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- Oct 22, 2021
Finished my playthrough with Someguy Series installed today, and I must say that other than it being buggy as fuck I really enjoyed it. Writing was really eye-rolling sometimes (other than forced pop-culture references in NVB I, why the fuck does the Mojave have so many advanced bunkers in random places, some of which are said to be very hidden but are in everyone's plain sight? And why do a bunch of junkie raiders like Fiends have an entire succesion line of like 20 different bozos that you need to take down before they finally decide to eat shit and die? Not to mention Marko as a whole), but otherwise it was very solid and I was actually invested in roleplaying and weighting my decisions. You can tell that the Someguy loves Wild West fiction and knows what makes it good. His style of comedy was really up my alley, too - when among corpses of mafioso NPCs I killed I spotted one named "Paulie Almonds" I actually grinned like and idiot, normally I would cringe at such blant reference but author's writing skills made it actually work.
Gameplay-wise, I wish the mods were more balanced. Their difficulty ranged from "piss easy" (90% of bounties) to "what the fuck" (ghouls under Chola Mountain [seriously, maybe I was underleveled but spawning a bunch of glowing ones and ghoul reavers behind your back every few moments is NOT my definition of balanced], Marko, that clown who takes all your gear and has scripted knife that can two-shot you), but there also were fights that I actually loved - like the one where you have to evade, spot and kill an invisible sniper, for example.
As for NVB III, I actually played with an unofficial rewrite someone posted in the thread earlier, so I have higher opinion of it than most. I later watched Marko's original dialogue on Youtube and the rewritten version is so much better - it turns him from emotionally unstable edgelord ("yeah I raped and murdered a pregnant woman in front of her husband once, it was funny as fu- HOW DARE YOU GUN MY PIECE OF SHIT BROTHER DOWN YOU MONSTER! YOU WILL PAY!") to someone who can be described as an twisted reflection of Courier's - or maybe even player's - soul. Rewritten Marko has extremally darwinistic world view, and sees the world as his playground - he views himself as this world's main character and thus believes that he has divine right to shit it up as much as he wants, like a bored New Vegas player who does an evil playthrough just because its fun. He respects Courier as an equal, someone who's free and carves their own patch at all times just like he does, and even admits that he doesn't give two fucks about his brother anymore because he considers you, someone as powerful as him, as his true sibling. Also, the new music that plays both times you confront him sets atmosphere WAY better that the original one.
Overall I recommend playing it if you haven't, even to just make up your own opinion. There is a reason why everyone agrees that NVB 1-3 are the best quests quest mods for New Vegas, even though the bar isn't that high. They are better than your average coomer Manic Pixie Dream Girl follower mod, at least.
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Imagine nuFallout having dialogue like this.
Gameplay-wise, I wish the mods were more balanced. Their difficulty ranged from "piss easy" (90% of bounties) to "what the fuck" (ghouls under Chola Mountain [seriously, maybe I was underleveled but spawning a bunch of glowing ones and ghoul reavers behind your back every few moments is NOT my definition of balanced], Marko, that clown who takes all your gear and has scripted knife that can two-shot you), but there also were fights that I actually loved - like the one where you have to evade, spot and kill an invisible sniper, for example.
As for NVB III, I actually played with an unofficial rewrite someone posted in the thread earlier, so I have higher opinion of it than most. I later watched Marko's original dialogue on Youtube and the rewritten version is so much better - it turns him from emotionally unstable edgelord ("yeah I raped and murdered a pregnant woman in front of her husband once, it was funny as fu- HOW DARE YOU GUN MY PIECE OF SHIT BROTHER DOWN YOU MONSTER! YOU WILL PAY!") to someone who can be described as an twisted reflection of Courier's - or maybe even player's - soul. Rewritten Marko has extremally darwinistic world view, and sees the world as his playground - he views himself as this world's main character and thus believes that he has divine right to shit it up as much as he wants, like a bored New Vegas player who does an evil playthrough just because its fun. He respects Courier as an equal, someone who's free and carves their own patch at all times just like he does, and even admits that he doesn't give two fucks about his brother anymore because he considers you, someone as powerful as him, as his true sibling. Also, the new music that plays both times you confront him sets atmosphere WAY better that the original one.
Overall I recommend playing it if you haven't, even to just make up your own opinion. There is a reason why everyone agrees that NVB 1-3 are the best quests quest mods for New Vegas, even though the bar isn't that high. They are better than your average coomer Manic Pixie Dream Girl follower mod, at least.
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, you should be able to stumble across the locations and keys for them organically and be rewarded for knowing where they are by memory if you don't want to play the stupid minigame every time.