Running quests, building settlements, sometimes I forget just how dark this game can be.
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imgur.comThe Great War was a net improvement for the US in this universe.
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one of my favourites is when you're reading a romatic story then all of a sudden a group of ghouls all have full names :D :D :D
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The ghouls with names random encounter are supposed to be neighbors from sanctuary hills who didn't get into the vault. Their names match some of the names on the mailboxes. It's a nice little Easter egg. Of course, the fact that it's just random encounter means you can run into them and kill them multiple times in a single playthrough.
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Think about that. You can run into them multiple times. How the heck would your character be able to identify a bunch of feral ghouls as being his neighbors from before the war? Do they all still have wallets with government-issued ID's in them?
Isn't it more likely that it is simply your character having PTSD flashbacks or hallucinations, imagining that a bunch of random ghouls are people he knew before the war?
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This makes the game deeper an now im lost.
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im talking about ones in specific areas... like someone talking about their lost love, then you find them as a ghoul. i havent noticed any of these random encounter actually... ill keep my eye out...
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Oh, um, nevermind. There's no pack of ferals with names of people from pre war Sanctuary. I just, um, made that up.
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There is a terminal in a bunker under a house in Breakheart Banks West Everett Estates (thanks for the correction) that tells a sad story. After listening to the holotape I could not take the Jangles, even though I could have used the fiberglass. The other half of that story can be found in, I believe, Mass Bay Medical Center on another holotape. While not as dark as the suicides we find or the insanity of pre-war corporations this shows a very human side of living through a catastrophe (or not).
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It was West Everett estates, not Breakheart Banks but you are right about the rest of it. I so wanted some sort of closure for that.
The kicker? The kid had hid from teachers and made it home instead of going into the vault at Malden Middle School after the dad had told him something dodgy was going on based on something he uncovered at his work.
Malden Middle School is the site of Vault 75. The kids were led into the vault while the parents were taken through "orientation" but were instead gunned down. The kids were later used in fucked up experiments to "perfect" genetics.
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YES, thank you. So good.
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I think that kid on the holotape might be the best bit of voice acting in the whole game. So good.
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I took the jangles home and displayed it with the rest of my souvenirs. It seemed wrong to leave that family forgotten under a mutant settlement.
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Reading those logs was so awesome, it reminded me of exploring The Glow back in Fallout 1.
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Where is this located OP?
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I really don't remember. I want to say it was in RobCo
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That whole Robobrain program is close to the most fucked up thing in the game. Its a toss up between that and the tests they did on kids in vault 75.
On this playthrough while doing that final Mechanist quest it struck me that they were wheeling the next "patient" past those who were waiting their turn in the cells just for another layer of psychological terror
The fact that you can then go and slap a robobrain head on your robot with Automatron is kind of funny, I have to admit. I mean, WHOSE BRAIN IS IT?
"Igor... who's brain did you get for this experiment?"
"Abby... somebody's..."
"Abby somebody. Abby... who?"
"Abby... normal"
"Abby normal. So you're telling me I just put an abnormal brain into a 7-foot tall, 300 lbs GORILLA???"
Bonus points to anyone who knows that reference without looking it up. :)
PUT ZE CANDLE BACK!
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This person gets it. :)
Frau Blucher. Nice.
Aside from jezebels I dont use them because they gross me out and I'm uncomfortable about the whole way they were acquired lol. I would be asking that exact same question whenever I was around it.
I never actually read into Vault 75... That is so fucked up... Give Bethesda shit for having so many bugs but they know how to add some interesting backstories...