Game is full of sadness (especially for a father). Just had an encounter with a grandmother who had killed her grandchild...

She's not even a synth.

She's just a scared old woman with honest mental issues who made a mistake. She's not a bad person, and obviously feels immense remorse and sorrow for what happened.

And as long as, in her mind, it was the Institute that ordered it, she didn't kill her grandson...

Because if she did...

Yea that was a strange one. However I am not convinced she actually shot him. Did that story go any further from there?

Nah, that's pretty much it. You can invite her to help the Minutemen to unlock the Marina... or shoot her in the head.

I let her live out her days surrounded by people that aren't afraid of her (populated the town).

And I'm pretty sure she shot him. If you read her terminal journal entries, she's suffering hallucinations and night terrors from a likely undiagnosed mental illness.

My guess is she dozed off with her gun in her lap and her grandson woke her up and she responded to the night terror she was having and not reality. Thus, she shot him.

This was the first thing that came to my mind.

Thanks for the info. This could of developed into a good quest, to bad they just leave it hanging.

I think I'm going to recruit Red and use her as a companion when I take out Tower Tom in Beantown. That'll be poetic justice. Reading the terminal entries show that Red really does care for Lucy, and she seems to be the "mind your own business" sort who doesn't really need to go out and raid settlers anyway. Was interesting to see how Red, Tom, Jared etc all had their own little gangs in the area - wish there was more we could do to take sides rather than wipe them all out.

The only downside is that if I do that I won't know how Tom's terminal entry updates Red's death. Relief, or anger that he has lost his food again?

He is quite happy that she is dead, (one problem solved) but worried that whoever did it may set up camp their or strip the place clean.

I have a hard time empathising with raiders in general, mostly beacuse there shooting at me. But the did a damn fine job with a bit of backstory in these groups.

It might be the food paste note I can not remember but one group actually is chasting a member who shoots down a fleeing settler. Saying they don't that. (which is smart the dead dont pay tolls) I think the maybe lexington raiders (there wiped out by ghouls next to Danse) toll takers to, not gun em down types by some notes)

Jun Long.

Yeah, I posted the other day on how well this was voiced. Not an easy listen. She sounds terrified.

The aircraft in the Glowing Sea. Hearing both it's black box recording and the general mayday.

There's plenty of instances of sadness and terror in the Fallout universe...but I think being stuck hundreds of miles in the air when the world ignites...

To quote another franchise - "Not the end I'd wish for, lad."

I remembered the real thing that made me oddly sad. Forget about Red Lucy. (I get saddened by weird things)

Professor Goodfeels. I mean, this game goes to great lengths to give robots personality, like with Codsworth, Curie, Graygarden, and the USS Constitution. And here we have a robot that was stolen, and fried by a bunch of dirty hippies to essentially become a broken down zombie. A robot that probably had just as much personality as Codsworth was turned into... that. I dunno, it's just one of those downer things. Like when you find a tortured toy and it's still got it's smile and happy voice recordings... it doesn't know what's happened to it.

Taka is another one for me. Poor robot had developed a glitch so the only phrase it can say is, "Would you like noodles?" in Japanese. Imagine that, the only way you can communicate to people is a question in a language they can't understand. You can't tell them you need help or...anything.

And Red's terminal updates if Tom is dead to say that she sent someone to search the brewery but they didn't find any sign of Lucy so she assumes Lucy escaped.

The forged letters from Tom were kind of humorous in a morbid sort of way because of how badly he was impersonating Lucy.

Guess we have different views on what's sad. Not had a moment like that in this game honestly yet. There's just no emotional connection for me, probably because there is no build up to make me care. Sad for me was the ending to the Walking Dead game season 1, because things built up to that point. Here I just don't much give a damn. Sad was the Bloody Baron's quest in Witcher 3. Again because the game builds up to it and the cinematic direction makes it even more emotionally engaging. Think BGS has a ways to go before they can capture a truly powerful emotional moment that moves me.

With all the missions I did so far, I still have a ton to do. I didn't have to do this, but I think that the sadist thing was the whole Danse synth thing and having to kill him. I couldn't kill him and if I did the mission I wouldn't :'( Makes me cry if he dies. He's such a nice guy and he believed he was human and had control over his life. Maxson if a dike too because so what if Danse is a synth his heart it with the BOS. Idk why I get sad about him dying, I'm a messed up person... lol?

Saddest thing I've stumbled upon was a raider on her knees next to an open grave with a dead raider in it. Unfortunately she attacked me when I got too close, I felt really bad for shooting her. Poor dear had just lost her partner

to be fair, there is no telling what the institute had in store for Danse, leaving him in a high ranking position within the brotherhood would be foolish, even if he seems loyal to the cause, one flip of a proverbial switch and he would turn on everybody. I thought exile was fair enough and just leave him to his own devices.

Don't feel bad, she was either looting the grave or was about to have kinky six with the corps

I think I was there before, but I went into a church in Cambridge, I think. Not far from the Cambridge Police Station. Right as I went in, End of the World started playing on the radio and I notice two skeletons sitting on a bench. Their back is to you as you enter, and place is small, so I the first time I was there, I did my business to enemies that popped up and left. But this time, I walked around to have a look at them. There was a woman leaning on a man, and as I stood there, my weight on the floor must have had an impact of something because the female skeleton started moving a little bit without me touching anything. The effect was that it looked like the woman was snuggling against the man, and they ended up in an even sadder position. Uh, and Skeeter Davis' "End of the World" playing didn't help. Hit me more than the distress messages because with those, I knew it was going to end bad so I was prepared for the worst.

A poignant moment to be had with Daisy in Goodneighbour when you and the old girl share a tear about how the world used to be.

You'll need high charisma though.

The saddest thing was realizing that my own child used me as a tool and could have cared less whether I lived or died in the commonwealth. He realized what I had gone through and still played me like a cheap violin. I shot him with a RR gun on his deathbed and felt zero remorse. His little Satan Spawn Synth child died in the explosion.

Shaun was worse than raiders.

When I switched companions from Piper to Cait and Piper gives some wise comment and walks out staring me in the eyes I always find it sad when I have to send piper away

To be fair, her comment to Cait was a bit uncalled for. But then I'm a Cait fan, so maybe I'm biased. Her line to Piper when Piper replaces her is more cheeky, and I was hoping that she'd ask Curie for a threesome and Curie would respond... differently from Piper.

Yeah that does make sense