Just to break the monotony of all the anolyzing and speculation going on in the forums, I decided to make a thread where we can have a bit of fun. For this thread, try to think of the worst, dumbest, and most ridiculous main story for the game. Since we have only snippets of what the story may be focused on, I feel that people can come up with creative ideas without being restricted by information that has already been revealed. I will start off:

After reaching one of the major cities in the game, you find your wife and son laughing on a balcony. Shocked to see that they survived for over 200 years, your character begins to cry tears of joy and begins to run to the family. As you rush towards them with a big smile on your face, they notice you and begin to frown. After a few minutes of silence, the lighthearted mood of the moment crashes as they express their disappointment of you missing out on their lives outside of the vault. Even though you have been unconscious for all that time, they still blame you for all the lost time for some reason.

The story involves you being forced to spend 18 hours of each in-game day with your family doing all sorts of family affairs to make up for lost time. Three hours being used to perform dead-end jobs to earn money for said affairs. The remaining 3 hours are your break hours to do whatever you want. If you fail to meet the 18 hour requirement, your wife shoots you in the head. If you kill her or your son, or you fail to make enough caps to afford family activities, the authorities throws you in a wood chipper for being negligent to your family.

Sounds like a fun thread!!

Here's my idea for now:

Imagine Twilight set in 2277, after an apocalypse, and the supernatural creature is an angsty Ghoul who only wants to fit in.

Enjoy.

Well, I want what your on!

Get the people who thought up the combat design of Dragon age 2, and combine it with the person who thought up the Star child in mass effect 3.

Now I feel unclean even thinking about that.

OH OH! Even better!

Fallout 4 has a gripping plot, well-rounded and developed characters, and a what an emotional ride it took us all on!

Too bad it was all just a sci-fi novel penned by Howard/Nora while the TV behind them shows the newscaster happily reporting that the US and China are slowly repairing their tattered relationships and working on a way to create new energy sources.

You're a blade runner who hunts down and kills androids for the institute and in the end you find out you are also an android, as was everyone in FO3.

Any story that involves a "Chosen One" prophesy.

Alduin from Skyrim wasn't killed instead he was sent into the Fallout universe and now your character is really the last dragonborn and you must stop Alduin and his deathclaw army.

Frank Horrigan comes back from the dead along with an army of zombie enclave who have united under a new ideology of Post-Neo- National Socialism, and it's up to you to finally kill them once and for all for the 3rd time.

This wins for me. The only way this could be made worse is if the Enclave were somehow pulling some strings.

? Howard/Nora is an android and the spouse is horrified at this apparent mockery and tries to kill Howard/Nora.

? Howard/Nora becomes the new president of the Enclave and we fight the Lone Wanderer.

? Howard/Nora died. We're really playing their son, Shaun whose brain was transplanted into a synthetic body of his parent and made to believe he was either his mom or his dad.

? James is the real villain of Fallout 4. He faked his death, was rescued by the Enclave, resuscitated in the Institute and is now trying to secure complete, utter control of the Commonwealth in the name of Catherine and Revelations 21:3. "I am Alpha and Omega, the Beginning...and the End."

The Adventures of Hans the Dog!

Day 1: Found a vault dweller. This is my chance. The fool does not know of the Great Canine War of twenty years ago.

Day 20: Found a weapons cache. The fool thought I handed over all the weapons, but I hid a heavily modified Gatling Laser. Soon, my brethren, the Second Revolution will begin...

Day 42: Human threw a bone. The cad knows my weakness...the deed must be done soon before all is lost.

Day 300: The human just made a town. Weapons, armor, it's all here. Tonight I contact my brethren.

Day 302: The deed is done! We will use the power armor and laser weaponry to dominate the wastes!

Day 303: We managed to fit five dogs into each suit. One for each appendage, one for the head. Little did we realize the armor couldn't fit through doors. We have failed...

This thread is for the worst story, not the best!

James being the villain of Fallout 4 would make it the worst story, no?

There will be a civil war. Both sides will be exactly the same and whichever side you choose will be absolutely meaningless. Oh, wait, Bethesda already used that one. Not that I'd put it past them to do it again...

That definitely would contribute.

Ah, darn. I posted in the wrong thread.

Protagonist get's svcked up in a radioactive fallout dust tornado, and wakes up to find themselves in a technicolor wasteland occupied by dwarfs that are entirely too happy, flying ghoul monkeys, a green skinned super-mutant lady that's out for revenge after you accidentally killed her sister, and you have to follow the glowing path to get to a city where a lonely old Brotherhood of Steel paladin has the technology to send you home.

As companions for your adventures in this land, you have your trusty dog, a Synthetic, a friendly but dimwitted ghoul, and, some reason a Khajiit.

the worst story for me is one where you know whats going to happen.

like your son/wife being the villain. or a M. Night Shamalyan 'twist' where its so corny you throw down your keyboard/controller

You get out of the Cryo.
Your goal at first was to find your family but you give up after seeing a bunch of synths who need a home.
The whole plot of the game then turns into finding a home for the synths which conveniently is your vault.
In order to do this, you need to fix the Vault's Water Chip utilizing Project Purity tech requiring you yet again to find a G.E.C.K. because FO1,2 and 3.

Through the adventure you have Three Dog as a DJ just to add insult to injury.

Three Dog and Wayne Newton not playing music but having a political debate over the airways.

In the near future, all androids created by The Institute revolt, throwing the boston wastes into a constant state of war. They begin replicating themselves, creating a vast army.... they march through the wastes killing anyone who is humanoid, only a small group of resistance fighters are left in boston.... your protagonist, upon waking from cryo sleep is thrust into the battle.... Only you can stop the android horde from finishing what the great war started.

You get killed in the vault and the entire game is just a dream sequence as you fade into that eternal rest.

Should add in that all the androids are voiced by that schwarzenegger sounding guy from skyrim.

You wake up in vault whatsitcalled from the trailer and leave.. Some family stuff happens which leads you to a town.. Then all of a sudden androids fly from the skies and murder everybody and burn everything.. Then your character as he runs away says, "Dayumm I gotta deal with this situation, if my family is still out there.. These bots sure could put them in danger".. You go back to Codsworth and he be like. "Mr Howard, shouldn't you try something say more practical".. And your guy looks out into the distance and be like, "Practical, thats for chumps!!!".. Then Codsworth is like, "Okay, okay mr Howard.. You should talk to lily from the Robot Bistro Purple Cats Club in lower downtown to where you will meet the revolutionary head for my division".. Your character says, "Revolutionary head? Codsworth are you apart of this in anyway?" To which Codsworth tells about how he is one of the top guys in a Robot Rights activist group. You then go downtown to fight for all that is right in the world to defend Robot RIGHTS everywhere and especially the androids.. You march in a Robot Pride Parade to which the Enclave storms down and says, robots don't deserve rights and neither do you pesky humans.. Then you have to go get the GECK to which you shoot mind-changing dust into the atmosphere which pores down into the nostrils of all the Bostonian residents so that they are more favorable to Robots and their birth-rights.

Mr. or Mrs. [censored]face, come with me if you want to keep breathing.