(Long Rant) The Bazaar kinda ruins the story.

[drakvyr]

Let's start with Sophie. I don't care if she's pretty, her personality overall is very VERY ugly. I used to play Skyrim and Sophie reminds me of Delphine and I hate it. She says quite the dumbest and most delusional things I think I've heard. When first meeting her, she's way too calm and comfortable with her bodyguard/sax-toy Hermann nearly strangling the life out of Aiden and brushes it off like that wasn't serious. When Aiden goes "Your brother keeps secrets from you?", she goes "That's none of your business". Like this b17ch... The tone and confidence while saying that god-awful phrase irritates me. Then she had the audacity to make excuses for her grown-a66 brother Barney for his extremely horrendous behavior and attitude.

Let me remind you that Barney led a teenager (Birdie) to his death, leaving the mother of that teenager grieving. Barney promised Birdie's mother that he'd bring back her son alive and safe, but no. He proceeded to run off back home because he somehow saw Aiden as a threat, literally leaving Birdie for dead. For the reason why, Sophie says "He thought you wanted to take the crystals".

WHY THE EVER LIVING FFFFFAQ WOULD I WANT TO STEAL TOXIC ROCKS? And you actually first meet Barney at the Bazaar gate, and he somehow doesn't remember the Pilgrim that just met him a few minutes ago. Then when Aiden calls out Barney for using a severely wounded teen as a distraction, she goes "It's not like that". No. It. Is. like. that. And considering the crystals' values and supposed powers are just based off of a superstition, Birdie in fact did die for nothing.

When you confront Barney and ask him that he was afraid of taking the crystals, the PoS goes "Afraid? Of you? Give me a break" NAH NAH NAH you're getting sky high from those crystals because I never said that you were afraid of me dumba66. Then you call him out for using a dying kid as a distraction for stupid and selfish reasons, but he goes "You don't know sheet about me and my people! I loved Birdie like a brother!". No TF you didn't you adopted prized r3t@rd3d jacka66, admit you were being a coward AND a horrendous friend because you got intimidated over ROCKS!

Then Aiden for some odd reason when talking to Sophie again he goes "Interesting guy, your brother". No Aiden, just outright say he's the biggest scombag you've ever met! Then mid 20s Karen goes on about how he's just a scared little kid and blah blah blah he wants what's best for the Bizarre blah blah blah. Are you trying to convince me or yourself and others that your ADULT brother is not a PoS?

You got Carl, Lena, Urban the Bartender, and "guy-who-bullies-an-old-man-with-cognitive-decline" Ahab, who try to justify barbarically executing you. "It was for the safety of ours!". A whole community of people with weapons against one zombie? You're all that weak? That stupid redhead girl Lena goes "I see you've got a biomarker already. Our rules are strict, but that's how we survive". Does the rule also say make a dying person suffer by hanging instead of just killing him quickly, while saying "No, let's watch the f-er hang!" "Die f-er!" "F-ing stray!", and that one Bazaar guy saying to Hakon "But he's an outsider, he must be killed!". You got Urban who jokes about you being strung up like a rabid animal "Hangman how's the neck hur hur" and goes "If i were you, I'd want them to kill me. Don't need any needless deaths on your conscience. Aiden goes "I wish you didn't hang the innocent", the bartender Urban ignores that statement and blah blah blah.

You got Dodger the wannabe mob boss, who acts like he's so powerful and important even though he just sits on his a66 hanging out with that disgusting PoS Urban all day. He sends out idiotic homicidal thugs to get or do whatever he wants, "Carl can't touch me, even Lucas respected me" sounds like you're bluffing and using the bloodhungry Bazaarians as a shield, you're a Russian gangster who's scared of a 20 year old adventurer.

You got 2 kids who think it is perfectly fine to groom a fellow peer of theirs and try to kill that peer's pet dog as a birthday meal for their mom who for some reason hates Pilgrims and depending on certain choices she'll cuss you out and threatens to call guards for calling out the horrible thing her kids did to another kid. You have Ruud who tries to indirectly kill a teenager just for liking his daughter.

When you go to the Tango Motel to help Sophie, she doesn't respond to her radio and vanishes until her a-hole brother Barney finds out you were working with Aitor, she has a crossbow and aims it at you, calling you a "traitor". I'm not part of the sheety Bizarre, so how am I a traitor? Then if you choose the choice "Try me", she'll let you go and you go to Aitor saying it was a trap. So these tw@ts were setting Aiden up, trying to look for a reason to want to kill him?

And when you fully sided with Aitor and the PKs and the Bazaar is demolished, you meet her and she goes "I told you the PKs were murderers and you're worse wah wah wah". YOU HAD IT COMING YOU B17CH! Stop playing the victim-card for yourself and your evil Bizarre people, you're not peaceful, you're not reasonable, you're not even useful at all, you destroyed the windmill, getting multiple PKs killed, and when they retaliate, you get so upset and act like you were holocaust victims. YOU'RE INSUFFERABLE, SOPHIE!

Sorry for this long a66 essay, I just can't ever like the Bazaar's existence. Alberto and Vincenzo and Veronika are the only good Bazaarians.

[[-KoS-]apnicolle06]

I mean.....yeah, when you put it that way. I sided with the PKs early game, later though helping Frank is really tempting.

[Sem]

I think in a game that allows you to support one faction at the detriment of the other, there has to be some kind of give and take with like and dislike.

If they were just outright decent people, not naive or idiotic or selfish, then why would you choose NOT to side with them, when the other faction is like ruthlessly authoritarian?

I feel that this game's factions are really "lesser of two evils" in nature.

[Chris]

Fr at least the Peace keepers kept order. I HATED doing the powerstations, They pretend you can make a choice but if its the peace keepers EVERYONE gets mad. Even Lawan gives you ♥♥♥♥ on the radio.

I've made the same exact argument about the bazaar i dont understand how they are supposed to be likable. the short conversation i had with the 3 peace keepers outside a station was a hundred times better than the pity party you have with the "legendary" Nightrunners where you are scripted to be a party pooper.

The womens brother strangling me was instantly hostile in my mind they dug their own grave there. But to then kill that kid (on his birthday i noticed you didn't mention) by using him as bait to then shrug it off like it was nothing. also killing the big bald guy does nothing to the story at all. you just gotta make up your mind later. The bazzar multiple times tries to get you killed.

Meanwhile peacekeeprs have a grave room with all the dog tags. They have Some form of order. (not saying the leaders are perfect at all) And at least take care of the sick.
The peacekeepers are like if cops took over and the bazzar is like if a flea market took over.
not a hard choice to make when it comes to The people. imo.