All right we got a thread to talk about how much we love and hate Fo4 respectively..
But none where we can simply talk about the game's story or factions or whatever floats our respective boats.
So here it is! To stimulate discussion, a few talking points:
-Which faction did you side with and why?
-Favorite companion? Most hated companion?
-Favorite gun?
-How involved were you with the settlement building process?
I'll do the honours:
- Sided with the BoS. Previously I used to think the BoS views on technology and trying to hoard it all to be their weakness, but my view changed dramatically after meeting the Institute..who were everything the BoS warned about and more.
Meeting the Institute made me appreciate House from NV all over again, these scientists seem to be offering a similar deal as Mr House did back in the day..The promise of a brighter technological driven future. But House had vision and a clear plan, and despite being an immortal vegetable he still had more of a human connection with the outside then the institute did...Who keep repeating what they do is for humanity when its convenient and they have to justify their actions, but who otherwise clearly dont care at all about those living on the surface.
Going back to the BoS, meeting the institute convinced me only the BoS could put an end to the synth problem once and for all.
Speaking of synths, I got nothing against them and Nick is an awesome companion..I just dont want any more synths to be produced lest what remains of humanity gets overthrown easily by mass produced and superior robots who are far more suited to surviving in the wasteland.
Since I can't go half way on this, it leaves the BoS route as the only choice for me.
- Close call between Nick and Deacon for me. Danse also became a lot more awesome once I realized he was basically Buzz Lightyear (cant wait for the inevitable mod for that), all he needed was to say "to infinity...and beyond!" every time we jumped in a vertibird.
Otherwise Ive liked all my companions so far, haven't picked up Hancock or MacReady though.
-The 5.56mm machine gun is such a beast in this game..Large ammo clips, high stopping power with armor piercing capabilities and accurate. What more do you want?
Honorable mention to Institute advanced rifle, seems to spew an hail of pew pew blue plasma with little recoil, quickly resulting in dead enemies.
-Settlement building amused me decently enough but after a few semi developed settlements i decided to leave it for now. In a future playthrough Ill go all out on settlement building, but until there's mods that do things like add an armory or allow you to manage settlements in a better manner then having to manually run after settlers then manually assign them to stuff, id rather give it a pass for now. Still i had fun developping Sanctuary and the Castle at least.
But none where we can simply talk about the game's story or factions or whatever floats our respective boats.
So here it is! To stimulate discussion, a few talking points:
-Which faction did you side with and why?
-Favorite companion? Most hated companion?
-Favorite gun?
-How involved were you with the settlement building process?
I'll do the honours:
- Sided with the BoS. Previously I used to think the BoS views on technology and trying to hoard it all to be their weakness, but my view changed dramatically after meeting the Institute..who were everything the BoS warned about and more.
Meeting the Institute made me appreciate House from NV all over again, these scientists seem to be offering a similar deal as Mr House did back in the day..The promise of a brighter technological driven future. But House had vision and a clear plan, and despite being an immortal vegetable he still had more of a human connection with the outside then the institute did...Who keep repeating what they do is for humanity when its convenient and they have to justify their actions, but who otherwise clearly dont care at all about those living on the surface.
Going back to the BoS, meeting the institute convinced me only the BoS could put an end to the synth problem once and for all.
Speaking of synths, I got nothing against them and Nick is an awesome companion..I just dont want any more synths to be produced lest what remains of humanity gets overthrown easily by mass produced and superior robots who are far more suited to surviving in the wasteland.
Since I can't go half way on this, it leaves the BoS route as the only choice for me.
- Close call between Nick and Deacon for me. Danse also became a lot more awesome once I realized he was basically Buzz Lightyear (cant wait for the inevitable mod for that), all he needed was to say "to infinity...and beyond!" every time we jumped in a vertibird.
Otherwise Ive liked all my companions so far, haven't picked up Hancock or MacReady though.
-The 5.56mm machine gun is such a beast in this game..Large ammo clips, high stopping power with armor piercing capabilities and accurate. What more do you want?
Honorable mention to Institute advanced rifle, seems to spew an hail of pew pew blue plasma with little recoil, quickly resulting in dead enemies.
-Settlement building amused me decently enough but after a few semi developed settlements i decided to leave it for now. In a future playthrough Ill go all out on settlement building, but until there's mods that do things like add an armory or allow you to manage settlements in a better manner then having to manually run after settlers then manually assign them to stuff, id rather give it a pass for now. Still i had fun developping Sanctuary and the Castle at least.