While I was talking to the cult leader at Charles View Amphitheaters a Vertibird crash land and killed most of cult members and almost kill me.

Nice. Might have killed a quest too on the way. Although I'm not sure of the immortality status of the quest source.

but you CAN command your followers from afar on xbox, too, right?

so the other part should still work

Curie's lines are just too adorkable to get old. And that specific one is made even more funny when you have the bloody mess perk.

She's not companion-able, but K.L.E.O. (weapon merchant, Goodneighbor) has some good lines.

-"I only test the weapons on customers I don't like"

-"Every weapon tested on someone who deserved it"

-"Murder and mayhem, at a discount"

-When asked "What are you?": "I'm a woman, baby." (is a robot)

She has a funny line for when you decline her services: "That's fine. I'll just add you to my 'To Kill Eventually' list."

I ate someone with canible and Curie said "and doing zis heals you somehow?" And "zair are many deadly diseases zat can be contracted zis way"

Get the Robotics Expert perk and she suddenly is your companion. I'm not sure how well her personality holds up outside Goodneighbor, though.

I had something happen that was pretty hilarious, even if it has now locked me out of ever doing a new quest. I came across the Charles View Ampitheater where a group calling themselves the Pillars of the Community were hanging out. I approached the leader, he began to introduce himself and his cult...and then a Vertibird exploded overhead, killing him and several missionaries and initiates. I stared at the screen for a few seconds until it dawned on me what had just occurred. Then I laughed, especially as the explosion happened right as the leader was going to explain something to me, finding it oddly hilarious.

Don't worry, nothing of value was lost.

Read through the other posts in this topic and was glad to hear it happened to someone else, too.

Okay we are in Spoilers so this is fine, but just to be sure:

There are some "mild" spoiilers (e.g., NPCs I actually have yet to see myself despite ~500 hours of play), but nothing that is like "story spoiling"

This guys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUf99mlpFBk compilation really made me laugh

There is also a part two which should auto-launch after that part one!

Don't know what the whiners who say 'the dialogue and writing in this game is broken . . .' are smoking. The writing is fantastic!

The writing really shines where you don't expect it. In the side missions and chance encounters.

The only thing I mildly criticize is too little dialogue and too much shooting. But it's not as if I wouldn't have expected that from a fully voiced game.

Thank You. That was farking hilarious!

To anyone else that decides to watch it, do NOT drink anything during the video......

"EDDIE! It's me! Your old friend!"

God, that line had me rolling.

In some ways, Bethesda has put a "shooter on a silver platter" and accoutered it with Teflon greased rails so that even a user with very passing interest can jump right in, get some serious momentum and "pointers" on where to go and what to see and be blowing up heads in a matter of minutes. A less than sympathetic glance could well lead a passerby to say "Meh, just a casual shooter game."

But in other ways, I can see that this thing is really complex, multi-layered and even 'touching.' Some of the themes and characters are as good as any in classic literature. Despite all the hours of play, I would guess I have yet to meet more than about half of the NPCs featured in that Youtube and can only guess at how many stories I've either stormed past, or closed off as a result of my actions in game.

Those were freaking awesome! My character may start being more sarcastic from here on out!


On a completely off topic note, is your dog a papillon?

Yep! "Porscha!" She is six years old this Feb. Fantastic breed; despite being toy size (10 to 20 pounds with my female being about 12) they are as smart as some of the most intelligent larger breeds. Supposedly they are "in the top 10" of all pure breeds as far as intelligence. Very agile and active. Only downsides: hair is a bit of a allergen magnet; fairly fragile bones (legs feel like chicken bones!) so not good to play with big dogs or rough small dogs (she does not like the mini-Dachsund puppy much at all); and with intelligence you get a kind of 'high-maintenance' emotionality

Explains why I haven't come across any in the wasteland....

Heh heh, OT so I won't belabor it but . . . yeah, Papillon's wouldn't do well in the Wasteland They are the quintessential "bourgeois" breed (created by late Medieval/Early Renaissance royalty and became a common household pet in many "Burgher" families, they are featured in many works of art from the period). A minaturized spaniel, with much of that energetic, attentive "lets hunt birds!" animus very much intact, but not very durable at all . . . I suppose if they were feral mutant papillons maybe

Great, now I want one of those...

Maybe Gene could start selling them along with his junk yard dogs...

The great thing about a broken dialogue wheel is being able to pick sarcastic options and not worry about the outcome.

I just cleared out some ghouls at a station and there's a little cubby hole with two teddy bears on a table. One was lying down, the other had a bone saw in its hand. Cracked me up.

Finished up the first missing person case and decided to check out Nick's body and my character says, in a tone that puts the icing on the cake, "Definitely going to be a closed casket funeral".

I thought they did a great job with that Gene character. The first time I talked to him, he was so tender about his dog, I figured it would be some little Bichon Frise or something . . . and then I see it and I literally laughed.

Found out how to recruit anyone as a companion using console commands, and recruited the Raider chick Chancer. We were sneaking about University Point and although you can't "Talk" to her, she often mumbles to herself using the Raider radiant speech - the sort you can hear when you're sneaking in a Raider hideout and can hear what they say. I'm guessing if I got a second Raider companion they'd have a conversation sometime, but the console limits me to one companion in addition to the regular ones (I think).

Anyway, we are sneaking around, and it's getting a bit tense, and she's muttered a fair bit about being jumpy and whatnot, and suddenly she stands up and starts firing wildly. I panic, thinking some synth has found us, but the sneak indicator still said "[ HIDDEN ]", so perhaps it had detected her but not me. I looked all over the place, and nothing. Then Chancer calms down, and mumbles to herself "Gotta stop wasting ammo like that...". I laughed out loud at my poor doped-out companion firing wildly because she broke under pressure. Then I remembered she just wasted a dozen rounds of my .308 ammo, and it was a bit less funny, but still a great moment nevertheless.