who did you side with on your first playthrough

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probably_not_a_mutie

First time out of the vault
I sided with the NCR(and have NO regrets)

who did you side with? or did you say FUCK THOSE GUYS! I want this whole muter fuckin' place to your motherfuckin' self strap on your bandiloier of godraping awsomeness and blast a patch of destrution killed and miamed those who dared oppose you?
(also did anyone else phyciscly SMELL Mr.house when they saw his true form?)
 
Anyway back on topic, I went with NCR too, I just liked preferred their ideals. Atleast NCR was somewhere grey-ish, whereas Legion was just too evil, and I looked at New Vgeas and just thought how great it would look if the amazing-ness of the veteran rangers storming the lucky 38, and bringing law to East Vegas.

Erghhm. But anyway, in FO2, I really loved NCR (I tried to manipulate the ending so all the ending ended up with New Reno, VC, Redding and Gecko becoming NCR-ised), so I thought I should carry on this love, so yeah, there it is.
 
I went with Yes-Man... since I killed Caesar, Mr. House and far too many NCR veterans... oh, and Benny. Was going for a neutral ending, if you could call it that.
 
NCR, I've also sided with house, but I can't bring my self to side with ceasar, on my second play through I talked to him before I shot him, and it just made my want to shoot him more.
 
No Gods, No Masters. According to J.E. Sawyer's twitter is the most popular ending among the Steam users (and likely among players in general, but there's no data to support it).
 
Tbh, it's probably because it's the most convenient. Along with the great character of Yes Man, introduced via the main storyline. Not that you get forced to be introduced to the NCR ambassador or Caesar through the main storyline. Until after you meet Yes Man, where his wily charms had already won over most. He's also the last resort ending...
 
In my first playthrough I've sided with House. He was too awesome. Second was with Yes Man. Threw that NCR general off the hoover dam.
Third playthrough was full of rage and bullets, never finished it and started the fourth, I want to help the legion.
 
I went with the NCR, After playing the games for years i sort of got the feeling it was my duty to help the good People of NCR expand and bring peace to the wasteland.
 
Went with Yes-Man because House rubbed me wrong and NCR is way to corrupt. Oh and Legion is evil.
 
TonyGee said:
I went with the NCR, After playing the games for years i sort of got the feeling it was my duty to help the good People of NCR expand and bring peace to the wasteland.
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And lets not forget imperialism, heavy taxes, and a large army who hate their leaders more than the legion.
 
On my first play though still but going with Yes Man. NCR is currupt, incompitent and thinly spread. Mr House seems smarter but ultimately he seems to be all about profit and the "spirit" of Vegas (which is, as anyone who's been there knows, the sort of spirit that rapes). The Legion is just evil. It's sad, as there does seem like there's suggestions to a more well rounded faction but it just didn't make it into the game.

So I just decided that I was going to sort out the whole shabang myself, which is pretty vain really but fuck it. I don't like being told what to do.
 
^ Well, House seems to be that "well-rounded" faction for the game, best there is anyway . The problem is that he holds you for another goon/idiot.
 
Well, myself, I prefer a democracy, even with all its flaws, to an autocratic randroid libertopia. And I see no reason to trust Yes Man.
 
^He's been programed to be as much help to others as possible. To trust Yes Man is to trust yourself. Assuming he isn't lying, but his story does seem to add up. I havn't finished the game yet so I have no idea.

Anyway he's one of my favourite characters in the game so I'm quite happy to stick with him.

But ultimatelly by choosing Wild Card you are saying "I'm the only one who knows whats best" which may be true but it's still a rediculous amount of power for one man/woman.

EDIT: Thinking about it I suppose there's nothing stopping him doing the same to me as he did to Benny, assuming someone can get past all the heavily armed bots.
 
SomeBritishDude said:
But ultimatelly by choosing Wild Card you are saying "I'm the only one who knows whats best" which may be true but it's still a rediculous amount of power for one man/woman.
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You haven't talked to Kimball yet have you?
 
^He's been programed to be as much help to others as possible. To trust Yes Man is to trust yourself. Assuming he isn't lying, but his story does seem to add up. I havn't finished the game yet so I have no idea.
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I haven't finished the game yet either, but I have no reason to believe that he's telling the truth.
 
Yes Man actually goes outside which makes no sense. What's to stop anyone from talking to him? Doesn't happen though. That plotthread is kind of odd, with Yes Man a narrative tool to allow you to go independent. I can see why some would consider it the best option available, House doesn't tell you much and his plans are kind dumb, Caesar is just evil and NCR...well they're ok, but a bit over-stretched.

The Yes Man path does come with kind of a twist/hinted-at-twist, but it's not much.
 
Yeah, pretty much. Obsidian's promised "grey choices" are really non-existent. Caesar's Legion is hilariously evil.

NCR is bureaucratic and has made some mistakes in the heat of war, fine. They're also over-stretches and incapable of offering the protection in the wasteland needed by towns and caravans (Cass explains as much), but that lack of capacity seems to be caused by the Legion, and endings indicate they're capable of pacifying the bigger troublemakers once the main threat is gone.

So really, the Legion are the bad guys, and then you either go for anarchic good guys (Yes Man or House) or democratic order (NCR). Not much grey area anywhere, though the divisions between the non-Legion options are pretty good.

Though I'm currently on a evil/Legion playthrough, having done good/every other faction.

I ask this again since it remained unanswered elsewhere, in the Yes Man path
[spoiler:92bde561a7]Does choosing to activate the Dam or blow up the generators really have more or less no effect on the final areas and endings? Makes no sense[/spoiler:92bde561a7]
 
[spoiler:046cfb7660]Yeah, the final choice has no effect, which is kinda dumb, I agree on that.[/spoiler:046cfb7660]

Honestly, the lack of greyness in the factions wouldn't bother me that much if Obsidian hadn't played on that so heavily pre-release.
 
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