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DeathChicken posted:Yeah, somehow outsmarting him on that one check just makes him hate you *forever* First impressions are a hell of a thing
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Dean is probably my favorite character in New Vegas.
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Jul 4, 2018 02:12
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Dean's a dick. But he's the good kind of dick.
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Jul 4, 2018 04:14
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DeathChicken posted:Yeah, somehow outsmarting him on that one check just makes him hate you *forever*
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Jul 4, 2018 19:52
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DeathChicken posted:Yeah, somehow outsmarting him on that one check just makes him hate you *forever* That would explain why I had no chance to get a good ending with him when I played this the one time. Skill-check sucker trap.
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Jul 4, 2018 21:39
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I love this rear end in a top hat so much
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Jul 4, 2018 21:41
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it helps that it's not just player-specific spite he has. Dean's got the best backstory.
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Jul 4, 2018 22:05
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Dean is one of my favorite companions, and if he had been anywhere outside of the DLC that also contains God, a permanent fixture on my team. Something in the combination of being intellectual, an rear end in a top hat, and a loving ogre just hits all the right notes for me.
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Jul 4, 2018 22:43
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Wanted this one to go up at the fourth of July, but I was kinda sapped of energy by then. Sorry Chapter 41: Sun Vulture and the Grand Opening  The LMB stands for "'Lijah Must Burn". ApeHawk fucked around with this message at 05:25 on Apr 10, 2019 |
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Jul 7, 2018 05:40
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And.... here.... we..... go.
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Jul 7, 2018 06:02
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Welp, we can finally run into the casino and pillage the motherfucker.
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Jul 7, 2018 16:21
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Yeah, this is why it's Light Step or bust for this dumb area. The radios are annoying enough, I don't need to be walking into bear traps every three seconds.
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Jul 7, 2018 17:26
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Jul 7, 2018 22:52
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Holy crap what a slog...well done. I've never seen this DLC through, so I'm excited to see what happens.
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Jul 9, 2018 00:52
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Yeah the outer villa areas are really obnoxious to deal with and now we have to go all the way back to the fountain, no fast-travel here.
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Jul 9, 2018 07:26
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That's some good gunpowder in those fireworks, still ready to burn all those centuries later.
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Jul 10, 2018 03:35
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Glazius posted:That's some good gunpowder in those fireworks, still ready to burn all those centuries later. Big Mt. probably made it out of the ground up skulls of puppies and children or something.
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Oh boy, here we go! The moment some of you have been waiting for! Chapter 42: Sun Vulture and the Sierra Madre 
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Jul 12, 2018 04:43
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I love the Dean-Vera-Sinclair soap opera backstory. It just encapsulates the pre-War world so neatly- exaggerated, treacherous, romantic to the point of silliness. And it ties in perfectly with the theme of obsession, too. Can't wait for the next update!
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Jul 12, 2018 06:09
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That was the correct solution. gently caress Dean.
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Jul 12, 2018 06:44
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Kept him alive on my first run because I wanted the "Keep all the crew alive" achievement, but god drat did I want to disintegrate him there and then.
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Jul 12, 2018 18:41
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gently caress Dean, but I never have it in me to kill him. I like how he calls me partner and besides, what's the coward gonna do after this, leave the Villa? He'll get eaten by a gecko. Rip
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Jul 12, 2018 18:53
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Aw, and he didn't even try to murder you in the theater. That was one of my favorite scenes of this DLC.
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And that's what makes Dean amazing. No high-minded ideals, or real excuses or ends justify the means. Just pure petty spite.
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And that just makes all his "Cat got your tongue?" quipping at the fountain awkward
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DeathChicken posted:And that just makes all his "Cat got your tongue?" quipping at the fountain awkward That's just more to show how much of a utter scumbag he is, he knows exactly what happened to her and just wants to rub salt in the wound. Can we get a non-canon thing which shows what happens when he actively hates you?
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Do you get that infodump if he hates you?
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DeathChicken posted:And that just makes all his "Cat got your tongue?" quipping at the fountain awkward Another dimension to that: he's trying to goad her to speak to see if the voice is right.
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Dean Domino is certainly the best written character in this DLC, and that's saying something because every character in Dead Money is already great. The real reason I was nice to him this whole time is because yeah, if you piss him off at all prior to this act, he doesn't give you the full backstory of his plan and doesn't reveal that he was the one who put Christine in the Auto-Doc. Instead, he taunts you from the balcony (catwalk?), and you can Speech check him to get him to slip up about how to dodge all the hazards in the Tampico. Once you confront him at the end, he's more vicious towards you than Sinclair and Elijah that he can't be reasoned with and you have to kill him. The game gives you quite enough time to run out of the room, too. About 30 seconds, if I remember. The scene works out extremely well-staged either way, though. He's on the higher end of the stairwell, and the ominous lighting is hovering above him. It's the exact moment that he shows his true colors, literally. He even hisses at you if he doesn't like you at the end of his conversation, which is a nice touch, giving him a snake-like aspect to really hammer in just how venomous he is. Oh, and I just finished recording for the end of Dead Money, and I gotta say... Elijah never saw it coming.
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Good. Goooood. That is the proper ending.
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Getting inside the Madre is where this DLC really begins to shine, specifically storywise. And gameplay-wise too, I guess, since dealing with the hologuards is less of a pain than navigating the cloud-maze. I love the outcome with Dog/God and I found it touching in a way that he'd find inner peace after so long. All the different endings for whichever option you choose are really good for him as well. As for Dean Domino, the point where he shows his real colours is like he's urging you to kill him, even if you "partnered" with him up to this point. I think I planted a grenade on him myself. Seemed fitting to end him in a really sneaky way that he never saw coming. The remainder of the DLC is really golden, too. But obviously I'll save it for after you're finished.
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I don't think I ever saved Dog/God, but that's because I try not to go Speech heavy (it makes things too easy) and he has a check somewhere in there that I think will kill him without recourse if you fail
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DeathChicken posted:I don't think I ever saved Dog/God, but that's because I try not to go Speech heavy (it makes things too easy) and he has a check somewhere in there that I think will kill him without recourse if you fail I thought it was a passed speech check that caused him to commit suicide...
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Even on top of how horrible everything he's saying is, the voice acting during Dean's little rant (no spoilers; the video is essentially the same conversation we just saw with a less well-deserved conclusion) is astoundingly venomous. The guy's basically a parasitic wasp in a suit and shades.
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Sadly Dean's VA, Barry Dennen, died last year.  Drakyn posted:Even on top of how horrible everything he's saying is, the voice acting during Dean's little rant (no spoilers; the video is essentially the same conversation we just saw with a less well-deserved conclusion) is astoundingly venomous. The guy's basically a parasitic wasp in a suit and shades. And watching this again I wanna play it just to shoot him. Unfortunately I'm in OWB hell on my current playthrough. Rip
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You'd have to be very hosed up to come up with his plans, and that was BEFORE he sat stewing in impotent rage for two hundred years.
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This makes me want to go through NV again, Bumper Sword playthrough this time.
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My first playthrough was a melee character who settled on the unique Super Sledge early on. My fondest memory was of a certain optional thing I'm sure ApeHawk will do about 40 episodes from now.
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Even his reason to hate Sinclair is terrible. gently caress Dean.
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I always leave dean alive (except that one time I pissed him off) and instead, make him reflect upon his actions as a man in pre-war times. He either lets go, or destroys himself going mad about how he couldn't be the one to destroy sinclair.
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