What would Mr. New Vegas and Mr. House look like if they were "human?"

[Tarantulakelurk]

I mean since they're both technically human (the former less than the latter) I wonder what they would look like in regular wastelander appearance, with Mr. House looking more clean, and distinguished than Mr. New Vegas;
I would really like to see a mod that makes Mr. House young again and putting him in the Howard Hughes: white slacks and xs casual suit jacket combo!

 

[Yamu]

Call me unimaginative, but when you ask me to picture a personification/projection of the Mr. New Vegas AI, I have a tough time picturing anything other than Wayne Newton himself-- clean-shaven, young-middle age, before the plastic surgery. Cheesy tan, purple or maroon suit cut to resemble a smoking jacket, slight chance of sequins.

House, you can actually see a young version of in-game. There's a portrait of him hanging in the lodge at Camp Golf and a couple of other locations, posed in full-on Hughesian doppelganger mode in front of Liberty Prime (one of the game's few continuity nods to F3). Obsoive:

 

[SnapSlav]

Mr. New Vegas is not at all "technically" human, he just plain is not human. He's a program. He's a charismatic endless loop digital disc jockey, nothing more. In that sense, your question becomes quite pertinent, but I also have no input on such a matter.

Mr. House, meanwhile, is not "technically" human, he's fully human. He's a human being attached to highly advances life support, and synced up to a powerful computer from which he can run his personal empire. If he's not strictly human, then neither was Kerr (well before he was captured by Calculator forces). The question then becomes not so much moot as much as irrelevant because Mr. House IS a human being, but he's not a wastelander, so if your question were "What would Mr. House look like if he was a wastelander?" then I could address it.

That said, I think he'd be physically identical to how he looked in Pre-War years, and in appearance look no different than Dean Domino (minus the ghoulification), or any other Brahmin Baron for that matter; well put together and stylish, with an Old World vibe about his appearance despite his surroundings. BUT in keeping with his theme, his actual, gaunt, almost mummified appearance is still more appropriate, because like his inspiration Howard Hughes, House was intended to have become a socially withdrawn person in his later years. So whether he'd amassed his fortune in the Old World as a non-wastelander human being, or had like Harold amassed that fortune as a wastelander, he still would have ended up the same: a decrepit fossil attached to machines to keep him alive.

 

[Yamu]

Not trying to out-technical your technicality here, but it should be kept in mind that the only sources ever referring to Mr. New Vegas as an A.I.* were a post on the Bethesda blog and a USA Today web interview with the voice actor. You can't get much further from actual relevance to the canon without looking to F:BOS.

*That I'm aware of. It's all The Vault and Nukapedia list, at any rate, and there's no mention of it at all in the game (or even in any of its files, that I've yet heard of).

 

[BigBoss]

The "Mr. New Vegas" A.I. was basically set to catch news (which I'm guessing House would pay people for evidence of actual news around the Mojave) and the New Vegas AI would basically report it through radio with, I'm guessing, a synthetic generated voice. However, even after you kill Mr. House, the New Vegas AI still manages to report on new news. Guessing that this wasn't just a plot hole the devs failed to explain, I think Mr. House was smart enough to set the New Vegas radio AI nearly completely separate from himself (but still to the point where he could monitor and take control as needed) so that the A.I. was capable of finding, paying for, and reporting on stories without any help from Mr. House (besides financial). He could have used couriers or actual in-field reporters to find and bring him the news instead of Securitrons so people wouldn't any connection between him and House (as I never came across one person in the Mojave that didn't doubt Mr. New Vegas' "existence"). Or, it could only be assumed that people would think since everyone else in Vegas was working for House, why not Mr. New Vegas. This would justify the use of Securitrons to find viable news stories and deliver payment (or give advertising through the radio) in exchange for the stories, but I like to think he used real courier/reporters. But, back on my original point, the New Vegas AI obviously had a good deal of independence. Technically it isn't playing "on loop" (except for the music and the pre-announcements before said music), as it is able to generate a new voice report for new stories, even after you kill House. Being played on loop would render that ability incapable.

Though, remember that this is all skeptics, as not much is known about Mr. New Vegas or his/it's radio station. All this could just be developer over-looked plot holes, or for all we know, New Vegas was a real person (and somewhere along the line Beth reported the wrong thing), but the devs just never wanted to put him in the game, or didn't have the time.

What I wan't to know is who is/was behind the "Mojave Radio", and possibly where it was located (possible a Pre-War radio-station running on back-up generators?). That radio sounds definitely like it is on loop, especially since there is no DJ. Everything I listen to Mojave radio I get an eerie feeling. Kinda like with the Lone Wolf Radio Station (another station without a provided backstory. I always imagined it was someone who managed to survive the bombs by hiding out in the mountains, and set up a bunch of radio equipment attempt to communicate with "anyone else out there". Eventually he figured he was the only one left alive ((unless he had valid knowledge that people did indeed make it into the Vaults, but thats still not very comforting for someone stuck on the surface alone)), and then wrote all over his trailer's walls... because he's crazy like that.