Fallout General Discussion & Speculation

Fallout 76 free to play rumors are still floating about. I hope it happens-having to buy ps plus for a very bad game is not an option-but trying one out for free for the laughs-totally something I might do.

Well, I don't know what's going on with Fallout 4, but it is not working well. I installed it the first time and used a new mod and suddenly the game would not load up at all. Then I reinstalled and didn't use that mod and things were fine for a while but then the game stopped allowing me to save my progress. IDK what's going on, but for now, thus ends my time with Fallout 4.

I keep meaning to go back to F4 to try out the Deacon romanceish mod but it would feel weird to 'romance' him on anyone but my character I made when the game first came out who fell head over heels for him. It'd be nice to make their head canon more 'canon' but I'd have to hunt down old saves to use the face ripper on him and see if I can find all the mods his appearance used. I think he was definitely my favourite to play considering he was a scrawny little thing who was a melee character and survived on no sleep, sugar bombs, and a gratuitous amount of Nuka Cola (and a teeny weeny bit of cannibalism but shhh.) There's nothing quite like being high on every drug in the game and Blitz melee-attacking a Super Mutant Suicider.   His aesthetic was very much 'hobo-raider-chic.'
Also been meaning to replay my Dansemancer one day just to try out the various mods that stops him yelling pro Brotherhood stuff (usually whilst he's shooting down a Vertibird ) after his personal quest. I remember being out in the open one time and hearing one above us so I ducked into an (open) building to try and hide from it but nope, Danse's 'must protect' instincts kicked in and I had the delight of watching him hunt it down with an exploding minigun.

Yeah, it is soooo dumb and deeply annoying that they never bothered to change his personality after Blind Betrayal, or to even change his combat barks. The amount of Vertibirds I had to take out on my main character that used him (Minutemen ending so the Brotherhood was still around) was ridiculous. We'd be there fighting Brotherhood goons or Vertibirds and he'd just be there shouting 'for the Brotherhood!' without a hint of irony.   I love you Danse but Bethesda did you dirty. XD

I only romance him on this specific character, but I generally get as far as doing his quests just so I can get him the fuck away from the Brotherhood (especially on a Railroad ending, I don't want him around when I'm blowing the Prydwen.) But yeah it does suck you have to get so far into the quest line for it. Though sometimes I'll go as far as getting him as a companion and then send him to a settlement and just... leave him there and never return to it so he can't go hostile lol. Mostly the reason I want to test out the mod that gives you options with him once Blind Betrayal is over.

I do also have a soft spot for Gage though I do use the mod that skips raiding your own settlements because that's dumb. Though to be fair I like all the guys lol, though I generally only romance one per character rather than collecting a harem. But my last 500ish hours in game have just been me ignoring the main quest and companions and using mod companions/alternate start mods so I can do my own thing. I've gotten a lot of fun out of those, sometimes head canon can be fun. XD

Haha nothing wrong with that, not like the game really stops you. Though the way I played I'd generally pick up my main companion and use them all the time unless they were ones like Deacon or Danse where you had to do some ground work first before they'd become a companion. Gage's romance content isn't quite the same compared to the others but I still think it works considering who he is. I really liked it on the one character that did romance him. I only bothered to do Nuka World a few times and used the mod to get Gage out of there so I wouldn't have to kill him when I turned on the Raiders. I only had one character who made it all the way through the story on the side of the Raiders (and was my Gagemancer) and well, it was extra funny because he rocked up to Nuka World looking like he did, and the Raiders somehow expected to not get their teeth kicked in by him. 

Thanks. XD He was super fun to play and loved his melee weapons.


Nice, I've done the Railroad ending once, mostly go Minutemen or I ignore the main quest altogether. I've never gone Institute because evil. I generally like to do the dlc during the main story though it depends, some of it like Nuka World I did after because I'd done the main story by the time it came out. Poor Preston, go save him.

So my Xbox venture is going well. I got a few mods (that aren't on ps4) that are quite fun.

The game forcing it to be a case where if you side with [x] faction, you aren't just pitted against [y] faction but also [z] faction, that you can't make alliances, despite being able to rise through the ranks of most if not all of them in a given playthrough, honestly really did kill a lot of my interest in playing the game (because the last time I played it was before mods were available on console, and I think they're still limited at best for the PS4? I dunno, and I have enough other games to play, I haven't made returning to Fallout a priority).

Like I think that's been my real driving issue on the subject of the Fallout franchise as a whole, it really feels like the entire franchise is just in a place of stagnation, where they just want to stick to the idea of "war never changes," where they hold to that saying without accepting the potential for questioning it - why does it never change? If it is a question of human nature, can't we rise above our nature? Isn't that the human experience?

There are a lot of questions that I think that this franchise really could ask and examine, but the developers at Bethesda are just sticking to the formula, rather than expanding and exploring things.

Like the Institute's whole shtick is that they believe that they are the future of humanity, but... I mean, they're as stagnant as they claim the world above is, just doing SCIENCE! for the sake of science. What is their goal? And they don't acknowledge their responsibility in keeping things as they are - their science could improve the lives of the Commonwealth, yet they keep it all to themselves, while condemning the people of the Commonwealth for how they make do, on top of how the last attempt at rebuilding a government in the Commonwealth was broken up BY AN INSTITUTE SYNTH.

This stagnation honestly is my biggest turnoff with the franchise. The games seem to advance the timeline in terms of the year they're set in, but the way that Bethesda is running the franchise, their portrayals of things could all be taking place at the same time.