Pandabearparade said:
The problem I have with New Vegas's writing is that it tried to have some sort of big moral quandary about "who is the best choice" that was supposed to be grey-grey morality that wasn't actually answer, but failed at it miserably.
-The problem with Caesar's legion is that, as both Marcus and House point out, no one in the legion follows Caesar's ideals, they only follow him. When he dies, and even with the surgery to remove his tumor hes still old enough that he could die any time soon, his legion will, ironically considering he worked at destroying tribes, split into various tribes led by the various leaders of the legion. However, instead of having 100 small, powerless, tribes, that can't really do anything, we now have like 10 powerful tribes, trained in combat, with significantly better gear, fighting each other over the throne of Caesar. There is no hope, nor grey morality peace, that Caesar's legion can bring. It;s just pure anarchy, and a hellhole just as bad as the CW, if not worse.
-Both forms of independent are just as bad.
-With the unupgraded securotrons, the Mojave turns into an anarchistic hellhole with everyone fighting each other. Trade will diminish because the roads aren't safe because of raiders, and the BoS stealing all the tech the see. All communities will suffer from significantly lowered standards of lviing, and Vegas will just slowly sink away becuase it cant survive on its own, and no one wants to go there.
-With the upgraded securotrons the places turns into a police state ruled by a robot who, by his very nature, cant say no, and while House may have had a giant robot army built, the simple fact of the matter is that due to sheer size of the Mojave the robots have to cover, eventually, the robot armies will dwindle due to being unable to make more and the dangers of the Mojave killing them. eventually making Yes man unable to control the Mojave, and people will get tired of his polcie state BS, and there will be a hyper-bloody war which ends up with Yes-Man, and the robot gone, and Vegas turning out like it was in the unupgraded robot ending, just with more people dead.
-House is a idiot on the scale like no other. He is so focused on rebuilding Vegas to it's pre-war state that he doesn't give two craps about anywhere else beyond how many caps he can extort from them. Hes so caught up in something he can never have that he is will to let the rest of the Mojave rot because of it, and his actions are the EXACT same as Gatsby from "the great Gatsby" and anyone who has read the book knows it only ends with his death. but because house is the king-pin of Vegas, his downfall means not only the downfall of Vegas, but the downfall of all the Mojave, which isn't in that good of a state to begin with because of how much he would neglect it.
-The NCR is the only faction that could actually give the region any long term stability. But they are portrayed as such a corrupt, bloated, and idiotic, government that I despise picking them.
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New Vegas was a game that trys to pretend it has some morally grey "no right answer" faction system, but in reality, it just has 4 endings that leads to utter ruin for the Mojave, and the 5th ending is just a corrupt bloated government. Making every ending shitty does not make the game deep, or thought provoking, or cleaver, it just means you made a game with 4 shitty endings. It's a game that tired, failed, and still acts like it succeeded.
It's like inception, it's a movie that so obviously not smart, yet trys to act smart, that it only comes off as pretensions, and annoying, and it's that sort of pretensions, armchair intellectual BS that I absolutely cannot stand listening to.
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I would rather have Fallout 3's broken steel ending any day of the week, you either
A. blow up the Enclave destroying the greatest evil the wasteland ever known, thus allowing the BoS to help build the wasteland into something better.
B. Destroy the Enclave, and the BoS, preventing any form of order, and leaving the Wasteland to rot into an even worse hellhole then it already was.
Do you see the difference between New Vegas and Fallout 3? In Fallout 3, you actually get shit done, and you get shit done because the games doesn't try to be some pseudo-intellectual BS it never was.
