Speculation Op-Ed: New Vegas and Tycho

I think this is just meant to be an NCR soldier. And I doubt they'll show the NCR capital,but Hoover Dam (which was part of NCR in Van Buren) is more likely.
 
Yep, and Hoover Dam would also be a reason, why they have so much light and power in Vegas (if this is vegas we see in the teaser).

I really hope that they resurrect a bit of VBs Plotline with the Hoover Dam and the NCR / BoS war.
 
The Dutch Ghost said:
I don't mean it wrong guys but you are making so much speculation about something that might not even really be mentioned in the game.

I just see it as some trailer that is meant to introduce us all to the feel of the game, not necessarily showing a character we get to play as or interact with.

If this would be the look of some of the NCR soldiers, that would be nice though.

Best thing would simply be to wait for actually in game shots next week.
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I agree.

Also if this really should be the default NCR soldier, then I am "a bit" disappointed.

Right now there is still no real information available, so I wouldn't made up so much stuff... I saw in the Vault that there are some new articles now based on the teaser which sound like facts. But I wouldn't be shocked if it's not true in the end...
 
Just like the BoS guy in the FO3 trailer/intro was meant to be a generic member of the BoS, I think this is just meant to be a generic NCR soldier.
 
I think that a town in a trailer for a game called New Vegas probably IS New Vegas.
 
Surf Solar said:
Yep, and Hoover Dam would also be a reason, why they have so much light and power in Vegas (if this is vegas we see in the teaser).

I really hope that they resurrect a bit of VBs Plotline with the Hoover Dam and the NCR / BoS war.
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Here's a thought.
That's an NCR flag. 2-headed bear and it even says "New Californian Republic" So it's post Fallout at the earliest. If around the time of Fallout 2 at all, then it's been over 180 years since the war.
Now forget Fallout 3. It ignored cannon and it was it's own thing. No one from Bethesda has been announced on the dev team for Fallout: NV. What we have here might actually be a Fallout game that sticks to the Fallout 1&2 cannon given the history of the known devs. Just think about that...

Anyway it's been almost 200 damn years by the time Fallout 2 hit. That's long enough for people to rebuild, cities to pop up and things to start going again. Look at the main cities in Fallout 2. A big city running off of electricity in a fallout game isn't that big of a shock. It was Bethesda's design for F3 that made it seem like humanity hadn't progressed at all in the 2 centuries since the war.

As for the vault speculation...ehhhhh. It doesn't look like it. The jacket says "A7" in white paint and the helmet says "(7)" in white paint. The vaults have allways used yellow paint for the numbering and so far the "A" on the jacket stands out bigtime. Best bet at this point, NCR soldier.

This says 2 things to me. First, they aren't going to rehash the same lame plot that F3 did (no Enclave probably...I hope). Second, NCR might be the baddies or at least the initial "bad guy" threat in the plot. I am kinda dissapointed in the Nazi stormtrooper looking helmet though. That cliche was old and overdone before Killzone came out.
 
Ausir said:
No one from Bethesda has been announced on the dev team for Fallout: NV.
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Actually, there are Bethesda producers working on it too.
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Really, who? I noticed that they had Jorge "Oscuro" Salgado on there but he was a modder for Oblivion. I know Bethesda's producing it, but I didn't notice any names from there on the lists of developers for New Vegas.
 
I don't think it is Tycho in person.

All i can speculate is

a) He's the PC since he's wearing a PIPBoy

b) He looks like a Nevada Ranger (at least according to the text description of Tycho)

c) He has some relation to NCR, hence the flag

What's more likely is that he's just in a generic "ranger" outfit, which is actually pretty cool the way it looks like.

If i wanted to speculate further, i'd say that in Fallout 2 there was a faction called Rangers based in NCR, maybe they're coming back, well, dressed as rangers.

Also, A7 doesn't have to be a vault, there other kinds of shelters. Prison blocks for example.

/Speculus post
 
I seriously doubt it's Tycho, gasmasks and trenchcoats are pretty standard for a PA setting these days.

and I don't mind one bit, I really hope I'm gonna get to wear that outfit in-game.
 
As long as Obsidian is somewhat in charge over the project and its direction I would have no issue with Bethesda devs working on Vegas. Would want Vegas to feel more like Fallout, not like Oblivion after the apocalypse.
 
thenightgaunt said:
Second, NCR might be the baddies or at least the initial "bad guy" threat in the plot.
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I was just thinking about this. The guy in the trailer is most likely part of NCR, and NCR wants everyone to join them. Soo... it is very possible that NCR are the "bad guys" and are forcing settlements to join them. Wasteland takeover. Although, I'm not sure why they would force them into joining, as it would create higher chances of revolts and revolution. Perhaps NCR is falling apart, and there is, in fact, a revolution going down, or about to go down. Just speculating.

And of course, like in the Fallout 3 teaser trailer there was a BOS soldier, so perhaps NCR are the "good guys" in this game, in the same style as BOS was in Fallout 3. Perhaps the developers didn't want BOS to be a big part of New Vegas, or maybe they won't show up at all. But if they want to get away from BOS, just replacing BOS with NCR, with NCR having basically the same role as FO3 BOS, would be kind of pointless.

I'm leaning more toward NCR being seen as oppressors. If that is an NCR soldier, usually it is the cliche that people who are dressed in dark colors and have glowing red eyes are "bad." But hey, maybe I'm not giving the writers much credit. We'll just have to wait and see.
 
verevoof said:
thenightgaunt said:
Second, NCR might be the baddies or at least the initial "bad guy" threat in the plot.
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I was just thinking about this. The guy in the trailer is most likely part of NCR, and NCR wants everyone to join them. Soo... it is very possible that NCR are the "bad guys" and are forcing settlements to join them. Wasteland takeover. Although, I'm not sure why they would force them into joining, as it would create higher chances of revolts and revolution. Perhaps NCR is falling apart, and there is, in fact, a revolution going down, or about to go down. Just speculating.

And of course, like in the Fallout 3 teaser trailer there was a BOS soldier, so perhaps NCR are the "good guys" in this game, in the same style as BOS was in Fallout 3. Perhaps the developers didn't want BOS to be a big part of New Vegas, or maybe they won't show up at all. But if they want to get away from BOS, just replacing BOS with NCR, with NCR having basically the same role as FO3 BOS, would be kind of pointless.

I'm leaning more toward NCR being seen as oppressors. If that is an NCR soldier, usually it is the cliche that people who are dressed in dark colors and have glowing red eyes are "bad." But hey, maybe I'm not giving the writers much credit. We'll just have to wait and see.
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yeah, I thought about this too. I can definitely see a major plot point being NCR wanting to take NV. neither side is necessarily "bad" or "good", but simply have different interests.
 
Myron Rolle said:
I really hope we don't have "good guys" and "bad guys", just "guys trying to survive".
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You've got to have at least one bad guy. It's very difficult to make a compelling RPG otherwise.
 
Dionysus said:
Myron Rolle said:
I really hope we don't have "good guys" and "bad guys", just "guys trying to survive".
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You've got to have at least one bad guy. It's very difficult to make a compelling RPG otherwise.
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You need an antagonist. He doesn't need to be a "bad guy".
 
Dionysus said:
Myron Rolle said:
I really hope we don't have "good guys" and "bad guys", just "guys trying to survive".
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You've got to have at least one bad guy. It's very difficult to make a compelling RPG otherwise.
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Planescape: Torment did well without a bad guy, as did STALKER.

verevoof said:
I'm leaning more toward NCR being seen as oppressors. If that is an NCR soldier, usually it is the cliche that people who are dressed in dark colors and have glowing red eyes are "bad." But hey, maybe I'm not giving the writers much credit. We'll just have to wait and see.
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If it's Obsidian, there's guaranteed to be some kind of a twist.
 
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