Fallout New Vegas: Lonesome Road Review

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

So the courier was the one who nuked Megaton.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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