So... many... references... (spoiler warning)

[Grimhound]

I just found this while exploring the desert.
http://i.imgur.com/kFa6B.jpg

It looks like just another broken down car, right? A random heap put into the environment for decoration? Well, not exactly... [spoiler:f199b88a51]It's actually its own location. The Wrecked Highwayman. In its trunk? A ton of microfusion cells, stim packs, and assorted other goodies.[/spoiler:f199b88a51]

 

[Brother None]

That'd be subtle.

But NV does seem to be subtle about its references. Such as the information you get from those guys that were beat up in the Vegas outskirts.
[spoiler:164a4db0d8]Guy1: Now that I think about it. One of them said a name. Lou? Lou something?
Guy1: Lou Tenant, that was it!!!
Guy2: He probably said lieutenant. You'll have to excuse me friend, he means well but sometimes he's dumb as a super mutant.[/spoiler:164a4db0d8]

That made me <3 Obsidian so hard.

 

[lmao]

At least we know the Chosen One didn't end up suffering an eternal vanishing trunk glitch

 

[Lexx]

I like the references, but I slowly got the feeling that it became too much. They are subtile, yes, but still. After a while I wondered why all these people ended up at one spot.

 

[Little Robot]

Yeah, I've noticed a few. Some of them are a bit too overt for my tastes but others are kinda neat.

[spoiler:24897eb3e1]In the Novac motel, there's a lady who says she used to be a Vertibird pilot. If you talk with her you realise she used to be the Enclave pilot who crashed the Vertibird outside of Klamath in Fallout 2. Thought that one was kinda nice.[/spoiler:24897eb3e1]

There's also an old man called "Cannibal Johnson" or something, and if you talk to him you learn that [spoiler:24897eb3e1]he was one of the guards at the Navarro base. All the Enclave people are connected via a quest called For Auld Lang Syne, but I can't figure out how to "get" the quest.[/spoiler:24897eb3e1]

 

[Grimhound]

Yeah, I've noticed a few. Some of them are a bit too overt for my tastes but others are kinda neat.

[spoiler:0b5c0dce4c]In the Novac motel, there's a lady who says she used to be a Vertibird pilot. If you talk with her you realise she used to be the Enclave pilot who crashed the Vertibird outside of Klamath in Fallout 2. Thought that one was kinda nice.[/spoiler:0b5c0dce4c]

[/spoiler]

[spoiler:0b5c0dce4c]In the same motel there's that singer who is on the run because he stole money from Mr. Bishop and screwed his daughter. Chronologically, Mr. Bishop would have to be the bastard son of The Chosen One.[/spoiler:0b5c0dce4c]

 

[Deon]

Yeah, I've noticed a few. Some of them are a bit too overt for my tastes but others are kinda neat.

[spoiler:f51a62a242]In the Novac motel, there's a lady who says she used to be a Vertibird pilot. If you talk with her you realise she used to be the Enclave pilot who crashed the Vertibird outside of Klamath in Fallout 2. Thought that one was kinda nice.[/spoiler:f51a62a242]

There's also an old man called "Cannibal Johnson" or something, and if you talk to him you learn that [spoiler:f51a62a242]he was one of the guards at the Navarro base. All the Enclave people are connected via a quest called For Auld Lang Syne, but I can't figure out how to "get" the quest.[/spoiler:f51a62a242]

This "Cannibal Johnson" is the man who gives you the quest.

 

[DemonNick]

Yeah, I've noticed a few. Some of them are a bit too overt for my tastes but others are kinda neat.

[spoiler:dc36027082]In the Novac motel, there's a lady who says she used to be a Vertibird pilot. If you talk with her you realise she used to be the Enclave pilot who crashed the Vertibird outside of Klamath in Fallout 2. Thought that one was kinda nice.[/spoiler:dc36027082]

There's also an old man called "Cannibal Johnson" or something, and if you talk to him you learn that [spoiler:dc36027082]he was one of the guards at the Navarro base. All the Enclave people are connected via a quest called For Auld Lang Syne, but I can't figure out how to "get" the quest.[/spoiler:dc36027082]

[spoiler:dc36027082]It's Arcade's companion quest, since the Enclave Remnants served under his father and escorted Arcade and his mother to the Mojave. I'm not sure how to get it other than maybe doing stuff he approves of like killing House though, he kind of brought it up himself.[/spoiler:dc36027082]

As for people who think it's unrealistic that all these people wound up in one area... why? The Mojave is on the fringe of what the Republic considers civilization, but they've pretty much annexed it other than the strip. Their merchant houses run local trade. There are a ton of reasons for people from the NCR (which, going off of the FO2 endings NV seems to use, controls most if not all of the core region) to head East. Think of it like the westward expansion, but on a much smaller scale.