I want you to look at this picture.
http://xbox360media.ign.com/xbox360/image/article/111/1119257/fallout-new-vegas-20100909013344963.jpg

All of the characters on the cards are closely related to Mr, House, and all of them are robots
How do I know this you may say?
Each one of these pictures has a faction theme

http://xbox360media.ign.com/xbox360/image/article/111/1119257/fallout-new-vegas-20100909102115363.jpg
Caesars Legion

http://xbox360media.ign.com/xbox360/image/article/111/1119257/fallout-new-vegas-20100909095141114.jpg
NCR

http://xbox360media.ign.com/xbox360/image/article/111/1119257/fallout-new-vegas-20100909095553993.jpg
Various smaller factions Followers of the apocalypse and maybe Powder gangers.

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Mr, House

Look all the robot characters associated with Mr, House. You may think to yourself "but there's only one robot." but you'd be wrong notice the two words you can see on the woman's card. "Classy Chassis"
Humans don't have a chassis robots do.
It all makes perfect sense, Mr, House isn't a prewar scientist that cryogenically froze himself before the war and was unfrozen after the war. he was a pre-war android activated after the war somewhere near Vegas. Possibly in some sort of Secrete military base. (Area 51?)
Nobody has been in the lucky 38 for years and nobody has seen Mr, House.

All of his control over New Vegas is built on robotics, E.G. Securitrons.

The only thing I can conclude is that Mr, House is really a highly advanced pre-war android.

You made this thread specifically for me to detonate didn't you? DIDN'T YOU? :stare:

It was already well known that House ruled over the robots. All the Securitrons in New Vegas are his.

The House is a Robot theory is a common one here, but still far from proven.

And I hope it's not correct. I've had enough of M. Night Shamalan robot twists.

Hmm.

Thats a very interesting theory, sir. I like it.

I agree. I have my chips on Mr. House being human, I don't have proof. But God am I sick of robot twists :cryvaultboy:

Same group doesn't mean same species amirite? House can be the odd one out, but there's only one way to find out.

True, he could just be a human who is some sort of robot master. him being a android would neatly explain the rumors of him being around since before the war.

Classy Chassis was a period term used to denote a shapely female figure. Things were often caged in "car" terms at that time as after WWII most Americans could finally own a car.

Personally, I see it as 'who could be more loyal than a robot with no sense of morales, no free thought, simple 'follow the set rules' algorithm' '

Edit

@Sock- Same could be said of his Cryogenic freezing. We've seen it in Fallout 2 (albiet tragic) and MZ (Alien Tech but still cryo)

He could just be a man smart enough not to trust anybody living in the wasteland, hence his reliance on robots.

The Mojave wasteland is no doubt full of cutthroat bastards around every corner and looking at guys like Benny, his city has already been infected by organized crime.

Of course, he could be in on that action himself so who knows. I think House is probably going to turn out to be a paranoid intellectual who is more concerned with turning New Vegas into his own lil isolationist utopia than anything to do with CL or NCR.

Come to think of it you're right, that shoots a few little holes in my theory.
Only one way to find out for sure.

I agree. I think Mr. House will be the 'Neutral' faction between the Big Three. My reasoning is, NCR wants law and order and government, the 'Good Faction, Caesers Legion slave, kill for their gain at the harm of others, and seem very merciless and cruel, the inherint 'evil'.

But look at Mr. House, he takes no sides, he does not try to make the wasteland a utopia, he does not try to enslave it. he has The Strip, and it is his business, his child. he cares for nothing more than his own vision of Vegas and to see it flourish. And his powerful robots can easily withsand more damage than a man, can be controlled, where as a human cannot be truly controlled, only the illusion of control. Robots however are essentially the perfect mindless drone.

I'm thinking House is going to be outwardly neutral, but ultimately kind of a dictator. I mean how is not trying to make the wasteland a utopia a good thing? He is in a position of power, he cares for nothing more than his own vision of Vegas and to see it flourish...because he owns it. He has an army of perfect mindless drones who can be controllered whereas a human cannot truly be controlled. He has more makings, IMO, of a villain than of a hero/neutral figure.

I would assume that if the player takes the House route he at least gets hints that House is not all that benign. In the grand tradition of unforeseen consequences I suspect the "Do what House says" ending is far from entirely pleasant.

So yeah, I agree with Dr. Chaos. I also applaud his name, while wondering if he might not at some point go into the field of Education and become....

Professor Chaos! http://static.funnyjunk.com/pictures/motivator7d675cbe02126fc85cafc3f52d7f4ca813d64582.jpg

I could be General Disarray

One could also say Mr, House runs the strip like a machine. I cant imagine Mr, House makes a profit, after all he doesn't run a working casino. He does a singular very logical task, of running the police system of New Vegas seemingly making no profit why would a man do that?

Well, Mr. House is known as the Overlord of Vegas, but I don't see him being cruel or vicious. He seems to keep The Strip in full order, and New Vegas livable, but not to what The Strip is. The point is, I think he defines the ultimate businessman with what we know. Put aside your moral ideals and personal beliefs on human nature, and he is the ultimate pinnacle of neutral, he interferes with no one unless it clashes against his dreams and plans. I am defending him because I agree with him so far, but I also see him as the Neutral face in the game based on what things seem like.

Interesting question. I assume he likes power and gains something from having control of all those Securitrons. That question seems to be leaned toward suggesting he is a robot.

Please god don't let him be a robot. Please Obsidian, just delay the game and rewrite it if he is a robot.

Seriously.

Man I love that Ultra-Luxe chip :fallout:

Edit: I think we had enough guys who turned out to be machines in Fallout 3

I dont like the idea of a Delay, but I would have to agree. Just let him be a cryo frozen human. I dont want a robo brain, or some.....robot or android, no Technological machine twist. Fallout 2 and Fallout 3 has made me sick of robot twists and turns. And I keep seeing to many robots in the games these days anyway.

If he does turn out to be an android, he'll be a Commonwealth android, which would be a very nice lead in to Fallout 4 being set there. Would also let the player interact with the Synth Retention Bureau. Besides, androids didn't exist before the war, at least I don't recall reading that they did. Correct me if I'm wrong though. How did a Commonwealth android escape all the way to New Vegas, you ask? One could say the same about an android making it's way all the way to D.C. :shrug:

Of course, personally I don't see the evidence that he isn't a human. I just salivate over anything regarding the Commonwealth.

Classy chassy was a 50 slang term for someone with a near perfect figure that did not need to be enhanced by plastic surgery (mostly because cosmetic surgury was virtualy unknown)

If he likes power the why does he let NCR and Caesars legion fight over New Vegas around him? For that matter why does he let NCR control the hoover damn and do what they want with the electricity?
That certainly limit's his power quite a bit.
Mr, House is completely neutral in the way only a machine could be in a world like Fallout. He applies the law on a lawless land to anybody indiscriminately with no personal gain involved. Almost as if he was programed to do it.


Of course This is only speculation and I could be completely wrong, and I kinda hope I am

So altruism is a trait only found in robots?

I tell ya, it's a skinjob CYLON!!! It has to be, but you cant really tell them from Humans either!

Sir, your argument makes no sense, its correlation implies misunderstanding of a situation. How mr. House does business doesn not obligate him to be a robot.

From what I have seen his robots seem to only police the strip. If he was truly altruistic he would have them policing all of New Vegas. Considering he has the resources to build new securitrons.