If you were the Wanderer IRL, who would you have sided with?

[LordElfa]

It's always fun or easy to pick certain sides for story or character purposes because its all fiction, but what if you were the Wanderer?

 

IRL, there are so many more things to take into account like personal beliefs, hopes for your own future and that of others. What makes practical sense and who can actually put things back in working order and keep it that way.

 

Who would you, the person IRL have sided with and why?

[Ethreon]

Probably die first few minutes, like many others. No worries there afterwards :P

[DimosZargarda]

The Brotherhood, cant say im the hero type rofl, so id go with the strongest, rather live up in the ship than down with the muties and ghouls.

[Boombro]

No one, I would go as far as the farm and that it.

[jcdenton2012]

With the Raiders.

[Arnaeus]

Minutemen. But if someone would make me general and then try to send me on some absurd missions I'd tell him to go away and do something anatomically impossible. Or I'd die within the first ten minutes after leaving the vault. That'd probably happen.

 

I'd certainly not join the Brotherhood of the 3rd Reich or the All-Your-Synth-Are-Blong-To-Us-LMAO-Institute or the Free-The-Toasters-Front. No way.

[Nixsy]

I would have shot Marcy Long a few times, Heh so I guess I would still be running from the Minuit men now.

[Moraelin]

Probably the BOS. Don't get me wrong, I don't particularly like them, and a military junta wouldn't be my first choice for a regional government, but desperate times require desperate measures.

 

They do have the manpower and equipment, and they do actively try to make the commonwealth safer. By a warped meaning of "safer", but it still does make them the lesser evil, compared to both the RR and the Institute.

 

I could go all Minutemen, but the BOS is a big beast, and has a lot of resources to draw from. Even the east coast chapter has had 10 years to turn the DC area into an economic power base. I don't fancy essentially declaring war on the BOS, especially given how useless the minutemen are. And considering that basically we have no economic power base at the moment for a protracted war. And we still have other threats to deal with at the same time. A war on three fronts is generally a bad idea.

 

A lot more people would die in that war, than if we just go with the BOS as the lesser evil.

 

I still maintain that, given a couple more years, the Minutemen could realistically be turned into a more organized and effective army than the BOS. But not yet, and not with only like 200 farmers as total population. And not while at the same time having the gunners, and the raiders, and the supermutants, and any remaining synths, and the ferals, etc, to deal with at the same time. That's not going to end well.

[Roriksbork]

If I somehow managed to make it through the first part of the main quest, I would probably side with the Institute.

 

The first time I played, I was appalled by the clothes the settlers wore, and the way they tolerated huge holes in their roofs and rubble and garbage just lying around. They seemed not incapable, but unwilling to improve their own lives.

 

The Institute is probably the only place in the Commonwealth that still has standards. Where people don't go around dressed in rags, and where they clean up their piles of garbage.

[Fonger]

It's always fun or easy to pick certain sides for story or character purposes because its all fiction, but what if you were the Wanderer?

 

publicly denounce the Brotherhood for being slavers ( do the side quests for the quartermaster )

 

Execute Elder Maxim for being a hypocrite for allowing this kind of activity

 

 

Recycle "Father" for not understanding the first tenet of "Artificial Intelligence"

 

 

Rally the wasteland to exterminate the anti-social Gunners

 

 

Convince the Minutemen to support Synth Human Rights

 

 

Then Retire to Sanctuary and play fetch the (toy) grenade with my favorite dog.