World kinda keeps me in, writing isn't that bad. Anyone who says otherwise is an ANCAP retard who gets triggered over how Ancapistan is portrayed. The gameplay/shooting however, is pure ass. I'd rather play FNV again from that perspective.
I mean if your vision of ancapistan is taken from ancap ball memes(botched and unfunny ones) then yes, indeed.
Ancap is a childish ideology, and a retarded meme in of itself. That's why memes are the first thing that come to your mind when you hear of it. Literally wherever I look on the internet and someone says "bad writing", it's because some kiddie diddling libertarian is ironically seething at the sight of his ideology being paraodized, instead of properly reviewing the writing. This wouldn't be too much of a problem, if it wouldn't happen so often, but it gets frustratingly predictable at this point, because I tell myself "maybe this time, the reviewer won't get triggered at capitalism being mocked" only to be proven wrong almost every single time.
Well they're about intellectually equal with the writers then.
The biggest problem, is, like with Tyranny, the fact that the writing team at obsidian has perhaps learned something about the world at college(being told by lecturer) and then that was the end of it. So in Tyranny they've created "bronze age" world that was based on 1984 and here they've made a big-corp world based on ancap ball memes. Now Schumpeter for instance is the kind of big business economist(and noticeably - non-libertarian one, although his writing is so smug that noone really knew where he stood) and you could recreate very similar world based on his idea of how to salvage(in his opinion inevitable, but for the wildest of reasons) socialist economy, except without socialism as a thing, but remember, these are obsidian young writers. They've been in college, probably had some selectives like some kind of economy, history or introduction to political science or something for a semester, they've probably read like 5 fiction books in their life, and then got literature degree, now they're writers. Doubt hey even heard of Schumpeter, much less read him, but they probably don't think they actually need to read anything more than they've already did. So they're operating kind of on their limits of knowledge and their lack of perspective shows - indentured servitude for instance is less desirable under normal conditions than simple work contract, or hiring subcontractors or whatever. The reason is simple - it's two way street and less elastic than normal employment. Like a ball and chain, indentured servant will hang off the ankle of his employer/owner until his contract runs out(there's an example of it in the game, where under-performing R&D employee is scared of his indentured servitude contract running out, where with normal contract he'd be long gone from his job), while the typical contract can be broken with let's say month's notice(length depends on labour laws in given country, may also be regulated in the contract itself). However, that wouldn't be oppressive enough, no, in TOW you can't get non-contractor job if you're not indentured servant, because these are corporations, they are evil an' sheeeeeeit.
Even the major plot anchor - Dr. Phineas Phimosis or whatever his name was found a way of unfreezing people who were in the fridge for too long. Now, given that all of these people are indentured servants of some corporation, these corporations should be racing to get the Dr. Phimosis unfreezing formula patented in their name and then sell it to each other to recover the personnel they thought is lost. However they're not doing it because they're evil corporations and I've turned myself into pickle. Even the excuse - they're the top scientists and they will just destroy the world. Top scientists who are 70 years behind in knowledge. Haven't beaten the game yet, so maybe there are some better motivations than that, but the whole thing is super poorly written.
Now of course by itself the game is sort of okay FPS/RPG and that's why I even bother to play it, but it's the kind of example of why storyfaggotry is retarded - videogame writers are extremely low-brow and they will never deliver(reliably).
