A Look Back At The Story of Fallout 4 

Fallout 4 is simultaneously one of my most favorite games of all time and most disappointing games I’ve ever played

The biggest thing for me was the world didn't feel like it was home to anyone, other than diamond city, there weren't really many towns, my favorite thing about F3 and new Vegas was exploring all the little towns and communities. The towns that did exist in F4 just felt flat and didn't have the depth the other ones did for me

The whole detective thing tracking down Kellogg was really fun, I wish you could go on multiple cases with Nick as his partner living out a detective noir story.

One of my grips with fallout 4 was that apparently every tool, person with building knowledge, and building plan got blown up in the explosion. Like its been 200 years its not that hard to make a wood structure without it looking like crap

I have to say, the fact that Power Armor is more "troublesome" in this game is a point in it's favor. If you're going to try to sell the weight, power, and to really hammer home the fact you're a walking *tank*, then at the same time also being able to sleep, eat and just do whatever in it all the time without any negatives to remind yourself that you are, in fact, in a walking mech suit, it really makes the efforts in the former not as impactful.

27:06 Danse has balls of steel. Gets attacked by a deathclaw and carries on with the conversation like nothing is happening. What a mad lad.

You know one thing I really liked about this game, I iced Father the second he walked in the room so I never found out he was Shaun, and I remember being so confused at the ending after I wiped out the Institute. I do like that they gave you the option to just blast Shawn away like that.

My problem with 4’s main quest is it feels like a long winded side quest. I very much enjoy exploring the world and interacting with it, but the main quest felt like a chore that I kept forgetting to do.

None of us should be surprised that the writing for FO4 was lackluster; Bethesda's lead writer Emil Pagliarulo has made it abundantly clear that he doesn't give a shit about compelling or challenging narratives. He writes his stories to appeal to the largest demographic possible, so anyone who came in expecting NV or Morrowind levels of writing were just fooling themselves.

I've never understood why there wasn't an option for the Railroad to be absorbed as a sub-faction to the Minutemen. It solves the Railroads manpower issue and it gives the Minutemen a route to infiltrate and destroy the boogeyman of the Commonwealth. Hell, I could totally see a romantic subplot between Desdemona and Preston that would've been entertaining.

In my opinion, I think the biggest missteps BGS made with fallout 4 were removing skills, dumbing down charisma/speech, and streamlining conversations. Those three major RPG elements are what made Fallouts 1, 2, and even 3 really good and immersive. Hell, I even missed having the Karma system! At the end of the day though, I still put like 400+ hours into fallout 4, so jokes on me I guess..

something else i strongly disliked was that the "choises" you were offered were basically "yes, yes but sarcastically, yes but why? and no but actually yes"

You could have finished the assault on the Brotherhood's ship without ever shooting a bullet. If you have a BoS uniform (I think Deacon even gives you one before you head in but I'm not 100% sure on that) you can walk around and people won't attack you, but you'll be questioned from time to time by different characters and you have to pass some speech checks that get more difficult as time goes on. If you fail, the entire ship attacks you, but if you pass you can plant the charges and walk away, leaning into the espionage side of the Railroad

I assumed Shawn was taken during the vault uprising mentioned in the security computer (early 2077), and thus was long dead by the time I thawed out. So off I went, cheerfully unencumbered by parental responsibilities, determined to crush the wasteland under my iron boot. I was level 20-something before I wandered into Diamond City and discovered that my character was still hung up on his century-dead kid. I guess I'm not father material. :)

Codsworth is fascinating to me, because the Mr. Handy units weren't designed with the capacity for sentience, and yet his AI seems to have achieved a sort of pseudo-sentience after 200 years of computing. He's unable to break away from his programming, but his personality has clearly evolved beyond that of a normal Mr. Handy. I'm quite certain you could port his overdeveloped AI into hardware capable of supporting true sapience, and end up with a real person on your hands.

I remember not liking any of the endings or outcomes for people. So when I came across a video about a sort of unofficial secret ending, that I liked I went for that one. It basically involves going through most quests, for all the factions to a certain point. And then destroying the Institute. It leaves the game in a state where all the factions are at peace with one another, and friendly towards you

My first run I accidentally went with Minutemen since i hated the Institute - aftter I entered it first time I just started shooting and killed Shaun without knowing he was my son, and ended the game that way

Lol, at 27:05 he got absolutely destroyed by that deathclaw while having a serious conversation with Paladin Danse. I did not even know a deathclaw could even spawn near that bunker.

There's a lot of quests you can do for the NCR before the personal invitation you get on the strip. Camp McCarren, Camp Forlorn Hope, Camp Golf, Bittersprings, Helios One, Mojave Outpost, you can just about guarantee victory for the NCR before they ever start directly asking for your help.

"HOW DO YOU POLISH RUST?!" is one of my favorite lines in any game ever, its so desperate and emotional, he's truly pleading with god to answer him

Fallout 4 was my introduction to the fallout franchise. It has a special place in my heart even when it has glaring flaws.

I never understood why they removed weapons from being Holstered, that was one of the first moments a few mins into the game I noticed that FO4 was off, something as simple as that being taken away for no explicable reason other than, laziness. Probably cause they had clipping issues with the power armour, rather than fixing it they just take it away like with everything else in their franchises. The story stuff and bloated radiant quest bullshittery, lack of dialogue options (or knowing what you guys gonna actually say, or tone). It felt like a single player MMO is the best way to put it, but after playing FO76 I can see FO4 was literally a test demo for 76.

At th 27th minute, when you express your admiration for the brotherhood storyline and a sethclaw suddenly ruins the scene, I really felt that.

I play fallout everyday, here in Detroit don't even need a controler...

Deathclaws used to be og every time I used to see one or a tail sticking out from behind a rock I would be so filled with terror and dread. Now since 4 and 76 they are not as scary as they used to be. This kinda sucks.

They should’ve had the power armor been destroyed in the beginning. They then give you false hope against death claws, and displays the power of the armor.

As much as I liked the intro to fallout 4, I just wish we could spend more time in the pre war world and did some interesting quests before the bombs dropped. It would’ve made you form a much stronger emotional connection to the world and other people like your family and neighbors before seeing them all die.

Kellog was the best story element of the entire game. He was well acted, well written, and felt genuine. A consequence of the brutal wasteland, and they did a great job with his character reveal being after you killed him. Other than that, main story was total crap. The whole Shaun thing was just lame, it reeked of subverting expectations which is a tactic i have grown to absolutely abhor! Just make a satisfying story, some twists and turns are great, but can we lay off the depressing af "sorry your whole family was f'd up and your son is a crazy, brainwashed bastard, better luck next time"

Dude the hype for this game was unreal. I remember my friends and I skipped a class in high school so we could watch the reveal.

For me, in both 4 and 76, being an essentially Pre-War character always misses the mark especially since you lack the ability to choose what your character did prewar. Instead you're a Soldier/Lawyer or just "America's Brightest." Imagine in Fallout 4 if you could choose to be a police officer. After you exit the Vault you come back to your home and reclaim your old uniform/service Pistol. Or maybe you were firefighter so you come back to a fire axe and gas mask. These are just a few examples that was a totally missed opportunity Edit I think one your early points shows why voice acting was a problem: Nate was upset. Nate was distraught. You as the player probably aren't as you did not have any time to grow Attachment to the. Spouse. The Sole Survivor is never your character. It's Bethesda's character.

Pretty much every Bethesda RPG I've played since Oblivion always felt like a theme park to me, rather than a fleshed out world with actual societal depth in the way the world functions. So many small sidequests in places that have no real impact to deliver just enough of an endorphin rush to keep you floating along until the next little sidequest.

Honestly confronting Danse and Maxson is forever burned into my brain It was night and raining and I was desperately trying to convince Maxson that Danse was a paladin first and a synth second I failed my charisma check I was so close I left the brotherhood that day

FNV will always be my favourite, simply because most of the companions have good stories, interesting NPCs, tons of factions and missions, and of course Red Lucy

23:35 That's not true, we only REALLY meet Mr house and Yes Man because we need to be in vegas first, we can do a lot for the NCR and a bit for the Legion before ever setting for in New Vegas

The reveal about Father was so unbelievable to me that I played through the entire game twice absolutely 100% convinced that Father wasn't my son.

“Who would play the brotherhood missions all the way to that point to change sides?” They guy who was setting up an epic tear it all down betrayal that’s who.

I hope Microsoft replaces that guy who’s best friends with Tom Howard and is responsible for the writing in FO3 and 4. I think it’s bad writing if the fans have to make lots of justifications for the flaws in your writing.

The Brotherhood: We preserve technology Also The Brotherhood: *destroys the Institute*

The thing that always confused me was why neither the Minute Men or the synth rebellion wanted to claim the institutes base as their own instead of blowing it up. Like the Brotherhood wanted to remove the possibility that more synths could be made or any other dangerous tech, makes sense. The Minute Men, claiming the base might set a bad precedents or frighten the rest of the Commonwealth since that type of thing isn’t what those guys do. But the Synth rebellion in the Railroad ending? I feel like they would want to claim the base and create their own faction. That would have been a wild ending and would have provided an excuse for a couple post game quests to help them get into their feet

The final Danse quest would’ve been great if it hadn’t broken every time I tried to play it. Danse would just glitch out and walk away in the middle of the dialogue.

I’m kinda shocked you didn’t point out Dogmeat tracking Kellogg across the map by a weak scent alone. It felt like a juvenile understanding of dogs on Bethesda’s part, since most dogs aren’t exactly fantastic bloodhounds and nothing established Dogmeat as having all the necessary training at some point. Not to mention Dogmeat just teleports to outside Kellogg’s house even if I haven’t met him and Nick not only knows him but puts his full trust in him. I would’ve changed it so that instead of a scent, players could follow a loose trail of witnesses (and maybe the preexisting evidence spots) to Kellogg’s movement. They wouldn’t lead you perfectly from one spot to another and you and Nick would have to craft the story together based on their not-always-useful accounts.

The Institute's motto is "Mankind Redefined". A motto with no meaning at all. They created intelligent, self-aware artificial life whose goal is to perfectly imitate humanity. But the Institute gets upset and punishes these Synths when they act human. If they wanted dumb robots who follow orders and express no free will or personal desires why would they give Synths a sense of free will at all? Nothing they do makes sense. The Institute should have created Synths with a real purpose. Mankind Redefined right? How about this. Synths are used to infiltrate surface society with the express goal of replacing them with genetically superior humans. Synths would blend into existing families and deliver modified dna to eggs during sex. The children born of these actions would be engineered to be superior than the average human. The Institute's methods would actually have a goal. The cost is the deception and harm caused to current humans to get to the Institute's goals of redefining mankind. And if the improved children are born and don't pan out to be as amazing as the Institute expects or experience long term genetic defects, all the damage they caused to surface dwellers would have been for nothing. Edit: Adding on to this there are so many sub conflicts to explore. Who in the institute will have the greatest influence over the genetics of their newly seeded humans? Who gets to decide which traits are superior? The debate within the Institute would be facinating. And what about the Synths? They should be far more limited in capability than what we got overall. More machine underneath and fallable. However, there could be a sub faction in the institute who thinks seeding humanity 2.0 is a wasted effort, so they secretly have been improving the Gen 3 Synths beyond their intended purposes. What would the Institute do then once they realize their Gen 3 synths have gained a true sense of free will?

Making the minute men the enemy of the institute would have been easy. If the institute is making random people synths. Then you start linking settlements together, word spreads about you interfering with synths missions. Now you started making them irritated. You get in, then you meet Shaun. Since you’re the leader, he tells you to stop messing with the hidden synths missions. But you choose not to, leading them to kick you out and declare you enemies for defying them. Then again this depends on the institute actually doing something important with the fact they replace settlers randomly, and yk, have a purpose

What a great video, summarises the game perfectly. I appreciate the hours that must have gone into this , very well done

The Commonwealth itself is amazing. I love modding it up to look great and just walking through the ruins of downtown. The devs also did a good job at putting little rewards for exploration such as the story you uncover in Malden. They also did a decent job with environmental storytelling. It's a great world to explore. I love how the city is so vertical. The ruins are amazing. But the story and factions of the game really let it down.

I actually got the “Defeat the Brotherhood” ending with the Minutemen as my first playthrough. You can coexist with the Institute if you don’t want to destroy them.

Man your channel is a goldmine. I can't wait to binge your videos

I just picked out a problem with what Codsworth says. 200 years with no one to talk to and no one to serve, yet it's obvious that someone was living in Sanctuary on the day you left the vault. Evidence is the workshop house with work benches that were not there at the beginning, the cooking station at the last house on the left before you cross the bridge. Then there's Dogmeat. Why was the dog at the coolant station and not at Abernathy farm? How did Dogmeat survive?

One of my biggest problems is the tension between the 4 factions in fallout 4, there is none. In New Vegas you feel that the Legion, NCR and Mr House hated, distrust and wanted to kill the other and using other minor factions to complete their goals regardless of the cost. Fallout 4 on the other hand does not feel like that. Minutemen and Railroad are just there and at times you forget that they are even there. Even the brotherhood and institute don't have any sort of tension, while the brotherhood is screaming how much they want to kill the institute, the institute most of the time doesn't acknowledge them, or any faction, most of the time.

The moment the protagonist was refrozen after Shaun’s kidnapping, I assumed Shaun’s age would be uncertain. The whole main quest was frustrating because the player character insisted they were looking for an infant / child and the mismatch between my assumptions and the PC’s broke my immersion more than the backstory and voice acting ever did. Unfortunately I didn’t even register the twist that Shaun was the leader of the institute because I was so frustrated at the “twist” that Shaun was old! I see now that him running the institute was a good reveal, but the child Shaun ruined it for me… Not sure how this landed for others, and I realize that including the possibility of a time gap could have ruined a twist for others that just happened not to work for me.

One thing about the minutemen you don't have to kill someone at the institute to be banished for to start their quest. You just have to be banished and you can turn down Sean at every opportunity when you first talk to him to get you vanished or after Bunker Hill. There's an opportunity to do it through dialogue too so you don't randomly have to kill someone

Having played FO4 for since it came out, and I've finished just about every main and side quest it remains one of the most engaging games I've ever played. Your video helped clear up plot points I've long forgotten about. Thank you for this video!

The minutemen are the "yesman" faction, IE "I locked myself out of all other endings" and thats all they're really used for. Honestly Nuka World feels like a real faction since they affect the world. Shame you need to get mods to allow you to take over the insutute as the raiders though... Speaking of which, this is a game that needs a ton of addons to fix its horrible story. There are some great story mods though that really fix this up, and its hilarious being the overboss and taking everyone over, or being the mayor of diamond city, ext...

This is the reason I played the game once, went with the Brotherhood, and called it good lol. Great vid

Love that Codsworth dialogue about polishing rust. One of my favorite lines

For me, the story of Fallout 4 falls apart about 5 mintues in. You get frozen and an unknown amount of time passes for your character. We the player know it's easily 100+ years. Your partner get's kills, child gets taken, we get refrozen again, and another unknown amount of time passes. For all your character knows, it could have been another 100+ years and there is nothing to suggest that our child is still out there or even still alive.

Some of the game details are incredible. Recently found a group of mongrel dog at a random encounter location. Observed them from a distance using my weapons scope, and the they acted like real dog, like rolling on the ground, playing with each other

Fallout 4 is one of my most played games. As someone who has sunk quite a lot of time into it I can agree almost 100% with every criticism of it. Side Note: There is actually a way to make an enemy of the Institute without killing anyone, and that’s by going down the dialogue option of refusing to work with Shaun after the battle of Bunker Hill. Additionally, if you equip Brotherhood equipment and calmly make your way onto the Prydwyn you can actually do the entire mission of planting bombs on it without initiating combat. Neither of these I feel are well-known options, but they’re still options.

I think the minutemen story would be improved by adding more variety in settlement building. Maybe have a few unique missions for each settlement to help get them up and running and once these were done and the settlement was built to a certain point it had an impact on the surrounding area. I also think the minutemen/institute rivalry could have started with 1 or multiple synths taking refuge at one of the settlements which the institute attack. Potentially a mission which could be part of both factions storylines.

I always choose the Railroad ending. Infiltrating the BoS is EXTREMELY easy if you never joined them, or at least never visited the Prydwen before.

Fallout 4 was my first fallout, and I loved it so much. It immediately became the franchise I was most interested in, and went back to play new Vegas and FO3. The ending of the story was a bit of a bummer, but all the little side missions and somewhat larger sub stories were so much fun exploring and completing that I still enjoyed the overall experience exponentially

I feel like New Vegas seriously upped everyones expectations for Fallout 4 and made everyone forget how mediocre Fallout 3's story was, Bethesda haven't made a single Fallout with a good story in my opinion.

Why was the Institute replacing randos? How did they get scans good enough of these people to make duplicates?

Here is my summed up take. The difference between obsidian made Fallout Games and Bethesda made Fallout games is an story rpg with a side of sandbox vs. a sandbox with a side of rpg.

Thank you for explaining to me why I never finished the game.

I went through Fallout 4 looking for a settlement on my way to Dimond City, with high hopes I might add. Only to discover that it was the only one aside from Goodneighbor and a Vault. I often found myself realizing that I was forcing myself to play this at some points, unlike all the previous games or the Hearts of Iron Fallout mod (10/10 would rule the wasteland again).

Lol that deathclaw that interrupts your discussion between max and dance

if the railroad fit more of an infiltration mindset, where to gain standing and their end you had to fulfil side objectives while doing the BoS & Institute quests it would have been a good plot, such as getting elder maxson assassinator to throw the BoS out of wack while sabotaging the reactor for the institute

I’ll never forget as a young kid who had never known anything about the fallout franchise before, saw a video of the quest where the castle is attacked and then the player must strike back and break into the institute, and thought it was a simple radiant quest that is part of the settlement system in how you must protect your settlements, and thought this was a very ambitious and complex game and wanted to play it. The disappointment when I found out it was actually the finale 😂😅

Honestly I wouldve loved fallout 4 more if it delves further into ideas it set up and if it took more risks. Have the sole survivor be a synth and have the player decide what they do with the info. Maybe you embrace it or maybe you hide it, have a copy of you be a major bad guy, give the minutemen some oomph by maybe having the final part of the quest line taking back Quincy. Brotherhood of steel could destroy goodneighbor and the railroad could maybe have a partial settlement system of setting up outposts where you get radiant quests when you and if you decide to go to the location. You were right on the money though, gameplay and exploration is fun but the narrative no longer grasps me

The story of this game absolutely gripped me at the time. It was my introduction to the fallout universe and I haven’t been as deeply enthralled in a universe since. Now when I replay it I can’t believe how many stupid bugs and plot holes I easily looked past and I don’t think I’ll ever enjoy it as much as I did the first couple times I played through the story.

A lot of the issues with the Minutemen and the Railroad could easily have been fixed by combining them into a single “Independent New Commonwealth” faction. The settlement quests serve the purpose of providing the infrastructure to hide and smuggle freed synths. Instead of doing the institute quests to advance the railroad questline, it could be tied to using the settlements to get enough support to prepare for the mission. Then the institutes attack on the Minutemen fort could have been a retaliatory attack for freeing the synths. Also with the Minutemen being based on colonial era militia men fighting for the independence of the American states and the Railroad being based on abolition era Americans fighting for the freedom of people that have been robbed of their independence, there’s just too much thematic overlap for them to be two different factions.

I still think it could be kinda cool if Shawn was The Lone Wonderer’s grandfather. It would explain how James is so tech savvy. He would have spent time in the institute and wanted to take what he learned and try to start Project Purity. Plus both Shawn and James are Irish Names. And then it would tie the returning Fallout 3 characters to the Sole Survivor in a round about way. That’s at least my head cannon, anyway.

She might be mediocre but goddamn do I love it

23:00, Maxon said just seconds before though that each synth is a bomb that can be set off at any point in time - which is true if you know the recall codes and have a new programmed holotape for them

The weird part about giving you power armor that early is that even with the deathclaw, it's not necessary thanks to the areas level design. It could be a max level, legendary deathclaw and still could have been cheesed from the corner building.

You can also get banished from the Institute at the end of the Battle of Bunker Hill, without having to kill Shaun, you simply can choose not to be part of them. I usually just run the Railroad to make first contact with the Institute, and just politely leave there. Of course that means I have to use the minutemen for the ending -- but that is what I want.

Great video. I agree with most of it. Bunker Hill was the moment I knew nobody at Bethesda had any clues on how to make the story work. The worst part in this game is the conflict of interest for the player: you need to rescue your kid but take FOREVER to build Minutemen bases and help the commonwealth.... It is sad that I enjoyed the game not because of the story but the mods (story, characters, weapons, quality of life, ...)

So close to a million views. Keep up the great work!

In the mission where you blow up the predyen, i didin't kill aynone, you can do the quest without killing anyone, pretend to be a brotherhood knigth, using the uniform that deacon gives you

I love Fallout 4, yet I hate it. I always look forward to having my post-apocalyptic harem farm crops in my stronghold, but I cannot for the life of me be motivated to pursue Shawn lol

something that the Minutemen could've been used for was altering the Institute story line. No mattering what path you choose Shaun sees the Wasteland as this abominable realm of despair and chaos. however if Bethesda were competent at writing they could've made it so the Minutemen could change his mind. you do enough quests for them that unite settlements, clearing out raider and mutant camps to populate them with civil people and perhaps all of that could make it so Shaun sees the Wasteland as this flourishing beacon of hope. and after seeing all of this, he would wish to help the people of the Commonwealth and your quests within the Institute would be based around creating new facilities in the Commonwealth that would give benefits to cities, towns, and settlements. or maybe even settling political and civil unrest. perhaps you can do missions that involve settling the paranoia surrounding synths and abductions. there could've been so much more potential revolving around the Minutement, and considering how small and insignificant they seem at first glance, a person avoiding them or just refusing to help them would make sense because nobody expects such a small faction to be able to make such a large difference.

Even though fallout 4 was my first intro into fallout, nothing can beat Fnv even with its flaws

Maxson is more of a machine than Danse is. He is a cyborg basically as his life has been extended by the use of technology (implants- these are on the medical officer’s computer). He is what he hates.

There is one logical way for the minutemen to side against the institute. You can do the battle of bunker hill for the institute (free the synths against Shaun’s will) and quit the faction once he questions you.

Fallout 4 was such a disappointment for me in almost everyway. RP was thrown out of the window. You will always be a war veteran or a lawyer before the bombs fell. You will always have a son that gets kidnapped. Plus the voice character, expressing emotion that will always be there, that goes against what I want to RP. It just disconnected me so much. I was playing Bethesda's story, not making my own. It worked for Mass Effect, The Witcher, because they had defined characters that those people could be. But Fallout is just too open to do the same thing as those games. Because if you want to RP as a nice guy, you will have to go looking for your son as it contradicts your playthrough if you don't, but if you want to play as an asshole, there's not many options for that either. They honestly could've saved themselves so much work by just thinking of a reason like FNV with being a courier. You ended up in a situation that will drive you forward or not. That's RP, I swear they need to host more games of D&D to try and remember what makes RPG's so great. Games have gotten distracted with the term 'RPG-elements' which just means you've got a leveling systems. But that isn't what makes RPG's, it seems the industry has forgotten.

The reason Kellogg speaks through Nick so briefly is that Nick is feeling the residual effects of having experience his memories first hand. It's Nick playing the memories for you your just watching. Think of it like turning off an old TV sometimes there's a brief after image on it. That's what we saw.

When I first played the last section of the main story it really hit hard for me, I was emotionally invested in finding my son, and was getting the railroad to help me and in turn I was helping them, however after the battle of bunker hill. I had a conversation with my son and honestly the conversation with Shaun on top of the building was kinda heartbreaking for me, I didn’t want to betray Shaun but I couldn’t help the institute, so I had an open and honest conversation with him, it was just a fantastic scene. After that I was kicked out of the institute and couldn’t finish the railroad quest, Then I could either go to the brother hood(which didn’t sit right with me) or the I ask my friend’s at the minutemen’s help, so I asked the Preston for help, and went from there, So for me the mixture of railroad then minutemen for me was my favourite ending,

I recently started playing Fallout 4 and I've been a Fallout Geek for years and I have to say it does leave alot to be desired, but in no way is it a bad game just lackluster. My personal criticisms of the game is 1. The soundtrack is just ripped from Fallout 3. I really enjoy the new songs they've added. Wished they put Bobby Darin and even some 70's songs to add some twist on the whole 50's style, gets repetitive. 2. The execution of the story was so underwhelming. I know New Vegas was a different entity, Bethesda should have took some notes on how that game was able to present so many different kinds of choices to the player to essentially create their own story. Also throw in some politics and philosophy. 3. The main character. Really a mess that can't represent the player or immerse them fully in the game. I hate a good chunk of the dialog options cause I don't know how my character is gonna respond and I hate how most of the encounters are set up. Yesterday I came across a guy trying to kill a synthetic and I tried to talk him out of it but I failed every speech check and the only options left were to kill the guy or kill the synth. Fallout 4 is really lacking in options and I always have to go about them in ways I really dislike.

You know, if the twist was "you were a synth all along" and have naritive building around I think it could have worked.

The reason why the Minutemen should be in the main story is because it’s the player's faction this trend started in Fallout New Vegas, and I believe it is a great trend, and should continue into the future of the Fallout franchise however, the railroad does not belong in the main quest line because they are too specialized to be a main faction. (I wrote this using voice-to-text so it may read weirdly)

Something that really bugged me about Kellog was that he makes a joke about you looking like a frozen TV dinner last time he saw you, when you arrive at Fort Hagen. The man grew up in The Hub, post-war. How the fuck does he know what a TV dinner is? Or a freezer? He doesn't. Whoever wrote his dialogue wanted a snarky line and wrote a contemporary one, forgetting the context. This happens A LOT in 4llout.

This video was really well made. Unlike fallout 4's dialogue system.

3:05 I've always found the voice acting and mediocore because it just detaches you from the character really sure the preformance in the dead wife moment works but I don't care about generic spouse number 335 and then his comments about the roaches and the like are intrusive 16:00 But the dogmeat bit is a bit dumb like how if you've never interacted with the dog nick whisles and half a wasteland away a random dog hears it comes and nick and meat act like best buds 20:15 I don't know I'd say its standard and very predictable really as its just a primary plot element in most frozen in time plot lines that and bethesda's writing is very predictable 35:00 When your password is the same as your username 37:29 another point...If we destroy the institute there will never be any new synths making the rail road redundant...That and if you are already director man then you have unlimited power within the institute to reform and change aspects 43:20 The only time killing old man shaun would make sense would be when you first meet him and you shoot him on sight out of anger for kidnapping your son other than that context it just doesn't work

Regarding the Institute, I can come up with a few reasons why self-sustaining is useful to humanity as a whole. 1. Finding out ways to grow, develop, and increase the food of the Commonwealth can help against starvation. This type of experimental food could be healthier and cleaner than the food found in the radiated wasteland. 2. Water is also very important. If they are able to find ways to purify it fully and even create a delivery system for it, the wasteland will have higher chances of survival. This water can be used for bathing, drinking, and watering of crops. This could ultimately help shape the wasteland in the future. 3. Power is a huge issue as a whole. If they are able to create a system to gain power without the need for fusion reactors or other rare materials, then the wasteland will be able to thrive off of it. Remember Helios One in Fallout New Vegas? This could be a solution to that power problem. Overall, these points will probably not be seen by anyone, but they can give insight to the uses of the Institution. Unfortunately, Bethesda can’t make a compelling story with such points, so all of this is just from me looking at what *I* would do. Alright, if anyone reads this, have a great day

The early introduction of the armor would of been fine if they had it made it be a barely working scrap heap and we had a loss in the following fight narrowly avoiding death, then it would of been a cool moment of power humbled by a now extremely scary enemy

That Fucking Virgil quest in survival mode is a pain my my ass! Literally Bethesda thought- “We should make the player go halfway across the map, then we should make them backtrack into the glowing sea for this quest.” 😑

It’s been a long time since I’ve played, but I think you can get tracked onto the minute man ending without randomly killing Institute NPCs. If I remember right, it’s done by siding against the Institute at bunker hill, then meeting Shaun on the roof of the CIT building and picking certain dialogue.

I feel bad that Dogmeat wasnt part of my gameplay. I met him once then he ran off. Seen his ass towards the end game. Stuck in a loop of attacking a raider who was also in a loop of swinging at dog meat through the corner 😩🤦🏾‍♂️.

This is really small but I noticed it on my last playthrough. On the part about Kellogg speaking through nick and the game never mentioning it again, one or more of the dialogue options has nick explain that Amari told him there may be some temporary after-effects from the equipment. The Kellogg in his mind probably faded soon after or something like that.