Yes, they are

Minor:

Goodsprings: It's a small town, they don't matter in the grand scheme of things.

Primm: same as above

Powder Gangers: Just a criminal organization. Beyond the Vault 19 ones (which seek revenge on the NCR, but don't really have any goals), they only seek to maintain their hold over the Western Mojave and it's a matter of time before a pissed off larger group wiped them out.

Brotherhood of Steel: A successor organization of the United States Army, focused on hoarding advanced technology out of a belief they're inherently better than the society left standing. Isolationist, militaristic and very stagnant. There's probably not a single good ending for the Mojave where they're left existing.

Novac: Another case of small town, small influence. Except that they're also near the front, so would be wiped out easily by the Legion.

Bright Brotherhood: A generic cult, which doesn't have much appeal outside of the ghoul population.

Great Khans: A communal-living nomadic society, haunted by its roots as a criminal gang and being a victim of NCR war crimes. The ending where they leave the Mojave is interesting, because they're said to work together explicitly with the Followers of the Apocalypse, but we're likely never going to see what this would lead to because we're not going to see a non-Bethesda non-mobile-shovelware Fallout game again, and especially not one set in Wyoming.

Boomers: A somewhat brainwormed isolationist community. Their enthusiastic usage of heavy artillery and the bomber from lake Mead makes them unpredictable.

Followers of the Apocalypse: A mostly humanitarian organization influenced by some left wing thought, such as community organizing and opposition to the profit motive. However, they're a big tent organization with very decentralized structures so you have their members acting in diverse political ways. The man later known as Caesar and Joshua Graham were both members, and so is for example Bert Gunnarsson (from the Aerotech Refugee Camp) who ignored the FotA severing ties with the NCR Government to work with them anyway, or Tom Anderson who instead sabotaged the local NCR by stealing water supplies, and so is also Emily Ortal (who helped out Benny). Others, like Julie Farkas, meanwhile are more passive.

The Kings are a local gang, if more benevolent than the average.

The Omertas are scum.

The Chairmen are pretty passive political actors, except for the man, the legend, Benny. He's a bozo and a dollar store Indipendent!Courier, but I love him.

The White Gloves are the Bourgeois of the future.

The Jacobstown mutants are a small community that wants to be left alone.

Major:

The NCR is a modern liberal state. That is, corrupt to the core, driven by bourgeois interests, led by Bozos, sustained by imperialism and on the verge of environmental collapse.

The Legion is "first as tragedy, then as farce" - Mussolini Edition.

Mr. House is a less clownish Elon Musk. He thinks he knows how to solve the problems of the world. So while he's dreaming of sending people to space colonies within a century, he's perfectly happy that his "lol let's rebuild the Strip" displaced out lots of people into Freeside, turning it into a crime-filled slum.

Indipendent Vegas is left up to the players' Interpretation + what happens to the other factions, really.

tbh I personally wouldn't consider this a hot take as every faction has their own cons to siding with them, I wished there was another option

Another hot take the legion is a parody of the NCR, both recreate a government from the past that cannot survive the challenges of the post-nuclear world

Damn, even the Followers of the Apocalypse? Y'know, the only actually leftist faction in the game?

Yes, but the devs are clearly biased. The NCR which represents the US is portrayed in too much of a positive light. Their imperialism is presented in a distorted way and many times as something benign. The biggest downside of the NCR that we hear people complaining is "taxes", this gives me "taxation is theft" vibes. Meanwhile the Legion is just god awful, the more you find out about them, the worse they get. There's just not any competition between them. One is good the other is evil. The NCR is the West and the Legion is the East, which means West = Good and East = Bad.

This is just unnecessary fascist propaganda drilled into the game. The East is represented as a bunch of barbarians who are coming to destroy western civilization. The Legion even employs tactics of throwing bodies at the enemy without regards for their lives, which is something Russia has been accused of doing in the Ukrainian war. And of course, the Legion's system is so horrible, so atrocious, that no one could possibly want to live in it. This is how communism is portrayed to Western masses. A system so horrible, that anything is preferable to it. So the barbaric pedophilic eastern hordes represent communism, and the minor flawed republic represents liberal democracy. This is a disgusting level of bias.

As a side note, the Arcade companion quest is just a bunch of fascist apologia. The quest tries too hard, to humanize a bunch of psychopathic fascist ex-military. But hey, at least they're not the ~~Communists~~ Legion, am I right?

Excluding the independent ending, I think there's a case to be made for Mr. House. Not that I'm a fan of him, he's an embellished version of Elon Musk. But House represents the national bourgeoise while the Legion and NCR don't. House seems to be focused mainly on Vegas, while he has no love for Freeside, at least places like Goodsprings, Primm, Novac will be left alone. But it's hard to argue with so much bias in the game.

Is it really that hot of a take? I thought the devs were pretty blatant about it

Not that this is ever going to happen but how sick would it be if Caesar found a book collection of Communist works instead of Hegel.

Just imagine: the game is initially set up the same way, you are told that the legion (they would have another name ofc but I currently can't come up with anything) is about to take Hoover Dam and that the NCR is barely hanging on. It is heavily implied that the Legion are the baddies but once you leave Goodsprings things get weird.

You can see at every corner that the NCR sucks and the more you learn about the Legion the more you realise they are actually good. All the while NCR personal is telling you again and again how evil the Legion is without the actual players perception ever reflecting that.

There would be so much potential to criticise western propaganda and hypocrisy regarding AES countries. And I think the best part would be that it would fly completely over the head of the average gamer/liberal.

Its been so long since i played New vegas but i do remember the super mutant faction that lives in a mountain(?) leaving a good impression on me.

NCR isn't perfect, but it's the most realistically "good" choice. They essentially operate like modern western governments, providing security and economic stability. Do they use questionable methods? You bet. Are they going to murder you or enslave you? Probably not. And that's miles ahead of literally every other faction in the game.

now, lets talk about how poorly written is the BoS under bethesda developed fallouts

Fully voiced tankie faction mod when?

(I hope I'm being affectionate with the usage there)

Fuck looks like it’s time to play New Vegas again

True. So you may as well go with the ones that have the cool uniforms. Ave Caesar!