534: Fallout: New Vegas

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Games, Leisure, Technology, Video Games

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🗓️ 22 May 2023

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

With 2008's Fallout 3 bringing the fabled RPG series to a new generation of players who couldn't—or didn't want to—play the first two games, Bethesda had an audience poised and ready for more post-apocalyptic RPG fun. With Skyrim currently in the works, the developer turned to Obsidian Entertainment to transform an abandoned Fallout project into a fitting sequel in just 18 months. And what could have felt like a cheap cash-in ended up being the series' finest moment to date.

On this week's episode, join Bob Mackey, Gary Butterfield, and Kole Ross as the crew drinks plenty of refreshing Sunset Sarsaparilla and talks about the sprawling, somewhat messy masterpiece known as Fallout: New Vegas.

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0:00.0	This week on RetroNots, an exclusive interview with Johnny Gatarr.
0:25.8	Hello everybody, welcome to another episode of RetroNots.
0:28.2	I'm your host for this one Bob Mackie and this week's topic is Fallout New Vegas.
0:33.3	Yes, we're looking at Fallout New Vegas.
0:34.9	Obsidians follow up to Fallout 3 that many fans of the series view as it's finest moment.
0:40.5	So to be honest here, we have not really covered the Fallout series since 2008 and many a thing has
0:47.4	happened, including Fallout New Vegas. So I'm happy to return to Fallout after 15 years to talk about
0:53.0	one of my favorite games of all time. Who is joining me here on the program today?
0:58.2	Over here in Portland, we got Gary Butterfield and I'm Mr. New Vegas. I like it so much.
1:05.9	And who is our Ohio correspondence? Over here, man.
1:09.3	Not me. No, no, no, where worth mentioning Ohio is Cole Ross.
1:13.9	I'm sorry, Cole, that I that I dox you. No, that's fine. That's okay. I would have said Ohio
1:18.6	anyway, because Gary said Portland. But even though I am far away from the Mojave Desert,
1:25.4	I am still dedicated deputy of Prim Slim. Now you two of course were good pals and we've been on
1:31.5	a lot of podcasts together. We are just at Midwest Gaming Classic. But I'm also having you on because
1:36.3	you are my Fallout ringers. You know a lot more about Fallout than me. I think I'm a pretty big
1:40.8	Fallout fan, but you guys have played the originals. You've made, I will dare say probably a hundred
1:45.6	hours worth of podcast material about the Fallout series. Multi-part episodes about Fallout 3 and
1:51.8	Fallout 4. I think you've done the first two games as well. Yes, we have. We've done everything
1:57.0	except for Brotherhood of Steel and the other Brotherhood of Steel. Fallout Tactics Brotherhood of
2:02.5	Steel and the PlayStation 2.1 sponsored by Balls. Energy, the horrible, horrible Diablo-like.
2:11.6	You have done a New Vegas series? We did. Right back in 2016. Wow, wow, I can't believe,
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