TankaRae

Yogi Bear is an Abomination, not an animal. I enjoyed HH, but not as much as Dead Money. It didn't introduce enough new game mechanics, though I really loved playing through it with my character with high Survival, which felt like wasted skill points in most of the vanilla game - you really realize how rich Zion is in useful plant life. When I played it the first time, with a level 30 character, I got tons of great rare weapons, but when I did it with a level 14 character almost all the firearm enemies had 10mm SMGs instead of the good stuff, I think I only ran into two or three Storm Drummers who had actual Thompsons. I'm considering going back with a level 40 character and seeing how ridiculously the White Legs are armed. I also enjoyed the decisions to be made - there was no real "evil" option, unless you consider wiping out the White Legs with Joshua and then telling him to put a cap in "Chief Gobbledegook" at the end the evil ending, and even then you are saving the lives and homes of innocent people. I think the closest to a "good" ending is fighting the White Legs but using the peaceful options whenever possible to make them leave (like destroying totems), and then convincing Joshua to have mercy. I did that the first time, but on my second playthrough I evacuated Zion, and finding out the White Legs left it a polluted mess made me sad. Sometime I'm going to have to try the "kill Follows-Chalk" version of the DLC that so many people have played and complained about.

I tried to do the NCR ending once, but since I had already helped the BoS become less isolationist by putting Hardin in control, I couldn't go any further because my only option was to wipe out the BoS. I wouldn't mind wiping them out normally and I have with another character, because by the time of FO:NV they are really borderline lawful-neutral/lawful-evil (though not as evil as the Legion), but on that playthrough I had already helped them along a path that I thought would make them more useful to the Mojave (the original leader was a prick). Why would I want to destroy them after I had already helped them choose a new ruler? The only way to avoid killing them if you play NCR is if you leave the original, paranoid isolationist leader, Hardin will not consider an NCR alliance. Anyway, NCR is way too much like the late 19th century USA for me to feel good about helping them, completely in the pocket of the wealthy traders and brahmin barons, willing to terrorize innocent mutants and slaughter women and children if they are in the way of the rich getting richer. They have some good people working for them, but so do all the factions, even the Legion. So I go for Independent New Vegas under Yes Man. In another playthrough I may leave the BoS alone and go the NCR route that creates an NCR/BoS alliance, but putting those two together doesn't seem like it would be good in the long run.

I'll sit and repeatedly choose "I have a question for you" to Veronica just to hear her responses, like "He was dead when I got there!". It's not exactly a one-liner, but asking her how she joined the Brotherhood gets a great response as well. "I am still sore!"