The BIG Fallout: New Vegas Retrospective 

Longest video I ever made. Please consider liking, commenting, and subscribing! Any corrections will be posted here and in the description so check there before commenting! Corrections: 1. "Split personality" is a dated term I used for dog/god. Dissociative Identity Disorder is more accurate and the multiple personalities are called alters. 2. I used the term "cabal", which I have been informed is used in anti-Semitic rhetoric and will be refraining from using it in the future. I believe this was used in discussing the American government, corporations, and military. 3. Not a correction: The courier is NOT an amnesiac. Please stop bringing this up to me. JESawyer is on record saying the courier does not have amnesia. 4. The Thorn egg quest also rewards you with a unique shotgun 5. Gamergate being mentioned: I brought it up to frame how the progressiveness of New Vegas is often misinterpreted by people (usually right-wing). I used GamerGate because it was an example I saw first-hand, where people were praising Arcade specifically for weird reasons and I saw this during the GG era. The section isn't about GG, it's about New Vegas' progressiveness and strong left-leaning ideology that individuals misconstrue as right-wing. It's not a discussion on tokenization, it's about people angry when a character deviates from the viewers perceived norm. If Arcade or Veronica were more open and loud about their sexuality this would rub the people I described the wrong way. Some commenters think this means I'm talking about them when I say this. Do you dislike characters simply because they are loud about their sexuality? No? Then I'm not talking about you. Yes? You should probably go outside. Check the first 20 minutes of this video for an explanation on GG: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lLYWHpgIoIw.html 6. Daniel was originally meant to be Asian, but a glitch caused his character to be Caucasian instead. 7. Prison labor is slave labor. 8. I get it. You didn't love or hate it. You only liked it. 9. I will not debate in my comments. if you disagree with me that's fine, but I'm not taking part in the "marketplace of ideas" in my free time. 10. gamergate nerds stay gone 11. The legion doesn't attack you because they identify you as a courier. Couriers are often used by the legion as disguises for their spies. 12. I missed one ending with Chief Hanlon if you kill Caesar.

My fondest memory of this game is being told not to go somewhere, saying "You can't tell me what to do.", and then getting absolutely shredded by deathclaws.

New Vegas singlehandedly got me through my parent's divorce back in the day and was still somehow less stable than their relationship

Fallout New Vegas is one of those games that you either love or you're wrong.

The Legion’s neutrality towards you is simple. If one is playing normally, your first interaction with the Legion will be at Nipton. If I’m remembering correctly, Vulpes Inculta (a spymaster within the Legion) will deduce you to be a courier. Couriers in legion-occupied territory are highly respected and the Legion will usually leave them alone, and even reward them in exchange for being their eyes and ears in places outside their borders. That’s why they don’t attack you from the onset.

"Can I have some FO:NV confirmation bias?" "Only a spoonful." Pulls out comedically sized 7 hour video on FO:NV

My first playthrough, I was so disgusted by what I saw in Nipton that I walked up behind the line of Legion soldiers and executed them point blank in vats with a caravan shotgun, one after the other, somehow winning the resulting shoot out with Vulpes Inculta. I kept his hood, which conveniently counted as glasses for my four-eyes trait. Afterwards during the raid on Nelson, the local Legion leader mistook me for Vulpes as I entered his barracks , complaining about me wandering into his turf but remaining non hostile while littered the room with explosives and holed up in the bathroom. Later on I was able to buy Frank's family for a mere 300 caps, freeing them in the process. Soon after I was approached by a Legion npc who basically informed me that the jig was up, leading to a shootout with the entirety of cottonwood cove. It was around this point I realized I was playing one of the best games ever made.

5:13:53 The hardest part is letting go” as we all casually carry all 27 gold bars and use the “Long Haul” perk to fast travel to become richer than House in his pre war days. Of course on top of the cleaning all the casinos out too. The hardest part is people letting go of “MY” money that is not yet in my inventory.

30 minutes in and I already have an uncontrollable urge to replay this game.

Patrolling a 7 hour retrospective almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter

I am a time traveller from 7 hours in the future and I can confirm that this video is a certified hood classic

Something to note is that Marcus is actually a character from Fallout 2. He's the canonical companion who assisted the Chosen One in blowing up the oil rig of the Enclave's final base of operations, which ultimately led to the Chosen One splitting off from Marcus to go their separate ways amidst the wasteland. He mentions this in dialogue trees, and I just think that's a really awesome tidbit about someone who seemed to be just some minor character, only to turn out to be the companion that assisted in eradicating the Enclave.

Fun fact about Daniel from honest hearts. He was meant to be Asian, but literally right before the dlc went out someone accidentally changed him to white an no one knows who did it.

Fun fact: This is the shortest Fallout: New Vegas retrospective on RU-vid

One of the things you missed, or where unaware of, (thought this might not be clear at the start of the game) is that the Legion is under standing orders to not harass couriers, as many of them are Legion agents. This is probably why the Legion doesn't attack you without infamy, as you are a courier.

My favorite part of FO:NV is 100% the atmosphere. The weird foreign distant metallic noises heard far away, sounds of gunshots, wolves, and the eerie OST. It's amazing!

I had actually never considered using the stealth boy to pass Trudy's speech check, until I saw you hover over it and remember that it does in fact add 100 sneak.

My favorite line in FNV is when The Courier say’s “It’s New Vegas time” And he absolutely Vegas’s all over the place.

I like the theory that Jason bright isn't trying to go to space but to the glow in California, it's a little less dumb that way

You’re not gonna convince me that Bright’s flock didn’t make it to The Far Beyond. They played Ride of the Valkyries, god damn it.

I had no idea Boxcars stood when attacked, started laughing when he got up so hard

I think the legion's neutrality towards the player has to do with a piece of dialogue you can hear from Ulysses (not sure where) in which he references Caesar saying "kill no courier"

You’re probably not going to see this but the reason that the Legion seems like a path you have to intentionally go down is because Obsidian didn’t have enough time to work on the Legion and focused more on the NCR. This is also why there are so few named Legion members. If they had even a month more time to complete it, I’m certain that the Legion would be far more fleshed out.

Your "fault" about the way the enemies appear in Lonesome Road is one of my absolute leading praises. Never have I ever been so immersed and felt threatened by a group of enemies as the Marked Men. I felt like I was being hunted, that no place was ever safe. I've never played any area of the game so cautiously and slowly before in the entirety of my 50H+ playthrough.

In the Honest Hearts DLC Violence isn't the answer. Violence is a question, and the answer is "YES". The Dead Horses and The Sorrows have every right to defend themselves and their territory.

One of my fond memories of New Vegas involves a bug that I don't know if anyone else has documented or not. I wasn't the one who encountered it, instead it was my friend who was playing the 360 version at launch and seemingly could not level up. At all. He was perpetually stuck at level 1, even though he was getting XP enough many times over to level, but pressed on because he had always been a huge Fallout fan and wanted to see the game through no matter what. I distinctly remember being in a voice chat with him as he "fought" Legate Lanius, wincing when he was one shot by his sword, laughing when he managed to knock him down with the tons of dynamite he had carried through the game, and going absolutely wild when he managed to kill him and win the game. I wish I still had my old phone, because he sent me a photo of his screen with Lanius laying dead and the level ticker telling him he was still at level 1.

No way. I'm absolutely in love with how popular long form critiques have become. Thanks for taking a massive swing I'm excited to chill with this all day

I'd love to add that new players can also find an interesting middle-ground between the intended path (south into Primm) and the extremely difficult path (north through Sloan): they can go east through a narrow passage in the mountain side, where, if memory serves me right, they will encounter a blind deathclaw! The path heads straight to Novac, bypassing Primm, the Mojave Outpost, and Camp Searchlight.

While I can't say that I agree with all of your thoughts, I CAN say that this is without a doubt one of the best Fallout: New Vegas videos I have ever had the pleasure of viewing. Very well done.

3:29:31 They actually do address this. If you have Veronica as a companion when you buy it off Max for her personal quest, she says something to the effect of “Wow. Good thing the safety was on.”

Imagine what we could've gotten if Obsidian had gotten the time to make a finished product. Hell what if they make a new Fallout game with this generations capabilities? We can only dream.

4:26:15 To add some nuance here, it's not like Great Khans are innocent angels that got corrupted by NCR atrocities. Those are the same Great Khans that terrorised Shady Sands in Fallout 1, NCR in Fallout 2, and they were still basically raiders pre New Vegas timeline where House tried to unite 3 families. Not so say NCR is justified in their atrocities, just saying that Great Khans are very very flawrd faction and letting them go independent will probably keep them being flawed, but hopefully one day they can change thanks to Followers of the Apocalypse

No game will ever be like this for me. Countless hours and the atmosphere is something that will never leave my heart and personal imagery.

A memory I'll never forget is my moded playthrough of Lonesome road. After finishing the DLC entering back into the Mojave. The first thing I see is a cockroach on two legs with a nine iron running at me.

"youre brother was a little bitch and so are you" at the memorial and "i..i cant feel my legs!" after trying out Fisto are the best lines of dialogue in the entire fallout franchise.

I just want to thank you for making a video that runs almost the entire work day, really burns the hours away.

I finished it on hardcore and it made me appreciate the mechanics of the game even more.

I remember telling my friend in school that my ideal prefect video game would be an RPG set in post apocalyptic america with old school jazz on the radio.. my buddy immediately informed me of FNV and my life was forever changed

I think you're selling Joshua Graham's character a little short. He's not just not moving on from his past with Caesar, he thinks that the part of him that is awful is intrinsically also why he survived being burned alive. His view is in a lot of ways that he knows he's terrible, a monster, but a necessary form of evil to keep the dead horses safe. It's wrong, obviously, but I think it's much more interesting to look at him through that specific lense

Fun video, but there is something deeply amusing to me about all the moralising and criticism of flawed political systems when the conclusion of the commentator is that the right answer is clearly a dictatorship, but with themselves as the dictator, so it's a good dictatorship.

6:40:00 I think you completely missed the point of Caesar's logic. Caesar is taking the identical stance that China is taking in the modern world. It is him expressing a philosophical debate that goes back to 17th century with Hobbes. What Caesar is saying the world by default is anarchy, and that the state should be a Leviathan, and in doing so, give absolute protection from the dangers of anarchy. He, like Hobbes, is also saying that it is the duty to give up some of their liberties in exchange for that protection. This was realist (in the academic sense) Enlightenment thinking in contrast to the NCR which is based on liberal (again in the academic sense) enlightenment thinking. The liberal enlightenment thinking can be seen in the writings of philosophers like Rousseau, the American founding fathers, Paine, and Mill. They emphasized that the state should have a much more limited role in society. Before the Enlightenment, the default European philosophy on governance was that rulers get their right to rule from God, and if God didn't want to rule, then God would just remove them. The realist and liberal enlightenment thinkers disagreed on a lot, but what both agreed on was that the right to govern was a bottom up right. That it was the lower and middle classes that held up the government. This made them quite revolutionary in their time, even if they disagreed on almost everything else.

Playing New Vegas is not the hard part. It's letting go.

I sided with Joshua in Honest Hearts because I found the idea of the Sorrows basically being evicted from their native land by the Legion/White Legs not something agreeable this is the post apocalypse and people need to fight to Survive. I believe no matter where the Sorrows relocate another Faction will threaten their way of life. So yes Joshua's way is extremely violent and genocidal but in this case it is necessary for the Sorrows to survive in the long run.

For me the beginning of new Vegas felt really really slow, but once I sat down and started really exploring and interacting with settlements and reaching new Vegas, it quickly became one of my favourite games ever. Amazing video btw

The main difference from F3 and F4 to FNV is that Obsidian developed AN ACTUAL RPG while Bethesda only develops open-world-looter-shooters with slight RPG elements It's the same difference that raises Morrorwind above Oblivion and Skyrim, except that Morrorwind was the last time Bethesda cared about ACTUAL RPG STUFF, besides "number go up to make your produce the happy-chemicals".

It's so strange that a game with some much to say about different the forms of government, philosophy, and the human condition is the same game where you can get jumped by a gang of elderly grandma's right after activating a robot called FISTO that you have the option to "test out" before sending it to a casino/brothel.

I'm barely 11 minutes in and o just wanna say. That opening cinematic where Benny shoots you is so well done, even with the how outdated it looked even at release, that EVERYONE uses it to open their discussions, retrospectives, reviews, etc of New Vegas. And I don't say that to disparage any creators. It just shows how well written and iconic it is. Now onto the next 7 fucking hours of my life listening to this as I play Sunbreak 😂

i played new vegas this year and i cant cope with how i managed to live 24years without playing that game and inhaling that awesomeness

Damn, missed the entire powder gang quest line because I just blasted the whole compound away immediately

20:20 One of my favorite aspects of the courier is that they feel like a real person that has been living in this wasteland from simple comments like being able to say "Aren't you that singer from New Reno? I think I saw you play the clubs there" when you first meet Bruce Isaac

all I've ever wanted is a scripted 7 hour New Vegas video, I'm only 5 minutes in and I'm so excited for the rest of this

What the fuck are you doing? My older brother died at the Battle of Hoover Dam. You’re desecrating a war memorial.

I've done many playthroughs of this game and its DLCs yet I learned new things from watching this. Didn't even knew that it is possible to keep Dean alive.

Any game that let's you have an argument with your own brain is undoubtedly a masterpiece

The reason why siding with the Legion feels like that you have to force your self to believe is because Obsidian had already finished the NCR but the legion was undercooked before release.

Amazing video, but I feel like you were focussing A LOT on morality and social commentary instead of analysing actual roleplay of a character - I guess this fits well if you usually play a character that aligns with your personal motivations and reactions to things happening in a game, but I'd assume most people playing rpgs don't do that IMO it's more interesting to see the perspective of the protagonist when he's not a morally right do-gooder by our modern standards of society, there's a lot of interesting depth to this game when you play a very flawed character, especially when you consider what the courier went through - it makes little sense to be this righteous savior of the world in this game, especially after doing all the DLCs and barely being a human anymore. I really respect and appreciate the work put into this, but I would've loved more commentary on the quality of writing, characters and rpg elements instead of meta-commentary of bashing capitalism every 5 minutes lmao. While I do agree with most of your statements, it really doesn't add that much to the analysis and feels a little tiring towards the end. Most players and viewers understand the concepts of good and evil and don't really need this slightly patronizing tone of moral high ground IMO, at least it felt that way to me personally Great stuff though, I've been waiting for a really long FNV analysis for a while!

Hey man, just wanted to say I really appreciate the effort and attention to detail you put into these BIG retrospectives. I'm a huge fan of long-form content like this and love to hear different people's interpretations on these games that have so much to offer both in gameplay and storytelling. You blend analysis of gameplay mechanics and writing/themes/politics in a rational, intellectual, and at the same time accessible way that really shines through, while still leaving room for people to agree or disagree and debate. Honestly great content, and I always look forward to more from you. Cheers.

You missed the moral side of making lily take her meds fully, if she does take the meds fully she loses complete memory of her dead husband, the love of her life. So yeah you do help her mentally, but at the same time she will forget her husband completely. Maybe its not so much of a moral quandry for other people but it kind of breaks my heart😅

I disagree with how you interpreted Veronica's personal quest and the brotherhood's main quest. Veronica wasn't just trying to end the lock down, she was trying to change the brotherhood's main goal and how they operate. They are zenophobic and almost never allow outsiders to join them except for special occasion, refuse to allow others to have advanced tech if they could help it, and follow the codex to the letter even if it causes problems for them. Ending the lock down doesn't change the brotherhood, just allows them to continue their mission. Veronica saw that the mission would ultimately lead them to just make more enemies while stifling them as the world grows around them. Ultimately, the brotherhood is on a path to self destruction, something they will never move from, which is why Veronica gives up at the end.

I actually just tried going the northern route to Vegas for the first time last night. I took a roundabout high ground path to the tribal village wrecked by Cazadores, used Dynamite to take them out, and then used stealth boys to try and avoid the bighorners and fiends the rest of the way. I, unfortunately, only had 2 stealth boys and had to sneak around about halfway into the fiend territory, but I made it to Freeside at Level 3.

Dealing with Benny for me was saving my game before picking what to do with him in the fort and trying all 3 pathways, ending in the duel. Wore his suit for the rest of the game.

New Vegas is my favorite game of all time. I've been sleeping to this ever since it's been released. Thank you.

I always thought of lonesome road as meta commentary on how influential main characters in video games are and how much of the world they change

This was my first Fallout, and I got the fear of god put in me by a deathclaw next to Neil’s shack. Imagine my relief when they’re much squishier in Fallout 3

I really enjoy long retrospectives. I love your format and I can’t wait to go through the backlog and hope to see some more in the future!

I've been watching this over the span of multiple sittings and I gotta say this is Hella impressive. 7 hours of quality content, love to see it.

2:13:16 I just want to piggy back on to your point here, if you take the confirmed bachelor perk you end up finding a quite a few homosexual characters that you would otherwise not know of. Like The desk clerk in Mojave Outpost, and Boone’s friend Manny Vargas. The Desk Clerk being particularly interesting as he mentions that sort of thing isn’t allowed in the NCR. Then again Cpl Betsy exists, who’s openly a lesbian. Very interesting stuff

Bro killed chief hanlon and choose one of the worst endings in the game and justified it it by creating head canon.

That's a weird looking monster Hunter spinoff... Loved New Vegas and even it's ups and downs when the different dlcs were being dropped. Should be a fun nostalgia trip watching this.

Another important thing about the SPECIAL is to not fill any up to 10, only 9. Because later on when you reach the New Vegas medical center the doctor can sell you implants that boost special points up by 1. That way you can spread out points more in the beginning and then max them out later on

It's funny how you effectively demonize Mr House when he has the most optimistic ending of the game, meanwhile an independent Vegas hints at an upcoming calamity due to destabilizing power dynamics and becoming a lone resource filled area surrounded by the superpowers of the wastes.

Your comments on honest hearts story, especially when it comes to Joshua, missed the entire point of the story. Joshua is there to reflect how a man like Caesar comes to power. His charisma makes it hard to not believe what he says, to not want to side with him. New Vegas as a location struggles to show the realities of tribal warfare that dominated the lands before house or the NCR took power. The world that Caesar dominated wasn't one of technology or wealth but one of the bare savagery humans are capable of. You said Joshua committed genocide against the white legs. This is blatantly incorrect. The men Joshua killed were an invading army. Would they have offered peace to the Sorrows or Dead Horses? No. They were there to kill the men and enslave the women and children. Killing them to the last man is the correct course of action. All Daniel teaches them is how to be victims of any man willing to commit violence. How many times can they flee? There's not many fertile lands in the wastes. How long until they're forced onto lands they can't survive on? Or how long until they don't flee fast enough? There is no society that can survive while being unwilling to defend itself. All Daniel does is cripple them.

I have played this game collectively over consoles and PC for probably well over 2,000 hours. Am I gonna sit here and watch a 7+ hour video about it? You’re goddamn right. Because I’ve got spurs that jingle jangle jingle

me: "Man I really wish I could watch a 7 hour deep dive on fallout new vegas" SuperRAD: "Hold my sunset sarsaparilla."

when i clicked on the video i was surprised to see this video was 7 hours long, but i gave it a shot and was 4 hours in and was totally immersed in the video i didn't realize i watched it that long. i can only imagine how long this video took to record, edit and voice over. thank you for this work of art superrad.

"With your luck I'm surprised those bullets didn't turn around and climb back into the barrel"

Robodogs (as well as robobrains) use the brain for processing (much like a SIMM for a PC) which is then grafted onto an existing robotic personality (like the ones in robots like Mr. Handys or Protectrons.) Generally its original memories/personality are only a shadow or a vague background thing. In the case of the Robobrains, the brains used have their past self lobotomized out for the most part. A few exceptions exist, and the process isn't always perfect. The robodogs were originally developed by Big MT (I think) and they're a little different from robobrains, but I think they work generally the same. So putting a new brain into Rex would not fundamentally change him as his base programming is like that of a regular robot. But the personality might bubble up to the surface like a kind of trojan or a corrupted hidden system file, and cause problems. Or not... you can see I've given this some thought.

The amount of effort you put into this is incredible! FNV remains my favourite game of all time, and this might just become my favourite video of all time. Thank you :)

"it's about letting go" I say as I carry the corpse full of gold out of the casino

This was an amazing retrospective good sir! Im going to be doing another playthrough as a result. I forget how much i enjoyed this game when it released. Lets just hope i have enough time to actually complete the run :D Thanks for reminding me that I still have this game

I played this game before and after a vacation to Las Vegas and I can say without a doubt the peoples faces are very similar to the NPCs in the game.

I'm not into fallout, but the dedication to get this long of a video out is super impressive, so I'll watch it all.

I really like your video. Personally, Honest Hearts was one of my favorite dlcs. I never took the messages as seriously as you did so perhaps that is why, but I see Joshua Graham as a deeply, deeply flawed man. He tries to change but is still stuck in his past ways. I believe the Courier's choice here with killing the White Legs, while sketchy, leaves the most room for improvement of both the tribes and Joshua. The evacuation in my mind leaves no future for the Sorrows, as they don't have the same defense as with Joshua's semi-militarism in the not-terrible-Joshua-ending. Maybe I am wrong, maybe not. If there is any feedback from anyone, I'd love to hear it. Just a man sharing his opinion.

I aleays fealt that joshua grahm was one of the best, most well written character in the entire franchise. Its such a unique story to unfold and i loved his devotion to his faith. I also liked that due to his legion background he started falling back into his old ways and its up to you to help pull him back from the darkness by getting him to spare salt-apon-wounds. In the ending slide it shows the tribes how to defend themselves but not fall into batbaric warmongering by showing a small act of mercy. I personally fealt that that ending was the best possible scenario in that dlc and that honest hearts is one of the best additions to any game. Im sorry you didnt seem to enjoy it.

At this point, I think RU-vidrs are just challenging each other: who can make the longest Fallout New Vegas video

What a great way to start the weekend, keep up the bangers my guy!

I haven't watched this yet, but man, I am EXTREMELY excited for it, especially after you said you've played it 27 times. My dude, you get it. I just stared playthrough 34, and loving it like all the other 33 times. This game literally never, ever gets old!

The Luck stat check that lets you in the Strip is funny too

I think the tribes are presented less as ignorant and more innocent due to their insular cultures being restricted to Zion Canyon, hence why Follows-Chalks doesn't understand the significance of Hoover Dam. How would know the dam is more than a wall if he doesn't know what a dam is? This is why I think the DLC is called Honest Hearts. It is about cultural innocence. The tribes being in different stages of innocence like choosing to remain innocent by fleeing but risk being targeted later anyway, choosing to fight to defend themselves but risk becoming warmongers themselves. The White Legs arguably are also innocent, a warrior tribe unwittingly tricked into being pawns of the Legion and innocent by way of not understanding the motives of larger powers than themselves.

I will never forget when I fell through the floor in REPCON, teleported outside of REPCON, then immediately got mauled by feral ghouls that suddenly respawned. Or when I got jumpscared by Vulpes and I fired immediately at him, and got shredded by Legion. Or when I tried to steal from the Silver Rush(before I learned I can just pick up a gun and take it to the back) and immediately got shredded by them. ..A lot of my memories of this game is just dying to be honest.

The writing on this is so tightly paced I feel like the adverts only help me catch my breath. Amazing work.

This has got to be one of the greatest videos of all time, thank you.

Time to dust off my copy of New Vegas and lose every sense of real world responsibilities and obligations. Thank you for your time on this video, great listening while I'm at work 👍

My fondest memory of fnv is that patroling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter

This is one of my favourite videos to come back and watch on the regular - I never had the equipment necessary to play fallout games (no consoles outside of hand-me-down Nintendo handhelds and a computer that would chug through trying to load a large spreadsheet), so I got into the lore of fallout more than the game itself. I read the fallout bible, scoured the wiki, and had favourite characters just based off of their stories alone. It’s what turned me into a vorthos type for basically every game I play (including MTG, even if I suck at the game itself haha). I enjoy listening to people who grew up playing fallout games because it’s a whole different perspective, and I really appreciate your story telling ability and personal insight. Keep up the amazing work!

One of the reasons the Legion does not attack you on sight is that you are or were a courier, one that was known about, and Legionnaires do not attack couriers as many are disguised Frumentari.

Yes! 7 hour long Fallout New Vegas reviews are my favorite genre! Edit: SuperRad this is amazing! It’s remarkable how much effort has gone into this video. Thanks for always uploading such great content!

I'm sorry, but I can't justify siding with Daniel over Joshua during the Honest Hearts DLC. I get the sentiment that Daniel is the more peaceful of the two and that Joshua is literally war criminal/religious zealot. But Daniel is infantilizing the Sorrows. He's encouraging them to run from their problems and avoid violence out of some desire to keep them "pure and innocent". Not only is such a mentality twisted and creepy, but it's also doomed to fail. The Wasteland is a dangerous place, with factions like the Fiends and the Legion infesting it (not only that, but the White Legs are *literally* acting on behalf of the latter). The Sorrows won't be able to run from every hostile force they encounter. Eventually, they will find themselves in a situation where they are forced to either fight or die out. What's worse, Daniel has the Sorrows leave their ancestral home; a land lush and filled natural resources. Such places are very scarce in post-apocalyptia, and the likelihood that the Sorrows will find a similar home is slim. And what do the White Legs do with the bounty they've stolen? They go full salted earth and destroy it. An utter and senseless waste. No. As bad as Joshua is, he's right to encourage the tribes to fight for their home. And provided you have the necessary speech skills, you can even encourage him to spare the White Legs leader, preventing the Sorrows from completely losing their penchant peace and cooperation with outsiders.

I don't exactly remember when but I believe there's an NPC who says something like 'Legion will make a slave out of you without asking, the NCR will pass a law that makes you one'.

I don't know why it took me so long, but I finally got around to finishing this video. This was a fantastic retrospective on a fantastic game, thank you SuperChad.