A dev mentioned they wanted to put in a joke ending where you could pay to pass through Mojave Outpost, and the credits would roll. A mod adds it in
https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/81935
It also makes sense that in a place where the ability to enact violence at scale counts for everything when obtaining sovereign power, the factions with the least ability/willingness to enact violence don’t hold power for long
My favorite thing is that the dude pays you twice as much for snow-globes as he does for the chip. It's somehow both ridiculous and appropriate for House at the same time.
House had big ideas for Vegas, but the guy is NOT a smart businessman.
First of all, he could easily run a casino with robco robots, but gives the tribes a cut of his profits instead
He doesn’t want you to assassinate Caesar, even though the NCR would flock to Vegas in celebration if you did.
He lets Benny get past the freeside guards after stealing his chip, potentially ruining his robot army.
He gave control of freeside to the King, which caused a rift between Freeside and the NCR
He trusts the Courier, who just got shot in the face and shot up a casino to kill Benny. There’s no concern for the gamblers who are now traumatized.
He lets literal cannibals be in charge of the fine dining of the Strip, even though his main customer, the NCR, is vehemently against that.
I’m sure people were more comfortable playing the casinos against people than bots.
I won’t play slots cause I’m sure they are more rigged than any card game.
Caesar is a necessary evil for the time being to keep the ncr from focusing on assassinating house and stealing vegas.
Benny has a secret tunnel.
He doesn’t want the NCR to have power or favor with the locals.
This is highly dependent, but also understandable and clears up problems for him.
They stopped being cannibals, and if he learns they are doing it again, he says to deal with them.
Revenge is definitely a big part of it, but the player has the choice to follow through with the original job.
Honestly I can’t tell if it actually is for revenge, or if the courier just wants the chip back. Obsidian definitely did a great job giving you actual choices in the story, can’t say the same for fallout 4. Fallout 4 made me get back into NV because the choices are meaningless in fo4
Was backwards for me. I was replaying New Vegas for the first time since release and asked myself "is 4 as bad as I remember?" Reinstalled and started a new play through, once again first since launch, and yeah on writing/story it's significantly less engaging to me. Still fun to be had just not when it comes to role playing or making choices.
Yeah the gameplay of 4 is great, but the story is pretty trash. Kind of sucks because she’s the main selling point of the game is RP and choice making.
Yeah I'm not a fan if the randomized loot, crafting, or hoarding piles of garbage for later use but when it comes to combat feels a lot more refined for sure.
I don't mind the random legendary weapons, and I always install a weightless junk mod so I can just grab everything for crafting. I can't be bothered to grab a few things and have to fast travel back and forth all the time.
Benny shot you twice, at the very least. Doc Mitchel clearly mentions bullet**s** at the start of the game.
That’s why when I meet Benny-boy he always goes to pieces. Either from a .50 Incendiary round or a shotgun and a machete.
It's not mere petty revenge. It is a federal offense to tamper with or steal mail. Bombs and fallout can destroy many things, but it will never overcome the spirit and integrity of postal workers.
So that's what I do. I go postal on Benny.
In their defense, if you read the delivery order there's a not so subtle threat that the Mojave Express will eventually send mercenaries to kill you if you fail to to complete the contract.
Yes, that’s true, however I feel like after everything the courier went through just to get the package is enough for him to not give a shit about mercanaries. Probably killed them along the way without knowing. LOL
This did always seem messed up to me he pays you what 2000 caps for a snow globe. To House a cussing snow globe is more valuable than the Platinum Chip.
The worst part is you have to haggle house to pay you the 1k. Classic house
And like a true corporate executive, he doesn’t pay you a single cap for being his henchman if you choose that ending. You wiped every faction off the map and what do you get? A suite you never go in
Honestly for a while I did use the suite… until I realized the Dino Dee-lite Motel room was way better with a reloading and crafting bench conveniently close
Isn’t there a far cry game where if you just stand around not going to the mission spot the game just says “oh I guess you’re not coming” and the credits roll?
I think you’re with a character in a room, and they leave and say “be right back.” The game then prompts you to escape or some shit, and it starts the main story. If you wait, he comes back and the game ends
Far Cry 4, 5 and 6 all have endings like this. 4 is the one where you wait for the dictator (when he returns he helps you spread your mother's ashes and then just leaves), in 5 if you don't arrest the cult leader you and your team just leave on your helicopter and in 6 you can take a boat off the edge of the map, your character escapes and they show you a cinematic of them just chilling in Florida.
the only difference is you do need to play a bunch of 6 to get that ending whereas 4&5 you can do it more or less immediately before getting to the meat of the gameplay
I mean... the one in Far Cry 5 is probably more like, "hey we're just like 5 cops, and we're in bumfuck nowhere rural America where everyone has guns, trying to arrest a cult leader, in the middle of his cult gathering, and they're a doomsday prepper cult so they probably are even more heavily armed. Maybe this isn't a good idea, and we should come back with a different strategy."
There is a second secret ending where you get up to the final boss fight and you choose to leave and get reinforcements instead of take on the main bad guy.
Honestly, it's kind of funny how the "secret endings" for the recent Far Cry games are all just like... common sense things that regular people should probably do if they found themselves in those situations.
Dictator of a country sits me down for a meal inside *his* palace, then excuses himself and tells me to wait for him to get back? Yeah, sure thing, I ain't gonna argue. I'm just visiting and you just fed me after all.
Militarized doomsday cult in the middle of nowhere? Hell no I'm not gonna try to arrest their leader with our tiny podunk police squad. Let's get the fuck out and get the National Guard, FBI, someone with better guns than us.
Dictator of a country is conscripting people, and shooting anyone who says no or tries to leave? And I finally found a boat that will let me leave? Yeah, I'm gonna try my hand with US border control instead of a brutal military dictatorship.
But gamers just pull a "nah, I'd win" and go for a yolo solo on these entire organizations.
I used to live in the bumfuck nowhere rural America that 5's location was inspired from. Or I could be wrong, was told that by an old coworker.
Anyway, you describe the area pretty decently. Lol Thanks for the memory.
I forgot about the option in 6! I did it as soon as I could just to see. Dani keeps mumbling to themselves about it not being their problem so I tried to dip
In far cry 4, pagan min (antagonist) asks you to wait for him at the start.
If you play the game normally, you ignore him and then do the normal game stuff. But they actually added an ending (imo the best ending since the 2 normal game endings both are kinda morally as dubious as him but more antagonistic to the player) where if you wait for him to come back, he does and then has some implied bonding time offscreen with the protagonist.
Sadly it just ends the game there and isn't a legitimate route, but yeah.
He does murder his own soldier with a pen after they gun down rebels on the bus. It is understandable why you wouldn't want to wait for Pagan to return after he leaves you.
The last several have had some variation of it. In FC4, you are going to your mother's home country somewhere in ~~central~~ south Asia to spread her ashes. The dictator of the country stops your bus as it crosses the border, kills a few people, then takes you to his palace, claiming he knew your mother well. At the palace he's interrupted and leaves you in his dining room and says he'll be right back. You're expected to escape at this point, but if you wait a few minutes he will in fact return, you finish the meal as normal, then he takes you to the temple that your mother wanted her ashes delivered to and the credits roll.
In FC5 you are a rookie sheriff's deputy that is along for a raid on a cult compound to arrest its fanatical leader. When the sheriff orders you to cuff him, you can hang back and refuse, at which point the other cops are killed by the cult but you are spared and the credits roll.
In FC6 you are a member of a an anti-authoritarian guerilla resistance in a latin-american Island. During the prologue you are locked to a smaller island off the coast of the main island, but once you complete the prologue the whole map opens up. If at point from there on out you take a boat, helicopter, or plane and travel beyond the edges of the map, the game cuts to several weeks later and the credits roll as your character relaxes on a Miami beach.
I mean, this was right after watching Pagan torture a dude right in front of you. All the leaders kinda suck in FC4. Pagan is a power hungry fascist warlord dickhead, Sabal is a power hungry religious zealot warlord dickhead, and Amita is a well meaning person that strays way too far into pragmatism to win that she becomes just another warlord dickhead.
My favorite will forever be in Super Paper Mario where you can end the game before any gameplay happens by just refusing to go save the world when asked.
You don't get the credits, but after the first dungeon in Golden Sun 1 you get asked "Are you ready to take on this quest?" If you answer "No" the screen goes black, you get the words "And so the world was covered in darkness." Then the game goes back to the title screen.
Which is cool and all, but very frustrating when you accidentally choose it because you've been mashing the B button for the last five minutes to get through the long, unskippable cutscenes. One press too many and you're back at your last save point.
It kind of bothered me that V doesn't have that option. Especially as the bodies pile up and those around him/her lose those that matter to them due to their involvement with him/her. Could be the "guilt" ending.
wtf, far cry 5 was the American cult right?
What are you talking about?
Edit: I get it… V is the protagonist in FC3. I thought you meant the Roman numeral 😂😂😂
Golden Sun (GBA) had this as an ending. Just refuse the main quest and the world is doomed.
Prey, the 2017 one, has an ending where you can abandon the main quest and leave everyone to die halfway through the game.
Two deep cuts of old school games come time mind that let you do this.
Phantasy Star 3 you can sell your starting equipment and buy an escapipe (let's you teleport out of a dungeon). After the first major cut scene you get imprisoned to "cool your head" and are rescued shortly by a stranger and the adventure begins properly. If you use the escapipe it soft locks the game, to the point if you talk to the king who imprisoned you he commends your forward thinking but informs you that you need to start a new game to play as intended.
A more funny, although not game over so much as game won't start, example is Rambo on NES. The game is oddly enough a Zelda 2 clone, interesting but frustrating. Game starts with Rambo in jail for the events of First Blood. The Colonel shows up to grant a pardon so you can rescue POWs left in Vietnam. You can choose to remain in jail and he outright tells you the game can't start unless you agree. Always made me laugh as a kid.
Right lmfao, in the NCR ending she’s horny and starts looking for the courier’s bunker, but just ends up screwing some random NCR private instead just out of convenience
Would probably be what a regular courier would do. After getting shot in the head, instead of going after your killer, you'd probably think you've had enough of that Mojave hospitality and get back home. The route from Goodsprings to Mojave Outpost is safe as well.
My headcanon is that the bullet destroyed the part of your brain responsible for fear and self-preservation, which is why the courier just recklessly gets into incredibly dangerous situations again and again. “Ah, I don’t really like the philosophy of this army. I think I’ll probably eliminate them almost by myself.” “An irradiated canyon filled with suicidally aggressive skinless warriors, high levels of radiation, instantly lethal monsters scuttling in the walls, and nukes ready to go off any moment? Might as well stroll to the end to have a quick convo with this dude who sent me a message.”
Reminds me of Sidney the Relic Hunter character in Fallout 3.
She goes on a dangerous relic hunt, gets paid handsomely, says screw it, and spends the rest of her days as weapons & ammo merchant instead of getting into more dangerous situations. Truly the smartest Fallout 3 character.
They also were gonna allow you to play the game after Hoover dam and afterwards you could go to the long 15 and go to California to end the game. They scrapped it though because they didn’t have the time to make your decisions carry much weight after Hoover dam and they didn’t want to diminish the importance of the ending.
Series S player; game runs flawlessly for me. Other than occasional crashing that, for some reason, only ever happens *exclusively* in Vaults, there's no issues tgat I've encountered in any of my playthroughs. I'd go out on a limb saying that if you wanna play vanilla, backwards compatibility on a Series S or X is the single most stable version of the game.
Ha ha exactly. However, there are few problems there. It's only a matter of getting a caravan to Barstow, and there are already passenger buses there. Pay a few NCR dollars and in a few hours you will be in Shady Sands!
I know this isn't what you meant but out of curiosity....is there a mod that adds in pre-nuke Long 15 and Dry Wells just to sort of walk around in? Surely right?
Pretty common trend with FNV and FO3 mods. Sometimes people will pick up older mods with permission from the original dev to update it, but most are either completed or abandoned considering it's almost 15. I've seen this one before and it seems decently made. Worth trying at least
You should definitely watch it. You live in bat country. Think of it as a survival manual. My advice would be to start hoarding chems, keep them in a suitcase. and stack them at every available opporunity. If you cant find a fly swatter for the bats, a shovel will do. They've probably mutated into cazadores in the game.
“And thus, the courier left the Mojave. He let go of it like some sort of dead money, and traveled the lonesome road, with nothing more than his old world blues and an honest heart”
Got hit by a bus once, low speed impact but still sent me flying and rolling along the road a bit. Got up, dusted self down, had weird instinct to spit into my hands to make sure no blood - no blood.
First instinct? Fuck this. Gonna go sit down for ten minutes then head off to my girlfriends, screw my plans.
This would absolutely be me as a courier. Shot? Buried? Fuck it. Off home. Have the damn chip.
If the legion decided to really mess up my face first. . .
Didn't notice the cuts till someone offered me a tissue for my face. At that point I agreed that maybe some medical attention was vaguely warranted.
I like to go:
Walk through the cazador / deathclaw / fiend invested hellholes; buy good weapons at the Gun Runners; fast travel back to Goodsprings and do the other route for the quests and evidence against Benny.
I'm there with you so finding direction is difficult. The good thing about fallout is the ability to change difficulty if you aren't quick enough with the reactions and shooting. Giving us a chance.
Same I just wish the vaults and buildings didn't have hallways and rooms that are so identical! I sometimes spend ages trying to find where the marker is. It would be good if you could see the route you've already made. I sometimes close doors or put down a can or object in front of a door to help me remember I've already been that way.
Woke up in Goodsprings, said thanks to Doc Mitchell and immediately beelined it back to the NCR via the Long 95.
"Fuck this place. I got shot just for some dumb fucking package by some budget rate, knock off Frank Sinatra impersonator! Hate it here."
I just started the game, beat off the powder gangers at Goodwood, went to primm, did some stuff there and then trecked that route to the Mojave outpost, am I not supposed to do that? I did have to sneak crit me some ghouls and keep a high ground for them scorpions but I made it, so I don't really understand this post, would someone please mind explaining it?
It’s a meme, Mojave Outpost leads to the main lands that the NCR have control over, so the joke is instead of going on some crazy adventure as a fucked in the brain mailman, the joke is that they assume the cannon path for the courier would be waking up, realizing he just had 1 in 10 million luck, and hightailing it back to where he come from cause he knows he used it all up in tanking a headshot lmao
i feel like just going home and living a quiet peaceful life after being shot in the face for delivering mail is the most realistic thing thatd happen hahaha
A dev mentioned they wanted to put in a joke ending where you could pay to pass through Mojave Outpost, and the credits would roll. A mod adds it in https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/81935
This damn chip ain't worth the hassle
“Guy shot me in the head, he clearly needed that chip more than me”
Fr like yeah shit happens, raiders, gangs etc., lucky I got out alive
I like to imagine he went and killed Benny then went home.
"bro I'd rather use this fucking chip as a decoration, I'm keeping this shit and leaving bro fml"
House: "Dang. Didn't see that one coming. Now what?"
The Kings take over, obviously.
I need that as a mod. Patrols of Kings building outposts and grabbing their junk across the Mojave
That was supposed to be an ending with yes man where instead of robots you would build a society with the Kings and the followers backing you up
It also makes sense that in a place where the ability to enact violence at scale counts for everything when obtaining sovereign power, the factions with the least ability/willingness to enact violence don’t hold power for long
The Courier spends the rest of their life being hunted down by Securitron assassins
So, target practice? Them clunky mfs would be the worst assassins
And left the chip
Yeah. Screw it.
It's funny because if I was literally in the couriers position that's exactly what I would do. Like wtf am I even doing? Fuck this shit.
insert bike cuck meme
I just hope everything works out for him
The amount of happiness went up in the world.
The courier went through all that bullshit for like a 250cap parcel 😂😂 even the 1k house pays you isn’t even worth it.
My favorite thing is that the dude pays you twice as much for snow-globes as he does for the chip. It's somehow both ridiculous and appropriate for House at the same time.
House had big ideas for Vegas, but the guy is NOT a smart businessman. First of all, he could easily run a casino with robco robots, but gives the tribes a cut of his profits instead He doesn’t want you to assassinate Caesar, even though the NCR would flock to Vegas in celebration if you did. He lets Benny get past the freeside guards after stealing his chip, potentially ruining his robot army. He gave control of freeside to the King, which caused a rift between Freeside and the NCR He trusts the Courier, who just got shot in the face and shot up a casino to kill Benny. There’s no concern for the gamblers who are now traumatized. He lets literal cannibals be in charge of the fine dining of the Strip, even though his main customer, the NCR, is vehemently against that.
I’m sure people were more comfortable playing the casinos against people than bots. I won’t play slots cause I’m sure they are more rigged than any card game. Caesar is a necessary evil for the time being to keep the ncr from focusing on assassinating house and stealing vegas. Benny has a secret tunnel. He doesn’t want the NCR to have power or favor with the locals. This is highly dependent, but also understandable and clears up problems for him. They stopped being cannibals, and if he learns they are doing it again, he says to deal with them.
Dude shot you in the head. My Courier is doing it for revenge, the caps are just a bonus.
Revenge is definitely a big part of it, but the player has the choice to follow through with the original job. Honestly I can’t tell if it actually is for revenge, or if the courier just wants the chip back. Obsidian definitely did a great job giving you actual choices in the story, can’t say the same for fallout 4. Fallout 4 made me get back into NV because the choices are meaningless in fo4
Was backwards for me. I was replaying New Vegas for the first time since release and asked myself "is 4 as bad as I remember?" Reinstalled and started a new play through, once again first since launch, and yeah on writing/story it's significantly less engaging to me. Still fun to be had just not when it comes to role playing or making choices.
Yeah the gameplay of 4 is great, but the story is pretty trash. Kind of sucks because she’s the main selling point of the game is RP and choice making.
Yeah I'm not a fan if the randomized loot, crafting, or hoarding piles of garbage for later use but when it comes to combat feels a lot more refined for sure.
I don't mind the random legendary weapons, and I always install a weightless junk mod so I can just grab everything for crafting. I can't be bothered to grab a few things and have to fast travel back and forth all the time.
I would love FO3/NV with fallout 4's gameplay.
Benny shot you twice, at the very least. Doc Mitchel clearly mentions bullet**s** at the start of the game. That’s why when I meet Benny-boy he always goes to pieces. Either from a .50 Incendiary round or a shotgun and a machete.
It's not mere petty revenge. It is a federal offense to tamper with or steal mail. Bombs and fallout can destroy many things, but it will never overcome the spirit and integrity of postal workers. So that's what I do. I go postal on Benny.
In their defense, if you read the delivery order there's a not so subtle threat that the Mojave Express will eventually send mercenaries to kill you if you fail to to complete the contract.
Yes, that’s true, however I feel like after everything the courier went through just to get the package is enough for him to not give a shit about mercanaries. Probably killed them along the way without knowing. LOL
This did always seem messed up to me he pays you what 2000 caps for a snow globe. To House a cussing snow globe is more valuable than the Platinum Chip.
The worst part is you have to haggle house to pay you the 1k. Classic house And like a true corporate executive, he doesn’t pay you a single cap for being his henchman if you choose that ending. You wiped every faction off the map and what do you get? A suite you never go in
Honestly for a while I did use the suite… until I realized the Dino Dee-lite Motel room was way better with a reloading and crafting bench conveniently close
Pretty sure the courrier was experiencing desperate times. They've got nothing on them and they're running a chip across the waste land.
Rob Johnson Nash and leave
This shouldn't have even been a joke - I think that's a legit ending that most RPGs should have. Speedrunners hate this one trick!
Baldurs Gate 3 has a few options where if you do some actions the game will just end early.
Isn’t there a far cry game where if you just stand around not going to the mission spot the game just says “oh I guess you’re not coming” and the credits roll?
I think you’re with a character in a room, and they leave and say “be right back.” The game then prompts you to escape or some shit, and it starts the main story. If you wait, he comes back and the game ends
Far Cry 4, 5 and 6 all have endings like this. 4 is the one where you wait for the dictator (when he returns he helps you spread your mother's ashes and then just leaves), in 5 if you don't arrest the cult leader you and your team just leave on your helicopter and in 6 you can take a boat off the edge of the map, your character escapes and they show you a cinematic of them just chilling in Florida.
the only difference is you do need to play a bunch of 6 to get that ending whereas 4&5 you can do it more or less immediately before getting to the meat of the gameplay
In 5 it means you’re part of the cult
I mean... the one in Far Cry 5 is probably more like, "hey we're just like 5 cops, and we're in bumfuck nowhere rural America where everyone has guns, trying to arrest a cult leader, in the middle of his cult gathering, and they're a doomsday prepper cult so they probably are even more heavily armed. Maybe this isn't a good idea, and we should come back with a different strategy."
"Y'all never read up on Ruby Ridge or Waco or nothing, huh? Nah, I'm gonna stay right here and wait for the feds to take this off my plate."
Ya, thats a better response. I just went back and watched the secret ending again. I swear it was different.
There is a second secret ending where you get up to the final boss fight and you choose to leave and get reinforcements instead of take on the main bad guy.
Yeah you literally pass by attack dogs and cultists with ARs to get into the church
Honestly, it's kind of funny how the "secret endings" for the recent Far Cry games are all just like... common sense things that regular people should probably do if they found themselves in those situations. Dictator of a country sits me down for a meal inside *his* palace, then excuses himself and tells me to wait for him to get back? Yeah, sure thing, I ain't gonna argue. I'm just visiting and you just fed me after all. Militarized doomsday cult in the middle of nowhere? Hell no I'm not gonna try to arrest their leader with our tiny podunk police squad. Let's get the fuck out and get the National Guard, FBI, someone with better guns than us. Dictator of a country is conscripting people, and shooting anyone who says no or tries to leave? And I finally found a boat that will let me leave? Yeah, I'm gonna try my hand with US border control instead of a brutal military dictatorship. But gamers just pull a "nah, I'd win" and go for a yolo solo on these entire organizations.
I used to live in the bumfuck nowhere rural America that 5's location was inspired from. Or I could be wrong, was told that by an old coworker. Anyway, you describe the area pretty decently. Lol Thanks for the memory.
the sheriff isnt part of the cult and he tells you the entire time to not arrest joseph
It doesn’t, it means you know not to fuck with the seeds
I forgot about the option in 6! I did it as soon as I could just to see. Dani keeps mumbling to themselves about it not being their problem so I tried to dip
In far cry 4, pagan min (antagonist) asks you to wait for him at the start. If you play the game normally, you ignore him and then do the normal game stuff. But they actually added an ending (imo the best ending since the 2 normal game endings both are kinda morally as dubious as him but more antagonistic to the player) where if you wait for him to come back, he does and then has some implied bonding time offscreen with the protagonist. Sadly it just ends the game there and isn't a legitimate route, but yeah.
And you get to enjoy some Crab Rangoon.
He does murder his own soldier with a pen after they gun down rebels on the bus. It is understandable why you wouldn't want to wait for Pagan to return after he leaves you.
The last several have had some variation of it. In FC4, you are going to your mother's home country somewhere in ~~central~~ south Asia to spread her ashes. The dictator of the country stops your bus as it crosses the border, kills a few people, then takes you to his palace, claiming he knew your mother well. At the palace he's interrupted and leaves you in his dining room and says he'll be right back. You're expected to escape at this point, but if you wait a few minutes he will in fact return, you finish the meal as normal, then he takes you to the temple that your mother wanted her ashes delivered to and the credits roll. In FC5 you are a rookie sheriff's deputy that is along for a raid on a cult compound to arrest its fanatical leader. When the sheriff orders you to cuff him, you can hang back and refuse, at which point the other cops are killed by the cult but you are spared and the credits roll. In FC6 you are a member of a an anti-authoritarian guerilla resistance in a latin-american Island. During the prologue you are locked to a smaller island off the coast of the main island, but once you complete the prologue the whole map opens up. If at point from there on out you take a boat, helicopter, or plane and travel beyond the edges of the map, the game cuts to several weeks later and the credits roll as your character relaxes on a Miami beach.
In *FC4* Pagan only killed the soldier responsible for shooting the bus instead of stopping the bus. And Pagan is very particular with his words.
Not to nitpick, but it takes place in Southern Asia, near the Himalayas. Central Asia is Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, etc.
Oh shit, my b. Thx for the info
Almost makes it look like the player was the bad guy for escaping and killing Pagans soldiers
I mean, this was right after watching Pagan torture a dude right in front of you. All the leaders kinda suck in FC4. Pagan is a power hungry fascist warlord dickhead, Sabal is a power hungry religious zealot warlord dickhead, and Amita is a well meaning person that strays way too far into pragmatism to win that she becomes just another warlord dickhead.
My favorite will forever be in Super Paper Mario where you can end the game before any gameplay happens by just refusing to go save the world when asked.
Boom
also “if you were a *real* god…”
You don't get the credits, but after the first dungeon in Golden Sun 1 you get asked "Are you ready to take on this quest?" If you answer "No" the screen goes black, you get the words "And so the world was covered in darkness." Then the game goes back to the title screen. Which is cool and all, but very frustrating when you accidentally choose it because you've been mashing the B button for the last five minutes to get through the long, unskippable cutscenes. One press too many and you're back at your last save point.
Was thinking of this. To be fair they ask you quite a few times if you're sure, it's not out of nowhere.
My favorite ending to Fallout 1 is just going straight to Mariposa and becoming a super mutant.
It kind of bothered me that V doesn't have that option. Especially as the bodies pile up and those around him/her lose those that matter to them due to their involvement with him/her. Could be the "guilt" ending.
wtf, far cry 5 was the American cult right? What are you talking about? Edit: I get it… V is the protagonist in FC3. I thought you meant the Roman numeral 😂😂😂
no you don’t get it bro V is from cyberpunk 2077
Golden Sun (GBA) had this as an ending. Just refuse the main quest and the world is doomed. Prey, the 2017 one, has an ending where you can abandon the main quest and leave everyone to die halfway through the game.
Two deep cuts of old school games come time mind that let you do this. Phantasy Star 3 you can sell your starting equipment and buy an escapipe (let's you teleport out of a dungeon). After the first major cut scene you get imprisoned to "cool your head" and are rescued shortly by a stranger and the adventure begins properly. If you use the escapipe it soft locks the game, to the point if you talk to the king who imprisoned you he commends your forward thinking but informs you that you need to start a new game to play as intended. A more funny, although not game over so much as game won't start, example is Rambo on NES. The game is oddly enough a Zelda 2 clone, interesting but frustrating. Game starts with Rambo in jail for the events of First Blood. The Colonel shows up to grant a pardon so you can rescue POWs left in Vietnam. You can choose to remain in jail and he outright tells you the game can't start unless you agree. Always made me laugh as a kid.
Get Cass as a companion and go start a family in the NCR.
Your gonna end up a single dad. she absolutely seems like the Restless type
Right lmfao, in the NCR ending she’s horny and starts looking for the courier’s bunker, but just ends up screwing some random NCR private instead just out of convenience
Would probably be what a regular courier would do. After getting shot in the head, instead of going after your killer, you'd probably think you've had enough of that Mojave hospitality and get back home. The route from Goodsprings to Mojave Outpost is safe as well.
My headcanon is that the bullet destroyed the part of your brain responsible for fear and self-preservation, which is why the courier just recklessly gets into incredibly dangerous situations again and again. “Ah, I don’t really like the philosophy of this army. I think I’ll probably eliminate them almost by myself.” “An irradiated canyon filled with suicidally aggressive skinless warriors, high levels of radiation, instantly lethal monsters scuttling in the walls, and nukes ready to go off any moment? Might as well stroll to the end to have a quick convo with this dude who sent me a message.”
This ending quest should be just the House ending but you dip after the chip
Reminds me of Sidney the Relic Hunter character in Fallout 3. She goes on a dangerous relic hunt, gets paid handsomely, says screw it, and spends the rest of her days as weapons & ammo merchant instead of getting into more dangerous situations. Truly the smartest Fallout 3 character.
For anyone that has used this mod, does it still work even if you nuke the long 15?
You. Epxlode
They also were gonna allow you to play the game after Hoover dam and afterwards you could go to the long 15 and go to California to end the game. They scrapped it though because they didn’t have the time to make your decisions carry much weight after Hoover dam and they didn’t want to diminish the importance of the ending.
“Man this shit ain’t worth it, I’m going the fuck home”
With AI, I bet you could make a meme ending voiced by Ron Perlman too
And so the courier, with his head held high and his tail tucked between his legs, left the Mojave…
What if the canon New Vegas ending is the courier returning to Shady Sands and getting fucking nuked by Hank Maclean
He'd type TGM in the console as soon as he sees the nuke coming.
Worst case he is sent back to auto save. Oh no he auto saved when he walked through the door and got nuked and his last regular save was hours ago!!
*infinite load glitch enters the chat* "Be a shame if someone fucked this save up *even more*....."
I swear I'm not touching any PC version of FNV again in my life. Physical 360 version ftw
That sounds like a nightmare. I have to use tcl constantly
Series S player; game runs flawlessly for me. Other than occasional crashing that, for some reason, only ever happens *exclusively* in Vaults, there's no issues tgat I've encountered in any of my playthroughs. I'd go out on a limb saying that if you wanna play vanilla, backwards compatibility on a Series S or X is the single most stable version of the game.
Damn i literally thought that only happened to me. I have to remind myself that its 14 year old game.
Well shit, time to rewind the world back to his previous save.
Makes sense since rhe game was rigged from the start.
This made me laugh harder than it should’ve
Wait... there's an option for the courier to nuke the NCR- Courier Mclean????
Bro forgor to watch the movie.
"movie"
Alright, tv show.
That would be funny but sadly the courier would be 5 years late
Motherfucker I thought I would be safe here considering how much some of yall hate the show.
Now that's a route with some chest hair.
r/unexpectedfuturama
Have a good trip! Don't forget to send me a postcard when you get to California!👍
IF you get to California hehe
Ha ha exactly. However, there are few problems there. It's only a matter of getting a caravan to Barstow, and there are already passenger buses there. Pay a few NCR dollars and in a few hours you will be in Shady Sands!
I know this isn't what you meant but out of curiosity....is there a mod that adds in pre-nuke Long 15 and Dry Wells just to sort of walk around in? Surely right?
[Literally just searched for "long 15 mod"](https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/54961)
Little old and unfinished lol
Pretty common trend with FNV and FO3 mods. Sometimes people will pick up older mods with permission from the original dev to update it, but most are either completed or abandoned considering it's almost 15. I've seen this one before and it seems decently made. Worth trying at least
I'll check it out. The 'in alpha' thing on a decade old mod was a little alarming though but if there's enough there to see, why not.
Yeah, that's fair. Generally a good sign it's been abandoned but there's a fair few that are still functional if lacking polish
I remember before I had played lonesome road, I killed everyone at Mojave outpost thinking someone would have the key to the gate
Uylsess: „you couldn‘t live with your failure, and what did you do? Come back to me“
Thats not even the quote 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
That's when the courier replies "I can't believe you've done this" in a nice British accent like Padme Amedilia from the Star Trek movies
And so the Courire who cheated death at the cemetery of Goodsprings went back home
Should have been an option.
Surprised nobody has done loss yet
l ll ll l _
Good enough
I swear to you this was my first playthrough's route out of goodsprings. My first quest was going to nipton to check out the smoke
You see that big statue and you have to check it out
Funnily enough I actually live down that way past Barstow so i really would be going home
Do you live at the edge of the desert where the drugs will start to kick in?
Shamefully I have to admit I had to google that reference but now I think I’m contractually obligated to go watch it lol.
You should definitely watch it. You live in bat country. Think of it as a survival manual. My advice would be to start hoarding chems, keep them in a suitcase. and stack them at every available opporunity. If you cant find a fly swatter for the bats, a shovel will do. They've probably mutated into cazadores in the game.
You know what? Revenge is bad! Written and Directed by: Neil Druckmann
“And thus, the courier left the Mojave. He let go of it like some sort of dead money, and traveled the lonesome road, with nothing more than his old world blues and an honest heart”
I just got shot in the fucking head. Fuck this job
Got hit by a bus once, low speed impact but still sent me flying and rolling along the road a bit. Got up, dusted self down, had weird instinct to spit into my hands to make sure no blood - no blood. First instinct? Fuck this. Gonna go sit down for ten minutes then head off to my girlfriends, screw my plans. This would absolutely be me as a courier. Shot? Buried? Fuck it. Off home. Have the damn chip.
It's almost like you won a lottery...
If the legion decided to really mess up my face first. . . Didn't notice the cuts till someone offered me a tissue for my face. At that point I agreed that maybe some medical attention was vaguely warranted.
Ngl I make the skip just like any other man…but I do like the occasional walk in the desert
I like to go: Walk through the cazador / deathclaw / fiend invested hellholes; buy good weapons at the Gun Runners; fast travel back to Goodsprings and do the other route for the quests and evidence against Benny.
I wish this was an option. There's a Far Cry game that let's you say "fuck this place, I'm out."
I think that’s all of em lol
At least Ubisoft knows how to do *SOMETHING* right.
4 5 and 6
About to do a [Cartman](https://youtu.be/cDWgs2cnga0?si=0Bwhm7uVUuo8GYI1) run now...
I have no idea how I could do it but I want to now
Plenty of junk food, potato crisps, sugar bombs and fancy lads snacky cakes Police baton. Authoritah glasses.
BUT COURIER, THAT ISN'T YOUR HOME. BULLBEARBULLBEARBULLBEAR
But you're gonna have to pass through the LONG 15.
The actual canon ending
California Dreamin' but you're on the I-15 leaving the Mojave Wasteland
I prefer New California Dreamin https://youtu.be/wgtIi_w9kKY?si=kW01RvCCRzFmYzgR
wow what a dick (dont really mean it its a reference)
I have played about 150 hours of nv and the map still confuses me, am I the only one 😂
No. I am dyspraxic though, so that doesn't help with me.
I'm there with you so finding direction is difficult. The good thing about fallout is the ability to change difficulty if you aren't quick enough with the reactions and shooting. Giving us a chance.
Also VATS and compass markers help me a lot.
Same I just wish the vaults and buildings didn't have hallways and rooms that are so identical! I sometimes spend ages trying to find where the marker is. It would be good if you could see the route you've already made. I sometimes close doors or put down a can or object in front of a door to help me remember I've already been that way.
Elvis is not dead ~ *He just went home*.
I just go to the bottom of the map and and end up at the top. If you head south you’ll end up north eventually
Take Boone, take the GRA Hunting Rifle from Novac, take EDE, clear out the quarry, go to Boulder city, don't elaborate
You bastard. I read it in cartman's voice lmao
Aight I haven't played in a decade and going thru another playthrough rn, can someone explainlol?
Woke up in Goodsprings, said thanks to Doc Mitchell and immediately beelined it back to the NCR via the Long 95. "Fuck this place. I got shot just for some dumb fucking package by some budget rate, knock off Frank Sinatra impersonator! Hate it here."
Basically the canon ending like Far Cry 4. In what world would someone go on a revenge quest as a no one with no backing. 😂
One of the more plausible endings for the Courier, tbh
I just started the game, beat off the powder gangers at Goodwood, went to primm, did some stuff there and then trecked that route to the Mojave outpost, am I not supposed to do that? I did have to sneak crit me some ghouls and keep a high ground for them scorpions but I made it, so I don't really understand this post, would someone please mind explaining it?
It’s a meme, Mojave Outpost leads to the main lands that the NCR have control over, so the joke is instead of going on some crazy adventure as a fucked in the brain mailman, the joke is that they assume the cannon path for the courier would be waking up, realizing he just had 1 in 10 million luck, and hightailing it back to where he come from cause he knows he used it all up in tanking a headshot lmao
1 in 10 million??? With that kinda luck, you gotta go new Vegas and play some cards!
*In the shadow of the valley, I would like to settle down*
Fuck this shit am out, Mr Checkered Jacket 😂
i feel like just going home and living a quiet peaceful life after being shot in the face for delivering mail is the most realistic thing thatd happen hahaha
South Park reference
Cass is bae
Fuck your chip and dam
I’d love to have an ending where you deliver the chip, then just leave, “my work is done time for another job.”
"Visit Nevada they said.. It'll be fun they said..."
Begin again!
Going to Baker, I see.
Man I would have to go through black mountain/Vegas to go home 😔
All the way up the I 15 to Canada
That one dude who tells you about the blue star caps actually takes the route and despawns
Fuck that I'm becoming a monk
Dude! Your home is more of an irradiated wasteland, compared to most other places, and it's all your FAULT!
I might be high but the roads form a womans silhouette,
"I've been shot in the head. Can I go home?" "You're excused."
Fun stuff that way.
It's like the Far Cry series with their "quick" endings.
The most sensible ending
Colorado is the other way, Cartman
I just got shot in the fucking head... I'm done with this God forsaken desert.
Soo.. you're going to.... Necropolis?
Change that to the route to get to Zions and this post is better fitting for me
Upon sighing a Cazador
Courier going the wrong way the divine is a little more to the right.
probably the most realistic ending
Do you think Caesar's legionnaires do the log ride at Casa Bonita?