New Vegas part of the actual story canon?

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Does New Vegas actually fit into the Fallout storyline? Say if it did, how would it work? Say if you decided to enslave all of the Mojave with the legion; would that data go into the next gam perhaps? What are your thoughts?
 
It'll follow previous Fallout canon in that a certain 'outcome' will be dubbed canon, while the other outcomes will be considered mere historical speculation. Like for example in Fallout 1, the Vault Dweller did save Tandi from the Khans, even if your player never bothered to, or that Vault City being absorbed by the NCR even if you overlooked that town completely while playing Fallout 2. This keeps the canon straightforward and easy to build off of, as divergent plot lines would ruin the canon.
 
Ah yes, I get it now. So perhaps it would determine that the character would just have controlled new vegas himself, and probably for the better even if I had wanted it evil? That would keep it simple then. Thanks for the answer.
 
Well, we don't know what the canon ending will be. That will be determined by the next game of the Fallout series, or at least the next that directly refers to New Vegas.
 
True, maybe Mr. House might keep it. Personally, I hope the next game that ties to New Vegas or if there's a New Vegas sequel, then New Vegas could be completely remodelled and isn't run by crazy dress-ups or one old robot-crazy dictator.
 
I just hope that the canon ending isn't the NCR one. It's the least interesting IMO. I'd rather have an ending where the Mojave BoS is destroyed be canon than the NCR ending...

I think the Caeser's legion ending would be particularly interesting, but only if they're fleshed out as a civilisation in Fallout 4. (Which won't happen if Bethesda makes the game.)
 
Yeh, the legion taking over would be interesting. A suggestion could be they take over all the mojave and you end joining some rebellious faction to destroy the legion and take back new vegas. Or you could join with the Legion and destroy the last remnants of the NCR and track them back to Shady Sands. Just ideas ofc :P
 
To be honest I'd like to not see a direct or really any sequel. Fuck off with the established shit, lets go somewhere new.

Canon will probably be NCR. Because they're 'good' guys.
 
I would like a combination of Mr. House and NCR to be the canon ending. Really, anything other than the Lulzgion. Now, if the legion is fleshed out a bit more, then maybe I could accept them as a legit faction, but as it stands now, they are just kinda there.
 
Blah. Diablo comes to play slots at the Lucky 38, realizes it was closed, ends up ripping a cataclysmic tear through space and time and deleting the Mojave from existence. That's the best possible canon ending, so fan boys won't blather on incessantly over the 'what ifs' that could have been.
 
Actually, once you open that "space-time tear" can of worms, the what-if factor tends to increase by ridiculous orders of magnitude. I'm inclined to speculate you don't have much experience in the nerd-wrangling arena, sir. This is the stuff truly horrible fanfiction is made of.

::pushes glasses up authoritatively on nose::

There's no reason NV shouldn't be official, as it ties in nearly seamlessly with pre-existing canon. As to which parts, well, we'll just have to wait and see. The safe assumption is usually that the goody two-shoes player character is the one that went gallivanting through the wastes, so it's most likely going to be NCR or an independent Vegas. I don't see them wanting to keep House around as one of the series' brass tacks, but I could've missed my guess.
 
Wait a minute, so you're willing to introduce a space-time tear into the canon - but to wipe out the plot of New Vegas? Why not use the space-time tear to get rid of the more, uh, nonsensical entries in the franchise (FOBOS, FO3)?

That's what really needs to be wiped from the canon.
 
Yamu said:
Actually, once you open that "space-time tear" can of worms, the what-if factor tends to increase by ridiculous orders of magnitude. I'm inclined to speculate you don't have much experience in the nerd-wrangling arena, sir. This is the stuff truly horrible fanfiction is made of.
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Not if the cataclysm erases it from their minds.
Courier said:
...uh, nonsensical entries in the franchise (FOBOS, FO3)?
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Because you don't get the migraine inducing "lolz, wat if Vegas is taken over buy the Unclave after teh hoever damn invashun?" in Fallout 3 and FOPOS. At least not on the grounds which I consider stompable.
 
How would a fictional cataclysm erase something from the minds of real life people? :?

And yes you do open the door for some pretty bad things by getting involved with all that space-time stuff. Before you know it you'll be seeing Captain Kirk making love to Mr. House on the Millennium Falcon while Indiana Jones watches. You don't want to go there.
 
Horus9k said:
Because you don't get the migraine inducing "lolz, wat if Vegas is taken over buy the Unclave after teh hoever damn invashun?" in Fallout 3 and FOPOS. At least not on the grounds which I consider stompable.
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Thankfully, the "wat if teh wastes r overrun by unclave and also supahmutants!!" is already established canon in Fallout 3 :D
Also, what makes you believe there aren't any such speculations for Fallout 3? I'm pretty damn sure there are a lot of similar stupid specualtions about what happens to the Capital Wasteland.
 
Maybe the second battle of hover dam never happens? Its just decades and decades of stalemate because the courier it off making an army of toasters only to have OWBs toaster destroy them all. So then he goes off to get alot of books and coffee cups for another army...
 
Maybe the Second Battle of Hoover Dam (or everything in the entire Fallout universe) only takes place inside the mind of an autistic child?
 
Horus9k said:
Blah. Diablo comes to play slots at the Lucky 38, realizes it was closed, ends up ripping a cataclysmic tear through space and time and deleting the Mojave from existence. That's the best possible canon ending, so fan boys won't blather on incessantly over the 'what ifs' that could have been.
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