I go and make a cup of tea while the game loads into the next area. ED-E is blasting frantically with his little red laser, until the first wave is annihilated without so much as breaking a sweat.
We surge into The Fort, laying waste to legionnaire upon legionnaire, their bodies stacking high as Boone chooses which eye socket he wants his bullet to go through. After one last Brahmin Steak and some Purified Water to wash it down, I’m good to go. 44 Magnum and the 10mm SMG, I shop for some Stimpaks as well as a variety of chems (Buffout, Jet, Psycho). Along with some more ammo for the Caravan Shotgun, the.
50mg ammo from the Gunrunners, while stocking up on grenades for the Thump-Thump.
In what resembles the Fallout version of the A-Team, I gather my companions (I opt for the sharpshooter Boone, and the Flash Gordon throwback prop robot, ED-E) and arm myself to the teeth, purchasing an Anti-Material gun and some. But wearing Benny’s clothes or shooting Fiends and Powder Gangers with his gun is not the same as having him alive, talking jive, which leaves me only one option: taking out an entire camp of Caesar’s forces, something I doubt I can do alone. I am instead forced to kill Benny yet again (although this time I get to steal his sexy checkered suit and even sexier pistol named Maria). I try the option of a death match in the arena with machetes, hoping maybe there is an option to escape, but alas, no. I try donning a Stealthboy myself and then sneaking Benny another one. Clearly not, as we both end up dead again. “This little care package is all I need, baby,” he chimes. I try sneaking him a Stealthboy and a bobby pin. I try untying him, but neither of us made it out of Caesar’s tent alive. Keeping him alive is not an option in the eyes of the Legion’s grim, bald leader. After completing a task for Caesar himself, I am afforded the right to decide how Benny will die. As the Courier I have been granted the Mark Of Caesar, allowing me access to the Legion Camp. The set-up is this: Benny has been captured by Caesar and his gang of legionnaires. So I decided, for the sake of my bromance with Benny, to return to an earlier save point in Bethesda’s bug-infested post-apocalyptic adventure and save the suave cat. It is a testament to the evolution of video games that, like films, they are able to fiddle our emotional heart strings and make us care for characters, even those who try to kill us. He’s like one of those annoying friends you have that keep screwing up and landing you in fifty feet of crap, but still you love them. Sure, he has other people do it, but by the time he is captured by Caesar’s Legion, he has endeared himself. Despite having shot the main character of the Courier in the game’s opening cut scene, Benny never actually makes an attempt on your life while playing Fallout: New Vegas. One time leader of the Strip faction known as The Chairmen, with his checkered suit and ring-a-ding-ding dialogue (provided by “Friends” star Matthew Perry).
I watched the epilogue narrated by the various characters I had met, but through it all, someone was missing.īenny. All this while wearing a spacesuit helmet. By the bitter end, after numerous screen freezes and load errors, stuttering frame rates and other exasperating glitches, I stumbled through to the final fight, killing Legate Lanius and handing General Lee Oliver the conditions for the New California Republic’s withdrawal from New Vegas as dictated by Mr. These were Benny’s last words to me when I finally gave up trying to save him, opting instead to crucify him and pushed forward through the rest of Fallout: New Vegas, a brilliant yet bug-ridden game that entertained as much as it frustrated. There is also some swearing, partly because the game is rated Mature, and partly because the writer is Scottish. Howdy Folks! This article includes spoilers for Fallout: New Vegas.
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