Mr New Vegas being an AI was only mentioned in a developer interview or commentary I think. I don't believe it's mentioned anywhere in the game itself.
*Became muties you kill in Fallout 1 since Master was just as starved for vaults as NCR would be 200 years later, just for a different reason
Pretty sure that is universally known fact among anyone who played the game more than once tho, again something that the people behind the show would know if anyone there actually played the game at least once.
during fallout 2, the rangers have super mutants and ghouls. new vegas really did not do the amount of 'liberal' and 'progressive' that the NCR is justice. i'd say in a fine way, ghouls are actually unfairly prejudiced against, and super mutants that have the ability to think and reason are happy to just live in normal communities, like marcus and broken hills or jacobstown, which while majority mutant is also open to others as long as they're not prejudiced (and don't agitate the nightkin). the wasteland is surprisingly non-racist, with the most racist factions being the BOS (no muties, no synths), and the explicitly synth-supremacist railroad.
I wonder if that TTRPG expansion that bridges the gap between the OGs and the modern slop will come up with an explanation. From what I've heard, the Modiphius stuff actually pays respects to the Interplay games.
IIrc it was mentioned in promo material for the game, but not in the game itself. That being said, there's not really any other explanation for an immortal DJ.
Pretty sure they don't have ghouls in NCR, in fact if you have Lenny, he's forced to stay outside for the duration of your visit(or that might have been Vault City, the original release got scripts flipped around). You're right about the mutants, altho there are only two in town(and Marcus might also be told to stay outside during your visit anyways, again it's been nearly a decade since I played Fallout 2 unpatched).
Modded content, the original was just a generic Super Mutant model with an unchanged(which is to say, small) Ranger hat. Same general idea, and a call back to that one mutant Ranger in Fallout 2. Ghouls only started being regularly drafted around the time of New Vegas, usually for Veteran Ranger units(and there is general distrust of them regardless, perfect example is Camp Searchlight). Ironically enough, Brotherhood is more accepting of both mutants and ghouls within their ranks, well the Mid-West Brotherhood at any rate.
one of the NCR's states as of new vegas is dayglow, which is also mentioned in 2 in the list of info you get about the NCR when you ask around about it. so they definitely have ghouls from there. the bible mentioned that ghouls from necropolis all moved to dayglow because of its proximity to the glow, and that they work with scavengers. i know it's the bible, but it shows that even during that era, they were thinking about ghouls within the NCR. the ncr also outlaws slavery. you're thinking of vault city which does not allow marcus or lenny inside. the ncr just requires you to put your guns away.
in 2, the rangers just wear combat armor so their models are all the same, but ghouls in combat armor would look very similar. ranger veterans can also spawn in new vegas as ghouls, so there's definitely an implication that rangers have been ghouls as well, beyond just echo.
There is obviously ghouls around the old Necropolis area and maybe other scattered settlements, but that doesn't change the fact that they are a rare sight within or around most of the NCR and not generally accepted within the local population(altho with how big NCR is, obviously that will vary by region. We can only assume). I doubt any ghoul runs for the senate or as mayor outside of a few ghoul centric areas, places like Broken Hills are an anomaly and even that place was a powder keg of racial tensions at the end of the day.
Hate to tell you this, but that's not how Fallout 2 sprites work. All ghouls look the same, even if it's implied they wear armor, Lenny doesn't even change his sprite if you give him a suit of Power Armor without a mod. NCR as seen in Fallout 2 is 99% composed of humans, with one odd Super Mutant Ranger thrown in for flavor. Unless you live in Broken Hills, ghouls generally get the short end of the stick in that game anyways, NCR isn't an exception. New Vegas is another story, and I'm sure there are a lot more ghouls in the Rangers after the Ranger Unification happened. Point is that this is simply not the case around the main invasion force(the troopers) or even the "regular" Rangers, just the most elite units(which are usually specialized anyways) so even then that's a tiny minority probably centered around radioactive areas or kept around as reserves(Camp Golf).
agreed, i'd be surprised if anyone from anywhere but dayglow was a ghoul in the government.
none of the companions do, actually. it's kind of an oddity of the game. they basically just give NPCs a sprite and then stat them to match the armor, i'm familiar with the engine's background workings to a certain degree. it's why the enemies don't drop armor in the first place, they aren't really equipped, it's just a sprite assignment. lenny is the only ghoul companion, and the only ghoul you can PUT in combat armor in fallout 2, but if you're in combat armor in fallout 2, you're not going to have your face visible with its design. the ranger critter type is given the combat armor sprite, and the only one who doesn't wear that is the super mutant who just wouldn't make sense to wear it. i agree that there are no stated ghouls, but there's no reason to think there wouldn't be ghouls in the rangers at that point considering they let SUPER MUTANTS join, and the NCR shows no other particular bigotry toward ghouls. the average NCR citizen is probably more polite to ghouls than almost anyone else in the wastes. fallout 3 has it established that ghouls are treated pretty shitty, and vault city in 2 has a kill on sight policy for them. there are also only... what, 3 rangers in the NCR, and the others are on other maps throughout the wastes? the rangers at that point were still focused on their eradication of slavery in the region, i would think they'd take any capable gunmen they could get.
agreed, ghouls are a minority without a doubt, even in the NCR, and there is very likely still prejudice around them. but the NCR doesn't kill them on sight, they live within the borders of the country, serve in the military in various positions, including highly respected special forces soldiers. contrast this to the brotherhood of steel, vault city where they kill ghouls on sight, even non-ferals. most cities around 2 where they're pretty mean to lenny as well if i recall. there's really no information either way about when ghouls were integrated into the NCR military, but it seems very silly that the rangers would allow a super mutant but not ghouls. either way, super mutants would be even rarer than ghouls, the only reason they're so present in the newer games is brand recognition. there's no reason for there ot be this many enclaves of supermutants around in the first place, they were originally just a thing being experimented on in a secret government facility in the mountains, but now every town in the goddamn wastes has an FEV canister poisoning its water supply or some shit.
Well, the Mid-West BOS has ghouls, along with super mutant soldiers within their ranks, so they have NCR beat there. I'm sure there is zero ghouls in the NCR in Fallout 2 since even if their sprites were that of Combat Armored humans(who still have non-rotten smooth skin visible on their sprite), they sure don't sound like them. Ghouls have a very distinct groaning sound when they're hurt, so if there are any within NCR, you would know it if you fought them, and I am sure every single ghoul in Fallout 1 and 2 looks like a ghoul, they don't have mis-matching sprites. That's not the case in Tactics however, as ghouls CAN wear Power Armor and Environmental Armor(that game's equivalent of Combat Armor), but that's an entire different engine. Devs would have to go out of their way to either include a ghoul NPC that has "armor" that makes them look like humans in Combat Armor or a normal human in Combat Armor with a soundbank of a ghoul in Fallout 2 for that to work on that engine, and that's not the case. For all that extra work, they would go out of their way to make those NPCs stand out, just like the Super Mutant guard in the Ranger HQ. Speculation doesn't hurt, but there is zero confirmed cases in-game of ghouls serving under NCR during Fallout 2, I'm sure you can go into the game's editor and click thru every single NCR npc within Shady Sands and random encounters around the map thru the mapper if you don't believe me. Their info does pop up if you click on them, last I checked.
Yeah, there's a single outpost with ghoul rangers. It bugged me they were only found in a single outpost you'd never come across unless you decided to do the quest that involved visiting them all, but it made sense they'd be at the station surrounded by nuclear waste.
yes, i understand that the characters are labeled in-game as human, i'm thinking about the world as it would actually be, not as it's represented in a limited game engine that literally causes half of your car to disappear constantly. fallout 2 was highly rushed, so it's not the most polished entry in the series.
you wouldnt understand
It probably got cut because it directly conflicts with the Unfriendly Persuasion quest, where Marcus wants you to convince the NCR mercenaries to stop harassing Jacobstown. Having the mercenary leader admit that he's being paid by the NCR to goad the muties into either leaving peacefully or attacking them and providing a pretext for a massacre would seem ridiculous if the NCR allows muties to become Rangers and even has one stationed not very far away.
you could have both if the writing was made less retarded.
the inheritance is a broken mess and i had to uninstall it. vegas bounties 2 also is a little fucked up
The only named woman I can think of that was raped in the line of duty was Betsy, and only because she happened to come across the least stable Fiend in the Mojave. NCR recruiting women makes more sense when you realize that 1) this is still California, and 2) they lost a bulk of their men expanding from California into Nevada, holding their positions and later losing a ton of men to the first Battle of Hoover Dam. Now, they are bleeding more men just holding what they got, both at home and on the frontier, while they get ready for round 2. I am guessing these women are conscripts/reserves and not much else, doubtful that there were that many women on the frontlines during the early days of the frontier. NCR is slowly falling apart, especially if the Courier doesn't help them out, so this is actually one of the less contrived points in the game, the army has to scrape whatever they have and hope it's enough against The Legion, especially if House doesn't play ball since they will need to pacify Vegas and his army of robots next. That said, they are hardly needing anymore citizens, especially when NCR easily has the largest population out of any region in post-war America, in hundreds of thousands if not millions. They don't need breeding camps to upkeep their population, and can definitely use fewer mouths to feed if the rumors of a mass food shortage within a decade is true. That makes women very expendable, just a result of the society they created. Don't forget that most troopers barely get two weeks of training and are thrown into the meat grinder with barely anything more than a canvas uniform and a Service Rifle, the Military Industrial Complex doesn't care what bodies it throws to oil the machine.