One option is to take Dogmeat along, hoping it’ll warn you of incoming threats and become a food supply were things to get hairy.Īnother possibility is to recruit synths, humans and even a super mutant you can talk to while roaming the Commonwealth.īut after so many years of playing the same game, talking to the same people and traveling with the same nutjobs that seemed so interesting in the past… everything starts becoming faded and the ranting of irradiated minds goes from hilariously bizarre to boring and dull.
The vanilla game offers plenty of options to keep you company during your travels. Loneliness creeps in slowly as the silence becomes deafening, and the banging of a far-away raider’s rifle is as much a warning of danger as it is a respite from the maddening isolation. Fallout 4’s post-apocalyptic Wasteland is far too vast a place to explore on your own.