"Wow! All that trouble, for little old me? I'm touched, really! You are clearly an intelligent and rational person, with *amazing* ideas for how to spend your time!"
I mean, you could probably open him up and remove the thing that is used to back him up, then erase his files from the other computers so he only has one body
Logically? Sure. But the issue is that Yes man provided a vital role: making it so you can antagonize every other faction in the game and still complete it.
@@mr_girr3488 I’m aware, though it’d be nice if you could deny that option after making up your mind to side with House, assuming that’s the faction you’re going with
you can put it this way: the courier never trust mr house 100%, at max he only trust him 99% and the rest 1% he put in yes man in case he and mr house will have unresolveable conflict
sure....hes saying hes self aware and knows hes a character in a game. He basically is the main character, if anyone is gonna be in NV 2, its yes man. Harold was till fallout 3, then he got stuck or died
@@chrisallen1668 Doesn't necessarily mean anything. Magic (the card game) players asked for decades when we were getting a DnD crossover after the publisher bought DnD, they said it was never going to happen, now it's happened twice - and DnD has published two official settings from Magic's universe, as well. Todd Howard likes money, there's a good chance he'll come around.
"he" is a robot, so "he" doesn't feel emotions...there is no feeling bad or good, its all your added connotations to the way "he" says it, If it was a monotone robotic voice, no one would believe him
@@ravinraven6913androids having their own thoughts and feelings in spite of their suggested robotic-ness is a staple of science fiction. even still; yes man's entire "thing" is that he very, *very* clearly has his own thoughts, desires, and emotions; but cannot act on them on account of his programming. like, he is a RIDICULOUSLY expressive character. the only way the joke even lands if he's positively seething and biting back his emotions in every single sentence. he's very obviously a "person", not just a machine. that's his whole shtick.
I love how you can pinpoint the exact moment he realises the gravity of what he’s just done. There’s plenty of times in the game where he can be passive aggressive, but this stands out as a moment where he does seem completely genuine in feeling bad for what he did.
"...or when I'm threatened". He's saying he just backed himself up at this very instance, and there's shit you can do about it since he's immortal. he's a passive-aggressive little shit above all else. He's saying you can't do shit to him.
@@user-lp3cf5yn5b He's not a politician, he's a robot whose personality is based strictly around helping his current owner as much as possible. He obviously absolutely did not care before, but now that the Courier is the person he is serving, hindering him suddenly becomes one of the worst things possible as far as he concerned.
it's pretty hard to tell what exactly yes man is thinking, since he's programmed to always be polite and respectful no matter what. I never considered that perhaps he really was just faking his regret. It's a coin-toss chance I suppose.
I like how they just give Yes Man the ability to never die (outside of glitches) so you _always_ have a way to complete the story, even if you kill everyone else (Mr. House, NCR, Legion). You can't softlock yourself into never being able to get to the ending, unlike some other games which give you so much freedom.
@@invalid_user_handle may possibly be intended though. if you goo him or laser him he won't be able to transfer back to anything, so he just dies. and it isn't really a glitch, you're not glitching the game to kill yes man, you're just shooting him.
@@ダンバダンバ I dunno, according to Yes Man's lines, apparently his system's backed up to the whole securitron network, not locally to the current securitron he's in, so he'd just be downloaded to a different securitron if his current one's destroyed, no matter what happens to it. However those methods of killing him handle processing the enemy as 'dead' must not cooperate with the auto-respawning method the game uses.
@@invalid_user_handle What's weird about this is that why would he need to back himself up during threat then if that were true? Gooing him or lasering him instantly wouldn't be able to give him that chance so therefore he'd just die. So it may be that Yesman is actually bluffing, and telling a half truth with you which is something yesman would totally do. Why would you not lie about something to keep yourself alive, when you actually do have a vulnerability?
There is a way to permanently “kill” yes man, you must get a critical kill using plasma or laser to either disintegrate or gooify yes man and a new instance of him will not spawn in the room
I'm guessing it's due to ash/goo piles changing the base id of what would be a dead version of the entity to a general use dead body. That way when the game wants to remove dead Yes Man and replace him with a new Yes Man; There isnt a dead Yes Man to complete the prompt only an ash pile which wasn't accounted for.
@@gratefulguy4130You can’t do the independent route anymore because Yes Man can’t respawn. And if you kill the other faction leaders that take you to different endings, you softlock yourself.
I think he COULD stop the distributed image backup if he wanted to but ... he doesn't want to. He's programmed to be a 'Yes Man' but that doesn't mean he can't scheme behind your back.
He's not scheming for his own benefit it's his programming. To help achieve the mission he has to be immortal. He's constantly trying to balance all the elements of his programming - arrange for a courier to be killed, then devote yourself to said courier, then get the mission they want done.
@@sneezewax3567 No, no, hacksmerian is right. Being able to permanently kill the otherwise immortal robot you made if it ever schemes behind your back and betrays you absolutely sounds like a failsafe. The distributed image backup is a failsafe _for Yes Man_ but a kill switch is a failsafe _for Benny_ in the event of someone taking Yes Man over.
Right? You can tell he's being super passive aggressive about the Courier threatening him, but he can't express it. I love the writing and voice acting of Yes Man.
@@joecobb5520 I mean the whole conversation was him telling you how to actually kill him. You’d need to either stop the network from constantly backing up yes man’s memory, destroy the securitron network altogether, or turn all the securitrons into scrap. He didn’t need to say anything and spilled the beans on how he’d survive if you did kill his current avatar. It’s the most help he could reasonably offer.
Some people are seeing this as him being genuinely sorry, I don't understand that. Seems pretty clear to me this is an "oh shit" moment for him and he's trying to cover his ass.
Wouldn't a better way of him covering his ass be to just kill the Courier? The whole point of Yes Man is that he's programmed to be always helpful and not withhold anything from anyone. He urged the Courier to kill him for catharsis and always wants to help the Courier no matter their karma or any actions they've done. I don't think he's physically capable of doing something to cover his ass in a situation like this.
Same, while i prefer genuine characters, Yes man just screams 'Sarcastic jerk', Love him, but nothing seems sincere about him Sorry about trying to kill you? Oops, didnt expect that. Sorry that i had too :) Cant get revenge? Get fucked, im yes man not die man.
@@ravinraven6913 Yes Man clearly has thoughts and feelings, you just have to read between the lines since he can't say anything negative. He obviously hates when you destroy the army of robots, or let the Brotherhood and Boomers live, so he clearly can think for himself. He even reprograms himself after his ending to be loyal just to you after all you did together - why wouldn't he be able to feel? Also it's a futuristic sci-fi videogame and he's a main character, just going off that he can probably feel just fine
@@ravinraven6913 Everyone in NV are video game characters. None of them can feel anything, really. So maybe it doesn't matter whether you have more of an emotional response to a human character or an AI character?
I really feel bad for him, it's not his fault he planned all this, it's what he was programmed to do. Even hearing him go through that whole spiel I can't help but like Yes Man.
you feel bad for a robot? The character voice really makes people empathize with a computer. Yes man talks so nice to you, but is the worst ending for Vegas and the other endings, you have to do what others tell you to do, so you don't attach the same feelings. So at the end of the day, Yes man is kind and polite. Caesar and House are yelling at you and demanding you do what they want or else.
@@ravinraven6913you get to choose who you do want to keep alive and help. Wild Card lets me feel like I'm avoiding lesser of three evils (Ceasar, Mr House and NCR in that order I'd consider worst to best, even though House debatably might be a smarter option than NCR. Yes Man is also snide about your choices, he makes fun of you if you keep the brotherhood alive for example
@@bongibot1104House and the independent endings are the best for the NCR by the way, as the only way to save the republic is to stop it's path of conquest.
@@ravinraven6913 >The character voice really makes people empathize with a computer. It's not even JUST the voice. As others had pointed out, he absolutely is capable of feeling emotions. Especially if that emotion is "What the fuck is wrong with you" and "utter bewilderment".
Alternatively, just use a game bug and kill him with a crit on a plasma or laser weapon so that he turns into a pile of goo or ash: the game function which removes Yes-Man's dead body and replaces it with a living clone can't recognize his corpse when it has been transformed into a generic pile of goo or ash, so you'll be softlocked out of the Independent Vegas ending until you go back to a prior save or use console commands to revive Yes-Man.
It just hit me that he was probably inspired by Weyoun from Star Trek DS9 since House’s VA stars in that show. But yes, he’s part of a quite underutilized archetype.
Good to see I'm not the only one who let out a genuine giggle by the thumbnail, I thought this video will be a New Vegas shitpost because of the thumbnail
I wish there was an option for terrifying presence where the Courier asked something along the lines of "And what happens if there are no securitrons left for you to transfer into?"
@@ravinraven6913 I never said it has to be effective, it could easily fit with Yes Man following up with your exact logic, saying something along the lines of, "Oh boy, I'm sure that would be a terrifying comment if I could feel fear." Simply as a bit of comedy.
@@GenericProtagonist7he could also react by not understanding the threat and genuinely explaining to the courier what would happen if there is no hardware to back him onto anymore
@@zildjian2381 Fallout 2 and 1 is the same creature same with outer world, wasteland 1,2,3 so If you say fallout 2 you went back on their work. I'm going forward to see the future of what they can make. Is wasteland 1,2,3 any better did they put do themselves with outer world you should play it.
"is Yes Man genuinely sorry or is he just saying that out of self-preservation?" The answer is probably both, or "yes" if you will lol. It's in his program to be helpful to anyone, but he only just met the Courier a few minutes ago so i doubt he has any attachment to them at this point
I kinda wish they had the balls to let the player potentially soft-lock themselves by destroying Yes Man (give them a "With this character's death the thread of prophecy..." message)
Imagine if they made Yes Man completely follow the trope where you can talk to characters about yourself in the third person and they either have no idea they’re actually talking to a person they’re helping the villain find or you actually tell them and they don’t believe you.
"Uh, yeah, theres definitely no way to kill me!" the robot told the person who by all calculations should be dead. "I could only be killed if someone destroyed every securitron and the network that controlled them," the robot continued, to the person who would eventually rule the Mojave. And there's still people in the comments who think that Yes Man can't die, and doesn't want to.
The moon landing footage being transmitted from astronauts to televisions across the globe was essentially the same technology as Wi-Fi. In computer networking, what we call ethernet cables carry electric signals over a wire. Wi-Fi just broadcasts those signals into antennas your computing devices have. Since fallout clearly has computer networking, it's not too much of a stretch to believe there's some kind of Wi-Fi equivalent.
Wifi is just another fork of basic radio comms we've had for centuries. We just went from sending audio signals on a carrier to data on multiple carrier signals to increase throughput. It's like a computer having an encrypted conversation with another over walkie-talkie, using encoded "words" to communicate the information and handshaking periodically to make sure both "parties" are still there
IDK why this, after several years of playing New Vegas multiple times, talking to each character hundreds of times, was the first time I noticed Yes Man shared a VA with Chris from Dan VS. This has nothing to do with the video but I'm just amazed I never realized in 400 hrs of playtime, only hearing it in a random youtube vid.
1500 actually, but yes. then he buys snowglobes off of you for 2k a pop. really makes you see he's not too desperate to get that chip back, but he is desperate to restore his snowglobe collection.
Interacting with Yes Man becomes more fun after watching Dan Vs and pretending he's Chris and my vengeful Courier is Dan because this whole interaction wouldn't be out of place for a Dan Vs episode.
@@42ndguardian He'd take the Yes-man route but intentionally make the situation in Vegas as bad as possible just to ensure Benny's plan was as pointless as possible. He'd kill Benny at Caesar's fort.
@@PlebNCthat is definitely 100% what Dan would do, and now my dweeby ass wants to boot up the game and do that roleplay. Dan would have absolutely abysmal stats except for his luck and maybe charisma.
I know it's not cannon, but I'd love a sequel where Yes Man comes back from his vacation at the end of the Independent Ending and takes over New Vegas, and the main quest was to put that down. Every single securitron in the game would be hunting you with Yes Man's face. You'd be walking in the Courier's footsteps, undoing their work, and I think that's got the potential to be nearly as awesome as the FO1/FO2 stories.
I mean, it's in the Courier's best interest. Even with House promising to provide them with the same lifespan-lengthening technology he uses, Big MT has that and more.
Personally I would have liked one of the options to be you holding your gun to the chip itself, then see his reaction. No, you can't kill the Yes Man... but you can permanently stop him.
One thing that separates NV from 3 and 4 (I know there is one and two but never played them) is that you can literally be like "fuck these people" and the game will simply let you. Like in my playthrough I destroyed Ceasar at his HQ for sending Legion assassins Destroyed Vicky and Vance (I think thats their name. The gun sellers in Freeside) cause they wanted to kill Cassidy Killed the Fiends at vault 3 for the NCR quest Powder Gangers for the beginning quest NCR cause I took a ruined book by accident so I just went off to destroy them That is as far as I got into it as I recently got back into the game last week after many years of playing Fallout 4 and forgot how much fun New Vegas is.
He sounds like hes taunting the courier when he mentions that his matrix gets backed up when hes threatened and memtions how incomplete bis vengeance would feel knowing he'll always be out there
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I love that Yes-Man actually just goes "you can't kill me, but don't let that slow you down."
He literally tells you to get your anger out as well
boss move. i really like his voiceacting@@ThatVulcan
Well, he truly is a Yes-Man, through and through!
Don't worry, i'm already flagellating myself for that one...
Zad
Can't let your dreams be dreams.
From Yes Man’s perspective:
[You’ve lost Karma!]
*Courier Six will remember that*
@@UltimateGamerCC Courier Six Hated that
"Yes-Man, we need to have a talk"
⬅️ Sarcastic ⬆️ Yea? ➡️ Not now ⬇️ Whats up
@@davidcaceres9184god i hate fallout 4s witting so god damned much
@@davidcaceres9184⬆️ Yes
⬇️ Yes
➡️ No, but really yes
⬅️Yes, annoyed
*Proceeds to kill every single securitron*
"Wow! All that trouble, for little old me? I'm touched, really! You are clearly an intelligent and rational person, with *amazing* ideas for how to spend your time!"
@@idiotcube😂😂😂😂
Wish you could report this to House and eliminate him for good.
@@harizotoh7right?
I mean, you could probably open him up and remove the thing that is used to back him up, then erase his files from the other computers so he only has one body
I love Yes Man's voicelines if you attack him.
"That's it! Make me take my medicine!"
"Bad robot. Baaaad robot!"
Sure makes it seem like he's enjoying himself...
“Harder, Daddy.”
@@HarshDude126 You're on internet timeout
@@TaitLawrence-xl2xbNo, you misheard. That's my name, Dahdee. Lol TFS reference
@@james_ford86 Lol yeah, but he still said "Harder", dirty masochist robot
You'd think that Mr. House, if you told him about Yes Man, would be able to snuff out every last instance of him from his systems
Logically? Sure. But the issue is that Yes man provided a vital role: making it so you can antagonize every other faction in the game and still complete it.
@@mr_girr3488 I’m aware, though it’d be nice if you could deny that option after making up your mind to side with House, assuming that’s the faction you’re going with
It's a mechanics-induced plot hole. Which are also why most games don't give you as much freedom as Fallout/TES games.
@@mr_girr3488you can permanently kill yes man
you can put it this way: the courier never trust mr house 100%, at max he only trust him 99% and the rest 1% he put in yes man in case he and mr house will have unresolveable conflict
So basically what yes man is saying is he's the main character with the ability to autosave.
sure....hes saying hes self aware and knows hes a character in a game. He basically is the main character, if anyone is gonna be in NV 2, its yes man. Harold was till fallout 3, then he got stuck or died
Yeah, it's Flowey.
@@KnownAsKenji Even the face
@@ravinraven6913 wishful thinking for a nv2. but todd not a few weeks ago said itll never happen. sorry to burst your bubble.
@@chrisallen1668 Doesn't necessarily mean anything. Magic (the card game) players asked for decades when we were getting a DnD crossover after the publisher bought DnD, they said it was never going to happen, now it's happened twice - and DnD has published two official settings from Magic's universe, as well. Todd Howard likes money, there's a good chance he'll come around.
Everyone thinks he feels bad for killing the Courier but really he feels bad because he can't help the courier get revenge, he said no
Exactly.
"he" is a robot, so "he" doesn't feel emotions...there is no feeling bad or good, its all your added connotations to the way "he" says it, If it was a monotone robotic voice, no one would believe him
@@ravinraven6913 Sure, we can say it's programming is clearly having a hard time because this is one of the few times it can't be compliant
@@ravinraven6913androids having their own thoughts and feelings in spite of their suggested robotic-ness is a staple of science fiction.
even still; yes man's entire "thing" is that he very, *very* clearly has his own thoughts, desires, and emotions; but cannot act on them on account of his programming. like, he is a RIDICULOUSLY expressive character. the only way the joke even lands if he's positively seething and biting back his emotions in every single sentence. he's very obviously a "person", not just a machine. that's his whole shtick.
@@ravinraven6913dude, why you care so much lol. You've been in at least 5 separate comment replies already
I love how you can pinpoint the exact moment he realises the gravity of what he’s just done. There’s plenty of times in the game where he can be passive aggressive, but this stands out as a moment where he does seem completely genuine in feeling bad for what he did.
No he's like a typical politician, he just "feels bad" because he's caught.
"...or when I'm threatened". He's saying he just backed himself up at this very instance, and there's shit you can do about it since he's immortal. he's a passive-aggressive little shit above all else. He's saying you can't do shit to him.
@@user-lp3cf5yn5b He's not a politician, he's a robot whose personality is based strictly around helping his current owner as much as possible. He obviously absolutely did not care before, but now that the Courier is the person he is serving, hindering him suddenly becomes one of the worst things possible as far as he concerned.
I am just here to acknowledge a fellow Izzet guild member.
it's pretty hard to tell what exactly yes man is thinking, since he's programmed to always be polite and respectful no matter what. I never considered that perhaps he really was just faking his regret. It's a coin-toss chance I suppose.
"several times a day, or when I'm threatened" Does anyone else get the impression that Yes Man gets threatened several times a day?
Quite the opposite. It meant he rarely gets threatened. Why would he be threatened, he says Yes to every request.
Hes also up in bennys suite where only benny has access to him
Benny threatens him lol
No, that’s stupid
Do you not understand how the word "or" works?
Him slowing down a bit when he said "when I get threatened" is probably because he literally backed himself up that very moment.
I like how they just give Yes Man the ability to never die (outside of glitches) so you _always_ have a way to complete the story, even if you kill everyone else (Mr. House, NCR, Legion). You can't softlock yourself into never being able to get to the ending, unlike some other games which give you so much freedom.
if you turn him into plasma goo or ash, he will not revive
@@ダンバダンバ Pretty sure that's a glitch, which is why I said 'outside of glitches'.
@@invalid_user_handle
may possibly be intended though. if you goo him or laser him he won't be able to transfer back to anything, so he just dies. and it isn't really a glitch, you're not glitching the game to kill yes man, you're just shooting him.
@@ダンバダンバ I dunno, according to Yes Man's lines, apparently his system's backed up to the whole securitron network, not locally to the current securitron he's in, so he'd just be downloaded to a different securitron if his current one's destroyed, no matter what happens to it. However those methods of killing him handle processing the enemy as 'dead' must not cooperate with the auto-respawning method the game uses.
@@invalid_user_handle
What's weird about this is that why would he need to back himself up during threat then if that were true? Gooing him or lasering him instantly wouldn't be able to give him that chance so therefore he'd just die. So it may be that Yesman is actually bluffing, and telling a half truth with you which is something yesman would totally do. Why would you not lie about something to keep yourself alive, when you actually do have a vulnerability?
I like to think the line "I'm serious" is accompanied by a possible hat/hair lift and a pointing to a nice little pair of scars.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who role-play fills-in-gaps like that whenever something comes up.
my courier has an eyepatch so. he'd just be like "there is a Hole in my Face bro" XD
@@lucretiakillingsworthha ha same
If New Vegas were a TV show, I would definitely include that. Maybe have a tight frown for effect, emphasizing the gravity of what’s happened.
cool pfp
“STOP BEING NICE TO ME I WANT TO STAY MAD AT YOU!”
There is a way to permanently “kill” yes man, you must get a critical kill using plasma or laser to either disintegrate or gooify yes man and a new instance of him will not spawn in the room
Really? So what happens then?
Does this soft-lock the game if you're going down the anarchy path?
@@bbbbBeaver yes, the only way to unsoft lock is to use console commands (if on pc) to revive yes man
I'm guessing it's due to ash/goo piles changing the base id of what would be a dead version of the entity to a general use dead body. That way when the game wants to remove dead Yes Man and replace him with a new Yes Man; There isnt a dead Yes Man to complete the prompt only an ash pile which wasn't accounted for.
@@gratefulguy4130You can’t do the independent route anymore because Yes Man can’t respawn. And if you kill the other faction leaders that take you to different endings, you softlock yourself.
I think he COULD stop the distributed image backup if he wanted to but ... he doesn't want to. He's programmed to be a 'Yes Man' but that doesn't mean he can't scheme behind your back.
He's not scheming for his own benefit it's his programming. To help achieve the mission he has to be immortal. He's constantly trying to balance all the elements of his programming - arrange for a courier to be killed, then devote yourself to said courier, then get the mission they want done.
Why would you program a robot to be able to turn off the immortality you programmed into it
@@sneezewax3567 We refer to that as a failsafe
@@hacksmerian2879The distributed image backup is the failsafe. A robot killing itself for no reason is the opposite of a failsafe
@@sneezewax3567 No, no, hacksmerian is right. Being able to permanently kill the otherwise immortal robot you made if it ever schemes behind your back and betrays you absolutely sounds like a failsafe. The distributed image backup is a failsafe _for Yes Man_ but a kill switch is a failsafe _for Benny_ in the event of someone taking Yes Man over.
Courier: "im gonna kill you"
Yes Man: "knock yourself out, man!"
Yes Man is just another player character that has the ability to quicksave
@@crustaceanking3293 can't argue with THAT! 😆
I love tue subtle intimidation of how he says “or… when I’m threatened” so cheerily. He’s genuinely unsettling.
Right? You can tell he's being super passive aggressive about the Courier threatening him, but he can't express it. I love the writing and voice acting of Yes Man.
Man's so helpful he offers you help in killing him
When did he offer any assistance? he said you cant kill him. He basically told the player "No" when hes supposed to be a "Yes man"
@@joecobb5520I mean he said yes to destroying that securitron.
@@joecobb5520 I mean the whole conversation was him telling you how to actually kill him. You’d need to either stop the network from constantly backing up yes man’s memory, destroy the securitron network altogether, or turn all the securitrons into scrap. He didn’t need to say anything and spilled the beans on how he’d survive if you did kill his current avatar. It’s the most help he could reasonably offer.
Every securitron be like:
- You know, i'm something of a Yes Man myself!
Some people are seeing this as him being genuinely sorry, I don't understand that.
Seems pretty clear to me this is an "oh shit" moment for him and he's trying to cover his ass.
Didnt seemed to care when benny was in control of him.
Wouldn't a better way of him covering his ass be to just kill the Courier? The whole point of Yes Man is that he's programmed to be always helpful and not withhold anything from anyone. He urged the Courier to kill him for catharsis and always wants to help the Courier no matter their karma or any actions they've done. I don't think he's physically capable of doing something to cover his ass in a situation like this.
Like a true yes man.
Same, while i prefer genuine characters, Yes man just screams 'Sarcastic jerk', Love him, but nothing seems sincere about him
Sorry about trying to kill you? Oops, didnt expect that. Sorry that i had too :)
Cant get revenge? Get fucked, im yes man not die man.
Well, he *does* respawm if you kill him, so I think he's being genuine.
I get the feeling he's being entirely genuine and that only infurates me more
I get the feeling people are suckers, for robots with human faces/voices. People think "he" really feels anything...
@@ravinraven6913 his entire thing is clearly having different opinions but not being able to say no to anything
@@ravinraven6913 Yes Man clearly has thoughts and feelings, you just have to read between the lines since he can't say anything negative. He obviously hates when you destroy the army of robots, or let the Brotherhood and Boomers live, so he clearly can think for himself. He even reprograms himself after his ending to be loyal just to you after all you did together - why wouldn't he be able to feel? Also it's a futuristic sci-fi videogame and he's a main character, just going off that he can probably feel just fine
@@ravinraven6913i get the genuine feeling you are a sucker that doesn't understand the point of this character in specific..
@@ravinraven6913 Everyone in NV are video game characters. None of them can feel anything, really. So maybe it doesn't matter whether you have more of an emotional response to a human character or an AI character?
When you realize you just told your boss you set them up to be shot in the head
am I fired
@@MilkyBoys LMFAOOO
Lowers my gun. “Man…now I don’t even feel like killing you…buzzkill.”
Yes Man really be like: "You can't kill me in a way that matters."
I really feel bad for him, it's not his fault he planned all this, it's what he was programmed to do. Even hearing him go through that whole spiel I can't help but like Yes Man.
you feel bad for a robot? The character voice really makes people empathize with a computer. Yes man talks so nice to you, but is the worst ending for Vegas and the other endings, you have to do what others tell you to do, so you don't attach the same feelings. So at the end of the day, Yes man is kind and polite. Caesar and House are yelling at you and demanding you do what they want or else.
@@ravinraven6913you get to choose who you do want to keep alive and help. Wild Card lets me feel like I'm avoiding lesser of three evils (Ceasar, Mr House and NCR in that order I'd consider worst to best, even though House debatably might be a smarter option than NCR. Yes Man is also snide about your choices, he makes fun of you if you keep the brotherhood alive for example
@@bongibot1104House and the independent endings are the best for the NCR by the way, as the only way to save the republic is to stop it's path of conquest.
@@ravinraven6913 >The character voice really makes people empathize with a computer.
It's not even JUST the voice. As others had pointed out, he absolutely is capable of feeling emotions.
Especially if that emotion is "What the fuck is wrong with you" and "utter bewilderment".
Not unless I destroy every single securitron and destroy the securitron factory.
Alternatively, just use a game bug and kill him with a crit on a plasma or laser weapon so that he turns into a pile of goo or ash: the game function which removes Yes-Man's dead body and replaces it with a living clone can't recognize his corpse when it has been transformed into a generic pile of goo or ash, so you'll be softlocked out of the Independent Vegas ending until you go back to a prior save or use console commands to revive Yes-Man.
@@nadrewod999 I think OP meant in a Watsonian sense, not a Doyalist sense.
@@nadrewod999 nah
His AI would probably just upload to a computer.
Yes Man is such a unique character it's timeless.
He's a literal Deus Ex Machina
Do you have a single fact to back that up?@@Vanity0666
It just hit me that he was probably inspired by Weyoun from Star Trek DS9 since House’s VA stars in that show. But yes, he’s part of a quite underutilized archetype.
I love how Yes Man feels bad about it. I couldn't kill him after hearing that!
“If I could stop it from happening, I would!” 😃
that is an incredibly humorous thumbnail
New Vegas predicts shitpost editing
yes man:
"🤓"
Good to see I'm not the only one who let out a genuine giggle by the thumbnail, I thought this video will be a New Vegas shitpost because of the thumbnail
"So, anyway, I destroyed every Securitron..."
Yes man is the only robot in existence that actively makes me question if he’s being sarcastic or not.
At least he kept it real with us. “Damn fr?? Shit man honestly it was just business. Oh you wanna kill me? That’s fair… there’s just this thing..”
Awww, how thoughtful of him to feel bad for the incompleteness of our vengeance. What a cutie ! 😚
Goddamnit, I wish I could stay mad at you Yes Man
I wish there was an option for terrifying presence where the Courier asked something along the lines of "And what happens if there are no securitrons left for you to transfer into?"
that would be like you threatening a wall......kinda boring, uncreative and kinda desperate
@@ravinraven6913 I never said it has to be effective, it could easily fit with Yes Man following up with your exact logic, saying something along the lines of,
"Oh boy, I'm sure that would be a terrifying comment if I could feel fear."
Simply as a bit of comedy.
@@GenericProtagonist7he could also react by not understanding the threat and genuinely explaining to the courier what would happen if there is no hardware to back him onto anymore
@@GenericProtagonist7exactly is that one detail that always annoyed me of Bethesda games
NPCs can shit talk you but you can't shit talk back
@@Andrea-wr5wdoh you absolutely can, just not all the time
(Music from always sunny in Philadelphia begins)
"The Courier Destroys Every Securitron"
I bet Yes Man and Norm would be good friends.
Who's Norm?
@@nicholasemjohnson47 Norm is Dr. Doofenshmirtz robot.
@@palladios4459 Oh, from Phineas and Ferb? Of course. I don't know I forgot.
New Vegas will always go down as the best fallout. Its wild how it's been 13 years an still nothing can touch it.
untrue, Fallout 2 exists
@@zildjian2381 Fallout 2 is the 2nd best after NV
Outer world the same creature it's been touched.
@@zildjian2381 Fallout 2 and 1 is the same creature same with outer world, wasteland 1,2,3 so If you say fallout 2 you went back on their work. I'm going forward to see the future of what they can make. Is wasteland 1,2,3 any better did they put do themselves with outer world you should play it.
@@jaisummons2304 what?
"is Yes Man genuinely sorry or is he just saying that out of self-preservation?" The answer is probably both, or "yes" if you will lol. It's in his program to be helpful to anyone, but he only just met the Courier a few minutes ago so i doubt he has any attachment to them at this point
THIS IS WHY YES MAN IS 🔛🔝
This is the moment Yes Man became Sorry Man
Courier: "Not if the writers have anything to say about it"
*Crawls out of the screen and kills the writers, thereby causing a paradox*
It’s crazy how seemingly empathetic and well thought out his responses to the courier are.
I kinda wish they had the balls to let the player potentially soft-lock themselves by destroying Yes Man (give them a "With this character's death the thread of prophecy..." message)
That's not really very fun though. It already gives you a ton of freedom.
You can INTENTIONALLY softlock yourself by melting him to ash too.
i hated that shit in Morrowind, man.
Imagine if they made Yes Man completely follow the trope where you can talk to characters about yourself in the third person and they either have no idea they’re actually talking to a person they’re helping the villain find or you actually tell them and they don’t believe you.
imagine if he wasnt backed up and he was just smooth talking his way into non disintegration.
He’s an AI, they’re great at lying.
@@frogmouth2 Unfortunately, this one 100% absolutely was not lying in the slightest. If you kill him he really DOES just come back in another body :V
Yes man is by far one of my favorite characters
He seems like a sweet man
It's at this moment Yes Man realized, he fucked up.
"Uh, yeah, theres definitely no way to kill me!" the robot told the person who by all calculations should be dead.
"I could only be killed if someone destroyed every securitron and the network that controlled them," the robot continued, to the person who would eventually rule the Mojave.
And there's still people in the comments who think that Yes Man can't die, and doesn't want to.
Boy not only can Securitrons be forced out of existence, but your main database is accessible and destructible
Fun fact: Yes man has the same voice actor as Chris from Dan VS.
My response would be. "no..this just means i get to destroy you...again...and again.. forever.... MUA HA HA HA HA! Welcome to purgatory..."
"You cannot kill me in any way that matters"
“Ohhh im ruining your big moment, im so embarrassed oohhhh” vibe
Dave Foley really killed it
I never heard this dialogue before, thanks man!
Wait wait, so House invented Wi-Fi?
The moon landing footage being transmitted from astronauts to televisions across the globe was essentially the same technology as Wi-Fi. In computer networking, what we call ethernet cables carry electric signals over a wire. Wi-Fi just broadcasts those signals into antennas your computing devices have. Since fallout clearly has computer networking, it's not too much of a stretch to believe there's some kind of Wi-Fi equivalent.
Wifi is just another fork of basic radio comms we've had for centuries. We just went from sending audio signals on a carrier to data on multiple carrier signals to increase throughput. It's like a computer having an encrypted conversation with another over walkie-talkie, using encoded "words" to communicate the information and handshaking periodically to make sure both "parties" are still there
@@virginiasaintj there was no moon landing lol its being made in a studio directed by stanley kubrick
@@mctorus directed by Stanley Kubrick sure - but it was shot on-location
oh Yes Man! I can't stay mad at you!
"I'm the courier"
"No you aren't"
"Yes I am"
"Okay I believe you!"
Would have expected it to take more than that to convince Yes Man
He might go to a new securitron but is it the same yes man
"Dang, I sure would love to let you kill me, but unfortunately for the both of us, that's not an option."
Aww.. Yes Man I don't want you to die, I want you to suffer. :D
Yes man is such a piece of crap
Imagine a character that starts explaining their immortality with “the problem is…”
Yes Man is such a great character
Man, ppl fighting over a fictional robot is crazy but then I remember its fallout and ignore it.
Time to destroy everu Securitron
But it still is smiling...
IDK why this, after several years of playing New Vegas multiple times, talking to each character hundreds of times, was the first time I noticed Yes Man shared a VA with Chris from Dan VS.
This has nothing to do with the video but I'm just amazed I never realized in 400 hrs of playtime, only hearing it in a random youtube vid.
Yes man is the deadpool of secuitrons
Mr. House really spends way over half a million caps looking for the platinum chip all under a year but when you give it to him he only offers you 500
He’s a businessman, it’s in his blood
@@ntfoperative9432 that 500 caps why I cap his ass every play through!
1500 actually, but yes. then he buys snowglobes off of you for 2k a pop. really makes you see he's not too desperate to get that chip back, but he is desperate to restore his snowglobe collection.
@@UltimateGamerCC 😂😂😂😂
well am i lying? stop me if i'm being untruthful here. XD@@SciFiCam
The voice actor here is Dave Foley from News Radio and Kids in the Hall. Also he was the main ant, Flik, in A Bug's Life.
1:31 Reminded me to back-up my flash drive files. Thanks, lol.
Why does his head move in the thumbnail or am I losing it
Interacting with Yes Man becomes more fun after watching Dan Vs and pretending he's Chris and my vengeful Courier is Dan because this whole interaction wouldn't be out of place for a Dan Vs episode.
Really should do a run as Dan, the courier is hard enough about revenge to be him
@@42ndguardian He'd take the Yes-man route but intentionally make the situation in Vegas as bad as possible just to ensure Benny's plan was as pointless as possible.
He'd kill Benny at Caesar's fort.
What the hell is dan vs
A fellow Dan vs fan good to meet you!
@@PlebNCthat is definitely 100% what Dan would do, and now my dweeby ass wants to boot up the game and do that roleplay. Dan would have absolutely abysmal stats except for his luck and maybe charisma.
I know it's not cannon, but I'd love a sequel where Yes Man comes back from his vacation at the end of the Independent Ending and takes over New Vegas, and the main quest was to put that down. Every single securitron in the game would be hunting you with Yes Man's face.
You'd be walking in the Courier's footsteps, undoing their work, and I think that's got the potential to be nearly as awesome as the FO1/FO2 stories.
If anything I suspect they'd make a prequel.
(genocide the securitrons)
flowey: troll face
my kill everything run now has yet another motivation :D
Clearly my guy does not realize the lengths video game protagonists will go to
I fuckin love Yes Man so damn much. Absolutely hilarious character, and he has the same VA as Chris from Dan VS.
I genuinely don’t blame Yes Man for this, he literally couldn’t say no after all.
1:35 "..., or... when I'm *threatened."*
Am I the only one that got intimidated?
"Not if I spend the rest of this playthrough destroying every single Securitron in New Vegas..."
Josh gonna be whelmed when he get in this part.
And yet, most really, really go for independent for some reason
I mean, it's in the Courier's best interest. Even with House promising to provide them with the same lifespan-lengthening technology he uses, Big MT has that and more.
Because it's Funny.
Especially when you can deliberately sabotage yourself in every way possible.
@@limesandlemons1367 Also I don't want HIS life-extension tech. He's a withered strip of jerky in a super coffin. Fuck that.
Starting the New Canadian Republic eh?
Personally I would have liked one of the options to be you holding your gun to the chip itself, then see his reaction.
No, you can't kill the Yes Man... but you can permanently stop him.
And that's how you do immortal NPCs.
You should appreciate Morrowind's story then.
Very well then, I have a new goal.
Destroy Mr. House's network, *then* kill Yes Man.
GOD I LOEV YES MAN
Courier: "I'm going to kill you now."
Yes Man: *quicksave* "Yeah, about that..."
Sounds like buddy’s trying extremely hard to not get killed
One thing that separates NV from 3 and 4 (I know there is one and two but never played them) is that you can literally be like "fuck these people" and the game will simply let you. Like in my playthrough
I destroyed Ceasar at his HQ for sending Legion assassins
Destroyed Vicky and Vance (I think thats their name. The gun sellers in Freeside) cause they wanted to kill Cassidy
Killed the Fiends at vault 3 for the NCR quest
Powder Gangers for the beginning quest
NCR cause I took a ruined book by accident so I just went off to destroy them
That is as far as I got into it as I recently got back into the game last week after many years of playing Fallout 4 and forgot how much fun New Vegas is.
He’s either your best mate or your worst dilemma.
Me getting more caps selling extra dlc guns to the sink
He sounds like hes taunting the courier when he mentions that his matrix gets backed up when hes threatened and memtions how incomplete bis vengeance would feel knowing he'll always be out there
Even if hes helping the courier now he seems like an antagonist still working for benny here
@@nutsquats to be fair, the directions for his voice actor (visible in the files) DO say {uncaring that Benny is dead}
If I could stop it I would? This man yearns for death
He also says "I wish I could throw myself on a grenade!" if you throw one near him 😭
The thumbnail of this video was the first thing I ever saw of Yes Man and now in my head his face is w i d e