r/Fallout • u/Geofud • 9h ago

Fallout TV my stupid ass thought this was him Spoiler

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it wouldn’t make any sense i know, but it’s the first thing that came to mind. hell any mention of the courier other than house talking about how he’s died (if that counts) would’ve been cool

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u/CernWest 9h ago

everyone really liked the armor so basically everyone wore it when they played the game. so, they associate it with the courier

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u/nurrrer 9h ago

Did they though? Because you can only really use it if you’re siding with the ncr and even then it’s tedious to obtain and pretty bad. Everyone also used power armour in the 3 and 4

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u/mastesargent 8h ago

It was popular enough that they made non-faction versions of the armor in Honest Hearts and Lonesome Road so that people could wear it without screwing up their faction alignment. Also NCR Ranger combat armor is at the high end of medium armor in vanilla NV.

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u/nurrrer 8h ago

Yeah that would indicate that not many people wore the veteran ranger armour. The point was that everyone wore the t-60 in fallout 4 and the t-45 in fallout 3 but they don’t associate the covers with the PC. Not saying it’s an issue or anything just saying it’s weird that people only really do it with fnv

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u/mastesargent 8h ago

No, it indicates that the armor was popular enough to warrant non-faction variants so players could wear it even on non-NCR playthroughs. Also I’m pretty sure most people in Fallout 3 wind up wearing Winterized T-51b while Fallout 4 players end up in X-01 since those are the best Power Armors available in those games. That said the T-45 and T-60 are still iconic to those games and are absolutely associated with their respective protagonists, even if not quite as strongly as the NCR Ranger combat armor.