Post Benny Syndrome, for the five of you who don't know, is the feeling that pretty much every Fallout New Vegas Player dealt with on their playthrough of the game. Once Benny is handled, a lot of players felt that the main story lost a lot of its drive, and fell into a bit of a rut, where your goals are rather aimless. You meander around the Wasteland doing oddjobs for people until you pick a side and start the battle at Hoover Dam.
I found that for me, the biggest reason for this was because once you get locked in with a faction, following the completion of a number of their quests, the other factions kick you out and limit what you can do with them after that point. So, I came up with a solution. I would play the second half of the game as a chess battle between the other factions.
One of the interesting things about New Vegas is that a number of quests overlap with each other, with certain goals for different factions sometimes being the same. So you could be working for Yes Man, and complete an NCR quest that had you achieving the same goals (example: recruiting the Boomers to fight for NCR)
With this in mind, I have begun a quest to see how many of this intertwining quests I could do, with my ultimate goal of fighting for an independent New Vegas. So I'm working with House for the meantime, completing a few parts of Render Unto Ceasar (Killing House), and recruiting allies for the NCR with Ambassador Crocker. Once I've done as much as I can with the Legion before the other groups turn on me, then I throw my military might in with NCR and start open warfare against them. Legion is down.
Then, I work my way through the House quests, upgrading the securitrons and activating the army under Fortification hill, which simultaneously completes quests for Yes Man. Then comes Side Bets. I do every House quest before the Brotherhood of Steel issue comes up, and continue with the Wild Card: Side Bets questline. Once I've maxed out that, finish up with the NCR quests (since I'm done with House, they'll still let me work for them), including saving Kimball.
When everything is set, I head to the Lucky 38, kill House, and upload Yes Man. Then comes the battle. With everything I've done to reinforce NCR, they're going to wipe the floor with the Legion. And then I proceed to tell NCR to fuck right off and kick them out of the Mojave.
This is just how I dealt with the aimlessness. Instead of doing the stuff the game was telling me to, I set my own goal to play every faction against each other, strengthening my own forces without them even noticing.
I found that for me, the biggest reason for this was because once you get locked in with a faction, following the completion of a number of their quests, the other factions kick you out and limit what you can do with them after that point. So, I came up with a solution. I would play the second half of the game as a chess battle between the other factions.
One of the interesting things about New Vegas is that a number of quests overlap with each other, with certain goals for different factions sometimes being the same. So you could be working for Yes Man, and complete an NCR quest that had you achieving the same goals (example: recruiting the Boomers to fight for NCR)
With this in mind, I have begun a quest to see how many of this intertwining quests I could do, with my ultimate goal of fighting for an independent New Vegas. So I'm working with House for the meantime, completing a few parts of Render Unto Ceasar (Killing House), and recruiting allies for the NCR with Ambassador Crocker. Once I've done as much as I can with the Legion before the other groups turn on me, then I throw my military might in with NCR and start open warfare against them. Legion is down.
Then, I work my way through the House quests, upgrading the securitrons and activating the army under Fortification hill, which simultaneously completes quests for Yes Man. Then comes Side Bets. I do every House quest before the Brotherhood of Steel issue comes up, and continue with the Wild Card: Side Bets questline. Once I've maxed out that, finish up with the NCR quests (since I'm done with House, they'll still let me work for them), including saving Kimball.
When everything is set, I head to the Lucky 38, kill House, and upload Yes Man. Then comes the battle. With everything I've done to reinforce NCR, they're going to wipe the floor with the Legion. And then I proceed to tell NCR to fuck right off and kick them out of the Mojave.
This is just how I dealt with the aimlessness. Instead of doing the stuff the game was telling me to, I set my own goal to play every faction against each other, strengthening my own forces without them even noticing.
