"Important" characters

[Woobie :3]

What happens if you kill characters that are important to the starting storyline, such as Johnson Nash and Manny Vargas? How does the game make up for their death?

[Mauno]

You don't get their quest and you might lose reputation with certain factions.

The main storyline can always be completed, regardless of who you kill, but all (except the Sarsaparila one, I think) the other quests can be failed by killing important characters.

[Woobie :3]

Originally posted by Mauno:

You don't get their quest and you might lose reputation with certain factions.

The main storyline can always be completed, regardless of who you kill, but all (except the Sarsaparila one, I think) the other quests can be failed by killing important characters.

Ah. So it just redirects you onward?

On an unrelated note, I like your guide :3

[Mauno]

Originally posted by Woobie :3:

Ah. So it just redirects you onward?

The main storyline does, in a sense.

Manny Vargas is a good example of this, actually.

You can either persuade him to tell you where Benny went through dialogue or completing his quest.

Or you can hack his terminal in his motel room and get the information from there.

Or you can pick his pockets and get a slip of paper (or holodisk) that tells mostly the same thing.

Or you can kill him and loot the aforementioned item from his mutilated corpse.

Or you can just randomly stumble on Boulder City or just skip all that and wander to Vegas and skip that entire part of the main storyline.

(And some people say NV is linear...)

Side quests just give that "Quest X failed" message if you kill or piss off someone integral to it.

Originally posted by Woobie :3:

On an unrelated note, I like your guide :3

Cool, glad you like it!

[WrenAndPeter]

Douly noted