The problem, or opportunity here, is that the time I spent was 'wasted.' I chose to play as the woman character, and within an hour my virtual husband had taken our child into what turned out to be a stasis pod, only to watch him be thawed out and murdered by scavengers who then abducted the baby. By setting up character creation so that both characters existed in the fiction it gave me an excuse to really have fun making my characters, and explore all the options for both the man and the woman character model. It was like a tiny bit of The Simshidden in a Fallout game.īy the time I was done with character creation I liked both of my characters, and was happy they seemed to be happy with each other and their baby. By the time I was finished I had two characters, both of whom I enjoyed looking at, and the first hour of the game allowed them both to hang out, having a life, and interact with each other and the world. I spent more time than I'm comfortable admitting creating both, and coming up with an elaborate backstory about how they met and fell in love. Since both characters exist no matter which gender you choose to be in the game, you can spend time creating not just a character, but two characters who are married. This isn't the standard character creation where your avatar is an idea until you breathe life into them, these are two characters who already exist in the fiction, and have a relationship with each other.Īnd that's the fun part. You create your character as they stand in front of the mirror with their spouse, which means you have a man and a woman inside their own home, in a scene where it makes sense that they be together. Nothing about this is very new or shocking.īut wait! The setup for the character creation is actually clever, and it may take a bit for this to sink in. Players are having a great time creating characters that look like them, or like other fictional characters. This is pretty standard for open-world games, and you can watch the process in the above video.

The first thing Fallout 4asks you to do as a player is to create a character. This post contains spoilers for Fallout 4

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