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I've only played Fallout 4 (allied with Railroad) and Fallout New Vegas (allied with NCR, just met BOS). Are they really that bad? I know they want to take everyone's toasters and whatnot.
You won't get the full experience and context without playing 1, 2 and Tactics. But they are still very much xenophobic in NV and 4. They practiced eugenics, they conscript new blood through slavery, and they are also hypocrites about how technology should be used.
Oh shit, that's crazy. Aren't they the good guys in 3? I remember something about different chapters having wildly different beliefs.
They're the good guys in Fallout 3 in the sense that they've taken it upon themselves to provide clean water and protect people from super mutants. They're also the bad guys in the sense that they make no attempt to discern sapient ghouls from feral ghouls; they shoot all mutants on sight. And of course their chapter had a civil war so there is a splinter faction present in Fallout 3 that clings to the old isolationist tech-hoarder ways.