amazing. Arcanum is probably the best at it (you can play someone literally too stupid to read, get loads of quests, and you can get literally everyone’s names completely wrong on purpose. Vergil, a companion, will be on the verge of tears constantly if you’re stupid enough, and you can call him by his REAL name, “Vghaghhhhyhtst”, which he will react to accordingly. It’s amazing), but the first two fallouts can be really dumb fun, literally, for a sentient rock
Sub-brick behavior
Why is it unnecessary?
Something of note: you can just ignore the Ghost Town Gunfight quest entirely and leave it for later, and instead go straight to the NCRCF to do quests for the Powder Gangers and get some positive karma ahead of time.
You can even double cross both the Powder Gangers and NCR at the same time, by stealing the plans for the attack, promising to help the attack, then sneaking in and taking out all the other Powder Gangers while Stealth Boy'd. Talk to Eddie afterwards, and if you never got spotted taking everyone out, you can throw the plans at him, sneak out, and talk to the NPC you were supposed to to start the NCR attack. You'll get the reward from Eddie, then turn in the reward to the NCR.
I've played this game dozens of times over the years and never known this!
I always save Ghost Town Gunfight until after I do the prison missions but I had no idea about the second part. 😲
30:07 Another nice touch: if you were to walk down the Interstate from the north, away from Quarry Junction towards Goodsprings, there’s a dialogue change from Chomps. Stuff like that makes this game so great
You forgot to mention the underground fighting pits where you can collect eggs belonging to some wasteland creatures including deathclaws and getting them to compete against other creatures for caps.
I haven't played NV for probably a decade now but if memory serves, you can access the fighting pits through the sewers of Freeside, which really solidified the world building in this game for me!
There is so much I didn’t get to cover like The Thorn, Vault 21, Lily, etc
There is so much in this game hahaha
The funniest part about the mutant egg quests is that the main final reward is having sex with the ring master.
In a playthrough I'm doing, I've collected the Red Lucy eggs fighting monsters on the pits with satchel charges, grenades and a powerfist. Sometimes they carry eggs and you "just" need to get 12 and it turns into a pile that you can bring to her. Juicy caps and XP on the spot. Didn't know about the Ranger Takedown technique though, I may add that to the mix to get the final Deathclaw eggs I need.
New Vegas has Pokemon? OMG
And you can nail the ringleader chick
By the way, the ghouls didn't do your boy Chris dirty. They kept telling him he wasn't ghoulified and overreacted to something. He kept not listening. At this point, the worst you can say about the ghouls is that they decided "if we can't get him to stop being delusional, might make the best out of that hand". Convince Chris of the truth, help him accept that the mess was at least in part the fault of his mule-headedness, course correct the rockets so they get closer, and the ghouls actually come back and help Novac later... And presumably pay Chris back.
The ghouls come back!?
@@anthonynorman7545 It's mentioned in the Novac ending that if you help the rockets get closer to their destination, they actually return and help during the final battle.
@@ElodieHiras idk how I've never noticed that!
@@ElodieHiras Wonder if they found the Great Beyond
@@anthonynorman7545Yep. And they help out novac!
My brother passed away a few years ago. When I was around 10 I saw my brother play new vegas and used to watch him for hours all the time. Some of my best memories as a child.
I'm sorry I'm just now seeing this comment but this hits home man. My older brother use to watch me play New Vegas when I was around the same age.
I hope you're doing okay
My condolences buddy 😢 ❤ 🙏🏿
my brother passed away in 2019 and i watched him play fallout 3, new vegas, and 4. i remember making fun of his choices in the games haha. fallout will always have a special place in my heart
@@pleasant8748much love to your brother!
That's sad 🫂
In ten years of playing this game, I don't know why I never thought to ask victor for help with the powder gangers.
One thing I like about New Vegas is coming out of Fallout 3 it showcases how different society is on the West Coast compared to the East Coast
I treat it more as a comparison between people who know how to write stories and Bethesda but fair enough, I get your point.
@@abadenoughdude300you are absolutely right. Bethesda has yet to get over the "fallout being a perpetual wasteland full of barbarians" thing. For some reason that's what they think everyone wants instead of a well-built world with a well-crafted story
@trite4654 I'm playing FO3 atm for the first time in yrs and as much I still love the game and have gotten proper sucked into it, I agree. It hasn't got shit on new vegas, I haven't even bothered going to 3 dog yet and I'm 37 hrs in, the world, atmosphere and some of the side quests are pretty great and that's pretty much it. New Vegas I get all of that as well as an amazing story with amazing characters. It's a fun open world game but isn't a good rpg. And NV showed that its acc not that great of a fallout game either
@@trite4654as much as I hate bethesda for their awful writing, outdated game design, and the atrocities they committed to the Fallout IP. They can still eat their cake and keep it around by simply *_setting their games much earlier after the Great War._* Now, the apocalyptic look and feel they always have in their Fallout games make sense.
All that's left is to not constantly retcons shit.
Such as shoehorning in factions that wouldn't exist until decades after onto the other side of the country.
Or magically creating new prewar items despite said items not existing in the prewar period.
Fun fact: Outside the legion, everyone pronounces Caesar’s name wrong. It’s actually pronounced “Kai-zar”
Which is interesting because it also shows how people feel about him. Arcade knows how to pronounce it correctly but still refers to him as Caesar since he dislikes him.
Easy Pete did it correctly.
Shut up slaver sympathizer.
@@noobguy3547based Easy Pete
@@Boofcanhow could you just walk past by difficult Pete without saying hello...that is straight down evil 😢
There are so many small touches, like if you wear a powder gangers uniform while trying to free Beagle in Primm he'll freak out saying "I've told you powder gangers all I know!".
Oh, and in Novac, a good town to get drunk by drinking 25 bottles of alcohol (to get the Daytripper Perk, which is VERY good), talk to the doctor with the 2 guards about curing your addiction to alcohol :)
dang you missed out on my favorite line by House, if you kill president kimball while doing the faction quests for him he asks for a reason why and you can tell him cause kimball wanted to make you pay taxes. "Understandable" as Mr House says
That’s ironic because if you visit the street vendor right outside the monorail she has to pay 50% of her profits to house.
I should have added that to the video. Everyone makes you pay taxes lol
@@Boofcan Although funny it is actually not real, and uncharacteristic of him because he does indeed do taxes on the monorail, the strip and Prim (one of the endings), and he isn't a libertarian (a misconception many people have, but even he does call himself an autocrat)
I think that's modded dialogue.
That's not vanilla game tho, pretty sure that's mods
@@TY-km8hj the street vendor dialogue is in the vanilla game. Just confirmed. She’s says:
“To vend anything here on the Strip, you got to register with one of those police robots and sign a franchisee agreement. At the end of each day, you keep half of what you made. The rest, you hand over to those bots - and they know if you're cheating. Yep, he makes the rules. It's steep, but it sure beats living in North Vegas. Here on the Strip I can afford to eat, and no one tries to kill me."
I think it's interesting that no matter how awful and selfish House is he's still fucking mortified if you choose the Legion and tell him before you kill him. "Slavery... for the future of humanity.... WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!"
I think it’s neat there is little bits of dialogue depending on the faction that sent you to dispose of house.
Your pfp of Starlight is Mr. Houses honest reaction to that information
They were so obvious and tried so hard to be so obvious that the Legion are evil. But you’ll get people online that are like “well, the NCR makes you pay taxes, so…”
interesting, a line I have never (and probably never will) heard
House ultimately only cares about his own success. He'll say anything to convince you that the other factions are bad for the wasteland (even when he is guilty of the same / similar shortcomings) because they're actually bad for him
I HAD NO IDEA YOU COULD RECRUIT VICTOR FOR GHOST TOWN GUNFIGHT
But it's better not use it to get more XP lol.
You can but he doesn’t show up and if you talk to him after, you get the chance for a science skill check.
@@thomaslacornette1282 wdym it Victor is my Brother
He doesn't actually help. If you confront him about it, he reveals that he got remotely shut down to actively prevent participating in the gunfight even though he wanted to (House shut him down so that he would be present to help guide the Courier to New Vegas).
Wait me either 😭
3:25 ultimate power move by throwing all of the guys food to the side and throwing his plate against the wall before talking to him that was hilarious.
Had to let Karl know I wasn’t playing 🥶
Lmao this guys frickin HILARIOUS!!!! the war memorial scene had me dying
Display of dominance
Dude, Your commentary and oringal ideas are so refreshing. You don't deep fry your videos with Memes, You use the perfect amount. I think you just became my new favorite youtube channel. Never change your style. "The children of freeside are eating FUCKING RATS" Gold
Rip to Matthew Perry. Really made Benny a memorable character
Too many games are called rpg’s just because they have a few stats or damage numbers -things that technically are part of the rpg formula but when it comes to the actual role playing part very few games get that right and new vegas is one of them. So many (meaningful) choices in the game with actual repercussions and changes to the game world…..something Bethesda never got right and probably never will
Bethesda does a great job at making worlds worth exploring filled with a lot wonder, but they are subpar at the writing and making choices that feel impactful. I hope Fallout 5 can change that.
Bethesda did good in morrowind,… others games not so much.
@@Boofcan Considering the trajectory they've been going since their earlier works (a solid downwards one), Starfield doesn't give me much hope for FO5 being all that good.
@@curlyfordoge4366Starfield is their most “rpg” game in 20 years
@@joshf2218 Ain't no way you believe that.
I think my favorite thing about the faction reputation is that fame and infamy AREN'T mutually exclusive, which leads to some fun faction rank names.
As for "reactive" stuff 2 that I like are Killing Victor (multiple times even) and him still showing up, which you can ask about in Vegas ("I thought I killed you") and his response is basically "It's a lot harder to put ol Victor in Boot Hill than you think" and the other being sabotaging the Legion at every turn before visiting The Fort for the first time, Caesar ringing off all the trouble you caused him then being bewildered that you showed up is a lot of fun.
Another I like is how you can talk to Sarah from Vault 21 and she knows doc Mitchell. You can then talk to doc Mitchell again and learn more about what life was like in the vaults.
@@Boofcan i love that if you kill the powergangers the the 2 winner say somethink like this "great i lost lotery and now im meating the death itself"
Yeah boxcars says something along the lines of oh great now the power ganger grim reaper shows up. I couldn't get that line to play when making this video but in previous playthroughs I could lol @@Shadow30.
I got this game on Black Friday 2010 on the 360. It was all I played for about 2 years. Truly a masterpiece. I think it was so good because obsidian didn’t really have to worry about making the engine or making any new sprites (almost everything was recycled/ used unused sprites from Fallout 3.) During the 18 months of development they just focused on world building and immersion. Bethesda honestly helped them by giving them a 18 month deadline imo.
Fun fact, most of Obsidian at the time was made up of inter-play higher ups, after Bethesda took over fallout they had to close but later reformed as Obsidian, so the old fallout guys made FNV, may have left out details but that is the barebones of it
It's a bit more complicated then that. The publisher Interplay had a development team called Black Isle, who made Fallout 1 and 2. Interplay closed the studio (don't know why) shortly after Fallout 2. Several members of Black Isle opened their own development studio, Troika Games. They made some much-loved but poor selling games (most notably Vampire: the Masquerade: Bloodlines) before going under. Some of those developers (including some from Black Isle) then opened Obsidian.
@@arroncunningham9866Considering New Vegas uses some scrapped ideas from the original Fallout 3 draft, this makes a lot of sense
If you’re going for story, I HIGHLY recommend The Forgotten City. It’s not an RPG but it’s a cool mystery to solve through dialogue and situational puzzles.
I will check it out. Another person told it’s really good
@@Boofcanalso one interesting thing is it actually started as a Skyrim mod!
Strange game that was developed in a year better than all of Bethesda's games
Better in some ways, and weaker in others, but overall I enjoy New Vegas more out all of the 3D fallouts.
If you want to get technical, this game was partially developed by Bethesda, because it borrows the same engine and a ton of the same graphics and sound assets, as well as a very similar combat system, from Fallout 3. The combat system from Fallout 3 was actually pretty good, but the New Vegas team did a much better job of making interesting characters, factions, and quests, which interact with each other in interesting ways.
I think the reason is that some of the devs worked on Fallout 1&2. More passion for the universe they built than Bethesda will ever have.
@@syncmonism clearly we are talking about the quality of the writing, not the actual gameplay engine.
whats the point in playing a game if the lore and story is generic and boring shit. good writing gives you a reason to want to be invested into the game.
OBSIDIAN
In my first play-through, Sergeant McGee died from stepping on the Primm land-mines while I was over in Novac, helping Boone get revenge on his wife’s seller
It's such a cult classic and the fact that good spring has a fallout day and it looks amazing
Well deserved too! One of the best games I’ve ever played !
@@Boofcan I couldn't agree more it's one of my favorite games of all time to the point I'm in the process of getting supplies to build a fallout new vegas nuka-cola machine that can actually make glass soda cold
Seeing how incredibly popular it is among a very large fanbase, calling it a cult classic seems a bit much XD it still is massively beloved for damn sure tho
It wasn't always that way. This game was shit on pretty bad the first few years it came out. @@roonkolos
I went ! It’s awesome
"Every group is ready to feed you their own patented form of bullshit."
~ Deacon from Fallout 4
God the ability to kill anyone at any point feels so freeing as a player
It is. In one play through I did everything I could in a legion play through for Caesar and right before the battle of Hoover dam I took him out.
Love that you can do that if you want.
@@Boofcan My first legion playthrough I had a 'change of heart' on the dam and killed everyone legion members included
lol the quest looking for a Primm sheriff ┗|｀O′|┛
Meanwhile in Starfield... how many characters are unkillable?
...Thanks Bethesda.
Me typing "as a player" to fool my FBI agent
Absolutely incredible video mate. Especially love the part about the Hegelian Dialectics, well constructed part + Im loving the fact that a dictator was using a wrong reference to make a wrong point. Makes the character much more alive and real.
It’s probably unsurprising to learn that Novac and Come Fly With Me are some of the earliest designed quests / areas in New Vegas and didn’t get the development and one-overs that I think most other areas of the game did
Hey we got Boone, and No Bark out of that so there are some diamonds in Novac.
@@Boofcan absolutely. I still like them I just think that part of the map would’ve been even better with more polish. IIRC Goodsprings was one of the last completed areas.
I'd argue Novac is earliest point where the game truly becomes good even despite Come Fly with Me being long aah quest.
While Goodsprings, Primm, Mojave Outpost etc all have good quest (singular mind you) but I feel like the early game of NV is a wee bit weak? Still better than F3 but also still very weak compare to when you reach Novac and especially Freeside
@@danielsurvivor1372Yeah, the game really doesn't pick up until you reach Freeside/Vegas and are around level 10-15. Before that it's kinda just jacking off in the desert, killing bugs and bandits
never heard this, didn't know this. makes a lot of sense... thanks for sharing
“I’m in charge of the arena, not the cooking pots.”
“You’re a little bitch and your brother was too.”
Haven’t played NV but this is the stuff I’m here for. 😂
You should give it a try sometime!
The writing is so good. Characters can say the wackiest shit!
There’s a good one for a female legion courier. Ulysses says something like I thought you needed a weapon between your legs to be in the legion. And you can reply: is that why you left?
Here's a thing I didn't know about New Vegas:
If you enter the Big Horn Saloon in Boulder City wearing NCR armour, Ike the barman will comment on it & you have unique dialogue options with him.
I've been playing the game for at least 5 years, I've never seen that before.
Alright you just gave me another reason to boot up the game haha!
you just added a whole new level of depth to this game for me
After watching this, it’s so crazy hearing Yuri Lowenthal voice all of these characters. 😂
Because Hes a damn good actor
I’m upset this video wasn’t another hour longer. Would love to have seen you continue talking about this!
I really wanted to hahaha! Oh well we have the DLCs to talk about eventually
makes you wonder what they could have made if they werent forced into 1 year like give them 3 years and have them do next game and i can guarantee massive success.
also just love how when you get into it ncr and legion have their own pros and cons and are weirdly realistic in their conflicts
The team behind fallout new Vegas with a better engine and more time to flesh out their ideas would probably result in another masterpiece
@@Boofcanthe same team made KOTOR 2 with pretty much the same exact circumstances
Masterfully edited, sir. And entertaining.
The way you zoomed on Boxcars dialogue.
The kanji from Sekiro when a Deathclaw... Haha masterful all over
When i got the us foreign policy joke i had to pause the video cuz how much i was laughing. Truly amazing video man. As someone that only played new vegas this year yet i already feel so strongly about it, thank you for your time and effort
Means a lot man! More videos of similar quality coming soon
Aside tha fact that this video is perfectly made, the fact that after basically every dialogue you show you either blow up, shoot, punch the person you're talking to, is something that made me laugh a lot every time, love it 😂
Actually flabbergasted that you're producing this quality of content by your 3rd video. Cannot wait to see your upcoming stuff, whatever it may be!
Too freaking kind man! More to come for sure! Cooking up another silent hill video!
@@Boofcan wait this was your third video?! Jesus man you are punching way above your weight
can't wait for a few years for "The Magic behind Baldurs Gaste 3" cus that game as a crpg is considered an immersive sim, it has the the same dynamic writing or reactivity
I fell in love with this game when I found out all I had to do to get one of the strongest power armor’s in game was to fight one of the biggest nests of Deathclaws 😂
I’ve played the game for over a decade and still half of the dialogue options you are using as examples I’ve never heard
Dude I played when it first came out in 2010 and every subsequent year I still discover something new. They packed in so many small details
might just be me but I found out recently how much of the game I've been missing because I accidently end up playing very similar from playthrough to playthrough. I made a conscious effort this playthrough to look for different weapons and unique ways to end quests and I'm baffled how much stuff I missed.
@@evelynsahoe8896 I've beaten the game and most of the quests in a multitude of way since the game released. Only found out a couple months ago that you can completely irradiate CottonWood Cove. Later on, when Caesar wants to meet you, the guy standing at the dock will have a radiation suit on lmao.
same adn thats even me save scumming
My playthrough was a very pro Mr. House run, making sure to help out Caesar's Legion so that the they can keep the NCR's forces tied up stopping them from consolidating their forces and capturing the strip.
based.
i really hate Mr. House, but he is probably the only real option the Mojave has. the NCR is on the brink of collapse and we know that it doesn't get better until it is way to late. the Legion is going to burn itself out in a matter of weeks, and that is on top of being cartoonishly evil. House is going to make hell a real place, but he is probably genuine in his goals of investing in technology that is required to keep humanity going at the end of the world.
High testosterone new vegas playthrough:
I went for the benevolent House ending myself -- helping the followers, the kings, beating the hell out of the legion everywhere I could, helping out the NCR but not committing to fighting for them -- with 100 barter you can secure what is arguably the best ending for the Mojave, a House-run Vegas protecting the outlying territories while having essentially open borders and free trade with the NCR. One thing I wish I hadn't done was wipe out the Great Khans, but I won't mourn a single powder ganger, who I wiped out to a man with an honest to God smile on my face. Also wiped out the fiends, because raiders of any stripe are bad for business. Also helped the Boomers, just because I thought they were neat.
22:35 This is also brought up in the game's intro cutscene. "Seeking territory and wealth in the dry expanse of the Mojave Desert."
I need to rewatch the cutscene. Good call out!
Best New Vegas review video I've ever seen. Completely nailed it with going over what makes the game so amazing!
You don't kill Boxcars, he is involved in 2 quests. Just don't give him any Med-X until you get the 2nd quest so he'll reveal the location you need, on your map.
I find the wheel of fortune and booted to be two extremely Irrelevant quest, but maybe you can change my mind on that.
@@Boofcan Booted is actually an important quest if your companion is Boone. As per the wiki, completing Booted gives +2 points to your relation with Boone, which you'll need to do his quest involving Bitter Springs.
I feel like I'm all the years playing, Boxcars second quest has never ever worked for me, not once
@@ROBBiESMiTTENS Maybe cause you gave him Med-X the first time you met him ? It breaks the quest where the morons from the irradiated area, are sending you to find some radiation suits. THAT'S when you give him Med-X and never before.
Don’t act like you’d be doing me a favor, I don’t give a fuck
Awesome vid, especially loved the addition of minor details like how having a low intelligence causes the Freeside vagrants mumbling's to become actual speech or how killing Vulpes before visiting Nipton causes him to be replaced with a different Frumentarii. Definitely going to revisit this game and try differing from a normal playthrough to try and find some more fun little secrets.
Thank you so much! I’m glad you enjoyed the video! Btw do you think the title accurately represented the video? I have no idea what to title the video at the moment haha.
@@Boofcan I think it's current title is good. Describes that despite some of it's dated factors (like it's combat/graphics) it's writing and world building is at a level where you feel as though it is a modern day game that simply sacrificed some standard gameplay factors for better writing, rather than an older game with engine limitations that has amazing writing.
btw, the singular form is frumentarius
This was honestly so well done! I have played FNV for easily over 500+ hours and gotten every achievement in the game. Yet somehow you showed me new/unknown ways and paths for quest/interactions I didn't even know about. I think that's what makes FNV so great! I'm glad you made a video such as this to showcase the beauty that is Fallout New Vegas!
The commentary and edits are incredible. Looking forward to your future videos
Excellent video!! Fallout NV is in my top 5 games they simply don’t make rpgs like this is everything F1-F2 did but with the F3 engine. Hopefully it will be given the remaster it so truly deserves.
Morrowind needs a remaster
It's kind of sad that this game exists. It came out over a decade ago and nothing that has came out since is anywhere close to as good. Obsidian captured lightning in a bottle with New Vegas, it's the only semi-modern video game where every choice matters and you can help or hinder any faction you come across. There are no wrong answers and there is no true good or bad choice as each decision ends up screwing somebody over while helping another once you get past the early game.
Fallout 3/4 were pathetic excuses for roleplaying because most choices were arbitrary in that they were wither black or white and playing an evil character would generally ruin your game or hinder your progress substantially while making nice decisions would open up a lot of routes that just made everything easier.
I mean, if you turn in the synth in Rivet city you just get caps and a fairly useless perk, if you refuse to turn it in you get a fucking unique PLASMA RIFLE and if you nuke Megaton you lose access to the most convenient home in the game with a single loading screen, a follower, access to a few quests, and potentially a bobblehead, even the side quest for turning in scrap metal.
There are almost no reasons to even do so unless you just want to witness it once or twice for the shock value.
Even if you sacrifice your character in the end of the base game you just get plot armor that allows you to continue anyways, there is almost no reason to play evil save for a singe quest "Tranquility Lane". It's just weak game design.
As for Fallout 4, good god... I don't even know where to begin. To even enjoy the game you have to pull up the console and type player.modav carryweight 99999 or you'll have to go back and forth to pick up all the junk you need for the retarded settlement system. Then you have Preston Garvey handing out side quests every single time your characters goes near him, then there is the shitty main story where all of the factions are equally uninteresting so you just pick the side with the best rewards or just type in the codes for the specific faction rewards because fuck the Railroad, fuck the BOS, fuck the Minutemen, and fuck the Institute.
Also, the city of Boston has entire areas that are mostly unused save for collecting junk where you might run across a few rabid dogs or the rare ghoul but nothing else. Then there are the followers, there was a robot guy, the token mutant, the token dog, strong woman, female Redditor, oh... and the minuteman guy Preston Garvey who only masochists would use because of his never-ending quests.
Your house robot is the only good one to be honest because you can modify it to shoot miniguns and lasers and basically turn it into a tank.
Sorry, just really got zero enjoyment out of 3 and 4. 1 and 2 were pretty good with 1 being the easiest and shortest and 2 being punishingly difficult and taking forever. New Vegas and 2 are definitely the best though and it's not even close.
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What about Witcher 3, Disco Elysium, Kingdom Come and Mass Effect Trilogy? Didnt finish Kingdom Come tho.
@@timexcape7961 Witcher 3 is great, Kingdom Come is as well but needs a "story" mode, not a huge fan of Mass Effect admittedly though.
@@timexcape7961 Witcher 3 and Disco Elysium have a bit of an illusion of choice
I saw the leg sweep and now I need to do a unarmed run
Unarmed build is gas and I love your one punch man pfp
This was such a joy to watch. A thorough, wonderfully structured, told, and edited video essay in which you fully manage to convey the miracle that FO:NV is. Easiest subscribe in a long while
Love the layout of this video and how deep it dives into things I thought I knew about. Great job!
I had no idea about that legion event with Carl! That's the first new thing I've heard in a long time too. Thank you!
This is already amazing. Much appreciated. I will never get enough of new vegas.
And I love seeing everyone's experience and interpretations. You've done a spectacular job at conveying just how easy it is to love this game for the rest of time.
I’m glad I showed you something new! This comment put a smile on my face man :)
Funniest part of the Karl encounter is if you have Terrifying Presence. The legionaries he sends after you say “You don’t give up, do you?”
To which you reply “Not while there are still spines left un-shattered.”
Bro, I have never seen some of these interactions that you are showing. I've done a full playthrough once every year since release and STILL missed things. Like I felt this way before but it's solidified this is THE greatest RPG of all time and it's not even close
This game is a gem. They stuffed so many hidden details and interactions so each play through could provide something new.
Excellent video editing.
Came for New Vegas. Stayed for the crash course on Hegelian Dialectics. Thank you. Always good to flex that muscle, to ensure I'm understanding dialectical materialism and how it might be applied to various material conditions.
Great video!
Physics does not care about Hegelian Dialectics or dialectical materialism & New Vegas has the proof ..
41:10, you can confront victor about being in Novac. I think that option appears after asking “What are you doing in Novac?” near the bottom of the dialogue choices. New Vegas has a habit of hiding dialogue choices through multiple other dialogue choices, and you have to ask the same question a few times to access all the options.
Even though i played New Vegas for hundreds of hours at this point, every video essay about it just shows me how much stuff i've missed while playing.
Also, great video!
Aw man I’m glad you learned some new! Thanks for checking it out :)
true, even bugs that changes the atmosphere or world building of the game like the video circling youtube about the bugged suit attire of The Tops casino
Have over 1000 hours and I've only just learned u can recruit Victor in the good springs fight
Going to make a video on the DLC's too? What you do in each one adds whole other level of depth to the game's choices and endings.
I would like to. Honest Hearts & Old world blues the ones where I’m fuzzy on the themes and meanings. I’ll need to replay and really dig into all the lore.
@@BoofcanAs far as I can tell when I play, Honest Hearts is about the drives people have. Graham is driven by hate, Daniel is driven by the need to protect, Followe-Chalk is driven by wanderlust, The Sorrows follower is driven by missing a family member, and the White Legs are driven by wanting to join the Legion.
OWB is about forgetting the past and moving towards the future- letting go, similar to Dead Money, but letting go of nostalgia rather than letting go of things like Hate, or Greed- This is shown by the Think Tank. Kept in a cycle of the past, kept in a loop of testing by Mobius, who is rightfully fearful that if the Think Tank stops obsessing over the past, they’ll ruin the future. The Courier is the one who either corrals their broken minds into a non-horrible future, or ends the problem by offing the Think Tank. Either way, the past is forgotten, and the future is there.
All four DLCs share similar themeing. Honest Hearts has the Drives of Mankind, particularly Joshua’s past- and how the healthiest thing he can do is let go of his hate. This connects to Dead Money, as Dead Money has letting go, which connects to OWB of letting the *past* go, which connects to Lonesome Road- of the Past, of one’s Personal past- which loops right back to Graham.
I would love to watch that, this was a great watch!@@Boofcan
@@spookyscarysteve Lonesome Road was mostly BEAR BULL BEAR BULL BEAR BULL BEAR BULL BEAR BULL BEAR BULL BEAR BULL, but at the end there was a line that summarizes Fallout perfectly (and which Bethesda doesn't get) - «if war doesn't change, men must change»
Great job narrating and portraying this game, I didn’t realize how thoughtful the script and storytelling was in the game. Makes me want to give it a replay soon
9:05 is the point where I decided to download the game and play. Four months later, I just beat the game, and I’m going back now to complete the DLC’s. Great video and thanks for getting me to play
I have NEVER thought of asking victor for help in the goodsprings. That is crazy. Good video
Great video. Something I've to point out is that I could listen to you for hours. The way you talk, combined with your voice, makes it so easy to follow. You definitely have talent there.
Wow man! Thank you! My goal is keep every upload going forward with this quality:)
Whenever I need a video that feels like a warm hug, I listen to someone talk about Fallout NV for an hour or two. ❤
FYI steam has new vegas on sale for 8$ + all dlcs until april 24th. One of my favorite games of all time but i never finished the dlcs so now i get to.
Runs great on my potato laptop so nows a great time for anyone to hop in.
How did you like the dlcs?
This video was absolutely awesome, you’ve just earned another sub. I’m absolutely watching the rest of them.
I really hope you cover the dlcs at some point. I appreciate the passion you have speaking about this game
I’ll start it once I’m done with the current project! :) it will come
The absolute deep dive you do is amazing
RIP Matthew Petty aka Benny aka the man in the checkered suit
Dude I’m pretty bummed about the news that just broke today. I believe he had a heart attack inside his hot tub that causes him to drown
*perry
I watched every ad fully for you mate absolutely unreal vid
I am so glad this video was recommended. You are really good at this man, keep it up!
Thanks a ton! I def will man! I've cooking the next video!
Just like how a lot of they ingame events are discovered by the player just stumbling upon them I somehow found this video. Wasn’t planning on watching the whole thing but this was much better than expected💯
I hope to see many more videos of you in the future. They're well done and quite entertaining. Thanks.
Thank you so much man! I’m still learning and growing. This one was a little more experimental so I’m glad you liked it
Im glad im not the only one whos been playing this game for more than a decade and STILL discovers something new. Truly a one of a kind game.
I still love making my own faction with yes man and just becoming the man in charge. Of all the madness of the wasteland it feels good to be able to make your own story.
But if you have Cass as your companion, the ending is kinda sad..
@@sadge2uwell shes an alcoholic so who cares
I've never done a yes man ending. The fact that he says he'll control the robots made me feel he's going to betray me.
@@sadge2u Good thing I never take Cass, cause her father gets mad at me in Fallout 2. Something about "Killing children is wrong and you're a bad man!"
@@MichaelTranoid wait really? Wow haha. My first fallout is fallout 3. Never played the first two
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Theres actually a shortcut through the mountains in the middle called Primm Pass. Its full of radscorpions but it will take you straight to novac. Just another route in the mojave to award the explorers :)
I totally forgot to mention that! Slipped my mind when writing that part
I only saw a blind deathclaw there, are you sure you're not talking about scorpion gulch by hidden valley? That one takes you to helios 1
Yeah, that's another one; Scorpion gulch takes you to Helios One and the one east of the train station has a blind deathclaw and then a gang of Vipers before you can reach Novac.@@ailonrouge
A deathclaw can also spawn there...be careful
Either you got super lucky, or you're an expert troll. A blind deathclaw was there in my playthrough.
So I finished this video, thoroughly enjoyed it and said "oh golly-gee, I'd like to see more from this fellow." I was quite surprised to find out this is your third video! Major props to you, locking forward to seeing the videos to come!
Thank you so much! I'm working on more as we speak. They take a while to make while juggling a fulltime job but they are so much fun
@@Boofcan hey, quality over quantity!
two months to make this video, you definetly earned my sub, quality video man, ive played new vegas on and off over the years, and i mean very on and off, very little progress. but videos like this, especially this one, are gonna get me some hours soon on this baby
I made a sequel to this video if you haven’t seen it yet!
So refreshing to see that you’re still doing UA-cam and killing it! I hope you’re doing well :)
There *is* variety in how to complete the "Come Fly With Me" quest. For example, it's actually possible to talk to the leader of the nightkin and resolve the conflict peacefully - and if you figure out that the dino toys sold in Novac are radioactive, you can get a bunch of them instead of getting the proper rocket fuel.
The Van Graffs *don't* "vaporize a man for wanting to negotiate on price". They disintegrate a man who stole from them in front of the man who tried to haggle to intimidate him.
In the final version of the game is the previous audio cut when you enter the building?
Because I’ve never heard the stealing part in game.
As for Come Fly with me this is true. The first half is decent. I liked the B plot with the ghoul and dealing with the nightkin. I might be in the minority but I just wasn’t a fan of the ending.
@@Boofcan Tbh, I might be misremembering that part, as it's been a few years since I last played the game :/ But they shoot a bound guy to intimidate a haggler, not the haggler himself, as you imply in the video.
Just discovered your channel through this video, which just so happens to be one of my favorite games. And this is so incredibly spot on. With only 3 videos, this is undeniable proof that you don't need a massive channel to make quality videos, especially long form like this
You do need time. That’s why there are huge gaps in uploads. Thanks for the kind words :)
I remember when new vegas came out. it was labeled as a fo3 dlc. after a few months, people noticed how great of a game this was, to a point where even the largest game reviewers couldnt doubt the game anymore, where the entire community turned against the reviewers to bash on them.
this is one of the first gane that made mainstream reviewers turn on them, and rightfully so.
It was a full game. There was a midnight release