I agree with Leydenne that the companions were done well, albeit uneven at times. I can categorically say that companions have enhanced my immersion in Fallout 4, and I am typically very picky about talkative companions. If anything, I found that you really have to learn more about each companion before you can truly appreciate them. In fact, I feel like Beth purposely started all of them off as these typical bland archetypes but complicates our expectations by showing us that they're more than what we originally thought. Refer to my above post about Preston for an example of what I mean lol.

In particular, I really like Deacon. Prior to meeting Deacon I was very iffy about FO4 companions but he completely turned it around for me. I don't know if it's his California accent or his no-nonsense but chill approach to life, but he's the kind of guy that I'd be best friends with IRL lol.

Love Curie, of course and even thought she was adorable as a robot. Beth also using her to run a Turing Test on us lol.

Love Nick, but I am a huge fan of film noir so that explains it. Just wish there was a bit more noir/detective quests.

Macready is dope. Haven't played with him too much yet but lovde rolling with him when I have. I appreciate his flawed character.

Respect Preston. Already devoted fan'd Preston in an earlier post.

Like Danse, especially after I learned more about him. Explains why he always sounded so monotone...

Haven't played too much Hancock, but I like his character and what he represents in the game. Chems are good.

The companion that annoys me the most is Piper.It's not her fault, it's because her archetype as a newspaper muckraker is not supported well in-game. Her newspaper has no further relevance in the game world after meeting her, so it's hard to take her passion seriously.

Can you avoid the "help this settlement with ghoul problems" that way? That would be sweet.

Not if they're being attacked by ghouls and the one of your settlements. The best you can do is avoid Preston ordering you about.

Im doing the main quest first and saving Concord for last. When I start the MM/settlement stuff Ill take Garvey with me. Might as well make him work for the cause too. BoS Sentinel and Garvey rebuild the MM and secure the Commonwealth's future. It's a collaborative effort. I like it.

Awesome. Going to avoid that whole Minutemen thing on second playthrough then. Harder to level up, of course.

Deacon, he's a little man who stands for nothing and will end up with nothing.

Preston- I think I found a piece of bread more interesting than him.

Curie: too short sighted and childish.

If you think Cait is easy, Codsworth is the easiest after Danse, you basically gain his "love" for any random mod to your weapons and armors. The hardest is Curie since you can't really spam the reload option with stealing, cannibal, and the likes and actually have to do quests.

I don't like that Preston doesn't allow me to end his side quests. I also find his constant reaction of "Damn" to everything I tell him in the beginning to get old fast.

And I hate his stupid name.

I actually think Strong is an interesting character. Here we have a normal unintelligent by Gen 1 standards Super Mutant who outright considers SM to be the master race who will kill humans and he's decided to travel with a human because he too a Macbeth quote too seriously. He reveals some lore about SM how they share everything and don't consider the fact something can be property, and is still willing to fight his brethren all to find this milk of human kindness. It's a simple goal that drives him to be just a little different then other SM that intrigues me, sure it may be a pain to gain his affinity but he has a pretty plain backstory which for a SM is odd. As all the others have been intelligent, outcasts or just mentally ill.

Nope, you can build up Sanctuary without Preston and his little cohorts. That's what I'm doing with my new character.

Preston is not poorly written, he's just dull and a baffoon.

Cait at least I can relate to and is just taking the 'raider-esq' character forward of having a morally dubious companion, Jericho in Fallout 3 was an ex raider so I'm enjoying having a literal Pyschopath as my companion.

I don't hate him. I just find him utterly bland and boring. Seems I'm not the only one.

My female character even romanced him and added him to her mixed harem at Sanctuary. But only to see if it gets more interesting when traveling with him. It doesn't. Not really. He doesn't even have his own personal quest.

Huh, she's still the same for me only she understandably hates it when I use non-medical chems.