The Railroad

Irwin John Finster

Irwin John Finster

Sonny, I Watched the Vault Bein' Built!
If you had a clandestine organization conducting very secretive and dangerous business - the kind of actions that cause the Institute, an organization with the most advanced technology the world has ever seen, to attempt to track you down and eliminate all of you - wouldn't you make the password to your secret base something other than the name of your organization?

That is to say, if you were part of a group calling themselves The Railroad, would you set the password to your secret base to "RAILROAD" thinking that is a good idea?

Would you also then write this password on the ground in the Boston ruins so that any schmuck can follow a red line to your secret base? Do you think the Institute, an organization with teleportation technology, would not figure that out? I'm just asking questions...
 
Why are they so engaged in freeing synths when there are still people dying of thirst and hunger or just the extremes amount of violence.
 
Hassknecht said:
fakeangel said:
Why are they so engaged in freeing synths when there are still people dying of thirst and hunger or just the extremes amount of violence.
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Quoth the Petey: "no, i'm saying that writers and designers can have some fun in the worlds they build"

Petey showcasing his roleplaying skills and vast depth of Fallout 4:
https://twitter.com/DCDeacon/status/668881509194035200

10/10 GOTY PR dude.
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If the game was a good RPG in addition to having that kind of stuff he talks about (just being able to look for Jangles Monkeys for no reason) it would be a great game. Too bad Fallout 4 is pretty much only about doing that kind of stupid stuff.
 
Romanophile said:
Is he lying again? I’d be surprised if he finished any Fallout games. He may not be a gamer at all, for all I know.
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Probably...
I mean, there's this, too:
https://twitter.com/DCDeacon/status/668888670326398976
He either really doesn't know what the cymbal monkeys do (being motion sensors and alarms like the ca chimes), which would mean he is a real life INT 1 character and completely out of the loop when it comes to Fallout 4's development, or he just lies to blend in with the INT 1 fan-crowd...
 
Romanophile said:
Is he lying again? I’d be surprised if he finished any Fallout games. He may not be a gamer at all, for all I know.
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These marketing executives don't have time to be deep video game players. They have busy lives. That's fine, but then that means they don't understand their consumer very well. In the end, most are probably like the EA executive who was recorded talking about how video game players would not be "price sensitive" to their microtransactions if they hid them at certain points in the game where the player had invested too much time to not pay them more money. I think he was discussing charging money for bullets. Here is the actual recording:
 
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fakeangel said:
Why are they so engaged in freeing synths when there are still people dying of thirst and hunger or just the extremes amount of violence.
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I'm guessing that the response to that is probably because you can't solve every issue in the world at once, so you kind of have to pick and choose. The exact same issues you listed happen in the real world, and people respond similarly. Do you question why a charitable organisation that dedicates all its time trying to end human trafficking isn't focusing on world hunger, nestle water scandals and stopping war instead?, The Railroad in Fallout 4 is basically a smaller scale, science fiction version of that.
 
fakeangel said:
Why are they so engaged in freeing synths when there are still people dying of thirst and hunger or just the extremes amount of violence.
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I realize we have a Bethesda hate boner going on. It's our thing, apparently. But come on, you must surely know the answer to this.

Also from what I recall in Fallout 3, don't The Railroad also help normal slaves too?
 
AlphaPromethean said:
fakeangel said:
Why are they so engaged in freeing synths when there are still people dying of thirst and hunger or just the extremes amount of violence.
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I realize we have a Bethesda hate boner going on. It's our thing, apparently. But come on, you must surely know the answer to this.

Also from what I recall in Fallout 3, don't The Railroad also help normal slaves too?
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You are correct, sir. I personally don't find a problem with this part.

I find a problem with a supposedly intelligent organization having a red line drawn straight to their secret base, and having the password to that base be the name of their organization. I initially missed some of the letters because I lost the red line in the rubble, but then I realized the letters I had found spelled out most of "railroad" and said to myself "This game is poorly written by adolescents, but there's just no way even a 6 year old would write this...there's no way that's the actual password..." and sure enough Fallout 4 proved me wrong.
 
AlphaPromethean said:
fakeangel said:
Why are they so engaged in freeing synths when there are still people dying of thirst and hunger or just the extremes amount of violence.
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I realize we have a Bethesda hate boner going on. It's our thing, apparently. But come on, you must surely know the answer to this.

Also from what I recall in Fallout 3, don't The Railroad also help normal slaves too?
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We never seen them doing it, so they might as well not do it.
 
The Railroad is just one of many missed opportunities in this game. The faction is even more boring than the Minutemen at times. The only time you see them doing shit is when you do it.
 
Ah, yes the Railroad. The faction that wants you to start a race war between the Syths and human scientist at The Institute if you side with them at the end of the game. That is going to work out well for humanity in the long run. :look:
 
RangerBoo said:
Ah, yes the Railroad. The faction that wants you to start a race war between the Syths and human scientist at The Institute if you side with them at the end of the game. That is going to work out well for humanity in the long run. :look:
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Fallout 5: You begin your journey already wearing Power Armor and holding a minigun on board the Battlestar Galactica years after the Cylons and Humans have....

Better not give them ideas.
 
Irwin John Finster said:
RangerBoo said:
Ah, yes the Railroad. The faction that wants you to start a race war between the Syths and human scientist at The Institute if you side with them at the end of the game. That is going to work out well for humanity in the long run. :look:
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Fallout 5: You begin your journey already wearing Power Armor and holding a minigun on board the Battlestar Galactica years after the Cylons and Humans have....

Better not give them ideas.
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Please don't! :shock:
 
RangerBoo said:
Irwin John Finster said:
RangerBoo said:
Ah, yes the Railroad. The faction that wants you to start a race war between the Syths and human scientist at The Institute if you side with them at the end of the game. That is going to work out well for humanity in the long run. :look:
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Fallout 5: You begin your journey already wearing Power Armor and holding a minigun on board the Battlestar Galactica years after the Cylons and Humans have....

Better not give them ideas.
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Please don't! :shock:
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It's Bethesda!

Anything goes.
 
The Railroad, much like the Institute is one of the mostly poorly designed and though out factions in FO4. Also one of the most down right silly too. "Yeah we save Synths, but only the Gen 3 ones. Screw the Gen 1 and gen 2's!"
 
A faction based on saving synths that may or may not turn on them and kill them eventually? Yes nothing could go wrong with that. :lol:
 
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