Questions about the main quests.

Post » Wed Mar 30, 2011 9:59 am

Hello,
I have been mostly exploring Fallout New vegas before doing anything related to the main quest. Eventually I got as far as Lucky 38 and talked to Yes man and Benny. I think I recieved 4 quests from Yes Man (or so):
The House Always Wins,
Wild card: Change in Management,
Wild card: Side Bets,
Render unto Caesar (by Caesar himself)

After that, I left the strip completely and explored everything in the Mojave Wasteland. Now I'm looking to finish the game now and also triggering Arcade's quest, but I'm confused:

Do I have to choose ONE of the quests below, thus not been able to complete the others?
Does each one of the quests results in a different story, experience and game - ending cinematics?
Would having a 'hard save' and then doing in each save one of the quests to maximize the best experience and find all the available in game ends?
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Robert Devlin
 
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Post » Tue Mar 29, 2011 10:04 pm

Render unto Caesar is the Caesar's Legion path of the main quest; The House Always Wins is the Mr House path of the main quest; Change In Management is the Yes Man path of the main quest and Side Bets relates to meeting the various lesser factions such as BoS; Great Khans.

You must choose one of these paths because as you progress further into the respective quest-line the other options become 'Failed' but this is only because you must choose one path and the others basically dislike you because of it.

EDIT: Sorry forgot your questions, choosing one means not being able to change paths - depending how progressed you are; each ends in a different way with a different experience. If you like the game a lot and would like to try different paths in quests - like using speech rather than combat - I would start again because each quest has various outcomes. However the main quests have much more variety so saving at that point does not mean your skipping lots of content in any way.

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Post » Tue Mar 29, 2011 9:57 pm

There is one more main questline that you don't seem to have gotten, for the NCR. It begins with "Things that go Boom" or something like that, in the southern third of the Strip.
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Post » Wed Mar 30, 2011 7:03 am

Thanks, that makes things much clearer. I'll just make a hard save at one point, and then do each of the quests in each save. Thanks both.
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