Fallout 4

[Wood]

Originally Posted by OutOfTheCube

Nope, not at all actually.

I basically predicted it from the start of the game.

Same, I found the main quest line super anti-climactic

[Robo]

anyone else get the covenant settlement yet I think im going to make it my main settlement

[Trailer Fire]

Originally Posted by Robo

anyone else get the covenant settlement yet I think im going to make it my main settlement

My buddy told me to avoid Covenant at all costs. Apparently it's broken to the point that no matter what you do, it won't work like other settlements. Someone always has ownership of something and you can't use it. Also the prebuilt turrets destroy other turrets and you can't scrap them.

It looks good, but it has to get patched.

[Robo]

Originally Posted by Trailer Fire

My buddy told me to avoid Covenant at all costs. Apparently it's broken to the point that no matter what you do, it won't work like other settlements. Someone always has ownership of something and you can't use it. Also the prebuilt turrets destroy other turrets and you can't scrap them.

It looks good, but it has to get patched.

aw i didn't know that thanks good thing i didn't put a lot of time into it although i'm not sure if people still own anything there as i had to kill them all lol. I chose to help the synths

[BEANZ]

On Christmas Day my son will be opening an Xbox One. He is only 10 so will not be playing Fallout 4 which comes with the system, however reading this thread has me interested. I have not had a true gaming system since my original PlayStation, but am definitely going to play the Xbox.

Two questions:

1) Is there a Fallot 4 guide I should follow? Or is this a game you can just figure out on your own?

2) What games would you recommend for a 10 year old? He have NHL 16, Minecraft and a Lego game. Are there others that are suitable.

[Max Cow Disease]

Originally Posted by BEANZ

On Christmas Day my son will be opening an Xbox One. He is only 10 so will not be playing Fallout 4 which comes with the system, however reading this thread has me interested. I have not had a true gaming system since my original PlayStation, but am definitely going to play the Xbox.

Two questions:

1) Is there a Fallot 4 guide I should follow? Or is this a game you can just figure out on your own?

2) What games would you recommend for a 10 year old? He have NHL 16, Minecraft and a Lego game. Are there others that are suitable.

Fallout 4's a little involved if you haven't played a Fallout title before. There are lots of tips and guides littered throughout the web.

Once you fire up the Xbox you'll find lots of potential titles that would be suitable for a 10 year old in the digital store...go and have a browse. I'd recommend Rare Replay as a good starting point. It comes with a bunch of games that Rare has developed over the past few decades from a variety of genres.

[calumniate]

I've gone with the high luck, low intelligence strategy. I'm approaching level twenty and it's starting to get pretty funny now. Basically I can't take a punch but my crits can be devastating. Idiot savant is hilarious as well

[kirant]

Originally Posted by BEANZ

1) Is there a Fallot 4 guide I should follow? Or is this a game you can just figure out on your own?

There are guides online and I'd suggest you use them for some of the technical gameplay elements which the game might explain to you but does so in a very quick manner (ex - it took me a couple attempts at fighting and reading the tutorial to get all the controls down since the tutorial pops up in the top-right corner when enemies appear).

Past that though, the game basically shoves you in face first into a world where you can do what you want. It's a traditional Bethesda game in this sense: there are no guidelines. The game is about exploring a world. You can completely ignore the story a great deal and make it your own post-apocalyptic version of Sim City or go on raider murder sprees. And you can opt to ignore all sense and engage raiders in power armour with a pipe pistol (personal experience: it can be done...it just takes time and tactics).

I'm not there yet, but I've been told many times that the endgame does have branching endings to a small degree. I'm not sure the game warns you at all (ala Fallout New Vegas, where the game gives you distinct warnings that starting a certain mission will cause all other factions to stop working with you and therefore lock out their possible ending), but watch out for that. You could refer to guides if you'd like for that.

[OutOfTheCube]

Originally Posted by Wood

Same, I found the main quest line super anti-climactic

Spoiler!

Agreed -- it was like, "surprise, I'm your son and we're not so bad!" and your character just kind of accepts it and is cool with it. No big cool quest, no climactic fight -- you just kind of start doing missions for them. End of story. Meh -- maybe more interesting things will happen throughout the faction quests but we'll see. A bit discouraging.

[N-E-B]

Originally Posted by OutOfTheCube

Spoiler!

Agreed -- it was like, "surprise, I'm your son and we're not so bad!" and your character just kind of accepts it and is cool with it. No big cool quest, no climactic fight -- you just kind of start doing missions for them. End of story. Meh -- maybe more interesting things will happen throughout the faction quests but we'll see. A bit discouraging.

I disagree. I thought the story was great.

Spoiler!

Your character doesn't have to accept it if you don't let him! Try having to kill him when siding with the Brotherhood... The feels!

[saillias]

Originally Posted by OutOfTheCube

Spoiler!

Agreed -- it was like, "surprise, I'm your son and we're not so bad!" and your character just kind of accepts it and is cool with it. No big cool quest, no climactic fight -- you just kind of start doing missions for them. End of story. Meh -- maybe more interesting things will happen throughout the faction quests but we'll see. A bit discouraging.

Spoiler!

See this meeting pissed me off because the game conditions you to shoot first when you have an inkling that a confrontation will go hostile. Kellogg, hunting the courser, chem deal, the Big Dig with Bobbi, saving Nick from the gangsters, etc. It goes better if you just ignore the dialogue duel and start blowing people's heads off. So I meet this guy labeled with the name "Father" and shoot him in the head. Hey, I thought he had turned my son into some defective robot locked in a cell to manipulate like a puppet. Turns out he's not essential and the entire institute goes hostile.

[RW99]

Ending spoiler

Spoiler!

I went with the Minutemen option, gave the evacuation order, kept Shawn, didn't do anything with father. Funny how all the Minutemen left all the scientists alone, but my companion was Danse and he didn't care, he was shooting them in the back as they ran away

[Blaster86]

Wait, this game has a story?

[jammies]

Originally Posted by Blaster86

Wait, this game has a story?

Sure, mine is along the lines of "How a Suburban Mother and Housewife Learned to Eat Roaches, Kill Mutants, and Steal to Survive."

[Rhettzky]

I think mine would be "How the avid tin can collector collected all the tin cans and other tales of inventory management."

[Trailer Fire]

Mine would be "Watch a nerd get butchered by Bloatflys and other zany misadventures of the Sole Survivor." - 'How many mini-nukes does it take to kill a raider?' Foreword by Dogmeat and Cait.

[codynw]

Mine is "idiot tries to run away from Radscorpions, unsuccessfully".

[saillias]

"Man speaks harshly and cannibalizes hundreds of bandits to please super mutant companion."

[Trailer Fire]

Just checked out Covenant. Tried to get the settlement 3 separate ways. First by killing everyone straight up, second by siding with the Synths on the quest, third by siding with the Compound. All three options leave the settlement uninhabitable. I can't use a single bed.

[Robo]

Originally Posted by Trailer Fire

Just checked out Covenant. Tried to get the settlement 3 separate ways. First by killing everyone straight up, second by siding with the Synths on the quest, third by siding with the Compound. All three options leave the settlement uninhabitable. I can't use a single bed.

did you search the workbench? once you click on the workbench it becomes yours