Cool read, although I haven't played most of the games discussed. Makes me realize how overwhelming male-dominated the main plot in FNV is. As far as impactful women there's really only, what, Cassandra Moore? A couple factional leaders like Pearl as the article mentioned?
As far as Dead Money goes, the instrumentalization of Vera and Christine's suffering seems like a strange charge to levy, given how the entire plot revolves around people and their lives being used as a means to an end. I'd also disagree that the purpose is to villanize Dean to the character given how unless you get on his nerves in dialogue options the game basically invites you to buddy up with him, even if he is a manipulative creep. Less about individual shittiness than it is the lengths people go to when they refuse to let go™ (which is it's whole own discussion altogether).
And yeah Honest Hearts is wack. There's the barest shade of self-awareness there (the Sneering Imperialist perk and dialogue option(s?), for example) but you get the sense they were just having too much fun letting you play the part of neocolonial kingmaker to actually unpack anything. Blergh. Well, it was already the worst DLC if the bunch, so not much of value was lost.
Cool read, although I haven't played most of the games discussed. Makes me realize how overwhelming male-dominated the main plot in FNV is. As far as impactful women there's really only, what, Cassandra Moore? A couple factional leaders like Pearl as the article mentioned?
As far as Dead Money goes, the instrumentalization of Vera and Christine's suffering seems like a strange charge to levy, given how the entire plot revolves around people and their lives being used as a means to an end. I'd also disagree that the purpose is to villanize Dean to the character given how unless you get on his nerves in dialogue options the game basically invites you to buddy up with him, even if he is a manipulative creep. Less about individual shittiness than it is the lengths people go to when they refuse to let go™ (which is it's whole own discussion altogether).
And yeah Honest Hearts is wack. There's the barest shade of self-awareness there (the Sneering Imperialist perk and dialogue option(s?), for example) but you get the sense they were just having too much fun letting you play the part of neocolonial kingmaker to actually unpack anything. Blergh. Well, it was already the worst DLC if the bunch, so not much of value was lost.
Isn’t Kreia like the main antagonist and evil mastermind behind all the events of Kotor one and two?
Oh I was talking specifically about Fallout New Vegas, as it's the only one of the discussed games I've played