All posts by Wendigo Blades

Loving everyone’s answers so I might as well put mine out there too:

My Courier, Tom Calendar, had a younger brother called Davey who unfortunately died during a bounty hunting job in Wyoming where my Courier is from. They were both very young when he passed and my Courier moved on eventually, never really finding a family again (unless you count his bastard child in Montana).

My Sole Survivor, Sam Hicks, had a younger brother called Jeff who was a power armor mechanic in the military. After the war, Sam retired to Sanctuary with his wife Nora and son Shaun while Jeff became a more local mechanic over at the Lexington Red Rocket. After the bombs fell, Jeff survived the bombs and began looking for his parents and brother, along with his sister-in-law and nephew. After the first few weeks of slowly travelling through the precarious new world, Jeff’s hair started falling out and he began turning into a Ghoul. He would eventually find his parent’s old home in Quincy devastated and left heartbroken, deciding he had no other option but to try and make it to Sanctuary Hills. He would come across a small group of survivors who would give him shelter for a brief time before being attacked and killed by raiders. Armed with nothing but his laser rifle, Jeff butchered the raiders responsible and continued on, his skin now appearing more rotten and his eyes gaining a jaundiced look. Jeff eventually made it to Sanctuary but found only Codsworth and the Vault-Tec Rep and the door to the nearby Vault 111 sealed tight. Jeff simply hoped for the best and left Sanctuary, hoping to find some semblance of normalcy in the new world. Jeff would travel a lot over the next two hundred years and likely either died as a Ghoul or continues to survive out in the wasteland as I have not actually decided yet.

So I wake up in the Commonwealth (as that’s the furthest part on the timeline we’ve got). I think I’d make my way to Diamond City and set up shop as a cleaner for the Bobrov brothers until I saved enough caps to properly get weapons training and then I’d hire a few bodyguards and make my way to a radio tower and set up my own radio station, playing all the best Beatles hits.

I doubt I’d actually live very long out on my own but if I can make it to Diamond City then I think I’d be pretty set. There’s plenty of jobs for an everyman there. Hell, if you wanted you could even just sign on with Nick as a Detective for hire or a teacher for the kids. With some training, I’m sure one could even become a mechanic for the Eyebotd, Miss Nannys and Mister Handys around town.

I don’t think the Sole Survivor is a synth. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a cool idea.

Courier 6, however, now that’s a protagonist who could be a synth.

Goris.

In F3, I send tanky Fawkes after them while I use a sniper rifle or alien blaster to deal heavy damage from afar.

In FNV, I simply laugh in the face of danger with my Anti-Material Rifle or, if I’m feeling fun, an orbital death ray in my back pocket’s handy.

In my own personal beliefs, I think Lyons is the best. He was compassionate, caring to the broken people of D.C, and he stuck to his beliefs of protecting the people from outside threats even after the Outcasts were formed.

As for the worst, just out of these four I’d say Father Elijah. It’s been a while since I played Dead Money but from what I can recall, he just wants forbidden tech for himself. He’s not even trying to protect the people from themselves like Maxson or McNamara.

The Master is terrifying for one primary reason - he could very believably win. His Unity was a formidable, seemingly unstoppable threat that would blast you into little pixels if you were unlucky enough to battle them without decent gear and backup.

The other villains really don’t hold a candle to the sheer terror that the Master was. Gray’s status as this horrifying abomination also makes me love the Vault Dweller more as the one who stopped the Unity. Just a shame the games post Fallout 2 don’t really honor him as they should.

The only other villain I could see being as terrifying as the Master is Frank Horrigan but it always felt like a David vs Goliath situation with him and the Chosen One. It seemed clear that we would, somehow, defeat the behemoth. But the Master never really felt that way, he seemed too monstrous, too inhuman for us to beat but we did either through talking him down or blowing up his Cathedral, we did.

I fucking love the Master.

Man imagine running and gunning through the Strip with a pal or storming Hoover Dam and taking on Legate Lanius as a duo? It’d be amazing.

Murkoff did some really fucked up things (mind fucking a village through radio towers in Outlast 2 and of course using the morphogenic engine to traumatise someone enough to be a host for the Walrider in Outlast 1) but Vault-Tec has done so much worse. Vault 11, Vault 87, Vault 106, Vault 108, Vault 81… There’s just too many Vault-Tec experiments for Murkoff to compete against for worst company.

Facehuggers can impregnate humans, why not mutants? That being said an FEV Xenomorph sounds awesome. How about a behemoth Queen?

My personal favourite ending is the NCR but if I look at the game completely objectively and try to follow the story in a straight line I believe Mr. House’s ending with Lanius and Oliver retreating makes the most sense as it keeps the world relatively the same and affects the overall US the least.

The Legion ending would lead to the entire west coast (at least) being assimilated and enslaved within a couple of decades, the NCR ending introduces way too much law and order to ever work in a post-apocalyptic world alongside the countless rebellions that would rise all over the Mojave and the Yes Man ending would lead to riots in the streets, heavy push-back from the Mojave’s denizens and also not to mention the fact that a mailman now has to command an army of securitrons, keep a previously tampered with AI stable and balance the Families of New Vegas with the factions outside of Vegas (BoS, Khans, Enclave, etc).

ItsJabo, Nerbit, Mittens Squad and Mikeburnfire

Ha ha ha hah! Gary…

Saddest overall? Shit there’s a lot of competition.

Harold is certainly a contender. A kind-hearted caravaner who was captured by the Master and infected with FEV, eventually transforming in increasingly unpredictable ways until he is left as a tree, formerly a man now trapped in a shell of bark and leaves.

The Vault Dweller I can understand. He left the Vault after pulling the short straw and had to suffer through the various trials and tribulations of the wastes. In the end, he defeats the Master and returns home only to find out he’s exiled. After wandering the wastes for several years, he meets up with other Vault 13 Dwellers and settles down with his wife, Pat, then she dies and he rather sombrely disappears. Possibly killing himself alone in the wastes so his people don’t have to see his body.

The Sole Survivor could also work. I mean, I can’t imagine seeing your spouse murdered, child kidnapped and everyone you’ve ever known die in a nuclear blast. You’re likely to get PTSD at the very least and the Survivor leaving their Vault to find the scorched Earth waiting for them, those few gasps tell us everything we need to know. In the end, the Sole Survivor seems broken in their final speech following the ending.

Randall Dean Clark. This is my final answer. Randall Clark, born in February of 2053, was a veteran of the annexation of Canada and a survivor of the Great War. He survived in Zion, not far from Salt Lake City where he, his wife and his son, Alex, lived. While he would spent most of his time away from his family surviving in the wilderness (something he would come to regret) he returned home shortly after the first of the bombs fell. His truck stopped due to an EMP and he was forced to duck and cover as Salt Lake City was obliterated by warheads. Clark knew his family was gone and left for Zion Canyon. He survived for many years, saw many come and go and even managed to love again when a tribal named Sylvie entered his life. He was ready to be a father again at the age of 47 but when time came to give birth, his son Michael was a breech and Clark was forced to give a c-section to his wife but all was lost as both wife and son died during childbirth. He was alone again. You get the gist but thankfully Randall did find peace again when he became the “father” of a group of tribals who moved into the canyons and watched over them until his death in 2124.

Fallout 1 and 2 had exceptional atmospheres. It felt so hopeless and lonely, it made things like “My Chrysalis Highwayman” feel so much warmer and fun to listen to.