Will you kill Joshua Graham, "The Burned Man"?

Post » Sat Oct 17, 2009 5:25 am

in *the game who will not be named* weren't you supposed to rescue Old Toasty from hanging, then he follows you as a companion? Maybe the reason he's not in the achievements is exactly that, he's helping you complete your goals (or not) as opposed to being a goal in himself.


He was in Van Buren. Not the Burned Game. But yeah, everything else is correct. He may have been a companion, but he was still incredibly evil though.
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Post » Sat Oct 17, 2009 10:12 am

I'd kill him where he stands for his crimes against the NCR no matter how tough he truely is i'll find a way trust me :flamethrower:
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Post » Sat Oct 17, 2009 12:04 pm

Supposedly unkillable? Thats my motivation right there. Well, that and the fact that he's (ex) Legion.. I'll be going into the DLC naked, but if it requires it, I'll restart a save and introduce him to a face full of Alien Blaster and perhaps a couple of Holy hand grenades..

Just to test out the whole un-killable theory..

(If he turns out to be a human version of liberty prime that can survive absolutely ANYTHING I can do, well, I'll go back to playing motorstorm apocalypse and just pretend he died screaming :P)
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Post » Sat Oct 17, 2009 6:21 am

I hope that if we do get to kill him then we don't get to use "our weapons" to kill him, more like using something in the area to "kill him".
And when he "dies" he later show up in the ending slider that shows that he's survived yet again and that his legend continues to live on.

No, I don't think he should be killable.
We should be able to defeat him and for our characters to believe he's dead but he should not be killable.
His legend should continue on no matter how much anyone hates him.

Cause I think it'll downplay his legend if we're able to run up to him and shoot him in the face and then he's dead.
Like, he's survived so much only for us to be able to kill him thanks to our demi-god bias.
Basically; he's not suppose to die.

For Willis' sake he's been reported as shot by 1st Recon several times, lit on fire and thrown into the grand canyon.
Like hell we're suppose to be able to kill him.
If no one else could, then neither should we.

Like I said, we should be able to defeat him.
Here's a quick pitch as to how I thought of it: He's up on a platform throwing things at us, Donkey Kong style, then we have to use some terminals in the immediate area to make a crane knock him off the platform off a canyon cliff and have him land in the green forest below.
When we get down there, he's gone for the rest of the DLC and doesn't show up until the ending slider.

But we should not be able to kill him.


If I kill him and then proceed to start hacking up the body (like I plan to) he's not coming back. i don't care HOW hard he is. ;)
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Post » Sat Oct 17, 2009 1:23 pm

Perhaps Joshua Graham, after being betrayed so badly by his old friend. Decides to change his name? Maybe to, i don't know, daniel? Or something..

(Still gonna pop his head though)
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Post » Sat Oct 17, 2009 11:46 am

Perhaps Joshua Graham, after being betrayed so badly by his old friend. Decides to change his name? Maybe to, i don't know, daniel? Or something..

(Still gonna pop his head though)


Betrayed? Nah, he effed up and payed the price.
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Post » Sat Oct 17, 2009 5:11 am

Betrayed? Nah, he effed up and payed the price.


I see, so after the NCR wipes the bloody remains of the Legion off the Dam a second time is Caesar going to have the same thing done to Lanius?
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Post » Sat Oct 17, 2009 5:36 am

If I kill him and then proceed to start hacking up the body (like I plan to) he's not coming back. i don't care HOW hard he is. ;)

That's the point.
Why are we suppose to be able to kill him when no one else has?
We're basically a former mailman.
A mailman killing the Joshua Graham?
Makes no sense.
So what I'm saying is that he should be able to be defeated but we should not be able to use our own weapons against him.
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Post » Sat Oct 17, 2009 4:39 pm

That's the point.
Why are we suppose to be able to kill him when no one else has?
We're basically a former mailman.
A mailman killing the Joshua Graham?
Makes no sense.
So what I'm saying is that he should be able to be defeated but we should not be able to use our own weapons against him.


Hopefully it'll involve an underlying theme, as with Dead Money. No idea what it'll be though. Both "Revenge" and "New Beginnings" sound good, but are much too similar to "Letting Go".
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Post » Sat Oct 17, 2009 5:00 pm

That's the point.
Why are we suppose to be able to kill him when no one else has?
We're basically a former mailman.
A mailman killing the Joshua Graham?
Makes no sense.
So what I'm saying is that he should be able to be defeated but we should not be able to use our own weapons against him.


Because we are the hero?
We're the 'player' lol.. FO is our story... At camp mcarran they go on about one of the fiends, (can't remember which one) they talk about how they thought they killed him several times.
I still brought them his funky looking head though.
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Post » Sat Oct 17, 2009 10:16 am

Because we are the hero?
We're the 'player' lol.. FO is our story... At camp mcarran they go on about one of the fiends, (can't remember which one) they talk about how they thought they killed him several times.
I still brought them his funky looking head though.


Irrelevant, just because New Vegas is the Courier's story doesn't mean he or she will be able to kill Graham.
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Post » Sat Oct 17, 2009 8:28 am

Irrelevant, just because New Vegas is the Courier's story doesn't mean he or she will be able to kill Graham.


Its not irrelevant at all. If Caesar had done a more thorough job, Graham would be already dead. He's a hardy fella, for sure. He's not invincible though, I intend to prove it when I get the chance. :goodjob:
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Post » Sat Oct 17, 2009 3:14 pm

(If he turns out to be a human version of liberty prime that can survive absolutely ANYTHING I can do
tbh liberty prime did get destroyed in broken steel so if joshua graham is the same he face a similar fate but the most likely scenario to happen is the PC and graham have an encounter and you can either choose to spare him and walk away or end his life
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Post » Sat Oct 17, 2009 9:11 am

Its not irrelevant at all. If Caesar had done a more thorough job, Graham would be already dead. He's a hardy fella, for sure. He's not invincible though, I intend to prove it when I get the chance. :goodjob:


We'll have to wait and see, but I find it unlikely that Obsidian will let you kill Graham, and even if they do there will probably be an ending slide implying that he's still alive. Part of Graham's character is the mystique surrounding his ability to repeatedly survive things that would kill most men and women, and if they just let you go and kill him for real with a pea shooter then that mystique is gone.
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Post » Sat Oct 17, 2009 10:40 am

We'll have to wait and see, but I find it unlikely that Obsidian will let you kill Graham, and even if they do there will probably be an ending slide implying that he's still alive. Part of Graham's character is the mystique surrounding his ability to repeatedly survive things that would kill most men and women, and if they just let you go and kill him for real with a pea shooter then that mystique is gone.


Legate Lanius is supposedly a invincible immortal badass and the Courier kills them too (and possibly Caesar). In Graham's case, your character is going to effectively have the option of defeating the person who is supposedly unkillable because, at the end of the day - the Courier is much more badass than anything Caesar's legion is able to do.
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Post » Sat Oct 17, 2009 3:00 pm

Personally, I think if we're going to be able to kill Graham, its going to have to a ridiculously over the top way to kill someone. Like pushing him into a meat grinder or a combine harvester or something.
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Post » Sat Oct 17, 2009 9:07 am

I'm going to light him on fire(again), cut his head off with a machete, and come skipping back with it down NCR lane yealing " you think you can kill me? Look what I did!"
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Post » Sat Oct 17, 2009 5:02 am

I don't remember who said this and I don't feel like looking through the thread again to find out but even if we do defeat Joshua Graham there should be an ending slide saying that he still survived, like he has before. I mean come on, he survives being set on fire and thrown of the mother [censored] Grand Canyon! Thats way more impressive then being shot in the head twice. Also there have been multiple death reports from NCR Rangers on Graham yet he's still alive. Graham is not normal, and we shouldn't be able to kill him.
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Post » Sat Oct 17, 2009 6:23 am

Lol seems like all factions have a reason to kill him:


House: scare both legion and NCR, also gain equipment from Big MT
Legion: Get the job done right this time, and scare the NCR
NCR: Frighten the legion by killing the only man they couldn't
Yes Man: Prove yourself to all other factions
BoS: Scare NCR
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Post » Sat Oct 17, 2009 8:30 am

He's a 'Gary' i tell ya :D
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Post » Sat Oct 17, 2009 2:59 pm

Legion: Get the job done right this time, and scare the NCR
Yes Man: Prove yourself to all other factions

I disagree when it comes to Yes Man. Wouldn't you want such a powerful ally on your side?

And you should be able to kill Caesar and make Graham the leader of the Legion. As much as I love Caesar I would prefer Graham be the leader. He may of made a mistake that caused the Legion to fail in taking over the Mojave but I forgive him. And just imagine this, Graham and Lanius working together! The Legion would destroy everyone. But I doubt it would ever happen.
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Post » Sat Oct 17, 2009 9:11 pm

By the way, since we could join Elijah and get a brand new ending out of it, I really hope we can team up with Graham as another ending. (Not just for the DLC but for the entire game, like Elijah or the DM Greed ending.)
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Post » Sat Oct 17, 2009 2:04 pm

We'll have to wait and see, but I find it unlikely that Obsidian will let you kill Graham, and even if they do there will probably be an ending slide implying that he's still alive. Part of Graham's character is the mystique surrounding his ability to repeatedly survive things that would kill most men and women, and if they just let you go and kill him for real with a pea shooter then that mystique is gone.

good point and him surviving inhuman things could be a referance to FO3 because the common wealth had androids so what im saying is that joshua graham could be an android like captain harkness from FO3
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Post » Sat Oct 17, 2009 5:38 am

Why would he being an android make him a badass? Armitage and Harkness were as easy to kill as any old human.
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Post » Sat Oct 17, 2009 4:10 pm

Pulse gun ftw :P
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