REEEEE WHY ISN'T HE A BLANK CHARACTER, WHY DID THEY GIVE HIM A PERSONALITY

name one fallout game that doesn't force a backstory on you

Nate have Italian ancestry

Blank characters are better you can invent a whole backstory in your head

>MUH WIFE
>MUH SON
Why should I care? I spent 5 minutes with them in the dragged out intro. I don't know a single thing about Nora and whatshisname is king retard at the institute.

I hope Bethesda learned their lesson with Fallout 4 and just goes back to Fallout 3/NV dialogue system for the NPC update in 76

>I hope Bethesda learned their lesson with Fallout 4 and just goes back to Fallout 3/NV dialogue system
lmao
>for the NPC update in 76
LMAO

Playing fallout 4 right now actually. Nate's personality is intolerable...

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This. Holy shit.
"RPG" is just the term for "number simulator" nowadays. It's as if Dungeons and Dragons was nothing but combat, out of a microscopic cast of selectable characters, only permitting the most bland uses for each item, weapon, or spell. There's no role-playing in the slightest in modern "RPGs" or most JRPGs, but Fallout 1 and 2 are textbook precedents of the true RPG genre.

>run round the wastes for days
>mostly lost
>forget I had a kid
>realize I am level 289312 12 stars maxed on everything twice just to be sure
>accidentally roam into the wrong place
MUH SHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWN

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Role playing is so lame
Heard someone telling me the back story to their dragons dogma character and just thinking
"Wow, this is some real gay shit. This is cringe as hell"
Just write a book dude, or play d&d. These actual writers will make a back stoey more engaging and less cringe than anything anyone else could make. Specially you buddy boi

His personality is so blank it's a none issue.

>don't use your imagination retard
>let everyone else spoon feed you characters and story because cringe

They literally did though
youtu.be/R2XdwS4lcZM?t=30

Depends what you mean by backstory. Nate is established as a war veteran and Nora is a lawyer whos office can be visited in game. Its also established that you have a child. where as in previous fallouts its only really established that your just some guy from a vault a descendant of that guy a mail man or the son of a guy trying to purify the water in the area. Everything outside of that can be determined by the player. Is my character a peace loving diplomat who talks through his problem he can be in the older games. A homicidal cannibal who kills and eats anyone who crosses his path sure. Can he be gay? Sure. Alot of that doesn't make sense in fallout 4.

Kills the replayability and RP value. It's even worse than CP2077's V or Mass Effect's Shepard because in FO4 they gave them a premade backstory that is not only generic, boring and unrelatable but also fucks up the main quest line.
It's just a mess. Being voice acted also ruins custom quest mods. And mods in general.

Glad I pirated it.

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This is one thing the geniuses who write games these days don't understand, which is why story based games are almost always shit, you have no reason to care about any characters just introduced to you two minutes ago no matter who they are "supposed" to be. I'm much more emotionally invested on how I perform controlling my character against the hazards in the game.

The problem is with shepard, the choices you make in a conversation actually matter in the long run. FO4 didnt' give a shit. they gave you 3 options which all effectively do the same thing and one option for the victim of your conversation to repeat what they just said.

Cause its cringe babieeeeee
Again, play d&d. The game is built around that. The back story will add nothing to any of these games like fallout, elder scrolls, and especially the soulsborne games

God damnit Todd!

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>play d&d
I thought you hated cringe

This is the type of retard that bought Fallout 76.

>series where you never have a backstory
Literally every main Fallout game gives the player character a backstory of some kind. I think New Vegas is the only one that kept it somewhat ambiguous aside from you being a courier.

4 fell in the awful middle ground of having too much backstory/personality to allow players to properly self-insert or roleplay or whatever like in past games, but not enough backstory/personality for the MC to be an interesting character. It's like Bethesda wanted to go the Mass Effect route for 4 but pussied out part-way into development and we ended up with something worse as a result.

>I think New Vegas is the only one that kept it somewhat ambiguous aside from you being a courier.
Not with lonesome road

You don't have to announce who you are and what you buy around here.

>complains about cringe
>babieeeeee

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>Roll playing game
>Can't rollplay cause they stuck you in the shoes of a generic sarcastic cuck
Wow guys, supper cool.

iirc, one of the dialogue choices in lonesome road lets you handwave ulysses as a crazy person who has no idea what he's talking about

>that was supposed to be
Was it not? Never played 76, obviously.

>office can be visited in game.
Where?

>These actual writers will make a back stoey more engaging and less cringe than anything anyone else could make.
lel

>Imagine actually roleplaying in a roleplaying game thats tots cringe

Unironically and unequivalently kys

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>gookshit reaction
Must be a gay or third world rostie

Well, you seem like an insufferable cunt, don't you?

Nothing wrong there.

The worst part about it was the fucking snide voice. I can deal with a bullshit "smarter than thou NPC" personality, but the immersion is totally ruined by the goddam voice

You're stupid, huh? What's cringe about trying to bring into the game a feature of RPGs where player decisions change events?

???
He meant it was supposed to be in the original, non-Bethesda Fallout 3.

>Apple-LAT-chia
are you with us?
>show vault dweller and generic NPCs
or with them?
>show a different vault dweller with generic NPCs
yep, that's a yikes from me dawg.

>that game
D'OH!
Mea culpa.

Wasn't this guy supposed to be a war veteran? He sounded like a little bitch in all of his dialogue options.

OH MY GODDDDDDDDD WHAT A BEAST

WHAT A MANLY MAN

FFFFFFFUCK

I WISH THAT I COULD BE AS COOL AS OP

HE DOESN'T CARE

OH MY GOD

HE DOESNT

FREAKING

CARE

ABOUT VIDEO GAME

OH MY GODDDDDDDD WOOWWWWWWWWWWW

MY HERO WHAT A GOD, I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT WE ARE WITNESSING THE MESSIAH COME DOWN ON THIS EARTH IN THE FORM OF OP

I CAN'T BELIEVE I AM HERE TO WITNESS SOMEBODY WHO DOES NOT CARE

I'VE NEVER SEEN ANYBODY

ANYBODY

I'VE NEVER SEEN ANYBODY THAT *************DOESN'T CARE************** BEFORE

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I wish Bethesda would've made Fallout 4 the same way they made Fallout 3 but imrpoved on story and writing as well as fixed some flaws

Now what retard?

I'll be honest, I had my doubts about the voiced protagonist in 4. But I actually liked both voice actors, and both of the backstories of the protagonists. It doesnt really take anything away from you. Because, lets face it, people to project their shitty OCs on their in game characters would make something worse anyways.

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>THEY GIVE HIM A PERSONALITY
You know I never did finish the main story I just couldn't resist doing all the side stuff and dlc and then I got bored... Wait I was supposed to rescue my son, damnit.

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What?

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I will admit that was my problem with the backstory as well. You can't put something that important up and then encourage the player to just fuck off and explore, it makes the character nonsensical.

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hahahahaha who are YOU calling a retard?

>tfw reading the van buren design documents while listening to the FO1 and FO2 soundtrack

>wife's boyfriend
every fucking time

The fucking dog gave me more reason to care about it than my dead wife and her son.

>only 2 voice options
>generic Troy Baker voice
>generic Laura Bailey voice
this will never not piss me off
even fucking Saints Row offers more options

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Please dont tell me this is real..

It's more like it's in opposition to the audience's expectation as well as being a mediocre story as well. Most don't criticize any of the Deus Ex games for their protagonist(s).

nora's voice is perfect and far superior to laura bailey

yeah but saints row doesn't have nearly the amount of dialogue that fallout has

Someone need to keep all the wimminz satisfied betamax.

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>It doesnt really take anything away from you.
The player character's infant son being kidnapped changes the entire dynamic of the game. It doesn't make sense to waste time doing typical Bethesda side missions when a father/mother's first priority would be finding their son.

The biggest problem was how they only gave you four dialogue options. What was Bethesda thinking?

Good guy nate is boring, the best way to play him is acting like Postal dude, since he has better lines for it.

As for Nora, Play as Jack looking for her son.

That game has no dialogue options though (fallout 4 barely does). Its just a huge example as to why voiced protags in dialogue heavy rpgs is a bad idea

My ONLY problem with Nate and Nora is that they constantly care about the kid
Just fuck it. Forget the kid, just give me a natty-ass story where I avenge the waifu/husbando, on a blood-quest across the wastes. Fuck this worldly attachment, just send me across fuckass Commonwealth with pure rage in my clip

Fallout 4 had shit for dialouge
if they where going to downgrade it why not atleast go all the way and have different voice actors
youtube.com/watch?v=oPDfR8gApyY
>he calls this good voice acting
literally everyone in Fallout 4 sounded bored of their minds or really forcing it

SR2 still has a lot of specific dialouge spoken in
youtube.com/watch?v=y9BoIEY4xA4
youtube.com/watch?v=QFwPJzxs3GE

>What was Bethesda thinking?

Mass effect wheel LAMO!

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Is this real? I just find this so pathetic it goes into the realm of hilarious

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>dude just pretend you're not some guy obsessed with finding his son lmao

>no u xDD
Brilliant retort, can't wait to see the next.

No idea, wouldn't be too surprised if it was.

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that image sums up women pretty well

How sexist of you.

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This would have been much better. And would have fit the narrative better as it allows for exploration as your on a quest for revenge and not searching for your son which would be top priority for most parents.

fallout 3 kind of does that after your dad dies