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7/18/2025, 9:10:52 PM
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The first time you meet anyone from the Legion they're razing a town, crucifying dudes due to the result of some sick lottery they forced everyone to take part in and when you ask them why they did this a character with a comedic "evil" voice tells you the town were all degenerate backstabbers and then walk off with the quest log "tell people of the atrocities you saw at nipton".
It also doesn't help that there is very little Legion content in the game so even if you do want to side with them you miss out on so much and lose three companions iirc. You interact with the NCR in so many locations that you're really railroaded into siding with them and why wouldn't you? I was a dumb teen when I played it and I understood them as "democracy faction" whereas everyone else had to sell me on their side and I was too dumb to pay attention or care. There isn't even a cool Legion armour like the Ranger Armour for the NCR, if Lanius' armour was something you could come across and wear during a normal playthrough I imagine people might've had more reasons to side with the Legion.
I know there's a bunch of mods that create an entire Legion occupied area over the dam that you can explore and quest in and it seems like that's what NV was lacking, a location where you can learn and see the Legion at their best. The NCR are barely holding onto Vegas and are stretched thin, meanwhile the Legion can be seen being prosperous and strong mere miles away.
It is a shame because when I played the game the first time I did see the Legion as the antagonist of the story and when I sided with them on my 4th playthrough I just rushed to the end because it wasn't very fun. But after years of reading up about NV and all the factions, I can see them as a "necessary evil" to give order to the wasteland.
The first time you meet anyone from the Legion they're razing a town, crucifying dudes due to the result of some sick lottery they forced everyone to take part in and when you ask them why they did this a character with a comedic "evil" voice tells you the town were all degenerate backstabbers and then walk off with the quest log "tell people of the atrocities you saw at nipton".
It also doesn't help that there is very little Legion content in the game so even if you do want to side with them you miss out on so much and lose three companions iirc. You interact with the NCR in so many locations that you're really railroaded into siding with them and why wouldn't you? I was a dumb teen when I played it and I understood them as "democracy faction" whereas everyone else had to sell me on their side and I was too dumb to pay attention or care. There isn't even a cool Legion armour like the Ranger Armour for the NCR, if Lanius' armour was something you could come across and wear during a normal playthrough I imagine people might've had more reasons to side with the Legion.
I know there's a bunch of mods that create an entire Legion occupied area over the dam that you can explore and quest in and it seems like that's what NV was lacking, a location where you can learn and see the Legion at their best. The NCR are barely holding onto Vegas and are stretched thin, meanwhile the Legion can be seen being prosperous and strong mere miles away.
It is a shame because when I played the game the first time I did see the Legion as the antagonist of the story and when I sided with them on my 4th playthrough I just rushed to the end because it wasn't very fun. But after years of reading up about NV and all the factions, I can see them as a "necessary evil" to give order to the wasteland.
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