Imagine you were sent back in a time warp to 2008 given a lucrative job title the Top Creative Consultant for the production of Fallout New Vegas. Knowing everything we know now in 2025 hindsight, how would you be the anon who saved New Vegas? Idk, I'd probably demand changes like this:

>Merge all four of the shitty $5.00 DLCs into one one Golden $20.00 DLC designed like Fallout 3's Broken Steel, playing after the endgame. Yes halfass "do-it-for-free" fans eventually make mods like CAGE and FPGE but it's not the same at all. If postgame FNV content was available 1 year after vanilla launch, respected modmaker champs like Someguy2000, Overseer, Belthan and etc would be making glorious mods for all 4 endings since square 1. The biggest flaw of FNV's shitty launch was mod creators had no postgame content to toy with after such MYSTERIOUS cliffhanger vanilla endings
>Ulysses, Dog, God, Elijah, Daniel, Christine, Dean Domino, Think Tank bots, Joshua all included in said $20.00 DLC. rewritten to be less gay
>Lower Ulysses CHA stat from 10 to 2 and make him a Legion follower
>Raise God's SPECIAL stats to 10 except CHA keep God at 5 CHA so he isn't Mary Sue
>Franks the final boss of the DLC in all endings (5 endings counting Lanius)
>Fix Wild Wasteland. FNV says N words and F words if you select Wild Wasteland. About 50% of black NPCs should say nigger a lot about 5% of non-black NPCs should say nigger a lot. Jimmy should say faggot a lot and say nigger occasionally. if youre offended just don't pick the WW trait
>2nd (final) $5 DLC similar to Skyrims Hearthfire. Marry up to 4 spouses adopt up to 9 children. modmakers needed more to work with in Vanilla which they had with Skyrim but not FNV
>FO3 crossover characters included as followers (Paul, Pinkerton, Eulogy Jones, etc)
>All followers romanceable including options to turn Veronica straight
>More favors selectable from the King, like the King as a one-time hirable OP follower more than TRIPLE Booners powerlevel!!

>>3793068 (OP)
Boxcars would definitely say nigger

>>3793068 (OP)
Settlement building in Nipton, Searchlight Airport, Nelson, Boulder City, and Bonnie Springs.

>>3793075
Imo every powder ganger definitely would in a realistic New Vegas
>"Situation's all good. Powderganger niggers is standing by all day all night ready to smoke the NCR sky high!"
>"WHO WON THE LOTTERY!? THIS NIGGER!!!!"
>"I know you got muh Med X right nigga!? Right...? PLEASE! GET ME HIGH NIGGER PLEASE MAN I AM FUCKING BEGGING YOU STOP FUCKING TORTURING ME DAMNIT!"

>>3793068 (OP)
Sounds horrible

>>3793068 (OP)
"Guys, we are NOT setting an open world game in a fucking barren desert. No. Are you stupid?"

I'd convince them to not release it until it contained a lot more content and the devs were completely satisfied with the end product, instead of having a deadline imposed by a jealous company thinking a better release would make their own game look gay by comparison.

The main problem I have with New Vegas is that outside of Vegas there isn't that much content, and even inside Vegas it seems sparse and rushed. They only spent like $3m developing the game and it sold over 11 million copies. I think it would have been even more successful if it wasn't rushed.

>>3793089
>I'd convince them to not release it until
Convince them not to agree to terms they can't deliver on

>>3793068 (OP)
put a gun to Todd's head and demand more time for New Vegas' development would be first step
second step to include Area 51 as a dlc location
third step to make Zion approach more immersive like oregon trail, where you need supplies for yourself and team, you have manage your own carry weight
4th scrap Old World Blues, carry better ideas to area 51 content, instead allow player to travel Legion lands a bit to see their way of life
5th Lonesome road has to go, there is nothing satisfying about it beyond getting lecture fron writer's self insert and just nuking both sides regardless, use development time for NCR territory storyline or god forbid Baja Rangers game keeps mentioning

>>3793068 (OP)
>All followers romanceable including options to turn Veronica straight
...ALL followers?

>>3793068 (OP)
I'd tell Chris Avellone I'm from the future and that Ulysses has too weak a VA to make something out of his dialog like the lady that did Kreia could and he should simplify a lot

>>3793075
>>3793081
Logically, would the word nigger survive the nuclear holocaust? None of the hoodrats are going to survive that. The only black people getting into vaults or who are able to afford their own shelters are rich/educated black people (with the possible exception of a vault experiment where the population is 99% gangbangers with only 1 snowbunny). So the word nigger would probably die out of the English language within 100 years, unless it's preserved in a handful of historical documents which will have no influence on the lexicon that develops in new American civilisation. They'd probably come up with another word which is basically used in the same way as nigger/nigga though, which would be a cool bit of worldbuilding.

>>3793094
Shut up, faggot.
>>3793115
These are good.

>>3793445
Are you being serious, anon? "Nigger" isn't only used to describe gangbangers. Plenty of people will use it on any black person, because plenty of people are racist. Look at the website you're on, plenty of people are fine using it on non-black people. And then there's the fact you'd have to erase ~two hundred years of movies, books, tv shows, and musics to fully get rid of the word.

Have you ever spoken with a black person? Plenty of middle and upper class black people still use the word as well, not just the "gangbangers". The only reason I'd see for it dying out is people eventually giving up on being racist, because if you're in a vault with like 100 people in it and some of them are black there's a real good chance your future generations will mingle them. That and the fact you don't want to piss off the black guy who could get water/armoury/security/ration duty next week and make your life hell.
>t. black person

>>3793115
>second step to include Area 51 as a dlc location
>4th scrap Old World Blues, carry better ideas to area 51 content,
I don't see the point of this. you're basically trading names, but keeping all the same content

>>3793131
A little bit of gilf representation is always welcome.

>>3793445
>99% gangbangers with only 1 snowbunny).

So interracial porn.

>>3793454
>erase ~two hundred years of music
Afaik some unknown force in the Fallout universe did manage to eliminate all rap music. Pretty much every genre except Standards got 1984'd. The questions are who, why and how?

>>3793115
Area 51 is where they tested Project Pluto and the NERVA engines that were supposed to get us to Mars. I have an idea for a mod campaign that would cover this.
>captcha AYYKO

Some solid ideas thus far. The most important element for me is the lack of random encounters. 3's only strengths over NV were those, slightly better music selection (although not by much considering the greatest lounge singer Dean Martin, & runner-up Sinatra), & absolutely bleak atmosphere.

>Random Encounters
>No Bullshit Ratings Deal with Hwart der Toten
>Sprint Button for the Normies who can't Mod
>Area 51 DLC w/Enclave Remnants
>Casino Heists, Higher Jackpot Limits, & Cheating at Cards
>Expanded Strip Families Qsts, Politics, Rivalries, etc., emphasis on cloak & dagger
>Casinos can be placed under new MGMT, different Families, & even some Companions
>New Reno/Redding/Shady Sands/Boneyard Families encroaching on Strip Families Turf (Van Graffs, Wrights, Mordinos, Salvatores, Yakuza, Bishops, etc.)
>GHOUL MAFIA madeup of Old World Gangsters from all over the West/Southwest, with Dean Domino having connections
>Raider Playthrough/Ending Uniting the Jackals, Vipers, Khans, Powders, Sawneys (Mojave Cannibal Holdouts), Fiends, Scorpions, etc.
>Frumentarius Ulysses, Centurion Silus, Dean Domino, Joshua Graham (committed to retribution/atonement vs Legion), Nobark Noonan, Red Lucy, Christine Royce, Dog/God, Ricky from Honest Hearts, Fantastic, Cannibal Johnson, Tabitha, Davison & Antler, Follows-Chalk, an ex-Desert Ranger, a Viper Crimson Tongue, The Toaster, Joshua Bright, Driver Nephi, Little Buster, Ghoul NCRA Private Edwards, Beatrix, & a Powder Ganger Pyromaniac as Companions
>Reusable Throwing Weapons
>Slavers Guild Remnants/Press Gangers working for Caesar's Legion, Slavery Sideqst Mechanic using Fatigue Damage & Intimidation
>Inclusion of Cut Super Mutant characters like Angel & the Ranger with a tiny hat
>Legion Settlement beyond Arizona Spillway with merchants, a subdued brothel for Legionary R&R, desert plantations owned by free citizens & retired verterans with slave labor, safe surrounding environs, NCR Spy War & Ranger Slave Revolt Qsts

>Wildcard Legion Ending: usurp the throne w/Vulpes, Joshua Graham, Gaius Magnus, &/or Silus
>Legion Endings: become Heir to Caesar, Legatus with Lanius sent East, or Prefectus/Military-Governor of Nova Roma/New Vegas
>Giant Tarantulas
>Massive Lake Mead Catfish
>Navajo Merc Companion, exposits tribe vassal status under Legion without assimilation due to Old World Military Surplus from Pre-War Government as Code Talkers against China
>Worldbuilding mentioning factions & locations across the border into Mexico
>Sunny Smiles & Sheriff/Vigilante Meyers as Companions
>Wanamingos in Area 51 DLC/Map Border Location nearby
>Scorpions developed into actual minor faction with Qsts, along with the other Raider groups
>Legion, NCR, & House offer you less-suicidal ways to clear out the BoS Bunker (gas, Camp Searchlight Part Two, EMP device, etc.)
>Rich/Upper Middle Class Residential Planned Community around The Strip for NCR transplants, Families, ex-Vault 21 dwellers, upscale stores, etc.
>Snuffles Companion
>Accessories/Gear for ED-E, Rex, Snuffles, etc.
>NCR & Legion Deck of Cards Systems; Bounties on Officers/Elites, sometimes worth more alive
>Great Khan Biker-Punk Chem-Head GF Companion
>Raider Tribes pushed out of Legion lands
>Harpoon Gun & Melee Underwater (vs Lakelurks, Giant Catfish, Legion Speculatore Frogmen, NCRA First Recon, etc.)
>Private Vault & Post-War Population descended from RobCo Employees, indoctrinated over generations for absolute loyalty to Mr. House (keep up with New Vegas infrastructure)
>PC can Contract Semi-/Fully Permanent Diseases, such as Vault 22 Spore Pneumonia
>Overgrown Rattlesnakes
>Regular-Sized Rattlesnakes
>NEW RENO DLC w/Vault City Lore
>Circle of Steel Assassinating NCR Officers
>Casino Karaoke Minigame with hidden modifiers from Charisma, Speech, & Endurance
>Buff Survival's Usefulness
>Chem-Runner Mechanics/Sideqsts
>NCR Politics Qsts; Replace Kimball w/Hsu or Moore
>NCR Merc/Legion Aux Probing Attack Sideqsts

More places with color. More music in the same style.

Biggest change I'd make is making New Vegas seem grander and more populated and giving Caesar's Legion a few settlements in Arizona that you can visit.

>>3795217
Mars expansion?

>>3794196
Aliens, probably. We know they exist in the Fallout universe.

>cancer retardation the thread
I hate you niggers so much sometimes.

Ulysseys stays scrapped, Elijah escapes the Sierra Madre and is settling his debt with you for Lonesome Road.
>Narratively puts you into the role of Benny, someone who shouldn't have survived what you did to them coming back for revenge
>Makes far more sense that Elijah would go scorched earth and has the better and already established hatred of the NCR
>Ties everything into a nice little bow with far too many narrative through lines than can list concisely
Romance isn't verboten, Josh really needs to get a grip and realize that writing a narrative that features love is less demeaning than making sex a reward for killing a bunch of animals or collecting a bunch of clothes. Not to mention you can extort a woman into having sex with you, very classy Josh thats definitely not a perverse fantasy.
Slightly more emphasis on environmental changes due to your actions, i.e. less fiend spawns if you kill their leaders, more vagrants if you fuck up Freeside, etc.
Making a few more quests that do not fit into the Legion vs NCR debacle, i.e. scrapping Bitter Springs in favor of Nipton existing or a few more quests in Novac.
>THE BIG ONE
Make the narrative not jump the shark the moment you kill Benny, I'd probably do this by making the main quest follow House for a quest or two establishing you are a very important player in the grand scheme. Obviously this would be overwritten if you use Yesman to kill House immediately but this doesn't lock you into the Yesman ending.

>>3799075
>I hate you niggers
OP here. love you too nigger

>Ulysses stays scrapped
No way! but yes definitely to the fact that he needs to be completely rewritten (into a vanilla Legion follower) and his CHA needs to get lowered from 10 to 2 to provide players reasonable explanation for him being very successful despite his severe autism

>Elijah escapes the Sierra Madre and is settling his debt
I like the idea of Elijah surviving, regardless of if you lock him in the vault, cut off his head, legs and arms, cannibalize him or etc. A testament to his 9 INT that he can survive the Courier's darkest wrath no matter any circumstance and I like the idea of Father Elijah nuking California and Arizona unless the player takes steps to stop him. based suggestion, and I'd add that Father Elijah is the only unkillable NPC in the game. No matter how many times you slaughter him, he keeps coming back seeking revenge. And leveling up once with each "resurrection" in Wild Wasteland mode too for an infinite increasing challenge. Oh you have 305 confirmed kills on you nemesis and wish he could just rest in peace finally? too bad, he's back for more

>love is less demeaning than making sex a reward for killing a bunch of animals or collecting a bunch of clothes. Not to mention you can extort a woman into having sex with you, very classy
No comment except I stand by my point in the OP that every companion needs an optional romance quest (especially Lily)

>emphasis on environmental changes due to your actions
Pretty good

>Make the narrative not jump the shark the moment you kill Benny
Yes and no

>>3793068 (OP)
Fire Avellone before he manages to write Ulysses

>>3793068 (OP)
>getting rid of Dead Money kino in exchange for an utterly pointless post-game
Stopped reading there you're retarded

>>3793445
>99% gangbangers with only 1 snowbunny
She dies the moment one unhinged nigger doesn't get his fill and kills the giganigga leader. Then they all turn prison gay and slowly kill each other over petty nonsense. Experiment ends in less than 5 years when the last nigger can't read the terminal entries on how to restart the automated food and water systems.

>>3793454
I wouldn't call you a nigger, anon. And I HATE niggers.

Honestly I like black people in Fallout. They aren't remotely niggerish. Even the black raiders are just raiders who happen to be black.

>>3793068 (OP)
I would change the NCR to be far more competent and likeable but slightly more right leaning while making everyone else more 'evil', even some of the nicer factions so the troons who sperg about this game have to admit they enjoy being a part of the literal slavers and woman beaters instead of something that only, very barely resembles a modern republic government

>>3800670
Nah NCR being the reincarnation of globohomo self-righteous faggotry makes perfect sense. They're the flipside of the Enclave.

They bring loads of prosperity but the downside is jewy greed and endless degeneracy. They're a well-written faction because there's just enough dirt to want to kill them, but make you hesitant because they might have the best system regardless.

Same with the Legion but inverted. They're right about a lot of things, but they are completely overbearing, and Caesar is a deluded narcissist who should be crucified like his victims.

Honestly the only reason House is a hard sell to me is because he wants to charge exorbitant prices for basic resources. And for having no tolerance for the Kings. They just needed the right push and they would have become incredible assets to the Mojave.

>>3800672
Oh no no no, how they are already IS good, I just wanna basically rope the spergs who fangirl about this fucking game 24/7 into the dilemma of 'do I say I like the roman slavers who beat women, the technological incels who rape their female members to keep population up; etc etc or the faction that is KIND OF like the republican party with a leader who is only SLIGHTLY like trump but are actually fairly competent and ethical' only for them to say they wanna join the slavers because ew trump lmao. Shit would be funny as hell to me.

>>3793068 (OP)
Real talk. I'd make Deputy Beagles, Beatrix, Ghost, and Vulpes followers with their own quest. I'd add a questline for restoring Nipton, deciding what kind of town it ought to be, handing it over to NCR, making it your own farmstead/fort, etc. Add some additional bounties on the Jackals, Scorpions, Vipers. It'd be a new faction but there ought to be a Pyramid casino on the strip. There'd need to be more meat for Ceasar's quests, maybe a mid-tier battle (kind of like the siege of Whiterun in Skyrim). Fuck it, if I'm jacking myself off here I'd add the option at the start to play as a ghoul and have custom reactions to you being a ghoul throughout the entire game. Oh, and another town on Caesar's side of the Colorado as they intended. In fact, add a few ranches around that town too. A little Red Dead Redemption 1 area in the bottom corner of the map for you to fight some of those gangs under Caesar's orders. Bang done. Obsidian gets its bonus.

>>3800677
What sort of Qsts would you add for those characters, especially Beagle?

>>3800814
NTA
>Beagle
either finding his spine again or something that would make him understand that if he wants real change he needs to be the one who instigates that change, slowly becoming a leader, in the ending slides Beagle making his own pseudo mercenary company "Sheriffs for hire"
>Beatrix
the ghoul cowgirl? there is barely any info on her, just copy spaghetti western movie with a plot of hero trying to escape their villainous past, ending with a standoff between her and those she wronged
>Ghost
less jaded Boone basically, catharsis could the ineptitude of NCR doing jack shit while Legion runs circles around them, either she stays by the book type or goes to legion occupied lands and introduces them to far more brutal guerilla warfare than legion's usual methods as ending slide
>Vulpes
could be really fun, takes you under his wing and gives infiltration missions, even allowing to change the outcome of Van Graf questline, arming legion with energy weapons for the battle

I would probably remove all sex, disable the ability to play as a girl, and remove skill check """gameplay"""

Boom. Trannies now no longer exist in the future and half of this board isn't polluted with idiots that think having a speech skill of 75 and being allowed to skip random quests is interesting

>>3793454
Shut up nigger

>>3800936
Interesting stuff, I would include a Legion coup route where you gather conspirators like Prefectus Frumentarii Vulpes, Centurion Silus, Centurion Gaius Magnus (pro-technology integration based on stealthboy use), Joshua Graham, Caesarion (supposed or even actual Son of Caesar raised by Daughters of Hecate who infiltrated the Priestesses of Mars), Ulysses, & perhaps another Legatus of lesser standing at the Northern or Southern frontier of the Legion, etc.
Based on how you manage the conspiracy, any of those could end up as new Caesar/Imperator, Primus Legatus, & Prefectus Praetorio, as well as the Courier himself, although Vulpes would take a power-behind-the-throne approach & install himself as Consul within Legion lands with discrete control of Frumentarii, Speculatores, Praetorians, & Exploratores.
Of course, the conspiracy could be gathered & then betrayed to Lucius, Lanius, & Caesar as well, earning another route to power as his Augustus, an adopted successor.

Some other characters that would have made good companions:
>Calamity, the Ghoul Scientist
Embarks on a sidequest to figure out her next identity to take up so as not to get bored & go insane from so many years alive after you resolve the research she's working on. Could end up being a casino boss for you to replace one you've eliminated, a Legion Lands caravan company CEO if you side with the Legion & open up more trade, a powerplant engineer if anyone besides the Legion gets ahold of Helios One, etc.
>Stripe, the Pygmy Alpha Deathclaw
Deceptively fast, with high armor penetration but lower than a full-size deathclaw, along with less health, DT/DR, & flat damage. Nonetheless an absolutely killer attack dog type companion. He could be rented out to The Thorn for exhibition matches, where you could also pickup leads from Red Lucy & her hunters there on where another pygmy deathclaw could be found. Fatherhood would trigger a growth spurt making him the size of a man with boosted stats.

>>3801065
*If anyone besides the Brotherhood gets ahold of Helios

>The Toaster, Piloting a Body
Depending on body you use in the DLC's lab where you make Roxy, could be a cyborg (lobotomite body), cyber-ghoul (chinaman body), securitron, cyberdog, protectron, eyebot, gutsy, handy, etc.
For the sake of deathray needs, let's say there's a hidden assaultron frame (that isn't feminine, YWNBAW), that would max out affinity & combat effectiveness.
The BoS & Legion wouldn't care for the automaton & would both likely be hostile to it on sight; otherwise would be one of the best companions for combat.
Beyond upgrading the frame, main objective of Qst would be to show The Toaster that either melting enemies isn't the point of "life" (only achieveable through Emily Ortal installing pacifist hippy bullshit) & leading to The Toaster becoming a greenhouse expert focusing on hypergrowth yields through proper focus of sunlight on crops, or the opposite & easier to achieve route of convincing The Toaster to burn the world; just like with Skynet from Fallout 2 the implication is that it goes on post-game to carry out Chris Avellone approved attrocities. Good companion to pair w/pro-Elijah run.

>Duke, the Fiend Warchief
Somewhere on totem pole below Motor-Runner, below triumvirate of Cook-Cook, Violet, & Nephi, is Duke, unique named Fiend boss type character w/full suit of metal armor & NCR service rifle. A blank slate to fleshout. I would make him chem-dependent, attacking caravans you pass if you don't get him his fix on a regular basis when he starts complaining. Otherwise, he'd shed light on the Fiends, Vault 3, & NCR's occupation/pacification efforts, for whom he holds a major grudge. Kill NCR & take enough chems gets him to open up about his family or dog or something being killed by the NCR, at which point you could plot revenge by targeting the Rangers at Camp Golf, First Recon at McCarran or Forlorn Hope, or Colonel Moore at the Dam, with different risks/rewards.

Naturally Duke would allow you to interact peacefully with the Fiends & Khans, maybe the Jackals & Vipers too, but Freeside, NCR, Scorpions, & Westside would shoot on sight.

Who else would make a good companion character from the game's pre-existing NPCs, or just an idea you have that would fit?

>>3801022
>disable the ability to play as a girl
>no sex allowed
>remove speechcraft
Boom. You lost 99% of your target audience and your game fails to sell over 1,000 copies

>>3793068 (OP)
There's a lot I can do and a lot I can think of, but most of that has already been said so here's something, I would explain that the strip was too big and wasn't going to be possible to run on consoles, so the area should be designed from the ground up to account for load times and multiple barriers rather than those things being cobbled in when the technical issues begin creeping in after all the work was done

>>3793068 (OP)
>postgame content
Why would i need it? I have already beaten the game.
>Lower Ulysses CHA stat from 10 to 2 and make him a Legion follower
Why do you need a Legion (or NCR in that matter) follower AFTER the 2nd Hoover Dam battle? They will be either hostile or have nothing meaningful to add or react to.
>crossover characters
Star Wars dicease.
And i won't even quote coomer crap.

>>3800674
>KIND OF like the republican party with a leader who is only SLIGHTLY like trump
>actually fairly competent and ethical
pick one

>>3804919
>I have already beaten the game
You've barely even started the game. The plot doesn't kick into full gear until after the 2nd Battle of Hoover Dam

>Why do you need a Legion (or NCR in that matter) follower AFTER the 2nd Hoover Dam battle?
Installing the DLC makes many of these characters recruitable before or after the halfway point, but the major selling point is the game doesn't shut down halfway through

>Star Wars dicease
Pardon?

>And i won't even quote coomer crap
You don't know how to play these RPGs

One thing New Vegas lacked, likely due to time constraints, was more mob NPCs & Qsts. For being such powerful factions, the Strip Families lacked content. The Omertas would have benefitted from another scumbag you can put into power besides Cachino if you want to coup the Don & his Underboss. The White Gloves should have had another mid-level figure to do Qsts for, maybe procuring fancy Old World antique bullshit to decorate with. The Chairmen especially could have used more named characters, maybe ones loyal to Benny vs the more level-headed/less ambitious Swank. Also, some Sawneys/Mojave Cannibal Holdouts in the tunnels beneath the city, waiting on Mortimer to make his move & be brought back into the fold.
The Followers of the Apocalypse should have been expanded as well, with groups back West eyeing New Vegas as a possible headquarters going forward if a deal can be struck with House or the Courier's independent city-state. They should have offered more medical supplies, free doctor services for the player, mercs to act as guards post-game/at key locations, & maybe a few combat medic NPCs during the Battle for the Dam, in return for research data from Vault 22, Big Mt., Mr. House's Network, & offering up an intact building to be their new Medical School.

>>3793068 (OP)
I'd drop console support so that the whole world can be a single map without any loading screens.
I'd direct more effort/time to fleshing out the legion, with a legion NPC.
Perhaps more variety in random encounters. More weather changes, and have weather have consequences.
Have the courrier's actions have more subtle consequences on the world (e.g. delivered that plant vault research to the NCR? The NCR starts growing more food, there's an increase in outbound caravans, an increase in Legion attacks on said caravans, etc).
It'd also be fun to have more stealth/sabotage quests (be it as NCR sabotaging the legion or vice-versa).
>>3799075
The only good suggestions in this thread.