An Example Of A Well Written Villain 

How did you're first encounter with Benny go? What path did you take to track him down? Let us know in the comments to get a heart!

I love that Benny is incredibly human. No superpowers, no evil overlords, or take over the world plan. Just a dude with ambition

For me, it was a confusing time.. waking up in the wasteland.. and being shot by Chandler Bing. Could I... be any more intrigued?

Most video games ask you "will you be able to do this?", but role-playing games are about "what do you want to do?" Obsidian introduced Benny as the kind of "will you be able to do this" villain that people come into the game expecting, but his purpose is to introduce the "what do you want to do" main plot. Smart move from Obsidian tbh. It's managing expectations 101 right there. They give you exactly what you asked for, and then show you what you should have asked for but that you didn't know you wanted.

Yeah. No. My first play through I thought “I can probably cheese the AI, right?” And went up to Red Rock Canyon at the expense of all my ammo then edged around the Fiends going north and ended in the Sunset Sasparilla bottling facility then Camp McCarren and all the way around the south side of the wall until I got to Freeside. Then I chased down every map marker I could find before doing any of the non-Goodsprings quests, intentionally avoiding the main story line until I was sure everything else was as done as it could be, because I played Skyrim before this and wild dragons kept ruining quests. And I remembered the enclave showing up towards the end of Fallout 3 and wasn’t going through whatever mass cazador bullshit this game was going to pull! The stupid dragons completely changed how I played sandbox RPGs because they literally ruined at least three quests each play through. It was maddening. And then it made everyone look insane in later runs because they all talk about dragons but there only seemed to be one at the time.

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This is a great breakdown and clearly shows why New Vegas was so much more memorable than Fallout 3. I think Fallout 4 did this same thing pretty well, you start out with a very clear goal: find your son. I think F4 did a good job in some areas, but was let down by others. I do feel like it had the bones of a similar story to NV, but swung and missed on the execution. I'd love to see a breakdown of how the "find the man who killed you" compares to the "find the man who killed your spouse" plotline, as they're similar in theory, but very different in execution.

Beside the quality content I just adore your smooth editing, keep it up man!

Freeside is the way it is not because Strip "takes and takes without giving everything back". In fact, it's the opposite - most of the Freeside dwellers are there for the scraps that leak out of the Strip. As for who displaced them and put them here... It was one of two things: bandits and NCR. As we learn from one of the farmers who is busy defending his home (who also turned out to hate NCR for an additional reason, but that does not diminish the weight of his other problem), Brahmin barons started hostile takeover of the land without asking the ones who actually live there. How did they do that? Backed with the NCR military, of course! Now, I know what you're thinking. "Those Brahmin barons still bought this land". But whom did they buy it from? Not from Mr. House - he wasn't willing to sell any land, he was trying to establish a tourist economy. Not from the actual homeowners - they were driven out. Who was the seller?

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*Supporting* the Legion. Profligates deserve to swing.

Underrated video, keep up with the good work, man!!

To be fair, you really only run into Alduin about three or four times in Skyrim (depending how you count). Arguably he's only half the main quest of the game.

Really good stuff!

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I think Skyrim handles the villain thing pretty well tbh. Alduin is the big bad, but doesn't supercede the world or the civil war, partly because many people don't realize he's a big threat to them, and partly because the dragons on their own don't affect the population of Skyrim that much. If Alduin succeeds, he has a big effect on the world, but until then, his awakening of the dragons is just another piece of turbulence in an already turbulent place. In story, it takes a lot to get the leaders of the various factions to agree to deal with the threat, let alone agree on a method, and it makes sense based on how it's individually affecting each faction.

You sir deserve way more views as it is! Barely over 400views after two weeks? It's a crime that's what this is!

This is a great channel

Damn….when I saw the title of this video I thought for sure this was going to be about Walker from spec ops the line….. Seeing as I have over 1500 hours in new Vegas I guess I can still watch this video to the end though 😂

nice one ^^

Great content! I would love to hear your thoughts on TES IV: Oblivion!

I think enderal dose this and many other points suprisingly good. Its only a moding team and they do it so much better than skyrim itself

"I'm no cheat. I give folk what they want, nothing more. That they oft desire unworthy things - that is entirely the fault of their rotten natures."

To be honest, when I look at it Benny is just a deterrent, a speed bump in our path, but not a villain. Sure he shot us in the head so he can take over vegas, but really the amount of time we spend tracking him down and trying to get revenge on him is so short compared to the rest of the game, which is deciding who gets to take over vegas. If anything, Benny is more like a side character to me, the villain is whoever is in charge of the opposing faction.

Personally I want a villain to be an antoginistic force. Preferably a complex character whoms actions are understandable, but mostly a driver of the plot and something to fight, maybe even something of a foil. Unfortunately Benny isn't a lot of that.

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The type of villain you are talking about only applies to open world games. In Final Fantasy 7 (original) Sephiroth is an amazing villain for a few reasons but you'll see the whole world no matter what because it's linear. 0:45 I feel like that's only true of LoZ BotW. 3:13 so will this have spoilers? Sounds like not really (and I don't mind them). 6:48 "genocidal" doesn't mean "kills lots of people". They'd have to target a people group which it sounds like they aren't doing. 13:27 that's a spoiler for fallout new vegas.

personally, i prefer Caesar BUT thats only after years of playing the game on and off for over a decade. Got the game on release, managed somehow to escape the bugs and loved it ever since. Weirdly, i have more hours in fallout3, but NV is a much better story for replaying. Fallout3 is stagnant, much like wasteland it surrounds itself in. NV shows the world moving forwards, moving on which is what the originals did as well but Bethesda failed to grasp that concept. It may be a post apocalyptic role playing game, but its POST apocalypse. The world doesnt just stop and freeze in place

The real cosmic villain to be overcome was Matthew Perry's *terrible* voice acting.

I'm pretty unhappy with you spoiling the reveal of arkham knight at the beginning of this fallout video

Benny isn't a villain. You picked the absolute BEST game to talk about how villains are done wrong, but Benny... isn't a villain. Caesar isn't a villain. Mr. House isn't a villain. What FO:NV does RIGHT - the real magic sauce to great villainy - is that it doesn't have villains at all. It has sides. And it makes you choose a side. It makes you decide who to call the villain. Case in point: By the time I'd reached Novak, I'd let go of my enmity towards Benny. By that point, I was fully engaged with the oncoming war for the dam. Benny was only a means to an end by the time I caught up with him at the Tops. Who you side with determines how things play out: it makes the 'villainy', such as it is, deeply personal. Me? I would argue that ALL the major players are the villains, and it's the regular people of the greater Vegas area who are truly the good guys. So, I went independent. I built up each community, I gave the water to the natives because the argument that they couldn't have repaired the systems without the NCR is falsely reductive: we don't know whether or not the locals could have acquired the tools and tech to fix the water systems. I distributed power evenly, even though that meant everyone had to deal with rolling brownouts. Because, heck, some power is infinitely more power than no power to the communities of the wastes. The game doesn't give you the option, but, my head cannon is that my character ordered Yes-Man to work out a Deputy Protocol that made the whole army of robots into free roaming law enforcement, sworn to uphold basic violent-crime law enforcement. And to not take sides. Does that solve everything? Nuh uh! Not even close!! But it's as close as I could choose to do in the circumstances, based on the choices I'd made. That makes it deeply personal. And that's what villainy takes - the personal connection.

Oh God, why F: NV looks so bad. In wasn't a super good looking back in the days, but now it looks like late 90s FPS or something. But it is probably a Obsidian thing. F3 looks so much better and was better looking back there. And I like it so much better, but it is not a popular opinion. Great video as always! Your content is great and very high quality, you should have at least x100 views than currently.

If you think k political and social issues will take a backseat just because of an existential threat, then you haven't been paying attention.