Imagining that type of relationship is somewhat difficult, but at the same time, so too is a game where an unseen antagonist shapes the entire game and DLC run but manages to land so well as it does in Fallout: New Vegas.įallout: New Vegas 2 has not been confirmed.I cannot enter the divide for Lonesome Road. One where, intentional or otherwise, the landscape of the game changes and there's real repercussions because the player isn't the only capable of practically inhuman actions. That's not to say Ulysses or a Ulysses stand-in should appear and follow the same exact push-and-pull of the Courier and Ulysses, but instead, this type of relationship should play some role in the game. Whether or not the game is a spiritual successor in Fallout: New Orleans, a direct sequel in Fallout: New Vegas 2, or even for a game like Fallout 5, this should be a lesson.
It's a relationship between PC and NPC that should be explored further. Courier 6 shapes the Wasteland in ways but responds unwittingly to the ways Ulysses shapes it. This is an interesting concept because, effectively, both Courier 6 and Ulysses are two sides of the same coins, with the same abilities, intellect (arguably), and more.
In every way the player shapes the wasteland, so too did Ulysses, and his goal when confronting the player in the Divide is motivated out of revenge, but also intrigue: who had the right to shape the future more? He was responsible, in a roundabout way (which is everything about Ulysses), for Father Elijah kidnapping the Courier in the Sierra Madre, he taught the White Legs how to be strong and led to the War for Zion, and had a big role at the Big MT. Behind the scenes, Ulysses was effectively the antagonist behind Dead Money, Honest Hearts, and Old World Blues. What the Lonesome Road DLC reveals, though, is that Ulysses has been effectively acting against the Courier since that very day. It gets the courier shot in the head, kickstarting the entire event of the game. He believes that the Platinum Chip will be the dead of him, and in a way, Ulysses is right.
Ulysses believes the Courier died until the beginning of New Vegas, where Ulysses is the courier who abandons the job.
It all starts when Courier 6 delivers a package to Ulysses's new home in the Divide, accidentally triggering its underground war heads and nuking the town. Effectively all single-player RPGs have this, as even if tropes like the Chosen One are avoided, the PC is always the driving force of the game (in a good RPG anyway). Ulysses has a working theory that one person can change the future, for better or ill, and there's a level of meta-gaming there. Simply put, The Lonesome Road DLC does something no other Fallout game has managed to do: force a player to effectively face themselves.
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