Mine is when I leave the vault join the enclave if I can and bandits/ slavers then make a fortress and rule like a dictator in bliss then do the main missions and side quest plus kill the brotherhood of steel for more added fun and more caps, they always die a lot easy than people think.
Hope once I finish the main story I can carry on playing doing the side quests like fallout 3. I will not get the dog as a companion prefer a woman or a different beast or being like a deathclaw like out of fallout new Vegas minuture one out the science add-on, the one who you have to kill for the food bowl to give back to its master.

Melee Goody-two shoes for my first game, Melee Neutral or Chaotic-Good for my second, Ranged Evil for my third.

First run, pragmatic, neutral guy, a engineering soldier who doesn't mind helping a stranger, but for a price, a merc with a heart of...well silver at least.

And I plan to actually straight of the bat pick up codsworth and the dog as my companions.

Lone wanderer. Sniper when he can. Carries a shotgun and/or MG for close work. Silenced pistol for very close stuff. Doesn't use laser or plasma rifles or power armor. Travels light.

While I don't play as a goody two shoes he generally does the right thing. A bit of theft on the side but on the "good" side for bigger decisions.

Stealthy sniper loner out for my own self interest. Accomplish MQ and side quests that benefit me. Establish a home base that is well fortified for personal use and have the dog as my companion. I have a German Shepard in RL so it fits me. Once MQ is done I may flesh out my PC and expand into larger settlements and rule with an iron fist. I intend to enslave people and kill those that offend me with extreme prejudice.

I am really hoping to do a multi-year long play through using my initial character, and maybe do a re-start if it looks like the game is actually affected by my choices just to see the effects of those choices.

Literally that up-and-coming enterprising community leader with penchant for crafting hi-tech gears and power armors...

Second playthrough? Maybe a brash, independent unarmed or melee-oriented character (Yes unarmed is here )

Leave the vault, get Dogmeat, wander in the opposite direction that the main quest wants me to go, try not to die, runaway from deathclaws, runaway from innocent looking things that will kill me at a lower level, die a little, reload, find a safer place, probably die again...all while I stream for 24 hours straight. If all else fails PLAN B, KILL, KILL, KILL!

I want to make a character that uses lever action rifles and revolvers, if that's in the game. Kill Dogmeat unless I can make him a Pit bull, pick up Codsworth, go to Scollay Square.

Well we know of one revolver at least, you could see it listed in the inventory of the player during the E3 demo.

I like/prefer scoped .44 Magnums. My four weapons in game will be sniper rifle, scoped .44 (if its in the game), sawed off shotgun, and a knife. Swap out for heavier artillery as needed for the mission at hand, but these will be my standard equipment when I leave the house each day.

I usually go about a new Fallout game the same way every single time. On the first time through I focus on the main quest and blitz through it pretty quick. Usually I play as a do-gooder helping as many people as I can along the way to gain karma, I run out the bad guys and generally play as the face raiders don't want to run into. On the second time through I know what happens in the story so I'm not so eager to rush through it so quickly again. I know where to take my time and when to go and focus on other things, I can relax more and just play through at my own pace and explore the pieces of the new map I may have missed in more detail. I go around collecting little bits and pieces while completing side quests and generally exploring around, only this time I don't really keep such a close eye on my karma level. If it goes up it goes up, if it goes down it goes down. I don't use reloads I just play through, if choices I make change the way the game plays out it just has to stay that way and I have to just roll with the punches.

If the story in Fallout 4 allows you to continue playing after it has been completed I'll still play a second time through, only I can finish the story again a second time instead of like previous versions where I would never finish the game on the second play through so I could keep going back to it.

How I mostly play a Bethesda game: completely ignore the main quest and just explore and explore and explore. Side quests are my second favorite part after exploring. I will, of course, be partially be looking for a female companion. Because reasons.

Complete whatever tutorials there are. Then disappear into the wastes as a lone, silent killer of raiders, mutations and abominations. Popping up every now and then to help the more civilised wastelanders.

Let's see...
Do character creation...check.
Leave Vault...okay
...then...
Um...
Either get the dog or build a house because that's about all I know that's for sure in there to do. Maybe play some Red Menace on my pipboy?

Insert BRDisc, pick up controller, play whatever comes my way.


Will probably make a Scout Sniper type class. I always make stealth ranged characters first, just my favorite playstyle.

Work out the basics of the game, then tinker with all the different weapons and things to decide what to settle on. Then probably start again.

I always promise myself to limit myself to 4/5 guns... it never works out quite that way.

My current set-up in NV: Ratslayer, All American, Sawed Off Shotgun, That Gun, This Machine, Chance's Knife, Pulse Gun & of course a shovel

I am a kleptomaniac hoarder pack rat, but with a low STR, which means a lot of back and forth travel to my home base to squirrel away stuff I might need one day. In quests and target-choice, I am almost always karmically good (to balance all the stealing I do). I prefer sniping without VATS, with silenced pistols with VATS for interior maps.

After I exit the vault, I'll probably start picking up everything that isn't nailed down, just to see if I can. Since I likely won't HAVE a base, at that point, I'll have to reluctantly start choosing which of my precious, precious shinies I have to leave behind. I'll dabble in combat to see how it feels, then follow the main quest, at least until I get to a new area to steal from.

You just saved me a lot of typing.

This.

Goody two-shoes (well, not completely - wiping out raiders, slavers etc. without mercy is kind of a thing for me in such games like Fallout)...I'd love to have a go with the Enclave though (because I don't think they are really evil - misguided maybe, though I'd say they do what they think is right because despite their technology (they are the most advanced faction we have seen so far - the only ones possibly eclipsing them are the aliens (which aren't a real faction as you can't interact with them - just fight them) and The Institute!), they have limited numbers and in order to bring civilization back, they'd have to take drastic measures (they can't conquer the wasteland by traditional means - the brotherhood tried that when they fought the NCR and despite their technological (and tactical) advantages they lost and the Enclave would face the same (ultimately - they might even succeed for a short time as they are better equipped than the brotherhood is)...most of their soldiers couldn't beat a deathclaw or a supermutant (power armor or not) in single combat after all and even with all their forces they couldn't face a real army with extreme numerical superiority (like the Legion or the NCR)...yes it's unfair and underhand, but it's a sound military strategy to use biological or nuclear weapons etc. if you can't beat an enemy conventionally and - call me a cold SOB - wouldn't the wasteland be better off with all the mutants dead and civilization restored?...yes, killing of that many people/beings is very amoral, but wouldn't it be better for humanity as a whole to have them gone?))...I just don't want to wipe out the brotherhood (despite their flaws I respect them!)...well, we'll see how it goes

Still, I'll start of with a male character (probably) with no beard (I'd love to be able to get rid of my own permanently -.-), green eyes and either red or black hair and fair skin, I'll go for intelligence, charisma and probably perception as my main stats (and I will chose my other stats accordingly - science, repair, lockpicking, speech etc.) - meaning more or less a kind of nerd as a character (it suits my style of play: I'd rather not attack/confront people directly - I rather hack their turrets/robots to wipe them out or convince them that I am ok and don't need to be fought)

Well, that's it...

greets LAX

ps: Or I'll go the old "Jack of all traits - master of all" route (meaning: A cheated character - all stats etc. to max...as I play for the story and not for a feeling of achievement or anything)!

Smart Sniper and Thief, so i can get the best from conversations and situations.

In my first play through FO3, I didn't realise I could even have a house. So I had to decide what to keep, what to ditch, and what to stash in locations I invariably didn't go back to. Slept rough where I could, and didn't get into the collecting junk thing. That was great.

In New Vegas though, the Novac room just falls in your lap so easily it made no sense for my character to not use it Especially as I played hardcoe mode, and their were few options to sleep rough.

So I will try to play a true wanderer, at least as far as it makes sense for my character to do so. I'll save the settlement building stuff for next time.

Not worked out the basic likes and dislikes yet, but that will determine what kind of person I will help or hinder.

Probably usually small (ish) guns, explosives, light armour, sneaky and technically minded.

Rush to find out if the android theory is correct - and then make an android mod myself if not. Either way - then start over and enjoy the game. Slowly.

Oh - I'll spend an hour or so in Character creation (My characters typically look remarkably like me - except 100% more ginger.) Probably nit-pick over my husband as well (I think I might model him after Todd Howard - with 100% more twirly handlebar moustache - if available). I'll go out in the world intent with taking my time and exploring - but my plan will fall apart almost immediately (it always does) and I'll wind up rushing through the MQ like I always do - only to start over again and actually take my time as I planned to do the first time.

Then I'll walk away from the computer for several weeks and wait for the mods to arrive.

Build a settlement on slavery, get my Enclave gear back (through console codes probably) and kill all the Brotherhood of Steel. Every single one.

It's going to be great.