I don't know how old Arthur Maxson was during FO3 but I am hoping it was 13 that way he will be 17 now and can return to Lost Hills.

I am hoping he will be with a group of Outcast. With some interesting tales of how they forced their way into the citadel and rescued him from Lyons. They can tell us of the places and tribes they encountered on the way to the Mojave. I am hoping who ever it is will tell us this.

Maybe it will be Lyons in chains :shifty:

Just no "Bethesda Magicka" thanks Dario Meza

Good god I hope its not Moira Brown. I cant stand that annoying [censored]. I killed her on every [censored] playthrough in Fallout 3.

I'll add a few more people who could make it to Vegas from the East.

Charon - he's certainly tough enough to survive the trip.
Harkins - again tough enough to survive the trip,... but he might be saved for a role in FO4 and the Commonwealth.
Fawks - can survive the trip and has a reason to go to Vegas, or Jacobstown more likely

Anyone else showing up in Vegas from the east would have an increditabily stupid reason for being there as far as I can see.

Harkins would be running security Rivet City no reason for him to go
Charon also has no reason, he could make a nice living in DC
Fawkes unless he tried following the sun one day and ended up walking mindlessly to Vegas. There's no way he would learn of Jacobstown in four years.

Most likely people to show up again are the Brotherhood, Lyons or Outcast

Maybe Enclave like Colonel Augustus Autumn coming back to the West to make a new life.

Or that Ghoul from Point Lookout, Desmond

The only one that could come back that would make sense to me is that guy from the Commonwealth who was looking for the Cyborg. He might have access to the means of transportation that would get him across the country.

Desmond is the most likely FO3 character to show up in the West, due to his "Great Game" giving him a reason to pop up anywhere. I could see Desmond coming to NV to confront...or solicit assistance from...House. Of course, what if the Courier has done him in already? The only other people with a reason to go West would be the Outcasts, either they left for home en masse after FO3 or sent a team to re-establish contact with Lost Hills. Other than that I can only think of Dr. Li or Col. Autumn drifting there because they had no where else to go. I guess there is Wernher, but is he a guy to anchor a DLC? I don't think so.

How do we know Desmond isnt holding a grudge against House and would go to New Vegas to take care of him. I could see that happening since the other guy he killed, calvert was just a brain in a tube of solution.

Yeah, but how does that fit into the main game? Like what was said before, what if you killed him? It would be like "Oh, I just wasted my time traveling across the entire [censored] country to find that you killed House. Die nao plz."

Hardly a reason to add him in.

Plus, he said he was going North. I can't help but think that means Commonwealth or any other New England location, not west to the other end of the country, and south a bit.

How did a person from DC get all the way out west?

Moira Brown....mark it down

How did the people in the West get to DC? Did I just blow your mind?

Ghoul James will return, I estimate.

My guesses:
-Someone from Brotherhood, via vertibird. (Lyons probably)
-Backup of Eden (oh god please no).
-Outcasts ("character" could be their leader who is the only significant outcast in the game)
-Fawkes (mutant roaming the wastes, old story)
-Crowley (not really a reson for him to travel west but that guy knows how to give a nice quest)

Bonus (not expecting): Autumn (If that happens, I WILL see him dead for the third time.)

That could actually be a possibility! When you get back to start up Project Purity there aren't any bodies in there(and heck, Autumn somehow survived....I really wish they would have explained how the heck that happened) and mass amounts of radiation is the cause of ghoulification.

Didn't this whole "character from FO3" thing come from the same source that said there would be eight DLC's? I really don't think it's wise to give this "information" too much credit. I could say I work for Bethesda and I know for a fact that Butch's mother is going to appear in New Vegas on an epic journey to kill all the Radroaches in the Mojave, but I don't think anyone would believe that. So I think we shouldn't get our hopes up about this.


However, if, if it is true for some strange reason, I guess it would be a backup of Eden or a second Liberty Prime.


Colonel Autumn actually injects himself with some type of medicine before he collapses on the floor. Enclave-made Rad-X or something, probably. You can see him using it if you look closely and the camera is right. It is safe to say that all the others in the room have died though.

I hope it's megaton settler he/she always cracked me up. But seriously I'd rather not have anybody from FO3, if anybody in that game has enough potential to be in another game then save them for FO4 rather than randomly shoving it into a finished game on the other side of the country, but if anybody I'd kinda like Mr. Crowley.

1. Dogmeat (Its Not Right That He Isnt In The Game Its Not Falllout Withou Dog Meat)
2. Desmond
3. That Cowboy Who Dissapeared At The End Of Zeta (Seems Like Hed Be More At Home Out West)
4. Elder Lyons

I don't understand why anyone believes a cross country trek in Fallout is impossible. It would be dangerous, harsh and in most circumstances fatal, but far from impossible. Greater feats under more trying conditions have been performed in the real world. Ever hear of Lewis & Clarke? Shackleton? Clark Griswold?
Besides, ED-E already did it. If a little flying prairie oyster can do it the playing field opens up a little, wouldn't you agree?

If it were to be DESMOND,it could be BEFORE he goes to POINT LOOKOUT.
The same debate can be said of the lyons den leader,or the elder....you could've launched satellite missiles to destroy citadel, killing everyone and creating a large crater (side note-it does give access to a nice pistol)
The character could be the girl from craterside supply,since she survived whether you blew up Megaton or not
Or could just be as meaningless as the girl with the NUKA COLA collection,or the boy from the town with the fire ants.
Would rather have it be HARKNESS.

Fallout 3 and Point Lookout play in the year 2277, while New Vegas is set in 2081. Moira was so awful, I usually don't even go to see her until I visit her with Mr Combat Shotgun, say goodbye to your face! And well, the rest of your head.

Sierra Petrovita (the Nuka-Cola addict) was sweet though.

I do hope we'll be seeing Desmond again. He said he was heading North to find his next rival, but New Vegas is to the West so I don't think we'll see him at this point.

Didn't Desmond say he was on point lookout for over 200 years or so?

What a person does in game doesnt always mean its what the game makers consider to be the correct story arc. The devs might have House alive only to be attacked by Desmond. But if you killed house thats an issue but doesnt follow the story that is planned out.

Desmond did say he was going north, but what makes you think the person that was up north that he was tracking didnt flee west? Just because he said he was heading north to track someone else down doesnt mean that he couldnt track them all the way out west.

Point is though Desmond is about the only one other than one of the BoS or Outcast members that could or would make a trek to New Vegas.

I like Desmond a lot, and I would really like to see him in another FO game, but I think it's a little "forced" if he appears in New Vegas. As far as we know, he has no business in New Vegas, and for him to suddenly appear on the West Coast would be a little out of place, I think. Unless, and that's the only possible excuse I could come up with, Mr House indeed has something to do with the Game. Captains of industry, geniuses, etcetera managing to stay alive for 200 years. Desmond and Calvert fit the bill, and so does House. However, I would prefer for Desmond to appear in some future installment and not in New Vegas.

I thought it could be the cowboy, but why?

When i heard there would be someone from FO3 I thought it would have to be someone with vertibiard acsess but the i thought if it took 3-4 years for character to make it there of course with also living and visiting other places to pass time. the Lone wanderer would be beast.