Intelligence : "I can't Bear with your Bull-shit."

I didn't see much of it so I should mention it. Ulysses doesn't just speak against the NCR he speaks against whatever faction the game thinks you are siding with. So he has alternate dialogue talking about the problems with the legion and Mr house too and I think some dialogue questioning your ability to lead.

So the courier was the one who nuked Megaton.

BEAR AND BULL, BEAR AND BULL, BEAR AND BULL. DO YOU FEEL BAD ABOUT THE THING YOU DON'T REMEMBER DOING? HOW ABOUT THE FACT IT MESSES WITH ROLEPLAY BY ADDING DEFINITE EVENTS TO YOUR PAST? DID YOU KNOW THAT I HAVE 10 IN ALL MY SPECIAL STATS? BEAR AND BULL, BEAR AND BULL, BEAR AND BULL.

"Dude, Ulysses I just deliver packages for Amazon. Are you really trying to give me some grandiose Bond Villain-esk Speech?"

I think the ideology of Hopeville is intentionally left ambiguous so the player can insert whatever they think would be a good faction and weigh it up against their choices so far in the game. Ulysees is meant to be a foil for the player but it's kind of hard to write an antithesis to an RPG Protagonist; He was supposed to be in the base game but was moved to DLC because he needed an entire disc for all of his alternate voice lines.

Any channel that not only has Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul retrospectives, but also FNV retrospectives, is automatically based in my book. Also, one thing I don't understand is how do the Marked Men know what Lanius looks like if the Divide was destroyed before the first battle of Hoover Dam? He wasn't a prominent figure at the time and was a direct replacement for Graham only after they lost the first battle, the Legion soldiers that became the Marked Men wouldn't know anything about him. I guess they could be scouts that entered after, but based on what happened to the NCR scouts that also entered the Divide after its destruction, I doubt they ended up as Marked Men

From the UK here. Recently found your channel and watched some of your retrospectives. Great work. They are very full of content because of you snappy pacing, because of how good your stuff is then that's not any form of criticism. I watched The Americans because I was curious, I never followed it to the end, I liked it but didn't love it enough to stay with it. Because I your retrospective so much I watched Community, Hannibal, and Fargo which I haven't seen at all. Great analysis, funny but also friendly. A very well-balanced style. I'm a big fan of Fallout too.

I loved Ulysses as a villain and actually felt he was the most interesting out of the dlc villains. I eat up monologuing like that so I'm definitely biased lol

Been waiting on this one for a while, couldn’t have come at a better time!

Just had a moment there at the end when you mentioned you hit 20K subscribers and might do a Q&A. Dude, wtf?? Your videos are definitely the stuff that I'd expect to be viewed by hundreds of thousands!!! Anyways, I hope this channel's audience keeps growing because I've been watching all of your stuff and it is so good. Someone in one of these comment sections compared you to Mandalore Gaming and I could not agree more; you're great at doing these retrospectives and talking about what makes these works so great as well as everything that takes away from that (all their flaws). Great video, btw.

The tunnelers become a joke when you realize they can't run and swipe at you at the same time. Just find a nice spot to run in circles and pull out your favorite shotgun and lay waste on the vermin. I'll be honest I can't stand Ulysses' voice so I just kind of ignore him and have fun collecting goodies and completing checklists at my leisure, same as I did with the rest of the game and expansions bar one. That actually gave me an issue spelunking the Sierra Madre because of the lack of agency in how I tackle the expansion which your options further dwindle the lower your skills are going into it. Honestly that one felt like if Telltale tried making a Soulsy type game with a lick of Fallout paint on top because ultimately at the end some of the characters have to die/get "DOOR STUCK" which ultimately leaves somewhat of an empty feeling leaving the place for good. Especially when the best I could do to bring Veronica & Christine back together was give her the dress Christine wore and give her Cristine's rifle that she lost in Big Mountain. Lonesome Road was the perfect antidote to being cattle proded along with a bomb collar because I can pick away at it much like how one would kick a bad habit, not in one sitting (for most) but gradually weaned until you realized you crossed the peak and reached your destination. Or to put it simpler, Lonesome road felt like an adventure, Dead Money felt like homework. Ideally if the two were to mesh in a clever way that may have ended up making a perfect expansion where the urge to explore was married well with the confrontation the two expansions seem to do well just not at the same time. I think those design issues were more of a sign of a studio stuck on a set schedule and set funding meaning a lot of compromises had to be made in order to succeed with those constraints so the reason why the expansions are all so varied was so that they could try a bit of everything without having to do everything all in one making that seemingly improbable task of pulling all that off much more palatable. In the end I think that kind of approach ended up creating a winning formula that brought in so many prople consistently over the years giving it that revered classic status. The only thing I think this game is missing is just existing on a game engine where "it just works" and it could easily be re-released again today to much the same fanfare. Luckily Fallout 4 New Vegas is a thing and I hope those fine people end up making it as good as the Crowbar Collective did with Black Mesa.

Man how did I miss this finally coming out. Glad to see it man

man haven't thought about that 'bootleg fireworks' vid in years, thanks a million for the throwback LMAO

Been waiting for this for 10 months since seeing your dexter retrospective and discovering you were covering fallout nv dlcs

People would have been alot less harsh on Ulysses if Obsidian had just dialed back the theatrics a bit. His ideology and his general role in the story are perfectly solid. But for some reason they decided to bury all that under this bizarre cross between Darth Vader and a Bond villain that's also a mailman, cause he has to be like you, who uses tryhardish phraseology (muh bear, muh bull, muh flags) that nobody else in the game world uses. The constant references to something you (supposedly) did in the past that never came up before Lonesome Road also don't help. It's distracting enough that people misunderstand his entire motivation as being some sort of revenge plot.

I found your channel a few days ago, and have never found a person this similar to me. I first found you from you Dexter video, then your community videos. I knew your picture was Mr. House but I didn't realize you would make videos about New Vegas. W man W channel

I was wondering was, I just finished the dlcs and wanted to see your lonesome road video. Now I have

Just wanted to say your videos are wonderfully edited and your narratition is strong and clear, very Mandalore esque. Keep it up!!!

heck yeah, i have been looking forward to this

I was afraid I was the only person who found Ulysses' cryptic way of talking annoying! Thank you so much for showing me I'm not alone in the world 😂

Really good analysis you did of the DLCs. You made a lot of valid criticisms, even if I still find myself enjoying characters like Ulysses. I think a lot of the problems with New Vegas were to do with its obscenely short development time that meant they had to cut a lot of interesting features.

Thank you,thank u ,thank u so much j was waiting for this as a sub,love ur work man.

Thanks for the breakdown! Came looking for this after watching the Fallout TV Series. SPOILERS!!! I hadn't played NV in years, but after seeing Shady Sands destroyed in the show I remembered an option to wipe them out in NV. I wanted to try and figure out WHO Maximus actually needs to find. IMO I think its Lucy's dad working with Ulysses and the Courier that did this to Maximus. WILD!!! So lonesome road is canon, but whats even more wild is I think the option to blow away the NCR and/or Ceasers Legion is the canon option. wow... (EDIT: Nevermind, it doesn't work until we find out what happens to the Legion. Lucy's dad blowing up Shady Sands doesn't solidify NV outcome until we get more info. So far it's just Lucy's dad Maximus needs to find...)

Loved this series, would be great if you could do some mass effect stuff

ITS HERE!!

lets fucking go i am so ready for this episode!!!!

Wasn't crazy for most of Fallout 3 Dlc story, but I did like The Pitt setting and story. It could probably make it good review.

0:27 dude i played the whole dlc with that joke in my head (boulevard of bomb regimes) and im so happy to know im not the only one who thought this

A pleasant surprise for my sub feed.

this is basically you running and screaming as every clawed demon known on the planet chases you through the dlc

i like the bioshock hacking minigame

okay now i need a bioshock video too!!

Love your videos!

Can’t believe you posted Return of the King without a single strike

Video game content!? I thought this was dead forever, thank you so much!!

It seems kind of clear to me that if you like philosophy Ulysses is one of the greatest characters ever made. If you don't like philosophy or don't understand it he just comes off as vague or annoying. His argument is that you keep messing with old-world technology you don't understand and it continuously leads to devastating consequences and throughout the game you literally set off a nuke just because you can't stop flipping switches and you literally bring Ed-E to him because you can't stop bringing around old world technology everywhere you go. Philosophically he has a point. You are a moral danger to everyone around you because you simply cannot control your desire for things you do not understand. And regardless of your intentions he cannot trust what you say because you keep on doing it because it is a literal mechanic of the game. To me it's genius and the dialogue choices that you can respond with are equally genius. He doesn't believe in any of the factions that are currently running New Vegas because all of them are based on systems of governance but have been tried in the past and have had their societies collapse eventually. The NCR is democracy and capitalism. Caesar's Legion is a Roman dictator slave state. And Mr. House claims himself as essentially a king. In the world of Fallout all of these systems have failed but he saw a new system that he believes in in the Divide before you destroyed it because you delivered a package that led to setting off nukes underground that completely destroyed the Divide. His obsession with you and philosophical ramblings seem entirely Justified to me. And personally his last message for you is the single most badass speech I've seen in video games so far. Every single one of the DLC covers letting go of the past in different ways. Dead money is about letting go of the riches and opulence of the past. Honest heart is about letting go of Revenge because that's what leads to the best ending. Old World Blues is about letting go of old scientific advancements that are too dangerous for the modern world and Lonesome Road is about letting go of old political ideologies that have failed. How you just claim that everything Ulysses said about the NCR being stuck in the past being all platitudes is beyond me. He doesn't just think that about the NCR he thinks that about every faction besides what they were building in the Divide before you destroyed it and in the world of Fallout New Vegas he is quite literally correct. The idea is that you are supposed to imagine the political system of the future. Because claiming that is any of the current existing systems is ridiculous. It's not supposed to be some material concept you can grasp right now because by every standard there are no perfect systems and there probably never will be. He never claimed that the Divide was the only correct answer either. Call him self-righteous if you want but at the very least he's asking for change and avoiding repeating history when nobody else in the game seems to care about it

Love the video game stuff 👌

wait you have a patreon? since when?

And that's a wrap for the New Vegas dlc, awwwwwww yeah.

Its actually easier to just have audio just play with you wondering around then using the dialog options so that was just a development choice they should have changed

Not fleshing out the community that existed there before the underground nukes went off is the only thing that bothered me. I guess we don't recall because of the Benny thing, but it's something they really could have tied into the story throughoiy the wasteland better to make this DLC more impactful. Do we ever hear about the divide before this DLC?

* fo4 double barrel with bleeding legendary effect *

Now I can stop asking for this

Finally !!

Finally

"I have no idea what the hell Ulysses' saying."

Hey hey hey Slip Maker man, when you coming out with that Bioshock retrospective review huh? See this sweet Ferrari I just scammed off of some loser? IT'S FRICKIN' SWEET!

Bear Bull

Earned a subscriber.

My least favorite of the story DLCs. It creates an unnecessary backstory for the courier without any real way to connect the player to your alleged “past” actions. Ulysses’ cryptic explanations and strange logic behind his motivations don’t make for a worthwhile payoff at the end. Even chasing him feels pointless, it’s like who even is this guy and why do I care? We’re basically running through the Divide after him for no reason other than (like you said) we bought the DLC IRL. Metanarrative isn’t a replacement for good storytelling. It was also a huge disappointment to find out Ulysses was basically just a nobody who abandoned the Legion. I’m still even not sure why, and tbh it’s hard to even care. He doesn’t hold a candle to Elijah, IMO the best villain in the DLCs and who’s comparably evil to Mr. House and even Caesar.

Been there, learned to let go of THAT 🤣 love it

yeah, they overdid it with the monologues.

I've never played any of the DLC for New Vegas, just the base game. Are they all generally worth it?

Im one of the few new vegas die hards that consider lonesome road the true ending of NV If you play the game how obsidian intended you start the dlc around the same time you make your decision about Hoover and get the plan in action (that's why theres a recommended level for each one) It makes a lot more sense Base game to 30-40 -dead money -old world blues -honest hearts (can be swapped with owb) - lonesome road Then you return finish your cards for Hoover etc and wrap up at the dam If you do it like that which is whats intended you get a way different feel while setting up hoover and eliminating who you dont want to be in control especially if you pay attention to things in the divide the amount of lore in it is quite astonishing Ill die on the hill of this was at the bare minimum best fallout dlc in the whole series if not the Bethesda catalog 💯 (Not to mention thats where you find the NCR ranger armor and fight as many deathclaws as base game or more that alone makes it goated)

I barely play the dlc because I haven't played a courier character ever since I got alternative start mods, so I sort of forgot how nice the divide looks

Great video, but what really stuck with to me was... Man, no one ever gets the national anthem right, do they ? Whitney Houston was just perfect

The lonesome road letting you leave at any time is kinda the point. Your not doing tjis because you HAVE to. Your doing it because you want to.

He's bad and this is the worst of the New Vegas DLCs but he's a 100 times better than that Felicia Day DLC for Dragon Age II.

Awwwww yis

Bioshock, huh? Interesting... interesting.....

I feel like Lonesome Road is something you should do with Honest Hearts weapons, its what I always do and it makes it fun. I go in there with the Survivalists Rifle, Light in Shining Darkness, and the Desert Ranger Armour and its honestly really fun. Shame Ulyssess kinda sucks and I always kill him bc he hurt Ed-E.

"I would have prefered if the ability to leave lonesome road wasn't included" Bruh did you miss the entire actual meta commentary of the dlc???? I suggest watching MATN's Level 1 lonesome road playthrough, he goes really in depth in the plot in a really fun way

Id rather have a dev self insert akin to ullysses than some sht like parker quinn in f4 (f4's lead dev, emil).

Your opinion of bioshock's audiologs is oposite of patricianTV, therefore you are wrong.

Yooooooooo

Took you long enough

I hate that some games that do the whole "you're mindless for wanting to turn over every stone and follow every marker and go through every path ect" like damn dude I paid for the game so yeah I gonna do everything I can fuck off with the meta commentary. I'm glad you didn't like Uly's dumb ass dialogue and motives. He'd be cool if the dlc was more about events he's participated in instead of him being butthurt the courier was a link in a chain of events leading to hopevilles destruction or if they built up hopeville at all. Instead the dlc is the first we ever hear of hopeville and his blame game is laughable. It'd be like if we never heard of Joshua or New Canaan before the Honest hearts dlc so instead of just the plot being uninteresting the main selling points of HH would be too.

Lonesome Road is a low point on NVs otherwise stellar writing. Ulysses just comes off as annoying. I get what they were going for, but the whole questioning your faction choices thing doesn’t lend itself well to multiple play throughs. DLC would benefit in a big way if there was a way to put down Ulysses and humble him a bit more. He just comes across as a massive hypocrite to me. Obviously every society has flaws Ulysses. I don’t think killing uncounted numbers of innocent people is going to give you the reset you think it will. War never changes and all that

It was all talk and very little action with hardly any explanation. So much talk. Made it so boring.

Im gonna be honest... i hate this dlc

This dude is funny asf