If the Lone Wanderer will ever be mentioned in future Fallout games, what do you think that will really happen to him?

I voted for "Activated the purifier, and died", seems like something he would do since he had a good karma father.

so your asking what happened to the lone wanderer in fallout3 in fallout4? :confused:

What REALLY happened to him IF he ever be mentioned in future FO games.


Example: The Outcasts go back to the West BoS and tell them that the Citadel was destroyed by the lone wanderer.

Some random Wastelander comment about a guy who activated the purifier.


things like that...

well since the ending is'nt definite since the player decides your poll is kinda pointless

Assuming that Bethesda takes an approach to Fallout similar to that of the Elder Scrolls, then no definite ending will ever be established. It's likely that FO4 would take place far away from the Capital Wasteland, making details like whether or not the purifier was activated irrelevant. It'll be possible (but not guaranteed) to encounter NPC's in future games who canonically cannot die (Doctor Li, Elder Lyons, etc.). All possible adventures undertaken by FO3's protagonist will have *potentially* happened, and the lore surrounding them will remain intact, but their outcomes will not be mentioned, -- so the Pitt really did feature raiders attempting to rebuild the town with slave labor, Moira really did try to write a book, Doctor Zimmer really went looking for the runaway A3-21 android in Rivet City, Desmond and Calvert really did feud in PL, etc. but how those scenarios ended will not be mentioned. Nor will the FO3's protagonist be identified by anything other than a generic title.

Bethesda is one of those companies that doesn't like define player canon (consistent with their "play as you want to" philosophy), and that's perfectly fine by me.

Well the tradition from the first two games was the protagonist followed the "good guy" path.

I'm sure it will be vague. Stopped the Enclave, helped heal the capital wasteland, etc. Probably won't mention how or what happened afterwards.

And Bethesda's done a wonderful job of following the style of Fallout 1 and 2 so far...

Given that they've moved the franchise into the rogue-like sandbox style of their Elder Scrolls series (and openly accept the idea of Fallout 3 being "Oblivion with guns" as a compliment), it's not a stretch at all to assume that they'd treat game-to-game continuity in a similar fashion.

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Can't agree with this. While Fallout 3 is a good game, I don't really think it sticks to the classics that much like you think.
(subjective matter)

if i'd choose, i say LW activate the purifier and died.

as for the 'Destroyed the Enclave mobile platform' thingy should be a stunt pulled by Sarah Lyon.

The Vault Dweller yes, but the Chosen One is up in the air. You can finish Fallout 2 properly if you take an evil route. All we really know about post-Fallout 2 from Fallout 3 is that Eden took over command of the Enclave in the wake of Richardson's death in the Oil Rig explosion (though when exactly he took over is up in the air as well). The Chosen One wasn't even as much as mentioned in Fallout 3, so there is nothing saying that he or she couldn't have been a bad dude.

I was being sarcastic. Hence the italicized wonderful and trailing off at the end.

I phail again. :facepalm:
Apologies then.

Let Sarah activate the purifier and ran away.

LIKE A BAUS!!!

i think it should say the lone wanderer activated the purifier, destroyed the enclave walker, becames the leader of the east coast BOS. then there would be three BOS fragments that will duke it out (if you want to count tactics and its endings as cannon)

Considering the amount of work and focus that went into the "good" side of the story and the lack of options for an "evil" side, it stands to reason that the LW will canonically have taken the "good" path. Just because some players think/want Fallout to be TES with guns doesn't mean that Bethesda will necessarily give it the same treatment as TES and disregard an existing canon and tradition which they constantly say they have the utmost respect for.

The Vault Dweller is the only protagonist explored in a sequel, where he was shown to be canonically good. The others are up in the air, but good seems the more logical, common route to me.

From a RP popint of view, considering that the next game will have no way of knowing how the player handled the previous game, any mention of the LW needs to be generic and confused. Interestingly enough, in a time of minimal communication, rumors and myth would play well.

I'd be jsut as happy with no mention of the LW at all.

Random Wastelander #1: "I've heard rumors that the Lone Wanderer has gone on an expedition to Europe and hasn't been heard of since"
Random Wastelander #2: "These are strange times for the Capital Wasteland".

Personally I hope we don't hear anything about the Lone Wanderer.

Well it would have been hard to leave his alignment ambiguous; if you have bad karma than you shoot the Overseer during the ending, and Vault 13 is far less sympathetic towards your plight so no one leaves and joins you in founding Arroyo this is to say nothing of the ending where the VD joins the Master's army. I suppose they could have structured the sequel so that it demanded less exploration of the Vault Dweller's history, but as it stands Fallout 2 couldn't have happened with anything other than a good ending. Forcing a male Vault Dweller down the player's throats was very unnecessary, though.

The Chosen One and Lone Wanderer don't necessarily have to be good, but the Lone Wanderer being a psychopath makes absolutely no sense seeing as how his father was a good man. If you're raised by a good man you don't become a foaming at the mouth psychopath.

It's funny that in his memoirs you can't tell neither his nor Pat's gender, as if they originally wanted to make his six unknown. And if I remember well the only time in F2 where he is explicitly referred to as male was in the intro, though I might be wrong on that one.

The Lone Wanderer is in space now, exploring the universe aboard Mothership Zeta and attacking the rest of the Aliens. An excellent way to get rid of him for future Fallout titles.

There's a statue of the Vault Dweller in the NCR, and he's referred to as male by quite a few NPCs.

Destroyed the Enclave mobile platform and became a BOS hero.