Uh. Welp. I appear to be hurtling headlong into the endgame. That happened kinda unexpectedly but the characters are all making “Chose your side now ‘cause shit be goin’ down” noises at me whenever I’m neat their respective bases.
I thought that was kinda quick for a Bethesda game, but then I looked at my hours played and uh yeah I guess I’ve just been playing this a lot more than I thought I was.
Here is where I’m at, if anyone wants to read the Trophy tea leaves.
This was a pretty cool thing that just happened so I want to stop and post here and point it out and go “Yes, this is how you do this sort of thing, good job.”
Backing up a bit: Early in the game, I had just come across Diamond City, a post-apocalypse town built in the ruins of Fenway. Just outside of it there is a small tin shack housing what eventually turns out to be a give-me-all-your-worldly-possessions cult. I tell the leader of the cult to fuck himself, and he decides that I’m probably not worth the violence to rob so he tells me to go away and let him get to his next mark.
I elect to murder every single person involved.
This winds up counting as 23 murders in the game’s official tally! Still the only murders I’ve committed.
I roll with it.
Way, waaaaaay down the road I get a quest to go fetch Rich Weird Guy’s Daughter, who has run off to go fuck raiders and take drugs. You find out she “fell in with a cult”.
Aha, I say to myself, You went and did that early; this quest is pointing you to the cult place.
Indeed it was. And the cult place was pretty barren, but there’s a living “leader” sitting in a chair giving the same speech as the last guy. Oh, I think, Maybe they just respawned him. Weird, 'cause I blew that guy’s head off about 100 hours ago and I’m pretty sure he looked and sounded different but eh whatever.
I try to tell the cult guy to just tell me where the crazy daughter is. I’m presented with a series of speech checks.
I try the “I’m with the family” check. Fail.
I try the “I’m just worried about her” check. Fail.
Note that at no point so far has any reference been made to the fact that I killed all these people before.
There’s an option called “Threaten”. It’s my last one before the generic dialogue. I pick it.
My guy: " So I killed the last guy running this racket. Just in case that information is useful to you."
Cult guy: “OH THAT WAS YOU okay let me just unlock this door and get the fuck out of here thank you sir have a nice day.”
I love it. Bendy plot rules that acknowledge your random violence appropriately! Well done.
Also needless to say I killed the new guy too as soon as everyone was out of eyeshot because fuck you, cult guy. Eat a dick.
If you look close you can see the blood splatter on the concrete from where I shot him in the back of the skull. :3
Also we’re done complaining that all modern games lack the kind of freedom the older CRPGs did, right? Because yeah this sort of thing right here is exactly the sort of thing everyone was whining was missing from “modern” games not more than four or five years ago, so.
I would be playing this but Jade Empire SE just got released for free to Origin. So I’m wasting my time with that I guess. Need to search to see if there’s a tropical Fallout mod yet.
thanks for sharing your stories/impressions. Reading/seeing these things makes me feel like we are playing the same game, though different “mods” of that. It’s crazy, but I like it for that!
Finally got tired of hearing that fucking cow on top of my garage in Sanctuary so i shot it.
Become a habit or is it just specific to Bethesda games?
I’m always curious about achievements because I’ve never been able to get into them, especially the tedious ones where it’s just a matter of doing a lot of things (i.e. more time invested than difficulty).
I remember being annoyed when WoW started giving out items for achievements but it helped me realized that the entire game ways always just an achievement grind (and to drop it since that doesn’t really do much for me).
I actually just kinda naturally got all of them except for the two other endings, which I’d planned on seeing anyway. Only one I was missing after that was some misc quests (I needed like 3 more, which were already in my log) and run the bases in Diamond City which I saved for last.
The Brotherhood Ending is kinda shitty from a plot standpoint but holy jesus is it awesome from an actually-playing-through-this one.
Huh. That makes me considerably more interested in finishing Fallout 4. Wanna see how my adventures with Buzz Lightyear pan out.
Interesting. How many hours total, out or curiosity?
5 days and 20 hours, so 145 hours total. On the high end for a Beth game for me but about what I put into New Vegas.
For a platinum that seems about normal; for a Beth game at least.
so i did finally end up walzing into Diamond City for the first time.
a rocky start and lots of stuff going on, Nick Valentine is a pretty cool guy. Assistant lady seems a bit … odd-ish, somehow? idk …
was a bit surprised that Major [forgot the name] can’t be killed, i wanted to take a peek into his computer and suddenly quite a few people were very unhappy with me, and seconds later he was somehow clipping-stuck in furniture but keeping his last slice of his healthbar, and another few seconds later i was pretty dead.
So all in all, I’m making inroads but so far am leaving a trail of deaths (and dead) in my wake.[/spoiler]
So yeah, I am enjoying every minute of this game.
this game feels incredibly lazy and backwards
but so do i during the holidays, so i’ve been playing a lot of it
I liked this game when I first started playing, but the continuing allure of MGSV / Rocket League / Heroes of the Storm coupled with my work schedule have put several weeks between me and my last FO4 loading screen. There’s still just a bit too much jank, and not much of a strong pull for me to play the game. It’s seemingly very much a give-back-what-you-put-in type of game, and I don’t have much to give it right now.
However, I do think the audio tour from the Thoreau house at Walden Pond does everything GTA V tried to do thematically, but better, and contained in a short optional audio clip.
It’s kinda hilarious how ridiculously broken the luck perks can make combat. Just stockpiled crits that refill nearly constantly, combined with a melee build with Blitz, equal a ridiculous amount of random teleporting and crit hitting and a lot of really stupid shit.
A friend and I made Adrian Brody in the game and have been punching and suplexing our way through the wasteland for awhile now and it never stops being hilarious.
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What’s funny is that we didn’t even think of that video until after the character was already made. We mostly made him in honor of that Dynasty Warriors movie he was the villain in with Jackie Chan/John Cusack as the heroes (Dragon Blade, which is amazing, and well summarized here).
Oh, and in honor of this picture:
This character’s official name is Punchquest Brody.
Here is his finest of suplexes:
i’m always surprised how different one can make feel the game. thanks for that brilliant suplex vid, this is wonderful stuff.
p.s.: nick making some snarky comments about my habit of stockpiling things, nonchalantly sitting in a chair while I’m ready to engage in machete-combat anytime is just great. Love it!
