There's always going to be some level of dissonance with games.
It takes place in a post apocalyptic world but the game also has to be fun. I think that on its own has a bad message to send.
I think he could have worked a bit better if he just broke down a lot. All this bravado and he just helps for a bit before falling apart.
I kind of like it when you hack him in the Institute questline he'll call the BoS airship a communist vehicle before blowing it up. Hell, he calls the Enclave, the literal decedents of the ruling class, communists in 3.
I think he could have worked a bit better if he just broke down a lot.
Liberty Prime was completely destroyed the literal second it faced even basic combined arms tactics in the form of a glorified artillery strike.
But yes, the fact that Gamers can go "wow cool nationalism robot" is evidence that even satire as hamfisted as Liberty Prime is too subtle and open to interpretation, and that it needed to go further in establishing that Liberty Prime was a terrible boondoggle of a project and that all its lines are the ravings of fascist madmen.
There's always going to be some level of dissonance with games.
It takes place in a post apocalyptic world but the game also has to be fun. I think that on its own has a bad message to send.
I think he could have worked a bit better if he just broke down a lot. All this bravado and he just helps for a bit before falling apart.
I kind of like it when you hack him in the Institute questline he'll call the BoS airship a communist vehicle before blowing it up. Hell, he calls the Enclave, the literal decedents of the ruling class, communists in 3.
He works well on some levels but bad on others.
Liberty Prime was completely destroyed the literal second it faced even basic combined arms tactics in the form of a glorified artillery strike.
But yes, the fact that Gamers can go "wow cool nationalism robot" is evidence that even satire as hamfisted as Liberty Prime is too subtle and open to interpretation, and that it needed to go further in establishing that Liberty Prime was a terrible boondoggle of a project and that all its lines are the ravings of fascist madmen.
That's basically the Bethesda Fallout games in a nutshell
They're actually perfect but you are entitled to your own opinion :quokka-smile:
Likewise, my friend