Zontar said:
Level 7 Dragon said:
Well, if you play the game long enough, you really begin to see the ambiguity.
Not really, when all things are considered the NCR are still the objective "good guys" of the game even if they have their problems, the Legion are still the bad guys (whose ability to not collapse and somehow secure their territory being one of the single strongest arguments for Obsidian not being the superb writers fanboys think they are) and the Brotherhood is just depicted as being there, trying to secure technology at all cost.
Shades of grey are one thing, but the idea there's ambiguity as to which factions are good or evil is as laughable as the notion that the Legion could realistically win a war against a moderately well defended settlement without taking more losses then said settlement has people, or the notion that the NCR with its superior numbers and technology can't do what people completely reliant on melee weapons could.
This is turning in to a NV threat, but anyway...
Here's the thing, the Legion is unable to win a direct fight against the NCR and Ceazar admits it in one of the available coversations. However, by the start of the game the NCR military is weakened due to prolongued occupation of the Mojave desert. One fo the reasons why the Caravans are so pissed off at them is because they are unable to secure major highways and strategic points. They did have the upper hand during the first battle of Hoover damb due to raw numbers and tech, though as years passed it began to get more and more difficult to supply the troops and large chunks of the military to other fronts to help to expand California's borders.
This is why the Legion tried to forge an allience with the Powder gangers and the Khans, so those smaller groups would chip away at the occupants. Ceazar believes that due to thin resources of the californians, if the Mojave populus will take their side, then the army will have their hands full, as a result the legionares will be able to secure strategic points.
Also, you didn't say why the Legion would collapse? They based their society on ancient dictatorships and they functioned fairly well for certuries, say ancient Egypt, China or even the Roman Empire.
Perhaps you saw the factions as "objective" good and bad guys, though I really stopped to question. It depends on how much you roleplay. If you grew up in a first world nation, certainly the NCR would be your best pick, however an amnesiac from an irradiated desert would have a much harder time picking with who to align.
Anyway, it's okay if you didn't like the story. I quite like it, though it is fairly flawed. Just, please, don't tell that something is "overrated" if you don't see the appeal in it.
