An illusion that you can begin again, change your fortunes. Finding it though, thats not the hard part. It's letting go...

>An illusion that you can begin again, change your fortunes. Finding it though, thats not the hard part. It's letting go.

What did he mean by this?

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He means escaping from the vault and never coming back (sans the stacks of gold)

Personally, I trapped elijah in, so, in other words, he cannot escape from the vault, since he couldnt let his greed go

He means their studio returning and being successful again.

>He let go

>not blowing his brains out and tossing a piece of his head over the forcefield, stuffing his corpse full of the gold, money and guns, hauling ass go the door and loot all the loot off the piece of his brain

Letting go my ass. Consider heist successful.

The writing in this DLC was amazing.

The theme of the DLCis the difficulty in letting go of short sighted desires in favor of the big picture

>Sinclair has to let go of Vera
>Elijah has to let go of the cloud
>Dean has to let go of the Sierra Madre

etc.

The last part of the DLC where the courier has to escape the vault with his life illustrates this theme. You can escape with your life but if you're greedy you will literally be dragged down by your hundreds of pounds of gold. Unless you have a big ass dick and sneak out obviously ignoring the intended moral and game mechanic

Elijah wasn't motivated by greed though. Each of the characters were motivated by a different vice, greed wasn't Elijah's.

Letting go was a false flag moral; the real moral was that pussies have to settle and make sacrifices, while real manly men can tell the world to fuck off and keep their pile of literally useless amounts of wealth.

>kill everyone
>take all the gold
>live on the strip forever as a rich cyborg with assistance from the Think Tank as I work for House to save mankind and explore new planets and impregnate Cass repeatedly
>????
>profit
Letting go is for suckers.

Okay, so what was it, in your opinion?

Theme of the DLC was letting go because Obsidian were bawling their eyes out over the fact that this was their last time with Fallout and the DLCs were its last legs.

Cucks.

The lore reason is Elijah wanted to harness the Cloud and kill everything in the west coast. He believed if he snuffed out all life the pre-war tech would be his for the taking and preserved for good in the cloud smog. He never gave a shit about the gold.

Getting technology, the cloud and the hologram emmiters to commit genocide.

Hubris, that's why God compares him to Icarus. Elijah is obsessed with the Sierra Madre, but only because it is a means to the end he actually wants.

>tfw New Vegas was a way from Obsidian to tell us to let go of the series

He is wise.

Am I the only one who still wonders why gold would still retain value in post-war America? What fucking value can gold be? Too weak to make bullets or armor and not enough tech to make software out of it.

Well less genocide everyone everywhere, more than anything else he just wanted Helios. Killing everyone with the cloud was his way of getting them away from Helios so he could return and reclaim what he considered his.

To be fair he did hate the NCR and wouldn't mind genociding them, but that wasn't his goal.

I see

Keeping all the pre-war technology can be considered as 'greed', tho.

With stable factions like the NCR, New Vegas, and the Legion, gold would still be valuable. Hell, gold is used by some of them, definitely the Legion.

Gold was valuable before any of those existed

>that voice acting
top
fucking
percentage

That is true but he's not really wanting to keep it, so much as understand it all. The Brotherhood overall are obsessed with hoarding technology, but Elijah himself was regarded as an outlier because he wanted to study and learn from pre-war tech, and improve upon it. This was a huge No-No for the Brotherhood, and a large reason they wanted him killed after his failure at Helios.

Gold has value because there's a finite amount of it. I understand the idea that it has no value if the entire world is struggling to survive but the world of Fallout already has a functioning economy with bottle caps (finite amount, difficult to counterfeit) so there's no reason gold wouldn't be valuable

>Letting go of short sighted desires in favor of the big picture

what was the big picture for all the characters?

Its shiny.
Fuck the brotherhood. I hated them so much in NV. They have the technology, they have the training and the equipment but no, "we will just die here".

Fair enough
I wonder why BoS was so dumb at certain moments
There is nothing wrong on learning and understanding pre-war technology, but I doubt Elijah would give it a good use

That his dlc is garbage

The Brotherhood are techno thumping raider tier cultists that would rather lock away and worship a fucking toaster than study and improve upon it's base design. They're whole ideology is retarded because they want the main populace of humans stuck with rocks, rags and spears against mutants, ghouls and rads.

>le literally forced to build END if I want to have at least one of every item from the location
holy shit just let me revisit the DLC after commpletion

Now that you put it that way, BoS indeed sound like an assholes

The main populace of "humans" aren't human.

Everyone but the BoS, Enclave, and sealed vault inhabitants should just die.

You sound like you need to let go of your greed for items, user.

They are supreme assholes. Will literally rob a homestead at gunpoint over a plasma pistol. That's how much of technology hoarding cultists they are. God forbid a community has a protectron or Auto-doc. Brotherhood dogs need to be flayed alive. House had good mind to wipe them out.

youtube.com/watch?v=87US9AXNMME

based

>it's a "crybaby can't git gud and keeps getting his pussy head blown off by radios" episode

lol

>tfw joined the BoS in my first game
I though so highly of them, mostly becauase I was ignorant, or maybe I didnt pay enough attention

These Power Armors, tho
That Thermic Lance, tho
These heavy weapons/lazer guns, tho

BoS shop was quite awesome

>US military
>terrorists
ishygddt

the mojave BoS is a joke m8

Right up until Courier uncucks them.

And this is why house was the most logically best ending. Not poisoned with retarded ideology or corruption. Just wants a shining safe beacon of progress and to make money.

>Rob people at gunpoint over small energy weapons that protect their home and livelyhood
>not terrorists
Fuckers deserve to be buried a thousand times over.

I was somewhat impressed that in 4 they had the BOS being tech-hoarding assholes again. Sounds like Lyon's goody-two shoes deal didn't stick.

Still slaughtered them all.

>people
they are unAmerican mutants that can't be trusted with the technology that rightfully belongs to America's children.

If you're 15

>fallout 4
>tech hoarding
>Nu-Maxon is destroying the largest known utopia of advanced technology
>MUH SYNTHS MUH SYNTHS MUH SYNTHS MUH SYNTHS
They were too retarded to live. Even by Britherhood standards.

We're talking about the BOS tech cultists, not the brave red-blooded Americans in the Enclave, son.

The BoS and Enclave, though they may have their differences, are both America's sons.

>he didn't go for the Independent Ending

if you are the sort of person who actually finishes all the quests/DLC and can reasonably pass speech checks to get good outcomes as a cyborg 10 INT Wasteland Jesus courier, you have no reason to be the tool of any of the main factions instead of purging the raider scum and allowing the towns of the Mojave to prosper with your Securitions, political influence, and Big MT technology

No, The Enclave are true Americans while the Brotherhood of Assholes exist to stick dicks in every laser rifle in existance.

You think The Enclave would let the monkeys have the laser rifles?

>he thinks the independant ending was good
Reminder when an AI goes behind your back and does things for itself it automatically becomes untrustworthy.

One is the American government, doing what it can to protect the nation's interests.

The other is descended from defectors and are literally raiders with big guns who think way too highly of themselves.

>tfw had a 100 spech with 4 INT
Charming dumbass I suppose?

>"Fan: Why'd you imply that Yes Man was going to take over in the Independent ending? After going to all the work to take Vegas over myself it was kind of a bummer to learn Dave Foley was going to take it all away.

>JE Sawyer: That's not the implication." DUN DUN DUUUN!

"Fan: Then what is the implication? That seems to be what everyone reads into it-- Yes Man reprogramming himself to be more 'assertive' is kind of ominous!

JE Sawyer: That he will not just roll over for the next person to walk up to him in the Courier's absence. I.e. he will become a somewhat-independent steward instead of a powerful tool for any random person to use for nefarious purposes.

Defection is as American as it gets.

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