Every playthrough I've done he has died. He is a massive prick as you said with a giant ego, which erks me to high hell more then anything. However I usually believe in redemption or second chances for people, and would let him live if given the chance. I should try and not piss him off my next playthrough.
Thats really the thing with Bethesda is that they often have really interesting Ideas but the lead writers are so lazy/incompetent that they can't utilize them fully. Like the Institute could have been neat if they weren't just cartoonish villains like the Enclave in Fallout 3 (and I guess 2), Hell the entire Lyons/Outcast dynamic in Fallout 3 could have been used so much better if they spent more time on it, rip the alien quest for the Outcasts.
Plus a trip across the Atlantic might take, at most, something like 2 or 3 months? If the living situation is that shit in Europe Its totally reasonable someone would take the risk of crossing the Ocean.
The Norwegians in 4 could've been a proper faction with unique characters, gear and quests but nooooo, they were just reskinned raiders in just another shooting gallery. That game has so much wasted potential in it because Bethesda is lazy.
I was so disappointed to come across that robot racing track just for the generic raider fucks there to open fire the second they laid eyes on me. God forbid such an interesting location get turned into some sort of minigame or something.
Given what happened with the Combat Zone, maybe it was meant to be a minigame/attraction but got cut late in development?
Really makes you wonder what they were working on. How long was 4's development cycle again? Like 4 years?
Both those things should've been relatively easy to add in, though. I wasn't expecting a ten quest series or anything, just a nice little minigame. Could just be bets on fights/races that just require Luck to win. I would've been satisfied with that much over what we got.
Fallout 4 was started proper in 2009 but a handful of assets were made in 2008 (namely the T-60 power armor), and it was Bethesda's main project after the Release of Skyrim.
Fallout 4 is very weird because when you hear people talk about it they act like it had some horrifically rushed dev cycle, like it was crunch from start to finish. You have content like the Combat Zone that was almost done but was cut at the last minute for no real reason it seems, All the shit that pertains to the ocean, The nonsensical story that exists for some Factions that seems unfinished. There isn't a single part of Fallout 4 that seems like it was properly finished, managing to come off as more unfinished that New Vegas which only had 18 months to be finished.
Schizo Theory but maybe Fallout 4 was the first Bethesda game to have the writers write the story first and then build the quests around a story outline?
Really makes you wonder what got cut and why during such a long development time. It feels like they redid the game halfway through for some reason.
Not many people talk about how much of a missed opportunity it was, but that's par for the course with Fallout 4. Look at the cut content for the Combat Zone, or even the lack of content such as Salem, the Minutemen and Quincy, the Gunners, the entire fucking game. One giant missed opportunity because Bethesda have been hacks long since Fo4.
Just like Cyberpunk 2077. I'll stick to 2020 with homebrew thanks. Not Red though.
Hell yeah man, glad you enjoyed it. It's all downhill from here! The Lovecraftian elements were a mistake in my opinion, there's so much horror in the wasteland that adding Eldritch beasts that aren't just mutant wildlife is just silly. Dead Money explains it well, keeping it within the realm of Science Fiction but not going to such lengths as "It's a spooky magic cloud of doom OOOOooooo, be afraaaaaid."
The cope is that they didn't say Vault Tec 100% dropped the bombs, its still somewhat up in the air of if they did or didn't. I feel like a lot of the stuff in the show was left purposely vague so they could then "clarify" (soft retcon) what is said in the show depending on fan reaction. Its like how the NCR seems to just not exist in the show but then after it came out they said "no, no, the NCR still exists, just......elsewhere." when people started complaining about the stupid plot.
It's also my favorite dlc. I don't mind the difficulty spike honestly, that's even kind of refreshing.
[Sneering Imperialist] "Go ahead and put a bullet in General Frog-Eater over here."Oh man, I actually completely forgot that this happened. Eurofags really got the shit end of the stick in the Fallout universe huh?
>"Qui êtes-vous? A moins que vous n'ayez du vin, je m'en moque."
<"[Sneering Imperialist] What a disgusting language, and you reek of booze. Time to shut you up forever you savage ape. (Attack)"
*blasts with riot shotgun
Just look at Tenpenny. He doesn't hate ghouls simply because they're ghouls. He hates ghouls because they're poorfags who shed everywhere, like dogs but worse. Be like him and hate people based on their socioeconomic strata relative to yours, and shoot at random wastelanders from your balcony just because you're rich and they're not.
Literally my position right now. I saved the gold in Big Mountain though, to save time you know.
