>he sided with the NCR
>he sided with the Legion
>he sided with Mr. House
So you're a follower, incapable of being your own man. I make my own choices. I rule as I see fit, conquer as I see fit. Vegas is my fiefdom and everyone within it is my vassal. But sure, go on doing what OTHERS want you to do.
yes I hate myself so I need a perfect charismatic leader to espouse my ideals for me since they have no legitimacy coming from someone like me who doesn't embody any of them
The Yes Man version of the story is fricking boring though.
>Give me 20 years, and I'll reignite the high technology development sectors. 50 years, and I'll have people in orbit. 100 years, and my colony ships will be heading for the stars, to search for planets unpolluted by the wrath and folly of a bygone generation.
House is based
House is a self-possessed oligarch. There's zero reason to think he's not just stroking his own dick.
And? It works
Yes.
imagine putting cave johnson, andrew ryan and mr.house in a room.
>not knowing why yes man was even put into the game
it was to make it baby proof so incase you fricked up the other factions you had something to fall back on, like a nuclear sort of option. its not meant to be taken seriously as canon possibility, its just for idiots so that they can still beat the game without rerolling.
should be common sense, but you are moronic so thats that. peace out
yes man leads to the dust mod
simple as
how would the legion deal with the cloud, elijah's army of ghosts and the tunnelers and black mountain?
They didn't
They ended up dead and broken from those, the NCR's military, and their good own tribalism failures
why make pixel grid if you're not gonna follow it?
Yes Man is best ending, but Legion is second best.
>there are morons who want to hand Vegas, one of the least irradiated and still inhabited places in the world, over to...
>great value murrika
>mike pence and the skirtbois
>robofricker elon
imagine not taking control for yourself, you'd have to be a complete cuck
drive white legs out of Zion, use status among tribals to guide them into becoming agrarians, turning Zion into food mecca
spare the think tank, using their brilliance (despite their moronation) to create new technologies and bring House's designs to life; also house your brain in safety, clone bodies to replace when yours wears out, functional immortality
empty the vault of the sierra madre, bring vending machine tech back to your Vegas for even more convenience/security as well as keeping the think tank in gold for plating electrical connections (Caesar cucks will supply the silver)
neuter the silos at the divide, made aware of the impending threat of tunnelers so you can prepare the people of Vegas
nobody can run Vegas like the Courier.
Imagine being a Mary sue
Imagine choosing not to be when the option is available too you.
better than being taxcattle, a slave, or an 'apprentice' for the rest of your life tbh
>nooo I want to be super speshal I’m so quirky and unique
>play the pivotal role in a major historical event
>nah, im good, i like being nobody 🙂
i respect your dedication to playing a role but those roles are boring, i'd rather strive for something of my own if i came that close to the sun
if i wanted to be a nobody, i'd shut the computer off and go outside
>nooo I need to be a cool person here because I’m a loser irl
This is some cucked logic
jeez, anon, it's a joke
point is, what kind of power fantasy is it if i'm gonna end up paying frickin taxes or bending the knee for some other fool
>they chose the Starfield ending for hookers, chems and dust
grim
>If I say it's non canon, it's non canon
you are a moron. sorry that yes man's factual superiority made you butthurt. but you cannot snap your fingers and make it not a real part of the game. idiot.
>guy who gets shot twice in the head, survives, murders half the mojave, becomes the most pivotal person in a 3-way war, becomes a cyborg in charge of a pre-war science facility and is given the ability to launch functional nuclear warheads at the wastelands burgeoning civilizations is a mary sue
I swear to god, the people who throw around the Mary Sue Courier complaint towards the Yes Man ending have never actually played New Vegas.
He's right, you're a mary sue
That's my point. The courier -- you -- IS a Mary Sue. Always and with every ending.
It's goddamn moronic to hate the Independent Ending for a Mary Sue Courier when every ending involves a Mary Sue Courier.
The other options have the factions taking charge with the courier playing just playing a role anon
Who cares though?
You're the player the world revolves around
Just like most games in existence
>anon doesn't understand the difference between a plot device and a mary sue
whoda thunk...
meaningless distinction in a singleplayer rpg
It really isn’t, the Yes Man ending is stupid power fantasy bullshit
Absolutely based. Why the FRICK would I kneel to my inferiors?
>Yes Man ending is good if you make up a bunch of headcanon!
anon, none of the endings go anywhere once the credits drop. any discussion of 'which ending is best' is necessarily a question of headcanon
otherwise, the canon endings are all literally "but nothing ever changes"
did you come to this thread not expecting autistic levels of head canon?
I'd pick it if it was more fleshed out. It's the path that makes more sense for a futuristic Vegas
yes man is boring. its an option for boring fence sitters who arent willing to choose from real, flawed options and need to have their tiny dicks stroked through their oc donutsteel player avatars that have no actual place in the narrative.
>literally the only motive force in the narrative has no place in the narrative
please tell me you're diagnosed moronic
FINALLY someone gets it.
Also, even if you don't self-insert, the Courier post-Lonesome Road is the best candidate for leading Vegas since he has experience with the wasteland. All other candidates just live inside their own little bubble, trying to go back to the way things were before, rather than building ahead.
Yes Man is the only ending that fits the overall narrative of letting go of the past and building something new that some parts of the main game and all of the DLCs try to talk about.
this
yes man also represents Satan, so ofc he's the end the developers point to
>letting go of the past and building something new
frick the new , i want to go back
>the newly found state of the Mojave aligning themselves with the technological base of Big MT
Imagine the possibilities. Roboscorpion defense force paired with matter replicators producing all manner of food, dwindling medical supplies and munitions, static hologram checkpoints and saturnine infused weaponry and artillery that can melt through solid armor
For me its the throwing of a high ranking general off the Hoover Dam. I would've done the same with the Legate too if he hadn't fallen so proudly in battle.
>hey anon I mean courier, the narwhal bacons at midnight right?!
Honestly by and large people really didn't play around with Yes Man as much as they could've. Nobody really pick and chose factions, every real yes man playthrough outside of speedruns just goes for making everyone your friend. You never see anyone making a point to exclude the Great Khans or the Brotherhood for any ideological roleplay, just more friends more allies = good
You can only have the khans fight for caesar or ncr, there's no real benefit to befriending them with yes man so I usually just ignore them or wipe them out myself.
>most people are rational and try to unite the wastes instead of committing genocide for petty reasons
I don't know why this upsets you, it seems very nice to me.
>befriend boomers (im a fellow explosives enjoyer)
>send the khans on a suicide mission (let the powdergangers join them first because most of them are Black folk)
>join the brotherhood to save a perk point and then blow up the bunker (I they would surely try to steal my robot army and orbital laser cannon from me)
>return white gloves to cannibalism and let them stay in the strip (my character has 1 INT)
>my character has 1 INT
based this is the best build in the game I love the dialogue options it gives
Holy kino
bullshit, anon, i wiped the filthy khans out to a man for their role in my attempted murder, but i let the brotherhood live because my friend would have been really sad if i killed her family. especially right after i convinced her to stay with them despite their differences.
i handled the three families' bullshit because i needed dorks to manage my casinos, but i capped cachino (cheap frick) and left the omertas without a leader so that whenever one emerged he'd be hungry for legitimacy and would accept my olive branch readily. both swank and marjorie owe me personally for cementing their positions AND that of their casinos, so they'll be eager to work with me over House.
as for the boomers...why the frick would I NOT want to be friends with a bunch of loonies with a dream and a boner for explosions?
The boomers fired a mortar at me so I killed every last one of those filthy tribals, moving from bed to bed.
I have.
Wipe out detrimental factions like the Khans and Brotherhood.
Assist helpful or loyal factions like the Boomers.
Nah, I usually destroy the BoS and tell the Khans to go on a suicide attack.
i did an idealogically pessimistic and justified courier in yes man. i thought vegas (and the families) were ungrateful c**ts and house musn't help them (feels bad killing him tho) even if it were to lead to humanity falling.
being moral often gave you a short end of the stick in outcomes, the food shortages, crops failing, killing the van graffs and BoS, slaugthering the legion camp is the biggest filter as its very tiring to kill a bunch of named NPCs
There is no way I am keeping the brotherhood around when I have a robot army, I did keep the Great Khans around though because someone is always going to make and distribute drugs, as look as they keep that poison out of vegas and pay me a cut for not wiping them off the map they can do as they please. Yes Man just inherited the Bias that Benny had or even programmed into him.
I blow up the Brotherhood every run, and only VERY begrudgingly let them live if I want Power Armor
They're a net negative on the realm
>I make my own choices
>I rule as I see fit
>Vegas is my fiefdom and everyone within it is my vassal
No
The moment you finish the game YesMan route your bullet damaged bain tells you to you frick off to desert as if nothing happened
sorry but it is just you'r powerfantasy
blame Obsidian
>you're playing pretend wrong
you must have a lot of friends
I actually was just like OP, playing for the first time the game and the world how I see fit untill the very end when the game put big Frick You in my face
by the way yes, I can count my real friends on one hand
This is the type of shit a troony would type out to sound cool.
I want to hand House the reins and frick off into the wilds. I ain’t got time to lead or rebuild. Not my problem. I deliver Mail.
This. House saved Vegas from a lot of nukes, so I figured he has the rights to own it now. I'll be doing jet on a hooker's ass over at Gomorrah, he can send a Securitron when he needs me for a job here and there.
House is the based choice
Legion is the contrarian choice
NCR is the npc choice
Yes Man is the cringe choice
tbf the courier was exceptionally capable, inhumanly so.
It would make sense for him to pick yes man canon. The average anon, even a a very smart and self-reliant one would have no hope. It would not be a pragmatic choice putting yourself in the same shoes and ignoring the plot armor and ludosophic implications of knowing the game mechanics
>year 2020+3
>morons STILL think the yesman ending makes the player the dictator of the mojave
Its the anarchy ending you powertripping gays. It maintains the wild west.
I don't have time to be a tad wrangler.
Just let me be a mercenary you gay. Its the post apocalypse and I don't need to lead a nation of people that resents outsiders (but can't get water or electric infrastructure running) to live my own life by my own rules. I don't care that I can 'force' them to kneel before me. Being a legacy obsessed moron is Caesar as frick.
I'm delivering the chip, kicking out the corrupt NCR, exterminating the Legion/BoS/Powder Gangers and using my House money to do literally anything else with my life.
Do you know how much work it is to constantly manage a post-apocalyptic region?
My courier just wants to sit back in his luxury suite and get drunk all day
Let one of the other bozos do the work
yes man is the same as the mr house ending btw
I don't want to rule, I just want to get paid
While i like Yes Man, and the ending itself is 'interesting', it just doesn't make sense to choose anyone other than House.
NCR is the only real cuck ending, the other 3 at least give you something nice. Legion makes you a part of their history, House gives you all the luxuries of Vegas and Yes Man makes you the leader of a free Mojave.
All NCR gives you is a fricking leaf.
That's not even the worst part for me.
In the last mission at the Dam, Lee Oliver treats you like trash if you're with the NCR but he instead praises you and compliments your skills if you're there to help House. Only golems side with the NCR.
>Be a civilian
>Do a great deed
>The president gives you the Presidential Medal of Freedom
>The medal of FRICKING FREEDOM
>The highest medal a civilian can obtain.
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom
>You did a great job for your country and kinsman
>Forever a hero
>Children will learn about you at school
WHERE'S YOUR PATRIOTISM, homosexual!?
NCR Frick Yeah!
idk man i think the robot is using you and the yes man ending is actually AI taking over.
the dialogue unintentionally implies that but devs say they didnt intend for it.
Yes Man has 0 long term stability. It's also unclear if you're even the leader, and if you are, why is some mailman mercenary qualified for the job? What would the Courier do that the other options would not? Anyone who goes for Yes Man has an inflated self ego, in my experience. Legion Black folk tend to be neo-nazis who would've rather had an Enclave ending. NCR morons (I am one) either like it due to familiarity between the multiple games featuring them and their similarity to the US, sometimes they're just progressives who see it as the best option for that, there's a couple people who just like the iconography of it, and then there are the milsim literal morons who would rather an Enclave ending. Meanwhile I've never met a House homie who wasn't deeply invested in the setting and plot of the game, and they always have thoughtful reasoning.
The Legion offers safety and a stable economy in a dangerous world. That alone makes them better in my mind than the NCR. I agree that there's something wrong with Enclave fans (I like the power armor and americana aesthetic but I'd never join them).
I like the idea of the Enclave as a faction but it's always been more cartoonishly evil and moronic than the Legion. I think that having them as an alternative to the NCR could say a lot, there's also the fact that after 2 they're practically a military without a citizenry as far as we can tell. But in practice they're just the Legion, with the same issues in practice that kind of ruins them even if they have more interesting lore or possible relevance. Enclave gays are usually RETVRN morons sadly.
As for the Legion providing safety, it's at extreme cost to human existence and they're stated to not really have a chance to live much longer after Caesar anyway, by design even. They'll degenerate into tribal warlords again if anything, just ones that treat women worse.
Unfortunately we don't get to see Legion civilization in New Vegas, all we see is how they act during war.
>extreme cost to human existence
If you're a chem dealer or raider, sure.
We don't know how Lanius or Lucius act outside of war, and I don't believe either of them (and Vulpes) would be willing to destroy the Legion over petty power disputes.
You realize they're all slaves, right? Officers kill the lower ranks for slight failure. And I know it's cool to cheer for violence and oppression of women, but it's pretty heinous how they treat them too.
All this crying about poor wahmen makes me not care about talking to you anymore.
I mentioned it as an aside
Yes man is the most thematically approprite but it leaves a bad taste in my mouth because it fricks over my pet hippies.
>So you're a follower
no, I'm an employee
I get paid, followers do it for free
Mr. House is too based to kill.
he's brilliant but he's a simp for 'umanity. you see how they(vegas citizens) react when he dies? gatsby-esque
If I ever have an AI assistant, I am going to make it based on Yes Man.
>Yes man children being unable to comprehend being a part of something greater than yourself
Even the NCR deserves more respect than Yes chud
I have better things to be doing than ruling over a glorified themepark.
I'll let House do all the desk work and I'll take my pay thank you very much.
I know he swapped those chips. I knew it wasn't platinum. As if I could ever make such a mistake. Never, never! I just, I just couldn't prove it. He covered his tracks, he got that idiot securitron at The Tops to lie for him. You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This chicanery?! He's done worse. The Ultra Luxe! Are you telling me that Ted Gunderson just happens to disappear like that? No! He ATE him! The courier! Then he DEFECATED on MY LIFE SUPPORT DEVICE! And I saved him! And I shouldn't have. I took him into my own casino! What was I THINKING? He'll never change. He'll NEVER change! Ever since he blew up The Divide, ALWAYS the same! Couldn't keep his hands out of the packages! "But not our Courier! Couldn't be the precious COURIER!" Stealing them blind! And HE gets to be in charge of New Vegas? What a sick joke! I should've had Victor kill him when I had the chance!
Doing a shotgun female NCR run right now, is there a shortcut to complete boomer quest without killing the leader? The boomer is such a slog to go through