The Storyteller Fallout S1 E8 Reaction | Mr House's New Vegas
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Fun fact: when Mr. House developed his plans to save Vegas from the bombs, his calculations for his ace in the hole were only off by a single day. If he had it, he would’ve saved Vegas in its entirety. It’s safe to say he was still very successful anyway.
Off by a single day? That must've been infuriating.
@@ChillyReaperno wonder he stayed locked in his room for 200 years lol
@@ChillyReaper the most frustrating part is that it's postal services fault that they didn't manage to deliver ONE package in time
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Mr. House was based on Howard Hughes, who inspired the character Tony Stark. It's a good way to think of House as Iron Man with Nick Fury's sensibilities and ruthlessness
Never thought about it like that, but you're not wrong.
Very cool way to describe it so we can easily wrap our heads around it 😀
And Andrew Ryan in Bioshock.
Yeah, Andrew Ryan from bioshock was definitely another major inspiration. in fact, the title of one of the challenges you can completely by having a certain, interaction, with Mr House is an Andrew Ryan quote.
they also have another connection, Mr House is voiced by Rene Auberjonois, who played Odo is star trek Deep Space 9. Andrew Ryan is voiced Armin Shimmerman, who played Quark, Odo's frenemy, in the same show.
"do you want to see the fate of democracy? Look out the window!" - Robert House
Hard to argue against.
"The House always wins", as the old saying goes..
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Ken was on to something. In the New Vegas game there is a pipboy-3000 that you can acquire called the “Pimpboy-3000” it is solid gold and embedded with diamonds. You can get it from a special quest.
Nice! 😁😎🤟
*3 Billion
And Read Rudy dials, and gold with silver or diamond yes. It's awesome and need a trait on to do it first.
New Vegas's story (and it's DLCs) are the PERFECT culmination of everything. BEYOND nuanced, detailed & complex. And YOU are the deciding factor for it all. YOU shape the world how you want to see it. YOU are the wild card.
ring-a-ding-ding, baby. couldnt have said it any better myself.
We’ve heard from many people in comments that New Vegas and Fallout 4 are best in series 🤩
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames which is big true. XD
And I fucked everything up my first play through when I was 13/14 cause I was an NCR Chad 🤣
There’s a really good video called “the ideology of mr house” which covers not only mr house but also talks about the NCR and Legion. It is pretty long though, so not sure it would make sense to be on the channel.
Thanks for letting us know about it. We do longer videos on this channel. Just all depends so we will look into it 🙂
Something about Mr. House that this video doesn't cover is what his ultimate goal is. He's probably the most selfless side you can take in New Vegas, because his ultimate goal is the preservation and prosperity of humanity, but he's also fairly ruthless in his pursuit of this goal. His intelligence and arrogance has lead him to believe he is the best chance at humanity's continues survival (and to be honest, he might be right), but this mindset also can potentially allow him to justify any atrocity he feels is necessary for humanity's future. He's almost like a much more pragmatic and less moral version of Tony Stark, right down to his looks.
Tiny Stark … that’s cute
@@arthurd.8766 My phone's autocorrect is a dick.
Almost sounds like Doctor Doom 😯
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames True. I went with the Tony Stark comparison because of them both being industrialists who tend to hook up with prominent models/actresses, but the ego on House makes the Doom comparison a pretty good one too.
@@MoostachedSaiyanPrince ngl your autocorrect might've made the funniest accidental insult I've ever heard
The House Always Wins...
According to a ghoul named Raul Tejeda- who had been outside Mexico City, Mexico when all the bombs dropped- he could see House's laser point defense grid shooting down missiles.
Genghis Khan {Temujin}s' reputation is infamous {and in many ways, rightly earned} but I do think a lot was unfairly ascribed to him as well. He had many admirable qualities in both his character and ruling as well as the opposite. For a 12th century warlord, he was ahead of his time.
That's the main three, but the great thing about New Vegas is even though there are only three factions big enough to run Vegas doesn't mean they are the only ones who call it home. The minor factions are up next.
Choosing the NCR will likely lead the Mojave to become ruled in a very haphazard way, but it's an ungainly beast of an empire and people often fall through the cracks, so when they look further east to expand into Utah or Arizona, Vegas may become neglected in a security sense all the while being taxed and exploited for resources much like the colonies were to Great Britain.
Caesar's Legion is cruel and brutal, but if you help them come out on top one thing is certain, the Mojave will be well protected as nobody fucks with Caesar's Legion, these endings aren't binary they have circumstantial variance depending on how you complete missions and choices you make. So say if the Legion is ruling the Mojave, but Caesar himself does not survive the playthrough the circumstances are much different than if he were. Rome was both a republic and a despotic empire.
House will run a very orderly and efficient Mojave, but it's a cold one and very unequal as the people who can't afford the luxuries of the New Vegas Strip live in two districts just outside its walls Freeside and Westside, where gang violence, exploitation and starvation are rampant and the poor pile up. It seems like he does care for the Strip but he is a cold hard capitalist and would return to old America values before anything else.
There is a fourth "choice" for eagle-eyed players, if you don't like any of these factions, but that is a story for another day =D
Haha, love the way you ended this comment 👏 👏
if I had been given the option, i would have turned everything over to, The King. lol
thing about the Khans: they're a scary raider group that's been around since Fallout 1, giving headaches to whoever's in charge until the player protagonist comes along to take them out of the picture... only to come back generations later
but by the time you hit the New Vegas era, they've been kicked around so much, you as the player protagonist can help them get out and be safe from all the big powers
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mr. house is so interesting he was a ruthless man capable of any level of brutality but in his own way he wanted to save his city and humanity. many ghouls from the old world are pretty depressed or have a very strong sence of humor to get them through they they experianced and mr. house isnt a ghoul he watched everything he knew become a post apocaliptic nightmare. and yet he still has plans.
Gotta respect his drive 😎🤟
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames yep takes a certian kind of stuborn crazy
1:47 so there is a unique Pip-Boy know as the Pimp-Boy in the game Fallout New Vegas (FNV). It's basically just golden Pip-Boy
14:10 When it comes to Building things to last instead of break, remember the setting of fallout is a global shortage of many major resources and mid-cold war levels of nuclear anxiety so by the time the bombs fell building things to last made a product far more appealing than it's alternatives.
now you know of the 3 main factions that are fighting over the Mojave Desert. the NCR are the closest thing that you can get to good guys in New Vegas, the Legion is as evil as they come, and House treads the line between good and evil. however there is a shadow lurking in New Vegas, a party that also seeks to win it all, "but that, is a story for another day."
😜😁 love the way this series helps build knowledge of the world
I just started playing Fallout New Vegas again because of your reaction to this series😊. 11:25 bless you.
Same. I went thru the entire game. Now I'm starting the dlcs.
@@The_Page_5_Chronicles nice my favorite is Old World Blues I love the Stealth Suit Mk2. My least favorite is definitely Dead Money that fog is annoying.
Feels so bad after I killed Mr House for The NCR, the game made it worse with a note upload to your pipboy saying you destroyed mankind last best hope…
And he trusted me also, 200 years of preparation gone in one mailman golf club swing 😂
and anyone should feel at least a little bad for killing House, for all intents and purposes, he was the most neutral of the 3 powers.
Caesar in fallout kind of uses the name as a title as he is also referred by his own as Kaiser (German for Caesar). Historically the Roman Emperors adapted the name as a title to refer to the emperors starting from the first Roman Emperor Augustus, Julius Caesar's grand nephew and adopted son. Soon the title Caesar was relegated to refer to the heir to a Roman Emperor or his co-emperor who ruled in his stead in either the East or West portion of the Empire. The emperors adopted 'Augustus' as their imperial title. After the fall of Rome a German led 'Roman Empire' was formed and its emperors were known as Kaisers as was the case with its successors the German and Austrian Empires.
Julius Caesar was a calculative and prudent individual who always had a way to cover for his excessive acts and even sometimes tried to remedy them. Most of his known story comes from his own accounts of events as he kept well detailed journals of all his battles and life. Some exaggerations have been noted overtime as he sometimes put himself as being disadvantaged and yet prevails at all costs. His 8 year Conquest of Gaul(France) saw him commit massive genocides leading to almost 8 million dead something that is not normally brought up as compared to his glorious achievements such as his triumph over the Gauls, being the first Roman to cross the Rhine river and winning the Roman Civil War before being killed by his fellow senators on the senate floor. His vision for the Roman Republic was shattered and this led to his supporters and relatives fighting over his legacy which led to the fall of the Republic and rise of the Empire led by Caesar's grand nephew Octavian (Augustus). In my point of view Julius Caesar was after the conquest of Gaul trying to strengthen the Roman Republic by advocating in favor of concentrating power on a single strongman much like in modern republics and to curb the power of the minority(the nobles/ patricians) who had long trod over the masses(peasants/plebs) by buying up all the lands and depending on slave labor leaving majority of the populace unemployed and flocking into cities leading to crimes and squalor.
You certainly know your Roman history 😀 thanks so much for going over it for us and giving us more insight 🙂
I still can get over you guys got a sponsor thats so awesome!!
77 warheads were fired at Vegas during the Great War. House managed to hack and disable 59 in flight and the anti-missile defenses of the Lucky 38 shot down another 9. The remaining 9 got through but detonated far from the city. The people of Las Vegas gathered in the streets to celebrate being saved...only to die agonizing deaths when the wind carried the nuclear fallout from the distant detonations into the city.
The PIP Boy is basically the in universe reason for your HUD and menu.
That fortune he was cheated out of? It went to his brother in the form of the family tool manufacturing company. Which House would buy out after his brother failed to keep it running. There was actually a cut quest about his brother setting up a plot to get revenge for losing control.
On the Securitrons. When the storyteller says they're better armed than the Protectrons, he's not exaggerating. Even at diminished capacity without the final version of software needed to complete them and House's anti-ICBM defenses, they are still armed with a 9mm submachine gun and a Gatling laser. If they are upgraded to full spec, their true primary weapons are brought online. Short range grenade launchers and long range missiles launchers. While retaining the secondary armament of the 9mm SMG and the Gatling Laser. The only production robots that rival this firepower are the fearsome Sentry Bots, which are substantially less agile and much more overtly hostile in appearance. And even then, that's more of the Fallout 4 designs which incorporate short range mortars to compliment a Gatling Laser and a missile launcher.
And New Vegas is one of the only places with Securitrons in the world, with undoubtedly the highest concentration of operational units anywhere.
That ace, the final piece of software House needs, and almost got before the bombs fell, is stored on a small drive that looks like a poker chip. The Platinum Chip.
House claims some pretty noble goals in the long term, but even he describes himself as an autocrat, and he made his fortune with weapons platforms. His post war fortune is being built on the wealth extracted by an even less restrained and more hedonistic Vegas that cares not for those who have been bled broke. He is undeniably a brilliant man and has enormous potential as an ally, valued citizen, or vassal of the NCR, but I wouldn't trust him for a second.
If given the choice, I firmly believe House would find more common ground with the NCR. House intends to build the technology base back up with the wealth brought by New Vegas. The Legion is ostensibly against technology beyond a fairly primitive level, and its capacity for creating a thriving middle class who can afford to vacation in New Vegas is limited to say the very least.
Caesars Legion isn’t against using technology in fact you’ll see them use technology throughout the game they’re just against relying on it
There is a small mistake in the start of the lore video if im remembering correctly, most robots weren't actually made by General Atomics, most were made by Robco
I know this is almost certainly too long of a video to react to for the channel, but hbomberguy has a great video analysis of New Vegas if you're interested.
Always interested and we do longer videos from time to time. We’ve done over two hour cutscenes in one video (though we split it up) so it’s not out of the realm of possibility. Thanks for recommending 🙂
1:52 there actually is a special pip boy skin in NV Called the PIMP Boy because it's gold and jewel encrusted lol. Oh man, if you only knew about The White Glove society haha.
In terms of the PIP boy and its size, there is no transistor in the Fallout universe so tech never evolved into smaller versions before the bombs dropped.
“If you want to see the fate of democracy’s look out the window.”
Are you ever gonna try a "dirty wastelander". It's a drink from fallout 4 made of whisky, cola and berries (typically blue or blackberries)
Hmm. It’s possible. Though Bethany isn’t really a whiskey drinker 🤗
You compared the leaders of the Great Kahns and Cesar's Legion to their namesakes but you may have forgotten or are otherwise not aware. Cesar of Cesar's Legion was also called Kaiser, a reference to Adolf Hitler comparing Cesar's Legion to Nazi Germany.
Funny that you say "P.I.M.P." because there's a special trait "Wild Wastelander" that allows for bizarre and goofy thing to occur in the wasteland (and DLCs) and is basically a partly just Easter egg enabler. And on the there's a unmarked quest you can do changes the look of your pipboy that makes you feel like a pimp lol. It's called the Pipboy 3 Billion, and it's completely gold and silver (or Diamond) pipboy with red ruby dials. It's awesome.
A point about the tech in the fallout series. They were facing resource shortages for shortages, so they had to do the best with the resources they had. Another thing, the series is rooted in the 50/early 60s American culture. That would have been when things were “made to last” per say. So that for me is why things in fallout were made so well
The Fallout version of Howard and Tony Stark combined.
Our new pipboy is nuke proof. We're still working on people. 😂😂
mr house does have a ace the securtrons his robots are operating on a beta operating system before the bombs fell he had the advanced program made and it was being delivered when the bombs fell he lost the program so his robots only have their pistol fire but ones he gets the new os they will have laswr machine guns, missle launchers and gre ade launchers online and a auto repair function
in new vegas u were delivering that os after he spent 200 years searching for it thats the mgufin of tne game
I think the pipboy were designed to last since it was vault tec who commissioned the pipboy to robco industries for their vault experiments. I don't think the pipboy was readily available for generic consumers where they can profit from it. Also there's different versions of the pipboy in most of the fallout games
Love you guys learn the lore of Fallout, just a little thing that is not part of the lore, but made Mr House who he was, was the voice actor who played him. You may know him one Rene Mut Auberjonois (Odo on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine). Just a little something to know. STAY SAFE and have a great day. 👍
Thanks for giving us that little bit of info on Mr House 😀
Bethany's talking about human behavior and trying to appear civilized while being more insidious underneath reminds me of a song from Marina and the Diamonds, called Savages. The lyrics are just... so accurate to the topic she discusses, and its a timeless human trait, unfortunately, to backstab and betray for greed, lust or any of the sins really. My favourite quote of the song: "I'm not afraid of God, I am afraid of Man." Humans are among the cruelest animals on our planet, which just makes me sad to think about because we have the intelligence and empathy to know its wrong, yet it still happens so often.
Depressive talks about human behavior aside, humans are also among the kindest animals on the planet, so we've got that going for us. I hope empathy endures and eventually marches triumphantly as the leading human trait.
People criticized House for keeping thugs and cannibals in his ranks and doing shady businesses, but it was only because he doesn't have much of a choice.
His plan to save Vegas was off by a single day, and it wasn't even his fault. It was a logistic problem that caused the final crucial part of his master computer to be delayed in shipping. If that didn't happen, he would have been able to activate all of his security measures and save all of Vegas. He wouldn't be forced to hole up in his tower trying to bring all his busted system back online. The people living in Vegas would have survived, and the infrastructure would have remained intact. House would have been able to restore the city long before the NCR and Legion got there.
You can hit them. You can fold them.
Stack the deck and way the dice
All that glitters isn't golden
Cash that check, you'll pay the price.
Might be safer in the desert
Only dust to judge your sins
But those who wager aren't so clever
'Cause in Heaven, well, the House always wins
-The House Always Wins by The Stupendium
so on the note of Julius Caesar vs Ghengis Khan, you are correct that Caesar wasn't personally responsible for as much horrible stuff as the Khan....however
During his campaigns in gaul an estimated 1 Million gallic people died and a further 1 Million were enslaved. His campaign was seemingly primarily motivated for personal reasons rather than for the good of the Roman Republic (wasn't technically an empire yet). He also then lead a civil war to overthrow a elected governmental body and replace it with himself with complete dictatorial power.
However (again)
The government he was overthrowing was rotten to the core with corruption and existed only for the sake of aggrandising and enriching the most powerful men of rome. once they were overthrown his reforms, while backed up by the threat of his legions, were generally better for the common people of rome and the ordinary and poor people of the republic had their lives made a lot better by his actions. He was also magnanimous in victory over other romans, preferring to pardon those he defeated rather than punish. Without a doubt the roman republic would have collapsed due to how bad the corruption was and how broken the republican system was by that point if Caesar hadn't stepped in when he did.
In short he's an incredibly nuanced individual.
Also on the Collosseum thing, no he wasn't responsible for it (infact it wasn't built until over a century after his death) buuuuut he is arguably responsible for the popularisation of gladiatorial games, as he used them a lot to get the common folk on his side by providing them free entertainment.
The Fallout series is based on a concept of the visions of the future as imagined in the 1950s. Back then, the concept of Obsolescence by Design was not on the table yet. They made things back in the same no-nonsense way that folks back then lived. If we went through the same apocalypse from today's standards, you'd almost be lucky to find an apple watch, but it wouldn't work. On the other hand, if you found an intact Stradivarius, it would still have the same great sound as it did hundreds of years ago.
Mr. House is 1 of 4 ways you can end New Vegas the others being the leagion, ncr, and yes man endings.
Fallout definitely has one of the richest canons in gaming. Which makes me hopeful of more than 1 season of the upcoming live-action show. That is if it doesn't suck lol.
As long as they have kept Emil Pagliarulo away from the script, there is hope.
@@bfahren Oh right the guy responsible for the boring ass Fallout 4 story LMAO
Been enjoying this series a lot, thanks for doing it.
9:39 New City of Sin.
You are correct about Caeser not being the creator of those things but he was a heavy manipulator of those systems for his own goals
This Caeser simply chose Rome because it was a long lasting society in a low tech world like their wasteland is
Sadly he can't exactly be born of wolves (like the legendary man Rome was named after) so he is doing what he can
Also yes, Genghis Khan was the main originator of the mongol empire so in that context your statement is very much accurate, those these Khans are much more chill
yeah, everybody makes The Great Khans as the worst faction in the franchise, but you gotta remember, they were fighting tooth and nail to survive like everyone else in the wasteland. and like any other tribal society, they are only as good or bad as their leader, and the current leader is pretty decent in that regard. hell, at least they werent slaughtering NCR the way they got slaughtered at Bitter Springs.
@@UltimateGamerCC Yes I'm sure it'll be explained a bit more but the aggression they do enact to the NCR is more just supplying rivals and enemies... Even then part of the tribe cares more about the business
If we do ever see them again I think it would be interesting to see how leaving the valley changed them
@Definitely Not Definitive - Games
Original Caesar was one of the military generals - consuls while the Empire was governed by the Senate. Deceptores esse mori tarde
So yeah if this vid did not make it super clear, when playing the game you get to choose one of the three factions to help defeat the other two. You are that "intrepid adventurer"
Theres a new 10min gameplay trailer for Amnesia:the bunker and a new character for apex if you guys want to react to that :)
I highly recommend once you guys are done with this series, you guys should give fallout new Vegas a try. The graphics are dated and it glitches a lot since it’s a Bethesda game. But the story is phenomenal. Each and every location in the game has a story to tell.
I'd say House is the best of the three factions to follow in New Vegas. the NCR are a gaggle of corrupt autocrats that order you to kill at their smallest of inconvenience, Caesar's legion are just slightly civilised raiders and both are stretching themselves to a breaking point leaving their civilians to suffer, House on the other hand doesn't care about expanding beyond his power, he has no lofty goals of uniting the world through domination, all he needs is the hoover dam and Vegas after that he'll tend to his small territory and the people within it has he develops Vegas into a true oasis of the wasteland.
Whenever I play fall out new Vegas, I usually side with yes man or Mr. House
I love the yes man ending it's super cool.
@@matthewflores4183 I enjoy throwing general Oliver off the dam
I respect Mr. House's genius, but I cannot agree with his politics.
I don't particularly like the NCR's approach either, but I prefer to side with them, because I feel they offer the best chance for a long-term, stable, and free society... even if they'll need a lot of work to get there.
The Legion is not an option (except on Evil playthroughs) and Yes Man, unfortunately, is a rather naive solution for New Vegas: a Free New Vegas will only last as long as a strong autocratic leader (you) enforces that freedom, making you no different from Mr. House - or it will fall apart as soon as any dissenting faction gains enough strength to supplant you.
@@LadyDoomsinger It's heavily implied that Yes Man is going to betray you shortly after his ending leading to a robot apocalypse
@@SpiritOfSpite Sure, that is one risk of handing your entire empire over to a robot. But I've always felt that was the lesser threat of the Yes Man ending. The more likely scenario is that you, the Player, will either become a ruthless dictator enforcing your personal vision for Vegas in much the same way as Mr. House would have... Or you will be deposed by someone ruthless because you aren't willing to stamp down dissent.
If you are familiar with Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines, the Yes Man ending seems to me rather similar to the Anarch ending: Freedom will always be threatened by conflict, because allowing people to be free, will give them the freedom to oppose you.
They literally described Tony stark
howard hugues, the liberty prime photo is even a reference :)
his foresight isn't special there is ton of people claiming ww3 is coming soon what makes him great is his networking with high ranking ppl & the skill of making the best tech
Would be hyped if you do Fallout new Vegas live stream let's play.
favorite series right now
If House was a real person, he'd be about 2-3 years old right now. Just think about that.
Given the modding community, "pimpboy" is not far off.
there's already a gold-plated in-game pimpboy, you can get it as an achievement
I don’t think this video for house did enough and didn’t go as in-depth as it did for NCR and Caesar legion to give a idea. Like the other major factions. Although I’m partially bias and prefer Oxhorn lore videos
If you guys are going to do more horizon zero dawn /forbidden west I would recommend random side quests lore and machine videos
please React to Wayside Digital FALLOUT: THE WANDERER: or Fallout: Red Star also Fallout: Nuka Break - Fan Film
House always wins
The House always wins...
Series is awesome!
Daaamn a reaction to machinima let's goooo!
"it's hard to have sympathy for a group named great khans"
gee thanks.
after eradicating them in FO1 and FO2 back in the 90s, then seeing their sorry state in FNV... I gotta say I at least feel a little sorry for them in a "oh crap, I helped make that happen" kinda way
@@idnyftw no i'm surprised it was the name "khans" that made him say it. before even knowing anything about the group itself.
Waiting for them to fall in love with papa khan😂. But yeah House eventually wants to leave the wasteland and go to space, and take "his" New Vegas with him. He ultimately cares only about his legacy and not the people of the wasteland.
I find the great Khan's quite a wholesome raider gang
Bro new Vegas has the most amazing story you can go threw in fallout, fallout 4 just has nice graphics but story isn’t it like new Vegas
One again, New Vegas is THE BEST Fallout game. And Obsidian got cheated by Bethesda.
I really hope fallout 5 has the pip boy s. Looks really cool and it would be amazing to see other things in fallout
I can't wait for the next reaction! this series is great
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