Guess who just got promoted to the God damn dam God?: A Fallout: New Vegas LP

[greed]

Welcome to the Fallout New Vegas LP, my second and hopefully far more successful attempt at making an LP. I’ve chosen New Vegas to LP for several reasons. The smaller amount of text compared to Dragon Age, the availability of text dumps online due to Fallout’s fanbase and the fact that almost every quest you do has two if not many more paths to take allowing for a great deal of user participation. This extends to the endings with four major endings and dozens of minor variations on them.

Anyway some foundation stuff for the LP. I know this game like the back of my hand having beaten it around 6 times and had several near completion playthroughs outside of that. Because of this I’m going to leave almost everything up to a vote, from character creation, what we should do in quests, to which factions we should favour. Oh also anyone who has played this game, please don’t talk about stuff we haven’t reached yet without spoiler tags.
This LP is being played in a mostly vanilla game, the only mods installed are some fix mods (the most notable for the readers being that we can get the happy ending for the Followers/NCR, which is glitched in unmodded games) a convenience mod for one of the hubs and a UI mod. Also no DLC, I have it for the 360 not the PC.

Last thing, quotes from the game will be in italics, me talking will be in plain text and requests for a vote will be in BOLD AND ALL CAPS.

Anyway for those not in the know Fallout New Vegas is an RPG set in a post apocalyptic world rooted in 50s scifi ideals of the future. In New Vegas it has been centuries since the bombs dropped and here on the West Coast civilisation has begun to get back onto it's feet albeit in very different forms. New Vegas' storyline is rooted in the clash of these rival powers in the battelfield of the Mojave Wasteland. The major players are the three shown in the opening cinematic.

-The New California Republic a democracy rooted in old world values and methods and by far the largest civilisation in the new world. Unfortunately for them they have pretty much all the problems of modern civilisations and on top of that are fighting wars on several fronts making their presence in the Mojave somewhat lacking.

-The Legion a army of slavers based on a somewhat skewed idea of Ancient Rome and lead by man calling himself Caesar who rules his people as god and king. They are throwing everything they have at taking control of the Mojave and are making leeway as the game begins.

- Mr House, a reclusive figure who commands an army of robots and is a power unto himself. Based in the city of New Vegas, Mr House's goals, motivations and methods are not entirely apparent yet.


To begin with as I can’t take a screenshot of the opening cut scene we'll skip right to the start of the game, if you want to see it, I'd look it up. I'd link it but I'm not sure what the rules are for linking some random video to my own LP so I won't.

Anyway long story short we get shot in the head by some goon in a checkered suit backed up by some guys in biker looking gear and then buried in a shallow grave. We're then hauled out by some strange cowboy faced robot and everything goes white.


Still white.



Kinda less white is that a fan?




Some old guy, still pretty blurry here.



Yeah that's right I don't remember a thing, WHAT IS OUR NAME?



Ugh still don't feel too good, is everything where it should be?

NOT ASKING FOR REAL SPECIFICS HERE, BUT WHAT SEX ARE WE, AND IN A GENERAL SORT OF WAY WHAT DO WE LOOK LIKE. ARE WE OLD? YOUNG? WHITE? BLACK? ASIAN? HISPANIC? RACE ISN'T GONNA HAVE ANY EFFECT ON THE LP, AGE MIGHT EFFECT THE NARRATION A LITTLE BIT, SEX HAS AN ACTUAL GAMEPLAY EFFECT THOUGH.

The doc walks me over to this strange carnival looking machine in the corner and tells me it will measure my vitals. I look at it.





Okay this is just one of those hokey carnival love testers, what the fuck it tests intelligence? And luck. Ugh he better not be trying to fuck with me.

NOT GONNA ASK FOR A VOTE HERE, I'LL DECIDE SPECIAL STATS BASED ON THE NEXT PART WHICH WILL BE DETERMINED BY VOTES.

After the sideshow alley medicine he leads me to a couch and asks me to sit down.




Now I'm gonna say some words and I want you to tell me the first word that pops into your mind.


TIME FOR VOTES, THIS WILL DETERMINE OUR SKILLS, VOTE BASED ON THE OPTIONS PRESENTED IN THE SCREENSHOTS.

Dog



House





Night





Enemy/Bandit





Light




Mother




Now I want you tell me whether you agree, strongly agree, disagree, strongly disagree or have no opinion about the following statements.”

"Conflict just ain't in my nature.


"I ain't given to relying on others for support."

"I'm always fixing to be the center of attention."

"I'm slow to embrace new ideas."

"I charge in to deal with my problems head-on."

Almost done here. What do you say you have a look at this? Tell me what you see.










Finally, not expecting you to have a history of bullets in your noggin, but if you could fill out this form about any pre-existing conditions you can remember?


VOTE FOR ANY ONE, TWO OR NONE OF THE ABOVE TRAITS.


So yeah LP proper should start next time as I wander around our surroundings and then we get our first proper vote for the update after that.

Here's a recap of all the votes other than the word associations and ink blots BTW. WHICH I DO WANT PEOPLE TO VOTE ON, IF I DON'T GET ENOUGH VOTES I'LL RANDOMLY PICK ANSWERS USING SOME DICE

NAME

AGE/SEX/RACE

Whether you agree, strongly agree, disagree, strongly disagree or have no opinion about the following statements.

"Conflict just ain't in my nature.

"I ain't given to relying on others for support."

"I'm always fixing to be the center of attention."

"I'm slow to embrace new ideas."

"I charge in to deal with my problems head-on."

THE ABOVE TRAITS


Anyway hope people enjoy this and participation is high.I really don't care how you vote, I've played very bad builds before and made the worst choices deliberately, so have fun.

[Marc v4.0]

blarg I wanted to do this but after all the DLC came out. Tricksie greed!

Punch Rockgroin

26/Male/Whitey

S. Disagree
Agree
No Opinion
S. Disagree
S. Agree

Wild Wasteland and Trigger Discipline

[greed]

Heh well I did leave the post saying I was doing this up for a day or two in case of objections, but yeah this is a game that could probably do with two LPs.

And crap I was kinda worried about that not being clear enough, I'd like people to vote on the ink blots and word association sections too. Ugh sorry. I'll edit the OP to make that clearer.

[Aerozord]

considering one myself, but yea I'm all for this, I think we should think more about the kind of character we want cause lets be honest we can BS all those questions then just manually alter the tagged skills.

I say we go with a Magnificent Bastard, socially cunning and able to take you in a fight if need be.

On the perks, really not huge on any, wild wasteland I never even saw any change

[Marc v4.0]

Really, WW changes only a small handful of things and you almost have to go looking for them.


And no objections at all, really. I wasn't going to go the standard "Pick everything!" format of LP, leaning myself more towards the "Watch the story!" type

[Kerensky287]

That default picture makes me vote that whatever kind of character he is, he needs as huge of a double-chin as possible. Make it so.

Alternatively just make him Captain Malcolm Reynolds in every possible way, starting with max charisma and minimum luck.

EDIT: Also, in your word associations, the screenshot accompanying "Night" just says "Night."

[Aldurin]

The guy needs to be fat, also he should have the good natured trait (if you only specialize in one or two combat skills then this serves as extra skill points overall). Also let's consider that not having the WW trait will allow him to get to one of the best energy weapons in the game.

Also it'd be nice to see unarmed and then either explosives or guns for the combat skills.

I don't have votes for anything else.

[Marc v4.0]

Melee and Unarmed are pretty badass weapon skills in NV, for sure. I second a hand-to-face fighter as well

[Osterbaum]

Guns, guns, guns! Also Survival and Speech.

e: Also I second Wild Wasteland and Trigger Dicipline.

[greed]

Alright so everyone's just voting skills then? Fair enough guess it was a bit much to ask to do all that. Thought it might make a hilariously fucked up skill set though.

But okay everyone keep voting this way I guess, it would just be confusing to do the psych test now. Also fuck on the night thing.

Oh and voting will close, let's say Wednesday.