Fallout 4 endings

[vegetablearian]

Poll #27172 Fallout 4 factions!

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 6

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Which faction did you side with the first time you played?

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Minutemen
3 (50.0%)

Railroad
1 (16.7%)

Institute
1 (16.7%)

Brotherhood of Steel
1 (16.7%)

I have never finished FO4, but I want to do the poll
0 (0.0%)

Which faction is most fun to play?

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Minutemen
0 (0.0%)

Railroad
1 (16.7%)

Institute
0 (0.0%)

Brotherhood of Steel
1 (16.7%)

Other
0 (0.0%)

Don't know - haven't played them all
4 (66.7%)

Which ending do you like best?

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Minutemen
0 (0.0%)

Railroad
0 (0.0%)

Institute
1 (16.7%)

Brotherhood of Steel
0 (0.0%)

Other
1 (16.7%)

Don't know - all I care about is my supplies of adhesive
4 (66.7%)

I don't think I could fit all the sub-endings in terms of allying, betraying and destroying into a poll, much less the reasons. Please share in the comments :D

Comments

[vegetablearian]

I've only played once and I sided with the BoS. It's kind of a BoS-MM alliance except Preston is extremely disappointed in me for blowing up the Institute so thoroughly and reminds me of this every time I stop in to say hi.

I don't think it's bad for the Commonwealth? Maybe the opposite MM-BoS might be better. I mostly sided with the BoS for the cats. And Danse and Ingram :)

I need to play Railroad and Institute so I can have a chance at befriending their companions!

[rocky41_7]

I ended up siding with the Minutemen almost by default XD I tried doing things the Railroad's way but it went sideways and the Minutemen were the only other faction I could fall back on. I like Preston though so I was happy with the way it went.

[vegetablearian]

I like Preston, too! It's interesting how the Minutemen are nearly the fallback faction like Yes Man is in FNV. Their faction is in a really interesting position with all the betrayal and damage to their reputation. It's really fun to reclaim the Castle! I don't know how the rest of the MQ goes with them, but I loved meeting Ronnie Shaw and finding the poor former general.

[rocky41_7]

Yeah, I liked their quest line too! I've only played the game once so I haven't checked out the other factions and their outcomes, but I enjoyed the Minutemen. It was fun rebuilding them into a force for good and lbr, the place could really use their help! It was also nice hearing NPCs comment on how the Minutemen had helped them if you joined in on some of the "defend X" missions.

[vegetablearian]

I've only played once too! I'm not sure what I want to do if I start a new playthrough.

Yeah, it's nice to hear those lines. And though the constant 'save these people' quests can get a little irritating (there's one I keep getting about a bloke who is absolutely desperate to set up shop in that horrible mirelurk swamp...), it's still satisfying to help them!

[rocky41_7]

Also very true...I definitely had them pop up regularly and my response was "I ain't got time for that shit!" Especially if you're helping people in a settlement you've already helped with the same issue before 🙄

I feel like if I was gonna play again I'd want to be morally questionable and side with the Institute, just to shake things up.

[vegetablearian]

Yeah, I feel like you can kind of divide the game into with the Institute or against the Institute, despite all the relations between the other factions. I'd like to try siding with the Institute too! I've never even met their companion lmao. I'd like to see what it's like working alongside Father, too - seems like a good roleplaying angle whatever the Sole Survivor's opinions on what the Institute is actually doing.

[rocky41_7]

I don't think I met them either...I would definitely be curious to see what kind of dialogue SS might have with Father if you choose the Institute!

[sporky_rat]

There is not enough adhesive in the the Commonwealth. At all. Not nearly enough.

[vegetablearian]

I know, right? They can't possibly expect us to care about anything else.

[sideways]

I have done such a terrible job of completing main questlines in FO4 that I think I am on the adhesive's side u_u This is what happens when you ask the first rando with a gun you find rummaging in a trashcan to decide the fate of the Commonwealth.

[vegetablearian]

I'll never get over stumbling into the Cambridge Police Station and having Danse talking like I'm this mercenary that does all these tough jobs for caps... I'm a lawyer and I don't know why you people are using bottle caps as money in the first place!

[sideways]

Haha, legit though! I did think it was an... interesting choice to tie separate professions to the gender options (vs letting you pick either one for a boost in appropriate skillsets, etc?) but yes, it gets very funny to have your tremendous badassery insisted upon sometimes. Sir, yesterday I was beaten up by a big crab.

[vegetablearian]

To be fair, the big crabs can get very very big :)

It definitely is 'interesting' - I wish it were more actually interesting too! I guess there's not a lot for a lawyer to do in the Commonwealth, but it doesn't even come up very often that you're so unsuited to all this if that's your background. If we had to have a preset career, I would have preferred both soldiers or player=soldier spouse=lawyer. It would have been cool if it somehow played into the faction choices at least - maybe scientist would have worked better? The soldier > BoS thing seems obvious but I don't see the obvious option for the lawyer, but scientist > Institute would have been good (and in both cases you could do the opposite because it reminds you of your spouse or whatever, or just any reason). Then, the other two factions are not so tied to the old world (despite the stronger historical associations), so they're not so tied to your old world career?

But we end up hoarding duct tape in any case!