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Presents a walking caricature of the US' Cold War slogans, refuses to elaborate further
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Liberty Prime would be a better satire if it wasn't, canonically, incredibly useful to saving the Wasteland. In lore it was meant to be an impractical boondoggle that cost so much money it fucked the American people over, but in game it's a useful weapon of war used to kill fascists and take back a water purifier
Would've been a better satire if they'd taken the voice module out and drawn attention to how annoying the jingoism was, or if it didn't even work at all and all it did was spout jingoisms
Literally what I was about to say. I actually think the original tweet isn't actually that far off and this is sort of in the vein of the criticism that Star Wars kinda invariably winds up making the empire, and be extension fascism, look really cool.
Cause like here's a hot take....giant 20 story tall death robots are fucking cool and metal as shit when they actually work.
It would have been better if it staggered along, getting increasingly wrecked by the slightly uneven terrain and small arms fire it was taking, then collapsed onto the barrier frying itself but overloading the similarly overengineered Enclave systems.
Also if there was a character who literally looked into the camera and said something to the effect of "lmao, Liberty Prime was built by the Enclave pre-war and only ever saw action against the successors of the very people who built it in the first place."
In Fallout 3, Liberty Prime screams about killing communists and saving America while attacking the Enclave, which is the last remnant of the American government. Fallout 3 isn't very good, but that part always puts a smile on my face.
on the other hand it's the lamest, most annoying level in the entire game to actually play, so who's to say if the robot is meant to be cool or a demonstration of prewar hubris
I was about to say, my entire thought process during the Liberty Prime Fight was 'I literally have 12 mini nukes in my pocket, I could have done this entire thing myself without this WoW level sidequest bullshit.'
20 minute long walk through the least interesting portion of the map where every enemy you waste munitions on might not give you xp because the magic robot lazer might get them
and who can forget reloading if the robot gets stuck and the last autosave was all the way back at the beginning. also reload if dumbass companions get themself blown up by an exploding car at any point
Oh I totally forgot about the randomly detonating cars.