a_Psychonaut said:
Your right, I would have made the same assumption if I had played FO 1/2 prior to NV. Since then I've play a ton of FOnline:2238 (FO 2 modded to include FO1 locals and to be an MMO) so I've since walked the California wastes.
Also, astute observation in regards to the factions. I'm interested in what a Ulysses has to say to a Legion Courier.
Having never played a Legion Courier, nor having changed my faction in the console to test that, I can't answer that for sure, but I CAN say that, despite formerly being Legion, Ulysses has more or less tested the waters of the Legion, NCR, House and BoS and found them all wanting. Either way, he'll have his criticism of them.
Consider:[spoiler:edc6063b0a]
Honest Hearts is how Ulysses, acting as Caesar's mouthpiece, got the White Legs to carry out the Legion's bidding, but they ended up worshiping him and not Caesar because they didn't care about history or philosophy, but only yearned for leadership.
Dead Money is Ulysses' disapproval of BoS' monomaniacal drive for technology at the cost of their own long-term health.
Old World Blues is Ulysses' mixed feelings about the pre-War American scientists' myopic worldview as contrasted with their intense love and yearning for the philosophy of the American Dream.
And Lonesome Road is his disapproval of both the NCR for being too unable to handle crises and the Legion for being a fascist cult that will "eat itself from within once it reaches the coast," coupled with an intense loathing for the Courier for blowing up a nascent community he believed had potential.
His flaw is that he continually wants to flip the reset switch every time he recognizes a flaw, and the only reason he cares about the town you blew up was because he hadn't the time to see it lose its 'innocence,' so to speak. As such, you always win the argument no matter who you support so long as you say that they have the potential for greatness despite their current flaws.[/spoiler:edc6063b0a]