wait a minute (calculates those numbers) oh [censored] half life 3 confirmed!

Why does no one assume that their characters are precisely as they intend them to be? And that they purposely straddle the middle ground between the extremes of being outfit accessories, and quest givers that don't stop talking.

I'm pretty sure that their designs are not arbitrary, and that they ask only enough to interest, yet not enough to annoy ~anyone from either camp [NPC preference].

You know... hitting the 50/50 mark; just enough to be okay for both camps.

Given the fact that Codsworth has been doing who knows what for the past ~200 years, I'm pretty sure he has lots of stories to tell even if he had no history before your character bought him from the store.

I read something about "Mr Handy" being a companion. Am confused, is that Codsworth or is it a different robot? Is codsworth a companion?

Yep. Codsworth is a confirmed companion, along with Dogmeat, Preston Garvey, and Piper.

You may not be able to secure some of the companions due to faction support or a truly structured karma system

Excuse me? Did you leave out RAUL THE GHOUL?!

Raul was great dude!

Raul I get when I use a mod that lets me have more than one companion. Some of the "conversations" that seem to randomly come up withe the other companions are hilarious in context.

I want s schizophrenia android and have a quest to repair it.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2011/05/08/scientists-create-a-schizophrenic-computer/

I know Lily bowen was one for using the steath boy on NV.

He was a rotten companion.

I liked having a ton of availabel followers in Skyrim. They were handy for roleplaying. I don't need tons of dialogue that I'm going to skip through anyway (except in New Vegas, the one with palatable writing). I just wanted a lot of options for marriagable partners, stewards and retainers. Sometimes you just want a Mercenary who'll take their pay and shut up and do the work.

The first I don't personally care about... But that 2nd part? I completely agree... That limit allways felt completely arbitrary... ... It's one thing if your character is a [censored] and the companion doesn't like [censored]... Fair enough, that they don't wanna follow then.

In a delightful way

"oh sure boss, I'll stop using this rather effective gun and use a tire iron. Great idea."

This.

There are two options:

• They are the same or worse than Fallout 3 / Skyrim
• They are better

An improvement seems inevitable so no cause for concern.

The amount doesn't matter.

What matters is that one of them better be Butch DeLoria.

One you can ride

http://orig13.deviantart.net/b25c/f/2012/183/0/6/ronald_reagan_riding_a_velociraptor_by_sharpwriter-d55rsh7.jpg

Switch the flag it fit right in.

I thought the same was set during the events of FO3?

I want to have 2 followers. I want them to be tunnel snakes. And I want them to rule.

No, Todd Howard has said the game is mostly set after Fallout 3, the parts set before obviously being the pre-war stuff.

I'm assuming that, at least some, will have karma requirements and what not.. You probably won't be able to pick them all up in one playthrough. Companions like robots and dogs you don't really have to pick up at all.. they just add a bit of extra flavor. Fallout 2 had lots of companions as well.. Sometimes I'd just shoot them and take their gear. Lots of ways to play with companions.

i always wondered what Ed-e said when I accidentally clicked switch to mele

Haha Ed-E had a lot of personality for a robot with no language.

"Sneaky beeping"

mods....

He was pretty much R2-D2

Was Ed-E not a girl? Well actually I guess its a darn robot and wouldn't be a gender at all. I always pronounced it the female way over "Eddy"