The Courier: Amnesia or what? (2024)

Right, I started playing New Vegas wondering, if my Courier is such a well-traveled ranger-mailman, why doesn't he seem to have the slightest idea what the f*ck is going on in the Mojave desert, where ANYTHING is located or how any of the local factions work?

Wasn't much of a problem, really. Maybe he just landed in the Mojave recently from somewhere else, and was hired by the Express for that one job before orienting himself. And during subsequent playthroughs, where I, as a player, knew the basics, it wouldn't matter at all.

Then along comes the 'Lonesome Road' DLC where a dude, hinted at to actually know his stuff, tells me explicit details about my past and my responses can vary between "You crazy?" and "Funny, I don't remember."

At no point can I ask "Why the hell don't I remember this?", and the fact doesn't even seem to surprise him all that much, leading me to believe that either this is a horribly written case of "Here you go, imagine the rest yourself", or my character is actually, in-universe, suffering from amnesia, which the game just didn't bother telling me beforehand.

To get any roleplaying-value at all out of this scenario, i kinda have to know: Which is it?

The Courier: Amnesia or what? (2024)
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