That was by far my favorite part of FO3, because it’s just so stupid. You get a companion who would literally be the best person for the job, and they go “That’s gonna be a no from me dawg. It’s your destiny to go kill yourself for the sake of the wasteland”. What the fuck dude, do you want me to die?
I’m pretty sure the Broken Steel DLC added the option for Fawkes to actually go in the chamber, but then the game gets all pissy about you not killing yourself. To this day it makes no sense to me, but I’ve grown to accept that Fallout 3 (and by extensions all modern Bethesda titles) is filled with literary nonsense.
I think part of the game berating you for making the followers do it might be because Bethesda couldn’t get Ron Perlman back into the studio to voice more endings for Broken Steel, so they reused the ending lines for making Lyons activate it (in which case it rightfully tells you off for selfishly sending her to die) and made different slides for the new endings with the followers.
Then they killed Lyons off screen anyways to turn the Brotherhood full fash, despite the Lyons definitively leading the Brotherhood to their greatest ever victory and their induction of Wastelanders giving them a loyalist core against exactly that…
But, no, apparently a couple of jackass Exiles were secretly more popular.
Like, don’t get me wrong, perfectly natural development for them to go fash, just don’t do Lyons like that.
The BoS should turn fash, it was one of the writing elements of Fallout 4 I actually enjoyed. The Brotherhood is entirely dull and uninteresting in 3, and their 4 rendition is the natural consequence of rapidly expanding a cult-like insular worship of technology and superiority messiah complex. 1, NV, and 4 had the only interesting forms of the Brotherhood.
I litterally did a screenshot of that yesterday, because I played fo3 again, I wanted to post it some time today…
are you betazoid or something?
EDIT: It’s also especially funny, since Fawkes is imune to radiation
EDIT2: In my screenshot I managed to get him into the chamber
That was by far my favorite part of FO3, because it’s just so stupid. You get a companion who would literally be the best person for the job, and they go “That’s gonna be a no from me dawg. It’s your destiny to go kill yourself for the sake of the wasteland”. What the fuck dude, do you want me to die?
I’m pretty sure the Broken Steel DLC added the option for Fawkes to actually go in the chamber, but then the game gets all pissy about you not killing yourself. To this day it makes no sense to me, but I’ve grown to accept that Fallout 3 (and by extensions all modern Bethesda titles) is filled with literary nonsense.
I think part of the game berating you for making the followers do it might be because Bethesda couldn’t get Ron Perlman back into the studio to voice more endings for Broken Steel, so they reused the ending lines for making Lyons activate it (in which case it rightfully tells you off for selfishly sending her to die) and made different slides for the new endings with the followers.
Then they killed Lyons off screen anyways to turn the Brotherhood full fash, despite the Lyons definitively leading the Brotherhood to their greatest ever victory and their induction of Wastelanders giving them a loyalist core against exactly that…
But, no, apparently a couple of jackass Exiles were secretly more popular.
Like, don’t get me wrong, perfectly natural development for them to go fash, just don’t do Lyons like that.
The BoS should turn fash, it was one of the writing elements of Fallout 4 I actually enjoyed. The Brotherhood is entirely dull and uninteresting in 3, and their 4 rendition is the natural consequence of rapidly expanding a cult-like insular worship of technology and superiority messiah complex. 1, NV, and 4 had the only interesting forms of the Brotherhood.
I say post anyway!