This is an analysis of the Someguy2000 series of mods for Fallout: New Vegas, which includes the New Vegas Bounties trilogy, The Inheritance, Russell, and more. This video should, I hope, give you an understanding of the series, its parts, and how each of those parts interact with each other to create the best series of mods in the history of the Fallout community.
Here are the links I mentioned to the Indigenous charities in the Russell portion of the video. Like I said, every penny made from ad revenue on this video is going to the IRSSS here:
www.irsss.ca/
for my US viewers you can donate here:
www.narf.org/
If there are reputable indigenous charities in your area, leave a comment and I will add to the list here.
Link to the series core, which you need to download in addition to all of the mods (which are linked in the core's description):
www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mo...
Timestamps:
Intro: 0:00-3:23
New Vegas Bounties 1: 3:23-14:14
Russell: 14:15-23:38
The Inheritance: 23:39-30:30
New Vegas Bounties 2: 30:31-35:00
New Vegas Bounties 3: 35:01-53:26
The Better Angels/outro: 53:27-1:01:54
Featuring music from:
New Vegas
Fallout 4
Fallout 3
Fallout 1
Fallout 2
Vampire: The Masquerade- Bloodlines
Frostpunk
Metro Exodus
The Outer Worlds
Video Sources:
• Fallout: New Vegas (PC...
• Fallout New Vegas (Dea...
• Fallout 3: Megaton and...
• King of the Ring - Fin...
• New Vegas Mod: Checkpo...
• Meeting Father Elijah
• Fallout 3 - Mechanist ...
• Fallout: Cascadia - On...
there are some sources i'm missing because i've been working on this video for three months and i'm horribly disorganized. This is my biggest regret in this project by far. If I used your video as a source and didn't link it here, let me know and i'll fix the error. There are some I still can't find and it's infuriating.
Anyway, thank you for watching :)
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If the unabomber lives he'll start sending you bombs. Couriers run up to you and explode when they should give you the letter.
that is brilliant holy shit
@@ramblelime I survive such an attack barely. 😅 It scared me the first time it happened
Lmao, I always wondered why that was happening. I thought my game was bugged.
this aged poorly
@@hubr5827 Huh?
My main problem with Marko is the player has no chance to point out how edgy or cringe he is. Like you can only sit there as he monologues at you.
There is a mod that completely rewrites Marko to be a much more respectable character. Plus, more dialogue options during the final encounter. The problem is, it is still unfinished. The voice acting for Marko is disabled to accomodate the new lines. I mean, the new writing is much better, but it's still really off for him to be the only mute character. Besides the better-written lines, New Marko has slightly tweaked look (makes him look more villainous) and his own custom boss theme. The graveyard where you fight him also has it's own brand-new ominous music track to accompany the confrontation. The author promises the mod to be fully-voiced once it hits the V2 stage. They are currently looking for a competent VA for New Marko as we speak.
@@whoareyoutoaccuseme6588 dope
At least we could with Ulysses.
Especially for the kinds of Couriers that always have evil karma and kill for fun. No option to reveal the player's psychopathic tendencies to Marko. I do appreciate all the Terrifying Presence dialogue options though.
@@dragonfell5078 Another great thing in the rewrite is you can make Marko recognize your love for murder.
The "succeeding" a speech check thing is a major part of Dean dominos character from dead money, in fact I fell victim to that blunder by passing every check thrown at me.
I'm not gonna lie, I was extremely curbstomped by that twist XD. Luckily on my first playthrough, I didn't put points in barter. But the fact that you can succeed a check and actually fuck up specifically because of that, is awesome.
I mean, there's also the fact that the example he brings up doesn't even happen really At no point do you use any skill check that wouldn't work on someone and it does The closest I can think of is telling Ricky you can tell he's a psycho addict or that his pipboy clearly doesn't work, both times it only works because you add an underlying threat to it, where for the psycho one you tell him he's gonna run out of psycho on the journey and for the pipboy one you threaten to tell Jeb that he lied about his pipboy so he doesn't get paid.
Dead Money's a bit of an exception because the treatment of the characters from how you act is more important than anything you say for the most part. All fine and well if you smooth talk Christine or Dean into doing what you want, you still didnt show them they can trust you with your actions
its also part of the reason that dlc is so infuriatingly bad
48:49 I NEVER thought that Ulysess was a bad character. I just thought that they could have toned down on the way he talks. I mean, you can sneeze, and instead of "Bless you", he'd probably say something profound about how time for another armageddon could be hinted at with smaller explosions
So spot on 😭😂
They didn't do him justice
The idea behind Ulysess is great. What he represents, how he is tied to the courier, the way he is built up as a legendary figure where others pray for you when they hear you went to confront him, and the idea that one can a profound impact on someone else without even knowing it. The problem is in the execution. The dialogue gets pretty heavy-handed and long-winded after a while, to the point you're tempted to just start skipping because you already know what he's getting at. I thought the final confrontation was really good a fitting conclusion for two legendary couriers. It's just that after a while, he clearly loves hearing himself talk a little too much.
I can't really understand him beyond him droning on and on and on _and on_ about bulls and bears.
He’s just a worse version of Kreia
Fun fact about bounties 3, it recognizes if you have custom followers with you, and KILLS THEM when you reach that part of the story. Marko even goes ahead and taunts you about it. I had a deathclaw companion from more perks- perkpack which got buried six feet under because of this sequence.
Were you that guy who posted that on like steam forums asking for help because of it 😂😂😂
I was using Willow when I first went through the mod and learned this the hard way lol. Funnily enough it made The Better Angels feel better for me, like I was looking for redemption for my gf dying along with everything that went down with Marko.
Thanks for the heads up.
@@Errow2281 what happens if you just in uninstall and reinstall custom companions?
@@kissmekatut You don't need to go that far. I tried NVB3 again a while later with Willow installed, and she survived just fine when I left her at the house in Novac the mod comes with. Didn't even need to dismiss her, so it should also work with other modded companions as well. Just don't take them with you and you'll be fine.
My favorite thing about killing The Judge is just how many different ways you can do it. You can go for the handshake, lie to him that you're hard of hearing so he has to lean in closer to you, and if you high enough strength you can break his neck. However in my recent run of the game I had the cannibal perk and had the option of TEARING OUT HIS THROAT with my fucking teeth. I love it so much
Holy shit that's amazing. I need to install and mod fnv just to do that.
That’s how I killed him the first time.
Wasn’t that how the mayor was killed in dark knight returns?
And the cannibal one is a TWD reference too
My favorite part about New Vegas Bounties 3, you can go out after the mod is finished, find Brookshire in the NCR Embassy, and either let him go, where he'll thusly disappear from the game, or just outright kill him, if if you don't give a flying fuck about your rep with the NCR. Killing him nets you nothing, except personal satisfaction and a note that tells you that he had been backed by the Syndicate in his endeavors.
That's such a sick detail wow i had no idea. Thanks for sharing
There is also a few other NPC's that show up in the Mojave post NVB3, like the super mutant bounty can be found in Jacobstown if he's let go, and he thanks you for letting him live, or how if you let the mail bomber live, while he won't appear himself, on one occasion an NCR Courier will arrive at the Strip, and will blow up when getting near the Embassy. That second one I'm not entirely sure on, as it has been some time since I last actually did Brookshire's jobs, but I remember it only occurring after completing NVB3
@@uhglylizard6454 holy shit! HOLY SHIT- this just answered something really weird that happened to me at Mojave Outpost. I was going to repair some armor and a random courier just exploded right outside it. I checked the note and it was all really vague. I figured it had something to do with the Syndicate but not the unabomber that's wild.
Yeah, I remember going into the NCR embassy to do something for Crocker when I saw Brookshare. Man it felt good giving his head some air conditioning with Sweet Revenge. And I got away with it too, had enough NCR rep to not be hated
9:38 actually New Vegas does do this but only a single time that I can remember. In Dead Money if you pass the 50 Barter check against Dean Domino he will ALWAYS turn hostile against you during the final act even if you make sure he's safe during the Gala event as he feels that you've disrespected him and hurt his massive ego. Josh Sawyer said that it was done to punish players who just mindlessly press the auto win button without actually reading what the dialouge says.
The someguy series mods are canon in my mind. Such a great series of mods
They truly do help build out the legend of the Courier
I've always considered them an extension of wild wasteland
Agree, a great filler content that make mojave deserts no longer empty.. although most hated NV Bounties 3.
That's when you know a story is good. When you make it your own canon
@@MrPikaGammer It did the courier being a legend better than The Frontier
Doc Fridays voice lines are missing because the voice acting didn't finished all of them and was just gone (Iirc) and Someguy didn't want to replace him, left it open when he comes back.. which never happened I guess
I had no idea!! Wow alright. What a shame
@@ramblelime it's the same reason esther's voice lines in nvb 3 are unvocied. her actoress jsut disappeared on him after voiceing the chracter in nvb 2.
@@ramblelime mikeburnfire actually did a mod to add these voice lines in, it ain't perfect, but hey, its something
@@megamike15 That is messed up..
@@megamike15 Nunn. N. Bbb.
The Inheritance is also supposed to take place/be played after NVB2's main quest since it came out afterwards, so the character worship by that point is even more forgivable
I do think you missed a chunk with the Sand Wolves. For one Russel himself is sympathetic to them and tries to defend them a few times. Two is a holotape you can find in a cave ((dont remember where)) from a Follower of the Apocalypse who met with the Sand Wolves and when NCR settlers came fearing the worst turned the largely non hostile Sand Wolves into warmongers telling them the NCR was there to kill them all. Do I think they should have been fleshed out more? Yes 100% I absolutely love all the tribal stuff on Fallout. However I do think those were important details that should have been mentioned.
f****** I'm going to have to kill the followers aren't I they keep turning the nice tribals into warmongering monsters
a follower leading tribes against the NCR, where have I seen that before :)
IIRC Someguy did originally have an ending where you killed Glanton and saved the sand wolves at the expense of the town, but he eventually removed it for reasons I can’t remember
@@pokemaster123ism he was having issues with the GECK, something about scripting breaking between the diverging quest path, and said, "okay, fuck it. Good enough"
The whole Blood Meridian tie in with the stories was pretty nice for a new vegas setting. Tho itd be cool if you could run with the Glanton gang like the kid then get betrayed
I *thought* that's what "Glanton" was referring to, that's awesome! So there's quest moments related to the story of the novel?
@@jordanromesburg6819 theres for sure characters named after some ones from the book
I came here to comment exactly this. I absolutely wasn’t expecting multiple Cormac McCarthy references in a Fallout NV mod.
I feel like "indigenous" isn't the correct word for most fallout tribals. They're not any more indigenous than anyone else.
It's the way of the the Leaf, they must be absolute cucked in at least some way at all times.
Yeah- "tribal" and "indigenous" are totally different terms. They just happen to coincide in the case of native americans.
I like how PVB and HH do the presentation of tribes being just more victims of the apocalypse like you. It makes you understand that as the reason the New Canaanites protect them in spite of their backwards beliefs.
@@Otterdisappointment Hey, I know you mean well here-- but I would be careful about saying beliefs of an ethnicity are backwards. Obviously these are fictional characters, so there's no real harm done, but beliefs about fiction often bleed over into real life, so it's best to keep cultural relativity in practice irl AND elsewhere.
@@ceasarsalazar5940 Jeez, you politely responded so hard his comment doesn’t exist anymore!
'Tribals' in Fallout are only as 'indigenous' as anyone else after the apocalypse. They're not necessarily native Americans/first Nations, in-lore they are literally just tribes of people who banded together post-great war. IIRC the tribes in Zion in the Honest Hearts DLC are descended partly from European tourists.
Right, nobody ever criticized the White Legs tribe and they're practically the same in regards of violence. The towns people don't hate the Sand Wolves because of their tribalism or their "race". They hate them because of how they savagely brutalize everyone that isn't them. It's a good video but he should keep his white guilt to himself since it's not even warranted to the story.
in HH iirc the Sorrows were decendants of kids who escaped Think Tanks experiments in Big MT, so probbably kids of/would be Chinese first generatiom immigrants, Dead Horses dont really have any explanation so it would be reasonable to say they were just a buch of people who formed a tribe around Dead Horse point
@@comradesam3382 Pretty sure Joshua said the Dead Horses come from "The Res" which is basically the Navajo Nation. From the wiki: "The Res is based on the real-world Navajo Indian Reservation, which was renamed to the Navajo Nation on April 15, 1969. Like its in-game counterpart, it is located to the east of the Grand Canyon and attracts many tourists." "He tells the Courier that he believes the Dead Horses tribe members were originally refugees from Res, and that their language is a combination of their own and that of travelers who were visiting when the Great war occured." Also, I disagree with you saying tribals are descended from europeans. They're basically Native Americans/First Nations descendant. We literally teach French, Spanish and German on the Navajo Nation today; and many natives speak their tribe's language and english along with Spanish or German/French. We're required to take classes for speaking Navajo. It's not a stretch to say the natives from that area just survived and continued using the navajo language in combination with the other languages which formed the language we hear the Dead Horses speak. We should also recognize that Native Americans have already gone through near apocalyptic plagues and genocide on a scale unseen and still managed to recognizably survive and keep their cultures. If anyone is prepared to keep their culture alive through a Nuclear war, I'd say it's them, even with the odds stacked against them.
It doesn't matter if they really are "indigenous" to the region or not, what matters is their presentation; their language, clothing, weapons, all of it is clearly meant to allude to and be a representation of real-life Native American groups. They're more or less a stand-in for real Indigenous groups that live in the Southwest United States.
@@Bister_Mungle at least Navajo keep their language alive. There are so few speakers of Sioux dialects that it is almost pointless to even learn it when less than 100k people speak it with any sort of proficiency
Hope you'll review th3overseer's mods too in the future. And I hope that someguys' next mod 'Big in Vegas' will come out soon
I love this
I haven’t heard of them I’m somewhat new to modding on New Vegas and wow there is a lot of mods so it’s not surprising I’m still learning about mods I’ve never heard of any other good recommended quest mods?
someguys' next mod 'Big in Vegas'??
@@White_Tiger93 ?
Someguy is modding again??
The Bobby Bass tape is incredible. Love the bewildered look at the length of the tape. "That last guy had something going on with babies, and hatches, and-" 🤣
Nice analysis. Now here's some thoughts as a guy who followed this series way more than he should have. 1. In regards to the language, iirc Someguy said in an interview it's a verbal tic he took after his grandfather, who he mentions having sweared allot. 2. One of the big reasons Bounties 3 suffers is because it's pretty much a bare bones mod he made because he felt obligated to finish it. Marko was supposed to have more depth, and the mod would have had a way to save the town by doing some pretty horrible stuff. And there would have been an ending where you meet Marko YEARS after NV as a dying old man with the option to kill him or not. Instead we got what we got. You mention alot how modders tend to quit after a few projects, Bounties 3 almost made Someguy quit and he's since admitted it's probably his worst. 3 (you thought we were done?). While the funny tape with Bobby is a moment I love, it also has a bittersweetness to it. Towards the end he mentions heading to The Commonwealth which was supposed to set up a Someguy series for Fallout 4. But he was one of the many who was disappointed in it, and found the modding very limited. Which sucks considering most of the problems he listed have since been fixed by modders, but by the time they came out it seems modders stopped caring. Someguy did mention a while ago he was contemplating making a "season 2" in NV focusing on the Syndicate, but this IS coming from the guy who still hasn't finished his Skyrim series nearly a decade after the first part, so who knows if it will happen. In conclusion, this mod series is amazing simply because of how much of a bedrock it is for modding as a whole. It would be interesting to see what quest mods today would look like if it was never made.
That is the biggest tragedy of Fallout 4. It's so shit that many modders lost the inspiration to make it better.
@@WSBM14 Yeah, and those that tried were too late. Even though there are ways to make dialogue not four versions of yes, and bringing the old UI, it came out at a time when everyone lost motivation. Even some of the few quest mods that come out in a blue moon don't use those tools because they are basically forgotten cause no one pays attention to mods that aren't big tit presets, or settlement overhauls.
I agree, but still waiting for the Firebase Zulu mod though from him if he still working on it.. really missed his stuff dude.
@@White_Tiger93 I think you should forget about Firebase Zulu ever happening. That mod burned him out big time and I don't think he's inclined to return to it.
@@Krisars Yeah. Iirc it was that mod and NVB3 that almost made him retire due to how difficult there development was.
For the record, the story also seems to forget Tom Quigley, seeing as he was crazy and had a note that showed he intended to murder his wife due to the syphilis. Also, I can appreciate a fellow Bobby Bass enjoyer, man's a riot.
His wife and children are in Bounties III, 38:03
@@DefinitelyNotATrolldier Yeah, they are. But the story treats him like he was a Noble mobster when he's got a holotape that's utter nonsense but basically amounts to wanting to kill his wife.
@@DefinitelyNotATrolldier yeah, but the game treats your murder of Tom as if he was completely innocent. As if he only did what he did to get food on the table. You can't tell them that he was crazy and actually tried to murder his wife.
@@zoltanbojan8035 I feel like even Someguy2000 forgot that, after all, he had made many mods before Bounties III, there's details he'd miss, he's only human.
All of his mods are currently being remastered by Roy Batty and his team (not TTW) with finished VA from the original actors mostly and a lot of stuff revoiced and bug fixed.
Interesting. Do you have a link to the anouncement?
@@Guymanbot97 It's been discussed on the TTW server as well as the Nexus forums. You can find the thread about keeping the British VA for one of the characters on the nexus forums, Hermit posted it.
@@ScottyBrockway I see. Found it after a bit of digging since I'm not in too deep in modding forums. I look forward to it.
@@Guymanbot97 Can I get a link to that little evidence? I can't find it.
@@alalvarez7301 It was for a voice acting call, although there was a recent Someguy bug fix mod that had authour of said mod ask if he could use the mod as a basis to speed up the process
I thought your criticism of the Sand Wolves' treatment was pretty on-point for the most part, but I was surprised you didn't mention the diary entries that are scattered around that give more insight into their culture and history, explaining why they act as hostile as they do. It's not as good as it could be, but they definitely aren't entirely devoid of depth.
It's easier to not do that for the review.
@@gofuckthyself420 come on man, you seriously think he's fabricating stuff? For a Fallout review?
@@jamesmeow3039 yes lol. Even if he didn't he chose to either not include that or he wasn't fully researching what he was reviewing. Which is worse.
@@gofuckthyself420 missing out misc notes is an error I suppose but not one that's particularly relevant. The Sand Wolves are still portrayed 1 dimensionally despite what diaries most players miss says
@@jamesmeow3039 so your ignoring the lore so you can say that? The sand wolves and the town are in a turf war. You went to the town and have connections to the town, why would the sand wolves talk to you? Let alone give you lore dumps. Ofc the townspeople are going to act like the "tribals" are all savages becuse turf war. If you go to Ukraine and ask them about the Russians they'll say similar things as the townsfolk, becuse war.
Great breakdown and analysis. Thumbs up! UnshavenOne (voice actor of Titus Vulcanus, Mathers and Red Bear).
My biggest confusion on the Ulysses hate is the complaint of "he talks to much and too long" HE'S LITERALLY THE ONLY MAJOR CHARACTER YOU TALK TO IN THE ENTIRE DLC, IF HE WASN'T LONG WINDED THEN THERE'D BARELY BE ANY DIALOGUE IN THE DLC. Not to mention his dialogue length is less than half than the combined Big Mountain Scientists dialogue length.
The scientists are funny in a campy pulp novel sort of way.
the difference is that Ulysses' dialogue isn't just a lot, its dense. Everything he talks about has weight to the point where it gets so figuratively heavy its exhausting - like a massive exposition dump. The Think Tank's dialogue and the overall story of OWB is relatively light and unchallenging. Remember that Ulysses is carrying the weight of all three other DLCs, plus the main campaign on his shoulders. Every single story to this point was leading up to this encounter between the two couriers. I'm also assuming youre combining ALL think tank dialogue into one, right? Not really fair. They are 5 different characters, each with their own cadence, tone and flavor. Ulysses speaks dryly and in a very monotonous, hostile way. I love Ulysses to death, this is just my take on why people probably dislike him. Its a combination of dry, coldness. Something that doesnt feel justified.
its not that he talks too much, its that what he says is really stupid and annoying. With the Big Mountian scientists its treated more as a meme than an actual problem because those are well written
Because Ulysses motivation is stupid. He's basing this monumental decision and attempting to wipe out everyone he can over an accident. He then monologues self righteously for 15+ minutes everytime he takes over ED-E. If the final dialogue box didn't have a shut up and fight option he'd monologue even longer. People think he's some deep and interesting character because he has a gravelly voice in the most brown dlc of the brown game in the first real ending of a serious game they've ever played, and he's just a dingus. The ending is a less harsh van Buren ending because obsidian wanted to shoe horn it in.
I feel like while Someguy has regrets over the Sand Wolves Portrayal, how it is, how they are portrayed as being utterly and totally hostile, nearly animalistic, paired against both Glanton's brutalism against "savages" and the town's venomous hate against the sandwolves shows a weird but great dynamic of everyone being wrong for the right reasons? You and your Pal Russel here seem to be the only human souls amongst the lot of these groups in carruthers canyon. It's a turning of fallout dynamics on it's head again, similarly to the Bradley "fight" in the inheritance bunker. The Sandwolves, not all tribes, but them really are utterly hostile. they are still human. Same for the NCR settlers in the town. No one is correct, all are wrong, and they have credible reasons for thinking and acting how they do. Both the Sandwolves and Glanton kill infants. Silverpeak is full of bigotry brought on through fear, but it's credible fear, and they're the most "innocent" among the groups there. I feel like its supposed to be a no-win scenario, you try to make it out as "best" as you can, which i think is not siding with Glanton, and helping the town to fight the legion, which then gives Russel, your friend, some peace at the end as he faces off against his centurion tormentor. This was a lot of rambling just to say i understand your feelings on the Sandwolves but it's a good portrayal of brutalism in the west, Blood Meridian style, but from it, and this whole excursion, your friend Russell does find some measurement of self improvement. His name is the Mod afterall.
Totally agree. edit: oh, and it's absolutely intended to be a no-win scenario, it's not the only time he's done that.
It's based off Cormac McCarthy's novel "Blood Meridian" and the real, historical "Glanton gang" who killed thousands of indigenous people in northern Mexico and southwestern USA. The mod does not condemn Manifest Destiny, imperialism, and genocide as much as the book does. I think someguy may have read the novel and wasn't able to translate it's political/social commentary, and the mod ended up the way it was as a result.
@@UberSchluh I know it has basis in Blood Meridian, that's why I made the comparison. And while it doesn't have a one to one correlation in terms of practice, the message is still the same. Condemnation of manifest destiny but a equal condemnation of what one can equate, in simple terms, to savagery. McCarthy is against Manifest Destiny, but then gets to it's root, that anyone or thing can be capable and has shown to be capable of "that". Greed and savagery and violence and "evil". It's the same in the mod, The sandwolves are having their land being encroached upon, yes, but Silverpeak DID try diplomacy and it didn't work, it was met with brutalism, and such evil begets evil begets evil and so on and so forth, the role of the player and Russell is the intention to stop that cycle, but in the end, instead of putting the entire world on your shoulders, you put an end to the PERSONAL "cycle of evil" that has harmed Russell for a large portion of his life, his slavery and torture and his disillusionment.
@@captainscowllyface Very true! Its been sometime since I played the mod and I had not considered the affinities between the Courier/Russell and the Kid. In the novel, once the Judge becomes the de facto leader, violence begets violence not for sake of monetary gain but for sake of violence itself, 'War is God' and all that. Arguably this was already in place with Glanton, but it reaches its apex in the final third of the novel. What I do not think the mod can recreate, possibly due to its position in the larger world of New Vegas, is the idea that the Judge is some universal constant of violence, a self-correcting system of bloodlust that covers everything in existence. Look at the end of the novel, and the final interaction with the Judge and the Kid: if this had some equivalent in the mod, I doubt many would have liked it. Perhaps the fact that the ideal solution is unattainable is the closest means of rendering that affect. The idea that the NCR, seeking to recreate the structural and institutional aspects of the USA, will fall into the same issues, is very pronounced in the base game. Even their interactions with the Great Khans could arguably be making the same statement regarding indigenous groups, although the Great Khans differ from Fallout 'tribes' in several ways. I think it would be interesting to see this mod remade with more attention paid to the issues discussed in the video and comments. However, since New Vegas quest mods will be expected to function in the larger narrative of the base game (hence why recreating the end of Blood Meridian is untenable), a one-to-one correlate of the novel's thematic sequence is unlikely to take place.
@@UberSchluh I think In a way it would be worse if it did correlate so accurate and closely, it is more an echo or reference then a full on adaptation, such as their already being "The Judge" at the end of Bounties 1, and they are not some vaguely supernatural, semi omnipotent force like the novel, but still a very evil, stalwart, monster of a man. I feel Russell's ending is for the Better with all things considered. The vagueness at it's end I think holds to it a great weight, not just as a correlation to blood meridian, but it's play on fallout ideals and practices. There is no clean way to complete Russell. You can't talk the sandwolves down, you can't convince Silverpeak to give up, nor can the legion be avoided. Violence will occur, there is no peaceful option that much of New Vegas can cater towards. Someguy2000 has done a lot of subversion of fallout practices in his works. In that way, I think the ending is great. You sorta just scraped by, it wasn't clean no matter what your options were for glanton or Silverpeak, but you and Russell for our of there, and you and he are better for it.
I personally don't have much of a problem with the whole "imperialism" thing. it's actually quite interesting to me, because nobody really bats an eye at immediately hostile "raider" groups (or vault dwellers or townspeople or "boomers" etc), with no further nuance. it's only problematic when these npcs get renamed to "tribals". which in the world of fallout carries basically 0 weight in-universe. every faction in the game is tribalistic. the only real weight it carries is the players own drawn parallels between the tribal depicted in the game in their own context, and the "indigenous" peoples/cultures in our world and history. in game, they have the; same on-sight aggression. same lack of reason to explain the immediate hostility, besides the surmiseable "it's the apocalypse". so really, it's more of a critique based on your own realworld sensibilities, than based on anything presented to you in-game. which is absolutely understandable and perfectly fine to feel that way, of course, but levied as a criticism? I'm not sure that's particularly fair. That aside, fantastic analysis, and cool to find out you're a fellow Canadian! I've been binge watching your videos today, and i thought i heard a bit of the accent in a few instances!
Bobby Bass is incredibly underrated. Seriously some of the best dialog ive ever seen in a game or mod
I don't want it to seem like I'm casting aspersions, but... it's hard to _not_ notice the similarities between Bobby Bass and Roy Sullivan from the Eliza mod. I'm not saying so-and-so copied what's-his-nuts, because both Bass and Sullivan are depictions of a character archetype. Still, the similarities between the two characters are un-missable. heh
I'd recommend trying autumn leaves next. Its probably the only quest mod you can complete without firing a single shot. As for the sand wolves, I'd recommend checking some of the caves in the russel new world space, you might just find an interesting journal.
Russell doesn't even remotely imply colonialist extermination is okay, even if it would have definitely benefited from greater interaction with the sand wolves prior to the legion attack. The town being treated as resoundingly unpleasant and Russell (himself a victim first of Legion imperialism and then later the NCR's) stabbing the mayor to death before leaving in disgust aren't mild context clues. Plus, yknow, Glanton being named after an infamous historical scalphunter.
And a character from Cormac McCarthy's novel Blood Meridian along side The Judge.
This video is actually a dream come true for me, I've always wanted to see someone analyze the themes of these mods (or quest mods in general) and also how they fit into the game as a whole. It feels like all of these old quest mods were only really reviewed for their gameplay and not really discussed for anything deeper. I've wanted to make my own reviews in this style for a long while, but this is a lot better than what I had in mind! I thought this video was great, I really liked your perspective on this series and I really hope to see you tackle some other older mods that have gone untouched over the years! (Beyond Boulder Dome comes to mind.)
Thank you so much!!!! You should make those videos! One of the things I worried about the most when I started was doing something someone else had already done. My first (now deleted) video was around an idea that someone had made and uploaded only a few days before mine. That creator and I connected, and we both learned a lot from each others' takes on the idea. Every person is different and as such every person will make different videos, even if on the same topic. Thank you again for such a thoughtful and kind comment :) EDIT: i'm working on two projects at the moment, and one of them may or may not be boulder dome... maybe.
Oh no i killed this womans husband...... you mean the crazy raider sniper.... ya no #3 gets way to self rightuous.
Interestingly, NV proper does have some ways to "fail" by succeeding skill checks. Pretty infamously, succeeding a barter check when you meet Dean Domino at the beginning of Dead Money will instill in him the same narcissistic psycho-grudge he had for Sinclair and he'll try and murder you when he gets the chance later for acting "better" than him. There's not much way to know this will happen, though - it only becomes clear as you find out more about Dean and the Sierra Madre that his neurosis makes him incredibly vindictive over real or imagined slights.
Then there’s passing a 55 speech check in the quest young hearts.
I mean yeah the people in the town refer to the Sand Wolves in horrible terms, but the mod makes it pretty clear it is because they've both screwed each other over the past couple of years and are pretty much in a state of constant warfare. The raided farmstead outside the town has several notes detailing their interactions with the tribe. If anything it's fitting that they both hate each other.
and you find a note by a fallower where he is so terriified about what the ncr are gonna do to the sand wolves when they find out there are silver in the mines.
Someguy series have never left my load order. my character's story starts with New California and ends with the Someguy2k series.
The thing I hate the most about NVB3 Is the fact that I'm being judged for actions I had no choice for in NVB1, I get 2 because I had a choice there so fair enough, but for NVB1 I could only kill.And also I hate the fact that you can murk marko and then the game is like " lol courier got shit kicked in, everyone think he coward and dumb and weak and stupid and dumb enjoy the end " though without those issues decent mod.
Fr he was really that unwilling to let's his character look weak in any way and it forces your character into been obsessed with thier "legend" Not forgetting most of your targets are the most evil people that could exist
18:26 that’s actually a reference to “al sweargengen” a historical figure and a character from the show deadwood which had a lot of cussing in it as well
Yeah, except he's not nearly as good a writer as the guys from Deadwood, so it just comes off as a cheap imitation. The swearing in Deadwood is downright poetic and is woven into the iambic pentameter.
It's Fallout, there are a lot of people who talk terrible about other people, mostly because they are terrible people themselves. And honestly, there are so many one dimensional enemy groups in the game, why can't there be one indigenous tribe which is also one-dimensional? It's so 202X that people don't seem to see that NEVER showing certain groups as straight out bad guys is just about as prejudiced as the other way around. Those guys are merciless MoFos, just like the Cannibal tribe in Bone Tomahawk. There are sometimes rotten apples, coming even from the best tree. And that you help the guy in the mining town, doesn't mean you agree with his rhetoric. Given the actions taken by the enemies, you have no other choice. The absurd thing is, that if this was regular raiders or the Legion we were talking about, no one would bat an eye, but make it indigenous people, and you all start crying.
This is so good one of the best analyses of the Someguy mods I have ever seen
So far the only Someguy I've actually played is King of the Ring. After seeing youtubers fail to beat it without cheating, or even fail to beat it with moderate cheating. It's challenging, but nowhere near impossible with an actual unarmed build (Piercing strike, Stonewall, Super Slam, Slayer, Unstoppable force) and the right non-melee perks (Rad Child, Toughness, NEMEAN subdermal armor)
I managed to beat it by using implant GRX and wailing on them while circle strafing
my palms were sweaty when i walked in to the cementery at the end of NVBIII, was hyped af
26:07 virgin doesn't understand that power armour is cool
Didnt have time to watch the whole thing - does he ever realize that Blood meridian heavily inspired 90% of the NVB writing?
No, he's a mid-wit who can't bother to read the _in game_ notes that flesh out characters and factions, why would he pick up on that?
Crazy fact about Russel that makes me sad: you can actually find a note in the Sand Sharks' village from one of the tribe's elders, and it turns out: the mayor was lying. They weren't a bunch of savages who refused to negotiate, he never even tried. Glanton was able to talk them into bringing out all their most vulnerable people because they blindly trusted him -- a stranger. They killed people because the mayor was aggressing against them for territory, and the reason they were taking the kids is because they didn't want to kill them but didn't know another way. What a narrative difference a single note can make. 😢
Look into blood meridian, it's a legendary book about a gang of native killers called the glanton gang I believe this is a reference to it
10:28 I agree that skill or special checks shouldn't always be auto win button but [Taunt] dialogue isn't a special or skill check, it's obvious a fight option, NV already has [Attack] dialogue so I don't think that's a good example. A good example would be if it was speech check and you got punished for trying to bad mouth a boss.
Complains about people who "have the worst takes on the internet". Proceeds to rant about his awful take.
One thing i found interesting in the inheritance is, when those fiends kidnap the kid, there is a secret ending to it. Spoilers. If you complete all the bounty quest for the NCR to kill the fiend leaders. you can pass a speech check with the fiends who grabbed the kid and get them to leave without giving them caps, or the kid dying.
The best thing these mods achieved was to establish that it's possible to have interwoven stories across multiple entries with varying effects on gameplay based on decisions previously made. personally I think _th3overseer_ produced the more enjoyable series but Someguy2000's work cannot be ignored since it inspired much of what came along later. In terms of fitting in with the story of New Vegas, the series can be mostly integrated since the base game already lends itself to embracing the life of a bounty hunter. You have places like Primm which need a sheriff to bring law and order back to the streets and in North Vegas you have to help out the settlement in order to find out information about a missing person. Then there's checking on Nipton, freeing slaves in Cottonwood Cove and even solving a territorial dispute between the NCR and Jacobstown. The game was _built_ for roleplaying the post-western bounty hunter!
I view theoverseer as directly inspired by Someguy2000 but with a much better understanding of the game engine, and having far more resources available in the modding scene that someguy200 simply had no access to.
@@zacharyfeldman6822 I feel the writing is somewhat better too, but that sort of falls off with Depths of Depravity. I enjoy both series.
@@kushanblackrazor6614 to each thier own i consider dephs his best work.
this is an incredibly stellar retrospective, this felt like how alotta the way I felt about these into word and i'm so glad to see someone's done that. your passion and love that's clearly poured into this analysis is just great to see.
Great video, I love what you do here, highlighting amazing mods. One criticism I have is how you glossed over New Vegas Killer. You pointed out how that one tape in NVB3 was hilarious, well he is the Randall quest giver of New Vegas Killer. He is by far the funniest fictional character in any game or mod. More people need to know about Bobby Bass!
The way you describe Russell's companion mod reminded me of what I loved about The Outer World's DLCs so much. Both Peril On Gorgan and Murder On Edinos had a similar kinda feel that I just soaked up as much as I could of
Christ, you went off the deep end in the middle there.
Its been an absolute joy going through your long Fallout New Vegas videos. Hope to see even more!
If you liked that recording you should've gone for the New Vegas Killer mod as well. Another small tidbit i liked is the whole point with "Sweet Revenge" having a unique dialogue choice with Marco in the final confrontation. And yes i suppose the locale was supposed to be a Western homage, of the highest kind of homages. (too much of a homage of The Good the Bad and the Ugly.
I carried Sweet Revenge ever since I completed Bounties 1 and when I found out that Marko actually recognized Randall's piece before I used it to paint the snow with him was a mind blowing touch for a single NV mod
I always forget that this channel only has around 5k subscribers because the quality of your video essays are on par with channels with 100s of thousands of subs, this is absolutely one of my favorite series on youtube and I always look forward to seeing new videos from you! I know for a fact your channel is going to blow up at some point!!
I appreciate that a ton. I've got a long way to go, but that being said, I've also got a lot more mods to go through. Thank you for your support ♥️
First video I stumbled on of yours, this content is amazing. Thanks so much for detailing this kind of stuff, your coverage and analysis is great!
I just started watching this channel last night and I adore your videos! I love how you address your topics with nuance and research, and I appreciate how you put your proverbial money where your mouth is when acknowledging the plight of indigenous peoples. You're definitely one of my favorite essayists and I appreciate the work you put into each of your videos!
the voice acting for bradley was god tier loved every second of The Inheritance
I was so sad when he died, not the best voice-acted character in the series 😭
Why are you conflating fallout's tribals with indigenous americans?
It's cuz he's Canadian, and Canadians LOVE self-flaggelating about the aboriginals, even if they've done them no harm themselves.
@@Green-Raccoon777of course it's a leaf.
@@passingrando6457 "A fucking Leaf! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"
Because he's a Canadian leftist with massive white guilt
Really well thought-out content you're producing out of this channel. Keep up the good work!
While I was playing NVB2, I saw parallels between the sand wolves and the Comanche tribe, especially with how the towns-people viewed and feared them. The sand-wolves acts of brutality seem to mirror that of the Comanche, a tribe known for being incredibly hostile to not just white and Spanish/Mexican settlers, but also neighboring tribes. I'm not sure if someguy2000 purposely took inspiration FROM the Comanche tribe, but I still think it's an interesting thought.
Well, the author took LOTS of movie tropes from wild west movies
@@randomstranger9442 Definitely, I remember seeing more than a few direct references to westerns. My favorite western, Unforgiven, was referenced in NVB2. The whole thing with the sand-wolves could be from any number of westerns. If I remember correctly, the Comanche were featured heavily in The Searchers.
the sand wolves could have been someguys takes on the white legs. like how russel is boone and doc friday can be seen as raul.
@@garrisonjohnston1355 Josey Wales maybe. Considering NVBIII's final area is literally just the grave from TGTBTU, I have a feeling SomeGuy is more of an Eastwood Guy
They're based on the Indians from the Blood Meridian, WHICH is based off of the Comanche, so you're not far off.
Bowdrie: "You're dumber than you look, kid. Did you really expect to get the drop on a seasoned Ranger?" (A pre-positioned force of Boone, Russell, Hope Lies, and Eliza, along with myself and Mole Rat, all open fire on Bowdrie and his two pals with suppressed Marlin 1894s) Me: "That's the rumor."
lol For real, I always had my companions surround the shack behind cover and lure him into a trap
You gave him the John Marston death lol
> Molerat a true man of culture
Man, this guy sounds like he wrote for the Frontier. EDIT: I'm talking about the video creator, not Someguy
just found your channel recently, your an absolute stud mate and ive loved all your content ive seen so far
Love the channel! Great stuff, so sad I haven’t found your stuff sooner.
Bobby Bass goes hard. Bobby Bass is literally just a stand-up routine disguised as a character in a mod and I love it so much. ah around 41:08 we get a sliver of Bobby Bass' wonderful routine. Love to hear it. :)
Bobby Bass is canon to me and always will be. Motherfucker, he WALKED!
Between you either missing, or intentionally omitting notes from Russell's mod that would completely invalidate your takes on how the sand wolves are portrayed, intentionally misleading people by claiming that the mod says that colonialism is good actually, and the weird diatribe halfway through about people LARPing as the Enclave or Liberty Prime, I can tell that while you clearly enjoyed the series, you have about as much media literacy as your average twitter user. It's almost unbelievable that you could've missed some of the plot points that you have, which leads me to believe you purposely left them out to spin a narrative. So you're either lazy, and didn't do the bare minimum of playing through the mods fully, ie. reading the notes that contain massive chunks of lore, or you're maliciously spinning them to suit your worldview, and I can't really decide which is worse.
These mods were some of my favourites when i played them a few years ago - really amazing work.
I love your channel, I'm going through all of your videos. The Fallout vids are especially great
I don't think there's a problem with how the Sand Wolves are portrayed. Even in the world of Fallout, there have been tribes that are essentially evil. The White Legs, for instance, just go around raiding and killing because they're incapable of living off the land. The most you can do in Honest Hearts is show mercy to their leader, but they aren't a nuanced group by any means. The White Glove Society is a group of reformed cannibalistic tribals who used to drag people underground to eat them, and the Omertas were once a tribe known as the Slither Kin (yes, like literal fucking backstabbing snakes) whose whole gimmick was inviting hapless travelers to feast with them before drugging and either murdering or enslaving them. If anything the lack of nuance with the Sand Wolves is more of a missed opportunity than anything actually offensive. In the world of Fallout there are good tribes and there are bad tribes, and the Sand Wolves fall into the latter category.
I personally hate Virgil, because his whole "You should feel like a monster" schtick is predicated on me feeling bad... for killing psychopathic murderers. It is certainly tragic that Dana is so far down on her luck, but it isn't my fault Quigley was killing people and got a bounty put on his head. That's how all of his (and, y'know, Markos) shaming feels. Stupid, but he's clearly supposed to seem intelligent, literate, like Dutch if Dutch was straight up evil instead of prancing around like western Robin Hood.
Wow... I was gonna go down memory lane and watch some of his old videos then I stumble across this kingshit! To think I found all of the good video-essayists on this platform before this video. You, good sir, have earned yourself a subscriber.
Great video! Never got to play the someguy series but I definitely will now.
I consider the someguy series more canonical than fallout 4 and 76
Facts! As much as I love FO4 gameplay wise (especially taking over settlements in Nuka World!) The story absolutely sucks ass (except Far Harbour which is _decent)_
Amazing analysis! One thing I would like to add though is a little bit of a defense for Marko. I think Marko is interesting because he's a deeply personal antagonist for the Courier. Other villains in the series are motivated by money or power but Marko specifically hates you for killing his brother, as you hate him for killing Randall.
marco becomes intresting if you look at him not believing the stuff that comes out of his mouth. he is playing the role of the big evil villain type. he is just pissed you killed his brother he was gonna retire before you killed sergio.
@@megamike15 yeah, I can see that. He's just trying to say the things he thinks will throw you off most
You proved his point. Marko isn't interesting, you just want to kill him. He serves no other purpose.
I agree I just wish you could counter him more on alot of the crap he spouts about legends and theatrics as when I play my Courier that isn't how he is he doesn't care about "His Legend" as thats something that other people have built around him so when Virigil is doing his speeches about Marko to the guys he's there to kill I just cut him short and kill them. Same when you meet Marko proper later on there's no I don't care about the dam Legends and your theater.
@@nokachi3339 If a villain can evoke those feelings from the player, whether they are "interesting" or not is irrelevant.
I love a series about a mod author like this. I was only aware the new Vegas bounties but some guy but I need to check out more. Some nostalgia for mods like these, crazy it's getting close to a decade since I first played them.
His series of mods along with the the north road and depths of depravity from a different modder to me always felt like they could belong easily in the game and I rarely play without them installed.
That tangent about tribals and fans of the Enclave really came outta left field and broke my focus on the video almost immediately. I get you may have gripes with certain themes, characters or fans. And you can voice them reasonably like you otherwise have. But try not to get overly emotional about it.
On the subject of auto-picking the "bracketed" skill option, Disco Elysium is one of the only other games I've seen do this and I love it. In that game, the "skills" you pick are basically parts of your personality, and you quickly learn that just because a part of you recognized there's something you could say... Doesn't mean you SHOULD. A lot of times just giving into that one part of yourself whenever it comes up actively makes things worse, sometimes giving you additional insight for your trouble but other times giving you useless info or nothing at all. It's great, and now I want to play these mods.
the ending hit me hard. because i did lonesome road and sacrificed ED-E to disarm the missiles i then went to primm to repair the broken down ED-E. and i went to face Marko with both Russell and ED-E. that was a mistake because he kills any companions that you bring to Utah
I will disagree on two points: the introductory part of Bounties 3 with Virgil, and the combat. Killing people does have indirect and direct consequences, but what exactly is his point or is that literally the point? Should I try to predict the indirect consequences and ameliorate them? Should I pay attention afterwards and try to fix the problems it causes? At what point is something no longer an indirect result? Are we going to ignore that there are people directly responsible for what we indirectly caused, and are we going to ignore that the people murdered were likely going to do worse things directly than the indirect things pointed out? Should we not do anything unless we understand the outcomes or are able to fix any indirect consequences? What lesson does Virgil want me to learn or is this just guilt tripping? For combat, the massive amount of enemies was just not fun. I slogged through so many contracts that required me to kill like a hundred dudes and then the contract completed. I really enjoyed the sections where you were able to talk with the contract and learn something about them though. Unfortunately, that was not most contracts.
He's guilt tripping you and testing your resolve. Marko is a liar with a history of playing with his food.
@@MarilynMalkovich I figured it was guilt tripping. The problem is that it's nonsensical guilt tripping for basically anyone, and so it falls flat.
I agree hard with your first point and would have loved dialogue to call him out and an option to kill "Virgil" in the Mojave and either end the quest there or you finding your way to Utah on your own and dealing with the surprise that Virgil was Marko all along
sorry but i couldn't like the video after your analysis of sand wolves and imperialism, its completly wrong and you missed the point of everything, im not trying to sound mean but please ignore your american black and white views on imperialism and stuff so you can get the bigger picture, neither town nor sand wolves are good or bad, that indian thing after analysis was completly uneeded and felt like you're trying to be good guy while someguy is bad guy that vouches for imperialism, be more open minded please. PS: darn shame you didn't menton the Red Bear bounty, probably the best bounty and side quest of the mods, highly recommend it.
Fun fact: Steven Randall is a reference to the 1950s Western show "Wanted Dead Or Alive", starring Steve McQueen as "Joshua Randall", a bounty hunter who frequently uses his earnings to help desperate or less fortunate people.
Someguy loves his (Actor's first name) (character's surname) character references. Tom Quigley, the first bounty, is likewise a reference to Tom Selleck and Quigly Down Under.
Dam man epic video have to say you hit the nail on the head with the last bit at the end 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
i mean this series of mods was good enough that i literally had my own irl character arc over revenge lmao, realising that the whole story is about the courier taking on Randalls revenge acting it out to its logical and very bloody conclusion, i mean i killed every bounty avoiding conversations with the likes of the judge, zimmer, and Sergio - opting to taunt them so theyd fight me - right up until New Vegas Bounties 3 and characters like Porter or Doolin. I know it feels an obvious revelation - but for a mod to be so well written that it makes me actually reflect on how my actions as the player escalated a conflict that i could have possibly avoided if i had not been so mad abt the supposed death of Randal in new vegas bounties and the situation with Zimmer in the Inhereitance, i can only imagine the amazing work Someguy could do if he had a whole dev team and funding at his disposal
and also god i wanted to blow virgils head off the fist time i met him, by the end of the mod i was so mad lmao
Bro the Enclave is literally fascist. I can't even
The Enclave is fascist but there are two points to be made. It gets people like this guy to shriek because he is unironically malding over some guys having a laugh and two there is a legitimate problem with the whole "Enclave Bad" meme. It's not really all the Enclave have to be and it's silly how these people think the Enclave is only "fascist". The average rank and file soldier doesn't like the high command but value the idea of a return of the US way of life.
When i played this series for the first time i was so determined to avenge Randall that i forgot that the mod wasn't part of the base game
Hot damn. Nice video. I respect your work ethic.
I just realized nvb3 was a huge tribute and almost 1-1 recreation of a Sergio corbucci film called the great silence
Al Swearer is a reference to Al Swearengen from the HBO show Deadwood. He curses all the time.
Always appreciate seeing people use their platform for good
I feel like the fact that Bounties I starts off as what is basically radiant kill quests makes it so intriguing. The kind of mod that adds a set of radiant quests that gives you a bit more to do in the wasteland. Some quests to do on the side. Only for it to completely turn things around and have a proper story start off.
Yeah. It basically existed entirely to be "Three Card Bounty, but more and better." Which it is. Not sure why someguy didn't have you taking heads instead of fingers, though. That was a nice touch for that base game quest.
@@DSFARGEG00 randall explains it in his dialogue after a few bounties
@@martinpachu7125 It's been years since I've played the mod, so I don't remember the 'why' of it, lol.
@@DSFARGEG00 dont remember exactly why but he says its some technique he learnt from marshall cooper,a regulator and a character from a mod in fallout 3. the perks lawbringer and contract killer in fallout 3 also have you bringing fingers back for payment
@@martinpachu7125Well, that and he considers that bringing the head is both unnecessary and outright disgusting
In my ongoing playthrough, my character visited Zion first. He saw the good and bad in tribals. Every cannon and non-cannon tribes are descendents of survivors who adapted. Maybe the white legs and sand wolves were once peaceful but either their supplies ran dry or they got invaded too many times and had to adapt by becoming violent. It would've been better if Someguy fixed the lore of the sand wolves, but we can always imagine why they turned into these horrific killers.
"the tribe is treated as backwards evildoers by the characters in game" "the only time you see or interact with the tribe is evidence of them being backwards evildoers" > have you considered that the tribe might actually just be backwards evildoers and we can accept that without having to try and heavy handedly mirror that onto unrelated real world issues?
are you aware that things like that are written by actual people? there's a reason why it was written this specific way man. also, fucking hilarious seeing this idiotic take combined with the 4chin funny arrow on youtube.
We also have real accounts of tribals like these in real life, your point? @@BrynjaHjartans
I played the bounty hunter series. So good. So glad I did.
Love this mod review series. Tres bien
I think we should ALL remember not to judge his work as we would judge Point Lookout or Honest Hearts, this man did it all for free, on his own! That alone should be worth a pretty damn penny of respect.
I almost think of it as essential content in my favorite game of all time, so that'll do, Someguy.
@@gibberconfirm425 Essential is damn right.
Id even say the series is better than Honest Hearts
@@comradesam3382 I think it's honestly on par (if taken as a whole) with Lonesome Road, speaking as someone who genuinely likes Ulysses.
Most of the Enclave goofs are people trolling. Also some people just talk about the Enclave because they want to join them and you know…actually have opinions in a role playing game. I think if the Legion is joinable, so should the Enclave.
Randall could've been a comment on the general business nature of bounty hunters and mercenaries, how your courier (no matter their intentions or factions) participates in a brutal profession of death. Despite the ugly nature it's still another opportunity for profit from everybody but the bounty. There could've even been a comment from Randall how killing in defense is defense, no heart or head ache but that spinning it with profit is admitting that it isn't about you, it's about the money. Rewriting Marko doesn't require an empathetic character exactly but one that is way less edgy and prone to evil info-dump. With a backstory filled with slavery and people's disregard, he totally could've been a character that 'roots' for the courier's triumph in death and executions seeing as he found strength for himself the first time he killed. Marko could have been a reflection of cycles and viciousness the wasteland has lent itself to, with the courier given the chance to reckon with the role given to them.
Really glad I found your channel! Great stuff, looking forward to digging into it. Do you do any game design? You talk like someone who knows his way around Unity or something (Not that I know anything about it). I love the idea that every mod is it's own little micro game, and you can do sequels and prequels and offshoots of your little quest pack with references, callbacks, and lore. It's such a beginner friendly way to understand big, important ideas like world building and consistency.
So I see what Someguy2000 was doing in NVBIII, it was the destruction of the courier. It shows the folly of buying into your own legend and not letting things go. I do wish it allowed you to call out Marko. Marko is at his core terrified of being unnoticed. He had a shitty childhood so he acts out committing atrocity after atrocity so people will know, fear, and remember him. That’s why he’s so deadset on destroying the courier’s legend because it threatens to overshadow his own. Anyways, Marko kills Randall, the townspeople, and leaves the courier’s hands scarred in a way that interferes with his/her ability to QuickDraw. There was also a planned romance in frost hill with a woman who Marko would have killed adding more to the psychological damage the courier suffers. After all of this trauma, the Better Angels is a mod where you do nothing but good. It rebuilds the courier after the tear down they went through in Utah. You cheer up child slaves, give an old man one last drink for the road, and deliver a freaking baby. Then you fight off a battalion of objectively evil legion slavers, and are always remembered by the people you saved who hold yearly memorials as well as have several books written about you by people you fought alongside in the battle in certain endings. The Better Angels is where the courier understands why they do what they do. Why they wanted to bring a man like Marko and all the other criminals to Justice. Why they go through so much suffering and hardship, because it spares innocents from suffering themselves.
I just hate how you can never call him out for being an edgy attention whore who does terrible things so he can be feared and remembered cause of his shitty childhood. Even if you kill him nothing changes as the ending slides state that his legend remains while the Couriers dies out.
Edit:Jesus the video was a year ago. I'm a new fan lol. Great vid. Great analysis and I love your voice. A voice fitting for commentary videos. Hope you cover more mods. Also the writing tips are helpful. I really loved the someguyseries paired with FPEG(functional post ending game). I love the tidbit in nvb2 where a journalist makes newspapers reacting to your actions. My gripe with NVB 3 is that it pulls the fallout 3 cliche where Virgil is conveniently invincible for the sake for the story. Also the scarred perk doesn't make sense for the courier. Like bruh the courier has been through alot of horrible encounters. I don't wanna be mean to the mod author as he has done so much effort for this mod but I just hate it how Marko turned out after all the build up and unironically becomes worse than Ulysses who the author keeps hating on. Another thing is that I wasn't much connected with the frosthill people because they didn't have enough fleshed up background. Bringing back up Randall was kinda mixed for me. I was genuinely sad about him in NVB 1 even though he was just sitting through the whole mod but then NVB 3 Randall kinda feels off and I didn't feel anything about his death it felt like unnecessary. Overall the mod was a fun experience, a must play experience. Some of the characters made me wheeze genuinely. I hope the mod author learns from the problems in NVB 3 and continue to make more. Hopefully he doesn't get burnout and I wish the guy the best health.