After clocking in so many hours of Skyrim that it can't even run properly on my PS3 I am thinking about Fallout: New Vegas' Ultimate Edition.

I would like some ideas on my first playthrough and what I will be doing.

My character's name will be Reamus 'Phoenix' Falvo, he will be nicknamed Phoenix for being shot in the head and surviving just fine. I will have melee, speech, and survival as tag skills, even though I will also use pistols very often. I will also set the amount I can carry to two hundred (unless I have enough to overencumber me, in which case I will have to remain overencumbered until I can drop my carry weight back down to two hundred). I will mostly use spears and machetes, having started with the Tribal Pack, I will have my character consider siding with the Legion for a while but will ultimately side with House. He will also be armed with dynamite he gets from dead Powder Gangers, a 9mm pistol, and a varmit rifle.

I will be role playing a tribal from southeastern Utah who went west to the NCR for work and adventure at the age of seventeen. He got a job as a courier and his third job was to deliver the device to the Divide (sorry, this is the spoiler section). His fifth was the Platinum Chip.

After he's shot in the head and left in a shallow grave he is furious, it is the ultimate insult to not give a fallen enemy a proper burial when you have the means (meaning having a shovel). He hunts down Benny to complete his contract and to punish him for his crimes.

Along the way he goes to the Sierra Madre and get all of the gold bars along with all of the weapons you get (I saw a video on how to do it and will attempt it). After that he finishes his trip to New Vegas and kill Benny in his casino, fufilling his need for vengeance. He sells the gold bars and buys himself the Medicine Stick, Gehenna, and the Battle Rifle, at which point he will sell the varmit rifle.

After that he goes with the Happy Trails Caravans to Utah, thinking he can persuade them to bring him all of the way to his home but things go bad in Zion Canyon where he has to fight for survival. Once while in Zion he finds out that his tribe was wiped out by the White Legs. Furious he swears vengeance against the Legion and decides to side with House.

He helps the Follower's of the Apocalypse any way he can. He sees them as peaceful saviors of the wasteland, they do their job better than he can. He feels pity and compation for everybody he comes across in the Mojave until he goes to Big MT.

When his brain is removed so are his morals and conscious, he no longer feels emotional towards the poor or the exploited in the Mojave.

At the end of OWB he kills the Think Tank and does not take his brain back. He goes back to the Mojave as a darker, crueler version of himself.

He butchers the Fiends on his return and helps the NCR out where ever he feels they belong. He recuits Boone as a companion and stops the Omertas plan at attacking the Strip during the Second Battle for Hoover Dam and breaks the Great Khans away from being allied with the Legion. He kills the deathclaws of Quarry Junction and slaughters Cottonwood Cove, including the slaves, losing himself in battle. He mercifully kills those who have been crucified.

When he did the quest Bye, Bye, Love he saw the humanity Carlitos and Joana had that he lacked. Their happiness that he lost in Big MT. He returned to Big MT and replaced his brain. Although he did not have as many emotions or compation as before he still had some.

As the Second Battle gets closer he gets a message from Ulysses and goes to the Divide.

When he finally comes face to face with Ulysses he convinces him to not fight, that they are one and the same. The Courier and Ulysses hail from tribes that Caesar's Legion has wiped out, with them being the only survivors. They both have some dfark backgrounds and both care for what happens to humanity in the near and distant future. The Courier then nukes Caesar's Legion, although he dislikes the NCR he does not feel that they deserve to be nuked.

When he gets back he fights the Second Battle for Hoover Dam, convincing Legate Lanius to retreat and also convinces General Oliver to stand down. He allows House to rule and becomes his servant, doing all of the physical things while House does all of the thinking and planning.

If you have any other suggestions on what I should do please tell me below.

Well i remeber making a 5 in everything (S.P.E.C.I.A.L.) character; tagging guns, speech and survival and helping house
I also remeber being nearly killed by a baby deathclaw and wasting about 100 5.56mm on its head from my varmint rifle and about 15 dynamite sticks on it! It was awesome though and taught me to respect those things
I also helped the powder gangers cause they seemed like an advantage for a newbie like myself.

Oh, too long ago, can't remember much.

First character was guns....I had no idea what I was doing (hadn't played any Fallout prior), so I ran around like a goober, flapped my arms, shot some guns, explored, ran away from baddies. Then I started over. Repeat two or three times as I tried to figure out how I wanted to play the game (difficulty setting, starting stats, etc) as I slowly figured out how the game was set up/worked. Eventually I reached Novac with one character and that was the one I stuck with for my first entire run.

I'd say it was mostly for fun...I spent far more time exploring and sticking my nose everywhere than questing/progressing plot for a long long time.

I remember when I first reached Nipton and talked to Vulpes, he said something along the lines of "well, if you disagree with our methods, feel free to attack us" and I was like, "okay", and a few minutes later I was sifting through their dead bodies for ammo.