Fallout’s Most Terrifying Place - The Sierra Madre | FULL Fallout Lore & Origin Story 

Hope you guys enjoyed this look into the city of the Sierra Madre. This expansion was good for story, felt like Bioshock style campaign but holy hell was it buggy and hard because of the collars!! Anyways let me know what you thought.

"The only way to be able to begin again, is to let go" Me , dragging Elijah's head stuffed with gold out of the hotel : "wow, so true"

Most satisfying part of Dead Money is luring Elijah dwn to the vault, sneak out with everything and locking him inside. Hearing his last words over your PipBoy never fails to bring a smile

Obsidian devs: "To begin again you must let go" What I hear: "To begin again with all the gold you must let go of your poverty"

An interesting thing to add was that if the war was maybe a year later Sinclair could have saved the world and ended the resource crisis. He just needed time to finish the vending machine technology as it actually creates the items they make from particles in the air and surrounding area

What’s the creepiest part of this DLC is when you discover about the radio signal you first come across before starting the DLC. It’s actually not an “advertisement” for the Sierra Madre, but instead it’s an emergency call. But for some reason ( I forgot why) the emergency call is tied to the dialogue of Vera Keyes inviting people to the Sierra Madre. So for 200 years, the SM has been calling for help, only to have people hear Vera Keyes invite travellers to their doom.

Even though the villa was constructed as cheaply as possible it’s still held up very well for 200 years

Limping all the way to the dinosaur knowing Boone is gonna one shot anyone that comes at your back is always how I'm going to picture the courier emerging out of that awful place.

What's interesting is that Sinclair was the victim here. He wanted someplace to help people start over once the world went to shit and nearly bankrupted himself doing so. If anything the villain here is Dean. He strikes me as an egomaniac, getting jealous of Sinclair's villa and Casino and, despite being almost bankrupt, had a cheery attitude is so petty. But in any case I believe Sinclair really did believe in doing some good in the world and got stiffed by the Villa crew led by Mr Yesterday, plans to be robbed by Dean, forced to sign a contract with Big Empty (Mountain) and betrayed by Vera. It's like Sinclair just wanted to do some good and everything was against him. I think in a way we all let go and start over. I went in thinking Sinclair was like all the other rich asses, yet I find some =one who is human, so sure I took all the gold but I let go of my assumptions and started to rethink that maybe the Sierra Madre isn't that bad.

As someone who completed this DLC in an 8~ hour single sitting, you have my utmost respect for going into all the nooks and crannies, and for making this video. Ties it all together but, to Begin Again, we must Let Go.

I love this DLC. From the atmosphere, setting and lore. The Holorifle became my favorite sniper in New Vegas.

FYI, the vending machines are also a big MT invention. They actually use matter transmogrification to transform the chips into whatever you want to order, great video!

You just made my day with this, Wise Fish. Dead Money is my favorite Fallout DLC and possibly my favorite DLC in any game period due to how harsh, unexpected, uneasy the experience is bur also how deep the overarching theme of letting go is as well. Cheers, you always brighten up my morning with your vids, you're a hell of a storyteller

Everything to do with the Sierra Madre/Dead Money is unsettling, the Begin Again song, the Ghost People and the noises they make, Vera’s holograms saying her last words over and over… every time I play through it I have goosebumps for being so creeped out 😅

This dlc is a contender for the best story expansion in the entire series along side old world blues, and mothership zeta.

god, i remember being 14 and getting hyped up to play dead money for the first time. a beautiful casino where i could get riches?? sign me up! imagine my disappointment upon realizing i was put into a ‘saw’ predicament. years later, it’s my fave fallout dlc of all time 💘

This dlc genuinely scared me. Next to cazadores. The ambience was eerie and creepy. And it also makes you hopeless and very very *very* cautious (unless you had light step). I get the DLC message being "to let go". But focc that i want to reward myself after getting my head blown up repeatedly. I of course trapped Elijah and got the gold for myself. Also great video.

The corrupt Villa manager responsible for cutting corners & other racket-type activities is referred to in the computer terminal entries. The references for "Mr. Yesterday" are like Victor calling Benny "Fancy Pants". It's likely the actual name is one very familiar to the player character, as someone given the plum position as a favour by his intimate friendship with the big guy, Frederick Sinclair. Recall the song that was famous for a washed-up crooner & once beloved vocalist... it is both a literal reference to the song & the figurative situation of the despised manager being discussed. Both are equally descriptive of the one whom still has his contempt for "tourists".

The story of the Sierra Madre can be easily missed for those who might just have played the DLC and didnt have time to read the many spread out terminals. I dont know if its just me, but I had to give this a 2nd playthrough to actually read the lore about what happened there. Sad tale indeed. Thank you for making this video, its just as awesome as your other works.

"The sierra madre, thats a special kind of hell" -Ulysses

It's kind of perplexing to know that the sometimes unreasonable difficulty of the DLC actually makes sense in the context of Sinclair's obsessions. And truly, this is the best DLC in the game if you ask me.

What I remember of the Sierra Madre while playing Fallout is that it is an ONE AREA in Fallout New Vegas that it is likely a player will die several times before you can get used to dealing with things like the bomb strapped to your neck or the enemies in it. In almost all other areas if one is cautious enough, it is unlikely one has to deal with your character dying. My guess is that the people that designed it wanted for the player to have an extra level of difficulty when dealing with it that just isn't used in on places the player has to go through.

It's crazy because at the end if the movie the Treasure of the Sierra Madre, the main characters have to let go of their riches and start again. This DLC was one of my favorites because if the ambient horror feel and the survival aspects. Also finally getting into the casino was awesome

I really didn't leave the Sierra Madre as the same courier as I was, truly one of the most visionary game dlc's out there

For some reason, I always mistakenly think the Sierra Madre is in some underground cave system. Completely cutoff from the outside world. Like a massive secret underground city.

I left my heart in the Sierra Madre.

I loved dead money. The holograms of Vera only play the recordings of her last words the first time you meet them. When going back or revisiting the area they will be eerily silent, making you question if it was a recording at all. The music in this part of the building is awesome to.

Nice breakdown! Dead Money is hard but the lore is intricate and honestly really neat. I'm also amused in gameplay how if you drop down to search Sinclair's bag (finding the holotape he removed) it's either difficult or outright impossible to get back up. Very fitting to the tone of the whole thing.

I love the story and lore in the dlc but actually playing it is literal hell

This DLC gives me big Bioshock vibes and that's why I love it

Dead money is my favorite DLC of NV, the way there’s just echos in the villa makes me feel so lonely when playing. Also I found that you can hear the ghost people banging on the casino doors as you did the casino quests and holy shit is it haunting.

Dead Money is such a punishing DLC, but the story and lore about is is top notch. I felt bad about Vera but at the end you'll realize Sinclaire is the one you should feel bad about. DLC is hard but damn it's an emotional ride once you've uncovered the secrets behind the Seirra Madre.

I really liked the Dead Money DLC. Almost SAW like in the way it startet, interesting characters, a tragedy born from love, jealousy, betrayel and greed, undead monsters in the streets and a poisonous red cloud which is everywere. A Masterpiece (crashes and other technical issues aside).

Glad you covered this DLC's location. This one was always the hardest but most importantly interesting challenge to play

Sierra Madre - You have 2 choices, let go of your greed or you die here. Me with a stealth boy and 37 gold bars - 'There's 3 actually'

Dead Money in a nutshell: Millionaire simp goes crazy and loses it all

The spookiest video for the spookiest time of the year. The Sierra Madre has such a cool and really unsettling atmosphere. Thanks for making a easy to digest video on this. Perfect vibe for this time of year

This dlc is so extreme and good that it should be its own game

There is evidence that the mystery of the ghost people runs further than a unique form of ghoulism. Though ghouls are capable of indefinite immortality they still must eat, drink, and remove wastes and toxins from their bodies, Dean even confirms this in the dlc. The Ghost People are incapable of doing these actions while being trapped inside of their suits. Ghouls are also known to acquire energy from intense background radiation which isn't prevalent in the Madre. Though Ghosts share some motifs of Ghoulism there is no evidence they are even ghouls at all. It is believed that the ghost people at some point kept their victims alive to convert them. Though we do not know the exact process of the creation of ghosts we can speculate through looking through the Madre for what it possibly could give some idea. When trying to trigger the galla event you can come across the skeletal remains of a man strewn atop a table with many surgical supplies and large vials of embalming fluid laid on some shelves. The implication of this scene is that the man was deceased and went under the process of mummification. Whoever was responsible for the embalming did not succeed in the process because the remains at the scene were deteriorated beyond recognition. My speculation is that the application of embalming fluid is used in the process of creating ghosts. Whatever this fluid is has the same glowing green hue that you see in ghost people. The embalming procedure would take a lot of time to do and if it wasn't done by the ghost people themselves then it wouldn't be possible. So I believe the ghosts are mummified and possibly even undead. I know it's a stretch but hear this: the hazard suits used by the ghost people were supplied from Big MT which was also responsible for the creation of the spore carriers. If you don't know spore carriers aren't ghouls either they are in fact dead people that are being preserved and animated by an unknown fungal infection. What color are the spore carriers? Green, exactly the same as the Ghost people. The thing about this theory is that the ghost people are thought to be capable of higher thinking and cognitive ability. The create traps, conduct ritualistic practices (embalming, worshipping holograms, etc.) and are capable of communicating to one another to a degree of planning ambushes on the player. So it will probably always be a mystery of what the ghost people actually are, I just love thinking about this kind of stuff.

Challenge: The Whole Sad Story. Completed.

Earned my sub with this one. I hear a lot of players complain about this DLC. The first time I played it, I was so frustrated all through it I couldn't wait to finish it. The second time I played it was with more, 'respect' I guess I could say. I took my time, paid more attention to detail, and looked for alternatives to situations more often than I would. And I really enjoyed it! And MAN is that DLC haunting. Well done video, my dude!

Respect to all of those worker's that risked there lives working in that toxic cloud. THEY WILL NOT Be FORGOTTEN

Finding the lore isn’t the hard part it letting go

I’ll never let go of those gold bars tho.

Think Tank: "It's not a cloud it's a body spray."

New Vegas had the best DLC. Dead Money had the story, and a lesson that we all ignored lol Honest Hearts had the characters Old World Blues had the tech Lonesome Road had background, and Ulysses who didn't learn to let go I love that it was all tied together

I remember the first time I figured out how to get all the gold out of the vault playing on the xbox 360, that was a game changer for every playthrough after

Top notch video. The Sierra Madre is definitely an example of peak fallout and you captured its atmosphere perfectly.

I was just playing the dlc last night for the first time and I immediately thought of bioshock. I'm loving the complete change of pace in the dlc. Great video BTW.

Excited to sit down and watch this! By far my favourite DLC of New Vegas, and honestly my favourite experience on any game.

A perfect time for Hallowe’en! You have my thanks, WiseFish. Something about the Sierra Madre delivered that uncertain sense, even if it had the glimmer and serenity, it filled me with dread the moment ghost people came into play.

I think the plot of this dlc is the best one, even better than the main story. It would be such a great noir cinematographic adaptation

Dead money was the first dlc I played in new vagas, and my favorite. It is hard and challenging with mystery and has great story if you read into it.

I wonder if the 3 others DLCs will have their own story tell on the channel.

I watched The Treasure of the Sierra Madre on the flight home from my trip to Vegas earlier this month. I'd recommend the movie for sure

That song at the end of the video still gives me the creeps, whether playing Fallout or out in the real world.

Great video my man, it says a lot about the impact of a game when videos are still being made more than a decade after its release

Dead Money was so severely underrated when it first came out, and I've been seeing some videos in appreciation of it lately, which is nice. Absolutely unique atmosphere and mood in this DLC, I love it.

It always amazes me how dark some of the stories are in the Fallout universe, well MOST of the stories. XD This was a really amazing lore vid! I didn't know about any of this. Well played.

“yeah you can put an experimental cloud on my casino”

Super cool video, this dlc always stayed stuck in my memory. Thank you for spectacularly retelling the story i once and continue to love. Great stuff.

Nice to see you doing videos on one of my favorite series. Fallout New Vegas easily has some of the best DLC out in the gaming landscape and while Lonesome Road is my favorite, Dead Money is definitely amazing by itself. Especially with how it handles its story.

Thanks so much for this video. I'm so glad there's a good Fallout lore channel again.

This is some incredible work!! Amazing! Love watching the story of this DLC told in such a cinematic way!

This was an excellent video. When I looked to your channel after watching this, I expected you to have far more views. But nonetheless your content is very good quality throughout, even in the older and less viewed videos. You deserve far more subscribers and attention given to your videos, my friend.

This is an incredible story. I wasn't aware of much of it before I watched this video. Thank you for making it!

Ah yes the Sierra madre.... or as I like to call it "a 4 hour stealth quest where your head explodes cause you couldn't find a fucking radio to turn off" ....... I found a mod that just bypasses the entire quest and gets me everything from the DLC

Fantastic video, I’ve played 1500+ hours of nv and I still didn’t know the full story of the sierra madre that you told

Dead Money first playthrough: oh shit, what the fuck are those things? BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP AHHHHHHH Dead Money second playthrough: "Why can't I hold all these gold bars???" Dead Money later playthrough: *smuggles gear into DLC via Willow*, *DOOM music starts playing in background* "I'm back, asshole."

Always Happy to watch an WiseFish Fallout Video after Work Good Video as Always 👌

What a story! Just replayed the DLC to experience it again. Thanks for the video!

These videos you do are so good every single new location you make them so interesting always have my attention

Just finished this the first time. Had to save SO many times. Probably saved every 15 seconds cause something might be screwing with me at any moment.

Literally just discovered your channel and I can already say I like it.

Amazing tale! I never bought this DLC because I felt it was too late-game for me to want to go do it (since you will want your skills super high to do it "right"). Awesome work!

love the dlc but my guilty pleasure way to play through is to use a ammo glitch and MFC cluster to just blow my way through everything that moves

Using the gold as a paper weight in my shitty apartment in Novac. It's not about the money, it's about sending a message

I can only image what the DLCs would have been like if Obsidian had more time for development

Love your videos! Great storytelling bud ☀️💛

I wish there was more to watch! Great video!!

For reall this was the scariest fallout dlc I’ve played and I don’t know why 😂

Oh my. That voice just made me want to learn about my favorite game, after learning lore for years, and just makes me smile.

You make the sickest videos, dude! Thank you!

This was the first wisefish video I ever watched so this has a special love from me

I blame the Sierra Madre for my slight phobia of large deco-style buildings.

By far my favourite dlc in any game, love how you can’t take all the gold at the end as greed will literally kill you aha

I do hope you'll do more Fallout lore videos, it is hard to find channels that do it well in this style.

What scared me is the only way too kill the ghost people was chopping the limps when i first did it I said "getting dead space vibes!" Plus I do the sneak but Elijah doesn't go in the vault he just touches the terminal then says the regular audio so i just look up the audio

When I first started Dead Money, I was completely shook and practically terrified of the villa and its surrounding areas. I was lucky to have leveled up after the first encounter I had because I immediately grabbed silent running in order to make it through. The ghost people were not easy to deal with and the cloud also gave me a hard time. Over time though, I figured out how to eventually get through, but even so, I was nervous. Once I reached the casino though, my fear turned to sadness as I started to better understand the story of the Sierra Madre and what happened to all of the key characters, like Vera. Watching her walk around the suites begging for Sinclair to save her and everyone else felt tragic. Finishing the DLC left me feeling bittersweet. Now though? I still play through and enjoy it, even on hardcore. It doesn’t pose too much of a challenge as before, but it’s still a lot harder than some of the other DLC’s, and I love for that reason.

This DLC reminding me alot of the old RE1 Remake and in some way Evil Within. And I'm kinda hoping the Sierra Madre mentioned in some way in the TV Show, as Sinclair made an appearance alongside Mr House.

This DLC made me quit FO:NV for about 3 months. Eventually came back to it and loved the ending.

Now that i think about it the sierra madre feels mush like the fallout version of rapture from bioshock Also fun fact: madre means "mother" in italian

I like to believe in the bunker there's a trap door or a secret door that either a hallway where dog is waiting or a trap door is beneath the courier when he collapses

Welcome to the Casino Serra Madre, Such lovely place. Such a lovely place.

As soon as I saw this I immediately started watching it and here we are... Im sure it’ll be great!

Played it and beat it when it came out but years later and the story on this dlc was always a heart tug

Incredible. Thank you for this.

I'm curious what mods you're using, cause I know Dead Money's default weather doesn't look that nice. Also are you sure the Ghost People aren't the result of Trauma Harnesses? That was the assumption I'd always made, since the suits were made at Big MT, where we're shown this Trauma Harness tech that hijacks the body of the wearer and becomes hostile to anyone around it.

So sad such a great doc good job bro

Great video, subbed.