Why do people think New Vegas was actually good?

I think the game was meant to be played with a combination of all the quests, with Yes Man being the option for the guy who wants the most options.
 
Those people didn't deserve that piggie.

Nipton had drugs so they killed them.
 
Isn't the Legion like this already? Men are trained to obey Caesar's law, which means fight and die for him. Women are breeders and healers. The only thing missing here is women in the soldier ranks.

I might be wrong, but I always got an externalized oppression vibe from women in the Legion. It seemed like something the men were doing to them, rather than something they genuinely believed was the best thing they could do with their lives. I'm saying they should have been more cold and uncaring with their sexism rather than "Scoff! A woman, fighting or speaking! Perish the thought!"
 
Under Duke Nukem's rule the Mojave was safe for many years. The Legion, NCR, and BoS were destroyed. Duke took women of their own free will. Hail to the King baby.

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It also could have made sense with many of them being from tribal backgrounds, as you could easily explain away that many of these societies were very patriarchal/primitive in the first place, so taking that attitude even further was just a matter of small effort.
 
Under Duke Nukem's rule the Mojave was safe for many years. The Legion, NCR, and BoS were destroyed. Duke took women of their own free will. Hail to the King baby.

The Duke Nukem playthrough of NV by Toront is the only canon version I accept.
 
The massacre of Nipton was caused by the mayor of the town making a deal with the Legion to turn over the NCR troops and Powder Gangers that were there. It wasn't a random act of violence.
I might be wrong, but I always got an externalized oppression vibe from women in the Legion. It seemed like something the men were doing to them, rather than something they genuinely believed was the best thing they could do with their lives. I'm saying they should have been more cold and uncaring with their sexism rather than "Scoff! A woman, fighting or speaking! Perish the thought!"
From what i remember, Caesar says all have a role in the Legion based on their gender. I don't think it was oppression towards women, it was just Caesar dividing the tasks in his faction. Or i could be wrong and he really just hates women.
 
Naturally. Caesar turned a group of tribals into a fighting force feared by the largest faction in the wasteland. A fighting force that rushes guns using machetes, with no regard for their own safety, terrifying the NCR’s finest. Even if you just see them as bad guys, they’re good bad guys.
 
Ok but what about House and the Strip?

House is my second favourite ending, cause it's fuckin' weird. Unless you buy his bullshit sales pitch about him taking everyone to the Moon or whatever, then it's kind of more boring.

The idea that New Vegas becomes this golden city, a hyper-idealized version of rat-pack Vegas that's effectively a to-scale real world equivalent of those model railways that CEOs neurotically maintain in their attics and policed equally as neurotically to ensure that everyone is having the correct version of Vegas fun that House wants to nostalgically recreate is fucking awesome to me. It's very Fallout.

The Courier being his "enforcer" aka kneecapper that keeps the chumps in line and retreats to his luxury Vegas penthouse is also very cool.
 
Chunglord I miss you already buddy. I need you to attack New Vegas some more while I bitch slap you about Fallout 3.

The Duke Nukem playthrough of NV by Toront is the only canon version I accept.

A shame Photobucket killed it and thousands of other LP's around the web.
 
Here's an interesting question that I was thinking about making into its own thread: Regardless of what "our" favourite ending is, is there a particular ending that is above all the most fitting to the game in general? The one we think the developers had in mind?
 
House for sure. The entire game is focused on Vegas and he embodies the city perfectly. Forget the talk of space and just look at how well he mediates two warring powers. He essentially tells NCR what they have to do if they are going to do business there. The entire story of him rushing to meet them with force since he was asleep for so long...the only thing you can find questionable is his destruction of the BoS, but hell they would kill House and his robots if they could. He dealt with things logically imo.
 
I just want to replay it modded but it not take all day to fucking fuck with.


Probably not worth it to be honest. Dialogue is the best part.
 
House for sure. The entire game is focused on Vegas and he embodies the city perfectly. Forget the talk of space and just look at how well he mediates two warring powers. He essentially tells NCR what they have to do if they are going to do business there. The entire story of him rushing to meet them with force since he was asleep for so long...the only thing you can find questionable is his destruction of the BoS, but hell they would kill House and his robots if they could. He dealt with things logically imo.

I don't know. I put points to House being the most fitting one cause of the while glamorous Vegas thing as you said, the fact that if you follow the main story directly it makes the most sense to keep working for him as the Courier. Also because the way Vegas is set up I always thought taking the "third way" between NCR and Legion was the coolest path and had that sort of western Fistful of Dollars dynamic going on. Also the Courier Duster bearing the Old World flag.

My chips against House is that I think the Mojave Brotherhood gets too much of a look in and is too tied to the DLCs/narrative as a whole for you to just destroy them, unless the Devs intend the Courier to be a completely cold betrayer. Same thing with the King's ending. It doesn't sit right with what is pretty clearly the "better" path.
 
I honestly think this was brilliantly written, so that any personal bias one person had would be able to empathize with atleast one faction in a natural way, where it doesn't break the pacing of the game mechanics.
 
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