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Alright this might take a bit of explanation so you can ignore if you like. How do you think the Fallout 4 companions and the New Vegas companions would react to there 'other version' like how Cait and Cassidy are similar in that they are both red heads who drink. Again ignore if you'd like. Love your writing.

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This turned into something else.

letmebegaytodd

they just dont know what he's aiming at

letmebegaytodd

i will say though that in benny's defense, his gun skills are better than boone's. the professional sniper.

so, in fairness

calder

greetings. i am shaun. your son. and this is an android modeled after myself. as a cherubic little rascal of age ten. that i built. and i cannot stress this enough. specifically to traumatize you. welcome to the institute

nuclearhancock

this is exactly what happened

dloeza

deaconsbeacon

hangmansalley

shaun looking at watcher footage of sole spending three months hanging out in a cola theme park with a bunch of criminals instead of looking for him

nuclearhancock

i find it really peaceful building settlements and making them look all nice and giving my settlers and companions little jobs 🥺

newvvegas

Hancock stans

nuclearhancock

i’m proud of it too

the-last-girl-scout

The true Bethesda experience is when you’re playing a video game and then all of a sudden you’re not

returnn-of-the-mac

“Spin the mobile. He loves that!”

shacklefunk-deactivated20220623

alright look. i know that fallout science is ostensibly just magic-that it’s ‘science’ as imagined by the contrived 50′s B-movie. It’s just not necessary for it to BE real science-there’s no narrative point to it. it doesn’t have to make sense.

however,,,can i just say something

in fo4. after you kill kellog. when nick suggests that u harvest his brain to read his memories.

im okay with memory reading and memory pods or whatever, but like. why is everyone so okay with you having kellogs little brain shrimp

like nick says, ‘we can get some of his brain’ and sole is like, ‘o i already took some actually’ and NOBODY BLINKS. I mean, first of all, to have taken it, you would have to have CRACKED HIS SKULL OPEN when you killed him-and I get it. video game corpses drop loot. but its not like you took a finger or some teeth, you took a part of the hippocampus.

the blue thing is the hippocampus

not only is it tiny, it’s also in, like, the fucking middle of the brain! which means the sole survivor not ONLY cracked kellogs skull open to get at his gray matter like some kind of enraged chimpanzee, they also, like, dug around in there-with apparently surgical precision

and thats fine. i believe you could steal kellogs brain shrimp. fine. that fits within sci-fi video game logic.

but if you have a companion with you-and you CAN bring a companion with you on this quest-why do they just sit there and watch you take part of his brain for no reason?

and its not like you just take his brain! you can also get ‘cybernetic limb actuator’ and ‘cybernetic paint inhibitor’ if i recall correctly, which are represented as sort of..robot parts. which are, like, for SURE on the inside of his body! they are not on the outside of his body, you CANNOT see them, and so i can only assume that they’re like, his fucking robot bones, which you simply CLEAVE FROM HIS BODY

which okay. fine. but they don’t even DO anything. you cannot do anything with them. all you can do is hock them for a few caps to some understandably confused merchant who probably doesn’t even know what they are, has no use for them, and probably cannot conceive of the horrific, grisly manner in which they were acquired

i just can’t fucking. understand the narrative justification for why you can say ‘oh, no i actually already took some brain-do you guys need it?’ and absolutely no one freaks out. they act like you took his keys out of his pocket. i mean, maybe they DID see you squat down for like, probably a couple hours, to carefully crack open his skull, pull the top of it off like a coconut, carefully extract his brain, disassemble it, then go, ‘aha!” and take his robot brain shrimp, pocket it, and leave. maybe they all saw it!

maybe they saw it so they arent SURPRISED that you have it, but even if it isn’t technically a surprise, i still think it should be shocking! like, im sorry, i get that fallout takes place in a post apocalyptic hellscape where people eat each other but piper and nick are both staunchly good aligned characters who live in an arguably nice part of town. they aren’t raiders or slavers, so like. why would they be okay with this fucking goddamn vaultie off their absolute nut pulling a piece of brain out of their pocket like it’s a house key

im just not fucking sold on this whole transaction. i know todd needed us to get to the memory den, and we needed to have kellog’s brain at that point in the story so we could read his memories to find out where the institute is. and i know it would be like, shitty and boring to make the player go all the way back to his little boss arena and pick his corpse over for brain parts, but like, was there no more graceful solution to this problem!?

that whole fucking scene is like a fever dream. where you just whip out a piece of meat from a guy you killed and the two other people in the room with you are like ‘oh neat, that really simplifies things.’ and i just. i cant jive with that kind of raw, bad-writing induced sociopathy, man, i just cant

sleeping-ranna

reblog this if your icon could kill a man

chubbyarcade

Jim’s lucky that he’s cute.

frangst

“hey, Valentine..”

corsairesix

The thing about weed not existing in Fallout is so funny because Hancock is so clearly written as like a classic stoner character but instead of weed he takes horse tranquilizers and meth.