Not false necessarily, there was indeed a bonus for a metacritic score of 85+ that they did not receive. But nobody at Obsidian thought they were "screwed", it was always just an extra and not one that they were like expecting or desperately counting on. So the framing of it being a screwjob is for sure completely dishonest.
@@bruhvenant I guess it would be fairer to say that Obsidian's reputation after New Vegas caused them to nearly go tits up. No idea how big the bonus was, but the idea that Bethesda negotiated a contract with a company that forgoes royalties, REALLY makes me pissy because that is one company screwing the other because they are passionate and will agree to it. Just like the game studios screw workers with passion. It hits a very particular nerve.
@@bruhvenant Eh, I feel like you can acknowledge that nobody at the studio viewed it as being screwed and still think that a 1 pt metacritic difference still smells like a screwjob. Its the whole "I'm used to working 60 hrs a week" thing. I think a person can be okay with that schedule and that other people who would mind can call it out for being a shitty overworking schedule on average too. That's sortof the situation with the bonus, imo. Obsidian didn't mind and so we shouldn't be angry on their behalf, because its inane and inaccurate, but we can still say it was a shitty, good-will-destroying way for Bethesda to handle it.
Something I love about New Vegas' storytelling is how your decisions can make entire characters and plotlines totally irrelevant. Like, if you side with the NCR, killing Caesar is a huge deal. He's target #1, the most important goal in taking down the Legion for the NCR is to take him out. It marks a tidal shift in the NCR's plans when you kill him. But if you follow House? If you take his orders and don't attack Caesar? He dies _offscreen._ The entirety of the Fort just gets wiped out by the Securitron army, and you don't even see his death. He becomes _inconsequential_ to the story. And I love that.
In fact, the Platinum Chip, the mcguffin of the entire game, is nothing to the NCR. If you play for them, you don't need to ever get, or meet Benny at all, or meet Ceasar. In fact the only person you have to kill for the NCR is House, which you need to do in 3 of the 4 endings. So in a way House is more important than Ceasar, Kimball, Lanius, Olivier and the rest. At first it looks like you always do the same things but with different results for every ending, but in fact every story is different. With the NCR you don't interact with the White Gloves at all. With all the others, you don't need to meet the Kings. It's a game where you should really experience the 4 storylines.
@@AgusSkywalker bruh, deadass didn't even know that. Played tons of hours of new Vegas but never finished the game. Thats crazy. What always keeps me coming back is how varied each playthrough is. 2022 and I find missions I never even knew and im not even done
@@rikifromplanetk8305 If you are in pc install the functional post game ending+living desert to experience the cut content that devs intended for the game coupled with all the dlcs it is quite an experience lorewise and gameplaywise since lonesomeroad ties it all together
I remember when my buddy was going through the game and I was watching him, he massacred the entire Kings of School of Impersonation because one of them harassed Veronica and they all turned hostile once he killed one of them. He didn't do any of their quests. I never would have thought to approach the game that way because I just like the Kings and usually do their questline
@@AbaddonAlmighty To be fair that describes most playthroughs of CP2077, at the beginning you'll barely survive a one-on-one fight but by halfway through the game you're mowing people down like nothing Doing a fists only game after my next playthrough, looking forward to it
"It is said that Vinnie Glitter still frequents the restrooms of New Vegas to this very day. Though no one who has seen him has come forward out of embarrassment" - Doc Mitchell
Vinnie Glitter build idea: A focus on sneak along with Confirmed Bachelor to really get the guys with their pants down. Next step is to go bare handed. While you can't outright fuck a man in the ass in this game, you can sure as hell simulate what its like to make him take it up to the elbow like a raunchy Jeff Dunham show. You can also feel free to take leather armor or not for that....added flavor (I won't judge).
That graphics tangent is exactly how I feel about Oblivion. I just like the goofiness in the delivery of the dialogue mixed with everyone looking like caricatures of themselves. It’s just stupid, campy goodness that I can’t help but enjoy.
I remember the first time I boot up nv on my Xbox 360, having my eyes raped by the graphics and quiting the game in half an hour. Fuck this shit is ugly! Thankfully I gave it another shot a couple months later and falling in love with it. Bitch may be ugly, but fuck she is interesting
I just can't do it, I can't mod out the ugly models. It just doesn't feel the same anymore. The textures and models look oh so dated but I just can't stand the sight of them being "improved". This is oh so much more obvious in Stalker games, tho not the environment but the character models, I can't use the HD models because it makes me sick, they look really good, but they're not the same. Tho I do funnily enough enjoy weapon mods
If you're using Mod Organizer 2, you can have multiple mod lists you can swap around. I'd recommend using Viva New Vegas in your spare time. It's the definitive modlist, and keeps the game (mechanically) vanilla and generally makes it awesome to play. You can even pick and choose to not have certain mods if you don't want them. Speaking of things you can choose not to give, you don't have to give Veronica the video tape given to you by Father Elijah in Dead Money. It normally buffs her attack speed, but you can cuck her out of character development and keep it for yourself.
Was gonna post this same exact thing. If you want to mod new Vegas, pls for the love of god check out viva new Vegas. Why? Because it explain to you why each mod work and most importantly, you don’t spend another 4 hour trying to fix your mod list. Having Viva new Vegas is like building a solid concrete foundation for all your other whacky mod idea.
Question, i’ve been a NMM/Vortex user for years but have been really wanting to transfer to MO2. Problem is I got huge modlists for all my nexus based games and I cant really be f*ckef to transfer them all manually. Can MO2 detect my Vortex modlist and copy and paste it like so?
More than anything Viva New Vegas is THE place to start if you're just getting into modding. It's essentially a simple, straightforward guide on how to mod the game properly. It guides you step by step, making it so unlikely you're gonna mess up anything. It's great, even as a foundation to mod upon further if desired. But really, if you're playing New Vegas just to experience New Vegas, you don't need all the fancy mods.
Ever consider that house only had the last years of his mortal life to make the platinum chip data, but had 165 (minus a "couple decades") to just... code a new one
As house describes he spent like 40 years just trying to survive. The man is primarily a business man. Sure a programmer but he wasn't and egghead eccentric.
@@primepersephony Also the actual fabrication plant was a pile of rubble in Sunnyvale California. He may have been able to program it but had no hardware to write it on.
at a certain point though the game does force you to pick a side, a stealth build that can kill w/o affecting rep much can play the factions against eachother and be loved up until the very end
Yeah you can go a pretty decent way through every faction, but there is a point where you are forced to commit to one or the other. I always try to progress through all of them as far as I can; killing House for Caesar, installing Yes Man into the Lucky 38, upgrading House's Securition Army, and I usually just end up committing to the NCR anyway lol
It is very tricky to do but, if you hold a save before certain main faction missions, it IS possible to have the Legion, NCR, Followers, Brotherhood, Novac and, Lucky 38 safehouses all accesible in one file. The only real way to do this is to do every quest that upsets the Legion before Vulpes gives you the pendant outside of Chanandler Bong's hotel.
@@Viennas_Sausages Most of PN features can be replaced with distinct more recent mods, granted it's not a one stop shop, but a bit of effort you'll end up with alot more polished and complete package that utilize new features of NVSE. PN is simply out dated and can be replaced with more user and performance friendly options that don't require continous script running to operate as intended.
Dude left out the entire encounter with Benny including telling his partners what he did. The snow globes. The kings missions shows how the NCR works with citizens vs non citizens. Left out every single follower. Wouldn't expect him to have actually done research or put in effort
You know the fact that it took me like about maybe like near 8 years to realise that Matthew Perry voiced Benny really tells you how well he voiced that character, he was not just doing Chandler but he really gave the character a voice of its own to such a degree that you just love to hate Benny in a way that you just want to listen to his dialogue again.
I really want to see a fallout set in a snowy region (maybe finally see what happened to post-US annex and post-nuclear canada turned into) just to hear what would be the reverse of that line.
One thing I definitely recommend you try since you’re a fellow punching things enjoyer is stacking all of the attack speed items at once. Slayer perk, greased lightning power fist (or saturnite fist), and some Rushing Water. You’ll punch so fast that the game can’t register the sounds to match the punches, quite the sight. 😂
The hello by the brotherhood paladins when you enter the follower outpost even though it's just a proximity idle talk soundbite sets such a dark tone that is incredibly fitting for what has just occured literally rewatched that little snippet multiple times for how cinematic it felt
The thing about Perception is that it isn't directly important, but a few very big skill checks require Perception of 6. One of which is required to get access to a quest in New Vegas, and the others are in the DLC such as being able to understand Christine. I normally go Perception 3 for this reason. This being that it is fairly easy to raise Perception 3 points on a moments notice with a hat and some mentats.
I love the way New Vegas actually lets you roleplay, unlike what Bethesda's Fallout games do. (especially Fallout 4, where you are forced to roleplay as Ethan Mars from Heavy Rain no matter how you build your character) Some of my favorite roleplays include a super hero who solves most problems with his flame sword and martial arts, an NCR knockoff of John Rambo, an Agent 47 style hitman, and a violent schoolgirl lost in time. As a fan of the first 2 Fallout games myself, I fully agree with you about the Brotherhood of Steel. It's clear Bethesda doesn't get what they are at all, especially when they threw them into Appalachia so haphazardly in Fallout 76 despite that game taking place around the same time as Fallout 1.
LOL you kids and your obsession with a rushed and small game. There's little difference in how your decisions effect gameplay. The only thing you get for your "roleplaying experience" is a different voice over at the end. Fallout New Vegas, though a very good game, isn't as good as you all make it out to be. I feel the same way about the original Fallout because it was my first Fallout game too, it doesn't prevent me from seeing the obvious flaws in the game.
Lol violent schoolgirl lost in time 😂🤣 that’s great. This game is so legendary for letting you actually pull that off. One of the greatest games of all time
@@SteefPip First, I'm not a kid, I'm over 30 years old. Second, I never said Fallout New Vegas was flawless. Third, my argument that Bethesda's Fallout games are badly written is valid. "Who wants to roleplay in a roleplaying game?" is one of the silliest questions I have ever been asked. Why would I want to build a unique character all my own, with their own goals and backstories? In Fallout 4, your character, no matter how you build them, already has a backstory and goals that revolve around your character's son Shaun. In short, you're Ethan Mars from Heavy Rain. There's even a "Press X to Shaun" mod for Fallout 4 mocking this fact.
Thank you for this, you reminded me of reasons I love this game that I didn't even consciously consider myself. Genuinely made me smile, gonna have to set up for another playthrough soon.
I always thought it was interesting that the game starts with a Rorschach test as the game itself is a big psychological test. Even if you know the game is asking you telling questions about your principals and morality in major choices it still presents itself in minor ones and you can tell things like how you feel about protecting the weak, being self-sufficient, how many Ayn Rand books you own, if you detest authority and still won't clean your room, etc.
I always have a strong urge to go with the Yes Man ending. In the end, I can rule as I see fit. Will be a sort of Switzerland? A fortress among superpowers? Will I side with the NCR yet maintain sovereignty in return for exclusive access? Will I side with the Legion and wreak havoc on degenerates of the world? Or will I simply walk away, and leave New Vegas in the hands of Yes Man, with a final order to "do what is right" as I go and live my life in the wasteland, doing whatever I do? In the end, it's all my choice. I'm not beholden to any superior except God, I am not a victim of circumstance locked into a potentially unwinnable situation, I am the one that decides what to do and what the future holds. It's a liberating feeling.
Good to see you still making vids man, I remember you talking about being super sick and and depressed a while ago and glad to see you're still around bro, your vids got me through a lot of bad nights, especially your kotor vids 🔥🔥🔥 much love man keep on keeping ok
So in regards to the Fallout 3 brotherhood, I don't dislike them. While they are vastly different from what exists in the original games, they writing explained that away sufficiently. Owen Lyons was part of Brotherhood a brotherhood mission east (like the ones in the spinoff games made before Interplay folded), but along the way, he had a change of heart to a more Veronica like perspective on the Brotherhood's role. Being in a position of power, he acted on it and his collogues were divided on his policies.
In addition, being so far away from the Main chapters in the West meant that he _could_ pull off some internal reforms without everyone flipping a tit.
something else that's notable in FO3 is that there are holdouts that hated Lyons' changes and formed their own splinter faction-the outcasts. The outcasts are pretty close to what FO1 and 2 BoS is like
"This game looks tired". Holy fuck that's the best description I've heard. That feeling when you start the first time, with the melancholic music and the tired voice of the doc, etc. I'm also tired of spending more time patching and modding Bethesda games than playing them so I don't even install them anymore.
Strat, when I found your work I gotta say I've really enjoyed everything you do. You have a way with words and insight, not to mention the jokes. I definitely love this game. It's got a charm about it and is way more vast than I expected. I've put so much time into it, but my first playthrough I didn't do much. That changed when I decided second run to branch out and try everything I could. I also love how this games DLC all intertwine with each other in story and weave into the lore and story of the vanilla game. Brilliant stuff. PS you should eventually in the future cover the DLCs for this game
Some corrections, Hoover Dam wasn't annexed until 2075. The NCR had water resources that they ate through from mismanagement and over expansion. There were also Several Presidents before Kimball. Kimball won his Presidency after he led the soldiers who defeated a raider tribe in the Mojave. So he did have some sort of Popular mandate for expansion into the Mojave. Also based off the way you talk about FNV's open world, you would probably love the Wasteland Series or Underrail
9:53 (Paraphrasing) "...no matter the jankiness of graphics, they never took me out of the game...I feel exactly the same way about Morrowind." Exactly, thank you!
They do well enough to serve the purpose of the game. Would I maybe like to see higher resolution textures? Absolutely. But honestly that's about all one can give it before it actually starts looking very weird due to the animations. And to upgrade the animations you'd need to overhaul the entire engine. Or you can keep the janky animations and we get Fallout 4, lol
@@vincentmarcellino7183 👍 Agreed, however I was really referring to the Morrowind part of his observation. Morrowind players either played it upon release, or they played it later. Nothing wrong with either choice, but the ones who played at release have specific, timeline related memories that can never be duplicated by players who came later, memories from when the game graphics were NOT dated. Of course, you could say that about almost ANY game from mid-90s to mid-10's because graphics were improving rapidly from year to year, it's slower now. Since TES3 took several years to complete, it was technically already at least slightly outdated at release, but that was a result of fast-moving tech, and thus completely unavoidable. There's less excuse for devs now. And I think his statement was more about aesthetic than resolution, anyway.
"And that's why I like the Legion; Not because I wanna be a member, but because it's an extreme version of the subtle Legion that we're already apart of." Fuck.
Wild thing about game development is that half the time is dealing with authentication and legal mumbo-jumbo, so only a fraction of that 18 month dev time was actually used to develop. Amazing what a dedicated group of ppl can accomplish when they give a fug.
To be fair, a LOT of the conceptual groundwork was laid down beforehand in the Fallout:Van Buren project. That, combined with using Fallout 3’s engine, meant they could use most of that time for implementing ideas rather than needing to spend as much time troubleshooting the engine and the like
@@spindash64 Didn't they also mostly use assets from Fallout 3 as well. Many textures, animations, objects and sound effects are copied from Fallout 3. Fallout NV feels more like a huge expansion pack for Fallout 3 than a complete new game (doesn't take away anything from the game though). I don't have an issue with that as I honestly really enjoy the engine even if it obviously has issues, but they did some great improvements to the gameplay as well (adding iron sights for example).
BOS had alliance options with NCR and House that was cut due to release time before it went gold. There's a mod that just turns back on the dialog option too
Perfect timing, my guy. I just reinstalled after a several year hiatus. I'm playing with alternative start, as a tribal who escaped a life of slavery after his tribe was conquered by the Legion. Boy lemme tell ya: getting dropped just outside Bitter Springs at level 1, wearing only rags, equipped with an almost broken baseball bat, is a whole new level of excitement.
In regards to modding: Project Nevada is dogshit. It’s spaghettini code on top of spaghetti code. I recommend the Viva New Vegas guide if you want a comprehensive modding guide, which includes the do’s and don’t’s on mods. The guy who wrote it does modernized compatibility patches as well to cut down on crashes between mods. Personally the only graphical mod I use is Titans of the New West, which makes power armor look like power armor from 1,2 and 4.
Just use Just Mods and the stand alone project Nevada cybernetics mod. Those two approximate PN functionality plus other great modern game stuff. I think viva new Vegas recommends those too
Great video, the only correction I'd make is the one regarding the bonus from Bethesda for meeting an arbitrary score, Chris Avellone, a founder of Obsidian and one of the writers on New Vegas, and Josh Sawyer who was the director have talked about this a good number of times, the bonus was never a part of the original deal and was only negotiated for after by management, all signs point to Feargus Urquhart for that one, and it wouldn't have staved off any of the firings at the studio. To quote Chris Avellone himself from his Medium page, specifically his new ongoing Fallout Apocrypha: "OMFG DID BETHESDA LIKE, TOTALLY, SCREW OBSIDIAN OUT OF A BONUS ON METACRITIC???!!! Nope. The “Metacritic bonus” if the game got above an 84 review score was something Bethesda offered above and beyond the New Vegas contract. We didn’t ask for this, they offered it, and it was our responsibility to hit that review score. We did have to have layoffs at Obsidian around this time period, but the bonus from Metacritic wouldn’t have prevented that from happening." Either way, superb video, nice to see someone not immediately jerking off the NCR, haha.
Indeed.. it always annoys the hell out of me when people go "f*cking bethesda totally screwed obsidian out of money" when its really not the case even tho if I were the one in bethesda at the time making this decision I would have given out the bonus but I certainly do not blame bethesda for not doing so or somehow screwing obsidian..
Fair enough, but regardless they obviously still deserved the bonus, so I still have little sympathy for Bethesda. I've literally worked with cutthroat biopharma companies that would be more honorable and generous lol
@@Ellimist000 Yeah, in hindsight I maybe would have given them the bonus if I was in charge since they were just a point off, but it is true that the game was extremely buggy at launch and took a further nine months of patching just to stabilise it, which adversely effected the development of the DLC. At the end of the day, it is a shame but it is what it is.
I'm about 35 minutes in and I can say this is the first video where I've ever heard someone appropriately explain the Legion. Not as a force for good, or justified, or someone you should emulate. But as an extreme example of a Lawful Evil group who all believe their societal doctrine and so act accordingly, no matter how terrible it may be. Sure, there are older people who recognize Caesar for the falsehood he is, but many of the capture tribals who are indoctrinated and those born into the Legion will understand no other way of life. It is zealousy. It's what makes them a fascinating group. Not one to idolize, but one to study within a fictional setting. Because it's one you can't apply our modern day principles too, and I think they were written with that understanding in mind. Well written Strat.
First playthrough: I was tired of the NCR, losing a war they once won. Met House, decided I was going to side with him because I liked the way he ran things. Then I met Caesar, who recounted everything I did against him, which was literally everything that could be done to injure the Legion at that point. He threatened to kill me, then offered to buy me a beer. Hell, only my friends talk to me like that. So I made a backup save, and went all in with Caesar.
My first playthrough consisted of me being a NCR fan until I met yesman and Mr House. Before this though, I had gotten pretty geared up before arriving to new Vegas, including robbing the entirety of that plasma gun store with a stealth boy, so I killed Benny by throwing plasma grenades at him while invisible so nobody else got mad, I then went and made every casino bankrupt before I killed Mr House as soon as I was able to, then I became friends with funny robot, stormed ceasars base killing everyone and beating up ceasar with a supersledge, and killed the NCR president with an orbital strike (which yesman actually discouraged me from doing but fuck it, not like he can say no). I also became friends with Arcade up until he brought out his Tesla coil armor. I acquired 3 sets of enclave power armor for my boys back at Mr Houses.... House. I then bought lonesome road, acquired my favorite armor, elite riot gear, and launched a nuke at both the NCR and the legion. Some time within all that I became friends with the brotherhood, after acquiring power armor training I blew up their bunker but only after abusing a glitch which gives unlimited fusion cell and other ammos like that. I destroyed the bunker with all the securitrons accidentally without realizing what I was doing, which then meant I had to do pretty much everything on my own. I pretty much put the Mojave into mass anarchy. Oh well. I reaaaaally like yesman. 😂
@@StratEdgyProductions Not too bad thanks man! Hope you've been recovering well from hospital 🙂I took your recommendation to play Disco Elysium in a video and I thoroughly thoroughly enjoyed it 😄 So thanks!
As intriguing as your speculative fictional idea of what a faction like Caesar's Legion could become, the fact of the Legion not having those kinds of developed aspects isn't entirely a matter of Obsidian not having time to finish them. The fact of the matter is that they are a newly-established faction that has not been around long enough for its founder to even grow old enough that he's incapable of fighting and putting up a vicious fight. Everyone currently alive in the Legion was either part of the early push willingly or they were among the tribes brutally conquered to grow it; he's managed to psychologically break most of the conquered ones to believe in his cause even if this means believing he did them a favor by slaughtering their fellows wholecloth. But there have not been any people who have *grown up* in the Legion yet. If New Vegas ever got a sequel, then it might have come to be something like what you described as Edward Sallow's descendents or chosen successors consolidated their power over those born into their society, but these are the Legion's early days and there's not really any reason for the faction to *be* more than it is. Which isn't to say that they couldn't have executed what's here a little more smoothly, but you were kind of putting the cart before the horse with the direction you took that particular tangent, I think. We saw the underdeveloped early days of what would become the NCR long before we saw the NCR in its golden days and we saw that before we saw them in their New Vegas decline. I think it's important to acknowledge that, had Obsidian had the chance, this stage of the Caesar's Legion "arc" could have provided a similar effect for this newer faction as a recurring story element.
While I was watching the two Fallout 2 videos last night, I wondered when a New Vegas one would come out. Seeing this video appear on my recommended is like finding a $100 bill on the sidewalk. It's a great feeling :]
It’s amazing how people are still making content on this videogame, quality content, I love this community as the videogame itself Waiting for the remake makes you wish for a nuclear winter 🥶 Cheers from Italy 🇮🇹
The last time I finished a NV run was a little over a month ago and it was at least 65+hours, and yet I'm already preparing to start another. NV is the only creation engine game that the older I get the more into it I become like the exact reverse of the typical path with these games.
I dont generally like gun games but this is one of my favorite games of all time Love you Strat-Edgy. Your Fallout videos and Bethesda videos are my favorite so this is a chefs kiss
Idk why games, bethesda in particular, still have to use face sliders when dragon's dogma made it very clear that picking all your features from a list is a thousand times nicer. Must be a time limit thing
Yo my man, you just made a two hour video about fallout New Vegas. Little do you know, I would have watched a five hour video by you about New Vegas. My mom sends all her love to you.
Agreed. To this day buying a game and not getting a fucking actual disc with the data on it, makes me feel cheated somehow. And as always around midnight or early morning next day the download is done too, not even 10 years ago, even today as I'm Australian and our internet consists of copper wires, duct tape and dixie cups attached with string. Because old people don't know what the internet is besides Facebook and ebay
Hope you end up going through the DLCs too, they're all the best of what the game has to offer in my opinion. I'm also way more invested in the tale of Paulie Walnuts throughout post-post-apocalyptic Vegas than I probably have any right to.
1:29:54 there's a neat trick, pretty well-known actually. If you can get your hands on NCR costume, you can take a monorail ride from the Camp McCarran and get to the strip for free and no hustle.
My character walked funny after that unconscious stay at the Doc’s… now I don’t want to jump to conclusions, but if there’s a sudden outbreak of Monkey Pox in Goodsprings and they both have symptoms… I think someone should get the Sheriff to ask some questions.
I really like that you do unarmed builds for most of your how-to videos. I feel that they're really under utilized in some games; and fallout is certainly no exception.
Well, your Fallout 4 video got me to finally dive into that game for real, and god damnit Strat you've done it again. I never did play the DLCs for NV anyway, been wanting to jump in at some point!
The NV dlcs are definetly all worth it, I can definetly see why people have a dislike for dead money with some of the new mechanics but between the style it had and how good the story there is i'd still give a reccomend.
Absolutely splendid. Can’t wait for the DLCs where you do a combined 6 hour analysis on why Ulysses isn’t that interesting and quite boring. (Sexy voice aside)
An og tribal & former legionaire, one who (mostly) turns against his master b/c of the history he repeated in his name. One who makes you question sht on a meta level not just tangible to the game, but life itself. Whole dlc & his character's motivations may as well be a giant ad for the yes man ending. One to correct the timeless insanity of imperfect men ruling over imperfect men ala the other 3 endings. His prob is learning most-all the wrong lessons, still using the very same crafts of force & coercion that jaded his entire being. If you dont like being questioned on sht, i can get why you dont like ulysses, but that's basically fnv as a whole. Ulysses is just figuratively & literally the end game to that
I know it's been said, and I'll say it again, René Auberjonois was (and still is) a national treasure. I re-watch Deep Space 9 all the time and I absolutely adore him in his role as Mr. House. He even did an episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and hearing him say, "No, I'm not acting, you bitch!" never ceases to be funny. RIP, Odo.
9:03 yeah I'm like this too for example with Halo 2 The anniversary graphics are nice but the elites lose that iconic spiky silhouette they had And the old school silhouette just has charm to me
@@floatingscrib That's cause a different company did Halo 2 than the one who did Halo CE which is basically just putting reach models and graphics on everything and it sucks. I love Reach, but it doesn't fit Halo CE style wise. Also Blur Studios, who did the cutscenes for the Halo Wars games and H2A should just make an digital Halo movie at this point, or any movie for that matter. They would kill it.
As someone who recently bought a pc and played New Vegas on it. Man you have mod the shit out of it to get it to run for longer than 20 minutes but damn is it worth it. Plus the modding scene for this decade old game is still active. The dlc sized mods are alright. Don't play The Frontier unless you want to vomit though. It crashes more than the vanilla game and it's writing is god awful. I feel sorry for the people who got hyped for it. New California is a great mod for those who want a new back story or head canon for the courier. Dust is a fantastic survival simulator and changes the game enough that exploring it all over again doesn't feel the same as every other time. And the Someguy Series is a master class of amateur writing acting and design.
Vinny Glitter sounds like a legend. God Strat, every how to is a masterpiece with you, I shudder at the thought you might one day not pop out a banger again. But until then, keep it up you glorious man.
In regards to modding graphics particularly character models New Vegas Redesigned is a MUST it changes the design of the characters to match their descriptions and situations made by the same genius that made Dragon Age Redesigned.
Legion in the lore: Diverse territory that is larger in total scope than the NCR and a much more complicated culture and ethos than the developers were able to include while getting screwed in the butt by Bethesda. Legion in the game: Renaissance Faire in rural Mississippi
Yeah, they really dropped the ball on showcasing The Legion. I have a hard time believing they could even be a thorn in NCR's side with how they appear in-game. "There's thousands more just beyond the hills!" If they had the chance to revisit it I would definitely at the very least have done some progression to show the Legion encroaching more as they built up for invasion, rather than a single fighting pit with a throne beyond it.
This is the best way to do a review, retrospective or critique or whatever the fuck. SICK of people making dumb boring videos on media. You and Grimbeard have the perfect way of showing your experience with New Vegas
14:50 True about Perception except one thing - Better Criticals perk reqs 6 PE. So If you plan to get it - start with 5 PE and get implant for additional one.
@@futurewario9591 New Vegas felt post post apocalypse. Yeah we had the era of ramshackle towns and communities cut off from one another. But now the concept of nation building and unifying culture are occurring. From our own timeline of the transition from city-states to nation states. I feel like bethesda wants to stay at that point. Be at the precipice of a thriving community, but never wanting to see results of that community. Its okay to see the east as the less developed, but it can't be like that forever.
@@futurewario9591 it always felt a little “too” barren to me. I suppose that’s the whole point, but fnv has that same barren feeling with a great mix of city life
I heard the original FO3 was supposed to take place shortly after the bombs, so the barren landscape might have made sense, if the idea hadn't been scraped.
You can easily start the game with 6 strength, never take intense training and still get a consistent 10. Medical clinic implant +1 Power armor +1/2depending on model Reinforced spine +2 (perk from old world blues)
@@DIEGhostfish yes, but with the implant, you have 7, which DOES modify your base strength, allowing you to get perks with that requirement. No perk requires more than 7, so reenforced spine not counting is irellevant as the implant does that job well enough.
Did you forget about Yes Man? He's the only true good guy in the series, though he's neutral he's the best option. For the brotherhood just get another elder
@46:53 Fun fact there's an infinite xp glitch with our buddy Ringo. Once you start the Run Goodsprings Run quest, go kill Ringo. Upon returning to Cobb, you must then agree to shake down Chet for supplies. Immediately fail the quest by damaging or killing any of the Powder Gangers present. Run over to Chet in the Goodsprings General Store and ask him to donate supplies to the Powder Gangers. You can choose either the Barter check (Barter 25) or the Speech check (Speech 25). and each check provides xp, 30 9mm ammo and leather armor. Rinse wash repeat and you can reach lvl 50 before leaving Goodspring
I feel like you should have mentioned that Liam O'brien is the other half of this games voice acting with Sam Riegel guest starring as the ghouls, like, all of em.
didnt watch this video a few weeks back bc i had just watched another of the many 2 hour ish long video essays on new vegas, but now i did and 10 min in you've identified and helped me fix the audio issue i always had, hopefully, havent tested it now but glad i went back to see this lmfao
As someone who takes time looking at perks when leveling up, I never understood why people used the cowboy perk: you're limited to a few weapons that have to qualify as something a cowboy would use while having to put 45 points in guns as well as melee and can only do serious damage if you have custom ammo or a high luck stat while you have a greater variety with the grunt perk. I can understand if it's to fit the aesthetic or if you're going on a path to get the ranger armor but do you really think 2 two pieces of dynamite with one having a longer fuse time are going to be enough to kill a group of grown deathclaws when even a pure explosives or melee build can easily wipe the floor with said deathclaw horde? I'm just saying: if an infantry soldier got into a fight with a cowboy, both of them would get annihilated by a baseball slugger using tin can grenades and mini nuke mines.
Cowboy served me well, alongside Fast Shot, And Stay Back, Shotgun Surgeon, Hand Loader, and a Lever-Action Shotgun. I did expand my abilities with Grunt, because I was a gun enthusiast character that erred more on cowboy action, but I couldn't resist the temptation of melting shit with the .45 SMG shooting .45 Super. Playthrough highlights: th-cam.com/video/5c7WQGcIB-M/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=Mr.Bootleg
I get Cowboy to stack with Grunt for combat knives. Namely: Chance's Knife. Makes it so Chance's Knife out DPS'S almost any other melee weapon. Chance's Knife could be found at the very start of the game being really cool. Cowboy also makes the Medicine Stick really slap.
I come back to this video every once in a while for the Teddy K. section. That’s some incredible capital R role-playing. "These weren’t people to Teddy K., but puppets, happily bouncing about their lives, acting as petroleum for the machine. So it wouldn’t matter if someone came along and, y'know, blew off all their body parts." I've since started a character in BG3 heavily inspired by Teddy here.
I had never heard about this game when it came out either. I dude I used to work with whom I actually found to be quite annoying would constantly talk about it. He let me borrow it one day and I understood. Still play it regularly today and I’ve still found new things after over 1000 hours of playtime.
Never returned it huh? Me neither accidentally permanently borrowing games from buddies was a pass time for me apparently. At least I still think about them? XD
I tried it once but basically speedran it. A few years later I got really into it on a new character and actually spent time with it and fell in love. I still don't play it alot mostly because I'm on console and theres no mods or new game +
Need a video on the DLCs. Hell you could upload all the unedited footage of you playing this and I'd probably watch it with your commentary on top. Love this game and the channel, dude. Glad to see you're still uploading
Josh Sawyer, the game director, literally said that them getting screwed out of the bonus was false
Exactly. But i guess its still "Edgy" to tell this Tale till the end of Time.✌😁
Not false necessarily, there was indeed a bonus for a metacritic score of 85+ that they did not receive. But nobody at Obsidian thought they were "screwed", it was always just an extra and not one that they were like expecting or desperately counting on. So the framing of it being a screwjob is for sure completely dishonest.
@@bruhvenant I guess it would be fairer to say that Obsidian's reputation after New Vegas caused them to nearly go tits up. No idea how big the bonus was, but the idea that Bethesda negotiated a contract with a company that forgoes royalties, REALLY makes me pissy because that is one company screwing the other because they are passionate and will agree to it. Just like the game studios screw workers with passion. It hits a very particular nerve.
Speaking of people getting screwed let me tell you a story about a man named Vinny Glitter.
@@bruhvenant Eh, I feel like you can acknowledge that nobody at the studio viewed it as being screwed and still think that a 1 pt metacritic difference still smells like a screwjob. Its the whole "I'm used to working 60 hrs a week" thing. I think a person can be okay with that schedule and that other people who would mind can call it out for being a shitty overworking schedule on average too. That's sortof the situation with the bonus, imo. Obsidian didn't mind and so we shouldn't be angry on their behalf, because its inane and inaccurate, but we can still say it was a shitty, good-will-destroying way for Bethesda to handle it.
Something I love about New Vegas' storytelling is how your decisions can make entire characters and plotlines totally irrelevant. Like, if you side with the NCR, killing Caesar is a huge deal. He's target #1, the most important goal in taking down the Legion for the NCR is to take him out. It marks a tidal shift in the NCR's plans when you kill him. But if you follow House? If you take his orders and don't attack Caesar? He dies _offscreen._ The entirety of the Fort just gets wiped out by the Securitron army, and you don't even see his death. He becomes _inconsequential_ to the story. And I love that.
In fact, the Platinum Chip, the mcguffin of the entire game, is nothing to the NCR. If you play for them, you don't need to ever get, or meet Benny at all, or meet Ceasar. In fact the only person you have to kill for the NCR is House, which you need to do in 3 of the 4 endings. So in a way House is more important than Ceasar, Kimball, Lanius, Olivier and the rest. At first it looks like you always do the same things but with different results for every ending, but in fact every story is different. With the NCR you don't interact with the White Gloves at all. With all the others, you don't need to meet the Kings. It's a game where you should really experience the 4 storylines.
@@AgusSkywalker bruh, deadass didn't even know that. Played tons of hours of new Vegas but never finished the game. Thats crazy. What always keeps me coming back is how varied each playthrough is. 2022 and I find missions I never even knew and im not even done
@@rikifromplanetk8305 If you are in pc install the functional post game ending+living desert to experience the cut content that devs intended for the game
coupled with all the dlcs it is quite an experience lorewise and gameplaywise since lonesomeroad ties it all together
I remember when my buddy was going through the game and I was watching him, he massacred the entire Kings of School of Impersonation because one of them harassed Veronica and they all turned hostile once he killed one of them. He didn't do any of their quests. I never would have thought to approach the game that way because I just like the Kings and usually do their questline
Indeed, I agree, it's very well done.
Between this and Strat-Edgy’s TES series I think he just likes beating the crap out enemies with his fists in any RPG he can.
Yeah, pretty much. I'm also terrible at shooters, lol.
“Parry this mother fucker!”
*closes distance*
“Snipe this ya piece of shit!”
I've been doing a largely fists run through Cyberpunk 2077. It was pretty terrible at first but later on I'm OP as shit.
@@AbaddonAlmighty To be fair that describes most playthroughs of CP2077, at the beginning you'll barely survive a one-on-one fight but by halfway through the game you're mowing people down like nothing
Doing a fists only game after my next playthrough, looking forward to it
In alot of games fist seem to have high knock back and you can animation lock them enemies into a stumbling loser.
"It is said that Vinnie Glitter still frequents the restrooms of New Vegas to this very day. Though no one who has seen him has come forward out of embarrassment" - Doc Mitchell
DLC origin story.
Vinnie Glitter build idea: A focus on sneak along with Confirmed Bachelor to really get the guys with their pants down. Next step is to go bare handed. While you can't outright fuck a man in the ass in this game, you can sure as hell simulate what its like to make him take it up to the elbow like a raunchy Jeff Dunham show. You can also feel free to take leather armor or not for that....added flavor (I won't judge).
@@slyzthaman "while you can't outright fuck a man in the ass"
You clearly don't know how deep the mod rabbit hole goes 🤣🤣
Legend has it that he was the one who programmed Fisto
That ending with Lee and Vinny Glitter was fucking amazing.
Thanks. I actually improved the last 30 minutes of this video, so I'm glad it worked out.
@@StratEdgyProductions I haven’t watched the sopranos and I just assumed the whole time it was some gay Italian character from the show
Seconded, that bit had me in stitches the punchline at the end was the cherry on top!
@@StratEdgyProductions I thought it was based on the Scariest Debt Collector documentary. Real tough crap and interesting.
And it's just bad enough that it fits. Notice how uncanny valley Outer Worlds look compared to New Vegas, it's somehow worse despite looking better.
That graphics tangent is exactly how I feel about Oblivion.
I just like the goofiness in the delivery of the dialogue mixed with everyone looking like caricatures of themselves.
It’s just stupid, campy goodness that I can’t help but enjoy.
I remember the first time I boot up nv on my Xbox 360, having my eyes raped by the graphics and quiting the game in half an hour. Fuck this shit is ugly!
Thankfully I gave it another shot a couple months later and falling in love with it.
Bitch may be ugly, but fuck she is interesting
oblivion looks really fucking good when nothing alive in in a scene
the problem is Bethesda and Toddy boy really thought they were being serious about 90% of the time.
I just can't do it, I can't mod out the ugly models. It just doesn't feel the same anymore. The textures and models look oh so dated but I just can't stand the sight of them being "improved". This is oh so much more obvious in Stalker games, tho not the environment but the character models, I can't use the HD models because it makes me sick, they look really good, but they're not the same. Tho I do funnily enough enjoy weapon mods
First time I played Oblivion I spend 5 minutes laughing at default face in character creation
Never understood why people like New Vegas, the game is rigged from the start
BENNNNNNNNYYYYYYYYY
I have to say: this is the funniest comment I have read for a while :D
*bugged from the start
Yes, and the odds are in MY FAVOR!
@@charles2703 this is more accurate than the original comment
Can't wait for Nerbit's "Can you beat Fallout: New Vegas as Vinny Glitter"
High Strength and high Charisma, Wild Wasteland, Melee, Speech and Barter, Confirmed Bachelor, Cannibal
@@vincentmarcellino7183 Have to do the collections quest for the Atomic Wrangler
One guy had a novel idea, now there's an assload of doorknobs shitting out "Can you beat ___" videos
@@ericdykstra4545
Yeah, but at least Nerbit has a consistent upload schedule and a voice that doesn't make me want to blow out my eardrums.
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It’s a nice simple way of showing a condensed playthru of a game that also has something unique about it.
That legion section had me thinking about the cut legion companion. Imagine that character's journey
Thatd be ulysses & you get a clear enough picture to the roads he walked thru the dlcs
It was supposed to be vulpes inculta
@@shastealyomeal nah, Ulysses
If you're using Mod Organizer 2, you can have multiple mod lists you can swap around.
I'd recommend using Viva New Vegas in your spare time. It's the definitive modlist, and keeps the game (mechanically) vanilla and generally makes it awesome to play. You can even pick and choose to not have certain mods if you don't want them.
Speaking of things you can choose not to give, you don't have to give Veronica the video tape given to you by Father Elijah in Dead Money. It normally buffs her attack speed, but you can cuck her out of character development and keep it for yourself.
Was gonna post this same exact thing. If you want to mod new Vegas, pls for the love of god check out viva new Vegas. Why? Because it explain to you why each mod work and most importantly, you don’t spend another 4 hour trying to fix your mod list. Having Viva new Vegas is like building a solid concrete foundation for all your other whacky mod idea.
Question, i’ve been a NMM/Vortex user for years but have been really wanting to transfer to MO2. Problem is I got huge modlists for all my nexus based games and I cant really be f*ckef to transfer them all manually. Can MO2 detect my Vortex modlist and copy and paste it like so?
@@superspartan243 I think you can transfer the files to the MO2 folder, but I'd recommend just burning it to the ground and starting over.
More than anything Viva New Vegas is THE place to start if you're just getting into modding. It's essentially a simple, straightforward guide on how to mod the game properly. It guides you step by step, making it so unlikely you're gonna mess up anything. It's great, even as a foundation to mod upon further if desired. But really, if you're playing New Vegas just to experience New Vegas, you don't need all the fancy mods.
...gotta love cuckin' em out 😂😅🤣... never heard tit put like that LOL
Ever consider that house only had the last years of his mortal life to make the platinum chip data, but had 165 (minus a "couple decades") to just... code a new one
lol, that's a damn good point. Could explain it away with encryption, but they never did, lol.
Mate the chip contained an operating system
As house describes he spent like 40 years just trying to survive. The man is primarily a business man. Sure a programmer but he wasn't and egghead eccentric.
@Alpha_Wave funny you say that, there's an anime about that
@@primepersephony Also the actual fabrication plant was a pile of rubble in Sunnyvale California. He may have been able to program it but had no hardware to write it on.
at a certain point though the game does force you to pick a side, a stealth build that can kill w/o affecting rep much can play the factions against eachother and be loved up until the very end
Yeah you can go a pretty decent way through every faction, but there is a point where you are forced to commit to one or the other. I always try to progress through all of them as far as I can; killing House for Caesar, installing Yes Man into the Lucky 38, upgrading House's Securition Army, and I usually just end up committing to the NCR anyway lol
It is very tricky to do but, if you hold a save before certain main faction missions, it IS possible to have the Legion, NCR, Followers, Brotherhood, Novac and, Lucky 38 safehouses all accesible in one file. The only real way to do this is to do every quest that upsets the Legion before Vulpes gives you the pendant outside of Chanandler Bong's hotel.
My dude project Nevada is outdated, I would suggest playing this following viva new Vegas guide
Very important ping.
I endorse this recommendation.
it may be outdated but the engine is even more outdated then morrowind
@@Viennas_Sausages Most of PN features can be replaced with distinct more recent mods, granted it's not a one stop shop, but a bit of effort you'll end up with alot more polished and complete package that utilize new features of NVSE. PN is simply out dated and can be replaced with more user and performance friendly options that don't require continous script running to operate as intended.
Dude left out the entire encounter with Benny including telling his partners what he did. The snow globes. The kings missions shows how the NCR works with citizens vs non citizens. Left out every single follower. Wouldn't expect him to have actually done research or put in effort
Subbed immediately when the sopranos references started. "Whaddaya know, Whaddaya say!?"
"Remember Pearl Harbor!"
You know the fact that it took me like about maybe like near 8 years to realise that Matthew Perry voiced Benny really tells you how well he voiced that character, he was not just doing Chandler but he really gave the character a voice of its own to such a degree that you just love to hate Benny in a way that you just want to listen to his dialogue again.
Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.
There's a mod for that
it's called fallout new vages frontier
Patrolling the comments section of a fallout new Vegas video almost makes u wish for death
I really want to see a fallout set in a snowy region (maybe finally see what happened to post-US annex and post-nuclear canada turned into) just to hear what would be the reverse of that line.
Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.
One thing I definitely recommend you try since you’re a fellow punching things enjoyer is stacking all of the attack speed items at once. Slayer perk, greased lightning power fist (or saturnite fist), and some Rushing Water. You’ll punch so fast that the game can’t register the sounds to match the punches, quite the sight. 😂
Bugthesda games need more ways to break them like this, not less.
STANDING HERE I REALIZE
STANDO POWAH!
Hokuto no shinken!!!!!
The hello by the brotherhood paladins when you enter the follower outpost even though it's just a proximity idle talk soundbite sets such a dark tone that is incredibly fitting for what has just occured literally rewatched that little snippet multiple times for how cinematic it felt
You gave the best explanation of the legion & NCR . Not even lore channels explained them as well as you did.
The thing about Perception is that it isn't directly important, but a few very big skill checks require Perception of 6. One of which is required to get access to a quest in New Vegas, and the others are in the DLC such as being able to understand Christine. I normally go Perception 3 for this reason. This being that it is fairly easy to raise Perception 3 points on a moments notice with a hat and some mentats.
I love the way New Vegas actually lets you roleplay, unlike what Bethesda's Fallout games do. (especially Fallout 4, where you are forced to roleplay as Ethan Mars from Heavy Rain no matter how you build your character) Some of my favorite roleplays include a super hero who solves most problems with his flame sword and martial arts, an NCR knockoff of John Rambo, an Agent 47 style hitman, and a violent schoolgirl lost in time.
As a fan of the first 2 Fallout games myself, I fully agree with you about the Brotherhood of Steel. It's clear Bethesda doesn't get what they are at all, especially when they threw them into Appalachia so haphazardly in Fallout 76 despite that game taking place around the same time as Fallout 1.
LOL you kids and your obsession with a rushed and small game. There's little difference in how your decisions effect gameplay. The only thing you get for your "roleplaying experience" is a different voice over at the end. Fallout New Vegas, though a very good game, isn't as good as you all make it out to be. I feel the same way about the original Fallout because it was my first Fallout game too, it doesn't prevent me from seeing the obvious flaws in the game.
Lol violent schoolgirl lost in time 😂🤣 that’s great. This game is so legendary for letting you actually pull that off. One of the greatest games of all time
@@SteefPip First, I'm not a kid, I'm over 30 years old. Second, I never said Fallout New Vegas was flawless. Third, my argument that Bethesda's Fallout games are badly written is valid.
"Who wants to roleplay in a roleplaying game?" is one of the silliest questions I have ever been asked. Why would I want to build a unique character all my own, with their own goals and backstories? In Fallout 4, your character, no matter how you build them, already has a backstory and goals that revolve around your character's son Shaun. In short, you're Ethan Mars from Heavy Rain. There's even a "Press X to Shaun" mod for Fallout 4 mocking this fact.
@@SteefPip Genuinely an embarrassment. Quite literally had to suppress the cringe reading this garbage.
FO4 is alot better than you think try playing survival mode it makes it amuch richer experience.
10 minutes in and I realized that it’s over 2 hours long. Had to go make my tea first to truly enjoy my night.
Thank you for this, you reminded me of reasons I love this game that I didn't even consciously consider myself. Genuinely made me smile, gonna have to set up for another playthrough soon.
I always thought it was interesting that the game starts with a Rorschach test as the game itself is a big psychological test. Even if you know the game is asking you telling questions about your principals and morality in major choices it still presents itself in minor ones and you can tell things like how you feel about protecting the weak, being self-sufficient, how many Ayn Rand books you own, if you detest authority and still won't clean your room, etc.
I always have a strong urge to go with the Yes Man ending. In the end, I can rule as I see fit. Will be a sort of Switzerland? A fortress among superpowers? Will I side with the NCR yet maintain sovereignty in return for exclusive access? Will I side with the Legion and wreak havoc on degenerates of the world?
Or will I simply walk away, and leave New Vegas in the hands of Yes Man, with a final order to "do what is right" as I go and live my life in the wasteland, doing whatever I do?
In the end, it's all my choice. I'm not beholden to any superior except God, I am not a victim of circumstance locked into a potentially unwinnable situation, I am the one that decides what to do and what the future holds.
It's a liberating feeling.
Man, you playing a Wiseguy in New Vegas was hilarious as hell.
Video was excellent. also gotta love the veteran players all saying one thing and one thing only: Viva New Vegas
Good to see you still making vids man, I remember you talking about being super sick and and depressed a while ago and glad to see you're still around bro, your vids got me through a lot of bad nights, especially your kotor vids 🔥🔥🔥 much love man keep on keeping ok
Same to you :)
So in regards to the Fallout 3 brotherhood, I don't dislike them. While they are vastly different from what exists in the original games, they writing explained that away sufficiently. Owen Lyons was part of Brotherhood a brotherhood mission east (like the ones in the spinoff games made before Interplay folded), but along the way, he had a change of heart to a more Veronica like perspective on the Brotherhood's role. Being in a position of power, he acted on it and his collogues were divided on his policies.
Basically how the tactics chapter changed.
In addition, being so far away from the Main chapters in the West meant that he _could_ pull off some internal reforms without everyone flipping a tit.
something else that's notable in FO3 is that there are holdouts that hated Lyons' changes and formed their own splinter faction-the outcasts. The outcasts are pretty close to what FO1 and 2 BoS is like
"This game looks tired". Holy fuck that's the best description I've heard. That feeling when you start the first time, with the melancholic music and the tired voice of the doc, etc.
I'm also tired of spending more time patching and modding Bethesda games than playing them so I don't even install them anymore.
This is by far my favorite New Vegas video essay mainly for the humor, you’ve inspired me to try a new mod list and play through again.
Strat, when I found your work I gotta say I've really enjoyed everything you do. You have a way with words and insight, not to mention the jokes. I definitely love this game. It's got a charm about it and is way more vast than I expected. I've put so much time into it, but my first playthrough I didn't do much. That changed when I decided second run to branch out and try everything I could. I also love how this games DLC all intertwine with each other in story and weave into the lore and story of the vanilla game. Brilliant stuff.
PS you should eventually in the future cover the DLCs for this game
I'm hoping I can get the patrons to vote for the DLCs after Baldur's Gate.
@@StratEdgyProductions Old World Blues is The Best New Vegas DLC!
@@futurewario9591 big L. Lonesome road supremacy
@@MrRastawannabe NO! OLD WORLD BLUES BEST 💙!
@@footballdesk4417 YES WE NEED BALDUR'S GATE 1 & 2 which I own on the Nintendo Switch.
Some corrections, Hoover Dam wasn't annexed until 2075. The NCR had water resources that they ate through from mismanagement and over expansion. There were also Several Presidents before Kimball. Kimball won his Presidency after he led the soldiers who defeated a raider tribe in the Mojave. So he did have some sort of Popular mandate for expansion into the Mojave. Also based off the way you talk about FNV's open world, you would probably love the Wasteland Series or Underrail
9:53 (Paraphrasing) "...no matter the jankiness of graphics, they never took me out of the game...I feel exactly the same way about Morrowind."
Exactly, thank you!
They do well enough to serve the purpose of the game. Would I maybe like to see higher resolution textures? Absolutely. But honestly that's about all one can give it before it actually starts looking very weird due to the animations. And to upgrade the animations you'd need to overhaul the entire engine. Or you can keep the janky animations and we get Fallout 4, lol
@@vincentmarcellino7183 👍 Agreed, however I was really referring to the Morrowind part of his observation. Morrowind players either played it upon release, or they played it later. Nothing wrong with either choice, but the ones who played at release have specific, timeline related memories that can never be duplicated by players who came later, memories from when the game graphics were NOT dated. Of course, you could say that about almost ANY game from mid-90s to mid-10's because graphics were improving rapidly from year to year, it's slower now. Since TES3 took several years to complete, it was technically already at least slightly outdated at release, but that was a result of fast-moving tech, and thus completely unavoidable. There's less excuse for devs now. And I think his statement was more about aesthetic than resolution, anyway.
"And that's why I like the Legion; Not because I wanna be a member, but because it's an extreme version of the subtle Legion that we're already apart of."
Fuck.
Wild thing about game development is that half the time is dealing with authentication and legal mumbo-jumbo, so only a fraction of that 18 month dev time was actually used to develop. Amazing what a dedicated group of ppl can accomplish when they give a fug.
To be fair, a LOT of the conceptual groundwork was laid down beforehand in the Fallout:Van Buren project. That, combined with using Fallout 3’s engine, meant they could use most of that time for implementing ideas rather than needing to spend as much time troubleshooting the engine and the like
@@spindash64 Didn't they also mostly use assets from Fallout 3 as well. Many textures, animations, objects and sound effects are copied from Fallout 3. Fallout NV feels more like a huge expansion pack for Fallout 3 than a complete new game (doesn't take away anything from the game though). I don't have an issue with that as I honestly really enjoy the engine even if it obviously has issues, but they did some great improvements to the gameplay as well (adding iron sights for example).
BOS had alliance options with NCR and House that was cut due to release time before it went gold. There's a mod that just turns back on the dialog option too
They can ally with the NCR in the base game. They cut the option for it with House as it didn't seem right for his character.
@@Justin-rq6kf it’s the only way to keep them alive outside of yes man too
Perfect timing, my guy. I just reinstalled after a several year hiatus. I'm playing with alternative start, as a tribal who escaped a life of slavery after his tribe was conquered by the Legion.
Boy lemme tell ya: getting dropped just outside Bitter Springs at level 1, wearing only rags, equipped with an almost broken baseball bat, is a whole new level of excitement.
What mod do use use for different starts??
@@crass340 It's called Alternative Start for Roleplayers. It's the best at what it does, but it still has it's flaws.
In regards to modding:
Project Nevada is dogshit. It’s spaghettini code on top of spaghetti code. I recommend the Viva New Vegas guide if you want a comprehensive modding guide, which includes the do’s and don’t’s on mods. The guy who wrote it does modernized compatibility patches as well to cut down on crashes between mods. Personally the only graphical mod I use is Titans of the New West, which makes power armor look like power armor from 1,2 and 4.
My guy really recommended Project Nevada in the video.💀
I remember playing with PN but it was years ago.
You can make you experience with DUST even worst with this mod, no joke...
Just use Just Mods and the stand alone project Nevada cybernetics mod. Those two approximate PN functionality plus other great modern game stuff. I think viva new Vegas recommends those too
@@Ellimist000 juust mods are great qol improvements, but you still need some sort of unoffical patch or general bugfix/optimalization mods
@WoodPileDenmark look at the viva new Vegas mod list, it has mods in it that do something similar with less hacky coding
Great video, the only correction I'd make is the one regarding the bonus from Bethesda for meeting an arbitrary score, Chris Avellone, a founder of Obsidian and one of the writers on New Vegas, and Josh Sawyer who was the director have talked about this a good number of times, the bonus was never a part of the original deal and was only negotiated for after by management, all signs point to Feargus Urquhart for that one, and it wouldn't have staved off any of the firings at the studio.
To quote Chris Avellone himself from his Medium page, specifically his new ongoing Fallout Apocrypha:
"OMFG DID BETHESDA LIKE, TOTALLY, SCREW OBSIDIAN OUT OF A BONUS ON METACRITIC???!!!
Nope.
The “Metacritic bonus” if the game got above an 84 review score was something Bethesda offered above and beyond the New Vegas contract.
We didn’t ask for this, they offered it, and it was our responsibility to hit that review score. We did have to have layoffs at Obsidian around this time period, but the bonus from Metacritic wouldn’t have prevented that from happening."
Either way, superb video, nice to see someone not immediately jerking off the NCR, haha.
Indeed.. it always annoys the hell out of me when people go "f*cking bethesda totally screwed obsidian out of money" when its really not the case even tho if I were the one in bethesda at the time making this decision I would have given out the bonus but I certainly do not blame bethesda for not doing so or somehow screwing obsidian..
Fair enough, but regardless they obviously still deserved the bonus, so I still have little sympathy for Bethesda. I've literally worked with cutthroat biopharma companies that would be more honorable and generous lol
Ehhh some Zenimax shareholders also had roles in media companies that could have gamed the score up or down.
@@Ellimist000 why do they deserve the bonus? I don't get it
@@Ellimist000 Yeah, in hindsight I maybe would have given them the bonus if I was in charge since they were just a point off, but it is true that the game was extremely buggy at launch and took a further nine months of patching just to stabilise it, which adversely effected the development of the DLC.
At the end of the day, it is a shame but it is what it is.
I'm about 35 minutes in and I can say this is the first video where I've ever heard someone appropriately explain the Legion. Not as a force for good, or justified, or someone you should emulate. But as an extreme example of a Lawful Evil group who all believe their societal doctrine and so act accordingly, no matter how terrible it may be. Sure, there are older people who recognize Caesar for the falsehood he is, but many of the capture tribals who are indoctrinated and those born into the Legion will understand no other way of life. It is zealousy. It's what makes them a fascinating group. Not one to idolize, but one to study within a fictional setting. Because it's one you can't apply our modern day principles too, and I think they were written with that understanding in mind. Well written Strat.
First playthrough: I was tired of the NCR, losing a war they once won. Met House, decided I was going to side with him because I liked the way he ran things. Then I met Caesar, who recounted everything I did against him, which was literally everything that could be done to injure the Legion at that point. He threatened to kill me, then offered to buy me a beer. Hell, only my friends talk to me like that. So I made a backup save, and went all in with Caesar.
This is absolutely fantastic
Based
My first playthrough consisted of me being a NCR fan until I met yesman and Mr House. Before this though, I had gotten pretty geared up before arriving to new Vegas, including robbing the entirety of that plasma gun store with a stealth boy, so I killed Benny by throwing plasma grenades at him while invisible so nobody else got mad, I then went and made every casino bankrupt before I killed Mr House as soon as I was able to, then I became friends with funny robot, stormed ceasars base killing everyone and beating up ceasar with a supersledge, and killed the NCR president with an orbital strike (which yesman actually discouraged me from doing but fuck it, not like he can say no). I also became friends with Arcade up until he brought out his Tesla coil armor. I acquired 3 sets of enclave power armor for my boys back at Mr Houses.... House. I then bought lonesome road, acquired my favorite armor, elite riot gear, and launched a nuke at both the NCR and the legion. Some time within all that I became friends with the brotherhood, after acquiring power armor training I blew up their bunker but only after abusing a glitch which gives unlimited fusion cell and other ammos like that. I destroyed the bunker with all the securitrons accidentally without realizing what I was doing, which then meant I had to do pretty much everything on my own. I pretty much put the Mojave into mass anarchy. Oh well. I reaaaaally like yesman. 😂
you're an exceptional storyteller, good sir.
Hey Strider I didnt expecting see you there :D
@@DocVolteer Hiya Doc :)
Thanks! How goes it?
@@StratEdgyProductions Not too bad thanks man! Hope you've been recovering well from hospital 🙂I took your recommendation to play Disco Elysium in a video and I thoroughly thoroughly enjoyed it 😄 So thanks!
That's great! Do you have any recommendations for me? 😁
As intriguing as your speculative fictional idea of what a faction like Caesar's Legion could become, the fact of the Legion not having those kinds of developed aspects isn't entirely a matter of Obsidian not having time to finish them. The fact of the matter is that they are a newly-established faction that has not been around long enough for its founder to even grow old enough that he's incapable of fighting and putting up a vicious fight. Everyone currently alive in the Legion was either part of the early push willingly or they were among the tribes brutally conquered to grow it; he's managed to psychologically break most of the conquered ones to believe in his cause even if this means believing he did them a favor by slaughtering their fellows wholecloth. But there have not been any people who have *grown up* in the Legion yet. If New Vegas ever got a sequel, then it might have come to be something like what you described as Edward Sallow's descendents or chosen successors consolidated their power over those born into their society, but these are the Legion's early days and there's not really any reason for the faction to *be* more than it is.
Which isn't to say that they couldn't have executed what's here a little more smoothly, but you were kind of putting the cart before the horse with the direction you took that particular tangent, I think. We saw the underdeveloped early days of what would become the NCR long before we saw the NCR in its golden days and we saw that before we saw them in their New Vegas decline. I think it's important to acknowledge that, had Obsidian had the chance, this stage of the Caesar's Legion "arc" could have provided a similar effect for this newer faction as a recurring story element.
While I was watching the two Fallout 2 videos last night, I wondered when a New Vegas one would come out. Seeing this video appear on my recommended is like finding a $100 bill on the sidewalk. It's a great feeling :]
It’s amazing how people are still making content on this videogame, quality content, I love this community as the videogame itself
Waiting for the remake makes you wish for a nuclear winter 🥶
Cheers from Italy 🇮🇹
The announcement of a remake would make me wish for a nuclear winter. No way they could make it today without ruining it.
Steam codes in retail game cases, the first sign the industry was going to shit
Thanks for the effort put into the videos/content, it's greatly appreciated.
at 4:30 as a life long owner of a 1990s f-150 and having experienced new vegas game engine i can say that comparison is completely valid.
The last time I finished a NV run was a little over a month ago and it was at least 65+hours, and yet I'm already preparing to start another. NV is the only creation engine game that the older I get the more into it I become like the exact reverse of the typical path with these games.
Was it GOG version or Steam or XBOX or PS3 ?
You do not know hot long I have been waiting for this one from you....its been a while and I am glad its here!
I dont generally like gun games but this is one of my favorite games of all time
Love you Strat-Edgy. Your Fallout videos and Bethesda videos are my favorite so this is a chefs kiss
Gay.
Idk why games, bethesda in particular, still have to use face sliders when dragon's dogma made it very clear that picking all your features from a list is a thousand times nicer.
Must be a time limit thing
I hate face sliders. It turns out I have no idea what a normal nose is supposed to look like when it comes down to it.
Not even, Saints row came out in 2006 and it still has better customization than half of modern "RPGs"
They dont usw sliders no more
Just embrace the face sliders abolity to make monstrosities. 🗿
Nice one man, always happy to see your new content
Yo my man, you just made a two hour video about fallout New Vegas. Little do you know, I would have watched a five hour video by you about New Vegas. My mom sends all her love to you.
Agreed. To this day buying a game and not getting a fucking actual disc with the data on it, makes me feel cheated somehow.
And as always around midnight or early morning next day the download is done too, not even 10 years ago, even today as I'm Australian and our internet consists of copper wires, duct tape and dixie cups attached with string. Because old people don't know what the internet is besides Facebook and ebay
Rest in peace, Mathew Perry, aka Benny.
Hope you end up going through the DLCs too, they're all the best of what the game has to offer in my opinion. I'm also way more invested in the tale of Paulie Walnuts throughout post-post-apocalyptic Vegas than I probably have any right to.
1:29:54 there's a neat trick, pretty well-known actually. If you can get your hands on NCR costume, you can take a monorail ride from the Camp McCarran and get to the strip for free and no hustle.
My character walked funny after that unconscious stay at the Doc’s… now I don’t want to jump to conclusions, but if there’s a sudden outbreak of Monkey Pox in Goodsprings and they both have symptoms… I think someone should get the Sheriff to ask some questions.
I really like that you do unarmed builds for most of your how-to videos. I feel that they're really under utilized in some games; and fallout is certainly no exception.
Well, your Fallout 4 video got me to finally dive into that game for real, and god damnit Strat you've done it again. I never did play the DLCs for NV anyway, been wanting to jump in at some point!
I should be doing a DLC video shortly after Baldur's Gate.
The NV dlcs are definetly all worth it, I can definetly see why people have a dislike for dead money with some of the new mechanics but between the style it had and how good the story there is i'd still give a reccomend.
@@Hatsworthful The potential rewards for it are spectacular too if you put the work in
One of my favorite channels! Been waiting for this one ☝️
Absolutely splendid. Can’t wait for the DLCs where you do a combined 6 hour analysis on why Ulysses isn’t that interesting and quite boring. (Sexy voice aside)
Ulysses rocks.
Glad im not the only one
Yea he's cool and all, but like he wasn't as deep as people made him out to be.
THE BEAR AND THE BULL THE BEAR AND THE BULL THE BEAR AND THE BULL THE BEAR AND THE BULL THE BEAR AND THE BULL THE BEAR AND THE BULL
An og tribal & former legionaire, one who (mostly) turns against his master b/c of the history he repeated in his name. One who makes you question sht on a meta level not just tangible to the game, but life itself. Whole dlc & his character's motivations may as well be a giant ad for the yes man ending. One to correct the timeless insanity of imperfect men ruling over imperfect men ala the other 3 endings. His prob is learning most-all the wrong lessons, still using the very same crafts of force & coercion that jaded his entire being. If you dont like being questioned on sht, i can get why you dont like ulysses, but that's basically fnv as a whole. Ulysses is just figuratively & literally the end game to that
I was really hoping to get Strat's take on the DLC's, especially Dead Money.
I know it's been said, and I'll say it again, René Auberjonois was (and still is) a national treasure. I re-watch Deep Space 9 all the time and I absolutely adore him in his role as Mr. House. He even did an episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and hearing him say, "No, I'm not acting, you bitch!" never ceases to be funny.
RIP, Odo.
I'm so happy you made a video on this... I adore this game even though I was too young to play it when it was released (I had strict parents)
9:03 yeah I'm like this too for example with Halo 2 The anniversary graphics are nice but the elites lose that iconic spiky silhouette they had
And the old school silhouette just has charm to me
I thought the Halo 2 Anniversary graphics looked pretty faithful to the art design of Halo 2... unlike Halo CE Anniversary with Halo CE.
@@floatingscrib That's cause a different company did Halo 2 than the one who did Halo CE which is basically just putting reach models and graphics on everything and it sucks. I love Reach, but it doesn't fit Halo CE style wise. Also Blur Studios, who did the cutscenes for the Halo Wars games and H2A should just make an digital Halo movie at this point, or any movie for that matter. They would kill it.
@@xAxLxExCx I think the live-action Halo series has unfortunately killed that one in the intervening time
I had to come back to this video on 3 different days to finish it completely, and it was worth every second.
Holy shit, you're right, I never realized that this game is a Western. It was right in my face for years.
I think this might be your best video to day, my man. Not a strange thing, considering it is a New Vegas video.
As someone who recently bought a pc and played New Vegas on it. Man you have mod the shit out of it to get it to run for longer than 20 minutes but damn is it worth it. Plus the modding scene for this decade old game is still active. The dlc sized mods are alright. Don't play The Frontier unless you want to vomit though. It crashes more than the vanilla game and it's writing is god awful. I feel sorry for the people who got hyped for it. New California is a great mod for those who want a new back story or head canon for the courier. Dust is a fantastic survival simulator and changes the game enough that exploring it all over again doesn't feel the same as every other time. And the Someguy Series is a master class of amateur writing acting and design.
Been a while since I've clicked on a vid with such excitement. Love your work, my man.
Centurians use Thermix Lances and Veterans use Guns because its all about self reliance
Vinny Glitter sounds like a legend. God Strat, every how to is a masterpiece with you, I shudder at the thought you might one day not pop out a banger again. But until then, keep it up you glorious man.
In regards to modding graphics particularly character models New Vegas Redesigned is a MUST it changes the design of the characters to match their descriptions and situations made by the same genius that made Dragon Age Redesigned.
Mmm, sounds good. I'll check it out.
This is your best video yet and that's saying a lot. No idea why, I'm not some kind of video expert, it just feels good to watch.
You see that tower on the Strip? The one you can see for miles? Can't miss it.
Watched this twice already. It is definitely in your top 5 videos. Glad to see your old vibes back.
Legion in the lore: Diverse territory that is larger in total scope than the NCR and a much more complicated culture and ethos than the developers were able to include while getting screwed in the butt by Bethesda.
Legion in the game: Renaissance Faire in rural Mississippi
Yeah, they really dropped the ball on showcasing The Legion. I have a hard time believing they could even be a thorn in NCR's side with how they appear in-game. "There's thousands more just beyond the hills!"
If they had the chance to revisit it I would definitely at the very least have done some progression to show the Legion encroaching more as they built up for invasion, rather than a single fighting pit with a throne beyond it.
This is the best way to do a review, retrospective or critique or whatever the fuck. SICK of people making dumb boring videos on media. You and Grimbeard have the perfect way of showing your experience with New Vegas
Cant wait! This is my favorite game of all time
wake up babe new strat how to dropped
Great Fallout Game New Vegas is. It is up there with the brilliance of Fallout 3 & Fallout 4.
14:50 True about Perception except one thing - Better Criticals perk reqs 6 PE. So If you plan to get it - start with 5 PE and get implant for additional one.
The thing i loved about FO3, they got the streets in downtown DC accurate. Like as if they took a picture of it and textured those roads.
And actually feels post apocalyptic.
@@futurewario9591 New Vegas felt post post apocalypse. Yeah we had the era of ramshackle towns and communities cut off from one another. But now the concept of nation building and unifying culture are occurring. From our own timeline of the transition from city-states to nation states. I feel like bethesda wants to stay at that point. Be at the precipice of a thriving community, but never wanting to see results of that community. Its okay to see the east as the less developed, but it can't be like that forever.
@@futurewario9591 it always felt a little “too” barren to me. I suppose that’s the whole point, but fnv has that same barren feeling with a great mix of city life
I heard the original FO3 was supposed to take place shortly after the bombs, so the barren landscape might have made sense, if the idea hadn't been scraped.
@@frankenstein6677 And yet when they finally make a game set 20-25 years after the bombs they made it green and brilliant.
This might be my favorite video on fnv ever. The passion you have for the game really shows and your comedic bits are great.
I love how you used Paulie Walnuts on the thumbnail
Your videos are the most enjoyable thing. I cannot even set to words how much I need a video of yours about the DLCs.
You can easily start the game with 6 strength, never take intense training and still get a consistent 10.
Medical clinic implant +1
Power armor +1/2depending on model
Reinforced spine +2 (perk from old world blues)
Reinforced spine doesn't count for qualifying for further perks.
@@DIEGhostfish yes, but with the implant, you have 7, which DOES modify your base strength, allowing you to get perks with that requirement. No perk requires more than 7, so reenforced spine not counting is irellevant as the implant does that job well enough.
Did you forget about Yes Man? He's the only true good guy in the series, though he's neutral he's the best option. For the brotherhood just get another elder
I feel like New Vegas is the Deus Ex of the 2010s.
Janky as fuck at times and held together by duct tape, but almost universally beloved.
Going from 0 smiles to any amount of smiles is a 100% increase. You left off a zero bud.
You are the only TH-camr I will turn off AdBlock for. And oh my gosh this is the video I've been waiting for! Hope you're doing well, Strat!
@46:53 Fun fact there's an infinite xp glitch with our buddy Ringo. Once you start the Run Goodsprings Run quest, go kill Ringo. Upon returning to Cobb, you must then agree to shake down Chet for supplies. Immediately fail the quest by damaging or killing any of the Powder Gangers present. Run over to Chet in the Goodsprings General Store and ask him to donate supplies to the Powder Gangers. You can choose either the Barter check (Barter 25) or the Speech check (Speech 25). and each check provides xp, 30 9mm ammo and leather armor. Rinse wash repeat and you can reach lvl 50 before leaving Goodspring
I remember doing this shit on PS3
Then you can reset your perks when you leave goodsprings, giving you a double the amount of perks.
@@kikrinman1450 whaaaaaat
I feel like you should have mentioned that Liam O'brien is the other half of this games voice acting with Sam Riegel guest starring as the ghouls, like, all of em.
Critical Role is shit.
didnt watch this video a few weeks back bc i had just watched another of the many 2 hour ish long video essays on new vegas, but now i did and 10 min in you've identified and helped me fix the audio issue i always had, hopefully, havent tested it now but glad i went back to see this lmfao
As someone who takes time looking at perks when leveling up, I never understood why people used the cowboy perk: you're limited to a few weapons that have to qualify as something a cowboy would use while having to put 45 points in guns as well as melee and can only do serious damage if you have custom ammo or a high luck stat while you have a greater variety with the grunt perk. I can understand if it's to fit the aesthetic or if you're going on a path to get the ranger armor but do you really think 2 two pieces of dynamite with one having a longer fuse time are going to be enough to kill a group of grown deathclaws when even a pure explosives or melee build can easily wipe the floor with said deathclaw horde?
I'm just saying: if an infantry soldier got into a fight with a cowboy, both of them would get annihilated by a baseball slugger using tin can grenades and mini nuke mines.
It's more of a role-playing perk then a power one.
Cowboy served me well, alongside Fast Shot, And Stay Back, Shotgun Surgeon, Hand Loader, and a Lever-Action Shotgun. I did expand my abilities with Grunt, because I was a gun enthusiast character that erred more on cowboy action, but I couldn't resist the temptation of melting shit with the .45 SMG shooting .45 Super.
Playthrough highlights: th-cam.com/video/5c7WQGcIB-M/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=Mr.Bootleg
I get Cowboy to stack with Grunt for combat knives. Namely: Chance's Knife. Makes it so Chance's Knife out DPS'S almost any other melee weapon. Chance's Knife could be found at the very start of the game being really cool. Cowboy also makes the Medicine Stick really slap.
I got it just for the boost to dynamite
You are aware you can get both right?
I come back to this video every once in a while for the Teddy K. section. That’s some incredible capital R role-playing. "These weren’t people to Teddy K., but puppets, happily bouncing about their lives, acting as petroleum for the machine. So it wouldn’t matter if someone came along and, y'know, blew off all their body parts." I've since started a character in BG3 heavily inspired by Teddy here.
I had never heard about this game when it came out either. I dude I used to work with whom I actually found to be quite annoying would constantly talk about it. He let me borrow it one day and I understood. Still play it regularly today and I’ve still found new things after over 1000 hours of playtime.
Never returned it huh? Me neither accidentally permanently borrowing games from buddies was a pass time for me apparently. At least I still think about them? XD
@@cheezburgrproduction oh no I returned his copy and went out and bought it myself. I always hated people that didn’t return games.
I tried it once but basically speedran it.
A few years later I got really into it on a new character and actually spent time with it and fell in love. I still don't play it alot mostly because I'm on console and theres no mods or new game +
Shit man, I haven't laughed so hard at an outro in my life, that was the perfect setup and everything. You nailed it
I didn't know Bethesda did that to Obsidian. That's straight up evil.
They didn't, it isn't true as confirmed by devs who worked on the game.
Need a video on the DLCs. Hell you could upload all the unedited footage of you playing this and I'd probably watch it with your commentary on top. Love this game and the channel, dude. Glad to see you're still uploading