Hbomberguy came out with a video celebrating Fallout New Vegas. Which probably would have been great to come out two months earlier, for the 10th anniversary of the game.
And from my brief listen, the dumbass calls the Legion fascist, despite the Legion, not even being a centralized state, let alone one with enough control to enforce a corporatist economy.
Well, he may have the definitive voice of a smug cunt and infamously organized a donation drive to a homophobic, transgender child obsessed group, but at least he has some good taste in video games.
This retard is supposed to be smart yet thinks:
- The boomers are a social commentary critique on real world boomers, particularly American boomers?
Lolwut.
The same boomers who gave us hippies and were deathly afraid of guns? How are they the same as the NV boomers in anything but name?
The boomers are also a desired potential ally for almost every main faction in the game. If the game was meant to condemn the Boomers as he implied it did, they sure went about it the wrong way.
I get what he was going for, but he sucks at explaining his own viewpoints. Yes, the boomers are gun-happy xenophobes who can be seen as a parody of 60s Republicans, but that's where the similarities end and it's not as deep as he thinks it is. Again, the boomers are feared and respected.
- Praises NV's freedom and refusal to hold your hand in one second, then turns around and praises NV's design that a dozen NPCs will all hand-hold you via quests to the same dungeons as to ensure you don't miss out on Obsidian's hard work? Pick a side. You can't praise both the unabashed freedom and focused guiding at the same time. A better POV would be that NV executes what F3 tried to do in regards to level design and exploration much better than Bethesda did. Instead he just sucks Obsidian off with contradicting viewpoints and it's annoying.
- Can't decide whether he loves or hates awards shows. On the one hand he mocks them for being nothing but extended trailer shows that no one cares to watch and take seriously and is full of devs masturbating to themselves, then praises devs who masturbate to their political leanings and how gamers (lol, it's all slacktivists proclaiming they're journalists at those shows) applaud all of it, but because he agrees with their politics it's ok and should be highlighted.
- The Legion is fascist?? Good God, this guy is no better than a basic bitch religious fundamentalist who can't grasp anything outside of his personal beliefs. The legion are a parody/imitation of Rome, and Caesar is one of the most intellectual figures in the game, but all he took out of it is that because the Legion have slaves they're right wing authoritarian extremists. Unless he meant the Legion is fascist in the original sense of the word (which I seriously doubt he did), I feel he only said this to boost his credit score with his cronies. He never expanded on the metaphor of the fasces enough for me to believe he means anything except "legion bad". What's next; the Brotherhood of Steel are Nazis? It's amazing a guy who understands the multi-layered writing of NV is a moral shade of greys also thinks the Legion are cartoonishly evil.
- Has no idea what an Autocrat and a Libertarian are if he really thinks House is a Libertarian.
Never mind the fact that House himself states he despises democracies and explicitly states that Vegas shall have an efficient autocracy once he secures his desired outcome.
He would've had a better case if he stated the Followers of The Apocalypse were Libertarians, for better
and worse.
- He's still mad
Many a True Nerd disagreed with him about F3.
I agree with him in general that NV is a great game and in many ways superior to F3 as a Fallout sequel, but almost every reason he chose for proving why is just inane.
Had to stop watching after 5 minutes, either i've had enough of being bombarded with dry, sarcastic, ironic, self-referential humor or that whole style is getting very boring and stale.
It really is.
It was the "next big thing" after the angry reviewer schtick went stale in the early 10s, but it's long past it's expiration date.
Unless he's reviewing as a character/persona, that shit needs to go.
his video was thats not a big deal
Neither is "representation", yet I bet this faggot thinks it's a real worrying issue if there's an equal number of trannies/joggers/wymxn in X media production.
Quite the hypocrite to mock conservatives for caring about the secular poisoning of Christmas yet whining about leftist causes apolitical people care nothing for.
I don't believe anyone watches these long ass videos in their entirety. They must keep them on in the background while they do other shit and treat them as background noise. There's just so much talking for so little substance.
Frighteningly accurate. I had this as background noise while doing settlement building and management in F4's Sim Settlements 2 mod.
I can't imagine focusing your undivided attention on this wanker.