Dr Fallout
Centurion
It's not being sarcastic, it's showing your stupidity.
Examples of Bad Writing in Fallout 4 [Spoilers]
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It's not being sarcastic, it's showing your stupidity.
It was posted in the Fallout 4 topic of the Order by @Akratus ... but I feel this also fitts in here just nicely.
and a Bonus:
Spoiler for plot detail - not that it is such a big deal ... but still.
ok, I have to know... is that trump image hacked from a website? That looks WAY too good for a photoshop...
kraag
Stalwart Prick
Here's an example of some awesome Bethesda-style writing...
Anyway, that pissed me off so bad I QQQ'd instantly after the screenshot to come and publicly shame them for yet another fallout 4 fuck up.
Anyway, that pissed me off so bad I QQQ'd instantly after the screenshot to come and publicly shame them for yet another fallout 4 fuck up.
Walpknut
This ghoul has seen it all
Wow, that's just.... holy shit.Here's an example of some awesome Bethesda-style writing...
Anyway, that pissed me off so bad I QQQ'd instantly after the screenshot to come and publicly shame them for yet another fallout 4 fuck up.
Gay Tony
First time out of the vault
From the first part of the game I knew how the rest was going to be. You're forced into the role of an army vet, appearing to a decent human being with steady happy marriage, the whole "muh wife muh kids" package.
The timing of the vault tech was way too coincidental 2 minutes before the alarms sounded. Same with the power armor and meeting the deathclaw right then after. It all just felt very rushed and forced along, like a chore they wanted to skip over.
Fallout 4's entire dialogue wheel is just a bastardized version of Mass Effect, though Bioware actually did a decent job with their dialogue wheel.
The timing of the vault tech was way too coincidental 2 minutes before the alarms sounded. Same with the power armor and meeting the deathclaw right then after. It all just felt very rushed and forced along, like a chore they wanted to skip over.
Fallout 4's entire dialogue wheel is just a bastardized version of Mass Effect, though Bioware actually did a decent job with their dialogue wheel.
CT Phipps
Carbon Dated and Proud
Yeah, having the branches cut off is an annoyance.
Uh, this is a mistake on your part. You didn't agree to be in the Vault. Your petition to be in the Vault was ACCEPTED. Your character wants to be in the Vault as they sent information in so you could be part of it.
That's what happened.
Uh, you don't go down until the world is being nuked.
Because this is an experiment and no sane healthy person would willingly be frozen to death on the vague chance they could be woken up again.
They unthawed everyone then let everyone else die. You can see it in Kellog's flashback.
They don't want you as friends. They want you as people to take DNA samples from. This is part of the story which makes sense.
I played my character wandering around in a fugue for several minutes, just taking in the horror of it all.
Didn't you?
Dr Fallout
Centurion
CT Phipps
Carbon Dated and Proud
Oh, the game has awful writing, don't get me wrong but it's like the scenario where you see the Capital Wasteland for the first time. The horror of it all really falls on you as the player to appreciate rather than the game. It can't exactly just say:
A. SCREAM NOOOOO
B. Fall down to knees weeping
C. Sarcastic
D. You burned it all, you blew it up!
Maybe Bethesda isn't even writing anything for their games, they just use chat/e-mail messages from their employees throw it together and call it a 'story'.
kraag
Stalwart Prick
Whats even worse is once the voice actor has recorded the lines, they then have to put them in the game - so some Creation Kit JOCKEY has heard the lines, or read it and either was TOO STUPID to realise the lines and voice were fucked or they just said, "Fuck this shit! I don't care! Just cram it in the game, they won't even notice because no one reads or listens any more anyway".
Well I read and I listen to things.
I noticed, now other people are noticing too.
Well I read and I listen to things.
I noticed, now other people are noticing too.
Steve the Enclave grunt
First time out of the vault
This game is a power fantasy set in post-apocalyptic setting, almost any situations will be contrived. I found maybe 2 or 3 side quests that were decent (in the main game, Far Harbor is a different matter). The plot of 4 is better than 3's, but still garbage.
The quest's I found good, or more acurately, let's say decent in writing, are:
- The Last Voyage of USS Constitution
- Human Error
- Kid in the fri... Just kidding! Out of the Fire.
The quest's I found good, or more acurately, let's say decent in writing, are:
- The Last Voyage of USS Constitution
- Human Error
- Kid in the fri... Just kidding! Out of the Fire.
0wing
Все умрут, а я волномут
Doesn't look like this. Chat/E-mail is more personal thing and therefore, have more personality (pun intended) and interesting content. Or Bethesda employees IRL just like their writing.
naossano
So Old I'm Losing Radiation Signs
Beth Designer note for himself *Let's not forget the button to skip dialogs*
Prone Squanderer
A bit of a Sillius Soddus.
The rep says because of the S.S's service to their country they've been pre-selected. It doesn't outright say they applied to enter as far as I recall.
Besides, if they DID apply, why is there an option to say "Go away"?
The whole sequence is contrived though. Wouldn't be as bad if the S.S. hadn't just met with a Vault-Tec rep and if the platform went down just before the bomb went off.
But of course we need to see the mushroom cloud don't we? Even though it would blind everyone who looked at it (same issue with destroying Megaton).
Ok this point I can actually agree with. The people are in shock, so they're less likely to question anything at this point rather than let them settle and THEN try to get them in.
Dr Fallout
Centurion
Capital wasteland... wait, that's Fallout 3. So, yeah it's shit there too.
Wardened
First time out of the vault
Here's an example of some awesome Bethesda-style writing...
Anyway, that pissed me off so bad I QQQ'd instantly after the screenshot to come and publicly shame them for yet another fallout 4 fuck up.
You guys don't get it! It was clearly a very subtle hint of how the process to liberate synths also creates bugs in their code, effectively making the railroad a grey faction.
Unless he's not a synth, then it's just an example of how detailed the writers are, having in mind the deterioration of languages in a post-apocalyptic society. So immersive, genius!
I did hate when the Vault Tek rep came by, the wife made my character go to the door and then my character kept saying to the rep stuff like "No" and "Go Away" with his voice showing more and more anger at the rep and the rep just kept pushing it over and over... My character had 10 STR and 10 CON, was getting really angry and almost shouting for the Vault Tek rep to just leave him alone and go away and yet a nervous and scared sounding rep would still stay there and not leave... Defying a muscle bag army veteran that sounded like it would be breaking the rep's neck if he didn't leave...
And what does the game do? After I said for the 4th or 5th time for the guy to leave in a very angry tone of voice the game makes the wife say something like "Do the papers" and after the character said once again angrily something like "NO! I SAY THIS IS OVER NOW!" the wife just says something like "And I say it is not and that's that." and our guy just does the papers... It is so damn forced, why even have the option of saying no and go away so many times (each time the character gets more and more angry and loud) just for the wife to hand wave our choices and we do the papers right away... Why not let the wife do the papers? Why not have the wife saying something like "remember honey, we discussed this yesterday and you promised you would do it today." or something like that instead of just a "And I say no and that's that!"? Why not have the poor vault rep break into tears and beg to us to not send him away or he would be fired and his life ruined, then our character would show remorse and agree or his wife would show remorse instead and change our character's mind by telling him that he is a veteran and a nice person and so on (since our character's personality is already pre-made we couldn't argue about it if the wife affirmed it).
I don't know, right from the beginning it just showed that it doesn't even has the illusion of choice, that the game will in a very lazy way tell you outright you can't do that and you have to do this! for a so called RPG and specially a so called Fallout game that just broke the enjoyment for me right at the start.
And what does the game do? After I said for the 4th or 5th time for the guy to leave in a very angry tone of voice the game makes the wife say something like "Do the papers" and after the character said once again angrily something like "NO! I SAY THIS IS OVER NOW!" the wife just says something like "And I say it is not and that's that." and our guy just does the papers... It is so damn forced, why even have the option of saying no and go away so many times (each time the character gets more and more angry and loud) just for the wife to hand wave our choices and we do the papers right away... Why not let the wife do the papers? Why not have the wife saying something like "remember honey, we discussed this yesterday and you promised you would do it today." or something like that instead of just a "And I say no and that's that!"? Why not have the poor vault rep break into tears and beg to us to not send him away or he would be fired and his life ruined, then our character would show remorse and agree or his wife would show remorse instead and change our character's mind by telling him that he is a veteran and a nice person and so on (since our character's personality is already pre-made we couldn't argue about it if the wife affirmed it).
I don't know, right from the beginning it just showed that it doesn't even has the illusion of choice, that the game will in a very lazy way tell you outright you can't do that and you have to do this! for a so called RPG and specially a so called Fallout game that just broke the enjoyment for me right at the start.
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Dr Fallout
Centurion
Stages of a Bethesda Yes or No Choice
'Yes'
Yes.
'No'
No.
Noooo.
NO.
NOOOOOOOOO.
Fuck off!
Fine, I'll suck your cock.
'Yes'
Yes.
'No'
No.
Noooo.
NO.
NOOOOOOOOO.
Fuck off!
Fine, I'll suck your cock.
kraag
Stalwart Prick
Because IMO they are following the mainstream "feminism is cool" agenda, conditioning young stupid male minds to think that taking orders from females is normal and correct in everyday life.
I'll try to back this up by talking about how I noticed that throughout the entire game, the male player voice actor is made to sound like an absolute moron, high-pitched voice, over the top happy attitude [KIDNAPPED SON] and generally coming off as just another dimwitted millenial retard that can barely save the day let alone the planet, he's made to say some of the dumbest things I've ever heard in a video game, including bad grammar as posted above.
While the female voice actor is pretty much the opposite - confident, smart, rough strong voice [for a female] and I'm fairly certain that her grammar was much better compared to the males lines.
Thank fuck for Silent Protagonist.
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