Favourite minor details you've discovered?

Post » Thu Dec 03, 2015 8:59 am

These could be little gameplay additions from previous games, or random easter eggs/interesting locations/items placed around the world. I love the smaller details Bethesda include in their worlds, and Fallout 4 seems to be continuing the tradition in a great way. I love the little touches they include in random locations to add some untold story or just to add some depth to even the most basic location.

Some random details I've uncovered already in my short 4 hours of gameplay:

- In the bank vault in Lexington there is the remains of a Bonnie/Clyde esque bank heist that seems to be interrupted by the bombs going off. There is a skeleton lying across the blown out wall and waiting below is the skeleton of the driver waiting to escape with the pre-war cash. There are duffle bags surrounding the area of all the cash she had evidently thrown down. I absolutely fkn loved this detail and think it's my favourite random discovery so far.

- In some random house, there was a skeleton in the bathtub surrounded by manikins each holding machetes. I honestly didn't know what to make of this so I just took one of the machetes and left.

- I like that we can zoom in on the Pipboy to make it more readable on smaller TVs

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tegan fiamengo
 
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Post » Thu Dec 03, 2015 2:52 am

The headless skeleton in the tub surrounded by manikins is in the Concord Speakeasy. I had a definite LOLWUT moment at that, and the fact that the skull was in the toilet.

Another I've found is a manikin on a mattress on the riverbank in Sanctuary Hills. She's got a stimpack jammed into her sternum, as though some freak were trying to save and revive her.

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NO suckers In Here
 
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Post » Wed Dec 02, 2015 9:56 pm

There's a lot of theatre of the mind stuff in the game.

Childrens toys sitting on mounds of flesh and blood, bottles sitting on a window sill, chairs looking over escarpments.

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Amanda Furtado
 
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Post » Wed Dec 02, 2015 11:38 pm

I liked the crazy cat guy (trader)
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gemma king
 
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Post » Wed Dec 02, 2015 6:35 pm

I like how the flashlight matches your pipboy color, you can change it to white for better illumination or red for a spooky time in dark places.

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matt white
 
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Post » Thu Dec 03, 2015 8:03 am

The vault tech lunchboxes that make a surprise sound when you open them and shoot out confetti and a random piece of silverware.

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Post » Thu Dec 03, 2015 12:50 am

Has anyone had Nick Valentine as a companion when you get a Mysterious Stranger visit?

Nice touch....

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Isaac Saetern
 
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Post » Wed Dec 02, 2015 9:28 pm

Concord Speakeasy. Upstairs with the skeleton in the tub surrounded by mannequins. Meanwhile another skeleton on the bed with a nvde mannequin. Cracked me up.

When injecting yourself with Psycho, the roar your character gives when leaving the Pip-Boy.
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Post » Wed Dec 02, 2015 9:45 pm

Bethesda added back the little "touches" that Obsidian skipped in New Vegas. Remember the robotron sitting on the toilet in Fallout 3 that when you moved him the bowl was filled with scrap metal?

Only one that sticks out in my mind so far is unlocking a truck and climbing in back to find a skeleton sitting in a chair with a bloodstain on the boxes behind the skull and a pistol on the floor.

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Post » Thu Dec 03, 2015 9:59 am

I found an office where the bombs dropping had interrupted a fight. One skeleton had another pinned backwards over a safe, choking him, and the other skeleton had it's arms up trying to push the other guy away. Thought that was cool.

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Rudi Carter
 
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Post » Wed Dec 02, 2015 6:21 pm

I went inside a laundromat and found the entirety of a human's skeletal remains inside one of the dryers.

What a way to go.
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Post » Wed Dec 02, 2015 8:18 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIbvtdK02AA

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Da Missz
 
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Post » Thu Dec 03, 2015 2:59 am

I found a teddy bear on the toilet reading a newspaper wearing glasses. Made me LOL.

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Post » Wed Dec 02, 2015 6:26 pm

I was going through a building and turned my pipboy light on to see better.

The light looked different and it wasn't the same color it normally was.

I then remembered that I was wearing a helmet I had found that had a headlamp on it. I had no idea the light would actually work and was just wearing it for armor.

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Post » Thu Dec 03, 2015 7:10 am


Yup, I love this touch. Mining headgear with bright lamp mod is awesome.
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Andrew Lang
 
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Post » Thu Dec 03, 2015 7:43 am

How Codsworth can say your name, that's so awesome. Also the ability to change pip boy flashlight color. All the little touches with customization are really great.
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Post » Thu Dec 03, 2015 2:51 am

Hentry David Thoreau's house.

I just stood in it for a minute going "I studied this schmuck for a full semester in college...Ooh bourbon."

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Milad Hajipour
 
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Post » Thu Dec 03, 2015 1:46 am

What are you talking about? There is all kinds of crazy stuff in FONV.

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Christina Trayler
 
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Post » Thu Dec 03, 2015 7:12 am

NOT as much as in Fallout 3 and most of it only if you take Wild Wasteland perk.

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Vera Maslar
 
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Post » Wed Dec 02, 2015 6:23 pm

Where's the location and, more importantly, can you enter and explore?
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Lewis Morel
 
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Post » Wed Dec 02, 2015 9:46 pm

In the back rooms of the superduper mart in lexington, there is an interesting site.

A teddybear, wearing handcuffs, is sitting in an upside down trashcan with a chair weighting it down, like some sort of makeshift stuffed animal jail.

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Post » Thu Dec 03, 2015 7:13 am

The cymbal monkey in the house on the lake near Cambridge.

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Post » Wed Dec 02, 2015 8:53 pm

I don't remember where it was, but in one of the bathroom stalls there was a teddy on the pot with reading glasses and the newspaper.

I did not interrupt him

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Jinx Sykes
 
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Post » Wed Dec 02, 2015 9:48 pm

Give Dogmeat a teddy bear!

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Being able to shove and trip people!

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