We’ve recognized for some time now that developer Obsidian Leisure was pressured to chop Fallout: New Vegas’ post-game content material throughout its improvement. However now, due to the info discovered on a just lately unearthed Xbox 360 dev package, we will lastly check out what a few of that scrapped content material would have entailed. It seems {that a} extra sinister conclusion to Sure Man’s story as soon as existed after the credit rolled.
No matter who you facet with through the Second Battle of Hoover Dam, there’s no squeaky-clean, morally sound conclusion to Fallout: New Vegas. Going with Caesar’s Legion is the objectively merciless alternative, sure, however the NCR aren’t precisely saints both. Another choice is siding with Sure Man. It’s the closest factor Fallout: New Vegas has to a great ending. Selecting Sure Man, the overtly amenable Securitron that has been forcibly modified by antagonist Benny, is akin to siding with nobody, because the peppy robotic will gladly perform no matter orders you give it.
Precisely whose facet Sure Man is in the end on has been a subject of debate for New Vegas followers for the reason that sport was launched, and dialogue surrounding his allegiances (or lack thereof) has once again intensified following the reappearance of Mr Home’s Securitron, Victor, within the second season of the Fallout TV sequence.
Following the New Vegas tease on the finish of the primary season, followers have been theorizing about which of the sport’s endings is now the “canon” ending. Feedback made by mission director Josh Sawyer and the aforementioned reduce content material have led some to imagine that siding with Sure Man might certainly be Fallout: New Vegas’ true ending.
PC Gamer just lately interviewed Fallout: New Vegas’ lead author John Gonzalez, who said that he believes providing gamers a “rebellious, individualistic” path with Sure Man, one in which they don’t have to pick a faction to ally with, might need truly been a misstep on Obsidian’s half. “I feel that questline might have been a mistake, as a result of it enables you to get via the sport with out getting your arms soiled,” Gonzalez stated.
Regardless of Gonzalez’s feedback, nonetheless, the ending to Sure Man’s path does suggest that you could have nonetheless gotten your arms a minimum of somewhat soiled. After you dispatch Legate Lanius, who serves because the second-in-command of Caesar’s Legion and is one in every of two potential boss fights throughout your struggle to retake Hoover Dam, there are implications that the robotic takes fairly a heel flip. Sure Man informs the participant that they’ll be “going off-line” to “reprogram” their persona, and their remark about changing into extra “assertive” within the course of might suggest that Sure Man not needs to take instructions from the participant; a scary thought, contemplating they now management a military of machine gun-wielding robots. Nonetheless, contemplating how jovial the change is, you’re left with sufficient wiggle room in your interpretation to learn the selection as pretty impartial from an ethical standpoint, and there’s in the end no approach to know the true end result, contemplating the tip credit roll instantly after this dialog ends.
However based mostly on just lately found reduce dialogue ripped from a Beta construct of Fallout: New Vegas, evidently Sure Man might have performed a a lot darker function within the initially deliberate post-game.
On November twenty sixth of final yr, Games’ Past uploaded a video detailing the invention of two prototype builds of Fallout: New Vegas, discovered on an Xbox 360 dev package in a retailer in Utah. Video games’ Previous additionally uploaded the contents of the dev kits on-line, and modders managed to uncover and restore a wealth of beforehand unseen reduce content material from the builds.
As detailed in a separate video by Alternative Gaming Channel, dozens of post-game strains of dialogue had been hidden in these prototype builds. The reduce Sure Man dialogue is especially fascinating, with him outright telling the participant character to “fuck off” for those who select to reply negatively to an announcement he makes about his new “assertive” persona.
One other reduce Sure Man line is much more chilling, with the widely chipper robotic speaking about slaughtering New Vegas’ civilians and “utilizing their blood and their skins” to “adorn the Securitrons.”. He does shout “Exterminate!” afterwards, although, so hopefully it was only a goofy little Physician Who reference that might solely be triggered with the Wild Wasteland perk. In any case, evidently serving to Sure Man may be simply as morally damning as the remainder of New Vegas’ endings, which can clarify why the Mojave’s future isn’t wanting too brilliant within the TV sequence.
