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girlofpreyI finished Fallout 4 today. Sort of.
I finished the main quest of the game. The main storyline is that your character is from before the nuclear war, and you, your partner and your infant son manage to get into a vault before the bombs go off (or just as, frankly, given the cutscene). But the vault is a secret cryostasis research facility, and you get frozen. You wake up to see someone breaking open your partner's 'pod', trying to take your baby who's in there too, and then killing your partner when they won't give up the baby and taking your son anyway. Your pod opens what feels like a few seconds later - but isn't - and you have to go try to find your son, and the person who killed your partner.
It's a pretty sad story, really. You go through all the quests, and find out your son might be a ten year-old now. Then you finally get to the evil underground science facility where he's being kept, and find out that boy is just an android copy. Your real son is now 60 years old, and running the evil science facility. And kind of a jerk. He offers to let you stay with him and help the evil facility - and you can - but I didn't. Because of evil.
If you don't, and you help any other group in the wasteland by giving them information about the facility, the evil science jerks attack them, and you have to help them out by blowing the facility up (after letting all the civilians and androids evacuate of course, if you're nice). I put off doing this, just because I didn't want the main story to be over, and I'd given one group the information and then decided I liked another group better, and I didn't want to mess things up with them before their storyline was over. And I figured my character wouldn't be in a hurry to mess up her son's life no matter what. But I finally got sick of not knowing spoilers, and wondering if certain things would change or click into action once the main quest was done, and I'd found out you could do the end quest for one group without ruining things with the other one. So I finally decided to do it.
I actually didn't know it was the final final quest, I'd just been putting it off. And I'd heard the ending was perfunctory, and - boy was it. You break into the facility, kill some robots, make your way through the place. Finally you have to end a security lockdown to get into a certain room, and you have to go up to your son's room to do it - naturally. I expected some sort of showdown, maybe a chance for a reconciliation or a way to rescue him. Instead he's just lying in a bed. He's all "I'm dying, mum. And you're clearly about to blow up everything I ever loved. Bitch". He doesn't say bitch, but you get the idea. There's nothing you can do, no way you can save him, you can just apologise or be like "see you in hell!". So you leave him behind, go and set the bomb - then just as you're about to leave through the facility's teleporter room, a kid comes up. It's the robot copy of your son, who now believes you're his mother, and begs you to take him with you. So I did, because I'm pro-android in the game apart from anything else. But he can't come with you - he just goes to the headquarters of whatever group you helped at the end. And then you teleport to some building, and press the button the blow up the facility. Thereby killing your own son, probably. He claimed to be dying anyway, and that there was nothing left you could do to help him, but it's pretty fucked up. Also the explosion that blows up the facility clearly levels quite a lot of buildings around it, and possibly kills a bunch of people, but that never gets mentioned.
So then you've won. Your actual son is dead, and you probably killed him or couldn't do anything to save him, and you're left with kind of a nightmare robot child, who may never be able to grow up, or may not know he's a robot, or may be a tiny assassin programmed to wait till you trust it then kill you, as a kind of final revenge. Who knows.
But it's nice to get the final quest out of the way, and see what the ending actually is. But then - my game glitched. I think. You get a bunch of companions throughout the game, to be your buddies and work with you. The ones whose lives were very involved with avoiding the evil science facility may get special dialogue after the end of the story - the one I was with at the time said something, and another one did when I got back to my home settlement. My favourite companion is Deacon, who's kind of a spy working for a group that frees androids from basically being slaves for the evil science facility. So it seems like he would have something to say - but he never says it, and instead acts like most companions when they have dialogue that hasn't 'popped' yet. I tried to travel with him again, and he just stood still, followed me incredibly slowly, refused to run when I did, didn't come with me when I went through doors into other areas. Maybe he was mad I didn't take him with me to blow up the evil science facility? I don't know. But it was unbearable, because I love him SO much. I tried everything to fix it, I talked to him, I fast-travelled to 'reset' us, I reloaded a save from before I asked him to travel with me, I closed the game and opened it again and reloaded a save. Nothing. No Deacon in any recognisable or useful form. So I had to reload from before I blew up the evil science facility.
It's kind of ruined Deacon for me a little bit. Just a little reminder that he's not an awesome person I love, but in fact a computer programme that glitches out and becomes unusable sometimes. But I still love him and want to travel with him, so there I am, back in time. Which basically means there's still stuff that might happen after the main quest - that DOES happen after the main quest - that I can't do yet, and I may still be open to being spoiled. But not big spoilers, at least. Hmph.
Fallout 4 is full of bugs - like most Bethesda games - but none of them have ever annoyed me this much before. But what can I do? Nothing, if I still like Deacon (which I do). And for all I know it would happen with all the other companions too. I might try the final quest again at some point, taking Deacon with me and hoping that triggers whatever he wants to say then. But otherwise, hmph. Hmph.
I still don't quite feel ready to go looking for spoilers, or even looking at fic, because there's so many quests I haven't done yet, and companions I haven't even recruited yet. Which is a little annoying, because that's always the nice thing about finishing a story. But mostly it's nice just to know the end of the story. Maybe one day soon I will actually be finished with the game full stop. Hmm.
I finished the main quest of the game. The main storyline is that your character is from before the nuclear war, and you, your partner and your infant son manage to get into a vault before the bombs go off (or just as, frankly, given the cutscene). But the vault is a secret cryostasis research facility, and you get frozen. You wake up to see someone breaking open your partner's 'pod', trying to take your baby who's in there too, and then killing your partner when they won't give up the baby and taking your son anyway. Your pod opens what feels like a few seconds later - but isn't - and you have to go try to find your son, and the person who killed your partner.
It's a pretty sad story, really. You go through all the quests, and find out your son might be a ten year-old now. Then you finally get to the evil underground science facility where he's being kept, and find out that boy is just an android copy. Your real son is now 60 years old, and running the evil science facility. And kind of a jerk. He offers to let you stay with him and help the evil facility - and you can - but I didn't. Because of evil.
If you don't, and you help any other group in the wasteland by giving them information about the facility, the evil science jerks attack them, and you have to help them out by blowing the facility up (after letting all the civilians and androids evacuate of course, if you're nice). I put off doing this, just because I didn't want the main story to be over, and I'd given one group the information and then decided I liked another group better, and I didn't want to mess things up with them before their storyline was over. And I figured my character wouldn't be in a hurry to mess up her son's life no matter what. But I finally got sick of not knowing spoilers, and wondering if certain things would change or click into action once the main quest was done, and I'd found out you could do the end quest for one group without ruining things with the other one. So I finally decided to do it.
I actually didn't know it was the final final quest, I'd just been putting it off. And I'd heard the ending was perfunctory, and - boy was it. You break into the facility, kill some robots, make your way through the place. Finally you have to end a security lockdown to get into a certain room, and you have to go up to your son's room to do it - naturally. I expected some sort of showdown, maybe a chance for a reconciliation or a way to rescue him. Instead he's just lying in a bed. He's all "I'm dying, mum. And you're clearly about to blow up everything I ever loved. Bitch". He doesn't say bitch, but you get the idea. There's nothing you can do, no way you can save him, you can just apologise or be like "see you in hell!". So you leave him behind, go and set the bomb - then just as you're about to leave through the facility's teleporter room, a kid comes up. It's the robot copy of your son, who now believes you're his mother, and begs you to take him with you. So I did, because I'm pro-android in the game apart from anything else. But he can't come with you - he just goes to the headquarters of whatever group you helped at the end. And then you teleport to some building, and press the button the blow up the facility. Thereby killing your own son, probably. He claimed to be dying anyway, and that there was nothing left you could do to help him, but it's pretty fucked up. Also the explosion that blows up the facility clearly levels quite a lot of buildings around it, and possibly kills a bunch of people, but that never gets mentioned.
So then you've won. Your actual son is dead, and you probably killed him or couldn't do anything to save him, and you're left with kind of a nightmare robot child, who may never be able to grow up, or may not know he's a robot, or may be a tiny assassin programmed to wait till you trust it then kill you, as a kind of final revenge. Who knows.
But it's nice to get the final quest out of the way, and see what the ending actually is. But then - my game glitched. I think. You get a bunch of companions throughout the game, to be your buddies and work with you. The ones whose lives were very involved with avoiding the evil science facility may get special dialogue after the end of the story - the one I was with at the time said something, and another one did when I got back to my home settlement. My favourite companion is Deacon, who's kind of a spy working for a group that frees androids from basically being slaves for the evil science facility. So it seems like he would have something to say - but he never says it, and instead acts like most companions when they have dialogue that hasn't 'popped' yet. I tried to travel with him again, and he just stood still, followed me incredibly slowly, refused to run when I did, didn't come with me when I went through doors into other areas. Maybe he was mad I didn't take him with me to blow up the evil science facility? I don't know. But it was unbearable, because I love him SO much. I tried everything to fix it, I talked to him, I fast-travelled to 'reset' us, I reloaded a save from before I asked him to travel with me, I closed the game and opened it again and reloaded a save. Nothing. No Deacon in any recognisable or useful form. So I had to reload from before I blew up the evil science facility.
It's kind of ruined Deacon for me a little bit. Just a little reminder that he's not an awesome person I love, but in fact a computer programme that glitches out and becomes unusable sometimes. But I still love him and want to travel with him, so there I am, back in time. Which basically means there's still stuff that might happen after the main quest - that DOES happen after the main quest - that I can't do yet, and I may still be open to being spoiled. But not big spoilers, at least. Hmph.
Fallout 4 is full of bugs - like most Bethesda games - but none of them have ever annoyed me this much before. But what can I do? Nothing, if I still like Deacon (which I do). And for all I know it would happen with all the other companions too. I might try the final quest again at some point, taking Deacon with me and hoping that triggers whatever he wants to say then. But otherwise, hmph. Hmph.
I still don't quite feel ready to go looking for spoilers, or even looking at fic, because there's so many quests I haven't done yet, and companions I haven't even recruited yet. Which is a little annoying, because that's always the nice thing about finishing a story. But mostly it's nice just to know the end of the story. Maybe one day soon I will actually be finished with the game full stop. Hmm.
