I always kinda wondered how similar these two are. New Vegas puts the rest of the fallout games to shame, in terms of story IMO. I love all the unique factions and how they interact. One would find that each and every group has good and bad ideas and it’s up to the player to decide who would bring peace to the wasteland
@@JLBxFTW FNV is my favorite game of all time (with Knights of the Old republic 1 and 2 being close seconds). I cant think of any other game that managed to balance both the ethical extremes and the gray areas of its factions and characters so well. And this approach was deliberate on the part of the game designers. I talk about it a bit on the third episode of my Caesar's Legion VS the Roman Empire series.
I find it funny Edward copies Rome but only to an extent and makes alot of stupid ideas that any military today would tell is a bad one, which Rome understood. That's why they adapted to the times like any good functioning military. Plus lets ask Japan why did they lost: was the tactics or technology? Yes, tech won't help you win 9 times out of 10 but it is going to help you from losing.
Nice video! A question: would you consider ancient Egypt to have been totalitarian or near-totalitarian? From what I know, the Egyptian state held a considerable amount of control over the daily lives of its citizens.
No. In Egypt like in every other ancient empire the state controlled (or attempted to control) the part of daily life that had to do with how people related to it and its symbols. But even in kingdoms where the monarch was considered a god the state didn’t really bother with what ordinary people thought and how they interacted with each other. If you bent the knee to the symbols of power, observed the laws, paid your taxes and publicly preformed the predetermined rituals nobody cared what you did or thought beyond that. A totalitarian state cares about your thoughts and every single aspect of both your public and personal life and spends a large amount of resources to control them. The ideological and practical framework for this level of control became possible only in the 20th century. I guess there might have been short periods of time where some ancient civilizations might have gotten to a point where they kinda approached this (e.g. Egypt under Akhenaten? maybe?) But none of them could really implement such a setup with the resources available in antiquity.
I always kinda wondered how similar these two are. New Vegas puts the rest of the fallout games to shame, in terms of story IMO. I love all the unique factions and how they interact. One would find that each and every group has good and bad ideas and it’s up to the player to decide who would bring peace to the wasteland
It’s a great way to introduce moral quandaries to the player and make them think about its politics.
@@JLBxFTW FNV is my favorite game of all time (with Knights of the Old republic 1 and 2 being close seconds). I cant think of any other game that managed to balance both the ethical extremes and the gray areas of its factions and characters so well. And this approach was deliberate on the part of the game designers. I talk about it a bit on the third episode of my Caesar's Legion VS the Roman Empire series.
I find it funny Edward copies Rome but only to an extent and makes alot of stupid ideas that any military today would tell is a bad one, which Rome understood. That's why they adapted to the times like any good functioning military. Plus lets ask Japan why did they lost: was the tactics or technology? Yes, tech won't help you win 9 times out of 10 but it is going to help you from losing.
Nice video!
A question: would you consider ancient Egypt to have been totalitarian or near-totalitarian? From what I know, the Egyptian state held a considerable amount of control over the daily lives of its citizens.
No. In Egypt like in every other ancient empire the state controlled (or attempted to control) the part of daily life that had to do with how people related to it and its symbols. But even in kingdoms where the monarch was considered a god the state didn’t really bother with what ordinary people thought and how they interacted with each other. If you bent the knee to the symbols of power, observed the laws, paid your taxes and publicly preformed the predetermined rituals nobody cared what you did or thought beyond that. A totalitarian state cares about your thoughts and every single aspect of both your public and personal life and spends a large amount of resources to control them. The ideological and practical framework for this level of control became possible only in the 20th century. I guess there might have been short periods of time where some ancient civilizations might have gotten to a point where they kinda approached this (e.g. Egypt under Akhenaten? maybe?) But none of them could really implement such a setup with the resources available in antiquity.