To compensate I raise the difficulty a bit if fighting gets too easy with how many people I have with me
Honestly I always play at the hardest difficulty. Not to sound like
that guy, you know the one, but I don't really find NV difficult anymore. Well, unless I'm gimping myself in some way. Guess I played it too many times. Which mod for the companion limit removal? JIP?
Honestly it becomes kind of depressing once you figure out just how dirty he got done.
Fuck Manny, piece of shit. Happy Boone's own wife was gone. Given that he's gay (Confirmed Bachelor) he probably wanted to fuck Boone and was hoping to get some ass after his wife disappeared. Can't catch a break that man, I try to make sure he gets the best ending he can get because he deserves it (since I don't do NCR, it would be No Gods, No Masters or All or Nothing if I'm working with House again, with Boone making amends). I'm glad he got to ice that old hag too.
Fair, honestly that's kind of the interesting thing about New Vegas is that almost none of the factions you can pick are a perfect choice. They pretty much all have their own pros and cons, some just more obvious than others.
That's the best part, but people just let that shit go over their heads, usually Redditors who have time and time again (especially recently) failed to understand anything. Seriously, try having even a decent conversation about how the NCR isn't that great and you'll have people calling you all sorts of shit immediately, bonus sperging if you're arguing for the Legion. And no I don't mean saying the Legion is better than the NCR but I mean arguing for them
period.
Sure, the NCR sucks now, but there is still a chance they can change their ways.
They'll have ups and downs, like any nation. They're a bit fucked at the start but maybe they'll get someone who realizes that serving the Brahmin Barons-regardless of their money-won't be a great long term solution and deal with them in some shape or form. Maybe they'll realize that if humanity is to survive they can't emulate the failures of the Old World, now that's
. Or maybe the Barons won't be secretly controlling everything but publicly, replacing whoever is currently in the Republic with themselves if they haven't already. Wouldn't change much probably, there's probably all sorts of real life examples to use. To know the future you must first understand the past and all that.
But not because they're bad guys but because they're just too comically evil with no real redeeming qualities so there's not really much there that's compelling for me.
Sadly the game doesn't write them as well as they could have, time limits and all that. Their fault really, or rather their contractor's fault. If given enough time I'm sure the Legion could've been much better. Really should lean heavy into the Rome aspect of it, I've seen people argue that a good karma courier could be the successor to Caesar and really remake the Legion into something more. I've also seen people argue that Legate Lanius could actually run the Legion decently since he's not really dumb, in fact he's quite smart. At ruling? No. However I will argue he's smart enough to delegate those tasks to someone more fitting like Vulpes and others while he just wages war. Lots of lost potential. I still haven't played that new big Legion mod but maybe tomorrow, will see if they do anything remotely like that or just more "Legion bad." People like the idea of the Legion more than the Legion itself.
Second place while not ideal would have to be independent, of course.
Depends on if the Courier is competent. High in specific stats that would make them a good leader such as Charisma, Intelligent, Perception, Luck, Barter, Speech, associated perks, choosing the """best""" outcomes for all relevant quests. and I'd say if they had good karma as well. I know I said "good karma" before and inevidibly say it again but really, look at the NV ending for good and bad karma and tell me which is the better leader.
I always felt like Mr. House was full of shit tbh. Or he'd only really care about himself and his "friends."
I'd say he's the most competent person in the Wasteland. A lot of what I'm about to say has been said better by more intelligent people than I so just a heads up. He's insanely intelligent (he used math to predict the exact date and time of the apocalypse, no I don't give a fuck what the show says), very charismatic, can be "Big Brother" and can be nearly whereever he wants (anything he's not connected to he can bring a Securitron over to interface with), can probably efficiantly direct the Securitrons better than Yesman, has plans for well into the future if the rebuliding fails if it's unsustainable due to the Resource Wars and The Great War (God damn space colonies, given how well he predicted the apocalypse I trust him to be right in getting the fuck off Earth), he probably has a fuck ton of resources from the
REPCONN test site and
REPCONN headquarters and if he can probably train/hire specialist to make use of them, not to mention the wealth he has from The Strip. There's definitely shit on the moon if
Sea of Tranquility is anything to go off of (USA and China beat the shit out of each other on the moon, no doubt there's at least one facility that if he can recover can speed up his colonization efforts). Even without that, with all the raw genius that Robert House has, I doubt he'll simply state:
"With all that money pouring in? Give me 20 years, and I'll reignite the high technology development sectors. 50 years, and I'll have people in orbit. 100 years, and my colony ships will be heading for the stars, to search for planets unpolluted by the wrath and folly of a bygone generation."
If he wasn't sure of it. Third time now, used
raw math to predict the Apocalypse and fortify himself against it. Even when the chip was a day late he still did very well. He managed to make himself live well beyond the human lifespan and could probably live for ages more, he literally does not give a fuck about what anyone has to offer since he's so high off himself that no one can ever offer him anything that he can't eventually aquire for himself so he's practically incorruptable from anything that's not his ego, and even then he has stated:
I have no interest in abusing others, just as I have no interest in legislating or otherwise dictating what people do in their private time.
The opposite of a tyrant if I ever heard one. At most he's an asshole and lost his humanity, but really given the state of the world that's hardly concerning. And he does appreciate and appropriately reward you for doing a good job, he's a good employer more than a friend. And even it's possible he might consider you a friend, just...not an equal one.
The Omega Initiative does a great job with House in his What If videos so I'd check them out, even if he mostly does The Enclave. Speaking of which, I dislike how The Enclave is so prevalent and is always the generic evil big bad, it takes modders to make them more fleshed out. Like that Enclave revamped or whatever mod for HOI4 Old World Blues...fucking tranny faggotry is in it so I'm tempted to not touch that mod anymore. Wow I wrote a lot, if only I put that much effort into my fucking novel...
And I don't think I need to explain why The Legion is bad.
Again, you can argue for them, but the idea of the Legion is more appealing so most arguing is going to be "what ifs" and various other bits like how the Legion's trade routes are so safe that traders don't need guards, the Legion abhors drugs, they're loyal (to Caesar more than the Legion), they're highly trained and disciplined, and you'll probably have a better life if you're as an able bodied man in the Legion than anywhere else. The Legion is hard to argue for without sounding like a-as the Plebbitors say-Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dweller. I can definitely argue for them if you want, this is a long post and I can already feel the eyes of most people reading this glaze so I'm cutting it off here.
Caesar likely intends to make you his heir if you follow The Legion route.
Someone said "His Augustus to the Legion's Caesar." I'd say that works well if you're good karma.
Maybe if this was me like a decade ago I'd care more but, sadly it isn't.
