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[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 18 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

Yeah I remember people were complaining that they were greatly reduced and I was all "did you not play the game where it states plainly like a dozen fucking times that this shit pretty much dies with Caesar"

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 18 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

It literally is one of the dialog options you can use to talk Lanius out of attacking Hoover Dam. The Legion had so little time to be fleshed out that its fans just fill the gaps with whatever fascist power fantasy they want to believe and think it's canon.

It doesn't help that Caesar is a dumb person's idea of an intelligent person. He just uses random latin phrases, misunderstands Hegel, and people who haven't picked up a book since the 9th grade suddenly think he's some kind of mastermind.

[–] CthulhusIntern@hexbear.net 16 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Sometimes, I think of what New Vegas could be if Obsidian was given more than 18 months. The fact that they had something passable, let alone as good as it is, in the constraints Bethesda put on them is amazing.

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 13 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Agreed 100%. Just imagine Pentiment-level writing in the Fallout Universe.

[–] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 10 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

It doesn't help that Caesar is a dumb person's idea of an intelligent person. He just uses random latin phrases, misunderstands Hegel, and people who haven't picked up a book since the 9th grade suddenly think he's some kind of mastermind.

That's the point of him though.

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 10 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I know that, but so many people take his character at face value, like he's some actually cool person.

[–] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 12 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Oh yeah, that does happen. It's so incredibly stupid. "BUT THE ROADS ARE SAFE AND NO TAXES" motherfucker what do you think tribute is and what are the roads safe from?

Almost as bad is all the Mr. House stans. Oh yeah guys lets have the literal Wizard of Oz metaphor have a go at it.

[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 13 points 20 hours ago

Yeah but ths "dead after Caesar" they showed is what seems to be a 50/50 split between two factions, for a combined total of what seems to be 3 dozen dudes

The legion presented in the game had to have more than a few dozen dudes because you literally can't control as much territory as they were stated to control without like, a thousand times as many

The show writers just don't understand scale, i.e. they give JUST THE WESTERN CHAPTERS of the Brotherhood enough FLYING AIRCRAFT CARRIERS that they could feasibly project power across the entire fucking planet, and this isn't questioned

[–] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 8 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

We went through this in the last fallout thread. The complaint isn't that they're diminished, it's that the depictions of factions and the realities of the world are incredibly inconsistent. Caesars legion are reduced to a silly little camp, while the brotherhood somehow has flotillas of Prydwen to just throw away.

What is shown at every level of Caesars camp is also not a faction that has fallen due to any of the contradictions the game highlighted. Caesars corpse hasn't even begun to bloat, yet they're this little fuckass group. They're just that size because of nothing.