Fallout New Vegas endings

If you don't pick the NCR, you're objectively wrong.

>Mr House
Totalitarian dictatorship

>Legion
Sadistic totalitarian dictatorship

>Independent
Chaos

>NCR
Republic with some high taxes

Bump

Mr House may be totalitarian, but he knows more about Pre-War America than anyone else. Why would you want an asset like that murdered? He FOUNDED robco, technology like the Sierra Madre's matter replicators could easily be brought back to the world if he reverse engineered them.

Because he can fuck off. You could do the same shit just by getting the Glockbot into the Mojave.

Also, the NCR is only a "republic" in name. Up to Tandi's death, it was a one party state that was no more of a democratic republic than North Korea.

NCR doesn't have the manpower or the structure to defend and manage Mojave area properly. House is the better choice for New Vegas and the Mojave area.

Each side has its ups and downs but NCR is overall the best choice for the residents of the Mojave desert. Unless you're Massacist then Legion to fucking kill and enslave everyone

>massacist

opinion discarded

House while keeping in good terms with the NCR is the best ending.

>caring about the outcome of your game world that gets summarised in 2 minutes at the end and doesn't affect anything
>not going independent solely because it doesn't involve doing a multitude of boring fetch quests
>not eradicating boomers and brotherhood as soon as possible to avoid even more fetch quests

>>Mr House
>Totalitarian dictatorship
no

independence is the way to go
people have found ways to survive and will continue doing so

house and ncr are just steps in nuclear overkill's direction

I wonder if the Gaston AI will ever show up again
Also it would probably just be intrested in making guns

House is very explicitly not a totalitarian, you have no fucking idea what totalitarian even means.

I'm about to start my first Hardcore playthrough, but I'm worried about how it changes companions to be killable. Should I put a few points in Charisma to make them less squishy or is it not worth it?

House is a benevolent dictatorship, dumbass.

>not picking the only option that will make the wasteland safe

I've found they won't die much unless they face tank deathclaws or cazadors.

>>Mr House
>Totalitarian dictatorship

Dude

If House was so great and saw the nuclear war beforehand, why didn't he stop it?

Also
>a guy in who has sat in his pod with 2x sexbots for the past 200 years
>sane

>Massacist

What if I have JSawyer Ultimate installed?

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>killing the Kings because they helped deescalate the fighting between NCR refugees and the locals

You think the NCR wouldn't wipe out Legion associated parties in Shady Sands?

>be me
>working the family business, farming shitty desert fruit for chump change
>recruiter convoy rolls through my village
>promises tons of caps salary and gambling and whores if I sign up with the NCR for a year or two
>don't want shot protecting some shitty gas station fort so I pass
>a month later I'm drafted anyways and forced to enlist
>have to wear hot ass fatigues in the desert all day so tourists with too many caps on their hands can travel the roads to new vegas safely
>the pants ride up too far and everyone smells like shit from swamp ass because of the heat
>at least four people a week in my unit get heatstroke
>at least two end up shot by fiends or impaled by scorpions the size of automobiles
>only a week left until I'm discharged and sent home
>some prospector in tatters stumbles into the outpost and starts blubbering about tribals
>everyone laughs at him because the khans got their shit fucked up so there's no way he's telling the truth
>a bunch of guys in football gear storm the outpost fifteen minutes later
>despite the entire outpost having rifles they overwhelm us with dull machetes
>watch my friends get nailed to telephone poles by guys in skirts
>one of them is wearing a dead dog on his fucking head
>instead of being mutilated I get sold into slavery and haul flour sacks for a week until I collapse from exhaustion one day and get shot in the head
>mfw

>NCR
>Republic with some high taxes
and corruption
and bureaucracy
and abuse of power
and incompetence

This game is not worth all of the analysis it gets here. You people are putting 100x more thought into it than the creators did.

>what the fuck you guys stop talking about video games

Come on now.

Same reply every time someone fails to praise this overrated game. Doesn't it get old?

I didn't choose Independent out of selfishness, I chose it because I realised I simply couldn't trust anyone else to actually handle things.

I wanted to believe in house, but it became clear that he only protected everything so that he could control it, rather than help it to succeed.

Top kek

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What the fuck do you want? People to stop talking about and enjoying a video game because you don't like it?

You're in this thread first and foremost to bitch. Quit being a whiny fag and just fuck off if you don't like the game

This. How does the legion win any battles? The NCR has guns and rifles and they have spears.

>inb4 muh numbers
They'd have outnumber them until the NCR runs out of ammo to work

They don't. People spank themselves over the legion winning against tribals and raiders while NCR beat the fucking enclave and brotherhood

I don't have to like a game to discuss it. The truth is that all of the factions are bad choices so it doesn't make any difference which you choose. Just like in Skyrim. Besides, the game is designed for you to play multiple times and choose them all.

that means at least 200x more thought than bethesda fallouts

Every actual encounter seen in the game with the legion versus anything ends up with the legion dead. They can only win with plot armor.

Mr House is a scientific genius with great civic administration skills. He could easily manage the strip and Mojave.

>so that he could control it
Not relevant to whether he would be good for the Mojave

Every time.

I think morale plays a pretty big part in it. Legion soldiers are entirely devoted to Caesar and his cult of personality, while the majority of NCR soldiers are lightweights that half the time don't know bullets come out of the slim end of a gun. Just look at camp golf.

Legion also has a lot of intimidation factors. With the NCR, if you're captured you're either being sent to prison or shot in the head-- With the legion you'd be nailed to a fucking post for a week, or beheaded with a tapered slab of metal, or sold into slavery or any other number of horrifying shit. It's like fucking vietnam with all the 20 year old kids going up against rabid tribals and losing despite having "superior firepower".

And then there's that the NCR is spread thin within the mojave anyways. Anywhere that isn't a major outpost like McCarran could easily get flattened.

>These strawman arguments
Go away, Todd

>House managed to turn backwards tribals into the Casino families in less than 20 years
>lol dude he's bad

This is bait, but if you honestly like 3 over New Vegas, you have terrible taste. The only redeeming factor of 3 was the Virtual Reality Memory Lane quest.

Legion is all around the worst faction for the Mojave, where even Caesar admits it'll fall when he dies. Independent seems like it's slightly worse for the Mojave than Mr. House, although not by much. Mr. House is probably the best choice for the Mojave and even the world at large. Fuckers in this thread seem to think a dictatorship in a nuclear wasteland full of thugs is a bad thing.

>I AM SILLY

What? No. Following the Legion squad that leaves Nipton shows otherwise. In my experience,they killed everything they came across, with two Legionnaires dying

You choose the NCR/Legion if you're a shortsighted buffoon. You alleviate immediate, short term suffering and subsequently doom countless generations to potentially thousands of years of living in an apocalyptic wasteland as well as perpetuating the cycle all over again.

NCR are by far the best choice. They may have steep tax demands, but other than that the citizens are pretty much left alone and protected from threats by troops.

>implying that no matter what route you take some assholes won't just nuke everything again hundreds of years into the future

You're trying to argue that the possibility of the Old World coming back without a genocide of all mutants is even possible?

Even if you managed to accomplish that, the infrastructure is hopelessly fucked and there's no central government to oversee any construction contracts.

Fallout 3 and New Vegas are both good enough but they are different kinds of games. 3 is a typical Bethesda style open world games and one of their better attempts. NV is more like a Bioware or Black Isle type game. NV might be a little closer to the series' roots but it doesn't mean that 3 is bad.

The Independent (and possibly Mr. House) endings are weird because it heavily implies the securitrons only protect The Strip and Freeside. I find it weird that you end up getting a massive army of securitrons and don't just sent a few of them out to every settlement to protect them. I guess they didn't want to shit on the NCR ending by saying "And then with your giant army of death mechs you easily protected every settlement that was more than five people living in a shack". Also i just read some of the ending scenes for Independent, and it seems everyone immediately started rioting when they heard they were independent, For some fucking reason.

They have plot armor because they are part of the storyline so they are stronger than the normal guys.

> NV might be a little closer to the series' roots but it doesn't mean that 3 is bad.

It does, all Fallout 3 did was disregarding the lore of the first two games. Just to disregard their own established lore of 3 in 4 due to fan complaints.

From a storytelling point it's bad, I did enjoy FO3 for all what it's worth. But I think New vegas is better.

3 would have been better and made more sense lorewise if it took place sooner after the war like originally planned

>Massacist

Why would I delude myself thinking I'm supporting a democracy when in reality I'm supporting an oligarchy? The worst part about democracies is the facade of freedom. I'd rather know what I'm dealing with under house or hell even the Legion, than serving and dying for a government that is in reality being controlled by wealthy ranchers.

Degenerates like you belong on a cross.

>lore
Fallout 2 is already a meme game with a nonsense story so that doesn't matter.

*blocks your strawman*

It still made a lot more sense than 3 did.

The Legion is not some of strict, honorable army bent on purging the wasteland of degenerates, it's the cult of personality of some stupid, narcissistic, psychopathic faggot who has no interest in anything beyond his own ego.

NCR is no more of a republic than the Legion is, it's completely bloated with the kind of corruption and dick swinging backroom politics that caused the nukefest in the first place.

>People defend legion
It will never work, as soon as Caesar dies it will fall apart because no one can take his place and all the tribes he conquered still remember their past so the stupid idea of "Caesar wants the legion to fall apart so that the tribes share a culture" wont work.

>pick House
>take down Brotherhood before they cause any more harm to the mojave

That's the same issue 4 has. Bethesda just don't have any sense of time. But they also have various inconstincies in the lore.

i pick independent because literally fucking no one can stop the courier.
the main flaws with each faction in the game is that i can kill their leaders whenever i feel like it

it is statistically possible to start the game, run over to the fort, and just fucking kill caesar. and then thats fucking it for the legion.

same with house. make a mad dash for the strip, don't even fucking bother with benny, open up house's little fuckin tanning booth and punch his face off

while general lee oliver and president kimball can only be killed at CERTAIN points in the story, you can kill the ranger chief and a bunch of colonels

you can even nuke the long 15 and a large legion encampment, because fuck those guys

in short, every faction in the game is flawed because theres nothing stopping me from killing all of them

>Pick anything
>Annihilate the brotherhood before they can do strip you down

I know i'm missing out on a few missions, but it's so satisfying to do. Only reason you'd have to not eradicate them is if you're a waifufag for Veronica.

I don't think 3 is bad because of NV or because is different from older RPGs
I think is bad because of how little fucks they gave to the overall feel and pacing of the main story (as the original end shows)
For a single player game sold as "story driven" it was really fucking retarded
Also too many side quests in that game are just dumb one-off vignettes that give you no insight or perspective in the world.

or power armor training yet Enclave teaches you than as well so they're useless yet again also
>Veronica
>ever having her in your company

fool me once, i buy fallout 3, fool me twice, i buy skyrim, fool me three times Todd and ill reserve a cross just for you

you scamming son of a bitch

She should be in your company if you do Beyond the Beef.

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>legion with CNR installed
>those fucking centurions with 45 DT

>do entire BOS quest line
>get power armor training
>immediately pop stealth boy and initiate the bunker self-destruct sequence

Is there any reason from an RP standpoint to put up with the Brotherhood's shit? Every faction sends you in there to kill them, and the first thing they do when they see you is point guns at you and tell you to give them all your shit. If i was sent into a base full of tech cultist to kill them and they immediately pointed weapons at me and told me to give them all my stuff i'd assume the jig is up and start gunning them down. Unless you're playing as a really retarded guy or a pacifist i can't see any scenario where you wouldn't gut them on sight.

>playing FNV for the plot and not loading up on sex mods so hard you end up as a tranny angel with DD tits and a 10 inch dick strapped to a fallen satellite getting raped by deathclaws

Why do you guys even play games then?

>CNR
*blocks your path*

>subjecting the mojave to the tyranny of taxation

unless you RP as a Brotherhood spy then commit the second Nanking in that bunker

There isn't. The best brotherhood ending is if you have them make a truce with the NCR. Otherwise they just turn into high powered raiders. So if anything they get what's coming to them/

>that second pose
Wait a minute...

fucking garbage

no fucking succubi allowed in the legion

>check out companion mods
>Willow
>Niner

All Fallout companion mods are always fucking awful. Either they're not voiced at all so it's immersion breaking, or the voice is some teenager whispering into his walmart mic, or the voice is fine but the character themselves is a mary sue.

Thinking back on it; it's dumb the independent route never let you set the stage for a democratic city state. It's literally just robuts that shoots anyone that gets too violent

Power armor is super overrated. Light armor is where all the good perks are, and even enclave armor won't stop a deathclaw from tearing your face off

That's Bethesda games in general. You don't like Bethesda games which is fine.

RPing a Midwest BoS Paladin, Energy or Bullets?

>the game gives me the option of killing characters
>this is somehow a flaw

All the factions continue (for the duration of the game) even after their leaders are murdered.

>The truth is that all of the factions are bad choices
Call me a fag, but I hate this in New Vegas. It just doesn't feel like I'm completing the game at all.

>CNR

>>subjecting the mojave to the tyranny of taxation

fag

I like it because it forces you to trust yourself in what you think it's the least shit choice and not because of what's considered correct

To add to this ->

Elijah fits about 95% of that as well, and he has the benefits of being able to walk around. Why does no one consider his ending the best one?

By the time I escaped Elijah's Wild Ride I didn't want to work with him.

> ->

>reminder that if you love Cass and side with the NCR you're a cuck.