Okay so this irritates why is it that people that develop games never let you be the bad ass faction with the tech instead they force you to kill them. Borderlands had the Crimson lance forced to kill them. Fallout has the Enclave couldn't ally with them or be them. Saints Row had STAG I would of rather been in STAG then be the leader of some crusty welfare gang. I would rather be the evil bad ass with all the tech then some random loser that's just my opinion and my opinion doesn't mean [censored].

fonv had the ceasers legion which alot of people see as the "bad" guys and u can pretty much be hired and work for them and their goals.

Because sometimes game developers feel like it the right thing to be a good guy then a bad guy, or it because of how culture affects our views on bad people making it very hard for game developers to make evil game without getting that bad sensation in one person stomach.

Probably because it's presumably more interesting to be the underdog in the conflict, aka the guy who doesn't have all the bug guns on his side. Not to mention if you armed the player with all the best stuff right off, it wouldn't make for much of a challenge.

Of course, it also depends on the game in question. In NV, you can ally with either House or Yes-Man and the army of badass robots, foster good relations with the Brotherhood of Steel, end up effectively owning Big MT and kick the ass of the most technologically inferior faction in the game.

You can never be a part of the badass faction in video games because that instantly makes the faction not-badass.

Because if you reverse the situations around in most video games, you'd only have to kill one person for your plans for world domination to come into realization.