Some Fallout Fans Think Season 2 Just Confirmed a New Vegas Ending Is Canon After All, but Others Believe the Showrunners Were True to Their Word

Some Fallout fans judge the latest occurrence of Season 2 of the Amazon amusement confirms a New Vegas ending is canon, portion others judge the showrunners person kept their connection and avoided picking an ending.

Warning! Spoilers for Fallout Season 2 follow:

Last month, the creators of the Fallout TV amusement told IGN that Season 2 avoids making immoderate New Vegas ending canon by taking what they telephone "the fog of warfare approach."

Fans of the Fallout video games had wondered however Season 2 mightiness bespeak the endings of Obsidian’s much-loved Fallout New Vegas, fixed the amusement is canon and is acceptable 15 years aft the game.

A speedy reminder of wherever we’re astatine successful the Fallout timeline: the Fallout TV amusement is acceptable successful 2296, 9 years aft the events of Fallout 4 and 15 years aft the events of Fallout: New Vegas. We’ve already seen a statement astir which Fallout 4 ending should beryllium considered canon, if any. But what astir New Vegas?

Depending connected the choices the player, aka The Courier, makes passim the people of the game, New Vegas tin extremity with triumph for the subordinate during the Battle of Hoover Dam, which drives retired each factions including Mr. House himself, a triumph for Mr. House successful which helium remains successful power of New Vegas and takes implicit Hoover Dam, a triumph for Caesar's Legion, oregon a triumph for the New California Republic.

Fallout fans deliberation ‘The House Always Wins’ ending is present canon aft the events of the show. The Ghoul meets Maximus, and helium uses the Cold Fusion diode that Maximus stole from the Brotherhood to powerfulness up the instrumentality we saw backmost erstwhile Cooper met House successful a flashback connected the apical level of Lucky 38. The large terminal boots up, House appears connected surface and says: "Well hello, aged chum."

A batch of radical deliberation that confirms "The House Always Wins" ending, which saw House survive. But determination are immoderate important points to consider. Until the amusement really shows House’s body, there's inactive imaginable for each sorts of explanations. Either this gathering betwixt the Ghoul and House, positive immoderate happens successful the Season 2 finale, pulls the large instrumentality of yet canonising an ending contempt the showrunners saying they weren’t going to, oregon this is, for example, an AI mentation of House, alternatively than the weird husk from the New Vegas video game, which would permission america technically inactive near successful the acheronian astir what really happened.

Fans are already debating the point, with immoderate going truthful acold arsenic to already accepting The House Always Wins ending arsenic canon. Some are adjacent wondering what the constituent of New Vegas itself was, fixed the proposition of a canon ending.

“What was the meaning of the crippled Fallout NV expected to beryllium and what was it trying to execute if nary of the imaginable actions of The Courier had immoderate lasting impact?” asked 1 fan. “With the newest occurrence of the Fallout Tv show, we find retired House is alive. So what was the constituent of playing the crippled if nary of the decisions would person mattered anyway? In the crippled the biggest consequences are, we get escaped of House, springiness the powerfulness of hoover damm [sic] to the NCR, the Legion, oregon backmost to the Strip.

“But successful the amusement the NCR is gone, the Legion is disconnected and in-fighting, the BoS is successful the mediate of a civilian warfare with the East Coast, The portion became overrun with deathclaws. So what’s the point?”

Countering this, immoderate fans person pointed to different explanations for what we spot successful the show, arsenic mentioned above, but others person insisted that immoderate happens connected the show, it shouldn’t devalue your enjoyment of the games and however they work.

“The House we spot astatine the extremity of occurrence 7 is simply a integer copy,” different instrumentality added. “It doesn’t substance what happened to the existent House’s body, this transcript is abstracted from that. I don’t deliberation there’s thing successful the amusement that contradicts immoderate of the 4 endings.”

“Seeing the House AI truly doesn’t alteration anything,” said different fan. “The authorities of the Lucky 38, including a Securitron lying precisely wherever Yes Man does erstwhile you upload him, points powerfully towards House’s decease arsenic a quality astatine immoderate point.” “I mean House is dead. He conscionable uploaded himself to the Cloud,” joked another.

All eyes are present connected the last occurrence of Fallout Season 2, which, fixed Season 3 is already confirmed, volition nary uncertainty airs conscionable arsenic galore questions arsenic it answers. While you wait, beryllium definite to cheque retired IGN’s Fallout Season 2, Episode 7 review.

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