This week the showrunners of Prime Video’s Fallout TV present confirmed Robert House “can be concerned” in Season 2, cementing the looks of a significant Fallout New Vegas character after a pre-war cameo in Season 1.
Warning: Spoilers for Fallout Season 1 and Fallout New Vegas comply with.
Given the Fallout TV present is about after all of the Fallout video games and is taken into account canon, the affirmation of Mr. House’s look in Season 2 has sparked all types of fan theories about how he’ll make his live-action look, and what it means for Obsidian’s much-loved New Vegas itself.
First, some background. Robert House seems in New Vegas as Mr. House. He guidelines New Vegas as a mind plugged right into a supercomputer that has prolonged his existence from the pre-war period a whole bunch of years into the post-war period. Robert House makes a cameo look within the Fallout TV present throughout a pre-war scene through which the then RobCo Industries boss plots with Vault-Tec administration and the heads of different firms to not solely survive the inevitable nuclear apocalypse, however possibly even set off it.
Season 1 ends with a Power Armor-clad Overseer Hank stomping in direction of New Vegas, with The Ghoul and Lucy MacLean in sizzling pursuit. Much of Season 2, it appears, can be set in New Vegas and take care of the approaching collectively of the primary characters there.
As for a way this matches within the Fallout timeline, the Fallout TV present is about in 2296, 9 years after the occasions of Fallout 4 and 15 years after the occasions of Fallout New Vegas. We’ve already seen a debate about which Fallout 4 ending needs to be thought of canon, if any. And now we all know Mr. House is in Season 2, presumably within the present post-apocalyptic timeline and never relegated to pre-war flashbacks solely, followers are debating which New Vegas ending would make most sense as canon.
Let’s speak about New Vegas’ varied endings. Depending on the alternatives the participant, aka The Courier, makes all through the course of the sport, New Vegas can finish with victory for the participant in the course of the Battle of Hoover Dam, which drives out all factions together with Mr. House himself, a victory for Mr. House through which he stays in command of New Vegas and takes over Hoover Dam, a victory for Caesar’s Legion, or a victory for the New California Republic.
There are variations inside these endings, however let’s look in additional element on the one most followers now consider can be thought of canon as we head into Season 2 of the TV present. If Mr. House is in Season 2 in a post-war setting, as in alive when the primary characters flip up at New Vegas, then it’s seemingly he survived the occasions of New Vegas the online game.
So, maybe the New Vegas ending the present assumes to be canon is the one through which Mr. House’s Securitron military takes management of Hoover Dam and the Strip, pushing each the Legion and the NCR out. This ending, the participant is advised, causes Mr. House to proceed to run New Vegas in a despotic imaginative and prescient of pre-War glory. “The streets had been orderly, environment friendly, chilly,” the ending says. “New Vegas continued to be the only place within the wasteland the place fortunes had been gained and misplaced within the blink of an eye fixed.”
As Fallout co-showrunner Graham Wagner has now confirmed: “Many of our lead characters are Vegas-bound. Las Vegas on this planet of Fallout is Robert House’s city. Robert House can be concerned in Season 2.”
According to Fallout lore expert TKs-Mantis, the House ending in Fallout: New Vegas “is about to be canon when Season 2 of the present drops.”
House is alive, which implies we’d have chosen the Dam with NCR, they launch a bomb like shady sands. Maybe it goes downhill siding with House, The Courier is the unknown variable. So maybe we died, or left. House needed to choose a extra irreliable apprentice. Caesars Legion??? pic.twitter.com/a7AMNNR58e
— Hector Moya (@Pope831) June 24, 2024
What we don’t know is what occurred to New Vegas within the 15 years after the occasions of the online game. The glimpse we get of New Vegas on the finish of Season 1 exhibits the realm in obvious ruins, which isn’t the state of the place on the finish of the online game. If that glimpse does certainly replicate the New Vegas we’ll see in Season 2, how did issues get so dangerous?
But there’s some debate concerning the reliability of the New Vegas teased on the finish of Season 1. Some consider the photographs we see don’t present New Vegas in ruins in any respect, somewhat simply as run-down as most locations within the Fallout universe (no-one ever tidies up!). Similarly, there are questions over whether or not Caesar’s Legion, the NCR, and even The Boomers may have survived. Will the Courier nonetheless be round? The solely factor that’s clear, actually, is that there are lots of inquiries to be answered.
Fans have loads of theories concerning the Snake Oil Salesman’s mysterious serum, for instance (this one’s my favourite!). To maintain you going till Season 2, remember to try IGN’s wide-ranging, spoiler-filled interview with Bethesda Game Studios govt Todd Howard and govt producer and director Jonathan Nolan. In the interview, Howard confirms the bombs that destroy Shady Sands, as seen within the Fallout TV present, fall simply after the occasions of New Vegas.
Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can attain Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.
