Todd Howard said that the protagonist entered the vault and then 200 years later walked out...

I can't help but think that the main character in Fallout 4 is the replicated man mentioned in Fallout 3.

Didn't the android in the Replicated Man quest from Fallout 3 turn out to be Chief Harkness, the Rivet City top guard?

Words cannot describe how much I hope that is not the case. I rather doubt it though, the timelines just don't match up. I am kinda of expecting that at the end of the game that our character is revealed to be an android. But I really hope that isn't the case.

Yes. It was Harkness.


I hope at best is that all we see in reference to him is logs of his escape

Pretty certain our character is not an android, or Chief Harkness. I mean, compare the models of Harken and Default Male 111. Two totally different people.

Yeah.

@OP; I doubt the protagonist of Fallout 4 will be Chief Harkness from Fallout 3. We already have people 'threatening' not to buy the game because it turns out the protagonist is straight! How will they react once they find out he was also chief guard of Rivet City in the past? Haha.

Well, the protagonist is most likely either going to be an android, or a thawed out popsicle. Even though it's probably just speculation, I've heard that the game takes place either 3 years before or 10 years after the events of 3. It would be stupid, storywise, but your character could be an android with implanted memories. He/she could even be Harkness, since he has had his face changed and memory modified.

Well, let's pray for it to remains just as a theory.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but during the Replicated Man quest, we're able to see a picture of Harkness before his alteration, and he looked nothing liked the Fallout 4 male protagonist. He was also bald.

In addition, how does this cater to those playing a female protagonist?

More than likely we're not an android, but a sort of next-generation organic replicant: a clone, if you will.

I actually think that could be interesting if it's executed correctly. Imagine finding out the person you thought you were has been dead for 200 years, and you're just a sack of meat with his memories. Your entire life is a lie and as for as you're concerned, you (or the person you thought was you) is long dead.

I think the OP is talking about the PC being an Android duplicate in general but the exact one from the Fallout 3 quest.

Heads will roll, most likely.

To be fair, if it turns out that we've been playing Chief Harkness this whole time, I'd be super annoyed as well.

I have also thought that the protagonist might be an android. But I think it's more likely he was cryogenically frozen or something like that.

I think hes a android because you see the nuclear blast come and its too late to be lowered into the vault by then.

Ehhhhh...There's a few ways it works. You get knocked down by the blast and get pulled in at the last minute...cryo freezing...android...Well, those are the only two that can explain losing 200 years and not looking like Mr. House...

Hey maybe the demo is just trying to fool us and we actually play through the whole game looking like a piece of overcooked beef jerky.

My theory is that you are cryogenically frozen and through the course of the main quest you find out that your child is still alive but is either grown up (unfrozen before you and then grew up while you were still in cryo sleep) or has mutated and is now a super mutant. One way or another, you kid is still alive - just my guess from watching the trailer. The fact that you are a parent will come into play - why else would they introduce it?

I'd just like to point out that in the E3 presentation, Todd says something that implies you get your Pip-Boy directly outside of the vault. However, in the demo/trailer, as you are lifted out of the vault and you shield your eyes with a clearly Pip-Boy clad left arm. This is important because the body you loot it off is a scientist who has become a skeleton, who therefore must have died a long time ago.

Therefore everyone must have died pretty quickly after entering the vault, through a series of logical steps:

1) If it was a long, prolonged, slow death caused by say, a lack of resources - Why wouldn't they have moved a dead body?

2) If it was a sudden, brutal uprising - The door would have been opened long before you, nor would you be the Sole Survivor as someone must have escaped

3) If everyone died further down the line, closer to when the vault opened - Why is the scientist a skeleton?

4) If you kill people on the way out - Again, why is there a skeleton?

Agreed, they wouldn't make such a big deal about how the baby will be made according to how you make the parents look and all that other stuff to just have it lead to nothing.

I feel like they'll get the FO3 story and reverse it with you being the parent searching for Liam Neeson your child instead of the other way around. Although it does bring up another question... how did your baby get out? It was still pretty young, probably no more than 2 years, so if it did come out of cryosleep earlier than you then wouldn't it still be that 2 year old that can hardly walk and survive own its own? Or maybe they call the PC sole survivor because all the people in the vault besides you got out of cryo sleep before you and left taking the baby with them then raising it in the wasteland, while leaving you behind for whatever reason.

I really have no idea for all we know it probably was just a gimmick that has no effect or meaning later on in the game

The obvious answer is youre the sole survivor of Tranquility Road, a program made to simulate life before the war untill some [censored] came along and triggered the Chineese Invasion failsafe built in for no reason whatsoever and youre the only one who made it to the magic door before the commies could get to you.