Fallout: New Vegas: In which I ramble on forever

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I am willing to say I have played the ever loving hell out of this game, and still do quite a bit. It is one of the grouping of RPG's I cycle through during dry spells of gaming, and I love it quite a bit.

I was one of the chosen few who never in his entire life of owning it ever had a glitch that I didn't cause by modding.
I can say that because I roleplay all my characters my viewpoints are a bit more varied than if I were just playing it straight up as a game.

As far as the Legion is concerned it is sometimes better to view the game from the place of someone who has to live in it, of course Caesar's Legion is a massive conglomerate of raider tribes stripped of their personalities and brought into a uniform fold, lead by a military leader whom may be the only real controlling factor in why it hasn't fallen apart. But with Caesar at the head, and with an heir of equal or greater than knowledge and charisma they have created an empire that while harsh is capable in a survivalist standpoint. And if you are playing someone who is a survivalist in that matter they may see the harsh purity of Caesar's Legion as preferable to the bloated mass that is the NCR or the at times totalitarian concept of House.

And there is never a good reason to trust Yesman.

Is Honest Hearts pretty racist? Probably. But the DLC to me always seemed more about taking a distant but present view of two aspects of the Bible, and so I mostly ignored the tribal cliche's because they were more set-pieces to the overall situation. This was excepted in the case of the Survivalist, which I can understand being separated most of all because it is actually another case of that same racism you are talking about, only being conducted by someone with a more neutral disposition so it seems easier to swallow when he accidentally influences a whole tribe to his way of acting rather than purposefully like the other two mighty white men. Still beautifully done.

I also enjoyed pretty much all the other DLC. Dead Money may have been more forgiving to me compared to Krylo since I was able to trudge through the part with all the annoying enemies fairly quickly, and so I was able to concentrate more on the allies you are given, whom are all great though my favorite is Dog/God. Whom I was not charismatic enough to save that time around and that killed me. Old World Blues is just great, I don't even have to make any measures to defend it because it is just great. It is the closest I think they have gotten to the old school amusement of the Isometric Fallouts since ever. And Lonesome Road was also fantastic, it also gave me a somewhat clearer image of Caesar's Legion by hearing about it from someone whom was part of, destroyed by, but still somewhat loyal to it. Also I wanted that version of ED-E with me forever.

The railroading in and of itself was understandable, mostly from a roleplaying standpoint. Someone just shot me in the face, and didn't actually kill me. I kinda want to deal with that no matter what character I've made, and that path is always down the railroad. Also the Willow mod additional follower is down that path, so even from a gamer standpoint I am always influenced to stumble down that way.

I just dig this game a lot, and I probably will for at least as long as it takes for a new one to come around or Wasteland 2 to finish. We'll see how things turn out.