Besides the fact that he's a wrinkly old coot with delusions of grandeur.

Please discus.

Mod should move to Fallout: New Vegas General Discussion

He makes a satisfying kill I find.

dude I would have sided with him in new vegas if it wasn't for the fact that he wanted me to destroy the brotherhood of steel! so I choose the ncr at least they have a peacefull solution with the brotherhood.

Choosing House is better than trusting Yes-Man to run Vegas (You do not, in fact, become the leader in Independent.).

Trust the man who founded one of the biggest companies of Pre-War history and successfully run it for 35 years since he founded it at 22 years old or trust some questionably loyal machine? Call it paranoia, but given how some machines in Fallout have learned some form of near sentient thinking, it could break out of its role as the 'loyal yes man' in the future. Plus, what about when the Courier is dead or gone and absolutely no one can tell it what to do thanks to his code snippet he finds in Mr. House's databanks? If Yes-Man starts deciding to do things people don't like, oh well.

@Pepe- Because the people who started crap with the NCR by bombing their gold reserves when the BoS didn't want to share the Enclave War's tech is totally a faction worth defending as opposed to the greater good of humanity. Good call!

Lyons BoS isn't considered an official chapter anymore and labelled a faction gone rogue, the BoS in 1 and New Vegas are pretty much jerkasses to a fault. Plus, given your first interaction with them (WITHOUT metagaming and picking Veronica so you can skip it) is a bomb collar around your neck, yeah, I don't see the Mojave BoS as worth saving. The Brotherhood with their mentality out west is no better than a dinosaur too stupid to realise the sun over their style of living has gone down in the west. They still live as if the world is entirely lawless and barbaric, but going on 121 years since Fallout's initial setting and they still act as if the Wasteland is lawless, but with factions such as NCR, Mr. House and Caesar's Legion starting to gain prominence, they are increasingly being proven an obsolete faction. There's a reason most of NCR (and they do if you ask others ingame about them), Caesar, House and hell even Yes-Man want them dead. You helping NCR only gives them borrowed time to live on before NCR or the MBoS break the truce and it all breaks out into fighting again.

The Brothehood are vicious raiders with a tech fetish and delusions of grandeur. No loss to the wasteland.

OP: You mean beside being a 200 year old genius who foresaw the Great War, saved an entire region of the United States from nuclear annihilation, and maneuvered two superpowers of the wasteland into a position where he can make a bid for the entire said region in just seven years?


Uh, yes, you do. The assertiveness upgrade is there to make Yes-Man loyal to the Courier, and only the Courier. Otherwise, he'd follow the orders of anyone who rolled up to the Lucky 38 or even a random securitron and managed to hack the network.

personally I couldn't care for the city of new vegas. mr house talked about rebuilding human society if that meant putting up with a city like new vegas then so be it. but the moment I realised I couldn't find a peaceful solution between him and the brotherhood I just couldn't go through with it.

No, you don't. Yes Man gets programmed to be loyal to you, but the ending makes no mention of the Courier becoming the new autocrat or dictator otherwise you'd pretty much just be the new Mr. House. The whole Yes-Man thing works in the same sense a security guard with access to control of a bank's high end security; You might have access to the system overseeing and running security, but that doesn't automatically make you the ruler of that bank. Same principle applies here.