Fallout 4

I could imagine paintings of the Sole Survivor standing above a deceased Deathclaw becoming a thing.

I know if I were the Survivor it'd be the first thing I'd commission after leading a faction to victory.

...There so needs to be a mod that puts that picture into the game.

You know, this maybe overreacting, but why guys always assumes that Minutemen always run on some Cult of Personality, while they had, like, about at least 60 years of good history, with at least 2 different Generals on said history? Current Minutemen has Cult of Personality, yes, but that's because your Minutemen basically built from ground up, and more like revival from ashes. They need strong leader as current glue, but that's may change.

Probably because our actual experience in game is that way. 60+ hours of that experience doesn't entirely trump a couple of off hand remarks.

I'd like it if games allow us to set up a line of succession. Main Character™ always seem to come around out of nowhere and solves everyone troubles, then skedaddle to who knows where.

What happened to Cyrodill when the Champion straight up get an apoethoesis and leave every single major guilds leaderless? What happens when the LW wanders off, exit stage right? The courier and Vegas?

I'm with the troper above who don't really like to be faction leader. Top dog, sure. Respect, certainly. Adminstrative work, coordinating pay, organizing office vacation? Urgh. Only reason it's a thing is RPG tradition, a princess and half the kingdom translated to modern day.

We never do any leadering anyway, they shouldn't have tried to pretend otherwise.

At least we get taxes(?) from our settlements. I just wish they could send it all to you; Silent Colossus shouldn't have to be tax collector if I'm the one who gets all the caps and water and crops (which I sell for caps).

I have a house in Diamond City. Send it there.

Edit: And in the form of caps. Not only do I have to fast travel walk to the settlements, I have to find different merchants to sell them to because they don't have enough caps? Pfff. And sometimes, you guys are under attack when I get there, causing me to spend caps and supplies on ammo?!

edited 4th Aug '16 9:31:19 AM by SilentColossus

To be fair, I think with the whole settlement building thing it makes a bit more sense.

And where's our princess?

edited 4th Aug '16 9:50:48 AM by Protagonist506

To be fair, creating Post Apocalyptic IRS is going to unite Boston against you.

The whole business is very Communist in a sense — they use whatever they need and then put the excess in a common cache... which you then raid for your own personal wealth, being the sole person with that privilege.

Your settlers put up with this as long as you take care to shoot the occasional Raider or Super Mutant.

edited 4th Aug '16 12:22:57 PM by Fighteer

I already have that. It's just a bit inconvenient. Especially when I hop over to the Isle and they complain about the fog condenser being down or something.

edited 4th Aug '16 12:24:03 PM by SilentColossus

You know, I just realized what the game is missing: a path where you ally with the gangs and pull off an extortion racket on settlements. You do the same things you do now: recruit people, build everything up; but instead of killing the raiders, you cut a deal with them. They show up waving their guns around, you shoot at them a bit, they run away, and then you share a cut of the goods you extort from are gifted by the settlers.

edited 4th Aug '16 12:39:12 PM by Fighteer

There was some speculation that Nuka World is gonna possibly let us do that, but I'd wait until it's out.

I tried to cut a deal with raider gangs but word spread after my first disastrous attempt, in which I forgot to disable the dozen Rocket Turrets I have in every settlement.

Rocket turrets are great but they do tend to blow up your own stuff.

No way. I don't share That is a most reprehensible plan, Fighteer.

Huh, so Bethesda finally tagged Marcy (and Jun) as non-essential. People are... taking it rather well.

Brb, off to shotgun her head off.

Ugh. Now patch Skyrim for Maven Blackbriar

In Skyrim I just used a spell from a mod to banish her to Coldharbour.

Oh good we no longer need that one mod that makes Marcy into a bad guy to give us an excuse plot to kill her. Up to that point I was just locking her in stocks.

I'm sorry but Marcy Long isn't worth wiping the blade off of even my cheapest knife. Let alone all that valuable ammunition.

I'm waiting til the slavery mods come in and then I'mma going to sell her.

It really worries me that Fallout fan's first reactions to the way trauma survivors act, is to kill them.

Not justifying it and I wouldn't consider killing her and have never done so, but she apparently has always been this way.

Even then, without any way to interact with her in any significant way, I can see where players would tire of her repetitive lines of dialogue.

Dark: Broad brush much? In case you missed it Marcy is quite possibly the most obnoxious character in a game.