Companion you hated most on a personal level?

[EnclaveKnight]

Well I'm not an expert in postapocalyptic economy, but I don't think Cassidy Caravans had chance to become real competition. It was real competition before, but it has fallen (maybe with Crimson Caravan's "help"), Alice McLafferty would be able to buy it sooner or later, the risk was minimal.

It is not really about Cassidy Caravan, really. Alice outright says that it is better to simply remove any "extra" caravans. likely the Crimson Caravan wants to be the only caravan company in the Mojave. destroy the other caravans, no matter how minimal the risk, the higher the chance that other caravans will move on, and the CC gets more business. Pure and simple, it is simply the CC wants money and power, not other companies moving in.

You seem to be focusing way too much on the details when they are simply there to inform you what is going on. Cass's quest is about taking down the big guys (CC and Van Graffs), that is really all there is to it. A good example of the Caravan wars is Alexander at the 188, who tells you that they used to carry energy weapons until their EW-carrying caravans kept getting destroyed, which is likely the work of the Van Graffs trying to keep the Gun Runners from running energy weapons. Makes sense that they would help the Crimson Caravans get rid of the other caravans to form the big monopolies of the Wasteland.

 

[mef]

Well, maybe you're right, althought it still feels a little off to me. Also, I didn't recall Alexander saying that. Gotta pay attention more :s

 

[EnclaveKnight]

Well, maybe you're right, althought it still feels a little off to me. Also, I didn't recall Alexander saying that. Gotta pay attention more :s

He does not say exactly who destroyed their caravans. there is dialogue where he says that the Gun Runners used to deal in energy weapons, but those caravans kept getting attacked and destroyed. Only two groups make sense, and the Van Graffs make the most, if the attacks happened in the last 5 years.

 

[Wumbology]

He is a typical guy who somehow finds a hot wife who is dumb enough to follow him to a backwater dump of a town in the middle of nowhere. He also seems to be p***y-whipped, if we're to believe Manny's side of the story, but that's not the point. Anyway, then he is surprised by the fact that she feels miserable all the time, sitting alone in her room all day. I mean, come on, what is there to do in Novac? What the hell did he expect? He can't even take her out for a dinner or something, because the nearest town is few miles away on foot, with angry ants, scorpions and raiders in between. WHAT WAS HE THINKING?!

And even then, if you actually take him with you on his little revenge quest, you find out that he *gasp* actually feels BAD about what he did when he was in the army. Good for you, a**hole! Have a cookie! But even worse, he thinks that his wife ending up as a slave, and him being "forced" to kill her somehow ends up being HIS punishment. "You self-centered a**hole! Not EVERYTHING is about you!" you could hear my Courier screaming, if he could scream in the game. In the end, even his wife ends up paying for HIS mistakes.

So all in all, that's what I hated about him the most - he kind of is like an angsty teenager, who just keeps whining and saying it's always somebody else's fault, and everything is always, ALWAYS about him.

This just in: people in real life often have seemingly irrational feelings and accordingly seemingly irrational actions. This is normal and common! Characters, who are a reflection of real life, often act in similar or same ways. In writer's terms, we call this "internal conflict". Internal conflict, like all forms of conflict, is what drives a story!

Anyways, I actually agree with your conclusion: Boone is not the kind of person I would associate with in real life. But I find your judgment of his character to be... unfair and missing the point.

 

[Courier]

Wouldn't say I hated her but the only companion I never really traveled with for very long in any of my playthroughs was Lily. She just got in the way and wasn't that interesting as a character.

 

[TheNotoriousAMP]

For me it was Raul, while I found him kind of interesting, his character's sidequest was too buggy and a pain in the ass for me to really travel with him, since I had to structure my entire playthrough from the beginning to fit the requirements for the people he needed to meet. For some reason or another I did love traveling with Lily, in part because charging in, shotgun blazing, alongside a blue, 9 foot tall, Conan the Grandmother Barbarian is just too much fun to roleplay.