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there are people who have played these games and somehow still missed the criticism of capitalism...
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Bethesda has majorly diluted the already-potentially-liberal criticism of capitalism inherent to Fallout by making it consoomer treat slop
Unfortunately, hard agree.
The originals were never overtly Socialist, they just criticized the worst of American liberalism.
New Vegas at least sympathetically showcases Syndicalists, cooperatives, and Anarchists, but never presents a truly Leftist solution beyond a doomer and ill-thought out Anarchist ending. No genuinely revolutionary solutions are available.
In Bethesda's hands, however, all critique is defanged and at least as much anti-Socialism is added. There are largely no sympathetic Socialist factions and Capitalism is somehow the status quo even in minor settlements.
The good karma main quest ending for fo3 is essentially a FOA ending.