The New Vegas Strip's Development & Cut Content

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Episode 41 of FNV: The Cutting Room Floor. An indepth investigation into the cut content, design and development of Fallout New Vegas. In this episode we take a look at the cut content and development of Mr. House, The Strip, The casinos, The Tops, Gommorah, Ultraluxe, Vault 21, LVB Station, The Lucky 38, NCR Embassy, Freeside and more. This documentary includes excerpts from interviews with several key members of Obsidian's development team, involving Project Lead Josh Sawyer, Creative Director Chris Avellone, Lead Producer Jason Bergman, as well as Area Designers JR Vosvic, Jorge Salgado and Charlie Staples.
#fallout, #newvegas, #newvegascutcontent,

[@TriangleCity]

There's somehow even more I could've talked about, but this video was already the single most difficult and time consuming art project I've ever put together. I started writing this video almost two years ago to replace the Mr House episode. That video had quite a few editing errors, missing information and I conducted additional interviews with the developers after its release. In the end, it was difficult to separate the Strip's cut content from Mr. House's cut content, and as a result, this script was 8000+ words and required extensive research to do it justice. Huge thank you to Obsidian for making FNV, my Patreon supporters, everyone who's watched, commented on or shared my videos, New Vegas's amazing modding community and those who have inspired me to continue making this series. I stayed up all night finishing this, so I'ma go pass out now 😴

[@MrChadsimoneaux]

Yes! Can't wait to watch, thanks for putting in all the work!

[@stan2429]

You're the GOAT

[@cocknballtorture777]

Sleep well you magnificent bastard :D

[@nathanlevesque7812]

I'm probably going to watch this like five times this week lol

[@johnh7593]

[@MrHeadSet1]

i swear, if they every make a fallout new vegas remastered with new technology and all the cut content, ohhhhh, best game of the year easy.

[@Einar730]

No , Cuz if it happen, it will be Bethesda making the remake , so instead of adding the cut content there will be more cut content , no skills, stripped dialogue etc

[@mrdaym]

@@Einar730 But in this scenario, in our dreams, obsidian comes back. Please don't ruin this for me.

[@gabrielmcguoirk6106]

What new technology? Bethesda has been using the same engine since the dinosaurs

[@LuvodicusMycaelis]

PC my friend. Jsawyer mods and NV Uncut mods

[@jacobhempfner1008]

@@mrdaym they won't bring them back, they showed them they could make a better game. With less money, time, resources. It would "hurt there imagine" also add paid "mods" if u want a true remastered mod the fuck out of it on pc.

[@Raven-Blackwing]

NV could have been so much more if only they had more time.

[@doc5686]

And the final product was still amazing even with the endless cuts

[@deathslide8]

And didn't have to put it onto a console.

[@jacksonelh]

for real man. it actually bums me out because they picked that development time. they probably could've picked longer. what's done is done I guess. bummer

[@jacksonelh]

they signed a contract to develop the game in that time. it wasn't like they signed the contract and then that development window was thrust on them after the fact. that was the time they agreed upon because they thought they could do it in that time due to the pre-existing assets and engine. they later discovered it was too short. perhaps they could've negotiated for longer.

[@jacksonelh]

@Jared Moreno I'm saying they settled on that short development time, and that I wish they'd have negotiated for a longer timeframe.

[@bioemiliano]

It always bugged me how the strip is said to be pristine, but it and so many new buildings that should be in good condition are completely torn apart.

[@Jiub_SN]

Well comparatively it is pristine. I think the original intent would've looked far nicer, but I also understand the limitations and story changes made it necessary. House was asleep for like 100 years after all and had only awakened relatively recently

[@anthony923]

Yo at 46:45 I always thought the massive army of robots starting up in sync would make the ground shake a little bit and maybe a bit of a bang, never made me question it.

[@TriangleCity]

To be fair, I didn't question it until I found that cut objective.

[@SamCrecco1]

I remember when I was a kid and I got the quest from Emily, I never did it because I thought if I did, House would have me banned from The Strip or I would be shoot on sight.

[@anueutsuho7425]

Apparently if you tell Mr House you plan on doing it, not only does he not punish you, he dares you to do it.

[@VideoGameSophistry]

This is absolutely incredible - I wonder if you could use this same research strategy for other projects and games? Amazing

[@commentator4ever498]

Just one more, stop using your intro, It’s very time consuming

[@thefinger1776]

@@commentator4ever498 What do you mean? VGS' intro is pretty short and chill.

[@lumps17]

@@thefinger1776 Yeah, that's a part of the appeal. I don't know what rustled his jimmies about a 5 second intro.

[@Warmaker01]

I still remember entering "The Strip" years ago and feeling so disappointed.

[@ptolomaios4118]

It still amazes me how the team made such an amazing and deep game in just 18 months

[@Vienna3080]

I really hope Fallout 4 NV will re add all this awesome cut content

[@drewinsur7321]

True, one day... one day. There will be a great NV remaster... one day.

[@wisemankugelmemicus1701]

@@drewinsur7321 Fallout 3 and Fallout NV can't be remastered.

[@CopeAndSeeth]

@@wisemankugelmemicus1701 why

[@wisemankugelmemicus1701]

@@CopeAndSeeth Because surprisingly, Bethesda has actually updated its engine since Morrowind and Fallout 3 and New Vegas' various mechanics have to be remade from scratch. The only thing that can be ported from Fallout 3 and New Vegas is the world space. Believe it or not random gaming youtubers don't know what they're talking about it when they say Bethesda has never updated their game engine.

[@ozricaurora6943]

@@wisemankugelmemicus1701 new Vegas was basically a carbon copy of fallout 3 with a different story

[@rjd-kh8et]

You still get the key to The Tops High Roller suite after winning 7500 chips. I assume Clanden's arrest was disabled because according to Ambassador Crocker, the NCR MPs only have jurisdiction over NCR troops as part of the NCR's treaty with Mr. House.

[@BayAreaUAV]

Would have watched when it dropped yesterday, but I was crossing the Salt Flats, leaving out of Wendover. Was up at BIG MT last month. Love your channel dude!

[@ilovecody7514]

This video is masterful, there was way more cut content here than even I was aware of. Great work!!!

[@tntsummers926]

Great video, I'm always glad when you update!

[@sturdytheegg1221]

What does New Vegas have in common with newton, Einstein, and Darwin? They’re born premature but still genius.

[@nonyobusiness5785]

Lmao when you said “and the other npcs the player can fuck” I literally played it back cause it caught me so off guard

[@TriangleCity]

Success

[@Legokip]

This needs to have more views it is so well made great work

[@TriangleCity]

Thank you so much dude!

[@TheReviewer63]

33:07 Hearing you say fuck threw me for a loop I had to listen again to make sure I heard you right

[@Buff-Wings]

This was always my main complaint with New Vegas, I always felt Vegas and free side were too small and divided. I know a lot of people like to think “Oh man, if only they had more time! It would’ve been the best game ever!” But it’s really not healthy to think like that, because it didn’t happen that way and will never happen. We were incredibly lucky the original creators of Fallout at interplay were able to make a new team and a deal with Bethesda to make this game a reality. But honestly with Obsidian and Bethesda both being owned by Microsoft, I’d say there is maybe a chance at a New Vegas 2 somewhere in the future. After Fallout 76 they are going to have to pull some serious fan service to win a lot of their player base back over.

[@adamwilcox3288]

I watch this video so often man, it has helped so much for giving me ideas to make my strip look amazing

[@TriangleCity]

Are you making a mod?

[@adamwilcox3288]

@@TriangleCity i would love to make a mod for the roof of the Tops, using the inaccessible elevator but i havent tried yet no. I think it would be a great use of the door there if i could get the proportions right

[@ernestkhvostov2668]

I like the idea that the strip contrasts the wasteland around it

[@MrLFJ7]

This hits real hard in the chest with the cowboy bebop guitar song playing as house talks awaiting his death.

[@world2peace982]

This game will always leave me with a weird and unsatisfied feeling not only because I felt like they could have done so much more when I play it but when I see all the cut content....

[@r3mus47]

Such an underappreciated topic, good job man.

[@Gilhelmi]

So many "disabled by a patch" ones. I wonder what the issues were. Edit: 13:30 kinda explains it. Not completely related, but I am sure that memory was a big issue with this.

[@VL4DST3R]

I'm beginning to worry for the fact that i managed to hear the bloody discord notification among all the music and talking at 34:12 and jumped to check if it was real...

[@beauvankomen]

such great content man the game is so great, been watching u for a while keep up the great work

[@twokindszen1189]

Wow that was alot I didn't even know about it would have been cool to see new Vegas as like that art picture you shown on video and this video was awesome now i know about the cut stuff from the new vegas strip keep up the great work with the videos :)

[@pickleman40]

34:10 you still can unlock the high roller suite through gambling the quest is called Big Winner, The Tops.

[@DIEGhostfish]

Yeah that Cut hotel can be seen from the sharecropper farm, it's out behind the Ultra Lux and sorta where the NCR Embassy is. Not sure if they overlapped or what.

[@jackson_1409]

Once the “passionate” gamora noises played without console commands during the bye bye love quest , it was wired

[@YourFoxFriendYT]

I fell in love with securitrons, I love them. They need to appear in more games.

[@Slade1984]

As the years go on new Vegas ages like a fine wine

[@kaydee5520]

I feel like they could remake this game how it was supposed to be made with your videos and release it for 60$ and be game of the year and everyone would be so happy + with mods on consoles that would be the best game ever made

[@kirbster1005]

Would be great to see a much larger and more open ‘strip’ in FNV for PC, without the restrictions of consoles. I also feel like diamond city in F4 was disappointing to (in terms of scale and content)

[@JW-zx5dr]

I love looking into behind the scenes and game design, although I see some cut features and cry a little inside that they didn’t make the cut.

[@jacksonelh]

ITS HERE BABY!!!! all that hard work paid off for sure haha!

[@travosk8668]

Is there a strip restoration mod? Like a fully open, clean strip with non withered Tops

[@LadyMistborn]

I love how all kinds of cool things got cut for memory, meanwhile they forget entire buildings in the world space and rocks under the ground that could've helped the game run better in general

[@KelBShobra]

Cant wait to see your first video hit 1mil views! Were halfway there!!

[@TriangleCity]

A few more years away haha

[@linkfan95]

21:05 Fun fact for anyone who’s ever seen Redline, that’s Frisbee’s voice actor.

[@brandonmusser3119]

I hope we get a remake soon maybe they can add some of these old quests back in and some of the stuff they cut out

[@Sky-dy4vn]

I've had the comment about buying drinks not being about the liquor or whatever. I'm running un-moded steam version with all DLC

[@BaldianOfIbelin]

I'm almost 100% sure that there used to be a Poker minigame because in the area where you find the China stealth armor can you find a poker table

[@fallensurvivor21]

Cool af. Does this pretty much explain why they wanted to do a PC version alone? They were really going above and beyond.. the time constraints weren't even a problem for them at the end of the day. They made their top tier Fallout game and the final product is a incredible. I respect them alot.

[@3hited]

This video is amazing. Thank you

[@glameow12345]

47:12 oh so that was cut, when I got to that point I was trying to see if there was any possible way for me to not destroy them like with most other quest lines but found out it wasn’t possible.

[@hansdiedeutsch7881]

I've heard a good number of the cut Ultra-Luxe dialogue in my most recent XBSX playthrough of New Vegas. It's possible they were never disabled, or were reenabled at some point for the Xbox release copy? I'm currently using the most recent patch for the game so its up-to-date.

[@tylerseitz6337]

Imagine what it would be like playing this on the PS4.

[@thegamingfox2533]

Xbox x

[@Jean-ClaudeGodDamn]

It's hard to imagine how badass this game would be if all that stuff wasn't cut

[@jamescole7889]

Wow this dude deserves way more subs

[@finnagarf743]

it would be nice to see a jsawyer mod for the strip, like we got with the jsawyer director's cut mod

[@k1ngofpayne991]

That FTL music had me so confused. im like how did i fire that game up without noticing?!?! cool vid none the less.

[@karlwintor2850]

Love your videos man, what texture mods do you use for the securitons because they look awesome.

[@scraminqbanchy7162]

I once ran into a weird bug with the strip ncr I was doing a ncr playthrough and in the middle of a quest for the embassy a group of soldiers came up to me accused me of being a terrorist or something and initiated combat despite me having a flawless reputation with them

[@cowerdnerddespacito9518]

You know if obsidian ever remade this game with as much time and money they needed it would be beautiful

[@oldcrow6752]

"One liners, the Epi-tome of comedy"

[@stephenelder3162]

I feel like it will haunt todd howard to the grave that he didn’t make the best fallout game…

[@PancakemonsterFO4]

You can still win the player home at the tops i swear i checked (althrough you can't send your companions to it, can't buy additional furniture and the rooms aren't as cool-looking. Also House is in the same building)

[@Goomy789]

@23:03 crate stacking challenge prediction?

[@popeofsimps2924]

21:00 oh hey I heard the Mojave one ingame, mod must’ve readded it

[@CabbageChad25]

You know you like a game when you watch a over an hour video of it bruh

[@clappeddays3305]

I think it was before/after freeside being clean but after he nukes it went down

[@OGMaverickGaming]

I expected massive city also. The Strip open mods helps. So does my personal made npc mod.

[@aaroncoffey2109]

Praying the remake 3 and new vegas remaster with all the extra things 4 has.

[@hachi9404]

if they remsastered the game, with all the cut content. Id probably buy it even if it was 100 dollars. fallout new vegas was what got me into RPGs as a kid

[@olivegarden_on_steam]

First I get my legs smashed, and then in walks the Powder Gangers' grim fucking reaper? What the fuck have you got against us, man?

[@tazzohiggdog9078]

I think Bethesda should team up with Obsidian again to remake the game the way it should have been, im not hating the game we got but looking at all these details just make me want more.

[@forest238]

What animation mods are you using? Those look really good

[@TriangleCity]

Asurah's Reanimation Pack

[@GambinoTheGoat]

Fuck I know this is some juicy stuff when it’s 1 hours long 😀👍

[@isaacsrandomvideos667]

It should have been bigger definitely, maybe a few more tall buildings, but of course it needed to stay 50s.

[@themusicalwizard613]

In an Alternate Reality.... This is the game we got...

[@johnmoan366]

The mattress on the casino roof is probably a reference to The Hangover.

[@TriangleCity]

I didn't even think about that. You're probably right

[@tonyal3235]

I swear I was gonna say that 😂

[@bimmer8602]

Lmfao I forget about that movie a lot but when mentioned, I can remember a lot of scenes in my head. Funny movie

[@mikeoxlong567]

Idk why i thought it came out years after new vegas. I feel old.

[@shadysam7161]

do you guys just say literally everything is a reference to something else? easter egg hunters are weird.

[@ast3rickk31]

I feel like, canonically, how the strip appears in one of the early trailers is how it actually is, a massive city, it’s just much smaller for gameplay reasons

[@Shushkin]

Hardware limitations

[@anti-punkaction5428]

I imagine it looks how it is in the game's intro

[@CameronHuff]

Like Diamond City in Fallout 4

[@gamer65688]

Or like the Skyrim Cities

[@kazmark_gl8652]

I think its the same as the cities of Skyrim, in cannon they are much larger but they are smaller in game due to hardware limitations.

[@TKsMantis]

Legit the most underrated Fallout KZbinr. Absolutely brilliant video Triangle! Thank you so much for the hard work!

[@darylgrandy8190]

You guys should collaborate it would make some great content

[@Luke_H98]

@@darylgrandy8190 Agreed!

[@TriangleCity]

Thank you so much dude! I love and respect you work so that means a ton from you! 🖤🖤🖤

[@aisforamerica2185]

I agree, sir Mantis

[@isaacsrandomvideos667]

TKs-Mantis yes

[@jays.6843]

The fact that the Strip actually looked nice at some point annoys me. You'd think that they'd at least maybe try to paint over the busted wallpaper after 100+ years, but nope.

[@chompythebeast]

That's _all_ of Bethesda's Fallouts for you. It made more sense in the first two games where the tone was different (more Mad Max), but once the 50's Americana came to the fore, it made no sense that everyone would literally leave skeletons sitting on toilet seats and that they wouldn't patch the holes in the walls where they live and sleep

[@turningcog]

what kind of DIY monster paints over wallpaper?

[@travosk8668]

@@chompythebeast even fallout 2 had clean areas... vault city was what a pre war city wouldve looked like.

[@zixx844]

@@chompythebeast Specially the strip where caps flow like water. No way Mr house would have tolerated letting the clans let his city decay like this and would have demanded they pay to help have the city fully restored.

[@Blakbox92]

That's what annoys me about some parts of Fallout in general. Look, I know nuclear war happened, but it's been TWO CENTURIES by the time of FO3, NV and FO4, those car wrecks should have long been salvaged for scrap, people should have repainted places they live in. There ought to be completely new constructions made from simpler materials, and where are all the bicycles? In a world with limited powered transportation, and apparently no horse, bikes should be everywhere. Edit: in FO and FO2 this kind of thing does happen, cars are salvaged or repaired. Places like Shady Sands/NCR, Vault City, and San Francisco under the Shi are well maintained or rebuilt yet still feel "post apocalyptic". Even New Reno looks like it's in better condition than New Vegas does.

[@user-hi4sm3ig5j]

I'm kind of disappointed they went with the run down version of the strip rather than the cleaned up and less damaged one mentioned. That way The Strip would have truly been the 'el dorado' it gets described as. On the other hand, the way it was shipped does make sense how it represents that The Strip is just as diseased and corrupt as everywhere else in the post apocalyptic wasteland.

[@johnkittz]

I like it. The people inside the strip talk like it's a golden city, but in reality it's just another corrupt and filthy wasteland city.

[@belisarius6949]

It should have been clean. You think you entered the jewel of the Mojave, a place untouched by the bombs, but like everything else its corrupted to the core.

[@Lorenzo_I.]

It makes me want to tackle a mod for it. I really would like the dichotomy.

[@devdixit2440]

Yeah, it's supposed to be highly developed and alluring, but there are massive potholes in the roads. The casinos look dull and ugly on the inside, with the wallpaper peeling off. The place just looks run down, its supposed to be the gem of the Mojave, it ends up being disappointing.

[@Gwestytears]

I am kind of disappointed by the scale of new vegas. 100 people milling around is barely a city

[@normandybeachparty]

Bethesda can remaster and rerelease Skyrim 29 times but can't do the same thing for this masterpiece once

[@nillynush4899]

Obsidian embarrassed Bethesda by making the best Fallout and with no time/real budget. Don't think Bethesda wants extra shit-talking points being given to the people after 76.

[@wiedzmin8204]

@@nillynush4899 FNV is literally the worst game I ever played.

[@DAntreShivers]

@@wiedzmin8204 you can't be serious

[@wiedzmin8204]

@@DAntreShivers No really, it sucks so fucking much. Literally can not stand to sit another minute playing that game. Now Morrowind, Morrowind is where its at.

[@DAntreShivers]

@@wiedzmin8204 found the neckbeard

[@H.Perevell]

I'd say that they Mysterious Stranger showing up in vats when you try to kill the Drifter and killing you instead would probably be the best thing to happen. It would most definitely spice things up and increase the value of the Drifter. A neat idea is that if the Drifter was in combat, that the mysterious stranger would have a chance to appear - outside of vats.

[@Chedring]

That cut entrance by the Las Vegas sign would have been nice. It would also make more sense since the NCR base at the airport would directly connect to the Embassy. But they must have really wanted the players to go through freeside instead of the sorta safe NCR controlled zones. Glad to see you back though.

[@nathanlevesque7812]

monorail tho

[@sebastian.victor7461]

I never liked having to go through freeside. Always felt like a second or back entrance

[@nathanlevesque7812]

@@sebastian.victor7461 If only House had created a secret entrance into the Lucky 38. That would spare us the trouble of several loading zones and even entering the laggy ass Strip quite a few times.

[@Chedring]

@Gr8Sc0tt Maybe it could require an NCR soldier ID you could steal or a super high NCR reputation.

[@hyperiongm330]

The south gate could've been locked down until the fiends are defeated due to the security risk. Literally as simple as checking if all four fiend leaders are still alive.

[@johnnyk617]

I remember being so let down when I finally made to new vegas in game I kept searching and searching where the rest of the city

[@packlesswolf1]

Same man I was like " wtf is this? Where's everything else". I remember looking at the " big " hotels and casinos and realized they are only like 4 storys tall max. But the way the modeled it made it look like it was 10 story's tall.

[@Tgspy312]

As a note, we recently also learned that the billboards used on the strip are actually a major cause of performance hits. They're extremely poorly optimised with dozens of materials and therefore draw calls per mesh. Whilst I can't speak for the obsidian guys, I have a slight suspicion that this was never caught before release, which is why the strip still performs poorly to this day. EDIT: On top of this, there lies an option in the rendering code that causes increased ram usage overall. Textures are mirrored into system ram rather than lying entirely on the GPU VRAM. This was rectified on some user mods like new vegas tick fix or more crudly, ENBoost.

[@TriangleCity]

Fascinating. I had no idea that was one of the major causes of the Strip's performance issues. With how accelerated the development cycle was, I wouldn't be surprised if it went overlooked entirely.

[@nathanlevesque7812]

No wonder I never noticed a problem with the Strip Open mod. I always had fixes for the Strips issues in general.

[@NuggetInAJar]

Can you link the source to this info? It sounds interesting to read more about

[@chompythebeast]

What confuses me is why that sort of thing wasn't patched, whereas there were _multiple_ small patches removing NPCs or encounters or fixed objects after release. The Strip remains chuggy even today. Why would they replace a green stripper cage with a gold one, but not bother to take a look at all the relatively-obvious billboard issues?

[@Ferdoe]

@@chompythebeast As the comment said it was likely overlooked until too late. Plus it would take large reworks to fix the billboards. Its as easy as ticking a box to disable an npc in most cases.

[@PrimusSwallows]

A shame they had to strip the game of all this content

[@joshualeahy2162]

*Badum tss* 🥁 😉

[@Dick_Kickem69]

CAAAAARLOS!

[@therr2146]

46:35, To think that Caesar felt the Securitrons starting up and being upgraded, and mistakenly thinking that it was an underground explosion

[@wiictvchannel1112]

What's a little lame about that too is that his response is no different even if you do blow it up. I know he wouldn't have any context to knowing the difference in different playthroughs but it just seems really lazy.

[@therr2146]

@@wiictvchannel1112 how else would he respond? If he wouldn't know the difference, he wouldn't give different responses.

[@eatglue]

Playing with uncut mods for so long, I forgot what was actually cut. Having the announcement play when I blow up House just feels like it never should have been cut. Also I love Fretwell. He just chills.

[@wojak-sensei6424]

On that topic, those sound bits of House introducing himself and when you screw him over always felt... out of character for me. He's awfully friendly at the introduction, which is fine. He's probably lulling you in and giving you the special treatment like any suave multimillionaire should. But in the betrayal bits, he still has that non-aggressive demeanor. I was expecting some level of desperation in him, like a man slowly seeing his futuristic dreams crumble around him. Instead, he seems miffed, annoyed, and nonchalant, like it's a minor inconvenience that *he's about to see the end of his 200-year plan turn to dust.* I think it was for the best that House's dialogue was cut there, or at least they could've done a different take.

[@user-hi4sm3ig5j]

15:40 Hearing that the PS3 was the reason for all the downgrades makes me feel less guilty about originally discovering and playing New Vegas on the 360 first before the PC.

[@tf2keller398]

Same.

[@Shushkin]

Consoles seem to ruin gaming for everybody

[@derp7327]

Shushkin honestly the ps3 in particular ruined a lot of games from that generation

[@pyroparagon8945]

@@Shushkin PC ruins gaming for everybody.

[@pyroparagon8945]

@@derp7327 did the Xbox not exist?

[@JohnSmith-fq3rg]

33:05 "And other characters the player can F U C K" Wasn't expecting that in this comprehensive documentary

[@Bewmbshakalaka]

LMFAO same

[@1bruhmann1]

Lol same

[@ItsKiTime]

just casually listening in the background while i draw, and this is exactly why i paused and slid down to the comments-- glad i wasn't the only one taken aback lmao

[@andrewmccotter3791]

Lol same it made me laugh My ass off

[@andrewgault8076]

screw Ceaser legion or Mr House, Bethesda was the ultimate bad guy in FNV

[@drewinsur7321]

18 months is outrageous, yet the greatest fallout game imo. Maybe after F2.

[@manuelredgrave8348]

Zenimax:

[@wisemankugelmemicus1701]

Which part of Bethesda?

[@wisemankugelmemicus1701]

@@davidf2676 Bethesda Game Studios had only minor involvement in Fallout: NV, leasing the engine to them to make the game. Bethesda Softworks is the one that supposedly screwed over Obsidian (although they agreed to all the conditions and were fine working under said conditions, and nobody at Obsidian has any real problem with Bethesda Softoworks, so this is le epic gamers getting worked up over business stuff they don't understand)

[@AlexConnor_]

@@wisemankugelmemicus1701 Exactly, there's no bad blood between Obsidian and Bethesda. NV was supposed to be a simple expansion for Fallout 3, no more complicated than an oversized DLC and as such 18 months was a perfectly reasonable development schedule. However Obsidian was very ambitious about what they wanted to do with their Fallout game and at the same time inexperienced with the Gamebryo engine and it's limitations, they planned too big and lost time with content that later had to be cut as incomplete. Pushing back the release wasn't really an option for either party, Bethesda wanted a reasonable gap to Skyrim which was launching 12 months later, meanwhile Obsidian was in financial trouble even before development started and needed to release the game on schedule or risk bankruptcy. So no hard feelings between studios, I remember one of the senior devs being asked back in 2015 or 2016 by a journalist if Obsidian would be interested in doing a similar game based on Fallout 4 and he said yes, they would still like to work with Bethesda on Fallout if the chance came up.

[@ultimatecorgi3392]

I don't think Caesar feeling the ground shake when you activate the securitron vault is necessarily a plothole. Presumably that much equipment spinning up would do something.

[@allenpate4515]

I swear every year i hear and see more cut content undiscovered until im just like damn will it ever end ... Haha hopefully never

[@DrunkVolcano]

Thanks god I had my headphones in at 33:00

[@FakeEnclaveSoldier]

Loving the series, hope there’s a remake one day will cut content restored

[@IncultaWolf]

Perhaps 😏

[@Yannis1a]

Only a fan made, obsidian is doing their own thing and Bethesda never had actual hopes in NV, they just did it to end the western story and basically a final act of good will to the creators of the original series as their was many problems when they got the rights

[@firewarrior6084]

If there is a new Vegas remake I call 2025 at the earliest to 2030 at the latest.

[@geth7112]

Hey if people could actually get the Snyder cut thing to happen. I think we could get it done for something that's actually good. Released the obsidian cut Bethesda.

[@Darknal199]

Actually a team of modders is working on a remaster called Fallout 4 New Vegas

[@stinkygoat2686]

Lol, can't imagine deving this game on a pc, testing it on an Xbox and having it run fine and then testing it on ps3 and getting 10 fps, I'd have a heart attack in thay moment of realization.

[@Oblio1942]

33:04 well that was straight to the point lol

[@housekaughffvslycir4319]

Yeah that caught me off guard XD

[@infernoreviews2529]

Sometimes I wonder why the vegas was so destroyed, house shot all the nukes out of the sky.

[@UgandanAirForce]

probably neglect/deterioration from not properly maintaining the infrastructure for a couple hundred years. the strip itself probably had the best care into it compared to the outside, but this would require a lot of manpower that they dont have i'd imagine.

[@infernoreviews2529]

Yeah that could be the case.

[@jarskil8862]

Shock- and heatwaves from missiles that hit further away? House saved vegas from direct hits.

[@yourehereforthatarentyou]

@@jarskil8862 to add onto this, in-universe vegas is a lot less wrecked than it looks in-game. look at the prequel comic, thats how new vegas *actually* looks. in-game its obviously way smaller and harder to convey that new vegas is more than just las vegas boulevard, (the game being rushed is another symptom is this) and the result of this is the destroyed parts being a lot closer to the vegas strip itself the implication is that house shot down most of the bombs that were going to hit center vegas itself, and the remaining bombs were left to hit the outer areas of vegas which would be like summerlin, winchester, and paradise. i figure these areas are meant to be the outer areas of new vegas, becoming westside, freeside, and the south vegas ruins (where vault 3 is)

[@jarskil8862]

@@yourehereforthatarentyou Its huge dissapointment that the game was rushed. I really would love to see huge city done similarly as Washington DC was made in fo3.

[@QueenetBowie]

I need to become a billionaire so I can A. Buy Obsidian back from Microsoft and B. buy the rights to fallout from Bethesda. Anyone got any good stock tips?

[@Nexuslex]

Lmao if i knew i would tell you 😂

[@Theshabadaman]

With Microsoft's recent acquisition of ZeniMax, Obsidian and Bethesda are now sister companies. New Vegas 2 is now entirely possible...

[@michaelyearwood6422]

@@Theshabadaman obsidian wants to make one and Bethesda are busy on starfield and elder scrolls 6...so its possible

[@МирјанаАдамовић]

The MP attacked me even though my rep with the strip was unpredictable and the rep with ncr was idolized, didnt owe any casino, didnt kill a single trooper, and he says "You should've payed your dues, nobody fucks with the NCR!"

[@AzmondDontez]

DUDE!!! AN HOUR ELEVEN??? YOU ABSOLUTE GODDAMN LEGEND YOU’LL BE GOING TO HEAVEN FOR THIS!!!

[@bturx2180]

holy shit a full hour

[@bturx2180]

not complaining

[@Vanalovan]

What I wouldn’t pay for a proper New Vegas Remake. Updated Engine, restored content, bug fixed and in game mod support. I play that like it was a Paradox game!