A pair of worn brown shoes rests at the fork of a pale stone path through a dry golden meadow.

Original artwork, not a still

Ulysses

Men do, through the roads they walk.

— Fallout: New Vegas · 2010

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What it means

Our interpretation.

Ulysses distinguishes the persistence of war from a person’s capacity to change through experience. The image of a road makes that change something lived rather than merely announced. This is the male-Courier sentence excerpt from the 2011 Lonesome Road ending of the 2010 game; the retained transcript also records a corresponding female-Courier wording.

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  • GamesRadar+Ulysses distinguishes the persistence of war from a person’s capacity to change through experience. The image of a road makes that change something lived rather than merely announced. This is the male-Courier sentence excerpt from the 2011 Lonesome Road ending of the 2010 game; the retained transcript also records a corresponding female-Courier wording.Reference checked
  • Fallout WikiUlysses distinguishes the persistence of war from a person’s capacity to change through experience. The image of a road makes that change something lived rather than merely announced. This is the male-Courier sentence excerpt from the 2011 Lonesome Road ending of the 2010 game; the retained transcript also records a corresponding female-Courier wording.Reference checked

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