10 Underused Video Game Characters You Fell In Love With

You'll find few Fallout fans who will argue with you that Fallout: New Vegas is the best Fallout game ever made. And one of the first examples they will point to is the character many believe to be the true final boss of the game: Ulysses.

Ulysses is one of the best villains in gaming history, a cold calculating wanderer who has fought for almost every army currently stomping around the wasteland, out of a need to find something bigger than himself to dedicate his life to. He seems to find that in a town called Hopeville, until some dumbass courier was duped into setting off the nuclear warheads that rested miles underneath the little community. That dumbass is revealed to have been you.

And it's payback time.

Ulysses represents the game taking your silent protagonist whom you've been grafting your own identity onto and ripping back the curtain to reveal that they're a 3-dimensional character with their own history and mistakes, forcing you to confront the sins of your past in the form of Ulysses' vengeance upon both you and the two armies tearing the Mojave apart.

It's a shame that he only appears in one DLC chapter of the game, with the others merely hinting at him and building up his appearance, but that's also a strength of Ulysses as a character. He knew exactly when to show up, and when to bow out.