It just occured to me (not having seen this subject plastered with questions) that since you're pre-war -- and ghouls are more than capable of being alive 200 years without turning feral -- do you think that youll run into someone from the Sole Survivours past?

Inb4 ghoulified Vault-tec salesman

Ghoulified wife/husband! Would that be considered necrophilia?

I think that this is actually a really cool idea, I hope we see it in the game. It would be interesting to see an old war buddy turned ghoul who thought you were just another flashback completely disbelieving your existence.

...That's a good question.

Would be neat to find someone from the old neighborhood somewhere along the way.

"Hey...Oh hey, you, I remember you! Yeah yeah, the guy, with the wife and kids...Wow...You look good for a century or two! Can't say the same for me! Hah!"

That would be really cool...you could have one of your old war buddies as a companion

Inb4 pre-war military coach


"DO YOU CALL THAT A KILL? GIMME 20...SMOOTHSKIN."

“Says the guy who looks like a zombie. Ooh, too soon?”
“Just because we're in the Wasteland, Howard/Nora, doesn't mean I won't kick yer ass from here to West Point!!”

Itd be nice to see.
Especially since the SS will have no prior knowlage to what a ghoul is because (in cannon from previous games) there had never been instance of ghoulification.

"My god, Todd.. You havent changed one bit, in 200 years. Is that really you? Its me, Mike wittington from down the road, dont you remember?"

"My god, what the [censored] happened to you? You look like youve been put through a wood chipper and dyed green"

I can see us finding him in the back of his van.

Yeah I was secretly hoping that this guy turns up as a ghoul.

*In raspy voice* "Remember me smoothskin? I was the one who sold you that spot in the [censored] vault and I couldn't get in! I thought I was dead but fate just keeps laughing at me and now I'm stuck like this! You'll pay, you will [censored]...."
*gunshot rings out as the PC unloads a buckshot shell into his head*
"You can shoot him in the face if you want."

I should hope so.
I also want the protagonist to know Maxson.

That would be a cool follower

I have this terrible image of a baby with the stock ghoul voice cursing the PC out because he wasn't there for him.

It'd certainly be a missed opportunity if they didn't have the Sole Survivor run into an old acquaintance as a ghoul. The lore sets up such an interaction perfectly.

BART: Dad, you shot zombie Flanders!

HOMER: He was a zombie?

Yeah, I can just picture the awkward reunion with your spouse ...

"You still find me attractive, don't you Hun?"

NORA: "Aren't I still the prettiest woman in the universe?"

HOWARD: "Uh...eh...erm...heh heh...ergh..."

NORA: "We also have that honeymoon we never went to."

''Don't you know how hard it is for us ghoul women?! I spend all morning taking off radiations and oozing green skin just for you and you only say 'you're nice'?!''

HOWARD: "Nora, I-"

NORA: "Don't you 'Nora, I' me! I survived for 200 years in this hellhole looking like something from an old monster flick while you got to sleep all tucked away in Vault 111 AND THEN I FIND YOU BEDDING WITH PIPER!? See this ring? DO YOU SEE IT!?" *tears ring off of her finger* It's over, Howard! I survived this long because I loved you. But no more!" *throws ring over a cliff* "Go be with Piper; guess she's the Nora you WISHED you had."

HOWARD: "NORA!!"

*Nora storms away, gives Howard the backhand middle finger*

Hey ! That's you ! The average man of middle-age that i barely knew and didn't see in 200 years ! That is funny to see you pal' !

I also think that meeting up with Ghouls from the previous Fallout games as well. Also, what time frame is Fallout 4 happening in? Are we before or after the Hoover Dam battle in New Vegas? Is anyone aware of the timeline we're working with here?

Just so I don't run into my bookie. Can even imagine what the vig would be after 200 years.