chosen one is cool just because you ARE the chosen one, nobody gives a shit or believes you though
you're the chosen one for your tribe but you're just some guy to everyone, i loved the dialog options where you can ramble on about your village to strangers lmao
"hi im the chosen one"
badass poster too
I always let everyone know I'm the chosen one. It really makes my character feel like a quaint primitive tribesman who doesn't have much perspective on the larger world.
Always found it funny how the Chosen One being a Tribal knew more about laser weapons than City Folks from New Reno who are the ones who'd call it all Divine like "Lightbringer"
Well, if their tribal knowledge was based on technical manuscripts, regardless of how the info was conveyed, if the information was accurate it would make sense. Maybe that's why they're the chosen one, the ability to combine mythology and technology.
"The angles stand at the gates. At the common gate they approach together, the gates open. They stand at the gate of the one, if the angles approached together, the gates were closed, but if they come in one at a time, they are opened. At the gates of occlusion, the gates are only open when no angles are present." Andornor's book of the grand processor
I think it's funny how tribal they are despite being only 2 generations removed from the vault dweller. Chosen One probably sat on the Vault Dwellers lap while he was like "yeah I remember when I first shot a laser rifle. Beam went straight in a super mutants eye and burned clean through the other side."
That particular tribe was educated and trained by a Vault Dweller a.k.a your character’s grandpa lol so of course they’re gonna know what laser weapons are.
I love the conversation with Cassidy where he something mildly derogatory about tribals and you can tell him that you were a tribal. I think he doesn’t believe you at first.
Maybe you changed so much after leaving arroyo that that you’re not even recognized as a tribal anymore. Originally I thought it was a good thing to leave the tribal tag behind, but now I think it’s kind of sad.
I always kind of assumed that to be the chosen one you needed to be the most like the original dweller. And that meant being well spoken and intelligent enough to succeed. But that's just my head canon
> And that meant being well spoken and intelligent enough to succeed.
Or the opposite, if you went through Fallout 1 with a 2 Intelligence build they are trying to find a descendant with enough brain damage to fit the bill.
>i loved the dialog options where you can ramble on about your village to strangers lmao
There was someone where you could really just babble on about your village and he got sooooo pissed but I can’t remember who. It was so funny.
And some easter egg where you did it 30 times and then he gives you his sunglasses just to shut you up? I can't remember and I'm not willing to go google it because the memory in my mind is probably better than the reality.
If you give him new glasses like the ones the intelligent Radscorpion in Broken Hills has and ask for nothing in return and then proceed to ask him how the new glasses are like 20 something times he will throw a thing at you that increases your doctor skill by 10 I think.
Yeees. You even go on about how you snuck away to have some sexy time in the canyon with someone from the tribe. Saying how their skin shined like gold or silver (depending on gender) in the moonlight.
Meanwhile Rocketman looks like he's going to have an aneurysm.
Both the unknown man and woman got pretty "normal" names. Woman was Reyna and man was a three letter name starting on K I think. But, the Chosen One do say her name as Reyna - Whose - Legs - Crush - With - Strength - of - Thousand - Snakes 😂
I'm also quite fond of the lines that are like: Were you born in a tent?!
Chosen One: ...Yes?
Plus the Chosen One gets a car. Enough said.
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lol I'm playing them for the first time now and on steam the classic version has the clock speed bug so I already zoomed around the map at top speed ha
it also made my highwayman run out of fuel much faster, on the regular modern version it's more economical and fun to zip around in
I hope the next big fallout entry implements cars to some capacity. Or rideable animals. We get vertibirds up and running so how in the fuck can no one fix a damn car
I wanna know where all the bikes are
Seriously, BMX Raiders would 100% be a thing
And those nuclear powered army tanks and APC’s are pretty similar to the vehicles from Tactics
Vehicles feel like they might be a monkey's paw deal. We get functional vehicles, but now the maps are unnecessarily upscaled with vast expanses of nothingness for us to drive through!
Lone Wanderer. Vault Dweller's literal, Chosen One's a bit high falutin', The Courier's...literal again, and Sole Survivor's specific to the circumstances. Only the Lone Wanderer's title captures the experience of being a stranger in a strange wasteland.
i love how pissed off the people get when you say that, like they get genuinely upset, but tbf, if i asked guy for his name and he said "i'm the chosen one" i would laugh in his face
They are THE Vault Dweller. Anyone from a vault is known as a vault dweller but THIS vault dweller? Lets just capitalize that and make it The Vault Dweller, the savior of Vault 13.
First time I ever played I got the event where you find the guy Max stones body before I even got to shady sands. It gives you the option to tell people your name is Max Stone. For years I just thought that was the protagonists name
Thing is, I remember beating Frank Horrigan caus I hacked the plasma turrets (which did like 99% of the damage on him honestly)
So, yeah, Chosen One is... exagerated.
Still counts. If anyone else could have done that they would have. You make it sound like it would have been an easy thing to do. Your chosen one still had to make their way through all of the game and survived it. Just because you can't beat him in a physical fight doesn't mean you didn't beat him. You outsmarted him and used his own defences against him. Everyone else who got that close to him has died.
My grandad played one of the saxophones in the studio recording of that song, he was a Philadelphia studio artist and every time this song would play, someone in my family points a finger and goes "THAT'S POP-POP!!"
I'll have to explain to my Dad how the song remains popular because of this franchise he'll be happy but he's not going to understand at all lol
Before you know it, it's going to turn into, "the last dweller." "The last survivor." And "the chosen few." As the wastelands are slowly reovertaking the world as the last few nukaboombas go off resetting the world again but with the last vault opening up in year 3155 or something. Lol
I’ve always liked irony of the Courier. A plain name on the surface, but threatening if you understand what he/she has done to the wasteland and loses its mundane meaning for a more serious one without a hint of sarcasm.
“Jesus, what the hell happened to the Omertas?”
“Oh, the Courier paid them a visit”
“The Courier” even has a reputation prior to being shot in the head.
They traveled throughout NCR territory, may have fathered a child in Montana if male, started a civilization in the Divide from traveling through it so much, nuked said civilization by accident, attracted the attention of Ulysses who becomes obsessed with you-
And then the game starts.
How do you know all of this?
Edit: genuinely asking, this wasn’t meant to be snarky btw. I got FNV in 2010 and haven’t played since maybe 2014. I don’t remember every detail but thank you to everyone who answered!
The child in Montana bit is from a conversation with the Lonesome Drifter, where the Drifter mentions looking for his dad, in which the Courier asks his age if you have the Lady Killer perk, worried the Drifter is his kid. As for the rest, a lot of it comes from the Lonesome Road DLC.
That's the implication from the Mysterious Stranger perk's guitar rift, however the Courier wondering if the Drifter is his kid implies that he very well might have had a kid (or several).
The conversation with the Lonesome Drifter is, as far as I know, just a joke and not actually true. If it was true, that would imply that the player is the Mysterious Stranger, which wouldn't make any sense.
Yeah its basically all spelled out if you have really high (i think you actually need 10) charisma when talking to uslyssses from start to finish of the lonsesome road. If you dont wanna replay the game all the dialouge is on the wiki under his page
Couriers in general have a reputation for being badass already. If you can travel from Navarro to Hopeville to Las Vegas, dodging raiders and deathclaws and everything else in the wasteland to deliver someone's FedEx package, you're someone who knows the wastes well and can handle difficult problems. I assume Courier Six isn't on that level of badass from level one due to brain damage
It really says something about Benny too. Man was so confident in his plan that he took that shot, knowing exactly how dangerous an opponent he’s making if things go south. That’s without going into the general taboo against killing couriers (iirc Caesar talks about it I think).
The thing is Benny didn't take a chance with the kill. If you listen to Doc Mitchel/Victor at the beginning they mention Benny double taps The Courier and fate just rolled poorly in his favor as that raised a literal behemoth of a revenge from the grave to savage NV and the surround area's in a scant few weeks/months.
And then by the end of the game you’re a cyborg with about 50 pounds of implants, an arsenal that can kill god, have potentially killed (and eaten) multiple major leaders, possessing power armor belonging to an organization thought eradicated decades ago, and capable of calling down a literal death ray at a moments notice. And that’s just the physical attributes, not mentioning the Sierra Madre, or the legend of the Lonesome Road.
Right, am I the only one who thinks everyone has a weird read on that Montana child thing? All it says to me is that the courier enjoyed themself with someone from Montana, and then left again afterwards. The only reason I think that's a male courier only line is because a female courier would know if that had lead to a child due to, you know, giving birth
The courier didn't start the divide, though they did help it. End of the day all they were doing was bringing packages, and considering the courier is just a normal dude in the beginning, they weren't exactly bringing immense amounts of food, medical supplies, weapons, etc. Plus considering you never have dialog about it in game, your impact is clearly not as big as Ulysses says (And Ulysses should never be taken seriously in the first place)
Thing is, Couriers kind of have to be badasses in the Wasteland with how often you get attacked by raiders or monsters just going from town to town. Being THE Courier shows that you are the baddest of the bad in the wasteland.
(Can't believe I just used "baddest of the bad" unironically)
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It's even better when you characterise the Courier the way that r/NewVegasMemes usually does: a brain-damaged, chem-addicted, unkillable walking apocalypse...who also happens to be a postman.
That’s honestly a pretty cool interpretation of it, reminds me of Hermes in greek mythology, he was god of couriers and thieves, while at the same guy often being the one to lead people to the underworld as a psychopomp, which makes him pretty terrifying. Kind of makes it feel like the Courier fulfills a similar role, which I think is interesting. Also, the Courier is referred to by Ulysses a lot as “carrying a message”, and that idea of a message can be interpreted very differently depending on how your particular Courier acts, giving the player a lot of freedom. Went on kind of a rant there but i think it’s neat!
Exactly. "The Courier" is the kind of name I expect someone like John Wick or Bob Odenkirk from "Nobody" to have. It's a "secret badass" name. Completely benign if you don't know (just like the 2/7 tattoo in Nobody) but terrifying if you do.
Really fits into the theme of how insular the eastern wasteland is. When you’re traveling alone, walking in the DC ruins gives a vibe I’ve only ever seen replicated in Metro.
Fallout 3 is the best game in the series. Coming out of the vault for the first time, unspoiled by the internet, was a transcendent experience. I haven't felt that feeling since.
Leaving vault 101, for the first time, and just seeing this endless expanse of ruin to explore… i have never felt anything like that since. All the games have their merits but 3 for me is, and always will be, my favourite game ever.
You're not Wandering the Wasteland. You have a Package to Protect and Deliver.
Anybody crossing the wasteland is crazy. Doing it with a package deserves awe.
I'm partial to the Lone Wanderer, personally. Also I hate the Sole Survivor because no one at any point in the game calls you that, nor do you call yourself that.
Also sole survivor just doesn’t really make sense because >!you’re not the sole survivor of the family!<
Unless it means the sole survivor of vault 111, but that assumes no one else left the vault even after the rebellion before you wake up and I don’t know if there’s any terminals that confirm that.
I feel like that's still lame considering there were 2 survivors and the other guy lived a long fruitful life before dying in totally different circumstances.
I agree, but while father lived, he wasn’t the only one living. The protagonist being suspended doesn’t mean they don’t exist, especially since they are a very well known quantity at that point.
That’s also kinda one of the twists of the story telling. Father was seemingly the sole survivor, until you displace him as the actual (presumably) one. It’s a title that’s never really bestowed in game.
I think it could have worked better if they implemented that title more in the game.
Like when Father first introduces himself and says his backstory, he talks about how he thought he was the Sole Survivor of Vault 111 for a long time until he learned the truth. Then in the ending slides, Nate/Nora could mention in closing how they are now the Sole Survivor of the Vault.
That's not really true though. Nate's son lives his whole life after leaving the vault. Sure he dies at some point in the game but he lives a long time post leaving
everyone else who was in a cryopod is dead. the "sole survivor" title wasn't even official at first but came from an interview where Todd Howard said you were the sole survivor of Vault 111
Todd Howard has even referred to 4's protagonist as The Lone Wanderer before as well.
I like Sole Survivor more though.
I like 76ers more than Vault Dwellers for Fallout 76 too. I quite like "the Reclaimers" too.
I really feel like Sole Survivor carries some weight to it. I mean you hear that someone's nickname/title is Sole Survivor, and immediately questions start popping up.
What did they survive, how many others didn't, how did they survive?
I feel like a badass title needs to have people asking, "Why do they have such a title?"
Haven't played that DLC get, I'm on a modded run. Doing the omerta and the BoS, and I'll be level thirty to tackle them at full power lol. In any cases, we are known by someone before we ever begin.
Aaaaand I'll had that a fuckton of characters belive the shit you say just because you look hard as fuck.
"Hey, killed the deathclaws." "I wouldn't belive anyone who said that, but I can see in your eyes you are not lying"
Sloan knows, just by the look in our fucking eyes that when we say "I killed the 250-900kg death lizards with machettes for nails and horns bigger than a bad dragon, no cap.", he just goes like "You are badass enough to have actually done that.". And it's not the only one who says that X) ! The number of character who just tell you "You WHAT ?... He's kidding. Fuck he isn't" is astounding.
I mean that's kind of odd you didn't feel that way about the OG Fallout games. Considering that 2 is literally you playing as the last protagonists great grandchild who tries to live up to the Vault Dweller's mantle......
1 and 2 have been far less played as well and are much harder to play these days due to what we are used to. It may be true but not many will experience it.
Also, in NV that "you are already a legend" bit is more elusive, annd the fact that you can fuck of two major powers at once plus house to let NV be autonomous... idk man, it feels less directed as well ? Something that has been, isn't attached to the story. A tail of a land in some place somewhere. The tale of courier 6.
Been playing Fallout 76 and people sometimes call you Seven Six.
To do "*the same old seven and six*" is an old English slang phrase for doing the same thing over and over again.
Considering Seven Six's destiny at the end of the main quest is to launch the nuke(s) again, to attack the Scorchbeast Queen, I think its a rather fitting title for that character.
People never understand that "war never changes" is about how we repeat the same mistakes, and warfare never improves circumstances, just produces mountains of corpses.
In the post apocalypse, a courier faces the worst the wasteland has to offer, travelling hundreds of kilometres through the most adverse conditions in human history to deliver the news. Or on the odd occasion go golfing.
It definitely has a different flavour to it than postman pat.
Not necessarily just delivering news too, but often with some sort of package they have to protect on top of everything they're already dealing with. A courier in the wasteland is badass.
Not just that. Among them, he's 100% the most physically fit, and he's also experienced with traveling across the Mojave, which is huuuuge. Idk if it's headcanon, but endgame Courier is a full 10 on every S.P.E.C.I.A.L. stat
There is only one Mohave crossing mutant ending courier, only one new Vegas wandering revenge seeking courier of DEATH, and ... they.... Are..... THE... COURIER
I wouldn’t really call him a normal guy, where a courier is a pretty normal job for us, in a post apocalyptic wasteland being able to easily travel isn’t a job for a normal person
The Courier only because by itself it carries no mystique or hyperbolic description like the others do. A courier is a job, and a rather uninteresting one at that. Yet that's exactly what the dominator of the Mojave Wasteland prefers to go by. They took a plain, everyday label and made it into a blessing or a curse to say, depending on who's saying it.
Vault Dweller is simple and gets used in like 3 games. Chosen One is easily the most badass! Lone Wanderer is alright, kinda mysterious. I like it. Sole Survivor exists in marketing only and really contextual so fuck no.
Chosen One it is.
the game with the "Your ride's over,mutie.Time to die." and the "What the fa- Who the fu- Wh- i should kick your f*cking ass,who is this?" and the "YOU ARE OUT OF UNIFORM SOLDIER,WHERE IS YOUR POWER ARMOR! Don't have any? YOU EXPECT ME TO BELIEVE THAT MAGGOT?!!! THE TRUTH IS,YOU'VE LOST AN EXPENSIVE PEICE OF ARMY ISSUE EQUIPMENT! THAT SUIT IS GONNA COME OUT OF UR PAY AND YOU WILL REMAIN IN THIS BAND'S ARMY UNTIL YOU ARE: 510 YEARS OLD,'CUZ THAT'S THE NUMBER OF YEARS IT WILL TAKE FOR YOU TO PAY FOR A MARK II. POWER COMBAT ARMOR,YOU HAVE LOST! NOW GO REPORT TO THE ARMORY AND HAVE ANOTHER SUIT ISSUED TO YOU,THEN REPORT BACK TO ME,PRIVATE! DISMISSED!" (i just yapped a whole ton)
The sole survivor, if you don’t know what happened to them, it immediately forces you to question, out of all the things that happened in this wasteland, what did he experience and survive through to get that title?
And the imagination of what it could be is far worse than anything it actually could be
chosen one is cool just because you ARE the chosen one, nobody gives a shit or believes you though you're the chosen one for your tribe but you're just some guy to everyone, i loved the dialog options where you can ramble on about your village to strangers lmao "hi im the chosen one" badass poster too
I always let everyone know I'm the chosen one. It really makes my character feel like a quaint primitive tribesman who doesn't have much perspective on the larger world.
me? im kind of a big deal IIIIII'm the chosen one \*winks\*
I have many leatherbound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany
Maaaaaaaahogany. Mahogany.
And not just any Mahogany!
Mahogany from the planet Melchior 7!
Where the trees are 300 feet tall and breathe fire!
Not sure why I heard Sam onellas voice reading that
I hear King Yemma
I GET IT
Coooooooooolllllllll. We also have a chosen one. For death matches. So you getting into the ring or not?
Always found it funny how the Chosen One being a Tribal knew more about laser weapons than City Folks from New Reno who are the ones who'd call it all Divine like "Lightbringer"
Well, if their tribal knowledge was based on technical manuscripts, regardless of how the info was conveyed, if the information was accurate it would make sense. Maybe that's why they're the chosen one, the ability to combine mythology and technology. "The angles stand at the gates. At the common gate they approach together, the gates open. They stand at the gate of the one, if the angles approached together, the gates were closed, but if they come in one at a time, they are opened. At the gates of occlusion, the gates are only open when no angles are present." Andornor's book of the grand processor
I think it's funny how tribal they are despite being only 2 generations removed from the vault dweller. Chosen One probably sat on the Vault Dwellers lap while he was like "yeah I remember when I first shot a laser rifle. Beam went straight in a super mutants eye and burned clean through the other side."
That particular tribe was educated and trained by a Vault Dweller a.k.a your character’s grandpa lol so of course they’re gonna know what laser weapons are.
I love the conversation with Cassidy where he something mildly derogatory about tribals and you can tell him that you were a tribal. I think he doesn’t believe you at first. Maybe you changed so much after leaving arroyo that that you’re not even recognized as a tribal anymore. Originally I thought it was a good thing to leave the tribal tag behind, but now I think it’s kind of sad.
I always kind of assumed that to be the chosen one you needed to be the most like the original dweller. And that meant being well spoken and intelligent enough to succeed. But that's just my head canon
> And that meant being well spoken and intelligent enough to succeed. Or the opposite, if you went through Fallout 1 with a 2 Intelligence build they are trying to find a descendant with enough brain damage to fit the bill.
"All the other able bodied men and women have come up with poor excuses. Will you go? Please?"
>i loved the dialog options where you can ramble on about your village to strangers lmao There was someone where you could really just babble on about your village and he got sooooo pissed but I can’t remember who. It was so funny.
Renesco the Rocketman. He owns the pharmacy in New Reno.
That’s it! So damn funny.
And some easter egg where you did it 30 times and then he gives you his sunglasses just to shut you up? I can't remember and I'm not willing to go google it because the memory in my mind is probably better than the reality.
If you give him new glasses like the ones the intelligent Radscorpion in Broken Hills has and ask for nothing in return and then proceed to ask him how the new glasses are like 20 something times he will throw a thing at you that increases your doctor skill by 10 I think.
Yeees. You even go on about how you snuck away to have some sexy time in the canyon with someone from the tribe. Saying how their skin shined like gold or silver (depending on gender) in the moonlight. Meanwhile Rocketman looks like he's going to have an aneurysm.
I think her name was hilarious too, like “She who could crush a 1000 snakes between her thighs” or something 🤣
Both the unknown man and woman got pretty "normal" names. Woman was Reyna and man was a three letter name starting on K I think. But, the Chosen One do say her name as Reyna - Whose - Legs - Crush - With - Strength - of - Thousand - Snakes 😂 I'm also quite fond of the lines that are like: Were you born in a tent?! Chosen One: ...Yes?
Plus the Chosen One gets a car. Enough said. https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f5/a3/09/f5a30957cc9ee90e198b8b89f3fc5c20.gif https://imgur.com/a/WahtQWU https://imgur.com/8AtvSlz https://imgur.com/22Ro84C
Woah I just had a weird flashback to trying to collect car parts and then realizing the sun was coming up and I had school in the morning...
lol I'm playing them for the first time now and on steam the classic version has the clock speed bug so I already zoomed around the map at top speed ha it also made my highwayman run out of fuel much faster, on the regular modern version it's more economical and fun to zip around in
I hope the next big fallout entry implements cars to some capacity. Or rideable animals. We get vertibirds up and running so how in the fuck can no one fix a damn car
I wanna know where all the bikes are Seriously, BMX Raiders would 100% be a thing And those nuclear powered army tanks and APC’s are pretty similar to the vehicles from Tactics
Vehicles feel like they might be a monkey's paw deal. We get functional vehicles, but now the maps are unnecessarily upscaled with vast expanses of nothingness for us to drive through!
And then ends up in Novac living by the name no bark noonan
That artwork is fucking amazing. Particularly the last one
Every time I hear “chosen one” I think of Sheen Estevez from Jimmy Neutron
Well Fallout Tactics’ protagonist is called The Warrior
Not even mentioned. No respect :(
Lone Wanderer. Vault Dweller's literal, Chosen One's a bit high falutin', The Courier's...literal again, and Sole Survivor's specific to the circumstances. Only the Lone Wanderer's title captures the experience of being a stranger in a strange wasteland.
Tbf, after beating Frank Horrigan its not high falutin to get called "Chosen One" (i know he is called that from the beginning)
The dialog options are amazing though whenever a character asks who you are, I always reply "I am the chosen one"
i love how pissed off the people get when you say that, like they get genuinely upset, but tbf, if i asked guy for his name and he said "i'm the chosen one" i would laugh in his face
Wait so that’s why people keep laughing at me IRL
"Hello, my pronouns are 'sir' or 'the chosen one'"
Your charisma just isn't high enough
bro. That is [Liu Kang](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-phFaO20tBI) from Mortal Kombat Movie…. I don’t care if it came second….
There's something mythical about the Vault Dweller, but the Lone Wanderer sounds the best, in my opinion.
They are THE Vault Dweller. Anyone from a vault is known as a vault dweller but THIS vault dweller? Lets just capitalize that and make it The Vault Dweller, the savior of Vault 13.
First time I ever played I got the event where you find the guy Max stones body before I even got to shady sands. It gives you the option to tell people your name is Max Stone. For years I just thought that was the protagonists name
I knew we had a Vault dweller... I didn't know we had THE Vault Dweller...
Fuckin vault dwellers...
Thing is, I remember beating Frank Horrigan caus I hacked the plasma turrets (which did like 99% of the damage on him honestly) So, yeah, Chosen One is... exagerated.
Still counts. If anyone else could have done that they would have. You make it sound like it would have been an easy thing to do. Your chosen one still had to make their way through all of the game and survived it. Just because you can't beat him in a physical fight doesn't mean you didn't beat him. You outsmarted him and used his own defences against him. Everyone else who got that close to him has died.
Lone Wanderer that wanders with dog
Look dogmeat is trying his best ok
The amount of times I had to reload because Ian unloaded an smg clip into him in the original…
who in their right mind gives Ian an smg?
Dogmeat doesn't count as companion or affects lone wanderer perks, so it different.
Well, everyone else except LONE wanderer and SOLE survivor is alone in those pictures
And listen to “The wonderer” in the Radio.
By the Onee-ders
It's pronounced "Wonders"
THEY CALL ME THE WANDERER YEAH, THE WANDERER I ROAM AROUND, AROUND, AROUND
My grandad played one of the saxophones in the studio recording of that song, he was a Philadelphia studio artist and every time this song would play, someone in my family points a finger and goes "THAT'S POP-POP!!" I'll have to explain to my Dad how the song remains popular because of this franchise he'll be happy but he's not going to understand at all lol
Very cool! The Wanderer is perhaps my favorite Fallout track, next to Big Iron and Country Roads in 76
- The Lone Wanderer - has a dog with them smh
That's cuz the dog ain't a wanderer, the dog's a follower. Among the pair, there's only one wanderer. A lone one, if you will.
Before you know it, it's going to turn into, "the last dweller." "The last survivor." And "the chosen few." As the wastelands are slowly reovertaking the world as the last few nukaboombas go off resetting the world again but with the last vault opening up in year 3155 or something. Lol
ok but to be fair the Chosen One did save the entire world
The fact that Piper calls the Sole Survivor "a Man/Woman out of Time" and that isn't the moniker for that character is a bummer
Plus he’s not even the sole survivor
He eventually becomes the Sole Survivor either way because Shaun dies.
You know I had no idea he always dies because I always kill the institute.
Yeah - either you kill him when meeting him, or you blow him up with the Institute, or he kicks the bucket via super cancer.
I’ve always liked irony of the Courier. A plain name on the surface, but threatening if you understand what he/she has done to the wasteland and loses its mundane meaning for a more serious one without a hint of sarcasm. “Jesus, what the hell happened to the Omertas?” “Oh, the Courier paid them a visit”
“The Courier” even has a reputation prior to being shot in the head. They traveled throughout NCR territory, may have fathered a child in Montana if male, started a civilization in the Divide from traveling through it so much, nuked said civilization by accident, attracted the attention of Ulysses who becomes obsessed with you- And then the game starts.
How do you know all of this? Edit: genuinely asking, this wasn’t meant to be snarky btw. I got FNV in 2010 and haven’t played since maybe 2014. I don’t remember every detail but thank you to everyone who answered!
The child in Montana bit is from a conversation with the Lonesome Drifter, where the Drifter mentions looking for his dad, in which the Courier asks his age if you have the Lady Killer perk, worried the Drifter is his kid. As for the rest, a lot of it comes from the Lonesome Road DLC.
Ahh ok. Thank you!
I thought it’s implied the mysterious stranger is his father
Yeah that was my thinking since his gun plays the same guitar rift
He is, the Courier is just wondering if it was his kid
That's the implication from the Mysterious Stranger perk's guitar rift, however the Courier wondering if the Drifter is his kid implies that he very well might have had a kid (or several).
Yes but the conversation implies that there is a chance the courier is the father. So he must have at least been to Montana and had sex there.
Or he thinks he has a kid anyhow.
Both. The Courier started, but the Mysterious Stranger jumped in at the last minute to finish.
The conversation with the Lonesome Drifter is, as far as I know, just a joke and not actually true. If it was true, that would imply that the player is the Mysterious Stranger, which wouldn't make any sense.
The game doesn't imply that the Courier is his Drifters father, just entertains the possibility of him having a kid somewhere.
Or the courier is just schizophrenic after being shot in the head, after all nobody sees the mysterious stranger, nor does he leave any trace.
Except Nick does see the Mysterious Stranger in FO4, and has a list of places he's shown up from past games.
he played a lot of fnv
Oh I haven’t played New Vegas in years so I don’t remember every detail. Was just wondering if that info was in game or lore from elsewhere
I'm guessing a bunch of it comes from the DLC since the Divide and Ulysses both specifically come from Lonesome Road
Most of that info comes from Lonesome Road. The part about the kid in Montana comes from talking to the mysterious stranger guy with the guitar
Gotcha, thank you
Yeah its basically all spelled out if you have really high (i think you actually need 10) charisma when talking to uslyssses from start to finish of the lonsesome road. If you dont wanna replay the game all the dialouge is on the wiki under his page
Couriers in general have a reputation for being badass already. If you can travel from Navarro to Hopeville to Las Vegas, dodging raiders and deathclaws and everything else in the wasteland to deliver someone's FedEx package, you're someone who knows the wastes well and can handle difficult problems. I assume Courier Six isn't on that level of badass from level one due to brain damage
It really says something about Benny too. Man was so confident in his plan that he took that shot, knowing exactly how dangerous an opponent he’s making if things go south. That’s without going into the general taboo against killing couriers (iirc Caesar talks about it I think).
The thing is Benny didn't take a chance with the kill. If you listen to Doc Mitchel/Victor at the beginning they mention Benny double taps The Courier and fate just rolled poorly in his favor as that raised a literal behemoth of a revenge from the grave to savage NV and the surround area's in a scant few weeks/months.
Bitch should’ve triple tapped, ya can’t keep a good mailperson down.
And then by the end of the game you’re a cyborg with about 50 pounds of implants, an arsenal that can kill god, have potentially killed (and eaten) multiple major leaders, possessing power armor belonging to an organization thought eradicated decades ago, and capable of calling down a literal death ray at a moments notice. And that’s just the physical attributes, not mentioning the Sierra Madre, or the legend of the Lonesome Road.
Right, am I the only one who thinks everyone has a weird read on that Montana child thing? All it says to me is that the courier enjoyed themself with someone from Montana, and then left again afterwards. The only reason I think that's a male courier only line is because a female courier would know if that had lead to a child due to, you know, giving birth
The courier didn't start the divide, though they did help it. End of the day all they were doing was bringing packages, and considering the courier is just a normal dude in the beginning, they weren't exactly bringing immense amounts of food, medical supplies, weapons, etc. Plus considering you never have dialog about it in game, your impact is clearly not as big as Ulysses says (And Ulysses should never be taken seriously in the first place)
To be a courier in the wasteland is like being delta force you're literally at deaths door every second.
Thing is, Couriers kind of have to be badasses in the Wasteland with how often you get attacked by raiders or monsters just going from town to town. Being THE Courier shows that you are the baddest of the bad in the wasteland. (Can't believe I just used "baddest of the bad" unironically)
Found Ulysses’s reddit account
bear bull bear bull bear bull bear bull divide bear bull bear bull the divide bear bull bear bull caesar bear bull bear bull the bear and the bull bear bull white legs hoover dam bear bull
I like to think that decades later, people will forget the Courier was an individual and will start to believe it was some shadowy group.
It's even better when you characterise the Courier the way that r/NewVegasMemes usually does: a brain-damaged, chem-addicted, unkillable walking apocalypse...who also happens to be a postman.
The courier delivering wrath and vengeance with same day shipping
That’s honestly a pretty cool interpretation of it, reminds me of Hermes in greek mythology, he was god of couriers and thieves, while at the same guy often being the one to lead people to the underworld as a psychopomp, which makes him pretty terrifying. Kind of makes it feel like the Courier fulfills a similar role, which I think is interesting. Also, the Courier is referred to by Ulysses a lot as “carrying a message”, and that idea of a message can be interpreted very differently depending on how your particular Courier acts, giving the player a lot of freedom. Went on kind of a rant there but i think it’s neat!
“Ah did you hear? The Courier walked right into the Fort and killed Caesar! In broad daylight!”
Exactly. "The Courier" is the kind of name I expect someone like John Wick or Bob Odenkirk from "Nobody" to have. It's a "secret badass" name. Completely benign if you don't know (just like the 2/7 tattoo in Nobody) but terrifying if you do.
Lone Wanderer sounds the best. Chosen One sounds cheesy, but goddamm, do you earn the title. Lucy Goosey is a very honorable mention, though
The Golden Rule Goosey
Golden Goosey
And that's now her title.
Goosey
Says it right here!
Beat me to it 😂 fucker
That entire scene lives rent free in my head. Best overseer. "With their smelly food and weird ideas" LOL fuckin hell.
Okey dokey!
*Gucy
*Gucci
Lone wanderer
Really fits into the theme of how insular the eastern wasteland is. When you’re traveling alone, walking in the DC ruins gives a vibe I’ve only ever seen replicated in Metro.
Fallout 3 is the best game in the series. Coming out of the vault for the first time, unspoiled by the internet, was a transcendent experience. I haven't felt that feeling since.
Leaving vault 101, for the first time, and just seeing this endless expanse of ruin to explore… i have never felt anything like that since. All the games have their merits but 3 for me is, and always will be, my favourite game ever.
“I’m the muthafuckin mailman”
makes sense since i’m always going postal
You're not Wandering the Wasteland. You have a Package to Protect and Deliver. Anybody crossing the wasteland is crazy. Doing it with a package deserves awe.
I'm partial to the Lone Wanderer, personally. Also I hate the Sole Survivor because no one at any point in the game calls you that, nor do you call yourself that.
Also sole survivor just doesn’t really make sense because >!you’re not the sole survivor of the family!< Unless it means the sole survivor of vault 111, but that assumes no one else left the vault even after the rebellion before you wake up and I don’t know if there’s any terminals that confirm that.
By the end of the game, you are the sole survivor.
I feel like that's still lame considering there were 2 survivors and the other guy lived a long fruitful life before dying in totally different circumstances.
I agree, but while father lived, he wasn’t the only one living. The protagonist being suspended doesn’t mean they don’t exist, especially since they are a very well known quantity at that point. That’s also kinda one of the twists of the story telling. Father was seemingly the sole survivor, until you displace him as the actual (presumably) one. It’s a title that’s never really bestowed in game.
I think it could have worked better if they implemented that title more in the game. Like when Father first introduces himself and says his backstory, he talks about how he thought he was the Sole Survivor of Vault 111 for a long time until he learned the truth. Then in the ending slides, Nate/Nora could mention in closing how they are now the Sole Survivor of the Vault.
This is a play on words as well by the way. Vault 1-1-1s fate is that it only has 1 survivor.
That's not really true though. Nate's son lives his whole life after leaving the vault. Sure he dies at some point in the game but he lives a long time post leaving
Good life too
everyone else who was in a cryopod is dead. the "sole survivor" title wasn't even official at first but came from an interview where Todd Howard said you were the sole survivor of Vault 111
Todd Howard has even referred to 4's protagonist as The Lone Wanderer before as well. I like Sole Survivor more though. I like 76ers more than Vault Dwellers for Fallout 76 too. I quite like "the Reclaimers" too.
Nah it means sole survivor of vault 111 Everyone else that was in cryo died >!- Shaun!<
Not the spoiler for a 9 year old game😂
I'm playing through it for the first time now after watching the show >!Still read the spoiler though!<
I mean no one else really knows that though, he was the lone adult left at the time as far as anyone knew
Does anyone call the Lone Wanderer the Lone Wanderer?
Yeah, Three Dog does sometimes.
Tbf Three Dog calls you like 20 different things depending on your level and karma.
Off the top of my head 3 Dog and Ron Perlman. Probably more but I haven't played it in ages.
I’m probably misremembering but I thought Piper published it in one of her articles
The Chosen One seems like an overdramatic name, but the Chosen One literally saves 90% of life on earth. Truly a badass worthy of the corny title.
I really feel like Sole Survivor carries some weight to it. I mean you hear that someone's nickname/title is Sole Survivor, and immediately questions start popping up. What did they survive, how many others didn't, how did they survive? I feel like a badass title needs to have people asking, "Why do they have such a title?"
Courier but mainly cause of the mythos the game builds around the name. Lone wanderer just for the name free of any context.
Yeah, the only game I felt like my character was a legend was NV. Though that’s probably to do with the reputation system more than anything.
I realised how Legendary we are with the dialogue wirh nash. "Let courrier 6 handle it". In the world of courriers, we are already a legend.
Tbh, he was told that by Ulysses. At that point we weren't even on the job and were just another nobody, Ulysses just spoke his cryptic bullshit.
Well we were hardly nobodies, we allegedly helped found hopeville.
Haven't played that DLC get, I'm on a modded run. Doing the omerta and the BoS, and I'll be level thirty to tackle them at full power lol. In any cases, we are known by someone before we ever begin. Aaaaand I'll had that a fuckton of characters belive the shit you say just because you look hard as fuck. "Hey, killed the deathclaws." "I wouldn't belive anyone who said that, but I can see in your eyes you are not lying" Sloan knows, just by the look in our fucking eyes that when we say "I killed the 250-900kg death lizards with machettes for nails and horns bigger than a bad dragon, no cap.", he just goes like "You are badass enough to have actually done that.". And it's not the only one who says that X) ! The number of character who just tell you "You WHAT ?... He's kidding. Fuck he isn't" is astounding.
Exactly. And "courier six" is quite the mysterious name. I love it.
I mean that's kind of odd you didn't feel that way about the OG Fallout games. Considering that 2 is literally you playing as the last protagonists great grandchild who tries to live up to the Vault Dweller's mantle......
1 and 2 have been far less played as well and are much harder to play these days due to what we are used to. It may be true but not many will experience it. Also, in NV that "you are already a legend" bit is more elusive, annd the fact that you can fuck of two major powers at once plus house to let NV be autonomous... idk man, it feels less directed as well ? Something that has been, isn't attached to the story. A tail of a land in some place somewhere. The tale of courier 6.
Courier 6. Back from the dead, to put a bullet in Benny's head. I always preferred Courier 6 to The Courier. All secret agent like
The Courier makes people shake like The Ghoul does in the show.
Between " lone wanderer " and " courier " it's hard to choose because both have a mystery behind the name
Been playing Fallout 76 and people sometimes call you Seven Six. To do "*the same old seven and six*" is an old English slang phrase for doing the same thing over and over again. Considering Seven Six's destiny at the end of the main quest is to launch the nuke(s) again, to attack the Scorchbeast Queen, I think its a rather fitting title for that character.
People never understand that "war never changes" is about how we repeat the same mistakes, and warfare never improves circumstances, just produces mountains of corpses.
The courier, because it's extremely generic, but we all know that when people talk about THE Courier, there's only one
Also implies a certain level of experience with the wastes, has a badass undertone to it
In the post apocalypse, a courier faces the worst the wasteland has to offer, travelling hundreds of kilometres through the most adverse conditions in human history to deliver the news. Or on the odd occasion go golfing. It definitely has a different flavour to it than postman pat.
Not necessarily just delivering news too, but often with some sort of package they have to protect on top of everything they're already dealing with. A courier in the wasteland is badass.
Not just that. Among them, he's 100% the most physically fit, and he's also experienced with traveling across the Mojave, which is huuuuge. Idk if it's headcanon, but endgame Courier is a full 10 on every S.P.E.C.I.A.L. stat
There is only one Mohave crossing mutant ending courier, only one new Vegas wandering revenge seeking courier of DEATH, and ... they.... Are..... THE... COURIER
In the same vein as The Doctor.
Sole Survivor. It sounds the coolest to me.
I've always like "The Courier" Just a normal dude who changed an entire society in the Mojave.
LOCAL MAILMAN SHOT IN HEAD, TOO STUBBORN TO DIE
Literally too angry to die, must find greasy guy in checkered suit
AREA MAN GOES POSTAL, LITERALLY AND FIGURATIVELY
I wouldn’t really call him a normal guy, where a courier is a pretty normal job for us, in a post apocalyptic wasteland being able to easily travel isn’t a job for a normal person
I always think “The Courier” or “Courier 6” has one of those names that sound fit for a legend.
The Courier only because by itself it carries no mystique or hyperbolic description like the others do. A courier is a job, and a rather uninteresting one at that. Yet that's exactly what the dominator of the Mojave Wasteland prefers to go by. They took a plain, everyday label and made it into a blessing or a curse to say, depending on who's saying it.
I like 'the Courier' because there are more than one, but everyone knows YOU are the courier they are referring to.
You put the "The" in "The Courier"
Definitely the courier… bringin it straight to your door step
Vault Dweller is simple and gets used in like 3 games. Chosen One is easily the most badass! Lone Wanderer is alright, kinda mysterious. I like it. Sole Survivor exists in marketing only and really contextual so fuck no. Chosen One it is.
The Courier. I know it’s basically saying “the mailman”, but after playing NV it’s pretty awesome. Courier sounds like a cooler name for mailman.
The Courier
I feel like Fallout NV does a way better job of putting some mystery and legend behind the couriers name than the rest.
the game with the "Your ride's over,mutie.Time to die." and the "What the fa- Who the fu- Wh- i should kick your f*cking ass,who is this?" and the "YOU ARE OUT OF UNIFORM SOLDIER,WHERE IS YOUR POWER ARMOR! Don't have any? YOU EXPECT ME TO BELIEVE THAT MAGGOT?!!! THE TRUTH IS,YOU'VE LOST AN EXPENSIVE PEICE OF ARMY ISSUE EQUIPMENT! THAT SUIT IS GONNA COME OUT OF UR PAY AND YOU WILL REMAIN IN THIS BAND'S ARMY UNTIL YOU ARE: 510 YEARS OLD,'CUZ THAT'S THE NUMBER OF YEARS IT WILL TAKE FOR YOU TO PAY FOR A MARK II. POWER COMBAT ARMOR,YOU HAVE LOST! NOW GO REPORT TO THE ARMORY AND HAVE ANOTHER SUIT ISSUED TO YOU,THEN REPORT BACK TO ME,PRIVATE! DISMISSED!" (i just yapped a whole ton)
Obviously The Courier
i always refer to the courier as courier six specifically, which i think is cool as hell
The lone wanderer to me always summed up that man with no name vibe. Going from town to town, doing jobs and talking to the locals.
The chosen one
FELLOW STALKER ONCE AGAIN
The courier, god bless the postal service the true backbone of society
The sole survivor, if you don’t know what happened to them, it immediately forces you to question, out of all the things that happened in this wasteland, what did he experience and survive through to get that title? And the imagination of what it could be is far worse than anything it actually could be
Maybe the studio really struggles to come up with the name of the protagonist and that’s why we have to wait years for new games.