ew that game is reactonary trash with zero good takes on communism or fascism capitalism, yes i understand its a parody of 50s america, why isnt there racism then?
...Were there any takes on Communism at all in New Vegas? I know they make it very clear that liberal democracy (NCR) is bad, if not irredemable corrupt trash. The Followers of the Apocalypse also give GOOD, POSITIVE anarchist representation. EVERYONE with a single shred of empathy wants to be like the Followers because they are unambiguously good (except maybe some of the bits with The White Wash quest). Communism isn't really discussed in any depth to my knowledge in any of the Fallout games, in fact I believe Comrade Collectron's dialogue in FO76 has more discussion of communism as an ideology rather than as a vague bad thing than I've seen in every other game combined (and all of it is good takes, too, no wonder people love him...). In fact, communism as a vague bad thing is commentary and is a dig at the US, since people criticize communism extensively without having the first clue what the fuck it is.
If you dig further into the lore, there's a lot more digs at capitalism than on communism, and very few nice things about capitalism (I also was just reminded of in-game Chinese concentration camps mirroring our Japanese internment camps, there's one in Point Lookout in FO3 and one in Big MT in New Vegas: OWB, does this cover the racism? Then again in FO4 one of your neighbors is an interracial lesbian couple -- the racism is very focused against Asians as it is portrayed). The Chinese did launch the nuclear first strike, because the Americans were invading and they were pinned in a stalemate. The game broadly doesn't pick sides on economic issues, it's more against adhering to an ideology so hard that you'd willingly opt to destroy the world for it (something neither side is portrayed as keen to avoid, and not at all a bad take all things considered -- the bomb does in fact kill the ruling class as well, but it still sends us all to hell), and given the sheer horror that the Sino-American War was even BEFORE the bombs, anti-war in general. It's not really anti-communist in any significant sense, but that doesn't stop people from seeing Liberty Prime and going WOW, COOL ANTI-COMMUNIST ROBOT. At least we do have a based communist robot now.
Your brain telling you to play New Vegas
ew that game is reactonary trash with zero good takes on communism or
fascismcapitalism, yes i understand its a parody of 50s america, why isnt there racism then?...Were there any takes on Communism at all in New Vegas? I know they make it very clear that liberal democracy (NCR) is bad, if not irredemable corrupt trash. The Followers of the Apocalypse also give GOOD, POSITIVE anarchist representation. EVERYONE with a single shred of empathy wants to be like the Followers because they are unambiguously good (except maybe some of the bits with The White Wash quest). Communism isn't really discussed in any depth to my knowledge in any of the Fallout games, in fact I believe Comrade Collectron's dialogue in FO76 has more discussion of communism as an ideology rather than as a vague bad thing than I've seen in every other game combined (and all of it is good takes, too, no wonder people love him...). In fact, communism as a vague bad thing is commentary and is a dig at the US, since people criticize communism extensively without having the first clue what the fuck it is.
If you dig further into the lore, there's a lot more digs at capitalism than on communism, and very few nice things about capitalism (I also was just reminded of in-game Chinese concentration camps mirroring our Japanese internment camps, there's one in Point Lookout in FO3 and one in Big MT in New Vegas: OWB, does this cover the racism? Then again in FO4 one of your neighbors is an interracial lesbian couple -- the racism is very focused against Asians as it is portrayed). The Chinese did launch the nuclear first strike, because the Americans were invading and they were pinned in a stalemate. The game broadly doesn't pick sides on economic issues, it's more against adhering to an ideology so hard that you'd willingly opt to destroy the world for it (something neither side is portrayed as keen to avoid, and not at all a bad take all things considered -- the bomb does in fact kill the ruling class as well, but it still sends us all to hell), and given the sheer horror that the Sino-American War was even BEFORE the bombs, anti-war in general. It's not really anti-communist in any significant sense, but that doesn't stop people from seeing Liberty Prime and going WOW, COOL ANTI-COMMUNIST ROBOT. At least we do have a based communist robot now.