Way back when the first teaser for the game was released, I had vowed to stay completely spoiler free til the game came out ("spoiler free" meaning I also avoided watching any of the official trailers/footage, or reading about what was to come in the game). I became a fan very late to the party (well after New Vegas was out), and wanted to have the experience of playing a Fallout game completely blind...

Well, early on in the game, I'm running around, no idea what's going on, and I follow the freedom trail to the Old North Church, thinking it's just another 'ol dungeon to clean ghouls out of (well, I was right about the ghoul part, anyway...) Now, the place seemed it was gearing to be a long dungeon, and usually what I do when I get really deep in is to bust out the Fat Man and shoot mini nukes out as far as I can, on the off chance that I hit the boss and realize that hey, I found the boss!

So I'm in the hallway that leads to what I later find out is the tunnel entrance to the Railroad's base (where Desdemona and her crew are supposed to stop you) and think "....The boss must be up ahead"So of course I shoot a mini nuke, and I hear screams of agony and think "Woah there's raiders down here" so I run in and start shooting everybody... I didn't think much of the fact that the "enemies" had "Railroad" in the name, instead of a variation of Raider, because I'd learned that there were a select few uniquely named Raider factions (the Forged) or that I just killed an NPC named Dr. Carrington (I'd also learned that many Raider camps had bosses/allies with unique names, like Tessa) So that was done, and I was on my merry way...

Some time later (when I was much farther into the game, where going back to the save of my terrible deed just wasn't an option), a friend asks which of the main factions I joined, and I tell him the Minutemen. He says he's surprised I didn't choose the Railroad. I ask him who the Railroad is, and he tells me they're in the Old North Church. This is VERY long after I'd last visited the place, so at the time I only saw Old North Church as "one of those dungeons I completed a long time ago". Needless to say, when I went back, went through the dungeon segments again, and am at the entrance to the Railroad HQ, thinking that the place looked familiar, only to finally remember WHY it looked familiar...

...Yeah. So I'm wondering, anyone else go into the game completely blind? Any horror stories come out of it?

other then reading a couple very brief articles on the game and watching some trailers, I started out pretty blind as well. I wanted to enjoy the game as much as I could without wondering when I should expect to see some of the stuff I had read about.

LOL! They probably never saw THAT coming. I have a friend who, as soon as he entered the Institute, he killed the first person he ran into He felt pretty bad when we told him what he just did, lol.

Yikes...you'd think

would be marked as essential...

Nope, not at all. He didn't even let him speak, lol.

Thank the stars he wasn't! That's one of the best ways to RP... and this game makes just the right NPCs killable.

I was surprised when I saw my first radiation storm.

I went in completely blind, not only to this game, but to the entire series. I resisted even buying it for 2 months because I thought it was a sequel, and I wouldn't understand any of it unless I played Fallout 1, 2, and 3 first. I just met the Railroad, actually, and only yesterday had a huge "spoiler" fly overhead.... so I don't think I'm more than 1/3 through the story, maybe?

My first disaster was also my first settlement defense. I decided to go there with my power armor, only to find that there were no enemies yet; instead, I had a goal, "build defenses", on my screen. So I got out of the armor to use the workbench and build some turrets. Less than 45 seconds after popping out of my armor, I heard gunfire. The freaking raiders were there already, before I had a single defense built.

I fought them off on foot, in the midst of the battle hearing a loud "kaboom". I figured someone had thrown a grenade and missed me. I went to get back in my power armor. No armor in sight- just a big scorch mark on the ground.... right where it had been parked..... ah, crap...

It was then that I realized unoccupied power armor can apparently be destroyed with a .38 pipe rifle, if you hit it in the fusion core. Crap.

Crap, crap, crap....

I remember doing something Vaguely similar when I played New Vegas way back when. I came through the cavern at the beginning of one of the Add-ons and I saw some shadow of a guy standing on top of a cliffside looking at me.

So logically I pulled my Sniper rifle off my back lined him up and dropped him like a sack of potatoes.

the list of "Quest failed" was fairly impressive. and since not only had i not saved in a while because back then having autosaves on was bad on the Playstation. I lost most of an entire days play when i realized what I'd done.

I don't get it... what had you done?

(I did mention earlier, I never played any other Fallout title, didn't I?)

I don't honestly remember the details of it, but when you first entered the new area you met a guy who was the main starter quest giver for the entire add-on, so I walked in and dropped him before ever talking to him, and basically failed the entire add-on.

I came in blind both to the Fallout series and Bethesda games full stop.


I think the silliest thing I have done was trying to fix the roof on buildings in Sanctuary Hills. I would select roofs from the workshop and wander around inside looking up until I could see green through the gaps. Perfect I thought, until I came out of the house and basically saw a tower of shanty town type structures atop my house. FFS.

Yes i started the game blind.

Biggest horror story was seeing mama murphy in her underwear when i tried to change her head gear.

Shudders...

no i saw some videos as I got the Ps4 and FO4 on Dec 1st but I plan on going into all the DLC spoiler free