Finally Finished the Main Quest Line for Fallout 4...

WARNING! SPOILERS WILL BE INSIDE SPOILERS!

And least to say, I’m disappointed. I got little to no satisfaction from the game. The choices you have are limited and the game makes you want to kill your way through everything. Other installments of the game had better options. I felt good at the end of Fallout 3, I felt like I had choices in New Vegas. I don’t play video games much except for when it comes to games like Bethesda makes them.

But this… This was seriously disappointing. :confused:

When I play these games, I create a story for the character I’m playing, I consider his background story, his moral compass, and go from there. I like these games because it feels like a roleplaying adventure. I kill only when I need to, which is why my charisma is always the highest thing I have in these games. I’d rather have a discussion.

Personal explanation below in spoilers. Extra spoiley-spoilers will be put in extra spoilers:

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So I explored the different factions that you have available. I liked the Minutemen, I liked the Railroad, and I liked the Brotherhood. I met the Minutemen and Brotherhood first, so I started with their quest lines, especially since I kind of liked how Danse would let me be sarcastic to him and knock me down a peg by just being straight up with me. I met the railroad and quickly learned to like them later.

It came down to a point where I was working with the Brotherhood and kind of got the feel that they didn’t care about anyone except themselves. They told me how ALL Supermutants needed to die, I met one Supermutant named Strong who [SPOILER: Click to show](javascript:void(0):wink:

talked about finding how to become “stronger” by discovering human kindness and it was hilarious, and so I disagreed with that. They also wanted to kill ALL ghouls, which I felt wrong about. I eventually met Elder Maxon who seemed so uptight that he was borderline dictator.

Then came a special quest in Brotherhood, where you found out [details=“SPOILER: Click to show”]
Danse was a synth and Elder Maxon wanted you to kill him
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. At the time, my companion was [details=“SPOILER: Click to show”]
Curie who was already a synth and I literally JUST finished romancing her
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, so talk about awkward. So I couldn’t do that. Instead, after finishing that quest, [details=“SPOILER: Click to show”]
saving Danse by talking my way out
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and realizing that Elder Maxon was basically a madman, I challenged him to a duel in his private quarters, killed him, got his sweet battlecoat, and became enemies of the Brotherhood.

Long story short, I finally started questing with the Institute originally planning to side with the Railroad to free the Synths. But I actually liked how they were doing things. That was until I read all the terminals, found out about WHY they kidnap and replace people, and was really upset that I couldn’t have questioned the Institute more about their moral ambiguity and bullshit.

It was getting to a point where I was about to be in charge of the Institute, and I spoke to the headhoncho who asked me where my allegiance went, I finally told him the truth, hoping that I might get a chance to finally talk about what it seemed like he was avoiding. After telling him I sided with the Railroad, he said, “Oh, too bad, so sad, kill them anyway.”

In the end, I destroyed the institute, freed the Synths, and felt like the end was robbed from me. I didn’t get the choices I felt like were more obvious.

But this is how I would have ended it if I could have:

Become director of the Institute, tell the Railroad where I was heading and my plan so they could stave off an attack, become Director, free all the synths, merge the Institute and Minutemen together, and potentially talk the Brotherhood into being less than nazis or else destroy them.

But no, you have three things you have to do all the time. Choose one to two factions (Minutemen are neutral), and kill two others.

Bleh.

TLDR: Fallout 4 ending didn’t have enough choices and the ending sucked for me.

What do you guys think so far?

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I havnt finished Fallout 4 yet, I lost interest playing it for some reason. I dont like the crafting system and the new perk system. I would prefer they just leave it as it was in Fallout 3. I loved Fallout 3 alot! I might get back into the Witcher 3 though!

I hated the crafting system at first, but then I fell in love with it. The new perk system is “eh” and I left it mostly ignored. Fallout 3 was more memorable and a better game. Though, me living in Boston, it did give the added boost of excitement to play it and recognize a few areas!

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I lost interest with new Vegas myself

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