Fallout: Dead Money - Review | Greed & Crippling Melancholy

"Babe, wake up, a new video essay on Fallout New Vegas just dro-... Nevermind, go back to sleep, It's Dead Money."

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Mod list:
(This doesn't include everything; it's mostly just the mods you can visually see in the video, such as animations and some graphical changes. I also use a custom ReShade preset. I will make a complete mod list when I finally compile the autism needed to write it all down.)

[SOME ESSENTIALS]
xNVSE
FNV 4GB Patcher
YUP - Base Game and All DLC
JIP LN NVSE Plugin
JohnnyGuitar NVSE
Stewie Tweaks
Stewie Tweaks Essentials INI
ShowOff xNVSE Plugin
NVTF - New Vegas Tick Fix
kNVSE Animation Plugin
UIO - User Interface Organizer
FNV Mod Limit Fix
Improved Console (NVSE)
Shader Loader - NVSE



B42 Descriptions
B42 Inertia
B42 Inject
B42 Inject - Coffee
B42 Inspect
B42 Interact
B42 Loot
B42 Optics
B42 Wristwatch
Better Cigarettes - B42 Inject
Hit - B42 Inject - Liquid Courage
Hit - B42 Inject Meat Anims
Hit - B42 Inject - Sunset Sarsaparilla Animations
Hit - B42 Inject - Water Anims
Hit - B42 Interact Skinning
Hit B42 Inject - Random 1
Animated PipBoy Light
Atmospheric Lighting Tweaks (Interior Lighting for FNV and TTW)
General Lighting Overhaul
Improved Lighting Shaders
Landscape Texture Improvements
MoonlightNVSE
Simple Interior Lighting Enhancement
DM's 188 Trading Post Highway to Hell
EVE - Essential Visual Enhancements
F4NV Auto Doc

(I do not necessarily recommend these two mods below, they are a pain in the knee to get working)
[Fallout Character Overhaul 2.3.1
Fallout New Vegas Redesigned 3 - Open Source
FCO Fallout Character Overhaul - Compatibility Patches for YUP and More]

New Vegas Animation Overhaul - Guns
Afterglow
Blended Locomotion
Desert Natural Weathers - NV - TTW
Diagonal movement
Enhanced Movement
FOV Slider
Hi-Res Eyes Replacer
Gore overhaul
ISControl Enabler and Ironsights adjuster (now ESPless)
POCO BUENO Texture Pack
Upscaled Vanilla Armor Textures
Weapon Retexture Project - WRP



All music by Bark Psychosis.

Songs used:

[Hex] (Virgin Records Limited, January 1, 1994)
Bark Psychosis - The Loom
Bark Psychosis - A Street Scene
Bark Psychosis - Big Shot
Bark Psychosis - Fingerspit
Bark Psychosis - Eyes and Smiles
Bark Psychosis - Pendulum Man

[Manman EP] (Atlantic Motion, January 15, 1993)
Bark Psychosis - Manman
Bark Psychosis - Bloodrush
Bark Psychosis - Tooled Up

[Independency] (Atlantic Motion, March 18, 1994)
Bark Psychosis - Nothing Feels
Bark Psychosis - All Different Things
Bark Psychosis - Scum

[Blue EP] (Virgin Records Limited, May 9, 1994)
Bark Psychosis - Blue
Bark Psychosis - Hex
Bark Psychosis - Big Shot (Alice's Cheshire Cat Mix)

Outro song: Absent Friend


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0:00 - 2:13 Intro

2:13 - 4:05 The Loom

4:05 - 7:58 Premise / Atmosphere

7:58 - 9:40 Ghosts

9:40 - 12:30 The History of Frederick Sinclair

12:30 - 17:25 Collar 8: Dog/God

17:25 - 21:26 Collar 12: Christine

21:26 - 23:12 Collar 14: Dean Domino

23:12 - 27:25 The Sierra Madre Survival Guide

27:25 - 29:20 The Gala Event

29:20 - 33:38 Big Shot

33:38 - 34:48 Murder City

34:48 - 36:27 Old Dog

36:27 - 37:55 Knight Christine Royce

37:55 - 38:56 Dean, The King of Swing

38:56 - 43:07 SCUM

43:07 - 47:09 The Suffering of Vera Keyes

47:09 - 48:46 Pendulum Man

48:46 - 51:27 Old Manman Elijah

51:27 - 52:30 We left our Hearts...

52:30 - 54:11 Conclusion

54:11 - 1:01:20 Absent Friend













Graham Sutton, lead vocalist of the influential Post-Rock band Bark Psychosis, released Hex in 1994. A creative endeavor that would prove to be so taxing, it would break up the band
shortly after it's release, leaving Graham as the only official member under the Bark Psychosis name.

The album consists of an unrelenting weight of crushing atmosphere that presses down on you the further you dive into the record.
It was a collaborative effort of keyboarding, sampling, and varied instrumentation recorded inside of a church at the dead of night when the city was most silent.

The genius use of dynamics and subtle, slow-moving progression would later define the album as a cult classic.
The patient, nocturnal soundscape covers you in a blanket of melancholy.
The haunting and emotional lyrics transport you into the middle of a dead city, and the only forms of life you have for company are a phasing guitar, a distant piano, and minimal percussion to keep you just barely awake.
True to its name, the album will leave you in a permanent daze until the runtime is finished.
You will be left with an overwhelming feeling of emptiness as the last bit of instrumentation dies out, and you're forced to leave the album on a shelf to collect Dust.