Well, yes, in Fallout 3 you do decide to (or not to) give up the chief of security to Dr. Zimmerman. And, in all honesty, I played the good side, and then killed Zimmerman. But, things felt a bit different in this regard in Fallout 3. And I think the reason is because you already have very strong slavery/freedom tones in the game and story. It simply
seems just as the railroad agent describes, that the chief escaped a life of slavery, no different than a slave kept at Paradise Falls. It plays on your heart strings differently.
Much like Data does from Star Trek.
But in the new game, in this Commonwealth that we see, it's not like that at all. Now, I know there's those settlers who'll be walking with either Super Mutants or Gunners, who's basically been captured and is probably gonna be held for ransom or something..........but the settler is always just walking, looking calm like they're
with the group of people who have obviously captured them. You never see them bound, and you don't see slaves being sold in the fashion they were in F3. Fallout 4 doesn't have that free the slaves from those ******* slavers story going on, so in all honesty, it doesn't really play my heart strings in that way.
You get down to the Institute, and expect to see them being beaten or something. And what do you find? That they, along with everyone else, are living probably the best lives in the Commonwealth. And they didn't seem very slaved or oppressed at all. Hell, Coursers seem to rather like they're place in things, dressed all clean and nice.
The point I'm getting at is this...........I guess I'm a dick..............because I think Synths are nothing but buckets of bolts. :lol I think the railroad is a joke, and find it weird how they regard
human life so little for the better of synths life. I wanna say "
Hello........humans are human too! We're alive. We're sentient." But by far one of the most classic moments for me, one of the many times I would genuinely laugh out loud, was when you hear the response from Virgil after telling him you got the chip decoded from the Railroad. I was truly amused, and I share his point of view.
Sure, Nick Valentine is cool. But guys, these people never had the benefit of watching The Terminator.
We did! At some point, these damn robots are gonna try to take over the world! If I could, I'd shut them all down. Except for the first generation stupid ones. We can keep them, they're too dumb to take over the world.
One thing I've still yet to determine, is what exactly is the point of the synths having feelings anyways? You'd think the Institute would stop building robots that decide they want to leave. You know, Mr. Handy's don't seem to be having this problem. You could still build an advanced synth to infiltrate stuff, and it doesn't have to have emotion. Hell, Coursers don't seem to display much emotion any way. Why make emotion, free thinking robots? You would think the smartest minds in the Commonwealth would have thought to stop giving them emotions when the first, I don't know,
ten synths escaped.
Anyways, yeah, I'm a butthead. I say shut all the damn things down for good!
