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That's why I wanted the Brotherhood Crusaders to be Brotherhood fundamentalists instead of Mormons. It makes no sense for the Mormons to use the name of a Catholic religious movement, since the two faiths are religious rivals. It would, however, make sense for a Brotherhood force that has long forsaken Christianity to use the term "crusaders" since they no longer have a dog in that religious scuffle. Have them find a technological "Holy Land" that they swear to protect, and have them run across the NCR and the Enclave whom they see as enemies.
They'll see the NCR the same way the Crusaders saw the Moors, a hostile force that drove them away from most of their territory, a force that they see as an evil infestation in their "Holy Land", while they see the Enclave the same way the Crusaders saw the Byzantines, an old government authority that's backstabbing and untrustworthy. For bonus points, have it so that they once had a tenuous alliance with the Enclave forces (one that was originally put together by Legion Frumentarii who wanted both sides to focus on fighting the NCR) that eventually broke down due to differences in belief. You can also have them massacre everyone in the NCR camp once they defeat the NCR in revenge for Helios One and other Brotherhood losses against the NCR, while during their assault on the Enclave base, they plunder the base for tech and steal everything that isn't nailed down to the floor, just so we can reference the First and Fourth Crusades respectively. That way, they're at least somewhat related to the actual Crusaders whose name they stole.
Meanwhile, you can have the Enclave be American zealots who managed to accomplish what Colonel Autumn wanted to do in FO3 and got the local gangs on their side by providing goods and services to the locals (like say, they fixed a local water purifier and they hand out free water to the locals). Which would explain why they start firing on the NCR forces nearby, because aside from the NCR's hostility towards all Enclave remnants, the NCR started killing scavenger gangs loyal to the Enclave, gangs whom the Enclave forces were using to scavenge tech from the place. Just like how the Byzantines used outside mercenaries to bolster their forces, so too would the Enclave use scavenger gangs to bolster their numbers. They used to work with the Brotherhood Crusaders to put down the larger NCR force, but after a few disagreements that revolve around their core beliefs (the Enclave's main goal is to revive America in whatever limited means they can, the Brotherhood Crusaders want to defend their "Holy Land") the two broke off their alliance and started firing on each other when the BoS refused to share scavenged tech with the Enclave and began firing on pro-Enclave scavengers to get the scavenged tech first.
As for the NCR, they still have standing orders from back home to fire on sight at all Enclave forces, and they see the scavengers as scum because the NCR fights with the scavengers over scraps of tech that the latter try to bring back to the Enclave. All the while, they're still continuing their mop-up of all BoS forces, so they fire at Brotherhood forces on sight, too.
There you go. A rational explanation as to why all three sides hate each other and want to kill each other. It goes to show that the average idiot can write a better plot in a matter of days, when compared to the Frontier Devs who can't even do that in seven years.
They're probably the kind of people who can't tell the difference between different branches of Christianity, because they probably think they're all the same. They also can't see the hypocrisy of an NCR force that broke off from the NCR because it doesn't want to fight the Legion in the Mojave, with the rest of the NCR backing them up, only for them to go and fight the Legion in Portland, without NCR support.
Then again, these idiots thought that putting futuristic CoD/Halo neon designs on a space station would fit in with Fallout's Jetsons'-style, retro-futuristic mindset.
I can imagine someone like that would have banged their head on the wall several times a day dealing with Kojima and his crazy-ass ideas.
Meanwhile, the guy who made the NCR campaign was the kind of primadonna who threatened to leave and tank the mod if anyone touched his "magnum opus" of a story. At least Kojima had years of success before he went off the rails, which explained his arrogance, while Lucas formed his own media empire and was making billions, which would at least explain his confidence in his own writing chops.
Exactly. The moment they started ripping off CoD, Halo Reach, Wolfenstein, and Spec-Ops the Line was when they lost all respect in my eyes. The fetish shit, I've seen before, but them just being shameless at lifting scenes from superior games just makes me want to play those games instead of playing their little DLC pack.
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