It has a lot of sexual assault, it has slavery because-I will concede to any detractors-that would happen a lot in the Wasteland. Fallout: New Vegas (and Fallout 3 to a lesser extent) already has a lot of misery in it. The base game is full of it, but that didn't leave me with this feeling of unease.īoth slave-girl America and the naked-corpse mod I encountered show a fundamental misunderstanding of the game they’re actually making the mod for. So where does this leave us? Do us critics just want all depictions of sexual slavery removed? Of course not, this is a mod for New Vegas after all. This isn’t just weirdly fetishistic and disrespectful, it’s plain bad writing.Ĭredit where credit is due, this concerning content has been removed in response to the pushback. Anything to earn a few drops of affection, anything to keep depression swallowing her whole.” In some of the worst writing I’ve seen, the very idea of the almighty courier not wanting to travel with America anymore is enough to turn her completely subservient and lose any personality and agency, compliantly serving her “master.” In the ending slide, you’re rewarded to some more slave-kink writing: “The last of her spirit broken by the Courier, America became a willing slave. You threaten to abandon her, and that’s enough for her to agree to put on a literal slave collar, all in the space of one conversation. Unlike the Legion, who pillage and conquer their way to gaining slaves, the courier just. In one of the first popular tweets about the character, she was described a “surrogate for the writers barely-disguised fetishes ,” and it isn’t hard to see why. For some reason, the player is able to neg America (a very, very young-looking 18 year old) into being, and I quote, your 'little slave girl.' And this was when I got my unpleasant reminder of the sexually assaulted corpses. One or two instances could be written off as one of the quirky Easter Eggs prevalent in the series, but it bled through in other aspects of the story-most controversially, in the companion America.

Definitely ‘ain't the worst looking thing I’ve slept with“). Critics described it as overly self-indulgent, specifically citing the sexualization of a new lizard-like race, and the ability to have sex with a Deathclaw (“: Fuck it. While receiving praise for the impressive task of adding so many new characters and plot points, many criticized some of the writing, which was much more sexually charged than the vanilla game. This huge mod is the passion project of a group of New Vegas enthusiasts and adds three entirely new campaigns, as well as new characters and factions.Īnd yet in just a week, the holy grail of the New Vegas community became scorned. Fallout: The Frontierwas released last month, after a highly anticipated seven-year development.

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