New Vegas: Dealing with "Post Benny Syndrome"

[The_Lost_King]

he had done more for the greater good then anyone.

I'm sorry what? All he did was protect Vegas. That's it. The NCR has actually made California safe(and foiled the master with the help of the vault dweller), while the Legion made 4 states completely safe and House protected Vegas from the bomb and the strip from bandits and Raiders. How has he done the most good?

 

[Darren716]

I actually felt the game improved after killing Benny because it was a transition of your main goal being to get revenge to choosing how the Mojave was going to be shaped and how you held the key to shape it to your image which I felt gave the player a greater feeling of power and importance in the world besides hunting down one guy who should have learned to double tap if you need someone dead.

 

[Terrible Opinions]

he had done more for the greater good then anyone.

I'm sorry what? All he did was protect Vegas. That's it. The NCR has actually made California safe(and foiled the master with the help of the vault dweller), while the Legion made 4 states completely safe and House protected Vegas from the bomb and the strip from bandits and Raiders. How has he done the most good?

Stopping 70 of 77 nuclear missiles headed for the Vegas area is a pretty large amount of "good". Also keep in mind that House only reemerged a few years before the start of New Vegas, heavily limiting his sphere of influence - you could just as easily ask what good Tandi had done for the world as of Fallout 1. Hell, a few more Mr. Houses before the bombs fell and there'd be no need for either the NCR or the Legion.

Now, that is not to say that House is good. He's a parasite on the NCR's economy, he lets a drug-and-crime filled slum build up around his city, and he murders any poor people trying to enter New Vegas. He could have reactivated far sooner to help rebuild, but he stayed hidden until the NCR was on his doorstep just so he could tell them to fuck off. He almost seems like a benevolent dictator, but he just doesn't give enough of a shit about anyone else to actually do any dictating beyond "anything that could possibly threaten me gets destroyed".

EDIT: Oh, and Honest Hearts owns bones for the Survivalist Journals. I don't normally like the "backstory via scattered journals" method of storytelling, but holy fuck those were good. Randall Clark was the god damn man.

 

[The_Lost_King]

he had done more for the greater good then anyone.

I'm sorry what? All he did was protect Vegas. That's it. The NCR has actually made California safe(and foiled the master with the help of the vault dweller), while the Legion made 4 states completely safe and House protected Vegas from the bomb and the strip from bandits and Raiders. How has he done the most good?

Stopping 70 of 77 nuclear missiles headed for the Vegas area is a pretty large amount of "good". Also keep in mind that House only reemerged a few years before the start of New Vegas, heavily limiting his sphere of influence - you could just as easily ask what good Tandi had done for the world as of Fallout 1. Hell, a few more Mr. Houses before the bombs fell and there'd be no need for either the NCR or the Legion.

Now, that is not to say that House is good. He's a parasite on the NCR's economy, he lets a drug-and-crime filled slum build up around his city, and he murders any poor people trying to enter New Vegas. He could have reactivated far sooner to help rebuild, but he stayed hidden until the NCR was on his doorstep just so he could tell them to fuck off. He almost seems like a benevolent dictator, but he just doesn't give enough of a shit about anyone else to actually do any dictating beyond "anything that could possibly threaten me gets destroyed".

EDIT: Oh, and Honest Hearts owns bones for the Survivalist Journals. I don't normally like the "backstory via scattered journals" method of storytelling, but holy fuck those were good. Randall Clark was the god damn man.

I still don't think thats as good as what the NCR or Legion have done. Woo he stopped the nukes from hitting New Vegas, everyone still died and the area is still in Fallout, the only good that did is keep the Hoover Dam up. Sure it is good but he is the least good out of all the factions(I am of course ignoring Yes Man).

 

[The_Lost_King]

I've got over 300 hours into New Vegas, did about everything there is to do in the game.

Except for the Battle of Hoover Dam. Never did that. Never really saw a reason for it. Things seemed pretty fine as they were, considering I'd wiped out every single Legion camp and killed Caesar.

Well there is the fact that Legate Lanius is coming with the rest of the Legion. Just because He doesn't have a leader doesn't mean he isn't going to attack.

 

[Johnny Reb]

At the end of the day, Benny got crucified. So i'm set.

 

[health-bar]

I had something more along the lines "pre benny syndrome." the game was fucking boring until I finally made my way all the way to new vegas and finally dealt with him. Its what keeps me from starting new files, that hour or so of following Benny's trail and walking to new vegas.

After killing Benny is when the game actually starts. Unfortunately, even then, most of the factions treat you like shit while you do all their work for them. If only lonesome road let you fire an entire salvo of missiles at the legion and ncr....

 

[Orange12345]

he had done more for the greater good then anyone.

I'm sorry what? All he did was protect Vegas. That's it. The NCR has actually made California safe(and foiled the master with the help of the vault dweller), while the Legion made 4 states completely safe and House protected Vegas from the bomb and the strip from bandits and Raiders. How has he done the most good?

I meant more for the good of Vegas and it's people, from the way I saw it if house hadn't united the tribes into Vegas the NCR and Legion would have forced them into a war and lets be honest the NCR wants the same thing as legion, assimilation. Not only that but if House didn't exist there is a very small chance that Vegas or the surrounding area would even have any amount of tech or organization to begin with

(I didn't play the dlc so this is all just my impression)

 

[The_Lost_King]

he had done more for the greater good then anyone.

I'm sorry what? All he did was protect Vegas. That's it. The NCR has actually made California safe(and foiled the master with the help of the vault dweller), while the Legion made 4 states completely safe and House protected Vegas from the bomb and the strip from bandits and Raiders. How has he done the most good?

I meant more for the good of Vegas and it's people, from the way I saw it if house hadn't united the tribes into Vegas the NCR and Legion would have forced them into a war and lets be honest the NCR wants the same thing as legion, assimilation. Not only that but if House didn't exist there is a very small chance that Vegas or the surrounding area would even have any amount of tech or organization to begin with

(I didn't play the dlc so this is all just my impression)

I agree that the tribals would be forced into war(well most of them anyway), but is bringing tech to the wasteland good? This is prewar tech and it leads down the path of nuclear devastation. The people of the new world should try to find their own way, seeing as they don't have the same resources, and what I said before).

 

[Jfswift]

I felt it too, that odd feeling of lack of direction after exacting revenge on Benny. I did find it somewhat liberating though since I was free to wander and explore the wasteland and do what I wish. Eventually I decided on taking New Vegas for myself, playing both sides until the last possible moment when I betrayed Caeser and cleared the damn with the NCR.