• Guamer [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      The NCR is unironically way better tho

      Caesar’s Legion are literal slavers while the main criticism of the NCR was “muh taxes”

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        The main criticism of the NCR is that it’s a dying overextended Empire that can’t take care of its own people and enjoys the occasional genocide. First as tragedy then as Fallout New Vegas

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          Also the fact that it’s clearly dying means it’s just going to suck resources out of Vegas to enrich itself to delay its inevitable collapse

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              They would use money from the strip to fund the construction of the aqueduct they’d use to drain every last drop of the Colorado River to divert it to incredibly destructive brahmin ranches that will inevitably be wiped out by some FEV-derived zoonotic disease right around the time Shady Sands is being nuked by Vault-Tec

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          If the alternative is that world just playing Mad Max forever, I’m supporting the best chance it has at a halfway decent, stable unified governance/society, warts and all.

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            The real alternative is the axed Followers of the Apocalypse questline that would have made an actual independent Vegas that lasted beyond the courier’s lifespan possible.

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              to be fair aside from the unavoidable “and some people died during the battle :(” slide, the independent ending that made it to release doesn’t seem all that bad either. i just wish the aesthetics of the independent ending were less “anarchy fuck yeah” and more “the conditions were right for a near autonomous bastion city of the wastes”

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          The NCR effectively treats the Mojave as a colony, extracting energy and food in exchange of tenuous and corrupt control, and failing, unequal infrastructure. Mojave wastelanders are not citizens of the NCR, and are recurrently controlled and brutalized in order to maintain the imperial core.

          Yes man is the only anti imperialist choice in fnv

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    yeah not too surprising for a game where the rebels either do child slavery for opium farms or enslave every woman on sight. far cry stories never made that much sense anyway.

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    The plot of the previous game was literally just “quirked up white boy with a little bit of swag busts it down sexual style… is he goated with the sauce?” and it kinda ruled tbh

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      But there were just some choices that were… weird. Like killing off Vaas halfway through and replacing him with a less fun villain. And then the second half, you get a disguise so the enemies aren’t instantly hostile, as opposed to the first half, where you were on a constantly hostile island, enemies everywhere, giving you a reason to take over outposts, literally making the game easier in the second half.

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        The first half is better but most of the fun for me was just creeping through the jungle bow and knife hunting the most dangerous game which stays fun throughout.

        The only truly memorable story missions were the tripping your face off ones and the one blasting make it bun dem. But mostly I resented the story missions for making me go loud instead of just knifing a dozen pirates/Rhodesians.

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      “The Path of the Warrior, Jason” was a common refrain amongst my friends before we did some stupid shit back when FC3 came out. Similar to YOLO.

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    The Fr*nch should not be allowed to make videogames. Sorry Expedition 33 people.

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    You kinda could side with Pagan Min, if you decided to just have common sense at the beginning of the game and wait for him to return instead of acting like a video game character and escaping. Then he just returns, you go on vacation together, and the game ends.

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      They’re hilariously tilted in regards to politics

      The second one is the only one to really examine what it means to be a foreign mercenary fighting in a civil war and even then the extent of it is “War is hell for civilians”

      The 3rd game is literally White Savior of the West Indies: The Game

      4th one is “Maybe the efféte villain has a good reason for genocide”

      5th one is “Generic Multiethnic Doomsday Cult, they’re right! We won’t examine American racism or Christianity or anything! Please don’t threaten us!”

      6th one is “What if Cuba invented tobacco that cured cancer, But they like used slaves to do it? Also, communist esthetics but liberal politics, the demands of the revolution are just to have an election and have Batista Jr. step down, no jail time or nothing.”

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      The first one was revolutionary for it’s time and the rest are just mediocre open world slop that you’ve probably played a million times before. Don’t even bother