So, after the crazy long week I've had, (Recording and losing the Super-Fly Podcast, making the Super-Fly Clipshow, working 12 hours doing comics, recording The Wrestling Show) I chilled at home, trying to recover from not sleeping. So, I decided to pop in Fallout: New Vegas again and try and get it going.
HUGE SPOILERS!!! END OF THE GAME SHIT HERE!!! IF YOU DON"T WANT TO KNOW HOW THE GAME COULD END, DON"T READ!!!
Where I last left the game, I was tooling around the Wastelands, looking for areas I had not found yet. I saved around The Strip, so I went to talk to Yes Man at the Lucky 38. We had reprogrammed Mr. House's Securitron army and they were awaiting my command to take the Hoover Dam from under everyone's noses. Yes Man directed me to a control panel at the Dam. If I take a special chip with Yes Man's program on it. I could take the chip and insert Yes Man into the main computer at the Dam to direct the power of the Dam to either the army of Securitrons or to blow up the Dam altogether. Sort of a 'If I can't have it, no one can' type deal. I figured since I took the time to reprogram the robots, I should use them.
So I truck it to the computer terminal, making short work of the forces outside. Note that the NCR turned on me in the middle of this fight. I'm not sure if one of my grenades had hit and killed one of them or if my helping of the Brotherhood of Steel had finally caught up with me. Either way, killing them all was no real issue. Cowboy Repeater for the win. I headed down into the Dam, wasting enemy forces along the way. I put Yes Man into the system and tasked him to divert the Dam's power to the robots. I was then ordered to return topside and see the fruits of our labor. We got outside and the fun begins: fight the rest of Caesar's Legion with your robot army. It wasn't very difficult with the weapons I had and the robots. I pretty much walked up to the top of the camp. Then, a mysterious figure confronted me. Fighting with the Legion, he tells me about the impending war that's about to happen. Due to my high speech rating, I manage to somehow talk him into not attacking and falling back east. He warns that they will be back. Next time, with more forces. I smell DLC content....
I run back to the Legion gate to leave and the door blows up. A man, that is a general in the NCR, congratulating me on flattening out the Legion by myself. Yeah, thanks dude. It was really easy with your guys shooting me in the back. He then talks about the NCR taking over the Dam again and I make it clear that that isn't going to happen. As the smoke clears, you see my army of Securitrons, getting my back. I tell him that I'll be taking over Hoover Dam AND New Vegas and the NCR isn't invited to the party. After some bluster, he bails out, only to warn me that the NCR, also will regroup soon and come looking for me. More DLC....Yeah!
A cinematic is shown of Yes Man tossing Mr General off the Hoover Dam. That's what you get for fucking with me.
After that bit of awesomeness, Yes Man tells me that he's reprogrammed all the robots to uphold the law in New Vegas and beyond. He then says something pretty cryptic. he tells me that he'll be inactive for a while. He'll be in the process of reprogramming himself to be more 'assertive' in his duties. This smacked of a double cross, but it didn't happen. Yes Man thanks me for my help and rolls off into the sunset. I'm sure he'll be back for some DLC action. Geez, that was really creepy the way he made it seem like he's be back soon. Something about him saying that he'd be 'more assertive' in the future. The end of the game starts, telling you what happened to the people and places you interacted with throughout the game. Same as Fallout 3. Ending with the now signature catchphrase "War never changes"
As hard of a time as I've had with New Vegas, it's on it's face, a pretty big disappointment. This could have been the game I spent a hundred more hours trying to get all the trophies and find all the fun easter eggs in the game. I still haven't found the Star Wars: A New Hope and Indiana Jones references in the game. But, because the game is still buggy as fuck since October, I've most likely going to put it on the shelf and forget about it until DLC shows up and even then, if the game it still running shitty, I'll just put it back with the rest of the collector's stuff and say 'Fuck this game' and wait for Elder Scrolls 5.
Overall, I give Fallout: New Vegas 3/5. It's a game that could have been fucking amazing, but due to the game running like ass the entire time I've had it and after two patches, it's merely a good game with alot of missed opportunities.
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