no, he didn’t. the ONLY indication that the courier was ever involved is that house states that sometimes he trick people into fake killing him. no other indication of possible involvement is shown, the fact that the assaultrons are not upgraded means the platinum chip was never in play. that and victor is still kicking around. it would have made more sense if there was evidence that the curior decided to go to ulysses and decided to nuke both the NCR AND the legion, due to their basically non existence.

the show seems more interested in telling its own story but leaning on the trappings of established games, and not really respecting their contributions. which seems to be a common theme, nuking shady sands has the flimsiest reasoning and is antithetical to the story they ape from but they didn’t want a fortified idealic settlement to get in the way of the aesthetic. again if they wanted to do that, blaming the courier would have made the most sense, but then you couldn’t blame Lucy’s father. it was all very lazy

[–] BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

nuking shady sands is what would have happened in van buren, and something a fallout new vegas dev continually pushed for. and with courier its damned if you do damned if you dont. there will never be any winning with showing the courier or talking about the courier

[–] WraithGear@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

make the courier the good guy make the courier the bad guy. but don’t pretend he was never there!

even better! have them established as a bogey man. none knows what they are responsible for and so they get blamed for EVERYTHING both good and bad. have them still do the mysterious stranger cameo. make it annoying coy about the characters gender. have him at war with Mr. House as to why they are Lucy’s mysterious stranger, which plays into her ridiculously high plot armor/luck stat!

HOW COULD A FACILITY ABOUT LOBOTOMIZING PEOPLE NOT BE BIG MOUNTAIN! CHRIST!