Today’s game is New Vegas, and it also marks the end of New Vegas for me. For the screenshot I originally considered doing my ending slideshow, but I thought that might 1) contain too many spoilers (though I doubt there’s many people that haven’t played it) and 2) make for too long of a post as I got almost all the slides. So instead I’ll briefly recap some of it in the post.
For my screenshot I selected a Screenshot of the other side of the Dam. It’s a very basic screenshot. But I like it because it’s not an angle I got to see often and I think it shows the scale of it well and it’s like a trophy saying “I got here” since you can’t get to this side until the end of the game.
For the Recap: I did the maddening Sunset Sasparilla Quest (I hope whatever employee came up with that is happy), I got all the companions, and I played 30 games of Caravan. Then I went onto the Second Battle of Hoover Dam (for the NCR). I have to say for how tiny the game is they do an amazing job of making of making it actually feel like a battle. Between all the explosions and action going on I found it easy to get swept away by the battle that I’d forget that there were only maybe 10 other soldiers in the room with me. I brought Cass and ED-E with me, though sadly I didn’t beat ED-E’s main story so he’s lost to the wasteland after the game. I negotiated for peace at almost every opportunity, so the Brotherhood and Boomers helped, while the Great Khans fled (I figured they wouldn’t survive a battle against the Legion). The followers didn’t side with them sadly though. I tried to set it up where everyone benefited (Except the legion obviously. They weren’t winning in this situation).
I also wanted to bring up the slideshow, as I really enjoyed it, and I’m a bit bummed now that Fallout 4 didn’t do something like that. This isn’t a essay interpretation by any means and this could be me misreading it because I’m almost knocked out NyQuill and a Fever right now, but I personally felt like it kind of changes the series’s motto (“War, War Never Changes”) depending on your actions, as it changes the context of it. For example the NCR ending I got where almost everyone came out on the positive it felt much more like it was saying “War Doesn’t change, but it can bring about change”. While with Yes Man Ending I got (I want and quickly did that after for the achievement) I felt like it was a much more dystopian “War will never change”. I felt this is kind of parallel to what Ulysses adds to the motto at the end of Lonesome road (“Men do, through the roads they walk”), because this interpretation is brought on by the “road” the player (as in from our perspective) walks through the game. Like I said though, NyQuill and Fever, so I could be completely misreading this right now.
Anyways, I also mentioned I did the Yes Man ending for the achievement. So here’s a Bonus picture of Yes Man because I actually really enjoyed him too:
I actually appreciate that. I only finished New Vegas for the first time last week, just before Echoes of Wisdom came out. Was worried you'd finish before me and I'd end up seeing something spoilery.
I try to avoid posting anything that’s a major spoiler (so a lot of my posts are “here’s X characters” or “here’s a landscape shot of Y location”) and I leave the spoilers too the text so if someone who will be spoiled sees it they can see it and go “oh. That’s a spoiler. I better stop reading”. I’d use the built in spoiler button by for whatever reason my client doesn’t like to register that I press it and typing out the text spoilers by hand is a lot to remember for me.