Fallout: New Vegas lead writer worries Caesar's argument for authoritarianism 'was done a little too well,' but still believes 'you can't just make your tyrants cardboard villains'

They really don’t gotta worry about that. Like, seriously. Caesar was well spoken, and that was literally the end of any kind of endorsement of legion. The roads are safer? Yeah, because they kill anyone who isn’t a slave (in actuality or practice). Many if legionnaires we meet in game are abusive cowards, only acting brave if they have a major advantage or abusing people low enough in the hierarchy that they can’t fight back. Then there is the insane rejection of technology, that basically ensues the end of the legion even if they managed to persist after Caesar dies. Speaking of, the legion canonically falls apart after he dies, it’s a fundamentally unstable society. The legion is cartoonishly evil, which isn’t an insult to the writing, fascism is also cartoonishly evil.

One of my favorite moments in that game was

Edit: bear with me lol formatting on Mlem is weird. Got it now, sucks that we can’t put mid-sentence spoiler warnings on lemmy. Oh well.