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Neither Veronica nor Arcade even tell you they're gay unless you ask pretty personal questions. Christine doesn't either. Betsy being a lesbian is clearly meant to be off putting and pretty much outright said to something that should be treated rather than affirmed since (like all/most faggotry) it's sourced from trauma.
None of the fallout games are "woke" besides like 76, and even calling that woke feels like a misnomer, its more retarded pandering if anything.
i honestly think debates/conversations about this just wind up taking lots of time and nobody's opinion changes. doesn't mean there's no point in them, but various problems that already fuck it, for one, the window for what people consider propaganda or blackrock checklists is waaaaaay borked. like kc 2, many people think it has no/acceptable woke shit, musa and the jew arc and the rampant open gayness, from characters established as both straight and underaged, (back when the primary downfall of the templars was "alleged" sodomy for one), women openly mocking knights and being forced girlbosses against 6" mail trained soldiers, even with the dev actively and purposely going from making the first as literally accurate as possible, with public defense of it, to kc2 where he just straight up is now "fuck chuds/it's not there/if it's there it's good actually"
for new vegas, the current trending article however is that the lead writer thinks he wrote caesar's legion ""too well"", his goal being to make a believable fascist dictatorship or whatever fucking buzzword and he's basically worried he made it too appealing, and honestly, that sole interview alone i think is enough to consider new vegas' writing jeopordized if you see nothing else. there's things like women in the ncr that have defendible arguments from both sides that go nowhere, like "why the fuck are healthy women on the front lines or in the coal mines instead of being the most valuable currency or at minimum protected and coddled af whether they want it or not" vs "um actually chud they need to be soldiers and there's never been a reason women aren't made to go into wars besides sexism", and after 2 hours both will have the same opinions. various things like a heavily noticable forced uptick in gay characters will just be "well what's your problem chudster?"
but fear of "writing them too well" or whatever you want to call it is universally retarded, and who he chose to be upset about shows their bias. i'll use the hitler card; if you are the most zionist, happy merchant ass jew, i guess i should say "imo", but you should always wants nazis portrayed as very serious, very smart and capable. i can't find the fucking quote, but it's like some nigger said about insulting your enemies or downgrading them just makes you look fucking dumb for losing that bad. it eventually just leads to removing the option to have them as anything besides "grrr i hate jews and babies and puppies" and 3 versions of "die nazi scum".
personally to me though, the biggest sins when i think of new vegas are off the top of my head, some order of
1. ulysses is fucking dog shit and is both 1. clearly just a soapbox from a writer, and 2. is a mindjacked character, because he's clearly hungry for revenge for his family and you can possibly persuade him otherwise, but then the character stops and also has 50 minutes of shit talking every single faction including picking no faction.
2., owb, the brain talking without wild wasteland as a perk with seth mcfarlane voice and dialogue is fucking stupid. the other funny shit still works with the seriousness and has cause, but the brain talking is fucking stupid, they should have made the dialogue less family guy, more serious, and if anything did muted subtitle dialogue. on top of that, lonesome road ed-e being forced anakin tech speak? GO FUCK YOURSELF.
3., shipfag yes, but it's always been retarded to me how in cass' end she randomly screws a dude instead of a male courier regardless of quests completed. "free spirit" doesn't really work for me with it either i dunno, feels more like bonny and clyde but i'm a housefag anyway so i guess i'll stick with hearing about constant fag and lesbo romance drama while holding my monroe sex bot.
4. and for less shipfag and honestly the least jokey reason, raul's quest is fucking stupid. boone and other's are also but raul's is the standout; the "correct" choice should be to meld his 2 identities instead of basically "go back to your fucking shack nigger" or "you should just be a zombie cowboy forever". there is no melding being an elder and being a gunslinger, clearly gunslinger is supposed to be the "correct" moral option but a few dialogue chains feel stupid to get there when you interact with older people. or like with boone, there's basically permanently regretful or serial killer. several characters would have worked far better than they already can be if there was more of the "dog"/"god" meshing in less major ways. there's a very big focus in new vegas of neutrality or a middle way but several of the most important/meaningful quests in the game just involve extremes when they shouldn't, which really stand out
