Legion or NCR? Debate #2

Post » Thu Feb 05, 2009 10:51 pm

Saying that the NCR is good is like saying that the Holy Crusades was for the greater good.

Best we not get too far into that...
I don't know what the Holy Crusades were (And I don't want it explained here!) but I'm guessing it has to do about christianity which is a no-no in forum rules.
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Post » Fri Feb 06, 2009 6:01 am

Legate Lanius is a sociopath with quasi cult delusions, Cook cook is a text book psychopath.

Boone is of a disciple mentality.. a follower.
Strong loyal, unjudgemental, passes no moral judgements due to relegating them to the responsabilities of others.

Manny as his best friend, the NCR commanders, his wife and now you.
This leads to a break in reality very quickly.
Loyalty to Manny made the act of training to kill instinctual.
Loyalty to the NCR made it seem normal and acceptable in circumstances, even if wrong morally.
Loyalty to his wife led to the breakdown of any normal human functions or compassion, and set in paranioa.
Loyalty to you is either a release of agression, or a healing process
Either way you set him up for the next change to his personallity.


If you don't help Boone and if the NCR pulls out (From the Independent Endings) he becomes a utter psycopathic assassin...
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Post » Fri Feb 06, 2009 2:36 am

Vengance is not psychotic not in general anyway, and not against those that are actually responsible for events that led to it.
It's a belief of divinely or personal inspired retribution, to those that afflicted torment.
Against a stranger or group with no link to those events or based on reality at all, and for release of pleasure than it's psychotic.

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Two ends he takes on the legion, one in a suicidal maner this is not psychotic rather a furious shout of anger / pain... Martyrdom.
The second, he without thought takes out all those he sees as having wronged him or others... this makes him a nemisis, a judge, jury and hangman.
The other ending he kills the officer in charge of Bittersprings, takes two bullets the other for himself.
This is depression and post traumatic depression.

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Post » Thu Feb 05, 2009 6:20 pm

Best we not get too far into that...
I don't know what the Holy Crusades were (And I don't want it explained here!) but I'm guessing it has to do about christianity which is a no-no in forum rules.


Yeah, I won't delve into that unless it goes into PM's from him, but anyways..
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Post » Thu Feb 05, 2009 7:18 pm

Sory for beingrude, I just got worked up about you simply saying that.

If you would want 'true' civilization to the desert, it'd have to go to House. NCR doesn't seem to do anything, they just make it worse in my opinion whereas the Legion enforces the law (Severely.) to keep peace and would eventually make it 'peaceful'.

But as we all know... War, War never changes.


WELL, technically, they won't make the Mojave peacful by what they do, the Mojave will be brought peace by the laws the Legion enforces.

Unless that's what you meant and I can't read.
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Post » Thu Feb 05, 2009 6:31 pm

Vengance is not psychotic not in general anyway, and not against those that are actually responsible for events that led to it.
It's a belief of divinely or personal inspired retribution, to those that afflicted torment.
Against a stranger or group with no link to those events or reality at all, and for release of pleasure than it's psychotic.

Spoiler
Two ends he takes on the legion, one in a suicidal maner this is not psychotic rather a ferious shout of anger / pain... Martyrdom.
The second, he without thought takes out all those he sees as having wronged him or others... this makes him a nemisis, a judge, jury and hangman.
The other ending he kills the officer in charge of Bittersprings, takes two bullets the other for himself.
This is depression and post traumatic depression.




I don't know. This sound's pretty psychotic:

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If NCR withdraws from the region and he is no longer held in check by his conscience, Boone finds lucrative work as a mercenary and assassin. No job is too violent, no target too innocent. As long as the caps are good, Boone will take the job.

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Post » Fri Feb 06, 2009 6:05 am

I don't know. This sound's pretty psychotic:

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If NCR withdraws from the region and he is no longer held in check by his conscience, Boone finds lucrative work as a mercenary and assassin. No job is too violent, no target too innocent. As long as the caps are good, Boone will take the job.



Yes you're completely right.
Sorry I really did not see that one, I apoligise.
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Post » Fri Feb 06, 2009 2:22 am

Yes you're completely right.
Sorry I really did not see that one, I apoligise.


In my next playthrough I will mercykill Boone..

He's borderlined with rage man.
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Post » Thu Feb 05, 2009 9:27 pm

Legion VS NCR become Boone thread :celebration:

Any how, I decide not to go against Legion because Dogtags are plentyful.
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Post » Thu Feb 05, 2009 9:07 pm

The next DLC! LOLOLOLOLOHONESTHEARTS

But really, I hope we could have him as a companion.. I need moar references to Van Buren, if we can have him as a temporary companion, I would be so [censored] happy if he would be able to massacre New Cannan like he would in VB..

i like the sound of that.
speaking of companions, i hate how you were able to get ncr companions but no legion companions
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Post » Thu Feb 05, 2009 10:39 pm

Best we not get too far into that...
I don't know what the Holy Crusades were (And I don't want it explained here!) but I'm guessing it has to do about christianity which is a no-no in forum rules.

I really recommend you find out, I'm surprised you don't know about it, it happened in Europe.
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Post » Fri Feb 06, 2009 7:51 am

I really recommend you find out, I'm surprised you don't know about it, it happened in Europe.

I'm not an educated woman. :P (My school records are... Well awful.)
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Post » Fri Feb 06, 2009 5:25 am

Saying that the NCR is good is like saying that the Holy Crusades was for the greater good.


I didn't say that the NCR was good, no state are absolutely good. I said that CL was much worse than NCR, because I've been seeing people who say that NCR is just as horrible because of the corruption, I used Italy as an example of a country with a corrupt leadership and ineffective bureaucracy. However, the NCR doesn't commit genocide of those that it deems unworthy, I used Pol-Pots Cambodia as an example of that.
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Post » Thu Feb 05, 2009 9:05 pm

I'd give up with reason on this....

There is no changing the minds of fans and their fav's or least liked.
Luckily this is a game and we all can do as we wish, as it has no relevance as to who we are irl.
Otherwise I'd be too scared to leave the house.... Oh wait!
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Post » Thu Feb 05, 2009 8:56 pm

I really recommend you find out, I'm surprised you don't know about it, it happened in Europe.

More across Europe and Western Asia but yeah, it is a fairly huge part of history and certainly an interesting one...


I agree with those who think CL and NCR are just as bad as each other, both are trying to find something in the past to cling to, NCR the failed democracies, CL the failed dictatorships, both are essentially corrupt with Caesar allowing his followers to think of him as a god, demonising his lieutenant to use him as a tool, despite his own impending death (which would leave CL without leadership if Lanius wasn't smart) and the NCR just full of power play, pull and the other banes of democracies the world over.

House is the only real progressive (exempting Yes Man because it's a straight wild card, it's either the Courier's tool or it becomes something else entirely) of the lot.
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Post » Thu Feb 05, 2009 6:00 pm

For me there is a big difference in their leaderships. In the NCR there are good people like Colonel Hsu who want to get rid of the corruption. In the Legion they are all like Caesar - enslave the weak, women will be breeding stock, and kill all who oppose.

If the NCR does not stop its corruption it will fall. Hopefully something better will rise from the ashes. As it is, the NCR is better than the CL as it doesn't enslave, or treat women as cattle. That is it.

The Khans are raiders/drug dealers, they are not innocents. If they had been in Arizona, they would have been expunged years ago. I find it amusing when traveling with Boone in Red Rock, when a Khan will say "You know you're traveling with a F@*&!*( murderer?". I would like to answer back "And you're not?". They brought Bittersprings on themself.

Mankind's best chance is under House, not the NCR or CL.
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Post » Fri Feb 06, 2009 2:23 am

"You know you're traveling with a F@*&!*( murderer?". I would like to answer back "And you're not?".

What Khan has killed an innocent civilian?
They've never really been good people but none of them killed a bunch of innocent civilians.
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Post » Thu Feb 05, 2009 6:27 pm

Arizona was a living Hell before the Legion established their power
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Post » Fri Feb 06, 2009 12:56 am

What Khan has killed an innocent civilian?
They've never really been good people but none of them killed a bunch of innocent civilians.


You have got to be kidding. What part of brutally vicious RAIDERS don't you get?

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Khan
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Post » Thu Feb 05, 2009 6:14 pm

I'm not an educated woman. :P (My school records are... Well awful.)


Well, I won't get into details but they are one of the most intresting, and possibly most corrupt war's in the history of man.
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Post » Fri Feb 06, 2009 5:05 am

You have got to be kidding. What part of brutally vicious RAIDERS don't you get?

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Khan

I've yet to see them murder a bunch of innocent civilians just cause their leader told them so.

Well, I won't get into details but they are one of the most intresting, and possibly most corrupt war's in the history of man.

Sounds intriguing, need to read up on it then.
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Post » Fri Feb 06, 2009 5:52 am

I can imagine 100 years past NV people saying well if it wasnt for CL...

Rome were just as merciless and cruel as CL were. One example would be when Ceaser [IRL] was in gaul he fought a tribe. The tribe sent its leaders in to negotiate peace. Ceaser arrested the leaders of the tribe, and leaderless, the tribe with all its children and women were wiped out. And look how much we owe rome. Building , health , military Rome advanced all these things and more.
And i refuse to believe that everyone in CL is evil, as i always say thats like saying everyone in nazi germany was evil
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Post » Fri Feb 06, 2009 10:40 am

I can imagine 100 years past NV people saying well if it wasnt for CL...

Rome were just as merciless and cruel as CL were. One example would be when Ceaser [IRL] was in gaul he fought a tribe. The tribe sent its leaders in to negotiate peace. Ceaser arrested the leaders of the tribe, and leaderless, the tribe with all its children and women were wiped out. And look how much we owe rome. Building , health , military Rome advanced all these things and more.
And i refuse to believe that everyone in CL is evil, as i always say thats like saying everyone in nazi germany was evil



I think putting everybody named as evil in the Legion was stupid. Obsidian could have at least attempted to conceal their bias towards the Legion by making, I dunno, Lucius neutral.

Edit: All right, I just checked and Lucius actually is neutral. Obsidian are still f'cking biased.
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Post » Fri Feb 06, 2009 8:31 am

You have got to be kidding. What part of brutally vicious RAIDERS don't you get?

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Khan


Khans of California arent the Greath Khans anymore

Remember Bittersprings, NCR killed women, child, and elders person, now thats really bad
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Post » Thu Feb 05, 2009 8:50 pm

I think putting everybody named as evil in the Legion was stupid. Obsidian could have at least attempted to conceal their bias towards the Legion by making, I dunno, Lucius neutral.

Edit: All right, I just checked and Lucius actually is neutral. Obsidian are still f'cking biased.


Does Fallout have Character Aligmnet??
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