"Blade Runner" playthrough

[CT Phipps]

So, a lot of people say that this is based off a rip off of the immortal Ridley Scott movie. I was curious if it wasn't ENOUGH of a rip-off so I'm going to try to do a "Blade Runner" playthrough of the game where I attempt to do as much focus on the Synth issue as possible as well as make my character look as much like Harrison Ford as possible. If I were to play as a female Blade Runner, I'd go for a Sean Young look.

Some initial thoughts:

* My assumption is that "Deckard" Sole Survivor is a Courser Synth programmed to think he's from the Pre-War Era.

* You have to play a dark and moody protagonist who is morally ambiguous not a "good guy" in this version.

* Curie is probably the best choice for a romance option or Synth Sole Survivor (which is a Mod Synth of your wife). Danse is the best possibility if you're playing as a female or gay Deckard.

* Joining Nick Valentine's Detective Agency is an important bit of business.

* I should probably look for some mods to give me things like constant rain in the Commonwealth.

* The obvious choices are the Institute or Railroad for a game faction. The Brotherhood of Steel doesn't fit despite its focus on Synths.

* I think in this version of the game, to be absolutely cynical, you have to kill Paladin Danse and hate yourself for it, unless you're romancing him.

* Companions should be limited to Valentine, Piper, Cait, and others which fit the Noir mold. No Strong.

* Automatron is a must from the beginning. My headcanon is Codsworth is only sentient if you make him a Robobrain.

* Deckard Sole Survivor will side with the scavengers against the Robo-Pirates because, again, it's more morally ambiguous and also makes the ensuing slaughter all the more tragic.

* I don't think Deckard Sole Survivor will be reforming the Minutemen as that's too idealistic.

* The choice to slaughter Covenant or let them kill the Little GirlTM is now more important. It decides what kind of Blade Runner you are.

I think the game can be fixed but it definitely needs a lot of tweaking in this version. Suggested mods are a must here but also ways of playing the game and avoiding quests which detract from the Blade Runner feel.

 

[Alphons]

Remember, everytime you are in DC you have to grab a bowl of noodles from Takahashi.

 

[Hassknecht]

I'd recommend going for the Crystal Steele look for the female SS, though.

Dunno how you'd roleplay anything in this game, though... Besides using a mod to turn the player voice off and headcanoning the shit out of everything.

 

[CT Phipps]

Dunno how you'd roleplay anything in this game, though... Besides using a mod to turn the player voice off and headcanoning the shit out of everything.

I regret now there wasn't a "Silence" option like in Telltale games.

But yes, I am determined to TRY to roleplay an actual campaign in this game.

I'm inclined to think I may make a b-line through the main plot so I can spend the majority of the plot already tied to the Institute.

 

[CT Phipps]

YOU *CAN* DO HARRISON FORD.

 

[Juza The Cloud]

Ironically Curie is far too human and warm sounding for the coldness of Sean Young.

 

[VaultHead]

Isn't blade runner a little more, like, cyberpunk-y than fallout? Like, the idea is great and i'm probably going to do a Blade Runner play through, but if anyone knows mods that might give fallout a more cyberpunk feel that would be useful

 

[CT Phipps]

Isn't blade runner a little more, like, cyberpunk-y than fallout? Like, the idea is great and i'm probably going to do a Blade Runner play through, but if anyone knows mods that might give fallout a more cyberpunk feel that would be useful

Part of the reason why Automaton is actually a decent justified DLC is the fact it adds a shit ton of rampaging robots and an utterly soul-crushingly bleak origin for the Robobrains. The "new" origin for Robobrains doesn't work at all in regular Fallout, which is somewhat goofy but not "Robert House was a Nazi" but it works well as a horrifying secret for a cyberpunk Fallout universe.

There's a Reddit thread for cyberpunk-ing up Fallout 4 too.

https://www.reddit.com/r/FalloutMod...iccyberpunk_mod_list/?st=jbhknfjg&sh=ca8a0c4e

Deckard's Coat: http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/11328/

M2019 PKD Detective Special: http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/10669/
Cyberpunk Billboards: https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/11574/ *Highly Recommended*

Rainy Commonwealth: https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/267/

Apparently, I'm not the only person to come up with this idea:

Blade Runner Sanctuary:

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/5277...lout-4-amazing-settlement-creation/index.html

Blade Runner Easter Eggs:

* The Noodle Robot

* This scene on a rooftop.

 

[CT Phipps]

Okay, I think I've got the perfect Blade Runner playthrough path if you want to do the IMPOSSIBLE and ROLEPLAY A CHARACTER ARC:

* The Sole Survivor leaves Sanctuary

* The Sole Survivor meets Codsworth

* The Sole Survivor meets with the Sanctuary survivors

* The Sole Survivor DOES not revive the Minutemen but goes to Diamond City

* The Sole Survivor tracks down Piper and Nick.

* The Sole Survivor is weirded out by Nick but thinks he's nothing more than a program similar to Codsworth who is NOT-Sentient in this universe.

* The Sole Survivor kills Kellog

* The Sole Survivor will do the Automaton DLC, showing what horrible monsters A.I. can be. [Roleplay a distrust of sentient technology]

* The Sole Survivor gets to the Institute (not sure which group as they're all rather anti-Blade Runner feeling--probably the bare minimum of the Minutemen and Sanctuary missions) and joins.

* The Sole Survivor takes on a firmly anti-Synth stand after encountering the Raider Synth.

* The Sole Survivor goes to Far Harbor and eliminates DIMAH'S sanctuary with the Institute's help. Just the kind of atrocity to wear on the soul. [Roleplay the worry Shaun may have been lying to you about you actually being his parent]

* Meeting the BOS should happen around this time and doing Danse's part where they play on your Synth hatred.

* Sole Survivor kills Paladin Danse and realizes the BOS are a bunch of scumbags.

* The Last Voyage of the U.S.S Constitution should end with you destroying the droids only to find the humans betray you.

* The Covenant mission can expose the SS to how horrible people can be to Synths.

* Join Nick's Detective agency and become all the more Noir as you settle into the weirdness of the fact Nick may be sentient.

* [Mod Adventure] Get the Synth Spouse Companion as a "Present" from Shaun and roleplay being horribly fucked up by a reborn version of your wife/husband as a gift from him.

* Vault mission where you meet Curie and help her become a Synth--which exposes you to their humanity.

* The Sole Survivor can FINALLY discover the Railroad.

* Choose to either become Director of the Institute and make things better or aid the Railroad but destroy the Institute.

* Muse about the inhumanity of mankind and the humanity they can pass on to their machines.

* Decide for yourself if the Sole Survivor is a Synth or Human or even a human brainwashed int believing he was the Sole Survivor.

Romance Options: Paladin Danse because he's a Synth, Currie because she's a Synth, Piper or Cait you decide you're a Synth, or the Mod Synth Spouse for obvious reasons.