You decide who is "good" and who is "bad" based on what your own personal morals are. That's what is so great about this game.

It's true that every faction has its good and bad side - it's one of the reasons why FNV is so awesome - but it doesn't follow that each faction has equally good and bad sides. Almost no one here is claiming that one side is entirely good or bad. The argument here (as in the forums) is over the relative degrees of good and bad of each faction.

I'm an NCR supporter, for example, but I acknowledge that it's a bureaucratic mess and that its presence in the Mojave is thoroughly imperialist. However, as a whole the NCR seems to have good intentions, and since the end result of this imperialist exercise is (probably) NCR citizenship for the people of the Mojave and greater economic integration with the prosperous West Coast, my opinion is that it's a reasonable trade-off.

And I do know that the Legion provides security, I just don't think the (rather barebones) ends justify their brutal, excessive means. Yes, they do provide security, which may be an admirable goal a century ago, but why settle for survival when prosperity is a very realistic goal, as the NCR has shown? There is a time and place for ruthlessness and austerity, it just isn't the Mojave in the late 23rd century.


So we're all illogical sheeple because we disagree with your assessment of House's moral brilliance? Don't get me wrong, House is my preferred route after NCR, but I think it's fairly clear that House's motives are not altruistic.

Also, not American.

I'd say the NCR is far from the "villain" of New Vegas. Out of all the factions it is the one most often put in a postive light (just look at the # of NCR quests compared to Legion ones), and that the Legion is the closest thing their is to an antagonist.