- Our initial motivator into the main quest is finding out what happened to our family, but if we don't care about our family there will be other ways to get involved in the greater conflict that the main quest is really about.

- The Brotherhood of Steel will wage war with the Institute in order to free the Commonwealth from their tyranny, but the power vacuum from the Institute's fall simply creates a ton of smaller, more extreme groups that sow even more chaos through the region.

As I said, these are based on mostly nothing at all.

I think it's going to be The Institute vs a Toaster Rebellion. Then it's going to be what's left of The East Brotherhood vs The DC Brotherhood. Then you fight a cult trying to summon Father Dagon and Mother Hydra.

I think we're actually dogmeat and we're controlling the PC through some strange mind control device on his wrist....

I think im going to fill the crib with everything i can find in the house then spin the rocket spinning toy thing.

"Dogmeat" is neither a dog, nor made out of meat.
He is a robot.

You guys are all wrong. Someone will walk up to you just after you kill your first rad scorpion and ask you if you want to take the red pill or the blue hill, and then he will ask you if you will be like Alice and jump down the mole rat hole.

This is from my inside source, the assistant janitor on the graveyard shift at Bethesda.

If someone offered me a blue HILL I'd be taking that choice. Exciting things would surely come from that

Hmm lots of possibilities, but what the hell. Wild and baseless speculation can be fun!

The Institute wishes to maintain: 1. Their level of influence, 2. Their independence, and 3. Their intellectual purity by admitting only select individuals into the Institute. Due to the recent Brotherhood's interference, they've started increasing the production of terminator-like synths (non-human looking ones) for defensive and offensive situations.

The Brotherhood might be split into two factions similar to FO3 except much more focused within the main quest.

Brotherhood faction 1, possibly lead by Arthur, wishes to increase / continue to increase their numbers by recruiting outsiders. They wish to control / take down the Institute for the good of the commonwealth and to ensure their advanced technology doesn't wind up in the wrong hands.

Brotherhood faction 2, wishes to maintain their purity by refusing to recruit outsiders and keep membership in the Brotherhood to almost entirely descendants of those families who originally started the Brotherhood. They see the technology of the Institute as a means to make the Brotherhood strong once again without resorting to diluting their membership.

Main quests will involve conflict: 1. Within the Brotherhood, including faction 2 having infiltrated faction 1 to some extent, 2. Between the Brotherhood 2A. as a whole or 2B. each individual faction and the Institute, 3. Between the Institute and the Commonwealth People, and possibly 4. Between the Brotherhood 4A. as a whole or 4B. one or both factions and the Commonwealth People.

So what's the blue hill? Do i see a reference from the matrix. Where neo chose one or the other pills.

Everthing is dark and then you hear a voice that sounds like gravel.
"Wake up, we're here. Why are you shaking? Are you ok? Wake up.
or
You met with a terrible fate havent you?

I think there's going to be a time shift as a major event in the MQ. This will cause the brotherhood to turn up on the scene, and make some huge changes to the game world. The conflict of android rights is a destablizing tactic by a new empire in the BOS. All they want is that sweet technology inside MiT, and a new group that they can use as auxiliaries to help defend their vast empire all over the east coast.

I am not an overly emotional person.

But if that happend. There would be tears. Manly tears.

Gee... I might be alone on this one but I actually hope the brotherhood isn't really in the main quest line. I just see that going down a road I wouldn't want to venture. I hope they have a decent amount of quests related to them but only through side quests. And I really hope they're not going to be portrayed as the knights in shining armor again while they turn the institute into some corny evil villans.
I hope none is made to look like the obvious good guys and same thing with another faction being obvious bad guys.....it killed F3s storyline for me.

The vault will open for you to find http://cdn2.gurl.com/wp-content/gallery/effed-up-courage-the-cowardly-dog-episodes/courage-the-cowardly-dog-perfect.jpg staring back at you. It will ask you a riddle that goes thusly: what walks on four legs in the mourning, two legs in the aftermoon and rides a whale-fueled rocket ship in the eveling? Based on your answer you will start the game either on a staircase starting in the mesosphere and ending 3 kilometers above ground, in a bathysphere at the bottom of the ocean or the vault door will seal again and turn into dark chocolate embedded with cashews, your left arm will turn into a tentacle embedded with gumdrops. When/if you make it out/to land you will find that the majority of The Floor is Lava, eventually you'll find your way to the only human settlement suspended above the lava by a web woven by interdimensional giant space spiders called Andy and Cleopatra, Andy accepts payment in the shape of [censored]s whereas Cleopatra only eats virgins. Entering the city via one of the fishing bubbles that hunt the lava-ocean for lava-tuna you will find it ruled by your son, whose brain has been pierced by a broken, glowing narwhal horn that enters through his nose and erupts from the upper right side of his head which allows him to shape reality. The only way you can return reality to normal is 1) if you kill him or 2) befriend him and get him to accept brain surgery. The brain surgery is made SUBSTANTIALLY easier if you have the gumdrop tentacle arm, otherwise it takes maxed out medicine perks. You can also chose to stay there and spend the rest of your life as a lava-tuna fisher.

If you manage to save him you're returned to a pre-war life and the bombs never drop, if you don't you are returned to just as the bombs drop but this time you see both your wife/husband and Shaun definitely die before being cryofrozen.

I would laugh so hard and long if that happened I'd probably pass out and when I eventually regained consciousness I'd get to read about the worst prank a company has ever pulled and how within an hour every building they owned was burned to the ground by a massive horde of angry fans.

I'm sure they'll play a part in the main quest, although we've seen footage of them gunning for us and us gunning them down... so I don't think they'll be 100% heroes; maybe they're more like "heroic" conquerors. And they weren't exactly "knights in shining armor" in 3 - they still had a thing against ghouls, and even a ton of members that didn't join the Outcasts have their doubts about Lyons' priorities. (although, if you don't like King Arthur symbolism, you might be in for a bad time :T)

O.o

Well it looks like my new build includes early onset diabetes from eating my way through a chocolate vault door and a miracle medical Gumdrop tentacle arm. I honestly didn't see that coming. Maybe I'm just not that imaginative. 馃槬

The game ends with your character walking out of a VR pod in 2077 and a game case with the words Fallout 4 on it is clearly seen on a nearby desk. Seconds later, the news comes on with word of nuclear attack and citizens to report to the nearest fallout shelter.

Do you mean the West Brotherhood? Because as far as we know, the DC Brotherhood is the east brotherhood

I think the game will be based on the movie The Scorpion King, you know the one with The Rock as the main character.

In that case, I would greatly prefer either of these versions:

I would find it hilarious if Arthur Maxson is actually leading the BOS faction in the Commonwealth and his spouse is a potential companion that is fully romanceable, allowing you to step into the shoes of Lancelot.

Hahaha... Why does everyone hate The Rock and The Scorpion King?

I think there is a possibility of a time shift, but I don't think it will involve the BoS appearing on the scene, because that is almost too much like FO3, when you reach a point in MQ and here comes the Enclave.

*watches conversation unfold from the shadows*