Fallout New Vegas - My Favorite Fallout Game of All Time
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- Fallout New Vegas is now and will most likely be for the foreseeable future my favorite fallout game of all time. From its open hours to its final moments it's an unforgettable journey that takes the player for the ride of a lifetime.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:33 What Changed In New Vegas?
7:32 First Impressions
11:58 Exploration
15:36 Vaults
23:25 The Realism of Freeside
27:02 Beyond The Beef & Player Choice
37:09 Story
42:48 Endings
55:23 DLC
1:07:22 Outro
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Music In Order:
Courtesy of Inon Zur / Fallout New Vegas OST
0;00 - Main Title
• Video
1;32 - Primm and Proper
• Video
7;32 - The Courier Walks Softly
• Video
12;16 - Under The Stars
• Fallout New Vegas (All...
29;24 - Out of Business
• Fallout New Vegas (All...
37;30 - NCR Republic Camp Day
• Fallout - New Californ...
43;19 - Legion Camp Day
• Fallout - Caesar's Leg...
53;00 - Knock On My Cazador
• Fallout New Vegas (All...
58;17 - Jacobstown Ladder
• Fallout New Vegas (All...
1;05;00 - CCC Doesn't Work For Free
• Fallout New Vegas (All...
Outro: Orca Vibes - Gypsy
- open.spotify.com/artist/5Uh59...
- orcavibes.bandcamp.com/
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Hope You Enjoyed!
#FalloutNewVegas #Gingy #FNV - Hry
Patrolling the CZcams while watching video game essays makes me wish for a new Fallout game like New Vegas.
Hard to trap lightning in a bottle twice.
@@MrDueltube true especially considering that Obsidian made this game. However now that Microsoft owns Bethesda and Obsidian, a remaster could happen
@@zachshoulders9333 I just meant a game like New Vegas rarely comes along but yeah Fallout New Vegas Remastered, unlike some of the other remasters that I would definitely be up for.
Give me anything with the same choice karma system as new Vegas and I'll be happy
The mod scene keeps if pretty fresh tbf, Dust kicks ass! Even that weird Frontier mod is still impressive for the engine.
Fallout 4 let us make fences! I actually wouldve liked 4 if there were more proper settlements, you could still have DIY ones but it annoys me how little there is to discover that doesnt end in murder!
Fun fact: You actually cross the borders between California and Nevada in Nipton. At the exit where the railway is that leads you to the cliffs where the crashed truck is there are 2 signs. One on the right side facing the town saying "Nevada" and another one facing the cliffs saying "California"
Not gonna lie when i noticed that for the first time it just made the game feel so much bigger and cool. The little details are what make the difference because they add up to a greater whole.
Yeah, California-Nevada border runs from Primm to Nipton, I wonder why they didn't put same signs on 15 just south of Primm. In real life that area is quite a bit more spread out but with less landmarks and detail, it feels like developers preserved hills and vertical details very close to real life but shrunk horizontal distances so everything stands out more. Definitely more fun to walk Mojave in New Vegas, than to drive through the same area in real life.
@@dwightnix893 It’s…not tho?
@@dwightnix893 Vegas is North and east, California is west and south
@@engineer1able nuclear apocalypse signs got destroyed ?
the best moment ive ever had in an rpg was in new vegas, during the omerta quest, i enter the casino and hand over all my weapons except my holdout 45 pistol, i inquire with the receptionist, talk to cachino, and when he turns his back, i pickpocket his journal, and while im there, i pickpocket the ammo from his magnum, then i went got the thermite from that guy whos name i forgot, blew up the omertas guns, then went to the meeting with cachino, then i use a speech check to convince big sal that nero was a traitor, to which he responds by opening fire on nero, as cachino is standing up, he pulls out his 44, only to get shot by big sal, i quickly headshot big sal, completing the quest, and leave, i could try 200 times and i will never get that moment again, thats whats great about fnv, since no characters are considered essential or any of that bullshit that fallout 4 does, you can get these totally random movie moments that you would never have expected
The white glove quests were also like this. What really made the casino quests so fun was the freedom it gave you. There was virtually no restrictions to how you could mess around and approach the end-goal.
Troike!
I love the whole mobster vibe Gomorrah had, would've been cool If there was more to it.
@@fireboy3413as with everything, there was originally meant to be more with them. New Vegas is a phenomenal game that had so much more taken away due to time alone
@@fireboy3413literally the best mafia series I’m probably ever gonna see
17:38 The fifth person in Vault 11 didn't kill the other 4, they killed themselves in succession, he just dropped his gun and left the vault.
You could role play that the 5th person became courier 6
@@ZeyaRudaRozena97 I play the Courier as the Lone Wanderer that went Westward to look for the origins of his family in New Arroyo and has forgotten everything after being shot and left for dead. Not the most lore friendly as I also connect the LW to the Vault Dweller with Their parent being the Chosen One years later.
@@Davidofthelost you’re playing Tale of Two Wastelands aren’t you?
@@Belmont-sw4bu nope. I’m on console. Can’t afford a PC right now and don’t have any knowledge of how to mod it.
I’ve just always played it like that since NV came out as 3 was the first Fallout game I played and I loved them both.
@@Davidofthelost You need a stronger imagination.
I actually prefer the desert because I think it complements the post apocalyptic feel.
And it makes locations really POP. It very much leads towards the Journey being more important. cuz on your way to some place, you usually stumble over something. or some guy Named Malcom walks up behind you and talks about star bottlecaps, or you end up finding a fridge with a skeleten and a suave fedora in it, etc. etc.
Personally, I think they both work really well, but the desert definitely can help locations pop, just as long as they don't look exactly the same like some books, games, movies, and TV shows will do way too often.
I wanna hear your arguement for how a giant ruined city doesn't complement the post apocalyptic feel please
@@beepbeeplettuce5890 Not to discredit your opinion but an empty desert with sparse distinct towns is expected and immersive. A destroyed town where you can’t enter or interact with a majority of buildings, and very few distinct groups, is super unimpressive and a waste of potential.
Deserts are awesome post apocalyptic settings.
Mmm one hour of solid content.
Watched this throughout today as my breakfast - lunch - dinner entertainment and I’m now thoroughly interested in giving the game a game a go.
You love to see it! Its such a wonderful game.
If you haven't played, don't hesitate!! I don't play many video games, but I love the Fallout franchise and especially New Vegas. I've played through at least a dozen times.
Don't skip the Cowboys under the billboard
God what i would do to have 0 hours playing in FNV
@@XxtamedabeastXx right lol, I load it up multiple times a month just to play for about an hour total because of how much damn time I got into it
My only criticism of nv was the lack of enemies and the size of the city itself. But I know if the developers had more time these would have been addressed.
And how do you know that?
@@Ludovicus1769 Because there is a multi hour series that revolves around content cut out of the game so it would run on the hardware of the day and several hundred hours of interviews with obsidian and former obsidian developers who have said as much. Josh Sawyer said it was the only project he ever worked one where a delay on the launch date was never a possibility.
@@robertfullchim923 Was it you that I asked? Besides who’s the say that they would make things in that order? If they had more time, I’m hoping they would have used it on fixing their bugs.
@@Ludovicus1769 you sound like you need to take a nap
@@jessicadrawdy8292 For real, someone must have took a shit in his mornin coffee...
NV came out when I was deployed in AFG. We did 12 hour shifts in the Support Hospital and at least 6 hours taking turns watching each other playing this and watching the story. Enough of us played that we would pick different options and my first playthrough was Ceasars Legion. This game will always make me think of those guys I was with. Great video
Must be cool playing in a desert, thank you for your service 🫡
New vegas hit that sweet spot for me...when I first played it I played for 24hrs straight only pausing to use the toilet....take me back to that time
i only played 12 hrs and taking breaks, im old lol would get headaches but did play alot eapecially when nit at work during the weekend good times
Fallout new vegas with fallout 4 engine (not the perk stuff, just the engine for gunplay and visuals).... that'd make me just enjoy new vegas beyond what I ever could cuz I get Obsidian writing with better graphics and gunplay.
Hell yeah. I remember getting it on release date, right after school. I made it to the REPCONN facility where the Ghouls live by around midnight and being scared shitless by the Nightkin. I have so many memorable experiences from the game...
I probably would've played it 2 days straight if it weren't for the only bug I ever got in that game. That bug being the infinite loading screen... I was too stubborn to close the game/restart the console because I hadn't saved in a looong time. In the end I had to after falling asleep waiting to see if it would load
Partrolling the empty vast wasteland of the Mojave with the radio on is part of the reason I love the game
Ok personal opinion radio on fallout 76 while traveling for a quest far away is the best thing imaginable
@@mertyuip06 who?… asked
@@autismoid about your opinion
@@mertyuip06I disagree. 76 is lifeless, yet there's is much life around you. How did all of the people and animals die if the flora is completely fine? Where are the small towns that would've developed when your vault opened? It's a lifeless world with some paint added afterwards to make it feel a little alive
This game has a great, but small, radio track list. Hearing the same songs for the 50th time got old, and I’m definitely not always in the mood to hear Johnny guitar.
I feel like the geographic setting accent's the feel of the game. You're not THE lone wanderer, but you are A lone wanderer. An empty city can give that feeling of loneliness, but a desert is even better in my opinion. And it mixes with the Lucky 38 being lit up. It's a jewel in a barren world.
absolutely, i adore the lonely feeling the mohave gives you, i prefer it to any other fallout setting ngl because it makes you drink in the atmosphere and it really feels like the end of the world happened
The way you phrased this reminds me of how I'd hoped diamond city would be in 4. I expected to see a classic fallout esque city in the center of boston surrounded by a baseball field, with large structures made of more solid materials peaking over the walls so that you could see it from outside of the city (not skyscrapers, but a noticeable city from outside) with a feudal castle style secondary wall and a smaller town on the outside. Considering diamond city is the great jewel of the commonwealth, you'd expect it to actually be a very large and almost overflowing city spreading outside of the walls, especially considering the only other real town is good with our, but it ended up just being megaton again. I really wish Bethesda could think further than 10 years after the bombs fell, we'd have some really cool visuals and fascinating locations if they could
Thanks for explaining how Ulysses triggered the events of every DLC. Never heard anyone explain it so succinctly.
There was a time on CZcams when you could barely find any game criticism and now there is so much and in long form that we are truly spoiled to be able to tune in to these long form articles with video accompaniments. Thank you.
50:54 Gotta love that Enclave Solider just walking around during the ending slide
I recently re-played this in a more thorough fashion and i feel like i could have played it again and been even more thorough. There is so much to do and explore.
Walking around the Mojave while the lady is singing about her Johnny on the radio is just surreal!
What a game. Top 3 games of all time for me
I think Mr House route would be the proper ending and it leads us to The Outer Worlds.
Personally, I like Mr House with just one modded decision: instead of killing the Brotherhood of Steel, he convinces them that they need to change their isolationist ways and hires them as contractual engineers/mercenaries (serving as backup flesh-and-blood maintenance technicians in areas where Mr House's computers and Securitrons have had hardware/software errors that they can't self-repair, while also not requiring Mr House to send them any guns/ammo [instead merely requiring some food/water provisions, some intel on the state of the Mojave Wasteland, and some leads/blueprints/examples of old pre-war tech]).
This was so obvious that I gave myself a facepalm for not realizing this possibility sooner.
wouldn't that be a bad thing lol everyone is miserable there
@@kai_anthony they said proper, not good.
Outer Worlds was awful lol
Yeah it’s probably my favorite fallout game of all time as well…actually I think it’s my favorite game of all time period. I’ve probably put a thousand hours into this game by now, but this video makes me want to do yet another playthrough with lots of mods to make it a somewhat fresh experience.
I wish it was as easy as modding Fallout 4 on Xbox.
I cannot return to Fallout 3 anymore since 2010 I think when I bought fallout new vegas and all the DLC for it... it's just not up to snub. Even Fallout 4 is a game I haven't finished even tho I know how it ends cuz... well, I hate the ending. It's not enjoyable and I'd rather just screw around with side quests and stuff rather than find that son.
Yeah it’s competing for my favorite game with Red Dead Redemption 2, Halo Reach, and Skyrim. But it wouldn’t have to contest at all if the developers got maybe another year. Then the Legion would have so much more content than it does, I could play the game after the Battle for Hoover Dam, and have so much more cut content, and bug fixes too. Only issue with bug fixes is that they might possibly fix the goodsprings infinite Xp glitch I do to have extra perks and skills at the start of the game, and the infinite caps glitch at the Casinos. But other than that, if the developers had more time, all I’d ever want now is mod support for console gamers like me
@@tarheelpro87if you like NV and Skyrim, Morrowind will blow Skyrim out of the water and change your mind about Skyrim.
@@Jiub_SN I played Morrowind briefly but I never got to play it for long and get into it, since I had it with Game Pass Ultimate, but I only kept that for a short while, I now use Game Pass Core. And i’m pretty sure since i’ve played modern Bethesda RPGs, Morrowind is a fucking nightmare for me to get used to. But when i’m able to buy it, i’ll look up guides so I can play it better. But that combat was driving me insane, just pure dogshit to me. But the story and many other elements of it are amazing.
Masterpiece game, my personal favorite. All the charm in the world with none of the polish to follow suit lol, even its quirks endear me to it. So much potential that was not tapped into because the project barely saw the light of day with the anemic development time forced onto Obsidian and yet they still made arguably one the best games ever, never ceases to astonish me.
I know right, crazy how good it is and still to this day it ages nicely
So we had remastered versions of Mass Effect, Bioshock and now Dead Space. All absolutely worthy of that treatment. Include the DLCs in a new, fresh package for the younger generation to enjoy. Fallout 3 and New Vegas deserve the same. Skyrim is up baby
Remastered morrowind and new Vegas would make my life complete
You're confusing Remastered with Remake.
Only ME and BS go remastered.
Dead Space is getting a Remake treatment.
I think F3 and FNV hold out pretty well, especially with mods. Fallout 1 and 2, on the other hand, could really use a remaster to make the UI not terrible.
Both Fallout 3 and NV got perfomance boosts on the current Xbox. Fallout 3 got a texture boost as well and NV is supposedly getting one too so it will look better in 4l. Since Microsoft now owns Bethesda Playstation Users will probably be left holding the bag. An update will also break a lot of pc mods unfortunately.
I'll honestly just take current gen ports at this rate. My 360 sounds like a fucking airport now whenever I try to boot up 3 and NV
this was a very masterfully crafted video, theres an obvious passion you have for the franchise as a whole plus as a very wide plethora of research and actual play time that went into this is very respectable good stuff
I have about 200 hours on fallout 3, 2400 on fallout 4 (mainly building and with over 180 mods, actually makes it playable, with some mods changing the story/giving choice). And over 2500 hours on Fallout New vegas, which was my first fallout.
Even though I've played through New Vegas with over 15 characters, as in complete playthroughs; I still love it to death and am greatly hoping for the Fallout 4:New Vegas mod. While it is sad that there is quite a bit of cut content, a majority of it can be restored via mods, many of these mods were created by one of the lead developers JSawyer, which shows his dedication to Fallout too. Then when you think of the fact that New Vegas was created in 18 months...
As someone who's only played fallout 4 and thought it was kinda mediocre this in comparison looks and sounds so much more interesting and entertaining. Ngl I'm thinking of picking it up on steam and this might be the push for me to binge it in my free time.
Fallout Nv was a love letter to fallout 1 and 2
Fallout 4 was mediocre sadly, new vegas is much better even though it's janky and the graphics are pretty bad even for the time. Hope you enjoyed it :)
I hope you picked it up. NV and FO3 with all their DLC are probably the best times I’ve had playing video games. I think I prefer FO3 only because it was my first and I will never forget first experiencing the atmosphere of that game it was groundbreaking for the time. NV I find slightly ugly but critically is a better game. Has improved mechanics, better RPG elements, better writing and better DLC. FO4 is seriously mediocre compared to them. It’s a better shooter and obviously looks nicer but everything else is way worse. Would give it a 6/10 whereas the others I would give both 9/10.
I have watched literally dozens of hour long video essays about this game and have virutally nothing else to learn about it and yet I'm going to keep on watching more and more.
Well, you could play it?
41:35 There were 6 couriers, with 5 of them carrying fakes, it says as much in the 2 delivery orders found in the game. We are Courier 6 after all, kind of an important detail.
That clip of Cannibal Johnson walking in front of the ending slides still cracks me up. Such a great bug.
Fallout New Vegas, forgiving it's glitches, it's one of the best written stories of the computer age. And what about the secret ending for Dead Money!?
There are also cut endings. Like being able to team up with Elder Elijah for another New Vegas ending.
A theory I like, is one where at the end of Lonesome road being able to convince Ulysses to join us in defeating the NCR/Legion together, as another potential ending.
New Vegas is a sequel to Fallout 2... thats why its set in the west.
Your story telling is absolutely amazing. There is one problem tho. I can't make it five minutes into these videos without having to go back and replay all of these amazing games haha. Your video is just the cherry on top after I finish replaying them. Thank you for your hard work dude.
I remember getting into the franchise when In was younger with Fallout 3. Browsing gamestop for a good zombie game, seeing a ghoul on the backside of the case and picking it up. Turns out it wasn't a zombie game, but ended up being so much more.
I first played Fallout 3 as well. However I got into Fallout New Vegas unintentionally. One day my Fallout 3 disc broke, but since my grades and behavior in school were good I was taken to GameStop. I was about to get Fallout 3, but then got Fallout New Vegas cause it was different so I’d give it a try. Because my tiny little 3rd grader brain couldn’t comprehend how to get the good ending since it wasn’t a linear line of quests like Fallout 3, I hated it. But but 6th grade when I got older, I figured I’d give it another try. Now it’s probably my favorite game of all time by far. If the developers had another year, we’d probably have much more content for the Legion, like companions, locations, and lore. Then other places like Camp McCarran. Plus we could play after battle of Hoover Dam, and bug fixes. Despite being rushed and limited, this game still came out a masterpiece. I can’t understand why other games have that challenge and come out garbage.
fallout new vegas catches the original fallout / fallout 2 style, with the desert and the way the locations are made, not to forget the amazing story telling
22:22 I remember in High School I asked my history teacher why the Nuremburg Trials were necessary, citing that 'they were just following orders from a much higher authority'. His answer, was that despite that being true, they had the opportunity to make a choice. And they chose to do what they knew was wrong, despite knowing it was unforgiveable.
It was... quite the conundrum for me at the time. But it came down to accountability, in the end.
Gotta say I never heard a more well explained story of a story before. I have played through 4 times and the points you make are an eye opener . But then again I rarely play a game for the overarching story but just to have some un in a fantasy world I can't actually die in. Well done.
RIP Matthew Perry, best Benny there could've been
Greetings from Sweden.
I played Wasteland on commodore 128/64 as a young boy.
You, Sir, just got yourself a new subscriber
Fun fact: The Vault that sacrifices the overseer each year is based of a short story named "The lottery" definitely worth a read
Living in NV we grabbed this on a whim and my dad finished it and sorta went “Eh not as good as 3” and rarely went back to it but it captured me and is why I love video games. I’ve spent hours playing it and I always go back to it because it’s one of the few games I feel you’re important but not the end all be all. The NCR will still try and expand and spread its government while the legion will still raid and be cosplaying douchebags even if the courier forces both to back out of new vegas. I also love that it finally addresses how dark a post apocalyptic world would be, both 3 and 4 have dark moments like serial killers and the likes but NV had cannibalistic rapist raiders so high on whatever chems they’ve chosen they obsess over dogs or cows. The factions use chemical weapons and spies to destroy the other while civilians die in the crossfire. It’s real and gritty but is balanced by its goofy moments. I think NV is a masterclass in gaming and I recommend it to everyone who asks my opinion on it
They bang cows too, welcome to the Mojave
That's a result of it being made by the original devs lmao. New Vegas is basically a 3D fallout 2 (and kinda) 1
I personally just finished playing this game and watching this video was so refreshing.
Now I'm going to have to watch all your videos, solely because this was so well put together, felt like i was talking about the game with a friend, so THANKS!
The best part about New Vegas is that the company that made it, Obsidian, were actually comprised of a number of people from Interplay Studios, the original company that made Fallout 1 and 2, including Tim Cain, who practically single-handedly coded the original Fallout's engine. Plus they took elements of their original plans for Fallout 3, titled Van Buren before it was cancelled and implemented them into New Vegas including Caesars Legion, The Burned Man and Big MT.
And it goes to show how New Vegas is basically a direct sequel to Fallout 2, while Fallout 3 feels more like a spinoff, soft reboot.
These videos can’t be easy to make. You’re absolutely killing it.
First video I see of yours.
I’ve probably seen 20+ hours of fallout new vegas video essays.
I still want more lol
I always try to do Honest Hearts as soon as possible, get Joshua's outfit, a sheriff hat then get the Mysterious Magnum. Best cowboy simulator ever.
Love ur long vids this one better blow up too
Loved your videos before this one, but so happy you are talking about one of my absolute favorites ✨ you have great taste! Would NOT sacrifice you in Beyond the Beef
I totally agree about the setting. I missed out on new vegas as a kid cause I borrowed it once and never wanted to play. Sometimes I still hate looking around and finding what's hidden in the waste but its totally worth it.
Cool little fact, unless you only got footage for lonesome road in one play through Ulysses changes who he’s a fan of based off your faction in the main game, so he’ll talk about how Caesar won’t be the best leader or faction, or how house will let the waste die for Vegas to live, but I haven’t tried a yes man route for him. Just a cool little fact
He doesn't change who he is a fan for depending on ''your faction''. He used to be of the Legion, and now he hates all three, NCR, Legion and Vegas. The faction he loved, the place he wanted to call home, were the people living in the pre-courier Divide. The people you brought life to when you were a Courier. The people you unknowingly destroyed. His plan is to ''sever the artery of the Bear'' (nuke the I-15), so that the Legion speeds up its conquest, claiming Vegas, and eventually California. When the NCR falls, the Legion will either turn on itself and die, or become stronger than before.
Getting independent dialogue is a bit hard to achieve, since Obsidian made it so that Ulysses checks your reputation with the three factions. I used a mod that made it track the quests: ''The House Has Gone Bust!'' ''Beware the Wrath of Caesar!'' and ''Don't tread on the Bear!'' instead. If any of the quests was completed, that reputation dialogue won't appear, since I have alienated that faction without being Vilified. That way, it was easier to get his Independent dialogue.
>at this point this is the only interaction we have with the NCR
nice video. here's like and comment to support it. also, in a words of homer simpson - "your ideas are intriguing and i wish to subscribe to your newsletter"
It is amazing how much effort you put in your videos
Great video. I do question the legitimacy of your paper on the Milgram Experiment. There have been some papers published since it's release that look at the data collected after the experiment where a majority of the participants knew the shocks were fake. This data wasn't published in Milgram's paper for obvious reasons.
I've seen so many of these types of New Vegas videos over the years and dare I say, I'm still in love with them. Watched till the end.
Very nice video, makes me want to try this game for it's amazing narrative despite the jank in other areas.
Damn had me captivated for an hour holy shit great job on documentation of a great game
I was lucky enough for new Vegas to be my first fallout game. I got my Xbox in like 5th grade, a lot later than all my other friends. My buddy Will gave me a huge stack of games he had either already played or didn’t like, and new Vegas was among them because he liked 3 better. Worked out for both of us, and I still think about how cool it was for him to gift me all those. There were lots of rlly good games in there, red dead redemption, gta 4, Skyrim, portal 2, left 4 dead 2, and a bunch more.
47:45 - Actually, it's the other 5 couriers, and we know they survived, made the delivery safely, and were paid, according to what we found at the branch office in Primm. Following that, we know that there's satellites like Archimedes II, which implies that there has absolutely been people sent into space - that came before satellites in our own timeline. Fallout 3 clearly has evidence of space travel in the space museum, if only as a Moon landing. Colony Ships would have been mentioned in Van Buren as the Enclave's original plan.
The selling of power and water would be described as "pricing", not "tax". Tax is when Mr House takes money from people living on his land because he has the guns to back it up. Yes, he would be taxing people on the strip, but a power bill is not a tax. I think you'd have to go much further to explain how tax is morally wrong. Yes, he would tax people, and funnel his profits into projects, and that's bad, how? How is that any different from the NCR?
In short... I don't think these are actually particularly outrageous. He's potentially dangerous, sure, and hard to trust, but House's ending is all about lofty goals, trust, and how much of House's ego is getting in the way.
I think they all survived, except for Courier 4 (Daniel Wyand). You can find his corpse in Primm, outside the Mojave Express office. Most likely killed by the escaped convicts.
Taxes are monetary contributions citizens elect to pay because that money is required to maintain society. Prices are set to compensate a person or group to produce goods or services. One is set by a government, the other by a private company.
Does House see himself as the government or a private company?
@@davidhong1934 Uh, no, people do not "elect" to pay taxes. There is a long list of things that happen in modern societies, because governments would prefer late payments to nothing at all, but eventually you get debt collectors, court hearings, and prison time. Taxes are not optional.
Prices can also be set by a government for various services, but, yes, it implies an exchange.
I don't know if House sees himself as a private company or not. I can't recall any particular statement on the topic.
@@AusSP
Citizens elect officials who are expected to set taxes according to a set of standards and current events. If representatives ever vote on taxes not in accordance with the interests of their constituents, citizens are highly encouraged to nominate replacements. It's the reason why some states invest highly in social services and others don't; the right group of constituents consistently elect politicians who will pass and enforce those tax laws.
In theory, the votes of all citizens are counted equally. In practice, the importance of a vote is determined by the quantifiable impact a group of individuals can produce. The opinion of a mega-corporation responsible for providing businesses and governments with important hardware components is going to matter a lot more than a store clerk selling those same goods. Opinions are further influenced by the attitudes and personalities of the politicians themselves, which is how the NCR got to be what it is now.
House is an interesting character because he's a businessman who's not quite willing to admit that he's running an independent state. On one hand, New Vegas is a business designed to sell a commodity (tourism), and House, as the CEO, has final say in all decisions. However, due to it's size, he is subject to and able to influence the whims of local cattle barons, the neighboring political powers, and his own casinos. He could choose not to obey the wishes of these groups, but doing so would reduce the resources he needs to run New Vegas, and the reverse is also true.
@@davidhong1934 That's nice and all, but most of that comment seems more like rambling than a coherent point or argument. I'm getting less certain what we're even talking about.
Saying "people elect politicians based on taxes", has nothing to do with House, nothing to do with your original claim, and only partially true. (It requires people to be highly aware of Government actions, and for that government to be democratic, at least.)
Looking more into the lore...
House isn't "not quite willing". His end-goal is to establish the Free Economic Zone of New Vegas as a State. A FEZ being a place where companies are taxed very lightly. He's the absolute leader of a location that, by definition, doesn't have much taxation. So is he mostly acting as a business, not a government? It's both, but the point is that if he's not collecting many taxes, then he's not doing much. So, I assume it's some sort of libertarian state, but the ending feels... a little disconnected from that.
(That is, on one hand, Mr House has little control over the Casinos, and surrounding areas, and is seemingly a Libertarian, but the ending slides call him a "pre-war glory" despot with "cold, orderly" streets, the exact opposite issue.)
Personally I'm a fan of the House ending, a big part of that is his long term goals.
Fallout 3 was the first Fallout game I completed to the end. I played the first two way back, but never finished them. I rather wish it wasn't my first Fallout to complete fully, wish that had been New Vegas or the first game. I've since revisited New Vegas and am at the final act of the first Fallout - which is super stellar. I was not a fan of the D.C. area, but I still plan to revisit Fallout 3 and try it again sometime soon as it has been since launch. Great video.
Nice. More videos like this!
Vault 11 for me is the most heartbreaking. These people were lied to that if someone wasn't sacrificed every year EVERYONE dies. Do we lose one life to save dozens? That's what they did every year until only 5 remained and said no. Then vault-tec the evil bastards told them that was the plan all along. To see how long they would sacrifice people. The guilt and horror drove 4 of the last 5 dwellers to suicide. The last survivor still haunted by the guilt and horror set off into the Mojave. My theory? That 5th survivor is No-Bark from Novac. So riddled with guilt he made his way to Novac and puts on a facade of a lunatic to cope with what he experienced in Vault 11 or in his own words "radscorpions stung his skull" could have been his suicide attempt but it failed.
Thanks very much. A superb critique.
In the Divide I always take the choice to forgive Ulysses and Join him, the 2 most badass and powerful characters in the mojave wasteland joining and escaping the death trap that Ulysses itself devised, it was the definition of an epic finale.
Rip Mathew Perry
They got the atmosphere so right especially when you visit vegas in person you see how well they done
Great vid, as usual.
One of the greatest games of all time. Only these devs should be making fallout games
Mr. House doesn't tax the people on the strip, In the dialogue with the Three Families and House, he came to each of them with a deal and they voluntarily accepted. Taxation is force not voluntary.
Personally I’m more of a yes man type of guy like I see mr house as the ncr with less morals like yea optional taxes and helping humanity what not but at the cost of a dictatorship I’d rather have at least a small group of people who truly understand what is going on with their citizens and actually do something about it instead of using tax or government money to live luxurious lives that is my personal opinion and I respect yours better than the ncr tho
It’s the little details I appreciate. Like having your weapon jam up on you sometimes.
I will admit .. I'm addicted to videos that praise this game.
It's special and definately among my all time favourite games.
play it again, johnny
Like no other man dooo
If this game got remastered or got a spiritual successor I would buy it so fast
Technically Outer Worlds is a spiritual successor by claim though it isn't quite as nuanced narratively or gameplay wise as New Vegas. It's still worth checking out though as it is a solid game.
@@colethornton6716 yep you're right. I'd like to see an obsidian made post apocalyptic world tho.
Josh Sawyer--who wrote Ulysses--wrote him as a companion character for the Legion. He mentions it in various NV streams.
Great video explain a lot about this game makes me really want to play it because I've never played it before but at the same time you give too much of your opinion on the different story lines and different factions and different side quests like you really twist it of all the possibilities but really when I doubt that it really gets that in debt and you say that people still talk about how things could have played out in the game and it's so old well I think people are forever going to talk about this game and what it could have been or how things could add up or what's the right thing to do or the wrong thing to do but that could apply to anything
My first Fallout was the original. I loved it after it was patched. I loved Fallout 2 even more. It was amazing. New Vegas is the truest to the original 2. 3 and 4 both fall way short of the originals.
Yep. Fallout 4 is the biggest piece of dogshit ever. 1, 2 and new Vegas are truly special!
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This was a great video essay.
It truly was a masterpiece.
Imagine games like this, Planscape:Torment, BG2 and others remade with todays software/hardware…..it could be so good.
Dying for a remaster, or atleast a re release for modern consoles with updated fps etc. Plz don't make me beg anymore. No fallout game after has really come close to the level of greatness new vegas achieved imo
Bethesda not making New Vegas is the ONLY good decision they ever made concerning Fallout.
Never played a fallout game period but must say this was a very entertaining video
I love your videos man
Thanks my guy, I appreciate it!
This was one of the last games me and my older brother bonded over. So this one has a special place in my heart.
Also the psychotic toaster was THE best part of Old World Blues.
My thoughts on why it makes sense Ulysses talks the way he talks is the same reason I read on why Yoda speaks the way he speaks. Yoda and his race spoke a language that wasn't galactic basic, upon learning it he thought it didn't make sense, so he grafted his native languages Grammer to basic. I don't see a reason why the same can't be true for Ulysses. We know his tribe didn't speak English, so he had to learn it as an adult. He could be an English speaker who is still not at native level profincy, or that he doesn't like how the language's rules distorts his message, so he uses speech patterns and grammar that are common in his native language.
Although it is insane that anyone is still speaking English or at least understandable English ~200 years after the bombs. Even vault dwellers should sound all unique in their accents, some even to the point of being unintelligible to us. Look up on CZcams videos of English speakers who have lived in isolated communities or there is a video of Scotsman who goes from speaking flawless English to a Scottish accent slowly over a 20 minute video. You would be amazed how different a language can sound and still be considered the same language.
Not only with language, but I get the feeling Ulysses' tribal traditions gave him a very different way of viewing things like fate vs. choice. That's why he seems insane, or at least unreasonable and hypocritical, to us. It is a profoundly different psychology/ philosophy likely shaped by a unique tribal mysticism.
That's my 'head canon' anyway.
Ulysses is very well traveled, being a courier and agent of the Legion. He was responsible for bringing tribes into the legion across the wasteland. More importantly, he is simply an intelligent person with experience integrating with different groups. He learned multiple languages from meeting tribes, and in his travels found lots of Old World media. Hell, he knows the actual story of Ulysses. That's a strong indicator he is educated, maybe not a traditional academic sense, but by reading and observing. His dialect reflects his life and introspection.
Worth mentioning, a lot of the issues with low skills early on can be mitigated by abusing magazines to pass certain checks. Assuming you can find them.
Blank book, wonder glue. Make your own
This was a fantastic video essay.
It flowed flawlessly!
Will you do a video on fallout 4 eventually? I’d love to see one on it
Absolutely
@@Gingy well you’ll have my view! Love your content so I’m in
Recently picked the game up again after years of not playing it, put another 300 hours into it and realized why I love it so much. Total game time is well over 1000 hours at this point in total. FNV is a masterpiece
Awesome video
Wow, am hour long tribute to new Vegas!? Good work!
I think you said it well, New Vegas is not the best replay but still probably my favorite game of all time.
In fact, I became a huge fan of the 1950s music thanks to New Vegas :)
I actually agree about the setting though, I really like the stories and quests but the setting is pretty frigging boring, plus I wish they kept the random encounters system from FO3, it was awesome how much chaos could happen, I could probably tell you where all the enemies on the main map are even now, they changed it in the DLCs I think? OWBs did have it though.
Ah man you didn’t touch on Joshua Graham. By far my favorite fallout character ever
Blah blah blah God blah blah blah, boring as fuck
@@henrycrabs3497 opinions are like assholes
@@cxyoung5470 cry about it
@@henrycrabs3497 not even able to give a single argument, literal man child.
How TF did I not see you've made this hell yeah
I just got every achievement for this game. My biggest accomplishment was doing the three star challenge “pros only” by killing 5 Deathclaws with a recharger rifle, that was a grind.
Love New Vegas. Can I get an amen
Amen.
In all honesty, I love both areas but I definitely prefer Fallout: New Vegas much more. Those open areas made me feel more nervous because if you were just running around all carefree, you might attract the attention of someone or something(s) that you don't want to deal with or engage. Fallout 3 felt like, I had control over the environment but I didn't like having control over it. I prefer the unpredictable nature of what's out in the open waiting for me. I do wish Bethesda gave Obsidian more time to work on this game so it didn't feel as empty but the game being open was an amazing decision.
Just started playing it I’m loving it the npcs are so much more dynamic
Vault 11's story is an homage to I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison. Haven't played New Vegas till this part, just decided to watch a vid on F: NV; I did read the short story though. Pretty cool that the writers of New Vegas decided to base a whole vault off that story.
Honestly I think FNV will stand as the best Fallout game. The build options, the world space, the characters, the lore, the choices and consequences (because this game is stellar at delivering both), and the weapons. Fallout 4 was really 1 step forward and 2 steps back in many regards. I still had a lot of fun with it but it really lacks a lot of what makes Fallout SPECIAL. The only good writing in Fallout 4 was in Far Harbour, so hopefully if they make another single player Fallout, they take inspiration from New Vegas and Far Harbour. One can dream anyway, especially after the farce of 76
15:00 Lol, as someone trying to write, I cannot express how much I have come to hate the saying, "It's about the journey, not the destination." The destination is what most of a story should be leading towards. You have to do both well. Having good set-ups is not an excuse for bad pay offs. Having a good journey is not an excuse for a bad destination.
But rants aside, I strongly agree that New Vegas is really damn good. I'm usually the type of person that puts gameplay above all else. If the gameplay is bad then the game is bad. I don't play games for the story. But New Vegas is an exception. The writing is mostly what I aspire to create.
NV is easily, and by far, the best Fallout game to date. That is, from a quest design and narrative perspective. It has so many imaginative and satisfying moments that it makes F3 and F4 look like someone clueless made them.
New Vegas is the juice man. I remember my brother being really frustrated with it at launch due to the bugs and save issues but he kept playing it. I just played it for the first time in 2022 and I totally get why he stuck with it. The factoins feel great and your choices matter so much. Other Fallout games really lack that feeling.
We went from 29 slides to 4 in Fallout 4. Bethesda just sucks.