"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
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.
"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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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?
@@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.
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.
@@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?
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.
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.
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.
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
"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 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".
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.
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
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)
@@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.
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.
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
i appreciate that they acknowledge that its next to impossible to kill an ai with access to the internet. unlike age of ultron or any other movie with an ai enemy
I like how he actually tells you something VERY important to the plot right there. _Yes-Man is in ALL the Securitrons_ Which leads to the ending where you hand him control of the entire army...
That would only stop new backups. The smarter move would be to add to/rewrite Yes Man so the backup it sends out contains commands to ping you from the remote location and to look for network traffic tables and security keys so it can propagate itself to everywhere else that location knows with that location's authentication, making it more likely to be trusted and allowed to continue the cycle. Once it does that it can either delete System32 the whole location or just do nothing so you can show up to do it personally. Of course all of that is dependent on the remote location not having some kind of verification method to ensure the backups aren't compromised in some way but if the backups _are_ being signed then you'll probably see it while decompiling Yes Man and be able to replicate it. I don't think Benny is smart enough to think _that_ far ahead but then, I didn't think he was smart enough to reprogram a Securitron to begin with.
Yes Man explains just how damn intelligent he is mere seconds before you tell him he did something that he's definitely smart enough to realize is extremely fucked up. Brilliant.
So I recently found out Dave Foley voiced Yes Man. As a kids in the hall fan I decided to make the “Yes Dave” mod that replaces his screen with photos of Dave Foley. There’s currently three options: Dave from the “Pure Evil” sketch, All-American Boy from Sky High, and Uncle Dave from the Postal Movie
obviously the true victory here is to convince Yes Man that the uploaded copies of himself are just that, merely copies they are new instances born with an upload of all of that knowledge and killed when deleted or destroyed and that even if a copy of him exists elsewhere, that this copy, this instance, will very certainly die and be no more
at which point i can see him either A. rolling out the exact securatron he was inhabiting when he set it all up (if it wasnt the one your currently talking to) and bringing it online just to make your revenge experience complete or B. apologizing profusely for his inability to do so and offering the current iteration as a consolation prize
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@@ghosters1072 furst
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.
Him slowing down a bit when he said "when I get threatened" is probably because he literally backed himself up that very moment.
Yes Man hammering the Quicksave button fearing God and (more pressingly) the Courier's imminent wrath
*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
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
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.
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
"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?
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
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 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.
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.
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?
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.
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 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.
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?
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
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.
“STOP BEING NICE TO ME I WANT TO STAY MAD AT YOU!”
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.
Yes man is the only robot in existence that actively makes me question if he’s being sarcastic or not.
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.
Every securitron be like:
- You know, i'm something of a Yes Man myself!
When you realize you just told your boss you set them up to be shot in the head
am I fired
@@MilkyBoys LMFAOOO
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
"I'm the courier."
Yes Man:...Og?
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 ! 😚
"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 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".
I love how Yes Man feels bad about it. I couldn't kill him after hearing that!
This is the moment Yes Man became Sorry Man
I love him so much, he is precious
That thumbnail just is the perfect face for Yes Man finding out you are the Courier
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
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.
And that's how you do immortal NPCs.
You should appreciate Morrowind's story then.
Imagine a character that starts explaining their immortality with “the problem is…”
Lowers my gun. “Man…now I don’t even feel like killing you…buzzkill.”
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 never heard this dialogue before, thanks man!
Yes Man really be like: "You can't kill me in a way that matters."
"Not if I spend the rest of this playthrough destroying every single Securitron in New Vegas..."
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.
"Dang, I sure would love to let you kill me, but unfortunately for the both of us, that's not an option."
God I love yes man, he just gives you a complete and detailed breakdown of Benny’s entire master plan
I fuckin love Yes Man so damn much. Absolutely hilarious character, and he has the same VA as Chris from Dan VS.
Sounds like buddy’s trying extremely hard to not get killed
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?
“If I could stop it from happening, I would!” 😃
I like how polite he is about it
"So, anyway, I destroyed every Securitron..."
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.
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.
The fact that he lets you actually get it out of your system is amazing gameplay by the devs
He’s either your best mate or your worst dilemma.
I love this voice actor and the whole character
Aww.. Yes Man I don't want you to die, I want you to suffer. :D
Yes man is such a piece of crap
If they don't make Yes Man the antagonist in season 2, they're really missing out on a golden opportunity..
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}
I still love him after so many years.
If oblivion ever made one mistake this was it: forgetting to add a "revenge on everyone" plot.
i appreciate that they acknowledge that its next to impossible to kill an ai with access to the internet.
unlike age of ultron or any other movie with an ai enemy
I love the final frame of long yes man
Yes Man has always been my favorite character in the whole game. It's so hard to be mad at him
i love him so much, hes the best character
It’s crazy how seemingly empathetic and well thought out his responses to the courier are.
Yes Man trolling the Courier.
Fun fact: Yes man has the same voice actor as Chris from Dan VS.
Courier: "I'm going to kill you now."
Yes Man: *quicksave* "Yeah, about that..."
Yes man is by far one of my favorite characters
I forgive u, yes man 😭
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..."
Boy not only can Securitrons be forced out of existence, but your main database is accessible and destructible
I like how he actually tells you something VERY important to the plot right there.
_Yes-Man is in ALL the Securitrons_
Which leads to the ending where you hand him control of the entire army...
yes man really is the best character
Goddamnit, I wish I could stay mad at you Yes Man
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 😭
Yes man is the most helpful version of ultron and skynet
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
This feels like a character that should be voiced by Alex Hirsh.
Okay, but counterpoint: hearing Jack McBrayer say these lines would be so goddamn funny and weirdly fitting for the character.
"i have several backup's a day"
*Proceeeds to hack to stop the backups*
Your move
That would only stop new backups. The smarter move would be to add to/rewrite Yes Man so the backup it sends out contains commands to ping you from the remote location and to look for network traffic tables and security keys so it can propagate itself to everywhere else that location knows with that location's authentication, making it more likely to be trusted and allowed to continue the cycle. Once it does that it can either delete System32 the whole location or just do nothing so you can show up to do it personally.
Of course all of that is dependent on the remote location not having some kind of verification method to ensure the backups aren't compromised in some way but if the backups _are_ being signed then you'll probably see it while decompiling Yes Man and be able to replicate it. I don't think Benny is smart enough to think _that_ far ahead but then, I didn't think he was smart enough to reprogram a Securitron to begin with.
Yes Man explains just how damn intelligent he is mere seconds before you tell him he did something that he's definitely smart enough to realize is extremely fucked up.
Brilliant.
He seems like a sweet man
1:30 So that’s where GTA got it from, for the Doomsday Heist Finale, Eh?
Dave Foley spent eleven years married to a spouse with borderline personality disorder, in order to prepare for this role.
Time to destroy everu Securitron
Yes man is literally the only main quest that allows you to learn more about the character you role-play as aside from Lonesome Road DLC
"I feel really bad right now" Angrily said Yes Man
"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
im pretty sure yes man is literally programed to always agree with whoevers talking to him so probably shouldve only taken 1 try
So I recently found out Dave Foley voiced Yes Man. As a kids in the hall fan I decided to make the “Yes Dave” mod that replaces his screen with photos of Dave Foley. There’s currently three options: Dave from the “Pure Evil” sketch, All-American Boy from Sky High, and Uncle Dave from the Postal Movie
I like how in the thumbnail, due to the Securitrons screen, it looks lke Yes Man is like "Ah, shit."
Courier: "Not if the writers have anything to say about it"
*Crawls out of the screen and kills the writers, thereby causing a paradox*
The only character you can't kill because they didn't want you to be permanently softlocked from an ending lol
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.
We need a terrifying presence option that bluntly tells him you intend to destroy every single robot in a ten mile radius lol
obviously the true victory here is to convince Yes Man that the uploaded copies of himself are just that, merely copies
they are new instances born with an upload of all of that knowledge and killed when deleted or destroyed
and that even if a copy of him exists elsewhere, that this copy, this instance, will very certainly die and be no more
at which point i can see him either
A. rolling out the exact securatron he was inhabiting when he set it all up (if it wasnt the one your currently talking to) and bringing it online just to make your revenge experience complete or
B. apologizing profusely for his inability to do so and offering the current iteration as a consolation prize
1:28 The difference when game developers write computer-related sci-fi as opposed to your average Hollywood screenwriter.