Fallout’s Most Controversial Plot Choice Saves It from Choosing Between New Vegas’ 4 Endings

Summary:

• Some Fallout: New Vegas fans blame Prime Video ’s TV show for destroying the iconic city.
• The original game has four main and countless secondary endings that shape New Vegas’ future differently.
• To avoid pissing off fans even more by establishing a “canon ending” to New Vegas 14 years later, the show used this loophole.

Prime Video’s Fallout TV show has been getting nothing but praise from fans and critics alike ever since its recent release, and rightfully so. The only group of people discontent with something in the series is the hardcore Fallout: New Vegas fans who didn’t particularly enjoy seeing their favorite titular city in ruins in the very finale.

But trust us, if New Vegas was still standing, Fallout Season 2 would have begun its story with a much, much bigger butthurt from the very same OG fans.

Fallout: New Vegas Has Many Endings

The original video game set in New Vegas gives the player a lot — and we mean a lot — of choices when it comes to shaping the region’s future. There are four main factions you can side with, and depending on your decision, New Vegas will be taken over by the New California Republic, Caesar’s Legion, Mr. House, or… You.

Each option leads to a wildly different future for the region, but there’s more.

Apart from these four “main” factions, there are countless smaller ones which the player can either side with, securing their place in Mojave’s ecosystem, or destroy them for good. The player is a kingmaker and only they shape the way New Vegas and its surrounding will look in the many years to come. That’s the main point.

TV Show Could Never Satisfy Everyone

Seeing how there are so many potential outcomes in the video game and neither of them is considered “canon,” how would it have been possible for Jonathan Nolan to just establish one out of dozens as the only “true” endings? Whatever option he and his team would have chosen, thousands of fans would have been pissed.

“All we really want the audience to know is that things have happened [to and in New Vegas], so that there isn’t an expectation that we pick the show up in Season 2 following one of the myriad canon endings that depend on your choices when you play [the video game],” showrunner Graham Wagner explained to GQ.

Destroying New Vegas was the one most optimal choice, allowing to both feature this iconic location in the TV show and avoid backlash. We may never even learn what exactly went down in the Mojave Wasteland 15 years ago, and you know what?

We would be perfectly fine with that.

Also, everyone knows Yes Man is the way to go in Fallout: New Vegas. Just saying.

Source: GQ