Intro
Welcome to Kings & Queens, our two-headed Let’s Play of an all-time classic Western RPG, Fallout: New Vegas.
Published in 2010 by Bethesda (but produced by Obsidian), New Vegas is the 4th canonical Fallout title and a soft sequel to Fallout 3, which it shares an engine and a lot of resources with. It’s still a fan-favorite thanks to its excellent writing and darkly humorous post-apocalyptic aesthetic. But perhaps the most intriguing thing about the game is that, in the 11 years since it came out, New Vegas’ modding community has produced a truly astounding collection of mods for it.
Mods you say?
Oh my yes. Like most of the other 1-player Bethesda RPGs, New Vegas has a very rich modding community that has bent the game backwards and forwards to the point that it can be downright unrecognizable. Though still infamously fragile in some ways, the game is much easier to mod today than ever before, thanks to tools like Qolore7’s excellent Viva New Vegas modding guide, and the (forgive the joke) game-changing Mod Organizer 2. My copilot Fleta Mcgurn and I will be simultaneously playing two substantially different modded versions of New Vegas; think of them as queen and king sized mod lists!
Fleta, for her very first play-through, will be using a smaller and more vanilla-friendly(ish) list of about 25 mods. It should probably allow her to play through the whole thing without too many issues (seeing as the vanilla game has plenty all by itself: if anything many of these mods should actually increase stability).
I, for what is probably my 4th or maybe 5th play-through now, will be using a ridiculous list of about 100 mods. I fully expect it to break hilariously at some point, but you never know!
A huge thanks to all the modders whose work we will be featuring.
Structure
This will be a stills and video hybrid LP thread. Fleta and I will mostly be posting stills and text describing our concurrent adventures, but we will also publish as many videos as we can, discussing our progress over game-play footage. The tone will be comedic: we’re both pretty big goofballs, and this game universe is pretty damn wacky all on its own.
Content Warning
That said, this game is also pretty gross in places. There’s bad language, sex, violence, drugs, all sorts of horrible stuff. Consider this paragraph your all-purpose warning not to watch our videos at your rest-home receptionist job, etc.
Thread participation
The hope is that this will be a fun, chill comedy LP, so please feel free to join in on the discussion! We may ask the audience what to do next at certain points, which options to pick with an NPC, how to decorate a space, etc. The one thing we probably won’t consider at this point are changes to the mod lists: our technical advisor Okitsubu and I thoroughly tested all the mods we chose over the course of several months to prepare, so we’re not going to mess with that now unless something truly disastrous happens. Fingers crossed!
Spoilers
Here’s the trickiest part: because this is Fleta’s first time through the game but our paths are bound to fork, the rule is please don’t spoil the main quest for her play-through. I have plenty of mod content and side-quest stuff to explore on mine that will, hopefully, keep me a step or two behind her on the primary story-line. There are some actual fun twists to this game’s plot, so please let her come across them naturally. If you simply must make a joke about something she hasn’t seen yet, do it in spoiler tags please.
Let’s go!!!!
Start here with our first video update, episode 0: opening cinematic and character creation!
A courier has been shot in the head outside the town of Goodsprings, but has made a full a recovery. They are (either):
Fleta Mcgurn as Waynetta Neutron:
BFM (me) as Johnny Smash:
Our starting skills (minus equipment):
