So, today I played some Skyrim and as we all know; sometimes we gonna get that one npc that runs over to us and gives us something of his/her to hold on to. After this I started to wonder if Fallout 4 is gonna have the same thing? If so then what you guys would like to see as arandom encounter?

O, where to begin...lol, so many ideas and possibilities.

Skyrim didn't have as many random encounters as Fallout 3 did, did it?

hmmm, well if you count naked mail man ;P, other than the one I described I can't remember any other ones but as for Fallout 3 I know that there those Ghouls and those guys that got blown up by mines.

The one I always hated in Fallout-3 was the one where a poor wastelander would run up and say that the raiders had put a bomb on her.... inevitably I'd fail to disarm it and the wastelander would bravely run away from me to save my life.

What made it even more frustrating was that I had a (modded) piece of gear that would augment my explosives skill (which I normally never bother to raise) but before I could swap into that gear I'd be locked in conversation mode with no chance to put it on. Sorry, lady.

One thing, I don't know if I like it or not... but there were specific places where you would encounter a 'random' event when you approached. Once, while approaching the Super Mart / Greyditch / Wilhelm's Wharf area, I got the random event of the alien spacecraft exploding overhead.... but it hit a building, and rained down the blaster and alien ammo into the area I could not physically reach. So I reloaded and the next time I approached that area, it was just the wounded Deathclaw encounter.... I reloaded the approach to the Anchorage Memorial "island" over and over and over until I finally got the alien crash THERE, where I could collect all the bits properly.

So, as I said, I don't know if I LIKE that the 'random' events happen at ~specific~ places or not. The purist in me says that that sort of doesn't make them really random... I mean, the event itself is random, but if something always at that spot, it's less random-seeming. The min-maxer in me, however, realizes I can just save, approach the trigger point, then reload to get a different, potentially better, 'random' encounter the next time I approach the area.

Damn...

...I will like more smart encounters. Not only the typical NPC walking or running towards me, but maybe seeing him or her complaining, crying, sad sitting in a corner etc... Fighting and me being able to help. All those sorts.

Random encounters are one of my favourite things about Bethesda's games, the more the merrier.

I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who is never able to save her.

I don't know if this is the right place for this, but here it goes. There is a mod for Skyrim, and one of the Fallout, that is called 揇eath alternative? In this mod, instead of dying and just going back to your last save, first you black out. Then any number of random events can happen. Things like you get save by locals, or your enemy just leaves you for dead, takes you prisoner, things like that. I found this to be more immersed and realistic. But before you start complaining, of course you would still have the option to just reload that last save as well.

All i can say is i have played FO3 since release and just last week i met Uncle Leo. I love random encounters and hope they return. It adds some spice to wasteland life.

Well to begin with I'd like TO ACTUALLY SEE the encounter. The Perception thing with being able to see the red markers before the actual sprites themselves just doesn't work.

Remember the Gunfight "scene" with Tomas and Jacklyn?
Oh no you don't. You just hear it happening. Then one of them starts running up to you when the fight is finished.

Yeah i always look for that lady....think i found her once after the gunfight but i cant remember %100

Obsidian wasn't that great in making random encounters (actually is this the only one in NV).

Bethesda has made them a lot better in FO3 and I love how they did that. Skyrims random where ok but it felt like there where less and not so varied. So lets hope the devs had more fun with them in FO4 as in Skyrim.