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If you want an easy game, ignore energy weapons and big guns, and dont get revolver perks.
None of the factions are Bad guys, straight up. This isnt fallout 3, there isnt a Good guy and a Bad guy and it wont let you join the bad guy. No, most people and factions are shades of grey, just remember, you can side with ANY faction (if it was like this for fallout 3, you'd be able to side with t he enclave), keep that in mind.
Comprehension is worth it as a perk if you want to unlock more quests and whatnot in game. Skill magazines are easy to come by, and with comprehension you get a +20 bonus rather than +10, which goes a long way towards meeting certain skill requirements without investing too much into that skill. For example, if you wanted to get Ulysses to side with you, or get the proper house/yes man ending and you need 100 speech, getting 80 speech will suffice if you make sure to use one of the magazines beforehand, saving you a couple levels worth of skill points in the process.
If you get enough fame with certain factions, after a certain point you can go around and gun down that faction indiscriminately and still not get a kill on sight reputation (unless you kill their team mates infront of their face, but even then the rest of the faction that wasnt there wont attack you on sight). So say you wanted to side with the legion, but a majority of settlements are pro NCR, do some NCR quests and get liked or idolized, then go do the legion missions and you can do missions to kill NCR guys, but not be vilified when you go into their towns later on.
Hardcore mode is how the game was initially designed, and despite the intro message telling you it's not recommended for beginners, it really does not make the game much harder. it makes the survival skill more useful and relevant (already a good skill by the way), and gives food and drink in game a real purpose, as well as doctor bags (which are completely pointless on normal mode, as a stimpack does the same and doesnt weigh 1 lb). In my 2000+ hours of playing the game over the years, ive never once not done hardcore mode.
Don't worry too much about maxing out your character's potential by fussing over all the perfect and efficient perks for your character. There are a ton of perks that are technically not very useful, but add a roleplay aspect and make the game more fun for certain builds (like cannibalism). Just get what fits your character. Also, the perks that give you more experience arent that important, as there is way more than enough experience to hit level 50 no problem.
If you're gonna attack a faction unprovoked (like when you first meet the legion in nipton), remember that there are consequences for your actions. It's not like skyrim where you can just kill anyone in your way and not worry about reprucussions. If you attack the legion, they WILL send legion hit men after you, who are pretty damn powerful. So if you do so, dont complain that later in the game it's too hard cus you keep getting attacked by them.
Just because you can help them doesn't mean they aren't bad guys.
Automatic weapons are also generally not worth using until you have access to a steady supply of ammunition. The Hoover Dam supply quartermaster is the best ammo vendor in the entire game for all ammo types.
I think it is more of a case of saying that the NCR, House and Yes Man are not the 'good' guys.
Well yeah, their acts are evil. But the way ceasar sees it is the ends justify the means. Most people of the legion are 'bad' yeah, but caesar's vision is a peaceful society. He says when he takes new vegas and beats the NCR, he wants to make vegas his rome and do a syntesize of both NCR and Legion, taking the best of both worlds.
How do you do this? Indoctrination. Get em from kids and teach them to view the world your way. Which is why the women are slaves. Not because he sees them as inferior, but because he needs soldiers, so they have to be pregnant around the clock to keep the ball rolling, and a pregnant woman doesnt make a good warrior.
He also knows that at this point, he has to be all in for his war effort, which is why everyone has that warrior mentality. The NCR is not all in for their war, and the corrupt baron brahmins and all that which influence the government slows them down in this aspect.
Basically, Ceasar wants a communist/socialist dictatorship in the end, where everyone will be equal. Not that i agree with that, i'm a capitalist all the way, but i can see what he's trying to achieve.
The way i see it, The legion is the embodiment of extreme communism/socialism, and the NCR is the embodiment of extreme democracy, both gone wrong. Both have their advantages and disadvantages. Both are neither good, nor evil (as a whole, there are evil and neutral players in each of the factions), various shades of grey (i will say that in its current form, the legion is a much darker shade of grey than the NCR, but they are both heading towards the middle of the spectrum as the years go by).
The NCR started as something good, good ideals and a better society. It has since degraded into a corrupt government. The legion started as something bad and evil, but its goals are a world of peace in the end (even if most of the warriors dont see it this way, Ceasar is a smart guy, probably the smartest NPC in the game next to House, he knows he's manipulating and taking advantage of his warrior's uneducated minds, again, the ends justify the means in his mind). The way caesar sees it, you gotta break a few eggs to make a cake. The NCR sees it as all the cake is theirs because they are better people.
I can see both the good and bad in each faction. You could make a neutral, good or evil player join either faction and find a line of thinking that doesnt break their alignment.
But yeah, in the end, in its current form, the Legion is lawful evil. But Caesar's vision is something more than that.
Though me personally, I'm a House guy all the way.
I wouldn't say the game has no bad guys though. The game has plenty of bad guys. The game just gives you the freedom to choose what kind of character you wanna be.
Do you guys really have to deconstruct the NCR vs. Legion in this thread? there's already a 4500+ reply thread on the subject.
Sorry, sir. Was attempting to clarify the remarks regarding Legion that you posted. Nothing more. I will retire.
What about the Think Tank scientists in Old World Blues? They're pretty smart. Crazy and immoral, but smart. Although Dr.Mobius did mess up their minds a bit.
Most of the Think Tank's experiments and developments were abysmal failures. It's part of their backstory of being unable to compete with RobCo or Vault-Tec for government contracts.
I don't like either side, but ive made characters who have supported one or the other. What i love about this game is that there is a lot of replay value.