Any moments/quests in Fallout 4 that made you cry?
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Subject: Any moments/quests in Fallout 4 that made you cry? Thu Oct 12, 2017 2:51 am
Whether it's "tears of happiness" or just crushing sadness.
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For me it was just about everything with Kasumi in Far Harbor. When I both heard and felt the grief in this family after their daughter left home because of an identity crisis (and because of those filthy droids taking advantage of her insecurity), I wept. When I found out that she's run away to my childhood home (both IRL and my character's), it made things somewhat more personal, and a very somber piano tune began playing in my heart. And when they reunited, that was just a very touching moment that made me misty-eyed and gave me the sniffles. I turned down the reward because in my heart I felt I'd done the right thing; plus getting to eradicate clankers and those damn dirty cultists (both of whom were threatening the descendants of my people) was a reward in its own right.
But that's my pick for saddest moment in Fallout 4. Curious to hear if anybody else had any sort of emotional stimulus when they played through the game. I say Fallout 4 specifically since I was never really emotionally triggered by anything that happened in NV, and I never played 3.
gunslinger6792
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Subject: Re: Any moments/quests in Fallout 4 that made you cry? Thu Oct 12, 2017 11:02 am
I always felt sad when you run across that father daughter duo in the wastes as they're setting up camp. The way the man would talk to his young daughter made me want to take them in to a settlement and make sure it was safe. Something about the relationship between the two of them tugs at me.
IIHawkerII
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Subject: Re: Any moments/quests in Fallout 4 that made you cry? Thu Oct 12, 2017 2:03 pm
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I actually teared up quite a bit when I was forced to confront Shaun on his death-bed after setting the Institute to self-destruct. Just knowing that someone, your own son put their entire life's work in your hands... And you scorned it in the name of your own ideals. I don't know... I kind of felt like I was betraying the unspoken rule that a Father has to provide for his children, that as a parent it's your duty to make sure your children are happy / fulfilled... But then having Shaun lay there trying to understand your decision as his life crumbled around him... That really got to me. He really did want to do the right thing.
Imagine helping create something as amazing as the Institute with the intention of saving the world... And then your only legacy is a giant crater in the middle of Boston and an ever-lasting reputation as a menace.
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dantaefetticus
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Subject: Re: Any moments/quests in Fallout 4 that made you cry? Thu Oct 12, 2017 10:30 pm
That scene is probably one of the darkest, saddest, and well-done scenes in a Fallout game. Honestly, if the leader of the Institute wasn't your son, the death of the Institute wouldn't be such a hard decision. A father that has even the smallest amount of love for their son would probably develop PTSD if they were put in that situation. Seeing your son on his deathbed, telling you that you're the reason for destroying his dreams and dying knowing that his dreams will never be accomplished because of his father and that he will be seen as probably the next Master. I don't know if I can live with myself if I was put in that situation.
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Subject: Re: Any moments/quests in Fallout 4 that made you cry? Fri Oct 13, 2017 7:15 am
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I think Nuclear Family is the sadder ending, being the dialogue is better written and Father doesn't call you a hypocrite in every dialogue option.
My reasoning is that in Nuclear Family you work so hard to save your son, then you betray your own morality to work with your son, form a bond with him and take on the world, as Father and Son. Unfortunately, even then you lose the very son you sought to protect. It nullifies everything you did before and leaves the SS with everybody in the Commonwealth hating and fearing him. Even Piper and Nick start to perceive him more as an evil menace than the hero he was previously.
Then, if Nuka World is canon, the SS becomes a power-hungry maniac and raids the Commonwealth, betrays the Minutemen he fought with and becomes a tyrant.
FafnirEtherion
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Subject: Re: Any moments/quests in Fallout 4 that made you cry? Fri Oct 13, 2017 7:53 am
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While I did not straight up cried, I was sadden and shock to learn that Shawn was part of the Institute.
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Subject: Re: Any moments/quests in Fallout 4 that made you cry? Fri Oct 13, 2017 10:36 am
Happy/Proud Moment:
The first time the last minute man informed me of a settlement that needed my help...and the fine gent took the liberty to mark it on my map. I believed I was going to make a difference in the commonwealth
Happiest Moment:
Installing the mod that allowed Preston mufukin Garvey to be shot in the FACE before he ever got the chance to send me on a wild goose chase through the wasteland.
Most Conflicted Moment:
The decision surrounding Dima...I mean since my character is a gen 4 synth...Dima was like great grandpa...It's the only time where I "cheated" and made a choice...and then seeing it through reloaded my save and chose the otherway...
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Subject: Re: Any moments/quests in Fallout 4 that made you cry? Fri Oct 13, 2017 7:16 pm
A real sad part I noticed was the ghoul that was the toymaker in the slog. When you gave him the holotape of his daughter and he listened to it and I could swear you could see the ghouls facial expressions change and you could see the sorrow in his eyes.
Bonnies holotapes were a sad little story too. One could only imagine what they went through after reading all the terminals.
There was also a radio beacon of a woman and son being trapped in a railcar when a deathclaw broke into it. Pretty sad knowing how that ended up.
I think the single most powerful scene for me though was seeing the raider just kneeling next to the grave of his girlfriend/companion. There was no dialogue, no effects. Just a scene I think everyone could associate with because it made me feel of all the people I`ve lost over the years and I could identify with it.
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Subject: Re: Any moments/quests in Fallout 4 that made you cry? Fri Oct 13, 2017 8:16 pm
I've never felt emotionally sad in any point of Fallout 4, probably because of the bad writing. Though, I would say when the occasional good writing appears, I was emotionally invested. For example, Nick Valentine talks about his past and how he got accepted in Diamond City. I was invested but not on the verge of tears. New Vegas made me sad with some characters, Boone, for example, talking about his wife and how he had to kill her and his unborn child to prevent them from becoming slaves, talking that he needs to be punished for the crimes he committed in Bitter Springs. He feel so sad just hearing about it but I've never cried at all in any Fallout game.
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Subject: Re: Any moments/quests in Fallout 4 that made you cry? Fri Oct 13, 2017 10:19 pm
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@dantaefetticus Man, both you and @IIHawkerII totally nailed it. That part of the game is always a major turning point for my character, in which he becomes cold and bitter just like Kellog. It makes the narrative in my head easier for why he ends up turning into a raider later and betraying the Minutemen and enslaving the Commonwealth. He just has no fucks to give at that point.
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Subject: Re: Any moments/quests in Fallout 4 that made you cry? Sat Oct 14, 2017 8:18 am
momuse88 wrote:
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@dantaefetticus Man, both you and @IIHawkerII totally nailed it. That part of the game is always a major turning point for my character, in which he becomes cold and bitter just like Kellog. It makes the narrative in my head easier for why he ends up turning into a raider later and betraying the Minutemen and enslaving the Commonwealth. He just has no fucks to give at that point.
Really cool answers, everybody. The whole Institute debacle doubled up with the morality issues in the other factions really had an interesting effect on my character, I feel.
My character's outcome:
My second character Hannah's husband was executed, her son Shaun was stolen from her, and she later "had" to kill Shaun (I shot him in the face after finding out what he was responsible for), so her family was destroyed and she truly was the Sole Survivor. So that obviously sort of broke her will; that, combined with the violence in the Commonwealth, kind of molds her into a cold-blooded predator...
...But there's still good inside her. Helping put a lost and broken family back together again was perhaps a reminder that there is still love and kindness in the post-apocalypse, and as I'm currently working on "Nuka-World", which focuses on being an evil Raider dickhead in charge of three clans of psychopaths (one takes almost sexual pleasure in killing people, and another enslaves people and animals and keeps both in cages with shock collars around their necks), my endgame is ultimately to get the meat and potatoes out of the way (the quest "The Grand Tour" pretty much is the Nuka-World expansion) and then put a few (hundred) rounds into all of the Raiders in the park.
So Hannah; a mentally-fragmented woman who was sucker-punched by time and lost everything she had, but gained an unquenchable bloodlust that helped patch up her heart with each life she took, but on the strict condition that said lives were of people and creatures who threatened the innocent.
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Subject: Re: Any moments/quests in Fallout 4 that made you cry? Sat Oct 14, 2017 8:20 am
gunslinger6792 wrote:
I always felt sad when you run across that father daughter duo in the wastes as they're setting up camp. The way the man would talk to his young daughter made me want to take them in to a settlement and make sure it was safe. Something about the relationship between the two of them tugs at me.
Where was that, exactly?
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Subject: Re: Any moments/quests in Fallout 4 that made you cry? Sat Oct 14, 2017 8:22 am
IIHawkerII wrote:
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I actually teared up quite a bit when I was forced to confront Shaun on his death-bed after setting the Institute to self-destruct. Just knowing that someone, your own son put their entire life's work in your hands... And you scorned it in the name of your own ideals. I don't know... I kind of felt like I was betraying the unspoken rule that a Father has to provide for his children, that as a parent it's your duty to make sure your children are happy / fulfilled... But then having Shaun lay there trying to understand your decision as his life crumbled around him... That really got to me. He really did want to do the right thing.
Imagine helping create something as amazing as the Institute with the intention of saving the world... And then your only legacy is a giant crater in the middle of Boston and an ever-lasting reputation as a menace.
I sympathize. I sided with him on my first character, Recker, but it was only after I made a second character for a Let's Play on my YT channel that I kind of took in the various bits and pieces of evidence that the Institute left. They're responsible for the Super Mutants and Mutant Hounds. They kidnap people and replace them with droids. They're not above murder and subterfuge.
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Subject: Re: Any moments/quests in Fallout 4 that made you cry? Sat Oct 14, 2017 8:28 am
That scene is probably one of the darkest, saddest, and well-done scenes in a Fallout game. Honestly, if the leader of the Institute wasn't your son, the death of the Institute wouldn't be such a hard decision. A father that has even the smallest amount of love for their son would probably develop PTSD if they were put in that situation. Seeing your son on his deathbed, telling you that you're the reason for destroying his dreams and dying knowing that his dreams will never be accomplished because of his father and that he will be seen as probably the next Master. I don't know if I can live with myself if I was put in that situation.
But what would that say about you/your character if you chose to support his work? That you enjoy tearing apart the people of the Commonwealth and filling them with way more paranoia than they need to be dealing with in an effort to make some form of "progress"?
If I found out that my son was a mass-murderer and I had the power to stop him without any other repercussions barring potential guilt/grief, I wouldn't hesitate to stop him, violently if need be.
That's why I boo-hooed buckets in Far Harbor. I mean in the base game, the three (technically four, but fuck the Minutemen) way war between the Institute, the Railroad and the Brotherhood, you hear dialogue every now and then saying, "It's true! He's a synth!" and "Nah, you're full of it. He's not a synth", and so on, but you never really see what the psychological and emotional effects of loved ones being possible synths may be. Far Harbor, and the Nakano family; that's enough to stir up a typhoon of hatred towards synths since now you actually get to feel the pain of a family divided by the work of the Institute. It's because of that that I
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tore every circuit and cable out of DiMA with my bare hands
out of spite.
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Subject: Re: Any moments/quests in Fallout 4 that made you cry? Sat Oct 14, 2017 9:29 am
No moments in the actual game but this video got me right in the feels
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Subject: Re: Any moments/quests in Fallout 4 that made you cry? Sun Oct 15, 2017 3:34 am
Sadly, I can't say I was ever emotional about a quest in Fallout 4 at any point. The entire story was way too cliche.
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Subject: Re: Any moments/quests in Fallout 4 that made you cry? Sun Oct 15, 2017 4:02 am
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Sadly, I can't say I was ever emotional about a quest in Fallout 4 at any point. The entire story was way too cliche.
There was nothing cliche about it to me. And I'm also including Far Harbor, Automatron and Nuka-World's quests and moments; I saw no cliches, and I have a sixth sense for finding cliches, tropes and plot holes in fictional media.
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Subject: Re: Any moments/quests in Fallout 4 that made you cry? Sun Oct 15, 2017 6:44 am
Not really the main quest, that mostly annoyed me. But when finding that place that was basically a hard reference to Anne Frank's story. That gave me a shiver. Not crying about it, but probably one of the most goosebump moments in fo's setting. Plus it shows a educated depth of the authors that actually is worth of a game carrying the "fallout" title.
The warwick family death was pretty nasty business, too.
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