Fallout: New Vegas Is Genius, And Here's Why

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Thinking about it, Caesar ironically made two of the biggest mistakes Rome ever faced. He tried to expand farther than he could actually govern, and he didn’t set up a clear line of succession (even though he knew he was dying). It’s actually depressing that he read all that history and, instead of truly learning from it, he just repeated it, glaring flaws and all, on a smaller scale.

“Using bluff to convince [Lanius] there’s a trap up ahead” The best part about this particular moment is all the things you’re pointing out are like “Do you really think the NCR was this incompetent?” and he agrees “Hmm, you’re right, it was too easy.”, when really, yes, the NCR was just that incompetent. It ties back to how little the NCR leadership cared about the whole Mojave campaign, that all their issues with lack of manpower and supplies were so bad, you can convince an enemy general they were strategic choices.

The water quest goes even deeper. When you investigate the cistern, there's even another party affected. Vault dwellers. And if you choose to save them, you actually find them later and they're very thankful.

Did you know, In the British version it’s called the “platinum crisp”

Game design example: they put a bunch of loading screens between you and the ncr embassy to encourage you to choose any other faction.

A prime example of just how good New Vegas actually is: You can clear Quarry Junction at extremely low level, basically as soon as you defeat the powder gangers, by using the landmines the gangers have all over their base. Turns out Deathclaws have legs too, and they get crippled quickly when they try sprinting over landmines. The game gives you have insane challenge right in your face, and a novel solution that requires engaging with the story and paying attention.

“He just thinks he’s got a right to rule the world because he knows what a ‘rubicon’ is.” Is actually a pretty concise summation of Caesar’s ‘modus operandi’, as he would say, before smirking.

The thing that lives forever in my memory of New Vegas is my wife almost bricking our console by finding as many of the little plastic dinosaur toys as she could, bringing them to her hotel room, and dropping them one at a time. Once she finished, going into that room required almost half an hour of loading and everything in the room exploded in dinosaurs , often damaging her character with accelerated loose physics objects. What a good game.

Rest in Peace Matthew Perry, thanks for shooting us in the head

Fun fact: I actually stumbled upon the violin before meeting Agatha and didn't know what it was for so I donated it to the Rivet City archive guy. I lost karma but had no idea why. Once I finally met Agatha, I learned what I had done and felt so bad.

hearing hbomb mention baldur's gate and "cazadors" within a minute of each other activated something in my brain like a sleeper agent

actually it's pronounced caesar

Broke: Cyberpunk is the hot discourse. Woke: Let's talk about a 10 year old Masterpiece.

Hbomberguy: “and I will update this chart with every game, I will ever mention, in any of my videos for now on” and we never saw that chart again

Jorge "Obscuro" Salgadob is the real reason that game was amazing. He was an epic level modder. He spent years making and polishing the most popular overhaul for Oblivion, OOO. He was noticed by Obsidian and they recruited him to work on New Vegas. I think the addition of him to the team helped, not only due to his high level of coding skill and understanding of game design, but as a kind of interlocuter/mascot for the modding community.

My favourite part about Caesar is how he is the only member of the Legion who doesn’t speak in a formal dialect, he swears more than any other NPC in the game.

Not ONCE did Mr. Bomberman reference The Kings, a gang of Elvis impersonators that I placed in a hysterically high position of power by the end of the game, and I'm not mad... just disappointed.

The thing about the legion that makes me think Caesar is full of it is their treatment of women. Yes Rome had female slaves who were treated horribly, but they had male slaves who were much the same. Citizen Roman women had the right to divorce, ran some religions, and were treated with relative respect. Some of the most powerful people in the empire were women tied to dynasties who controlled who was on the throne. They just didn’t have the ability to hold office. The fact that Caesar claims to emulate Rome but treats all women like slaves makes it pretty clear that he’s just a terrible man trying to make his sexism and violence sound justified by using philosophy buzzwords and a Roman guise

New Vegas is chemistry. It's hundreds of different chemicals in a dirty, radioactive vial battling it out for dominance of solution, and you, the protagonist, are the catalyst that will bring one of those reactants to power. Fallout 3 is water, and you get to choose whether or not it's consumable.