ravenkult posted:

I mean, the Holocaust isn't in this game either, but I never felt like it was lacking in realism because of it.

Sephiroth_IRA posted:

The lone wanderer perk is too good for me to bother with companions.

Kurr de la Cruz posted:

Companions give permanent perks once you get them to max affection, so it is sort of worth dragging them around until they give their perk. Then they get to live in Sanctuary forever.

Magmarashi posted:

So, why are people confused over how Nicky V. knows about Dogmeat? I literally turned towards him and said "Hey, let's see if Dogmeat can find Him!" , he didn't mention him before that point at all.

OwlFancier posted:

Where do I get the railway rifle? Is there only one? I've not found one in about 50 hours of play.

Sephiroth_IRA posted:

The lone wanderer perk is too good for me to bother with companions.

Psychotron posted:

I used dogmeat for about the first 50 hours, but once I heard Cait's accent I couldn't resist making her my Irish waifu. Also I wanted to see the legendary power fist thing I found in action and I wasn't about to use it myself. I'm sure I'll get sick of her and send her away soon.

Reveilled posted:

If you don't suggest using the dog, Valentine does, even if he's never seen your dog. He also knows the dog's name is dogmeat, even if you haven't named the dog. Then your dog teleports to the front door, magically. I'm curious what happens if you detour around the red rocket to avoid meeting the dog.

Psychotron posted:

I used dogmeat for about the first 50 hours, but once I heard Cait's accent I couldn't resist making her my Irish waifu. Also I wanted to see the legendary power fist thing I found in action and I wasn't about to use it myself. I'm sure I'll get sick of her and send her away soon.

khy posted:

When I play Bethesda games I always get really indecisive about how I want to play them.

Usually playing these games I like to play in-character as much as possible, at least on my first few runs, but then I get stuck trying to think "Okay, my guy just lost his loved one literally less than a month ago in-game as far as he can tell, should I really be trying to chat up Piper to get her in bed with me?" and things like that. It sounds stupid but for me a lot of the enjoyment is playing along trying to make decisions that my character would make. Just how I like to see it, you know?

I guess the reason is I like the whole 'write your own story' kind of aspect. You get to make the choices, you get to make the decisions, and that's great to me. I just feel like if I go crazy with some decisions it makes for a pretty messy story.

It's not just FO4, in NV I was always super indecisive about what ending (Independent vs NCR vs House) I wanted to pursue. I'd put off decisions like that until literally the end of a 80+ hour game just because I kept going back and forth as to justifications. "House has stability and wants economic prosperity, and though he does have a dictatorial streak he can arguably be considered the most stable of the endgame options in terms of peace." "NCR does actually do a good job of trying to protect people and deal with them fairly when they're not bogged down by bureaucracy, but they also have a fairly rough financial burden on their citizens" "Independent is great in terms of personal liberties and freedom but the chaos heavily impacts my favorite faction in a fairly negative way".

I find that the indecision is both good and bad. I honestly enjoy the experience of having to sit down and carefully consider what my character would do in many of these situations, and I enjoy how the experience can maker me consider rationalizations and thinking outside what I normally would come up with had I played the character as an extension of myself. But when I can't rationalize an in-game decision as being in-character for him, I grow indecisive and torn between doing what I feel like would be fun vs breaking the character's narrative that I had planned for him.

I know most people just play the game thinking "I'll do what I have fun with and gently caress rationalizations or playing it off in-character" but that's not really my style. I feel weird like that, it makes for a narrative story that's all over the place and random.

Maybe it's because Bethesda storytelling is so bad I feel like I have to make up for it by making my own stories?

khy posted:

Dogmeat is actually not named by you. When you first meet the settlers in the history museum, you can talk to Mama Murphy and she'll tell you that Dogmeat (Whom she'll refer to by name specifically, so he must have had the name prior to joining up with the PC) joined you out of his own freedom of choice, that he's his own man, and that he's choosy about who his friends are. Presumably Dogmeat then has something of a history. It's not unheard of then that Nick could have known about Dogmeat from before he joins you at the Red Rocket.

She also tells you obliquely about the Deathclaw. "Something... BIG is coming. Attracted by the noise. I dunno what it is but it's MAD." etc etc.

(Not spoilered because it's like 10m into the game and also shows up in all the trailers)

khy posted:

Dogmeat is actually not named by you. When you first meet the settlers in the history museum, you can talk to Mama Murphy and she'll tell you that Dogmeat (Whom she'll refer to by name specifically, so he must have had the name prior to joining up with the PC) joined you out of his own freedom of choice, that he's his own man, and that he's choosy about who his friends are. Presumably Dogmeat then has something of a history. It's not unheard of then that Nick could have known about Dogmeat from before he joins you at the Red Rocket.

She also tells you obliquely about the Deathclaw. "Something... BIG is coming. Attracted by the noise. I dunno what it is but it's MAD." etc etc.

(Not spoilered because it's like 10m into the game and also shows up in all the trailers)

OwlFancier posted:

The idea of dogmeat wandering around the wasteland solving mysteries and collecting teddy bears like some kind of postapocalyptic kleptomaniac lassie is kind of a wonderful one.

Dogmeat is actually the main character, you are the companion, when you send him away you're just finishing his escort quest.

suuma posted:

I would love nothing more than to shoot this NPC in the face. Every single time she talks.

Azhais posted:

Stuff her full of chems and never deal with her poo poo again

khy posted:

I just 'persuaded' her to quit chems and she ended up becoming just your average laborer in Sanctuary, beating on random walls with hammers like the others do. I ended up assigning her to tend my Mutfruit trees since they grow quicker with a settler tending them.

Psychotron posted:

I killed a legendary radstag and as I turned to take out it's budddy, Cait STOPPED attacking it and ran over to the legendary corpse. I come to find out she snagged the legendary 10mm off the corpse and didn't say a goddamned word to me about it. I assumed it didn't drop anything until I found it in her inventory when we fast traveled back to sanctuary. I even got the "check out this legendary thing you got" item view when I took it from her.

She really is a thief but I can't help having her around in that stylish grognak costume / bowler hat combo.

OwlFancier posted:

Where do I get the railway rifle? Is there only one? I've not found one in about 50 hours of play.

Lima posted:

I found one in a shelter at Big John's Salvage. Also got one by joining the railroad I think.

Azhais posted:

Stuff her full of chems and never deal with her poo poo again

Fereydun posted:

Bob NewSCART posted:

I wonder how good this game would have been if bethesdas writing team wasn't literally a room filled with garbage cans on computer chairs.

OwlFancier posted:

The idea of dogmeat wandering around the wasteland solving mysteries and collecting teddy bears like some kind of postapocalyptic kleptomaniac lassie is kind of a wonderful one.

Dogmeat is actually the main character, you are the companion, when you send him away you're just finishing his escort quest.

Anime Schoolgirl posted:

You mean if it was

Michael Kirkbride is a pretty strange guy

Zodium posted:

I wish I could connect the sentry bots and assaultrons I "liberated" to a terminal so I could activate them remotely.

Deified Data posted:

Reposting question: how do you unlock the ability to build concrete foundations? Is it even in the vanilla game?

super macho dude posted:

Whoa whoa whoa how do you german suplex fools?

Elendil004 posted:

Virgil stuff, I went back after going to the institute and he was hostile for no discernable reason. Any idea why?


Go around the other side of that and open the little door for a positive feeling.

Magmarashi posted:

None of the named Sanctuary people I assign to jobs bother to do them. Assign to a guard post? They wander with their weapons out and hammer them into the walls. Store? They wander around randomly and hammer the walls. Crops? They wander around randomly and hammer the walls.

Internet Kraken posted:

I'm disappointed that the female VA is not nearly as enthusiastic as the male one when you take drugs.

King Vidiot posted:

I've been watching a male playthrough of the game and it's amusing that the two VAs seem to have two different reads of the material, which makes me wonder how much actual "direction" they were given. Like the female VA does a really cheesy but sincere reading of the Silver Shroud lines while the male VA says them in a very deliberate "bad actor" way like he thinks what he's doing is ridiculous.