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sawowner

(Spoilers) Did anyone else think there was going to be a huge plot twist at the end of the main story?

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So there was this thing a while back about telling ppl not to visit r/4chan because they were posting spoilers to the ending so I thought there was going to be some huge plot twist at the end. Since you're discovery of Shaun isn't the end, I kept thinking there was another surprise as well. So while I was doing the BoS questline and discovered that Danse was a synth, I jokingly said to myself, holy shit, Danse is a synth, the mayor of DC is a synth, whats next, am I a synth? Then it hit me that this could very well be true, that what if I was some super courser with implanted memories and was an experiment of sorts (father even called setting you free an experiment himself).

I was actually quite disappointed when I found out that you weren't a synth, but wouldn't it have been cool if you found out in the end that you were a synth this whole time? Kinda like in Bioshock 1 where you realize near the end you were from rapture the whole time.

Posted Nov 29, 2015, 4:48 AM UTC

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PurpleChelsea•

I thought this as soon as I knew the game was set in the Commonwealth and that you were 200 years old. Kinda disappointed it wasn't, but I understand if it had been there would be outrage over Bethesda choosing the obvious plot mechanics.

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PurpleChelsea•

I thought this as soon as I knew the game was set in the Commonwealth and that you were 200 years old. Kinda disappointed it wasn't, but I understand if it had been there would be outrage over Bethesda choosing the obvious plot mechanics.

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KnowledgeFX•

I can understand how some people can like the ending because they have grown attached to Shaun and his death scene may have effected you however to me, I couldn't care less about him. To me his character was some sad old man that was only interested in having his word spread across the land, so his death was not needed in my eyes. Another thing I noticed is that the general plot and storyline is a carbon copy of fallout 3.

In fallout 3 you leave the vault looking for your dad and once you find him he gives you a general summary of what he's been doing, a few quests to do followed by his death and you finishing his project despite the emotional set back, eventually leading to your demise to save or ruin the wasteland.

In fallout 4 its the same thing but slightly reversed. Rather than your father leaving the vault you are in, your son is taken instead. The general quest lines leading up to you finding him are much the same again with you going from what people have found and noticed in there travels to get your son back. Once you find your son, he sends you on a few quests to help get his goal completed and dies at the end of the story, rather than part way though it like in fallout 3.

In my eyes the only thing that was changed from fallout 3 to fallout 4 was the time of the main McGuffin's death. Because that's all your son is in Fallout 4. He is an item to move the plot along, rather than being a character in the plot. Everything that you are doing in the main storyline revolves around him.

Now I do understand that there are different ending and I'm sure as hell going to be playing though this game again to try and find a better one than the one I got so do take this with a pinch of salt please and I understand if you disagree. I still find fallout 4 to be a fun and enjoyable game with loads of things to do in it however I feel the ending left a rather bitter taste when compared to the rest of the game.

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