CT Phipps
Carbon Dated and Proud
One of the issues I have with Fallout 4 is I felt the campaign had an insufficient amount of drama throughout the story. While chasing after your missing child, restrictions to your character generation, is a very good motivation--it's a very very long time until you actually can get stuff done and it restricts immersion that you'd be off doing whatever strange stuff you might like to do such as sidequests.
Which is part of the reason why I think the "good" endings of the game are actually the least interesting or enjoyable from a dramatic perspective. If you side with the Minutemen in the game, early on, everyone throws you a party and the Brotherhood of Steel reluctantly has your back.
If you side with the Railroad, it is a little less pronounced. Patriot commits suicide rather than live with his role in the Institute's destruction. Likewise, the Brotherhood of Steel is also destroyed in the story and you're left with a large number of people who are now your enemies in the Brotherhood's survivors.
The Institute ending, I feel actually benefits the most from the choice for drama because you probably choose it for family ties as well as the belief they can take down the BoS better than other people. The Railroad dies in this version, Shaun dies despite you probably doing it for him, and a lot of your companions chew you out for it.
The Brotherhood of Steel ending is one I've never practiced so I don't know how the Companions feel about that but I do know it also results in the destruction of the Railroad. You also have the ongoing hunt for surviving Synths around the Commonwealth.
Notably, this is averted with Far Harbor as every ending has serious consequences and there's no "golden" one.
I do, however, think siding with the Raiders is the best ending for Nuka World as a nonviolent ending to the conflict results in Preston turning against you even as you manage to avoid massacring the population of Nuka World.
So, are there any people who think it's a good idea to take one of the harsher endings because they're not so sugary? New Vegas benefited from the fact there's no Golden Ending even though they portrayed siding with NCR as the seemingly best of the options.
Which is part of the reason why I think the "good" endings of the game are actually the least interesting or enjoyable from a dramatic perspective. If you side with the Minutemen in the game, early on, everyone throws you a party and the Brotherhood of Steel reluctantly has your back.
If you side with the Railroad, it is a little less pronounced. Patriot commits suicide rather than live with his role in the Institute's destruction. Likewise, the Brotherhood of Steel is also destroyed in the story and you're left with a large number of people who are now your enemies in the Brotherhood's survivors.
The Institute ending, I feel actually benefits the most from the choice for drama because you probably choose it for family ties as well as the belief they can take down the BoS better than other people. The Railroad dies in this version, Shaun dies despite you probably doing it for him, and a lot of your companions chew you out for it.
The Brotherhood of Steel ending is one I've never practiced so I don't know how the Companions feel about that but I do know it also results in the destruction of the Railroad. You also have the ongoing hunt for surviving Synths around the Commonwealth.
Notably, this is averted with Far Harbor as every ending has serious consequences and there's no "golden" one.
I do, however, think siding with the Raiders is the best ending for Nuka World as a nonviolent ending to the conflict results in Preston turning against you even as you manage to avoid massacring the population of Nuka World.
So, are there any people who think it's a good idea to take one of the harsher endings because they're not so sugary? New Vegas benefited from the fact there's no Golden Ending even though they portrayed siding with NCR as the seemingly best of the options.