Greetings from Russia. I have watched the development of this project for several years. And I will say that most of these shortcomings are associated with the incompleteness of the project, especially in the part of the script. This is especially noticeable since Vegas. This is due to the very small development team, as well as the desire to avoid delaying the release date.
Im actually mad that you don't have more subscribers. You arent like most new channels, you started with quality content and good sound equipment so it's actually nice listening to you talk. Also, Australia just chilling during fallout is my head canon as well
Thanks so much man. I try to make my videos look and sound as good as I can because I know the kind of difference it makes. Wanted to make videos that I would want to watch, and I hatewhen youtube ppl have god awful mics. Mad max is definitely not fallout canon. They're all normal. Just vibin
Agreed, these videos have been such a treat. If it wasn’t for ********** i never would’ve found this. Thank you for doing what you do. You are amazing.
I know man it’s always been weird to me how a shitpost can get 10x more views than videos like this. I personally think it’s because of the popularity people have already with peers and friends online perhaps. If you have a lot of friends and you get them to comment and like your videos when they come out UA-cam will push the video out WAY more. Resulting in an unfathomable rise in subscribers in a shorter period of time.
@@Mutant_Mods I just pay UA-cam shedloads of money to promote my videos. I have 86 thousand subscribers and get on average 3.8 million hits spread over around 60 videos. :)
My personal new favorite music peice in the game was the Wind of War, something about the drums and military shouting was so atmospheric its hard to explain
I’ve never seen anything from this mod before, so seeing that President head in a jar was pretty unsettling. It’s almost as creepy as the Master’s, although that translation makes so little sense it’s hard to take him seriously. There’s a difference between Lynchian crypticness that makes you intrigued and stuff that is plainly written that way on accident. I’m sure it sounded at least a little better in Russian. Like how the original English translation for Pathologic back in 2005 made a game rich with meaning downright incomprehensible at times.
25:33 I think from what I gathered the Reaper is essentially a collector for the pure rad-less wastelanders, an overseer of sorts that leads the Remenants of the US army to harvest residents of vaults for their cloning experiment.
@Gr8sc0tt the protagonist is clone where his personality is installed in his head by the doctor you meet after the flash back, you are just a vessel walking with the information and personality of someone who lived more than 80 years before you, that is all.
This wierd thing with the biker was added on release as a part of reworked storyline, he wasn't there (in version 0.99b) at all before. In the end you had to track the villain using radio tracking tech at the same military base where this wierd plot device appears in later versions. The president also had no talking head and was more like a gimmick Enclave president in Fallout 2. In my opinion, the game's ending was poorly rewritten compared to its beta version, and i couldn't see any reason in these rushed changes.
And to be completely fair, their English isn't bad at all, they just have a little bit of an accent and that's it. Some of the translation is really rocky but I suppose there were different people translating so that could be why there are fluctuations. The complaint came across as typical american entitlement for everyone on the world to speak and write perfect English...lol because we won two World Wars lol *sips beer and shoots gun* Counterargument would be then...to learn Russian, if he doesn't like it. Very good video nonetheless.
@@BeethovenVanGogh while I agree with you I would like to point out that the guy he was comparing him to is my country's former president Jacob Zums who dropped out in third grade and still has less of an excuse because English is required learning in South Africa
Arcanum has a good mystery story and while you uncovering why people want to kill you, you find out more and more about the world and its history. It isn't really a post apocalypse setting but it has similiar themes. All major and big events already happen. the age of heroes and big battles is already gone and the the time of your journey Arcanum is on the verge of changing (industrialism). You kinda feel like a detective puzzling together what (really) happen. Similiar to Fallout 3 and New Vegas with terminal and notes except well... People who tell you what happen, books and other lore elements. Shouldn't be a surprise. Tim Cain worked on it and according to himself its the game, which has the most of "him" in it. If you haven't played it yet. Do it! While jank as fuck, it is truly one of the best RPG expierences. And I tend to gosh like a teenager about the first crush when I start talking about Arcanum.. so .. I shut up now..
@@Jesion-kv9tu Good luck if you don't have a machine with XP or older OS. It's funny how easy is to run Fallout 1-2 compared to Arcanum, if they released the source code I'm sure someone would fix this bulls***. Even after installing a community patch it still won't run smoothly / bug-free, from my experience.
@@Manesdrel yeah I tried running it and it worked really slow for some reason even though I have a pretty decent PC. I might see if lowering the resolution will help
Good review. I've played the mod like 1.5 years ago and had an absolute blast. My favorite thing were the new assets made done in the same style as the originals, none of them felt like they were out of place, felt like a genuine Fallout game. I agree that the main quest felt weak, I remember that there was something to do in Reno to push it forward, it was a bit too hard for me so I decided to to do go to another location to level up, maybe find some better gear... Then I completely forgot about it and didn't come back until very late into the game. From the writing I did enjoy though, the Wind of War really stood out for me. I won't spoil it, but it was interesting to see the contrasts between them and Brotherhood of Steel. Also, I noticed you didn't mention the car, so I'm curious if you found it. The soundtrack is excellent, I fondly remember the Wind of War and Uran City themes. I hope they learned from the mistakes in Sonora
I'd recommend the someguy series for big new vegas mods. For many people in the modding community, its THE quest mod. A second "must have" is autumn leaves.
I'm always trying to make each new video better than my last one, so please let me know what you did and didn't like. One thing I've never been sure about is the music. Is it too quiet? out of place? Let me know. Also, I tried my hardest to pronounce Nevada the correct way as many times as I could, but sometimes the Canadian "neh-VOUHH-da" slips through the cracks. Sorry Nevadans. ALSO! I have a discord now! come hang! discord.gg/VaA2kbT8Wt
Music levels seem good to me- it’s substantial enough to add value and fill the occasional pause in speech but not overwhelming or distracting. Great content and production level as always. I enjoyed it and look forward to the remainder of the series!
So, Nevada... Yeah, it has kind of a bad main plot, I can agree with that, but the brilliance of this game is in the path in which you meet different people and solve amount of problems that stand in your way. The objective is nothing, the path is everything - that's the definition for this game.
I live in Hawthorne NV i was so surprised to see the casino and the bar unfortunately joes tavern closed last year and the el cap got a remodel it’s quite cool seeing my town
I wish you had talked more about how the mod portrays Las Vegas, especially either comparing it to what we heard of the pre-NCR Mojave in New Vegas or telling us enough to make that comparison ourselves.
Thank you very much for another amazing video! ^^ I played Fallout: Nevada for a while with my brother, but it took place a few years ago and we haven't finished the game. However, after your review and analysis I'd like to give it the second try!
I haven't really cared for it, combat was the weakest and least interesting part of classic Fallout and they haven't really done much to improve it here
@@Jesion-kv9tu I kinda agree, combat in the classic games was pretty tedious. But I think Tactics does improve on it, making it have different modes like real time or squad based, different movement positions, ect. Plus it's more of a rpg than 4.
@@ranja2486 adding real time doesn't really fix the issue, it just eliminates the tedium of having to wait for everyone to complete their turn. Plus, it's an absolute hell having to manage the whole party. Maybe if they made the turn based combat more interesting by adding more tactical options like reaction fire from X-COM, I would get more out of the game. In its current state, it tries to turn Fallout into a genre it wasn't built around
I will show you a small tutorial to get the turbo plasma rifle, first you have to have the Battle Mountain location, then get 4 horsekillers, (I don't know how to get them but save them if you get it) then do it. . About Phil. missions, (the guy who has the gun and a power armor) puts the first poison on him, then rests for 3 hours, then puts the other poison on him and so on until he runs out, then Phil will die and you can get the gun, but not power armor, done, I will update the post when I know the ways to catch the horsekillers. 1: You can find the horse killer on Ed's corpse in the sewers of Salt Lake City. 2: In Las Vegas, at the Hard Rock Café, you can find a drug dealer who has a horse killer and a prescription for stimulants.
Main translator to English had not best taste for words. I'm Russian and I saw translation topic in Fallout 2 modding forum. So the translator didn't know Russian well and used Google translator. Google translator does quite a lot of mistakes, even if translations were played and corrected several times.
Raider stops/hideouts, observatories, tribal communities, maybe some sort of a Wanamingo nest based in a coal mine or smh, a mountain village full of ghouls both feral and sane; something of that please
There should be a new version of Nevada with a rewritten storyline that lacked all these strange elements like the collector of souls and the president's head. Also, the main plot would become non-linear. Companions would have appeared. Las Vegas and Salt Lake City would be cut, but New Reno and the Wind of War would be expanded. There would also be new locations, like the pre-war weather control station, inhabited by savages. Sadly, the author has lost interest in the project.
@@ramblelime nah, it wouldn't be a mod for the mod. Nevada's main plot changes with each new version. This would be Nevada 2.0. But author abandon the project and made Sonora.
I've actually been using this game's world map for my weird new vegas to 40k conversion tabletop game for awhile now without knowing where it came from.
The plan is for that to be my next video actually! It's still in early stages unfortunately, but it's on my radar and it'll definitely be something i cover :)
The crafting mechanics can be annoying on first playthrough, figuring out and memorising recipies and locations for workbenches. (I ended up using a save editor to pump my carry weight to 800 and keep all the random junk I encounter in my inventory until I was sure I didn't need them in any recipies) Las Vegas was definitely unfinished and main storyline was weird at best. However this is my favourite Fallout 2 mod. Superior to 1.5 Resurrection in every aspect. Hints perk and becoming a Nuka Cola merchant is enough for a thumbs up.
Great video, only thing I would suggest working on is the audio mixing. Don't feel bad about it though, so many channels have this issue. It just is a little annoying to have to fiddle with the volume while watching.
Got it. Was wondering about the audio levels. I'm never quite sure, i have no experience in audio editing or anything so i've been kinda winging it so far. It's something i'll work on for the next vid
I'd say Fallout Nevada is the best Fallout i have played. The atmosphereis so dense it just sucks you in. If you haven't played it, you know what to do!
Fallout tactics is a underrated mod platform as custom campaigns is a feature and multiplayer is included with better combat. The only thing is to mod in the rpg aspects for the other classic games.
Are there any references to New Vegas? I know that around this period, Mr. House is still sleeping, but what about the gangs? Can you meet with gang members, like the Kings, Khans, Boot Riders (Chairmans), Omertas and the White Glove Society?
I just wanted to see the mutants and the ruins down South because the game kept waving it on my face like a dick and didn't deliver, there's nothing down there. Still, a great mod, I even like it more than I like the Classics.
Can you do autumn leaves too? It isn't TC but it's still one of the more unique and interesting mods out there, which is worth looking into. The dialoge and voice acting is great. And I don't really want to say more, because.. I don't want to spoil anything.
Having now played Resurrection and Hopping straight into Nevada i know exactly what you mean when u said shocking. Despite using the same engine, they are very different beasts entirely. Resurrection concentrates far too much on the dilemma of good vs evil, hence most of the quests in that mod are mutually exclusive, if you take the good path, you will be locked out of doing any evil related quests and vice versa, while Nevada is more in the grey area giving you more freedom and letting you be a humanitarian & scumbag simultaneously very similar to Fallout 2! Despite some of the improvements in Resurrection that i prefer more then Nevada, overall I'm enjoying Nevada significantly more, hell I'm not even sure if Nevada has any followers, considering resurrection had a plethora of unique followers and along with some new companion related perks.
I've played through the English translation twice, I think the way the main story is executed in the mid to late game is the weakest aspect of the mod.*spoilers* From what I've pieced together Vault 8 exist to produce "pure souls", people with healthy bodies not tainted by radiation, drug abuse, new and old diseases, or even certain disabilities. This fits in with what we already know from Fallout 2: Vault 8 has a sterile and eugenic approach to reproduction with citizens forgoing sexual reproduction for artificial methods with specially selected sperm donors, in addition to strict policies against drugs and alcohol. The citizens of Vault 8 are essentially livestock for the high ranking members of the Government. Which is why an automated train runs from Vault 8 to the government vault (imma call it Vault G) and people who see the trains have a habit of dying or disappearing. Further evidence, the only way to get to Vault G from the outside is by way of said train, as the people of Salt Lake tell you the area to the north is guarded by flying robots that kill any humanoid that breaches the perimeter. The "The Reaper of Souls" is the man who spearheads the harvesting of "pure souls" (cause he's a reaper get it), rounding up the citizens to be taken back to the Vault G. It's strongly implied he was a pre-war government agent who had his life prolonged by the project and has been doing this for a hundred years. Hope his clears some things up, please tell me if you know more
That makes a lot more sense. Some of it i was clued in on (like the position of the reaper and how old he was) but it was hard for me to place specifically his goals. Thank you for clarifying a bit, helps my understanding a ton
Going to see what's going on with Fallout: Mutants rising and Fallout: Yesterday. Then i'll move onto Alton, IL for fallout 3, and then onto the big mods for NV
Glad you're taking a look at some real modding gems. When you get to New Vegas, do you plan on looking at the Someguy2000 series, or are you sticking to larger conversion mods like New California and The Frontier?
I've got a bunch of requests to do some of the smaller projects like the somguy series, autumn leaves, etc, so I'll definitely cover those as well as the bigger TC ones
03:49 Stock Fallout never had thunder? There is definitely a thunder soundbyte that plays when entering areas in Fallout 1 & 2. It just does not play after you enter an area, nor are there storms in those two games.
Power Armor meant nothing in fallout 2 if you played on the hardest mode, most burst weapon attacks would chew through that shit like hot knife through butter, as each shot of the burst attack had a chance to make the whole attack critical, doing insane amount of overkill damage. It helped having power armor but as soon as you encounter npc's with mini-guns or fully automatic weapons, there was no difference if you had it equipped or not! I think minimum critical burst damage i seen in the game was slightly over 150 damage and maximum critical damage i seen was 1800 damage, either way you were dead meat, even if you had maximum damage reduction perks like toughness and dermal plating implants for your body along with power armor.
I've seen good things about it, but haven't gotten around to playing it just yet. Might do a video about it & wasteland 2/3 comparing them to the fallouts
By the way, maybe you could make a video about multiplayer versions of Fallout called FOnline? There's multiple servers of this, they all add a massive different changes to the old engine.
The whole Gameplay segment makes it sound like they wanted to make a close-to-real-life depiction of life after the Apocalypse, the struggle of the day-to-day life, the need to scavenge, amongst the horrors of the Wasteland. Unrelated, but the Power Armor on the Title Screen looks creepy for some reason.
I've been playing through. It's very fun to start with new puzzle mechanics. Unfortunately a lot of what is wanted of you is very very unclear and without the use of a guide it takes a long long time. By Reno things become quite unclear, it's nice they have put in so many gangs. Also the plot kinda disappears and it's easy to forget what ha been going on
I have a question about the lore of this game if anyone knows the answer: Who is the psycho killer from the Salt Lake City Sheriff's criminal log? Is it he who becomes the Reaper of Souls or is it Gary Gilmore from Provo, or perhaps is it just flavor added for extra atmosphere? Thanks if anyone can answer.
I actually downloaded it & am about to play it. Since I saw a quick playthrough from another channel. And from a writing perspective, this mod is a lot more lore friendly than Bethesda's fallout. The only issue I'm having with these fan made fallout mods/games, is that they are not voice acted. I would be already happy if they had at least 5 - 10 voice actors for at least the really important characters. Yes the talking heads look great but they don't really come alive unless there's an adequate voice to go with. Obviously it will be very hard for these slavic dev teams to find proper voice actors. 1.) English isn't really commonly spoken in Russia & the majority of Russians have a strong accent & poor speaking skills. 2.) Since these mods are build on the classic fallout games engines, they don't make money off of these projects, so it's not very likely that they could afford to hire fluently english speaking voice actors. Which is really a shame, because I'd be happy to continue playing isometric fan made fallouts rather than ever touching abominations like Fallout 4 or 76. lol Fallout 3 is the only somewhat decent Fallout game has made. Then again, if you are well read & have a very vivid imagination, then picturing the dialogue can also be quite fun. Maybe I can fiddle around with generated AI voice programs like Uberdruck & edit them a bit so I can have Morgan Freeman's voice narrating the plot for me upon entering dialogue with someone or something lol
Love to see a non reactionary critical analysis of video games. I especially liked your analysis of how fascist ideology spreads through the blood like adrenline until it takes hold of the brain. Seems like a cool mod. Great work, keep it up
Happen to know the right configuration to make the game run? When I try to I play this, the intro plays normally, however the title screen never shows up, only the ambient music. Pressing escape just boots me back to desktop.
Hi I am new to this channel i think you will like a DLC sized mod for fallout new vegas called Fallout:NewCalifornia It has world building and choices at the stage of fallout 1 and 2 i believe.
Another great vid. But I think we have to get away from the idea that a protagonist with amnesia is cliche. We've seen it a lot and will continue to see it a lot because it mirrors our lives. Humans have no idea where they came from and the best we have are old documents and a few aged NPCs who give us contradictory stories about what happened before we booted up our current life. Being ubiquitous I think our current paradigm that protagonist amnesia is cliche would be like saying fighting enemies or looking for treasure is also cliche.
I disagree. First of all, amnesia is very different than the default human experience. Chiefly in that people with amnesia already have a history in the world, relationships to it, etc, whereas people coming into this world are 100% new to it. The comparison is a stretch i think, but even if it wasn't, amnesia still serves as a crutch for writers who want to make their exposition as easy as possible. Amnesia plots aren't necessarily always bad, and their status as a cliche isn't necessarily bad in itself, it's that amnesia is a very convenient way to completely sidestep one of the hardest parts of writing a story (providing realistic exposition). It'd not bad because it's been done a million times, it's bad because it's lazy writing.
@@ramblelime People with amnesia have as much history as a video game character with amnesia - basically people tell them they did this and they did that. Neither has first-hand experience. And we're all in the same situation to some degree. Some people even think the Mandela Effect is a result of the simulation's current dev team retconning the story from older iterations of the simulation. You think you have a history, in reality you have NPCs you trust and books written by NPCs you trust. And in fact if you trust the story too much, you essentially *become* an NPC, as only the player character has the ability to question the story and peel back the layers of the story. It's not lazy writing. I'm a writer. Out of all the books and short stories I've written, I wrote one story with an amnesiac protagonist, and it wasn't easier or more difficult to write the story.
Regarding the difficulty: I think I played a slightly older version of the mod than shown in this video, but my advice is to not play it like typical old-school Fallout. Avoid fights if you can (and you usually can) and use your other skills to complete quests. It makes things *much* easier. In this mod, the Gifted trait is a noob trap; my first time through, I played an INT 9 character with the Skilled trait and the Comprehension perk and cleaned house without much difficulty.
@Bluescore De'La'vie Gifted hampers your skills while improving your ability scores, which are most useful for combat and meeting perk requirements (and most meaningful perks are focused around combat). Most consider it to be the best trait by far in vanilla Fallout 2, but skills are much more valuable that combat in this mod, so Gifted basically prioritizes the wrong parts of your character build.
@Bluescore De'La'vie Gifted also includes a malus (-10%, I think) to all of your skills' initial values. In base Fallout 2 this isn't a big deal because you only need a few of those skills, but FoN makes all of them useful (besides maybe Throwing and First Aid), so penalties across the board will cost you. Gifted doesn't make the game unplayable by any means, but first-timers may pick it as a no-brainer and end up not going the benefit from it that they're expecting.
For me the Fallout games are like the films I am Legend (Fallout 3) vs Mad Max (NV) and I prefer exploring post-apocalyptic cities full to the brim with muties, ghouls, slavers, raiders and more as opposed to a...desert with some fire ants. No hate. I love em all. But I will always love Fallout 3 because she was my first... And that soundtrack... Megaton... Rivet City... Three Dog... NV is good for when I feel like gamba and listening to some Dean Martin or RP a ranger with a big iron on his hip. 4 is good for the settlement building stuff and of course the updated graphics. 1/2 I've played maybe once or twice because they're a bit dated but for lore, they're great. I preferred 1 tbh. 2 dragged on a bit much for my liking. I liked tactics only for this mod where you played as the Enclave but it crashed a lot. I never went back. They're all good.
Greetings from Russia. I have watched the development of this project for several years. And I will say that most of these shortcomings are associated with the incompleteness of the project, especially in the part of the script. This is especially noticeable since Vegas. This is due to the very small development team, as well as the desire to avoid delaying the release date.
@Gr8sc0tt New Vegas is not canon
@@Redguard677 tf are you talking about. Sure it is.
@@lad7436 NV is Van Buuren recycle
@@Redguard677 its canon boa
@@Redguard677 It is cannon, Obsidian gets to mess with the west coast and parts and Bethesda gets the east coast.
Im actually mad that you don't have more subscribers. You arent like most new channels, you started with quality content and good sound equipment so it's actually nice listening to you talk. Also, Australia just chilling during fallout is my head canon as well
Thanks so much man. I try to make my videos look and sound as good as I can because I know the kind of difference it makes. Wanted to make videos that I would want to watch, and I hatewhen youtube ppl have god awful mics. Mad max is definitely not fallout canon. They're all normal. Just vibin
@@ramblelime I see someone is also using The mojave sandy desert mod.
Agreed, these videos have been such a treat. If it wasn’t for ********** i never would’ve found this.
Thank you for doing what you do. You are amazing.
I know man it’s always been weird to me how a shitpost can get 10x more views than videos like this. I personally think it’s because of the popularity people have already with peers and friends online perhaps. If you have a lot of friends and you get them to comment and like your videos when they come out UA-cam will push the video out WAY more. Resulting in an unfathomable rise in subscribers in a shorter period of time.
@@Mutant_Mods I just pay UA-cam shedloads of money to promote my videos. I have 86 thousand subscribers and get on average 3.8 million hits spread over around 60 videos. :)
My personal new favorite music peice in the game was the Wind of War, something about the drums and military shouting was so atmospheric its hard to explain
Agreed, I also love the track for Uran City, has a feel of a classic western town
I really liked it too, I also liked Vault City’s music. Creepy. But thought Vegas was lacking
OOOOOO I love this series so far and I can nor wait for more and more
I’ve never seen anything from this mod before, so seeing that President head in a jar was pretty unsettling. It’s almost as creepy as the Master’s, although that translation makes so little sense it’s hard to take him seriously. There’s a difference between Lynchian crypticness that makes you intrigued and stuff that is plainly written that way on accident. I’m sure it sounded at least a little better in Russian. Like how the original English translation for Pathologic back in 2005 made a game rich with meaning downright incomprehensible at times.
Ahhh.. original pathologic translation
25:33 I think from what I gathered the Reaper is essentially a collector for the pure rad-less wastelanders, an overseer of sorts that leads the Remenants of the US army to harvest residents of vaults for their cloning experiment.
Babe wake up, new ramblelime video
i've gone through the game several times and i still don't know what the plot is about, nor who the protagonist is...
LOL
@Gr8sc0tt the protagonist is clone where his personality is installed in his head by the doctor you meet after the flash back, you are just a vessel walking with the information and personality of someone who lived more than 80 years before you, that is all.
I love both this, and Resurrections. Still waiting when Olympus 2207 gonna get english version, another great full conversion for Fallout.
I'm working on it, don't push it)
Aaand it's done. Check out their site or look into corresponding topic on NMA.
Try Fallout Sonora
@@Redguard677 Thanks, I will try. Sadly Olympus turned out to be some barely playable russian junk xD Disappointment to say at least.
@@KONSACZ WTF? It is a good mod and certainly not junk even if you not liked it that much.
This wierd thing with the biker was added on release as a part of reworked storyline, he wasn't there (in version 0.99b) at all before. In the end you had to track the villain using radio tracking tech at the same military base where this wierd plot device appears in later versions. The president also had no talking head and was more like a gimmick Enclave president in Fallout 2. In my opinion, the game's ending was poorly rewritten compared to its beta version, and i couldn't see any reason in these rushed changes.
Hahah dude 4:40 is so uncalled for. Poor Russians try so hard making amazing Classic Fallout mods.
I love this series, can't wait for the next entry!
Agreed it's rather unfair comparing the modder's English to a third grade flunky
And to be completely fair, their English isn't bad at all, they just have a little bit of an accent and that's it. Some of the translation is really rocky but I suppose there were different people translating so that could be why there are fluctuations.
The complaint came across as typical american entitlement for everyone on the world to speak and write perfect English...lol because we won two World Wars lol *sips beer and shoots gun* Counterargument would be then...to learn Russian, if he doesn't like it.
Very good video nonetheless.
@@BeethovenVanGogh while I agree with you I would like to point out that the guy he was comparing him to is my country's former president Jacob Zums who dropped out in third grade and still has less of an excuse because English is required learning in South Africa
@@louissteyn6871 didn't even know you were referring to him. Oh well!
@@BeethovenVanGogh can't blame you we don't exactly have the sort of influence for the whole world to pay attention to us all that much
Arcanum has a good mystery story and while you uncovering why people want to kill you, you find out more and more about the world and its history. It isn't really a post apocalypse setting but it has similiar themes. All major and big events already happen. the age of heroes and big battles is already gone and the the time of your journey Arcanum is on the verge of changing (industrialism). You kinda feel like a detective puzzling together what (really) happen. Similiar to Fallout 3 and New Vegas with terminal and notes except well... People who tell you what happen, books and other lore elements. Shouldn't be a surprise. Tim Cain worked on it and according to himself its the game, which has the most of "him" in it.
If you haven't played it yet. Do it! While jank as fuck, it is truly one of the best RPG expierences. And I tend to gosh like a teenager about the first crush when I start talking about Arcanum.. so .. I shut up now..
I need to get into Arcanum, it's the only Troika game I haven't really touched yet
@@Jesion-kv9tu Good luck if you don't have a machine with XP or older OS. It's funny how easy is to run Fallout 1-2 compared to Arcanum, if they released the source code I'm sure someone would fix this bulls***. Even after installing a community patch it still won't run smoothly / bug-free, from my experience.
@@Manesdrel yeah I tried running it and it worked really slow for some reason even though I have a pretty decent PC. I might see if lowering the resolution will help
Nice work, listened to this as I was getting ready this morning.
Luv u mr. ham xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox
Dang, you're really churning out these vids, bro. Very detailed too. Keep it up.
The soundtrack in both Fallout Nevada and Fallout Sonora is awesome.
You gonna cover Dust or Frost? Maybe videos with multiple smaller mods, themed similarly, such as somewhat larger quest mods?
yessir
Time to bathe in Nevada's radiaiton.
And Warlockracy sends reguards.
Good review. I've played the mod like 1.5 years ago and had an absolute blast. My favorite thing were the new assets made done in the same style as the originals, none of them felt like they were out of place, felt like a genuine Fallout game. I agree that the main quest felt weak, I remember that there was something to do in Reno to push it forward, it was a bit too hard for me so I decided to to do go to another location to level up, maybe find some better gear... Then I completely forgot about it and didn't come back until very late into the game. From the writing I did enjoy though, the Wind of War really stood out for me. I won't spoil it, but it was interesting to see the contrasts between them and Brotherhood of Steel. Also, I noticed you didn't mention the car, so I'm curious if you found it. The soundtrack is excellent, I fondly remember the Wind of War and Uran City themes. I hope they learned from the mistakes in Sonora
There was a car??????
@@ramblelime yeah, a pickup in Wind of War
I'd recommend the someguy series for big new vegas mods. For many people in the modding community, its THE quest mod. A second "must have" is autumn leaves.
These reviews are helping in my own writing
I'm always trying to make each new video better than my last one, so please let me know what you did and didn't like. One thing I've never been sure about is the music. Is it too quiet? out of place? Let me know. Also, I tried my hardest to pronounce Nevada the correct way as many times as I could, but sometimes the Canadian "neh-VOUHH-da" slips through the cracks. Sorry Nevadans.
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Music level is perfect!
Music levels seem good to me- it’s substantial enough to add value and fill the occasional pause in speech but not overwhelming or distracting. Great content and production level as always. I enjoyed it and look forward to the remainder of the series!
I actually think the music could be upped just a little bit
I loved this video you deserve more recognition man
The level of quality in your video is as Cannibal Johnson once said "Inspiring"
So, Nevada... Yeah, it has kind of a bad main plot, I can agree with that, but the brilliance of this game is in the path in which you meet different people and solve amount of problems that stand in your way. The objective is nothing, the path is everything - that's the definition for this game.
It is 2:41am and I am watching Ozzy Osborne review a Russian-made prequel mod to a game that's older than I am.
I live in Hawthorne NV i was so surprised to see the casino and the bar unfortunately joes tavern closed last year and the el cap got a remodel it’s quite cool seeing my town
YES! Another excellent video, you're killing it dude
Okay, got FoN covered, now waiting for Sonora and Olympus 2207
If only they could get translated.
I wish you had talked more about how the mod portrays Las Vegas, especially either comparing it to what we heard of the pre-NCR Mojave in New Vegas or telling us enough to make that comparison ourselves.
Thank you very much for another amazing video! ^^
I played Fallout: Nevada for a while with my brother, but it took place a few years ago and we haven't finished the game. However, after your review and analysis I'd like to give it the second try!
0:18 aw yeah man hey no problem, no matter what it is, we'll be on board. we're here to support you :)
0:23 *C R U C I F Y H I M*
Video definitely worth a subscription 👍🏻 can't wait to see you grow man
Can't wait for you to cover Tactics. It really is awesome.
Hell yeah
I haven't really cared for it, combat was the weakest and least interesting part of classic Fallout and they haven't really done much to improve it here
@@Jesion-kv9tu I kinda agree, combat in the classic games was pretty tedious. But I think Tactics does improve on it, making it have different modes like real time or squad based, different movement positions, ect. Plus it's more of a rpg than 4.
@@ranja2486 adding real time doesn't really fix the issue, it just eliminates the tedium of having to wait for everyone to complete their turn. Plus, it's an absolute hell having to manage the whole party. Maybe if they made the turn based combat more interesting by adding more tactical options like reaction fire from X-COM, I would get more out of the game. In its current state, it tries to turn Fallout into a genre it wasn't built around
I’ve been loving your videos, can’t wait until the next one
I don't agree the story rivals f2 but i still think this video is extremely good.
I will show you a small tutorial to get the turbo plasma rifle, first you have to have the Battle Mountain location, then get 4 horsekillers, (I don't know how to get them but save them if you get it) then do it. . About Phil. missions, (the guy who has the gun and a power armor) puts the first poison on him, then rests for 3 hours, then puts the other poison on him and so on until he runs out, then Phil will die and you can get the gun, but not power armor, done, I will update the post when I know the ways to catch the horsekillers.
1: You can find the horse killer on Ed's corpse in the sewers of Salt Lake City.
2: In Las Vegas, at the Hard Rock Café, you can find a drug dealer who has a horse killer and a prescription for stimulants.
Main translator to English had not best taste for words. I'm Russian and I saw translation topic in Fallout 2 modding forum. So the translator didn't know Russian well and used Google translator. Google translator does quite a lot of mistakes, even if translations were played and corrected several times.
That empty space needs some vaults
Deathclaw nests
Raider stops/hideouts, observatories, tribal communities, maybe some sort of a Wanamingo nest based in a coal mine or smh, a mountain village full of ghouls both feral and sane; something of that please
I'm so grateful to these modders since Bethesda can't make a decent *Fallout game* to save their lives.
This mod filtered me after I had 20 quests in my log but had no idea how to solve them or where to even go
Nevada and Resurection are absolutely AWESOME mods. I so enjoyed both and wre very sad when I arrived at that "end" point eventually...
I don't know if I've commented on a video of yours yet, but keep it up, I really like what you do
There should be a new version of Nevada with a rewritten storyline that lacked all these strange elements like the collector of souls and the president's head. Also, the main plot would become non-linear. Companions would have appeared. Las Vegas and Salt Lake City would be cut, but New Reno and the Wind of War would be expanded. There would also be new locations, like the pre-war weather control station, inhabited by savages. Sadly, the author has lost interest in the project.
Someone should make a mod FOR the mod. Now that'd be interesting
@@ramblelime nah, it wouldn't be a mod for the mod. Nevada's main plot changes with each new version. This would be Nevada 2.0. But author abandon the project and made Sonora.
Sorry but I'm going to have disagree with you on apocalyptical settings, winter wastelands are the best post apocalyptical settings.
I've actually been using this game's world map for my weird new vegas to 40k conversion tabletop game for awhile now without knowing where it came from.
That actually sounds pretty interesting can you give more details
You sir have earned yourself a new subscriber. I hope to see more content similar to this in the future. Great video!
1:41 I was just doing some drawing while listening along to the video, and that gunshot scared the everloving shit out of me. lol
Hey mate if you haven’t already you’d really like the Fallout 2 mod Olympus 2207
The plan is for that to be my next video actually! It's still in early stages unfortunately, but it's on my radar and it'll definitely be something i cover :)
Patrick reminds me of what Joshua Graham was like before he met Sallow
The crafting mechanics can be annoying on first playthrough, figuring out and memorising recipies and locations for workbenches. (I ended up using a save editor to pump my carry weight to 800 and keep all the random junk I encounter in my inventory until I was sure I didn't need them in any recipies)
Las Vegas was definitely unfinished and main storyline was weird at best.
However this is my favourite Fallout 2 mod. Superior to 1.5 Resurrection in every aspect.
Hints perk and becoming a Nuka Cola merchant is enough for a thumbs up.
New Vegas is the best of the Modern Fallout games, doesn't matter what anyone else says. I'm so glad I'm finding all these cool F2 mods.
My favorite Fallout game
Great video, only thing I would suggest working on is the audio mixing. Don't feel bad about it though, so many channels have this issue. It just is a little annoying to have to fiddle with the volume while watching.
Got it. Was wondering about the audio levels. I'm never quite sure, i have no experience in audio editing or anything so i've been kinda winging it so far. It's something i'll work on for the next vid
Your locks of hair look clean af
Your tangent on political ideologies was a bit odd, but then I went back and saw your copies of Zizek and Marx.
Political game series, political science major, sort of just happens. Force of habit loll
@@ramblelime Fair point
I'd say Fallout Nevada is the best Fallout i have played. The atmosphereis so dense it just sucks you in. If you haven't played it, you know what to do!
That literal talking head in the major spoilers is so fucking trippy
Fallout tactics is a underrated mod platform as custom campaigns is a feature and multiplayer is included with better combat. The only thing is to mod in the rpg aspects for the other classic games.
I hadn't even considered that. I'll check it out!
Are there any references to New Vegas?
I know that around this period, Mr. House is still sleeping, but what about the gangs?
Can you meet with gang members, like the Kings, Khans, Boot Riders (Chairmans), Omertas and the White Glove Society?
I just wanted to see the mutants and the ruins down South because the game kept waving it on my face like a dick and didn't deliver, there's nothing down there. Still, a great mod, I even like it more than I like the Classics.
Love the video! Keep up the great work!
Can you do autumn leaves too? It isn't TC but it's still one of the more unique and interesting mods out there, which is worth looking into. The dialoge and voice acting is great. And I don't really want to say more, because.. I don't want to spoil anything.
I'll put it on the list!
I love Autumn Leaves, but I've played it so many times.
Autumn Leaves is great, but it's not a total conversion mod. I'm not sure it's on-brand for this series.
@@Stuurminator I just downloaded this other mod, called Empire Wasteland, supposed to be based off NY/NJ region.
@@Stuurminator i've got enough requests to do it that I might expand the original vision. Totally down for that
Fallout New York very cool and big mod too(English version available, but ony text, in russian voice acting available)
Having now played Resurrection and Hopping straight into Nevada i know exactly what you mean when u said shocking. Despite using the same engine, they are very different beasts entirely. Resurrection concentrates far too much on the dilemma of good vs evil, hence most of the quests in that mod are mutually exclusive, if you take the good path, you will be locked out of doing any evil related quests and vice versa, while Nevada is more in the grey area giving you more freedom and letting you be a humanitarian & scumbag simultaneously very similar to Fallout 2! Despite some of the improvements in Resurrection that i prefer more then Nevada, overall I'm enjoying Nevada significantly more, hell I'm not even sure if Nevada has any followers, considering resurrection had a plethora of unique followers and along with some new companion related perks.
^^^^Ramblelime is a confirmed member of the Cult of Bidoof 0_0 ;)
"Good few locations without any quests" - there's two. Arguably zero if you consider power armor aquisition to be a quest.
I've played through the English translation twice, I think the way the main story is executed in the mid to late game is the weakest aspect of the mod.*spoilers* From what I've pieced together Vault 8 exist to produce "pure souls", people with healthy bodies not tainted by radiation, drug abuse, new and old diseases, or even certain disabilities. This fits in with what we already know from Fallout 2: Vault 8 has a sterile and eugenic approach to reproduction with citizens forgoing sexual reproduction for artificial methods with specially selected sperm donors, in addition to strict policies against drugs and alcohol. The citizens of Vault 8 are essentially livestock for the high ranking members of the Government. Which is why an automated train runs from Vault 8 to the government vault (imma call it Vault G) and people who see the trains have a habit of dying or disappearing. Further evidence, the only way to get to Vault G from the outside is by way of said train, as the people of Salt Lake tell you the area to the north is guarded by flying robots that kill any humanoid that breaches the perimeter. The "The Reaper of Souls" is the man who spearheads the harvesting of "pure souls" (cause he's a reaper get it), rounding up the citizens to be taken back to the Vault G. It's strongly implied he was a pre-war government agent who had his life prolonged by the project and has been doing this for a hundred years. Hope his clears some things up, please tell me if you know more
That makes a lot more sense. Some of it i was clued in on (like the position of the reaper and how old he was) but it was hard for me to place specifically his goals. Thank you for clarifying a bit, helps my understanding a ton
HELL YEAH NEW UPLOAD!
I love the cover art armor is that actually in the game?
Yes, it's the one you have to put together, though the in game sprite is the same
The vault you find the president in sounds like some experiment Vault Tec or the Enclave would actually do
despite it's issues we can agree Nevada acts as a better prequel then 76.
Nevada - clunky masterpiece. Great side content, music, atmosphere. If only main quest was good...
Waited so long for this video. Great job!
Once again, what will be the next fallout fan game that u plan on making a video of
Going to see what's going on with Fallout: Mutants rising and Fallout: Yesterday. Then i'll move onto Alton, IL for fallout 3, and then onto the big mods for NV
Companions in fallout 2 were great for trapping you in doors, shooting you in the back, and if not trying to kill you, ignore combat entirely.
You can push them out of doors in fallout 2. Not in 1 though. Fuck ian. Love vic and sulik tho
>give gun to tribal
>say it's okay to burst shot with it
>he burst shots
>shoots you, accidentally
his fault, obviously
damn such a great vid! you have earned a new sub!
Glad you're taking a look at some real modding gems. When you get to New Vegas, do you plan on looking at the Someguy2000 series, or are you sticking to larger conversion mods like New California and The Frontier?
I've got a bunch of requests to do some of the smaller projects like the somguy series, autumn leaves, etc, so I'll definitely cover those as well as the bigger TC ones
So good, love your content
03:49 Stock Fallout never had thunder? There is definitely a thunder soundbyte that plays when entering areas in Fallout 1 & 2. It just does not play after you enter an area, nor are there storms in those two games.
Power Armor meant nothing in fallout 2 if you played on the hardest mode, most burst weapon attacks would chew through that shit like hot knife through butter, as each shot of the burst attack had a chance to make the whole attack critical, doing insane amount of overkill damage. It helped having power armor but as soon as you encounter npc's with mini-guns or fully automatic weapons, there was no difference if you had it equipped or not!
I think minimum critical burst damage i seen in the game was slightly over 150 damage and maximum critical damage i seen was 1800 damage, either way you were dead meat, even if you had maximum damage reduction perks like toughness and dermal plating implants for your body along with power armor.
Fallout Sonora released!
In english????
@@ramblelime yes
@@ramblelime in English, Spanish, Russian
@@white_kot LETS GOOOOOO
Have you had a chance to check out ATOM RPG? Some more eastern block Falloutness that might be good...
I've seen good things about it, but haven't gotten around to playing it just yet. Might do a video about it & wasteland 2/3 comparing them to the fallouts
By the way, maybe you could make a video about multiplayer versions of Fallout called FOnline? There's multiple servers of this, they all add a massive different changes to the old engine.
The whole Gameplay segment makes it sound like they wanted to make a close-to-real-life depiction of life after the Apocalypse, the struggle of the day-to-day life, the need to scavenge, amongst the horrors of the Wasteland.
Unrelated, but the Power Armor on the Title Screen looks creepy for some reason.
idk i kinda like the map so far
as a high desert rat i can confirm that the highways are life and shit is mostly desolate elsewhere
I've been playing through.
It's very fun to start with new puzzle mechanics. Unfortunately a lot of what is wanted of you is very very unclear and without the use of a guide it takes a long long time.
By Reno things become quite unclear, it's nice they have put in so many gangs.
Also the plot kinda disappears and it's easy to forget what ha been going on
I have a question about the lore of this game if anyone knows the answer: Who is the psycho killer from the Salt Lake City Sheriff's criminal log? Is it he who becomes the Reaper of Souls or is it Gary Gilmore from Provo, or perhaps is it just flavor added for extra atmosphere? Thanks if anyone can answer.
He's just a dead psycho
He can't be Gary Gilmore - he'd be too bloody old to be alive, let alone shamk ya to pieces with a Ripper
You deserve way more subs my guy
Have you ever thought of reviewing Olympus 2207?
I started watching warlockracy and this video is like his so i love it. Will you be doing a video on fallout sonora when it gets translated?
I actually downloaded it & am about to play it. Since I saw a quick playthrough from another channel.
And from a writing perspective, this mod is a lot more lore friendly than Bethesda's fallout.
The only issue I'm having with these fan made fallout mods/games, is that they are not voice acted.
I would be already happy if they had at least 5 - 10 voice actors for at least the really important characters.
Yes the talking heads look great but they don't really come alive unless there's an adequate voice to go with.
Obviously it will be very hard for these slavic dev teams to find proper voice actors.
1.) English isn't really commonly spoken in Russia & the majority of Russians have a strong accent & poor speaking skills.
2.) Since these mods are build on the classic fallout games engines, they don't make money off of these projects, so it's not very likely that they could afford to hire fluently english speaking voice actors.
Which is really a shame, because I'd be happy to continue playing isometric fan made fallouts rather than ever touching abominations like Fallout 4 or 76. lol Fallout 3 is the only somewhat decent Fallout game has made.
Then again, if you are well read & have a very vivid imagination, then picturing the dialogue can also be quite fun.
Maybe I can fiddle around with generated AI voice programs like Uberdruck & edit them a bit so I can have Morgan Freeman's voice narrating the plot for me upon entering dialogue with someone or something lol
Love to see a non reactionary critical analysis of video games. I especially liked your analysis of how fascist ideology spreads through the blood like adrenline until it takes hold of the brain. Seems like a cool mod. Great work, keep it up
Happen to know the right configuration to make the game run? When I try to I play this, the intro plays normally, however the title screen never shows up, only the ambient music. Pressing escape just boots me back to desktop.
Hi I am new to this channel i think you will like a DLC sized mod for fallout new vegas called Fallout:NewCalifornia It has world building and choices at the stage of fallout 1 and 2 i believe.
@Gr8sc0tt Yeah I think you have made a good point
There is a new mode from mostly the same team - Fallout Sonora.
Someone didn't watch to the end :p
your doing a great job love your videos
15:49 the exclusion zone? many STALKERS have entered but few return and fewer with their wits intact.
I always wonder why there are so many Russian mods of the classic Fallout games
Art comes from real life.
Because here in Post Soviet republics, we had real Fallout. Apocalypse actually came to us in 1991.
Another great vid. But I think we have to get away from the idea that a protagonist with amnesia is cliche. We've seen it a lot and will continue to see it a lot because it mirrors our lives. Humans have no idea where they came from and the best we have are old documents and a few aged NPCs who give us contradictory stories about what happened before we booted up our current life. Being ubiquitous I think our current paradigm that protagonist amnesia is cliche would be like saying fighting enemies or looking for treasure is also cliche.
I disagree.
First of all, amnesia is very different than the default human experience. Chiefly in that people with amnesia already have a history in the world, relationships to it, etc, whereas people coming into this world are 100% new to it. The comparison is a stretch i think, but even if it wasn't, amnesia still serves as a crutch for writers who want to make their exposition as easy as possible. Amnesia plots aren't necessarily always bad, and their status as a cliche isn't necessarily bad in itself, it's that amnesia is a very convenient way to completely sidestep one of the hardest parts of writing a story (providing realistic exposition). It'd not bad because it's been done a million times, it's bad because it's lazy writing.
@@ramblelime People with amnesia have as much history as a video game character with amnesia - basically people tell them they did this and they did that. Neither has first-hand experience. And we're all in the same situation to some degree. Some people even think the Mandela Effect is a result of the simulation's current dev team retconning the story from older iterations of the simulation. You think you have a history, in reality you have NPCs you trust and books written by NPCs you trust. And in fact if you trust the story too much, you essentially *become* an NPC, as only the player character has the ability to question the story and peel back the layers of the story. It's not lazy writing. I'm a writer. Out of all the books and short stories I've written, I wrote one story with an amnesiac protagonist, and it wasn't easier or more difficult to write the story.
Regarding the difficulty: I think I played a slightly older version of the mod than shown in this video, but my advice is to not play it like typical old-school Fallout. Avoid fights if you can (and you usually can) and use your other skills to complete quests. It makes things *much* easier. In this mod, the Gifted trait is a noob trap; my first time through, I played an INT 9 character with the Skilled trait and the Comprehension perk and cleaned house without much difficulty.
ahhhh so thats why. I took gifted
@Bluescore De'La'vie Gifted hampers your skills while improving your ability scores, which are most useful for combat and meeting perk requirements (and most meaningful perks are focused around combat). Most consider it to be the best trait by far in vanilla Fallout 2, but skills are much more valuable that combat in this mod, so Gifted basically prioritizes the wrong parts of your character build.
@Bluescore De'La'vie Gifted also includes a malus (-10%, I think) to all of your skills' initial values. In base Fallout 2 this isn't a big deal because you only need a few of those skills, but FoN makes all of them useful (besides maybe Throwing and First Aid), so penalties across the board will cost you. Gifted doesn't make the game unplayable by any means, but first-timers may pick it as a no-brainer and end up not going the benefit from it that they're expecting.
For me the Fallout games are like the films I am Legend (Fallout 3) vs Mad Max (NV) and I prefer exploring post-apocalyptic cities full to the brim with muties, ghouls, slavers, raiders and more as opposed to a...desert with some fire ants. No hate. I love em all. But I will always love Fallout 3 because she was my first... And that soundtrack... Megaton... Rivet City... Three Dog... NV is good for when I feel like gamba and listening to some Dean Martin or RP a ranger with a big iron on his hip. 4 is good for the settlement building stuff and of course the updated graphics. 1/2 I've played maybe once or twice because they're a bit dated but for lore, they're great. I preferred 1 tbh. 2 dragged on a bit much for my liking. I liked tactics only for this mod where you played as the Enclave but it crashed a lot. I never went back. They're all good.