Wait, this isn't a 4 hour analysis by someone who's been obsessed with the game for a decade, it's a 4 hour first impressions video of someone falling in love with NV for the first time. God damn, this was nice.
Having just finished the video I have to say I am blown away by how great it is! I am a New Vegas veteran of almost a decade and dozens of playthroughs. Not only did you mention some thing I never knew about, you also reframed a few things and helped me connect some dots that make me love my favorite game even more. You clearly took the time to engage with the themes and ideas the story wanted you to think about and I can tell you put a lot of time and effort into this video overall. I had some reservations at first, being a small channel I had to have some faith in you that 4 hours was going to be worth my time. I assumed you'd eventually start rambling and I would stop early. The content easily justified the length and my time. This is one of my favorite video essays about the game, and you've unequivocally earned my sub. You've made my time in the hospital trying to pass a difficult kidney stone much more bearable.
Hold on there partner! Primm Slim is the best sherriff this side of the divide and a credit to his people. I won't be hearing anymore of that sass about our brave officer of the law.
Another one sent here from that one. Though I admit I didn't finish that one. I'm just not a huge Morrowind fan, but I did watch the first hour which was pretty good. I just didn't care for the run down of individual quests after that.
"We're getting close to Nelson, any closer i'm shooting any legionary I see. Hope that's not a problem." "No, that's not a problem. That's a solution." i dont know why but I love this exchange
@@MatthewXP It’s definitely one of my favorites. My single favorite is another line from him is when you’re approaching CottonWood Cove. “We’re nearing a legion slave camp. I’ve been here before. I want to get one thing straight. I see any crimson, I’m taking the shot.”
in one of my playthroughs, i forgot that the whole "sneaking weapons into casinos" thing is more laid-back in the tops - in the sense that they don't care if you find any weapons in the casino. so i pulled my gun out after sneaking them into the ultra-luxe, and all the employees become hostile at some point i watched boone pick up one of the canes they use as weapons and proceeded to beat everyone to death with it. it was incredible
@1:35:50 absolutely hilarious for some reason, I can’t stop replaying it. “Alice refers to Cass as a young booze-hound.” “First of all that’s very rude, second of all she’s a mature booze-hound, she’s 37..” :shoots Alice’s head off:
Fallout New Vegas has a special place for me. See, I started to playing it around Christmas one year. The jazzy and big band music, the warmness of the orange hues and desert setting as snow fell out my window while I played. It all culminated together and just gives me a Christmas-y vibe every time I play it.
that’s fallout 3 for me but the same feeling and time.. played it on Christmas when I was 10 or so? gnr gives me so much nostalgia. It’s a bittersweet feeling
Same actually, I got 3 and new Vegas as a present for my ps3 on my birthday. By the time I’d thoroughly worn out 3 (I didn’t know which came first I literally just decided which to try first at random) it was already Christmas time. Popped New Vegas in and honestly had a very similar feeling. Despite the bleakness of the wasteland, New Vegas always warms my soul.
I didn't ever even consider confronting Curtis and have always saved the monorail. It seems like no matter how many times I have played NV there is always some detail I missed.
>"Fallout New Vegas is partially a horror game." *Cackles maniacally in Dead Money.* Joking aside, it's always refreshing seeing someone approach modern classics like NV with a fresh pair of eyes. Kudos for going in totally blind, instead of approaching it from the perspective of someone who's deep-dove beforehand.
imagine being the leader of a great and fearsome nation and some random guy with a comical space suit comes up to you and says "I'm here to assiante you!"
If a dude in a space suit showed up to "assiante" the president, I'd be so confused. What country does he even serve? "Assiante" isn't even a word... in any language. That's some secret service shit
A month ago I was looking a video exactly like this one, but for some reason Only now has YT showed it to me, maybe that is why it has such a low view count because this is extremely well done.
genuinely surprised this has so few views, this is a masterful analysis and review. it was great watching a take on the game through the eyes of someone playing it for the first time; once you've logged a couple hundred hours you forget what that fresh experience is like and it's really reinvigorating to be reminded of it, especially when the take is so thorough.
I first played New Vegas in 2014- back in high school. The first time I booted up the game I told myself I'd just play for an hour. The next thing I knew, that play session had lasted for six hours. I had to drag myself away from the game, it was unlike anything I've played before. (or since, really) My first 'successful' character was named Kenshiro, where I went with an unarmed build. I always like fighting with fisticuffs in any game that allows it, and it was super awesome to be able to beat down deathclaws or Lanius with just some boxing tape and stomping them into paste. After 440 hours, there's still achievements left and I know there's a lot of the game I haven't seen, and watching this video after Hbomberguy's reminded me about them. Yep, you guessed it, it's time to reinstall again.
Lily absolutely breaks my heart and is my favourite companion because of how truly unique her story is. The sadness aside, she's also a delight to be with and I feel like we're truly family when I'm hanging with her.
It hits me especially hard as someone very close to my grandma. Practically was raised by her. And because I feel like my grandma would go through the shit Lily puts up with just to keep memories of her grandchildren, just as Lily does. So many great companions - I wish I could have spent the whole game with each one.
Yeah hes a ncr veteran, he wont help take down the ncr. Thats why, for me, Raul and Lily are the best companions, they are old and dont give a damn any more
@@MatthewXP I completely agree. It’s part of the reason why I put quotation marks on the first two. They are the ones that can easily be *seen* as such but the more you look at them, the more you realize it’s not all as it appears. Mr. House I consider Gray because he’s not one whose about Morals but what is necessary (he will admit that much), so on his side you will clearly do both good and bad things.
@@egeorgiades93 Oh I see now! I didn't focus on the quotes. And yeah I agree about House... he's really just out for his best interest. His money, knowledge, and power above all else. One of the cleverest character designs in any game I've ever played.
@@MatthewXP Mr. House is by far one of my favorite characters in NV. I like how he’s very open with his plans and what his goals are. Unlike everyone else, he won’t dance around it. He treats everything like a business transaction. Also, unlike everyone else there is a Future with Mr. House. I was an NCR boy for a long time but Over the years I converted to a House Boy. Caesars Legion will last as long as the man himself. That’s why it’s “Caesar’s” Legion. The NCR is too wide spread to do any real good and that will lead to their doom. Look at how many people were easily able to infiltrate them. Mr. House will last forever and has one mindset and that’s “Progress”. The World can do whatever it wants as long as you leave House alone and let him do his thing. The Kings fate is a good example of this. If they ally with the NCR, it’s the equivalent of them going against him and he wipes them out. If they don’t ally with the NCR, he leaves them alone and let’s them do their thing.
@@egeorgiades93 NCR is great when the presidency is under Tandhi, after the reelection Aaron Kimball just sending these ncr soldier to a meat grinder to control Helios One, Vegas, and Hoover Dam. That is why i stopped supporting NCR because "too many cooks could ruin the dish"
lmao that intro with benny interrupting you was genius edit: playing without subtitles though. disliked. reported. probably calling the fbi edit 2: called primm slim annoying. 100% calling the fbi
I’m only an hour in but this video has been super fun to watch. Sometimes my inner completionist/lore nerd comes out seeing, like, “oh you coulda done the quest this way and had more fun!” but this type of analysis has the charm of coming over to ur friends house, handing them the controller, and watching them fall in love with their own experience
@@MatthewXPtry talking ulysses down with either speech or his own Tapes. Yes you can do that, and you show him his hipocrasy in using missiles to end a symbol by using his own words. And the end battle is 100 times more epic. 2 Couriers, Side by Side, taking their stand at the Edge of the world, the marked men coming from East and West alike.
You could somewhat fix the game breaking at high speech levels if they would hide what replies were related to high stats, it might make it way more interesting - that way you would actually read all the possible responses and not insta-pick the shiny stat-check one, would be way better for roleplaying too imo. amazing video btw, not finished yet, but I'm REALLY enjoying your road so far!
Its sad that UA-cam has not recommended me this channel sooner. The video is superb. Editing, storytelling, decision-making and all. Keep up the good work!
I know, I find the best way to find content is still good old fashioned search. “X retrospective” longer than 20 minutes and uploaded in the last year is my go to. I’ve actually opened UA-cam bug tickets bc their recommendations are so bad 😂 I’ve designed recommenders so it really gets under my skin
Speech being overpowerd is a damn fair point I've probably never heard spoken in other anlisyses/reviews. It's ironic how despite charisma being a trash stat, speech which depends on it makes the game a piece of cake especially if you are going for a 'good' endings (if there even are good endings in NV)
Yeah, part of me just wished I didn't have the speech level necessary in a few cases just to see what the other outcome would be. That adds a lot of replay value though and is part of the reason why I want to do a low-speech Legionary playthrough.
I agree. The toughest most hellbent warrior in the entire Legion, thus the entire United States, got talked out of a battle by someone so uncharismatic Doc Mitchell said I had brain damage.
@@robertharris6092 Bartering? Also for balancing and variety it is often good to have NPCs who can't be skill checked around, e.g. Ellijah in the Dead Money DLC can't be defeated by speech check, you have to use different skills and even then they just give you more time to flee or make fighting him easier. Similarly Dean Domino is actually made an enemy by using a skill check, bucking the trend that skill checks are usually always beneficial.
3:26:08 Actually General Oliver became general because he's friends with the NCR president. That's it. Believe it or not, the same is often true in real life militaries. The officer corps and especially Lt. Colonel and above are incredibly political. One of the reasons why enlisted personnel and officers don't typically get along in the military.
@@MatthewXP Yup, Oliver is a political General. He is also not one that got promoted through active service and noteworthy deeds. Sadly this happens IRL as well... and did a lot in America during WWII. guys out of College and then basic training and officer school would get company command for no other reason than they had rich parents and they had connections, so you give them a few months of command, maybe a year and then 'promote' them out of direct command to do the deskjockey higher-command work.
@@kinagrill Not just in the officer ranks, enlisted too. I knew the son of a CSM (command sergeant major) who lost his contract. He was accused of peeing in another soldier’s canteen with someone else in basic training. That someone else also lost his contract plus his rank (the contract, by the way, was for special forces). So son calls daddy and daddy gets him a ranger contract. The ranger liaison in airborne school finds out everything and calls his CSM, who then threatened son of CSM, which boiled down to son will not be a ranger. Son calls daddy again and son gets into LRS (a scout unit in the 82nd airborne which is where he told me everything). LRS is hard to get into because they never have slots open, but one opens up for son. Weird huh? Nepotism is everywhere.
I love this particular brand of even-keeled, warm, thoughtful analysis. This and your Fallout 3 video have been great material for relaxing and reflecting on classic games. Makes me think of Noah Caldwell-Gervais.
Fallout new Vegas is one of those game I’ll never forget. I remember on my first playthrough I headed strait to black mountain where I met raul thanks to the use of a stealth boy. I traveled all around the world with him. I played as a women on my playthrough. Around the final conversation with him I realized that I was basically Raul’s 3rd girl or women he tried to take care of. I remember just sitting at that screen to decide his fate. I knew that raul didn’t have much time left to live so I decided for him to settle down. I know you despise the legion but the way raul described the safety that the ncr just doesn’t provide. The ncr makes promises to protect people but they don’t. I on my first playthrough decided to side with the legion. Although, they are Barbarians the way Cesar described his plan made me understand. The legion philosophy is “victory with sacrifice” Let me explain. Cesar speaks about how mr. house’s robots and energy weapons aren’t forged with blood they aren’t material it’s “easy .” Even if Cesar loses he will teach the ncr a lesson he will make the corrupt government into something new and bring in end to it. How he will do that by bringing the ncr a foe that they will have to sacrifice everything to beat. That idea really hooked me. The only way the ncr is gonna change the men the people of the ncr will have to change in order to defeat the legion. That’s why I sided with the legion. Anyway, let’s talk about lonesome Road. I mostly agree with you on Ulysses but killing him I felt was wrong. I found all his tapes in the dlc I understood why he felt the way he did he has tried everything and lost it all. I was beaten battered and every bone broken in my body when I finally got to him. I hated him but at the same time talking to him I finally got it. He speaks about how one man can change the world for better or worse that you could have left anytime but you didn’t so you must care. I told him that what happened to him was a tragedy but things could be better, things could change. The point of the dlc is to give Ulysses hope to believe in someone. If war doesn’t change men must. Btw you can go back to the dlc and talk with Ulysses more. Anyway, thanks for reading this I was glad that you lived with your choices and did not save scum I really respect that. Have a good day man and I can’t wait for new content you might make in the future.
Interesting perspective and reasoning on siding with Caesar. Thanks for sharing that. Yeah, killing Ulysses was more of a playful choice and I totally understand that he opens up more if you choose to keep talking with him, but I really just didn't like him. And thanks I'm happy you enjoyed the video! 😄 I did save scum when I killed Marcus and the super mutants in Jacobstown but apart from that, yeah I lived with my decisions. I think RPGs are more rewarding when you don't save scum and live with the consequences. Thanks for the comment and I hope you'll enjoy the future content!
I didn't like Ulysses. I have many reasons but I'll boil it down to him blaming the messanger and being a hypocrite pointing out all the faults with the NCR and the Legion but has a total hard on for the USSA flag and the NCR are based on them.....
Holy fuck, I have never been as engaged in a youtube video as much as this one, I actually spent an entire 4 hours with minimal pauses because of how well this was made. You managed to give me a brand new perspective of my favourite fallout game and gave me a new meaning to "war never changes".
I've been slowly watching this video over the past day or two, in chunks, just finished the Jacobstown section in fact. I found out this afternoon that my grandma passed away. Grandma Lily hits hard right now, and your comments on your relationship with your grandma had me crying all over again, remembering my own experiences with my grandma. Thank you for this little piece of catharsis.
Something like this is a monumental undertaking, you did an amazing job just posting this alone, fallout New Vegas was one of the best things to ever happen to me and I am very happy that I'm listening to this right now.
I'm seeing an uptick in smaller creators blowing up off of 3+ hour passion projects on their favorite game and I really hope this is the way UA-cam is headed. Excited to follow your channel :) Also, not to plug another UA-camr in your comments, but this is an excellent companion piece to PatricianTV's long form Morrowind and Oblivion videos, and Noah Gervais' Fallout content.
Playing this game for the first time felt like returning home. I was seeing that same wasteland I grew up building and saving back about 16 years ago. This is the true sequel to Fallout 2.
WIth you having played Fallout 2, I bet you could also see and understand why the NCR wasn't perfect by the time you play New Vegas due to it outgrowing itself, pushing for more land without being able to fully control and consolidate it into a civilized part of the NCR, rather than a fringe wild-west type danger-ridden area.
I still come to this video and your other fallout related videos from time to time. So well done and made with such love and care it’s like watching art. Thanks man.
Played this game for the first time recently, and watching this video was pretty interesting. It's cool to see how incredibly different our experiences were, not even just with story/speech related instances, but also just encounters out in the Wasteland. For example, I went straight to Primm from Goodsprings and am only now even learning about the existence of Thorn.
UA-cam just suggested an 8 hour Morrowind retrospective which I absolutely loved, and now I’ve been led to this, what a lucky day. I’m so happy that there are more individuals getting into making this style of content, as is it my absolute favorite to consume. Thanks so much for your hard work and I hope to see more from you in the future.
Thanks for the comment, Zach! So happy to hear you enjoy this type of content. These types of videos are going to be the focus of the channel so stay tuned! Cheers friend 😄
This is a really cool approach to blending the thoughtfulness of an analysis video with the coziness and feeling of discovery of a Let's Play. I liked the way you occasionally paused the linear path through the game to jump ahead and draw parallels to later events, or connect what was happening to a larger theme or pattern. Hope you'll consider doing more of these, it's a very promising format imo
Thank you so much! I’m very happy the format resonated with you. It was something I thought carefully about beforehand, and it makes me so glad to know you liked it! More is on the way :)
@@MatthewXP So bad your forehead accidentally hit the F9 key? Also did you ever figure that you could swap weapons and such with a quick-swap wheel? you can put the number keys to use that way ;3 I think you might even be able to do so with stimpaks as well... or maybe that was first in Fallout 4. but still, quick-choice wheel for 'weapon' swap was great for this game.
Bro do you know how upset I am that this video is only 4 hours long, screw you buddy I needed more than that!! Loved the video, New Vegas is a timeless classic we didn't deserve but somehow got as far back as 2010, incredible!.
This is easily the longest video I've ever sat and watched in one sitting, it was really great getting to watch and hear you experience this amazing game for the first time. Welcome to the club Courier.
I have about 12 solid play throughs and I’m always finding new things in this game. Always wishing it would get a port to the Switch so I could play New Vegas comfortably in bed. Anyways great long video. Kept me interested the whole way through. I hope you do another long video recapping your 2nd play through.
As a long time fan of fallout, and especially fallout New Vegas. I really appreciate this long video. I have subscribed because this is a really good video. You are criminally undersubscribed. New Vegas has always had a soft space in my heart. This video just has been able to put into words why iv always loved this game. Thank you. Keep it up. I look forward to your next in-depth video!
This content is just legendary. I love watching new vegas content, since it was one of the most interesting pieces of media I have every played. I still remember the uneasiness I felt when I was talking to Legate Lanius, and Caeser. I also learned a lot of information just from walking around, and talking to the npcs. Especially the leaders of all the factions. This kind of content is great man! Wish you all the best
I’m with you. Walking around and talking to NPCs in this game never felt superfluous to me. You always learned more about the Mojave and made you feel that much more immersed. Thanks for the kind words, I’m glad you enjoyed it!
@@MatthewXP It's exactly why I can forgive the use of the god-awful Creation Engine. They got that buggy crap to develop from and really had no time to develop new models en masse (like Fallout 3 had), so they took all the time that could be squeezed into it, to instead make the characters feels more 'alive' and interesting, and the quests feel like you weren't just going from point A-B-C and finished it with the return to the quest giver. Sure no all quests are bad like that, but giving you choices, or that sequence breaking being a legit thing you can do without the game stopping you or giving you some silly' you broke the chain of prophecy!' line.
I've fallen in love with your channel. I looked down and thought this was a 15 minute or so video the first time I saw it. Then I clicked on it today and saw it was four hours long. I love it.
This was a project of passion, and I applaud your work. Loved the depth. Players like us, dedicated to single games at a time, can forget the world we're immersed in in exchange for min max builds, or rushing to get that special item. I hope to play through this game again soon with a new perspective. Thank you for putting in the work to create this.
You say at the start you didn't do any specific RP, but your relationship to the Legion told its own, unique story. It was super fun watching your take on my favourite game. Personally, New Vegas was my first ever RPG and the single most memorable moment I've ever had with gaming was when I realized I could go wherever I wanted to. Such a special game to me. Also, watching you shoot at Marcus shattered my heart. You monster.
Hahaha, I guess you could say I was roleplaying myself. The Marcus bit makes me laugh now. We’re all good - I went back in time and made friends with him when I played Fallout 2. I tried to apologize for the future but he didn’t seem to comprehend… silly mutants 😆
3:07:25 the thing that makes me saddest about Papa Khan, and makes me never able to commit to killing him, is down to how all the Khans talk about him. I think the line that struck me the most was from Jack, about how "Papa may look like a big angry bear, but he's a softy at heart". It really got me and made me realise that Papa is a clear step away from all the other raider leaders where his people do genuinely love and care about him, and he does the same in return. He's more than just their leader, he's like a father to them. I think keeping him alive and sending him and the Khans off to Wyoming to build their own empire is far more rewarding than killing him for a few extra bodies at Hoover Dam.
Absolutely. This was one of my biggest regrets in my playthrough. The world-building that happens when you interact with all of the Great Khans is on par with the recruiting you do in Goodsprings vs. the Powder Gangers (should you side with them). I had forgot about that line with Jack but I'm sure it slipped into my subconscious and was one of the reasons why I felt like such an ass when I killed Papa Khan.
Imagine if keeping them alive and potentially having them end up slowly change from drugmaking semi-raiders, to being a peaceful tribe that creates medical supplies instead of the nastier type drugs.
I love the Khans and always stay friendly with them. Even Jessup and Mcmurphy had no ill will toward the courier. I can't remember any case of a Khan attacking unprovoked. They are badass raiders, sure, but are mostly just cool dudes. _Khan Hospitality_ and all that.
Wow Man's Search For Meaning is my favorite book of all time and it changed my life and to see you quote it at an appropriate time aswell makes me respect you that much more
Watching this video is such a beautiful thing. It kind of forced me to remember the first video game that really made me fall in love with video games. I love how you can play the same game 10 times, and every single time have a completely different experience than the previous time. Some of the same exact feelings that you display are the same feelings I felt going through my first play through. Our Playthru was similar, but so different at the same time. That’s what makes this game special. Also great job on the video. Great script, great narrating, great editing, and great footage.
I still remember when im in highschool dating for the first time, and my girlfriend bought this game for me. I always replaying it since then, even tho we broke up 3 years ago i still see her personality through Veronica. I really love this game
It’s crazy to me seeing a smaller UA-cam channel doing things that I’ve only seen people with 100000+ subs. That’s how you know he’s doing this with a passion. Great video my man
I’m really enjoying your videos, this series is phenomenal. Maybe your next yearly upload will be about Skyrim? 😁 I wish I could forget everything I know and just replay all these games for the first time
I just rewatched this. I'm struck by your calm manner, your discussion of what's happening, and I especially like the use of the end game music at the video's end. I wish I could thumb this up again. 👍
I love finding more UA-camrs doing long form essay content on RPG’s and immersive sims. Keep making content like this and you’ll go far fast. If you need someone to do your graphic design I’d love to help since this video is helping me get through my work :)
i remember falling in love with this game while gathering broc flowers for sunny, climbing up to the cemetery at midnight, and seeing the lights of lucky 38 and vegas around it, glowing in the distance, and i felt something in my heart bubbling
Im so glad i found your channel bro. I watched all three of your 4 hour videos and loved every second of it. You deserve to have way more subscribers than you currently do
I'd say the biggest (and potentially only) letdown of Fallout New Vegas is how your character is exposed to the legion. The only portion of the Legion that the Courier is exposed to firsthand is how they fight, through brutal yet cunning strategies, spies, massacres, and what not. The player never learns about the inner workings of the legion personally, only through second hand accounts. Their culture, their governing style, how the average citizen of the legion lives, is all told to the player through companions and dialogue. The companion Raul remarks about how much danger lived in Arizona prior to the legion, and the trader Dale remarks about how he doesn't even need bodyguards when crossing Legion lands. I wish the player could've experienced this for his/herself, maybe allow the player to explore a portion of Legion land across the Colorado river. It would have provided more nuance to the legion, and, I suspect, make the decision for who the courier backs a little less black and white.
Great stuff Matthew! I agree for the most part! You could argue that the inner-look at what happens in the Legion is shown when you arrive at Fortification Hill, but it still doesn’t paint a clear enough picture of the Legion IMO, and if you’re like me you might decide to go on a mass genocide on everyone wearing red as soon as you enter. I suspect they presented the Legion this way because it’s another, arguably bigger antagonist than Benny and that helps the narrative in a lot of ways.
@@MatthewXP I personally see most of the issues with the game as coming directly from the rushed development. I imagine that, with the amount of time a game of this scope really deserves, the legion couldve really been fleshed out and make the player's choice more heavily depend on their personal beliefs than it already does, which is kind of the best aspect of the game
I really disagree with this. This only becomes a problem for people who rushed to a conclusion as soon as they stumbled across Nipton, like the reviewer here. You're not supposed to attack Vulpes at Nipton, you're too outnumbered. Most players aren't headstrong or stupid enough to make that decision, in my experience. This guy really made life much harder for himself because he was thinking too much like a guy playing a video game and not enough like his character in game. It's an RPG, you're not supposed to get into fights with everyone you come across. You end up learning everything you need to know about the Legion when you arrive at Caesar's camp if you explore a bit and talk to people that haven't vilified you yet. Again, your criticism only becomes a problem for players who are "playing the game wrong" . It's a role playing game. You're supposed to play your character's role.
@@GeorgePerakis I understand that you can get info given to you by people at Caesar's camp, from slaves to legionaries to Caesar himself. But what I'm saying is that it would be more effective, and more interesting to firsthand see that culture, traditions, and lifestyle firsthand in a larger capacity. All we get is information dumps by a few characters. What is more effective storytelling, to be told about an event or culture, or to see and experience it for yourself?
@@GeorgePerakis 😂 if only I knew how the play the game correctly! It's elitist comments like these that I wasn't looking forward to when making this video. I acted how I saw fit. I did what I wanted to do. That's why the options are there. That's the beauty of an RPG. The game doesn't hold your hand - it lets you make decisions for yourself and you live with the consequences. I saw the atrocities set forth by the Legion and I took vengeance because I felt it was the right thing to do. If you thought not fighting them there was the smarter thing to do or the more "courier" thing to do, more power to you. That's why it's your playthrough. This was mine.
I laugh at General Oliver telling the player that they are in way over there head. When his strategy (as told by House) "General Oliver's strategy - or 'tunnel vision,' as I like to call it - has been to mass troops at Hoover Dam. He wants to out-fight the Legion in a straight-forward slugging match, and then, when they rout, pursue and destroy them in detail. A crushing, decisive victory of this sort would overshadow the tactical ingenuity of Chief Hanlon's defense four years ago." If this is the best strategy this "General" can come up with, then yes "General" I can do WAY better then you ever could.
The reason why he even got the rank of General is because he's a brown noser. He kissed Kimball's ass. According to Boone, Colonel Hsu would make for a much better General by a mile. Moore is also a good candidate, but her methods are cold and brutal. Hsu is tempered, calm and compassionate.
And Oliver also asks the Courier when you go Yes Man, if you can deal with supply routes, internal security, etc. Well mister Oliver, do you deal with all that? nope, you have a whole bureaucracy in place for you to deal with all of it while you go 'get me closer I wanna hit them with my sword!'. Genral Oliver is an ideal Warhammer 40k Guardsman General.
This was truly great. Fallout New Vegas is one of my favorite games and really shows just how good video games can be. It is truly something special. Thank you for all the work you put into this and I wish you luck in any videos you make in the future.
I have about 3000hrs in this game and I still do at least 2 runs a year, truly a great game and now another great video essay. Just goes to show that even through all of the bugs, the mediocre gunplay, and graphics that the stories and characters will always stand out as some of the best written and will keep people like me still playing it for years to come and to have people still try it out even now 10 years later. I only wish I can play it for the first time again. I hope you upload another video of a different playthrough, with the previous knowledge you gained from this playthrough you will find even more content waiting for you in the Mojave, such as the Vault 19 Powder Gangers, and some of the backstory on certain locations like the Wrecked Highwayman. I hope you get the likes and subs you deserve man, keep up the good work. Also if you like the lore check out TriagleCity, he has great videos on FNV cut content, and try the game out with the JSawyer mod, it makes it tougher and provides sort of a directors cut feel to the game.
One of my favourite videos, not just on New Vegas, but in general. Enjoyed it all from start to end. Very good commentary, and kept me attached from beginning to end. To put it into perspective, I felt emotional when the video ended.
I've played NV like 30 times and I've literally never seen the powder ganger ambush at 20:01, its amazing how much little stuff is hidden away in this game. I've also never seen Jacklyn actually win the fight against Tomas and approach the player without me specifically doing something to make her win, your playthrough is some kinda magical I have also never seen so many legion patrols spawn in such short time spans
@@cjdziesiuta1995 it is way worse then you could expect, everything you loved about new Vegas is stripped and gone :( makes me sad to see Bethesda shitting on fallout still
Wait, this isn't a 4 hour analysis by someone who's been obsessed with the game for a decade, it's a 4 hour first impressions video of someone falling in love with NV for the first time. God damn, this was nice.
Thanks man.
What I wouldn't give to experience this masterpiece for the first time again
Hey it's around an hour of review and analysis per 100 hours i've spent on this game XD
Same, i was expecting like a deep analysis but ended up finind someone having a good laugh and as you said, falling in love with it.
I keep finding people doing these 3+ hr reviews/retrospectives of games I love and I'm always here for it 💕
4 hours of fanboying over the best fallout game ever made? Yeah ok I got time.
and 19 minutes
@@MatthewXP and one second ☝️
I mean, "Best *First Person* Fallout game ever made"
Something to watch while I play through New Vegas again
Lol didn't even noticed it was 4 hours 😂
Having just finished the video I have to say I am blown away by how great it is! I am a New Vegas veteran of almost a decade and dozens of playthroughs. Not only did you mention some thing I never knew about, you also reframed a few things and helped me connect some dots that make me love my favorite game even more. You clearly took the time to engage with the themes and ideas the story wanted you to think about and I can tell you put a lot of time and effort into this video overall.
I had some reservations at first, being a small channel I had to have some faith in you that 4 hours was going to be worth my time. I assumed you'd eventually start rambling and I would stop early. The content easily justified the length and my time. This is one of my favorite video essays about the game, and you've unequivocally earned my sub. You've made my time in the hospital trying to pass a difficult kidney stone much more bearable.
Thank you so much for the awesome comment! I’m so happy to hear you enjoyed the video, and I wish you a speedy recovery my friend! Hang in there!
Hope you pass it soon!
Move around if you can. :)
games without iron sights so rare I am literally forced to watch videos about classic games like fallout 3 new vega doom 3 ect.
@@MrSp0iler what's so good about games without iron sights
@@daevildude45 Iron sights interfere with flow of action. Compare doom 2 with fallout 3 or new vegas shooting.
Hold on there partner! Primm Slim is the best sherriff this side of the divide and a credit to his people. I won't be hearing anymore of that sass about our brave officer of the law.
Sorry partner!
Yeeeee-HAW!
@@MatthewXP YEE-HAW
He is the lawman version of Fisto. The ONLY choice. :)
@@kinagrill Its a shame they didnt have the hidden option of sheriff Fisto.
Just a mentally scarred mailman being badass: The Game
Pretty much, yeah 😂
I love how "mentally scarred" can be referred to as both physical and emotional xD
@@JKeltTV you genius
So just the video game Postal 2: The Game.
Don't forget he also has brain-damage! (Intelligence = 1)
I literally just finished a 7 hour Morrowind analysis this really is just my life now
Patrician? HA we’re living the same life friend
@@lankybot2292 UA-cam recommendations doing work
😂😂
Another one sent here from that one. Though I admit I didn't finish that one. I'm just not a huge Morrowind fan, but I did watch the first hour which was pretty good. I just didn't care for the run down of individual quests after that.
Well, the Algorithm has united us all once again.
"We're getting close to Nelson, any closer i'm shooting any legionary I see. Hope that's not a problem." "No, that's not a problem. That's a solution." i dont know why but I love this exchange
I LOVE that exchange too. That’s when I knew I had a best friend in the Mojave
Damn right. You and I, we’re just a couple of problem solvers.
@@dylanbrown1032 might be my favorite line in the game
@@MatthewXP It’s definitely one of my favorites. My single favorite is another line from him is when you’re approaching CottonWood Cove. “We’re nearing a legion slave camp. I’ve been here before. I want to get one thing straight. I see any crimson, I’m taking the shot.”
@@dylanbrown1032 there’s something about Boone’s voice actor’s delivery that’s just superb
in one of my playthroughs, i forgot that the whole "sneaking weapons into casinos" thing is more laid-back in the tops - in the sense that they don't care if you find any weapons in the casino. so i pulled my gun out after sneaking them into the ultra-luxe, and all the employees become hostile
at some point i watched boone pick up one of the canes they use as weapons and proceeded to beat everyone to death with it. it was incredible
Ultra-luxe is so f***ing weird lol I loved that place’s atmosphere
@@MatthewXP WE ARE TOTALLY NOT CANNIBALS!
I think bringing companions into the casinos makes the quests bug out.
I'll never get tired of these types of Fallout New Vegas videos. Almost makes me wanna make my own...
I'll watch it
I listen to these at work
@1:35:50 absolutely hilarious for some reason, I can’t stop replaying it.
“Alice refers to Cass as a young booze-hound.”
“First of all that’s very rude, second of all she’s a mature booze-hound, she’s 37..”
:shoots Alice’s head off:
Fallout New Vegas has a special place for me. See, I started to playing it around Christmas one year. The jazzy and big band music, the warmness of the orange hues and desert setting as snow fell out my window while I played. It all culminated together and just gives me a Christmas-y vibe every time I play it.
Dude! I also played it during Christmas and I get the same EXACT feeling! That's crazy, haha.
that’s fallout 3 for me but the same feeling and time.. played it on Christmas when I was 10 or so? gnr gives me so much nostalgia. It’s a bittersweet feeling
@@delayedjustright8192 nostalgia is always bittersweet :')
Same actually, I got 3 and new Vegas as a present for my ps3 on my birthday. By the time
I’d thoroughly worn out 3 (I didn’t know which came first I literally just decided which to try first at random) it was already Christmas time. Popped New Vegas in and honestly had a very similar feeling. Despite the bleakness of the wasteland, New Vegas always warms my soul.
Fun fact: You can actually save the metro if you run straight to it and don't confront Curtiss
The range of outcomes in FNV is insane
You can confront Curtis, you just have to wait until he talks about the metro before doing so, kill him and book it.
I didn't ever even consider confronting Curtis and have always saved the monorail. It seems like no matter how many times I have played NV there is always some detail I missed.
you can confront curtis AND save the metro, ive done it
but i usually let it get destroyed anyway bc fuck the ncr i just want the safehouse key
@@deaj8450 Same, I have never ever spoke to the dude in the tower. I've only talked to him when he catches me outside waiting for him.
I’m just now discovering a 4 hour analysis of my favorite game ever?? I’m fucking hyped
Had to stretch for that 10 min mark 😆 enjoy!
>"Fallout New Vegas is partially a horror game."
*Cackles maniacally in Dead Money.*
Joking aside, it's always refreshing seeing someone approach modern classics like NV with a fresh pair of eyes. Kudos for going in totally blind, instead of approaching it from the perspective of someone who's deep-dove beforehand.
Haha, thanks for the kind words! I thought a nostalgia-free look at the game would be interesting, and it seems like it was so I'm very happy :)
imagine being the leader of a great and fearsome nation and some random guy with a comical space suit comes up to you and says "I'm here to assiante you!"
How dare you. There is nothing comical about my +40 rad resistance space suit. Take it back!
@@MatthewXP HA-HA -Nelson, the kid from springfield
If a dude in a space suit showed up to "assiante" the president, I'd be so confused. What country does he even serve? "Assiante" isn't even a word... in any language. That's some secret service shit
@@traceyrice4978 ah come on, everyone makes mistakes
@@traceyrice4978 It sounds french. maybe it means to surrender?
A month ago I was looking a video exactly like this one, but for some reason Only now has YT showed it to me, maybe that is why it has such a low view count because this is extremely well done.
@MAQS I really appreciate the kind words, thank you!
Its just UA-cam being UA-cam. Although the more we comment on the videos the more exposure they'll get.
genuinely surprised this has so few views, this is a masterful analysis and review. it was great watching a take on the game through the eyes of someone playing it for the first time; once you've logged a couple hundred hours you forget what that fresh experience is like and it's really reinvigorating to be reminded of it, especially when the take is so thorough.
Thanks for the kind words, Eli! I'm so happy to hear you enjoyed it.
I first played New Vegas in 2014- back in high school. The first time I booted up the game I told myself I'd just play for an hour. The next thing I knew, that play session had lasted for six hours. I had to drag myself away from the game, it was unlike anything I've played before. (or since, really)
My first 'successful' character was named Kenshiro, where I went with an unarmed build. I always like fighting with fisticuffs in any game that allows it, and it was super awesome to be able to beat down deathclaws or Lanius with just some boxing tape and stomping them into paste.
After 440 hours, there's still achievements left and I know there's a lot of the game I haven't seen, and watching this video after Hbomberguy's reminded me about them. Yep, you guessed it, it's time to reinstall again.
Kenshiro the Courier -- it has a nice ring to it. Enjoy your time back in the Mojave!
Lily absolutely breaks my heart and is my favourite companion because of how truly unique her story is. The sadness aside, she's also a delight to be with and I feel like we're truly family when I'm hanging with her.
It hits me especially hard as someone very close to my grandma. Practically was raised by her. And because I feel like my grandma would go through the shit Lily puts up with just to keep memories of her grandchildren, just as Lily does. So many great companions - I wish I could have spent the whole game with each one.
And it's a female super mutant. a very old lady that seems to have been genetically ideal for a vat-dip... it's rather heartbreaking.
Patrolling the Nuclear Winter almost makes you wish for a Mojave
Stealing this 😂
Boone didn't wanna help me take down the NCR for some reason. So I had to abandon him.
Bless Rex. He didn't give a shit who I helped.
That’s weird. Yeah at least you had Rex! Pups never leave your side 🐶
Yeah hes a ncr veteran, he wont help take down the ncr. Thats why, for me, Raul and Lily are the best companions, they are old and dont give a damn any more
The “Good”: NCR
The “Bad”: Caesar’s Legion
The Gray: Mr. House
The Wild Card: You
For the most part I agree, but I personally wouldn't bucket them. Each choice has pros and cons, some merits stronger than others!
@@MatthewXP I completely agree. It’s part of the reason why I put quotation marks on the first two. They are the ones that can easily be *seen* as such but the more you look at them, the more you realize it’s not all as it appears.
Mr. House I consider Gray because he’s not one whose about Morals but what is necessary (he will admit that much), so on his side you will clearly do both good and bad things.
@@egeorgiades93 Oh I see now! I didn't focus on the quotes. And yeah I agree about House... he's really just out for his best interest. His money, knowledge, and power above all else. One of the cleverest character designs in any game I've ever played.
@@MatthewXP Mr. House is by far one of my favorite characters in NV. I like how he’s very open with his plans and what his goals are. Unlike everyone else, he won’t dance around it. He treats everything like a business transaction. Also, unlike everyone else there is a Future with Mr. House. I was an NCR boy for a long time but Over the years I converted to a House Boy.
Caesars Legion will last as long as the man himself. That’s why it’s “Caesar’s” Legion.
The NCR is too wide spread to do any real good and that will lead to their doom. Look at how many people were easily able to infiltrate them.
Mr. House will last forever and has one mindset and that’s “Progress”. The World can do whatever it wants as long as you leave House alone and let him do his thing. The Kings fate is a good example of this. If they ally with the NCR, it’s the equivalent of them going against him and he wipes them out. If they don’t ally with the NCR, he leaves them alone and let’s them do their thing.
@@egeorgiades93 NCR is great when the presidency is under Tandhi, after the reelection Aaron Kimball just sending these ncr soldier to a meat grinder to control Helios One, Vegas, and Hoover Dam. That is why i stopped supporting NCR because "too many cooks could ruin the dish"
lmao that intro with benny interrupting you was genius
edit: playing without subtitles though. disliked. reported. probably calling the fbi
edit 2: called primm slim annoying. 100% calling the fbi
Immediately gunned down the supermutants at Jacobs Town. Pick up the phone
also didnt kill Oliver Swanick ASAP
I’m only an hour in but this video has been super fun to watch. Sometimes my inner completionist/lore nerd comes out seeing, like, “oh you coulda done the quest this way and had more fun!” but this type of analysis has the charm of coming over to ur friends house, handing them the controller, and watching them fall in love with their own experience
Haha thanks man! I’m glad it’s entertaining. I can’t wait to play it a second time and do all the stuff I missed. Thanks for watching 😁
@@MatthewXPtry talking ulysses down with either speech or his own Tapes. Yes you can do that, and you show him his hipocrasy in using missiles to end a symbol by using his own words. And the end battle is 100 times more epic.
2 Couriers, Side by Side, taking their stand at the Edge of the world, the marked men coming from East and West alike.
You could somewhat fix the game breaking at high speech levels if they would hide what replies were related to high stats, it might make it way more interesting - that way you would actually read all the possible responses and not insta-pick the shiny stat-check one, would be way better for roleplaying too imo. amazing video btw, not finished yet, but I'm REALLY enjoying your road so far!
There has been a mod for that for a long time already
Nice video, would love more longform chill videos about fallout games or just RPGs in general tbh.
Subbed, honestly you deserve more subs
Thank you brotha! I really appreciate the kind words.
Its sad that UA-cam has not recommended me this channel sooner. The video is superb. Editing, storytelling, decision-making and all. Keep up the good work!
Thank you so much, Commander!
I know, I find the best way to find content is still good old fashioned search. “X retrospective” longer than 20 minutes and uploaded in the last year is my go to. I’ve actually opened UA-cam bug tickets bc their recommendations are so bad 😂 I’ve designed recommenders so it really gets under my skin
Speech being overpowerd is a damn fair point I've probably never heard spoken in other anlisyses/reviews. It's ironic how despite charisma being a trash stat, speech which depends on it makes the game a piece of cake especially if you are going for a 'good' endings (if there even are good endings in NV)
Yeah, part of me just wished I didn't have the speech level necessary in a few cases just to see what the other outcome would be. That adds a lot of replay value though and is part of the reason why I want to do a low-speech Legionary playthrough.
Legate Lanius: Prepare to die.
Courier: *word noises*
Legate Lanius: Fair enough. Have a nice day. *Despawns*
I agree. The toughest most hellbent warrior in the entire Legion, thus the entire United States, got talked out of a battle by someone so uncharismatic Doc Mitchell said I had brain damage.
What would be tge poijt in maxing it out if it wasnt? If you wanna fight then dont level it up or dont use the dialog.
@@robertharris6092 Bartering?
Also for balancing and variety it is often good to have NPCs who can't be skill checked around, e.g. Ellijah in the Dead Money DLC can't be defeated by speech check, you have to use different skills and even then they just give you more time to flee or make fighting him easier.
Similarly Dean Domino is actually made an enemy by using a skill check, bucking the trend that skill checks are usually always beneficial.
3:26:08 Actually General Oliver became general because he's friends with the NCR president. That's it. Believe it or not, the same is often true in real life militaries. The officer corps and especially Lt. Colonel and above are incredibly political. One of the reasons why enlisted personnel and officers don't typically get along in the military.
Interesting - must’ve missed that when looking up the lore. And that’s also an interesting fact I never knew!
@@MatthewXP Yup, Oliver is a political General. He is also not one that got promoted through active service and noteworthy deeds.
Sadly this happens IRL as well... and did a lot in America during WWII. guys out of College and then basic training and officer school would get company command for no other reason than they had rich parents and they had connections, so you give them a few months of command, maybe a year and then 'promote' them out of direct command to do the deskjockey higher-command work.
@@kinagrill
Not just in the officer ranks, enlisted too. I knew the son of a CSM (command sergeant major) who lost his contract. He was accused of peeing in another soldier’s canteen with someone else in basic training. That someone else also lost his contract plus his rank (the contract, by the way, was for special forces). So son calls daddy and daddy gets him a ranger contract. The ranger liaison in airborne school finds out everything and calls his CSM, who then threatened son of CSM, which boiled down to son will not be a ranger. Son calls daddy again and son gets into LRS (a scout unit in the 82nd airborne which is where he told me everything). LRS is hard to get into because they never have slots open, but one opens up for son. Weird huh?
Nepotism is everywhere.
I love this particular brand of even-keeled, warm, thoughtful analysis. This and your Fallout 3 video have been great material for relaxing and reflecting on classic games. Makes me think of Noah Caldwell-Gervais.
Love the review, but primm slim is the most Rutin Tuten shooting robot cowboy out there. He’s a treasure ❤️ I love him.
Yeah you’re not the first person to say that. Maybe I was a bit harsh on the tin can... thanks though!
Fallout new Vegas is one of those game I’ll never forget. I remember on my first playthrough I headed strait to black mountain where I met raul thanks to the use of a stealth boy. I traveled all around the world with him. I played as a women on my playthrough. Around the final conversation with him I realized that I was basically Raul’s 3rd girl or women he tried to take care of. I remember just sitting at that screen to decide his fate. I knew that raul didn’t have much time left to live so I decided for him to settle down. I know you despise the legion but the way raul described the safety that the ncr just doesn’t provide. The ncr makes promises to protect people but they don’t. I on my first playthrough decided to side with the legion. Although, they are Barbarians the way Cesar described his plan made me understand. The legion philosophy is “victory with sacrifice” Let me explain. Cesar speaks about how mr. house’s robots and energy weapons aren’t forged with blood they aren’t material it’s “easy .” Even if Cesar loses he will teach the ncr a lesson he will make the corrupt government into something new and bring in end to it. How he will do that by bringing the ncr a foe that they will have to sacrifice everything to beat. That idea really hooked me. The only way the ncr is gonna change the men the people of the ncr will have to change in order to defeat the legion. That’s why I sided with the legion.
Anyway, let’s talk about lonesome Road. I mostly agree with you on Ulysses but killing him I felt was wrong. I found all his tapes in the dlc I understood why he felt the way he did he has tried everything and lost it all. I was beaten battered and every bone broken in my body when I finally got to him. I hated him but at the same time talking to him I finally got it. He speaks about how one man can change the world for better or worse that you could have left anytime but you didn’t so you must care. I told him that what happened to him was a tragedy but things could be better, things could change. The point of the dlc is to give Ulysses hope to believe in someone. If war doesn’t change men must.
Btw you can go back to the dlc and talk with Ulysses more.
Anyway, thanks for reading this I was glad that you lived with your choices and did not save scum I really respect that. Have a good day man and I can’t wait for new content you might make in the future.
Interesting perspective and reasoning on siding with Caesar. Thanks for sharing that. Yeah, killing Ulysses was more of a playful choice and I totally understand that he opens up more if you choose to keep talking with him, but I really just didn't like him. And thanks I'm happy you enjoyed the video! 😄 I did save scum when I killed Marcus and the super mutants in Jacobstown but apart from that, yeah I lived with my decisions. I think RPGs are more rewarding when you don't save scum and live with the consequences. Thanks for the comment and I hope you'll enjoy the future content!
I didn't like Ulysses. I have many reasons but I'll boil it down to him blaming the messanger and being a hypocrite pointing out all the faults with the NCR and the Legion but has a total hard on for the USSA flag and the NCR are based on them.....
This is my new comfort video, felt like taking a trip through my favourite game with someone who appreciates it as much as I do
So happy to hear that Jared! Cheers friend
Holy fuck, I have never been as engaged in a youtube video as much as this one, I actually spent an entire 4 hours with minimal pauses because of how well this was made. You managed to give me a brand new perspective of my favourite fallout game and gave me a new meaning to "war never changes".
Love to hear that, thank you friend! 😄
I've been slowly watching this video over the past day or two, in chunks, just finished the Jacobstown section in fact. I found out this afternoon that my grandma passed away. Grandma Lily hits hard right now, and your comments on your relationship with your grandma had me crying all over again, remembering my own experiences with my grandma. Thank you for this little piece of catharsis.
😢 I’m so sorry for the loss of your grandma. May she Rest In Peace. Sending lots of love your way friend ❤️
I never finished Boones character story. Hearing him talk sent shivers down my spine
I still get shivers rewatching that part! My favorite companion.
Something like this is a monumental undertaking, you did an amazing job just posting this alone, fallout New Vegas was one of the best things to ever happen to me and I am very happy that I'm listening to this right now.
Thanks Evan I appreciate that
I'm seeing an uptick in smaller creators blowing up off of 3+ hour passion projects on their favorite game and I really hope this is the way UA-cam is headed. Excited to follow your channel :)
Also, not to plug another UA-camr in your comments, but this is an excellent companion piece to PatricianTV's long form Morrowind and Oblivion videos, and Noah Gervais' Fallout content.
Thank you 😄 I hope so too! And plug away, those two are both outstanding creators in the space, I agree.
Playing this game for the first time felt like returning home. I was seeing that same wasteland I grew up building and saving back about 16 years ago. This is the true sequel to Fallout 2.
Damn, you make me want to play the originals 😩
WIth you having played Fallout 2, I bet you could also see and understand why the NCR wasn't perfect by the time you play New Vegas due to it outgrowing itself, pushing for more land without being able to fully control and consolidate it into a civilized part of the NCR, rather than a fringe wild-west type danger-ridden area.
Fallout 2, 2
I still come to this video and your other fallout related videos from time to time. So well done and made with such love and care it’s like watching art. Thanks man.
Woah, needed something to listen to while playing bloodborne. This came at the perfect time, thanks!
That's crazy, I literally just started Bloodborne two days ago! May the good blood guide us...
My XP Best game I’ve played recently, if u need any tips&tricks, I’m more than happy to help. Fear the old blood!
@@mishisoo Just got through the Forbidden Woods. Fun time 😅
My XP ooooh boyy. Add me on discord Shisoo#2984 because I have some not So pretty words about the forbidden woods that i’d like to share..
@@MatthewXP Welcome home, good hunter.
This love letter to my favorite game is so beautifully made! I had to pause three times to go play New Vegas again.
So happy you enjoyed it, Vanessa!
4 hour long new vegas essay: Yeah i got time
30 minute online class: i dont got the time
The algorithm couldn’t have recommended me this sooner? Great video! I’m sure I’ll listen to it over and over for many months. lol
Played this game for the first time recently, and watching this video was pretty interesting. It's cool to see how incredibly different our experiences were, not even just with story/speech related instances, but also just encounters out in the Wasteland.
For example, I went straight to Primm from Goodsprings and am only now even learning about the existence of Thorn.
That’s part of why Bethesda-style open world games are so great. You and your buddies all had different experiences you can discuss over a beer.
UA-cam just suggested an 8 hour Morrowind retrospective which I absolutely loved, and now I’ve been led to this, what a lucky day. I’m so happy that there are more individuals getting into making this style of content, as is it my absolute favorite to consume. Thanks so much for your hard work and I hope to see more from you in the future.
Thanks for the comment, Zach! So happy to hear you enjoy this type of content. These types of videos are going to be the focus of the channel so stay tuned! Cheers friend 😄
This man: *delivering important disclaimers*
Benny: AINT NOBODY GOT TIME FOR THAT
😂😂😂
This is a really cool approach to blending the thoughtfulness of an analysis video with the coziness and feeling of discovery of a Let's Play. I liked the way you occasionally paused the linear path through the game to jump ahead and draw parallels to later events, or connect what was happening to a larger theme or pattern. Hope you'll consider doing more of these, it's a very promising format imo
Thank you so much! I’m very happy the format resonated with you. It was something I thought carefully about beforehand, and it makes me so glad to know you liked it! More is on the way :)
Amazing video! I saw your fallout 1 video and decided to see what you thought about NV. Loved it!
Well worth 4 hours of my day, you shootings the Super mutants on site at Jacobstown was the funniest thing I've seen in a long time.
😂😭 I felt so bad
@@MatthewXP I like this video so much I just watched it all again, lol. forgot how deep you go into everything. 10/10
@@jordandansie2190 much love, man! Glad you enjoyed it 😄
@@MatthewXP So bad your forehead accidentally hit the F9 key? Also did you ever figure that you could swap weapons and such with a quick-swap wheel? you can put the number keys to use that way ;3 I think you might even be able to do so with stimpaks as well... or maybe that was first in Fallout 4. but still, quick-choice wheel for 'weapon' swap was great for this game.
Storming The Fort and killing Ceasar with boone never gets old
Just a couple of problem-solvers.
I'm loving the love NV is getting from channels lately. Good analysis imo. It sounds cheesy but it truly is my favorite game of all time.
Not cheesy at all dude it's an outstanding game! It's up there for me too. And thanks man I appreciate it!
Bro do you know how upset I am that this video is only 4 hours long, screw you buddy I needed more than that!!
Loved the video, New Vegas is a timeless classic we didn't deserve but somehow got as far back as 2010, incredible!.
Raul was my favorite companion hands down
This is easily the longest video I've ever sat and watched in one sitting, it was really great getting to watch and hear you experience this amazing game for the first time. Welcome to the club Courier.
Hell yeah! Thanks for watching! Thanks for the welcoming :)
I have about 12 solid play throughs and I’m always finding new things in this game. Always wishing it would get a port to the Switch so I could play New Vegas comfortably in bed.
Anyways great long video. Kept me interested the whole way through. I hope you do another long video recapping your 2nd play through.
Glad you enjoyed it! 12 playthroughs... wow. Says a lot about the replayability. New Vegas on the Switch would be awesome.
As a long time fan of fallout, and especially fallout New Vegas. I really appreciate this long video. I have subscribed because this is a really good video. You are criminally undersubscribed.
New Vegas has always had a soft space in my heart. This video just has been able to put into words why iv always loved this game. Thank you. Keep it up. I look forward to your next in-depth video!
Thank you so much Petra! I appreciate the nice comment :)
This content is just legendary. I love watching new vegas content, since it was one of the most interesting pieces of media I have every played. I still remember the uneasiness I felt when I was talking to Legate Lanius, and Caeser. I also learned a lot of information just from walking around, and talking to the npcs. Especially the leaders of all the factions. This kind of content is great man! Wish you all the best
I’m with you. Walking around and talking to NPCs in this game never felt superfluous to me. You always learned more about the Mojave and made you feel that much more immersed. Thanks for the kind words, I’m glad you enjoyed it!
@@MatthewXP It's exactly why I can forgive the use of the god-awful Creation Engine. They got that buggy crap to develop from and really had no time to develop new models en masse (like Fallout 3 had), so they took all the time that could be squeezed into it, to instead make the characters feels more 'alive' and interesting, and the quests feel like you weren't just going from point A-B-C and finished it with the return to the quest giver. Sure no all quests are bad like that, but giving you choices, or that sequence breaking being a legit thing you can do without the game stopping you or giving you some silly' you broke the chain of prophecy!' line.
I've fallen in love with your channel. I looked down and thought this was a 15 minute or so video the first time I saw it.
Then I clicked on it today and saw it was four hours long. I love it.
Haha, I love hearing that! Thank you for the comment 😄 hope you enjoy(ed) the video! Cheers 👍
The little nods you do to answer people tickles me.
This was a project of passion, and I applaud your work.
Loved the depth. Players like us, dedicated to single games at a time, can forget the world we're immersed in in exchange for min max builds, or rushing to get that special item.
I hope to play through this game again soon with a new perspective.
Thank you for putting in the work to create this.
Absolutely! Thank you for the kind words and for watching! So happy you enjoyed it.
You say at the start you didn't do any specific RP, but your relationship to the Legion told its own, unique story. It was super fun watching your take on my favourite game.
Personally, New Vegas was my first ever RPG and the single most memorable moment I've ever had with gaming was when I realized I could go wherever I wanted to. Such a special game to me. Also, watching you shoot at Marcus shattered my heart. You monster.
Hahaha, I guess you could say I was roleplaying myself. The Marcus bit makes me laugh now. We’re all good - I went back in time and made friends with him when I played Fallout 2. I tried to apologize for the future but he didn’t seem to comprehend… silly mutants 😆
@@MatthewXP So you played Fallout 2... Im excited 😏😏😏
3:07:25 the thing that makes me saddest about Papa Khan, and makes me never able to commit to killing him, is down to how all the Khans talk about him. I think the line that struck me the most was from Jack, about how "Papa may look like a big angry bear, but he's a softy at heart". It really got me and made me realise that Papa is a clear step away from all the other raider leaders where his people do genuinely love and care about him, and he does the same in return. He's more than just their leader, he's like a father to them. I think keeping him alive and sending him and the Khans off to Wyoming to build their own empire is far more rewarding than killing him for a few extra bodies at Hoover Dam.
Absolutely. This was one of my biggest regrets in my playthrough. The world-building that happens when you interact with all of the Great Khans is on par with the recruiting you do in Goodsprings vs. the Powder Gangers (should you side with them). I had forgot about that line with Jack but I'm sure it slipped into my subconscious and was one of the reasons why I felt like such an ass when I killed Papa Khan.
Imagine if keeping them alive and potentially having them end up slowly change from drugmaking semi-raiders, to being a peaceful tribe that creates medical supplies instead of the nastier type drugs.
I love the Khans and always stay friendly with them. Even Jessup and Mcmurphy had no ill will toward the courier. I can't remember any case of a Khan attacking unprovoked. They are badass raiders, sure, but are mostly just cool dudes. _Khan Hospitality_ and all that.
Keep in good with Khans. Best armory in the game!
Big difference from the Khans in Fallout 1 & 2, in those two games they're just degenerate raiders.
Wow Man's Search For Meaning is my favorite book of all time and it changed my life and to see you quote it at an appropriate time aswell makes me respect you that much more
Thank you 🙏 it’s an incredible book that’s stayed with me for years
Watching this video is such a beautiful thing. It kind of forced me to remember the first video game that really made me fall in love with video games. I love how you can play the same game 10 times, and every single time have a completely different experience than the previous time. Some of the same exact feelings that you display are the same feelings I felt going through my first play through.
Our Playthru was similar, but so different at the same time. That’s what makes this game special. Also great job on the video. Great script, great narrating, great editing, and great footage.
I still remember when im in highschool dating for the first time, and my girlfriend bought this game for me. I always replaying it since then, even tho we broke up 3 years ago i still see her personality through Veronica. I really love this game
Damn that’s bittersweet
She realised she's a lesbian?
It’s crazy to me seeing a smaller UA-cam channel doing things that I’ve only seen people with 100000+ subs. That’s how you know he’s doing this with a passion. Great video my man
Thank you my dude 🙏 was a passion project for sure and I’m happy to have saw it to the end. Glad you enjoyed it
@@MatthewXP I loved my man. Love seeing real passion put behind such a beautiful game. Keep being cool and happy holidays!
@@Bersekintime thank you sir, same to you!
Watched the whole thing, best review of fnv ive ever seen and disgustingly underrated
Much thanks, Thomas!
This is one of the most earnest love letters to a piece of art I've seen. Thanks for sharing it.
My pleasure! Thanks for watching it.
Just finished this monster of a video while replaying the game again for my self. God damn dude, this is some grade A content. Keep it up man, love it
Thanks dude! Means a lot. Glad you enjoyed it 👌
Your channel is criminally underrated. Love this video, that coffee wasn't in vain.
Hahaha thank you so much Wally! I really appreciate the kind words.
"Patrolling the Mojave almost makes me wish for a nuclear winter."
"I hear Primm got a new sheriff , that should keep the powder gangers away."
"Is it me or has the brotherhood stop engaging us? smartest move they ever made if you ask me"
"Wish I could've been there to see Caesar die. What an asshole."
@@MatthewXP YEEEEHAWWWW
this game is the BEST RPG ever
I’m really enjoying your videos, this series is phenomenal. Maybe your next yearly upload will be about Skyrim? 😁
I wish I could forget everything I know and just replay all these games for the first time
I just rewatched this. I'm struck by your calm manner, your discussion of what's happening, and I especially like the use of the end game music at the video's end. I wish I could thumb this up again. 👍
Thank you, friend! 😄
I love finding more UA-camrs doing long form essay content on RPG’s and immersive sims. Keep making content like this and you’ll go far fast. If you need someone to do your graphic design I’d love to help since this video is helping me get through my work :)
So glad you're enjoying the content! I think I'm good for now but I really do appreciate the offer :) that's very kind of you
This is an amazing video. You deserve more subs for sure.
Thank you so much!
Just became your 100th subscriber.
Thank you so much dude! I’m truly honored
i remember falling in love with this game while gathering broc flowers for sunny, climbing up to the cemetery at midnight, and seeing the lights of lucky 38 and vegas around it, glowing in the distance, and i felt something in my heart bubbling
Im so glad i found your channel bro. I watched all three of your 4 hour videos and loved every second of it. You deserve to have way more subscribers than you currently do
4 hours? This is exactly what I need.
I'd say the biggest (and potentially only) letdown of Fallout New Vegas is how your character is exposed to the legion. The only portion of the Legion that the Courier is exposed to firsthand is how they fight, through brutal yet cunning strategies, spies, massacres, and what not. The player never learns about the inner workings of the legion personally, only through second hand accounts. Their culture, their governing style, how the average citizen of the legion lives, is all told to the player through companions and dialogue. The companion Raul remarks about how much danger lived in Arizona prior to the legion, and the trader Dale remarks about how he doesn't even need bodyguards when crossing Legion lands. I wish the player could've experienced this for his/herself, maybe allow the player to explore a portion of Legion land across the Colorado river. It would have provided more nuance to the legion, and, I suspect, make the decision for who the courier backs a little less black and white.
Great stuff Matthew! I agree for the most part! You could argue that the inner-look at what happens in the Legion is shown when you arrive at Fortification Hill, but it still doesn’t paint a clear enough picture of the Legion IMO, and if you’re like me you might decide to go on a mass genocide on everyone wearing red as soon as you enter. I suspect they presented the Legion this way because it’s another, arguably bigger antagonist than Benny and that helps the narrative in a lot of ways.
@@MatthewXP I personally see most of the issues with the game as coming directly from the rushed development. I imagine that, with the amount of time a game of this scope really deserves, the legion couldve really been fleshed out and make the player's choice more heavily depend on their personal beliefs than it already does, which is kind of the best aspect of the game
I really disagree with this. This only becomes a problem for people who rushed to a conclusion as soon as they stumbled across Nipton, like the reviewer here. You're not supposed to attack Vulpes at Nipton, you're too outnumbered. Most players aren't headstrong or stupid enough to make that decision, in my experience. This guy really made life much harder for himself because he was thinking too much like a guy playing a video game and not enough like his character in game.
It's an RPG, you're not supposed to get into fights with everyone you come across.
You end up learning everything you need to know about the Legion when you arrive at Caesar's camp if you explore a bit and talk to people that haven't vilified you yet.
Again, your criticism only becomes a problem for players who are "playing the game wrong" . It's a role playing game. You're supposed to play your character's role.
@@GeorgePerakis I understand that you can get info given to you by people at Caesar's camp, from slaves to legionaries to Caesar himself. But what I'm saying is that it would be more effective, and more interesting to firsthand see that culture, traditions, and lifestyle firsthand in a larger capacity. All we get is information dumps by a few characters. What is more effective storytelling, to be told about an event or culture, or to see and experience it for yourself?
@@GeorgePerakis 😂 if only I knew how the play the game correctly! It's elitist comments like these that I wasn't looking forward to when making this video.
I acted how I saw fit. I did what I wanted to do. That's why the options are there. That's the beauty of an RPG. The game doesn't hold your hand - it lets you make decisions for yourself and you live with the consequences. I saw the atrocities set forth by the Legion and I took vengeance because I felt it was the right thing to do. If you thought not fighting them there was the smarter thing to do or the more "courier" thing to do, more power to you. That's why it's your playthrough. This was mine.
Haven’t finished yet but I’m really enjoying your perspective. Keep up the good work!
Thank you very much!
Seriously, that was an *exceptional* transition from the intro to the actual discussion
😆 Thanks
Good video to relax. Would really like this kind of video for Fallout 2 or even 1
Glad you’re enjoying it! They’re on the backlog 😁 cheers
I laugh at General Oliver telling the player that they are in way over there head. When his strategy (as told by House) "General Oliver's strategy - or 'tunnel vision,' as I like to call it - has been to mass troops at Hoover Dam. He wants to out-fight the Legion in a straight-forward slugging match, and then, when they rout, pursue and destroy them in detail. A crushing, decisive victory of this sort would overshadow the tactical ingenuity of Chief Hanlon's defense four years ago." If this is the best strategy this "General" can come up with, then yes "General" I can do WAY better then you ever could.
The reason why he even got the rank of General is because he's a brown noser. He kissed Kimball's ass. According to Boone, Colonel Hsu would make for a much better General by a mile. Moore is also a good candidate, but her methods are cold and brutal. Hsu is tempered, calm and compassionate.
And Oliver also asks the Courier when you go Yes Man, if you can deal with supply routes, internal security, etc.
Well mister Oliver, do you deal with all that? nope, you have a whole bureaucracy in place for you to deal with all of it while you go 'get me closer I wanna hit them with my sword!'. Genral Oliver is an ideal Warhammer 40k Guardsman General.
20 minutes in and i already love it! That’s the next couple nights of youtube sorted, cheers!
So happy to hear! I hope the next few hours provide you with plenty of joy and entertainment! Cheers 🥂
This was truly great. Fallout New Vegas is one of my favorite games and really shows just how good video games can be. It is truly something special. Thank you for all the work you put into this and I wish you luck in any videos you make in the future.
Much love Roman! Glad you enjoyed it
Found this video 2 years late. Still, new vegas ages like wine. Gonna play TTW while listening to this today.
The Victor Frankl quote really drew me in - Man’s Search for Meaning is a great read
Totally is. What an eye opener. I need to give it another read soon.
Great in depth analysis! thank you! subbed!
@Fat808 Thanks for watching! :)
I have about 3000hrs in this game and I still do at least 2 runs a year, truly a great game and now another great video essay. Just goes to show that even through all of the bugs, the mediocre gunplay, and graphics that the stories and characters will always stand out as some of the best written and will keep people like me still playing it for years to come and to have people still try it out even now 10 years later. I only wish I can play it for the first time again. I hope you upload another video of a different playthrough, with the previous knowledge you gained from this playthrough you will find even more content waiting for you in the Mojave, such as the Vault 19 Powder Gangers, and some of the backstory on certain locations like the Wrecked Highwayman. I hope you get the likes and subs you deserve man, keep up the good work.
Also if you like the lore check out TriagleCity, he has great videos on FNV cut content, and try the game out with the JSawyer mod, it makes it tougher and provides sort of a directors cut feel to the game.
Thanks for the kind words and the recommendations! Cheers, friend.
This video feels like I introduced my friend to this game and now he’s telling me all about it 😂😂😂
I’m so happy you told me about this game dude!
One of my favourite videos, not just on New Vegas, but in general. Enjoyed it all from start to end. Very good commentary, and kept me attached from beginning to end. To put it into perspective, I felt emotional when the video ended.
:') thanks for watching!!
I’m proud to be your 5.120th subscriber. Great video. Love fallout and love your videos.
I’m proud to have you as a subscriber! Thanks for watching 😄
oh my god i love the allusion to prewar and after war nipton both suffering from the choices of few
I didn’t know if I was stretching it there but it really made me think that whole quest was a metaphor for that. I’d love to ask the devs one day 🤔 💭
I've played NV like 30 times and I've literally never seen the powder ganger ambush at 20:01, its amazing how much little stuff is hidden away in this game.
I've also never seen Jacklyn actually win the fight against Tomas and approach the player without me specifically doing something to make her win, your playthrough is some kinda magical
I have also never seen so many legion patrols spawn in such short time spans
Wow, really? That’s fascinating. I wonder how much stuff is tucked away or random. Or just fortuitous. I guess we’d never know unless we saw the code
I've had that happen before. I've also run into the both arguing and then fighting.
Bethesda: shitting on the fallout series
Obsidian: WE CAN’T EXPECT GOD TO DO ALL THE WORK
Damn I really hope fo4 doesn’t turn out to be as bad as everyone makes it out to be narratively 😞
@@MatthewXP oh no, it's better, kind of, sometimes
@@cjdziesiuta1995 it is way worse then you could expect, everything you loved about new Vegas is stripped and gone :( makes me sad to see Bethesda shitting on fallout still
@@MatthewXP my last comment was supposed to be replying to you, oops 😅
@@twistedintent7963 ahhh don’t say that 😞
My boyfriend showed me your videos a few days ago and Ive been slowly getting through them all. You make great content
This is probably one of the most incredible videos I've ever seen anyone make about New Vegas. You did an incredible job here.