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00:00I wanted to donate to you guys, I played this video game, I've talked about this before,
00:05but I played a video game so often that I injured my hand so severely that I had to go to a hand doctor.
00:11Welcome to Mojo Plays and we've already looked at the lesser known facts about the Fallout series,
00:15but as it turns out, there's a bunch of hidden details in arguably the best entry of them all.
00:20These are 25 things you didn't know about Fallout New Vegas. Let's have a geese.
00:24Before we continue, we publish content all week long, so be sure to subscribe and ring the bell to get notified of our latest videos.
00:33Might have a child.
00:35Howdy there, partner.
00:36Fallout New Vegas hid a detail about our main protagonist that's fairly substantial.
00:40There's a quest where you're supposed to meet a wandering guitar player, the Lonesome Drifter.
00:44If you've picked up the Lady Killer perk, you get to ask him if he's 17, and when he confirms he's not, you can breathe a sigh of relief.
00:51Turns out, the courier has a little confession.
00:54He thinks he might have impregnated a woman in Montana 18 years ago before the game starts.
00:59Considering all the aimless wandering and dodging death across the wasteland,
01:03it's entirely possible the courier has a secret child roaming around somewhere out there.
01:07I'm surprised anyone can still make babies with all that radiation.
01:12So long, friend.
01:14Brahman Tipping
01:15I included this one in the full series video, but I have to talk about it again, because I'm so surprised I didn't know this.
01:25Did you know that you can tip Brahman in every main Fallout game, except Fallout 4?
01:30Yep, it's a real thing.
01:31In Fallout 3 and New Vegas, sneaking up on a Brahman and interacting triggers a hilarious pushing animation.
01:37The poor thing topples over, flops on its side for a few dramatic seconds, then gets back up like nothing happened.
01:42Poor little guy.
01:43Okay, let's do it again.
01:48Planet of the Apes
01:49Did you know about the Planet of the Apes ending tucked away in the game's final DLC?
01:59Here's the setup.
02:00At the very end, you're staring down a bunch of nuclear missiles that are about to go kaboom.
02:04If you have the Wild Wasteland perk equipped, you can make the truly chaotic choice.
02:09Blow up Caesar's Legion, the NCR, and pretty much everything else inside.
02:12Go rogue, press the big red button, and the game rewards you with a special slideshow set against a backdrop eerily reminiscent of Planet of the Apes.
02:20Oh, and there's a voiceover explaining the catastrophic consequences of your creative problem solving.
02:25Mojave, damning them all to hell.
02:28The act was discovered 200 years later as other couriers explored the Mojave Wastes.
02:37Lottery win origins.
02:41Yeah!
02:42Who won the lottery?
02:44I did!
02:45Smell that air!
02:46The first few missions in Fallout New Vegas give you a disturbingly close look at Caesar's Legion and their, let's call it, unique approach to town planning.
02:55Take the small town of Nipton, for example.
02:57You meet a man who proudly announces he won the lottery.
03:01Sounds like luck, right?
03:02Wrong.
03:03The lottery was actually a Legion contest.
03:06They stormed the town, slaughtered everyone else, and spared only the winners, so they could spread the terrifying news of Caesar's conquest.
03:12Basically, your prize was survive to traumatize your friends.
03:15It's a clever nod to Shirley Jackson's The Lottery, a short story where the winner also meets a grim fate.
03:21Stone to death.
03:22You'll cross like the rest of these degenerates.
03:24It's useful that you happen by.
03:27I want you to witness the fate of the town of Nipton.
03:30Meet of Champions
03:31Many players have never heard of the hidden perk Meet of Champions, and yes, it's as twisted as it sounds.
03:42Activate it and you get bonus stats by devouring the heads of major characters in New Vegas.
03:46We're talking Mr. House, The King, Caesar, and President Kimball.
03:50Before you start chomping down on Elvis impersonators, though, a few warnings.
03:53Doing this will sabotage most main missions and make your courier look like the villain of every Wasteland Bedtime story.
03:59In short, dark, cruel, and probably not great for your social life.
04:02Unless you're only friends of radscorpions.
04:04The perk does grant a temporary boast of plus one luck, intelligence, charisma, and strength for 60 seconds after eating any human corpse.
04:11Which isn't bad, I guess.
04:19Japanese Changes
04:20The Wasteland is filled with powerful tools.
04:29But if you really want to feel like the ultimate walking apocalypse, there are two weapons that put all the others to shame.
04:35Why?
04:36Because they don't use boring old bullets.
04:38The Fat Man and Little Boy.
04:40But if you aren't a history buff, you might not know that they are named after the actual bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II.
04:47In the Japanese version of the game, the Fat Man was politely renamed Nuka Launcher.
04:51But Little Boy stayed.
04:53Because why not?
05:00Ghost Suit
05:01Imagine being trapped in a living suit, dying, and then having your corpse turned into a walking weapon of pure destruction.
05:14That's basically what the Y-17 enemy is in the game.
05:18It's a harness suit designed to bring its user back to home if they die.
05:23Except in true Wasteland fashion, the machine is malfunctioning.
05:26It doesn't know if the wearer is dead or where home base is, so it just aimlessly wanders around, killing everything in sight.
05:32And while you're fighting it, the Y-17 might eerily announce,
05:35Hey, who turned out the lights?
05:36That's a cheeky nod to Doctor Who and the dead humans who had their spacesuits hijacked by the Vasta Narada in Silence of the Library and Forest of the Dead.
05:53Intelligence Switch
05:54Sorry, son. I fixed up your head as best I knew how.
05:59I guess I missed a spot.
06:00It shouldn't surprise anyone that your intelligence stat in Fallout doesn't just affect your character.
06:05It also shapes how the entire game world reacts to you.
06:07Pump up your intelligence, and suddenly you're the witty problem solver with extra dialogue options.
06:12Keep it low, though, when you're basically stumbling through the Wasteland like a confused radroach.
06:16But this doesn't mean it's worse.
06:18Take Freeside during the quest I Make You Care.
06:20If your intelligence is on the lower end and you ask a vagrant about weapons and loot, something wild happens.
06:26The vagrant suddenly starts speaking clearly and intelligently, warning you to avoid trouble.
06:31It's just like real life.
06:32For someone to sound intelligible, you just have to be dumber than them.
06:35Nice.
06:35If you cover the area methodically, I'm quite certain you'll happen upon them with only the most insubstantial of delays.
06:41Highway to Heck.
06:46Fallout loves to put in little nods to its previous games, and even sometimes nods to games ahead.
06:51In Fallout New Vegas, while wandering the Wasteland, you might stumble across a half-submerged, wrecked Highwayman.
06:57A clever throwback to the Highwayman from Fallout 2.
07:00Pop open the trunk and you'll find some energy, plus either Gold Slouch or my Chrysalis Highwayman playing in the background.
07:06It's wild how much detail and love went into something so tiny.
07:09Discovering this easter egg is pure luck, but the fact that the developers cared enough to craft it so meticulously,
07:14that's the kind of thing that makes you pause, smile, and then carry on looting the Wasteland.
07:18Port Judgment.
07:24Who the hell are you?
07:26They bring you in to replace me?
07:28They're replacing me, aren't they?
07:29Early in Fallout New Vegas, you'll meet a character named Fantastic.
07:33And many players don't realize his facade is total BS.
07:36He's supposedly the head scientist at an NCR-controlled facility, tasked with getting a solar-powered energy plant back online.
07:43Turns out Fantastic is mostly full of hot air.
07:46He forged his credentials to get the job and considers himself a genius at everything, despite utterly failing to get the plant running.
07:53During the quest, the lucky old son, if you arm Archimedes I and spare Fantastic, you might come back to a shocking scene.
08:00Fantastic decked out in Legion armor, standing over the body of his co-worker whom he just offed.
08:05His chilling response?
08:07Hey man, when in Rome.
08:08I don't think that applies to murder, bud.
08:10Man, I don't even know.
08:12It's crazy.
08:13Skywalker Burn.
08:21Who doesn't love a good Star Wars Easter egg?
08:24Fallout New Vegas sneaks in a tribute that will make classic Star Wars fans both grin and wince.
08:29If you've got the Wild Wasteland perk and wander into Nipton, you might stumble across two charred bodies named Owen and Beru.
08:37Any Star Wars fan will immediately recognize them as Luke Skywalker's doomed uncle and aunt, who got wiped out by the Empire while searching for R2-D2 and C-3PO in A New Hope.
08:47Thanks for that fun little Easter egg, Fallout.
08:49What the f***?
08:50As it turns out, some secrets even hide in the wallpapers Bethesda used to promote New Vegas.
09:04Take, for example, one featuring a young lady looking all coquettish in a Vault 34 jumpsuit.
09:10Turns out, this isn't just some random Vault girl.
09:12It's actually Pearl, the leader of the Boomers, back in her youth.
09:16Basically, Pearl's been cool and subtly intimidating since day one, and apparently she's photogenic enough to double as a marketing poster.
09:23Who knew the Boomers had style?
09:24So we can get used to what it's like to have a sav- uh, outsider around and about.
09:30Should that go well, it may be you can help in big ways too.
09:34Accidentally ending companions.
09:38Accidents happen.
09:39Eventually something's gonna go sideways and leave you wondering why the universe hates you.
09:42Fallout New Vegas gets this too, and it does it with style.
09:46In the town of Novak, an old NCR ranger can teach you a combat move that paralyzes your enemies.
09:51Sounds awesome, right?
09:53Well, here's the catch.
09:54Your companions aren't immune.
09:56If they wander in front of you while you're practicing, bam, they're knocked flat and paralyzed.
10:01And thanks to some questionable AI programming, your companions love wandering right into the line of fire.
10:06So it ends up looking like you're the villain in your own Wasteland story.
10:09One minute you're honing your skills,
10:10the next minute Veronica is flailing on the ground.
10:13Oops.
10:19Thirst World Problems.
10:21The number of ways your character can bite the dust in Fallout New Vegas is borderline hilarious.
10:35Animal mauling, shot by guns, blown up, stabbed, cliff tumble, or even succumbing to poison.
10:40Pretty standard Wasteland stuff.
10:41But here's a shocking twist.
10:43In hardcore mode, one of the ways you can die is from not drinking water.
10:47For those who didn't try hardcore, you wouldn't even realize this is a gameplay mechanic you completely avoided.
10:53It's both strange and unsettling that something as simple as forgetting to hydrate can kill you
10:58in a world where everything else is trying to murder you.
11:00Nuclear apocalypse, sure.
11:02Raiders, fine.
11:03But forgetting to drink water?
11:04That's apparently the real endgame.
11:06Celebrity voice actors.
11:14This guy is the leader of a gang called the Chairman.
11:17I play Benny, who is a very driven, kind of rat pack type guy.
11:24Baby, you can't just leave me tied up.
11:26Those Legion boys will put me on a cross for the mess you made.
11:29Video games love sprinkling in a few celebrity voices, but Fallout New Vegas went all out.
11:34They got Matthew Perry, yes, Chandler Bing himself, to play the smooth-talking villain Benny.
11:39Which most of us know.
11:41But wait, there's more.
11:42Chris Christopherson, Danny Trejo, Felicia Day, Zachary Levi, Rene Aubergine-Noir, John
11:48Dowman, Michael Dorn, William Sadler, Rob Corddry, Alex Rocco, Will Wheaton, Zoe Bell, and
11:52even Dave Foley, the voice of Flick in A Bug's Life.
11:56It's basically a celebrity wasteland party, just with more gunfire, radiation, and exploding
12:00Brahmin.
12:00Dr. House, he's a very strange and enigmatic character.
12:07Give me 20 years, and I'll reignite the high technology development sectors.
12:1250 years, and I'll have people in orbit.
12:15Narrator is an actual character.
12:17I don't even know how to load a game player, much less play the games.
12:23No, my mind doesn't work like that.
12:24Not even being tempted.
12:25The only game I play is Free Cell Solitaire.
12:28I have it on my phone and my iPad, and that's it.
12:31Love a bit of Solitaire.
12:33I left Ron Perlman off that list of celebrity voices because I wanted to talk about him now.
12:37He's been the ever-present narrator across the Fallout series, dropping lines like War
12:41Never Changes, with the gravitas of a man with his face.
12:45But here's the thing.
12:46While his voice has been everywhere, that intense face has never shown up in the games.
12:50He's basically Fallout's invisible all-knowing god, Morgan Freeman, if Morgan Freeman ran
12:54on Rattaway instead of Charisma.
12:56That said, a bug in Fallout New Vegas let players escape the ending slideshow, and what
13:01they found was shocking.
13:02Ron the narrator, a secret in-game character that nobody was ever meant to see.
13:07Turns out he's just a placeholder, but still cool.
13:09Blasted into the ground and earth, the last word of the last of the twisted hairs.
13:17Fallout 3 concepts.
13:20While New Vegas was technically a spin-off, it was being made by people who knew the wasteland
13:25better than Bethesda ever could.
13:27These are the kinds of developers who probably measure distance in rads and XP, not meters.
13:32Before Black Isle went under, they actually had a plan for their own Fallout 3, one that
13:36stuck with the original isometric style.
13:38Sadly, that version never saw the light of day, but a ton of its ideas were scavenged in
13:43true wasteland fashion and rebuilt into New Vegas.
13:45The Nevada setting, Hoover Dam, Caesars Legion, all concepts first strained up for the lost
13:51Fallout 3.
13:58Originally playable.
13:59One of the best things about Fallout New Vegas is how it lets you truly be whoever you want
14:17to be.
14:17You're not stuck as a vault kid with daddy issues this time.
14:20You can be a noble wanderer, a cold-blooded killer, or someone who just really, really hates
14:25giant rat scorpions, but Obsidian originally wanted to crank that freedom up to 11.
14:30Back when the game was still called Fallout Sin City, yes, really, and no, not the one with
14:34Bruce Willis, players were going to be able to choose from three playable races, Human,
14:39Ghoul, or Super Mutant.
14:41Imagine rocking up in the desert as a giant green brute trying to flirt your way through
14:44dialogue checks.
14:45Useless perk
14:52Fallout New Vegas perks make it so you can boost your skills, get better criticals, or
15:01even talk your way out of a gunfight with enough charisma and bad decisions.
15:04But there's one perk you should absolutely avoid, like it's carrying the FEV virus.
15:09On paper, it's supposed to give you an extra 5 points of damage threshold against energy
15:13weapons while wearing metal armor.
15:15Sounds great, right?
15:17Problem is, thanks to a little coding hiccup, it actually gives you nothing.
15:20Zilch.
15:21It's basically a perk-shaped participation trophy.
15:24The bug happens because the game checks if the weapon's file name contains energy,
15:28but in the game's data, they're actually called energy weapons, so the perk looks for energy,
15:32finds nothing, and politely shrugs.
15:37Huge fan of the franchise.
15:39All right, all right, we're out of time.
15:42We have to get to this because I don't want to not do this.
15:45You have something to donate to us for eBay to raise money for the Humane Society of the
15:49United States?
15:49I do.
15:50We're jumping back to celebrity voice actors and looking closer at Matthew Perry.
15:53Did you know it wasn't his name, talent, or acting chops that landed him the role?
15:57It was pure, unfiltered fanboy energy.
16:00Back in 2009, while promoting Seventeen again on the Ellen DeGeneres show,
16:04he suddenly launched into a heartfelt declaration of love for Fallout 3.
16:07The man practically glowed with Voltec devotion.
16:11He even gave Ellen a copy of the game and an Xbox 360 to play it on.
16:15Apparently, that moment caught the attention of Bethesda's higher-ups,
16:18who thought, well, this guy really likes Fallout, let's make him a sleazy mobster in the next one.
16:22And thus, he was cast as Benny in New Vegas.
16:24And so, but I signed it, so it looks like I created a game.
16:26What's it about?
16:27What is it?
16:27It's a post-apocalyptic world.
16:29I see.
16:30And you run around and kill things.
16:31I see.
16:34And, uh...
16:34And you say it's 666 is the number that you have.
16:38Brutal.
16:38Wow.
16:39Brutal.
16:39All right, and you have the Xbox as well?
16:41There's an Xbox 360 in here that I signed it to.
16:43All right.
16:44Great.
16:46For all you devil worshippers out there.
16:48Benny is based on a real person.
16:51Guess who's waking up over here.
16:57Time to cash out.
16:59We're almost done with Perry-adjacent entries.
17:01Benny is one of gaming's all-time greatest slippery bastards.
17:05But, as it turns out, he was inspired by a real person.
17:08Benjamin Bugsy Siegel.
17:09Like Benny, Bugsy had a thing for flashy suits and bad life choices.
17:13And both men built their legacies around the Vegas Strip.
17:16He was a full-time mobster and part-time entrepreneur,
17:19dabbling in everything from Prohibition-era booze running
17:21to good old-fashioned assassination
17:23before deciding that gambling was his true passion.
17:26Get the idea behind the character.
17:27Any questions you've got, I'll answer.
17:29Made in only 18 months.
17:31Fallout New Vegas has more bugs than a Radroach convention,
17:42and there's a big reason why.
17:43Bethesda only gave Obsidian 18 months to make the entire game.
17:4818 months.
17:50That's barely enough time to finish building one of New Vegas' casinos,
17:53let alone an entire open-world RPG.
17:55Honestly, it's impressive the game booted up at all.
17:57To put that in perspective, Bethesda's own RPGs usually take around four years to make.
18:02Obsidian had less than half that time,
18:05an unfamiliar engine,
18:06and probably a collective caffeine intake that violated OSHA standards.
18:09Scrapped Romance Options.
18:16Now that I'm free of the outpost,
18:18was wondering if you'd mind making a detour.
18:20During early development,
18:22Obsidian toyed with the idea of adding romance options for companions,
18:25but instead of heartfelt love stories,
18:27the plan was for the Courier to have a series of weird,
18:30awkward, and probably ill-advised romantic misadventures with their crew.
18:33The Bachelor Mojave Edition.
18:35Most of these ideas didn't get far before being scrapped,
18:37but one stood out.
18:39Cass and the Courier were going to get blackout drunk
18:41and end up getting married on a whim at the King's School of Impersonation,
18:46complete with an Elvis track playing in the background.
18:48That's not a quest.
18:48That's a Vegas weekend gone perfectly right and horribly wrong at the same time.
18:53Let's see what you got.
18:56Considered a failure.
18:57So, of course, as you go around,
18:58you find out that what you were carrying
19:00is centrally tied into this major conflict in the area
19:03between New California Republic and Caesar's Legion.
19:06It kind of feels like Bethesda would rather pretend
19:09Fallout New Vegas never happened.
19:10Anytime the studio talks about the series,
19:12it's all our game's this, our vault's that,
19:14like the Mojave just mysteriously fell into a black hole
19:17somewhere between three and four.
19:18To make things worse,
19:20the deal Obsidian got for New Vegas was,
19:22well, let's just say less than legendary.
19:24They were paid a flat fee up front with no royalties,
19:27and the only bonus they'd get was if the game hit 85 on Metacritic.
19:31It ended up scoring 84 on Xbox 360.
19:35War never changes, and neither does your paycheck.
19:37The lack of royalties and that missed bonus
19:39ended up leading to layoffs at Obsidian
19:42proving that in the games industry,
19:43business is still business.
19:45It's about choice.
19:46You know, do I want to be the nice guy?
19:47Do I want to be the bastard?
19:48Endgame plan had to be cut.
19:51And so the courier who had cheated death
19:52in the cemetery outside Goodsprings
19:55cheated death once again.
19:57Considering how New Vegas never misses a chance
19:59to punish or reward your choices,
20:01it's kind of odd that the game abruptly ends
20:03after the final showdown.
20:04Originally, Obsidian had an entire post-game planned,
20:07a full endgame experience that got condensed
20:09into the infamous slideshow,
20:11probably because of the 18-month development cap.
20:13If you dig through the game's files,
20:15you'll even find remnants of this scrapped content.
20:17It wouldn't have rewritten the wasteland entirely,
20:19but it would have let you stick around
20:20to see your decisions actually ripple through the Mojave.
20:23Mr. New Vegas was supposed to report
20:24all the fallout, pun fully intended,
20:26in detailed news stories,
20:28while enemies would have shown up in unexpected locations,
20:30depending on your choices.
20:31Basically, your chaos would have had consequences
20:33you could actually watch unfold,
20:35instead of just staring at a series of slides
20:37like a post-apocalyptic PowerPoint.
20:39Tabitha and Rhonda went east,
20:41through Caesar's land.
20:43Occasionally, tales of their exploits
20:45found their way back west.
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