I’m replaying New Vegas and I’m always tempted to do Legion or Mr. House but they suck so I never do, but there’s #content I wanna see that I haven’t in the 12 years I’ve played this game.

  • RandyLahey [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Yeah I went dark side in KOTOR once, it had the same problem as a lot of games with evil playthroughs that the bad options are often just "kick a puppy and cackle just for the sake of being eeeeevul" rather than "taking the easy option but for a 'good reason' and having it slowly chip away at your soul", but there was some well done evil side stuff (and the evil robot pal was great) and then holy fuck that scene on the beach near the end was so fucking brutal that I've never been able to do bad path stuff again in pretty much any game

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    I might be remembering some details wrong, but one of your earliest followers is this earnest-but-naive teenage girl with a tentacle head who grew up an orphan in the worst slums and had a wookiee best friend who was basically her father figure, and when you save the wookiee's life he has some sort of unbreakable life debt oath to you. There's a bit where you land on a beach at the end and if you're dark side enough the girl will refuse to keep following you, and you can invoke the life debt to compel the wookiee to choke his only friend and surrogate daughter to death

    • amicrazyorislifealie [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      The thing about New Vegas is there isn’t a lot of “kick the puppy” or “pet the puppy” decisions outside of the Legion. Most decisions in the game you have a valid argument for doing one thing or the other unlike in 3 where there was tons of “kick the puppy” decisions. Even the legion brings up some interesting moral/post nuclear societal questions. Questions you really should say “of course not” to but interesting to think about nevertheless.

      • zeal0telite [he/him,they/them]
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        3 years ago

        Honestly, as much as people complain about them, I like pet/kick the puppy choices. When something is so obviously horrible but you can do it anyway? That's funny.