Agreed as well. There is a line to be drawn at some point when it comes to mockery. We are free (and should be free contrary to what the rest of the Internet thinks) to mock and criticize their writing quality and talent (or lack of talent) but that should not stretch to their private lives and families. It'll make NMA look bad.
What goes around, comes around.
It can be "half canon" if you see it as the ramblings of the protagonist turned old, telling his story around a firecamp. The guy is drunk, old and sad, and he exaggerates things to impress his audience (like adding jet or super mutants who weren't there, in reality) or straight up turns it into a child story (Nuka World, Automatron) when he realizes that the only ones left listening are children. Such a narration would have justified the horrible writing and would even have added a tragedic layer under it. Basically like in "Call of Juarez : gunslinger".
I for one LOVE the idea of a crazy storyteller telling an audience on the weird happenings of the East coast. I now want to add in an old drunk in Fallout New Vegas walking around Freeside, telling a story of a vault, a survivor and a synth creating institute.
My fanon is that the Sole Survivor is a drunken lunatic that the NCR discovered living in an abandoned vault (and was relocated to what amounts to an asylum) whose adventures in FO4 are nothing but mere delusions. The Lone Wanderer is the other lunatic staying in the room down the hall at said asylum.
True, but I sort of have a habit of making funny pictures, someone provided the source material. It's all in good fun. To continue with the derailing, I think joining a member of Bethesda's crew on facebook could be considered wrong, posting the image here was not really related to anything I am aware of. But I'm sorry if people are offended by the Mad Hatter, I know it wasn't appreciated by many.
That explains why you can't do anything evil in Fallout 4, even as you kill massive amounts of raiders. The Sole Survivor is trying to fool himself, trying to escape the evils he's done and hence creates a world where he's the hero, where everyone looks up to him and he's loved among all. However the reality tells a different story, factions looked at him in fear and disgust. His 'lovers' were tormented and many broken by his brutish behavior and violence.
Every time a person plays Fallout 4, they keep the Sole Survivor's dream alive and keep him trapped in his delusion. The only way for the Sole Survivor to be free is to stop playing the game (ala Spec Ops the Line) and a step further is to be critical of the game.
I can imagine the world of the Commonwealth being grounded in poverty, chaos and hate where bandits, super mutants and the Sole Survivor are feared and hated. Imagine DUST, but the world began to fall apart thanks to the Sole Survivor.
What did that mean?
Also it would have made for a much more interesting game IF they aimed their efforts at the story rather then stupid gimmicks (like settlement buildings). Imagine, having 'truth sequences' where the game screen flickers and shows the reality of your actions, before moving back to what you generally see, and the heavy breathing of the narrator, who starts to remember what he's really done.
Fallout 4 would have become Spec Ops: The Line in that situation and it would have led to a lot of Bethesda's gimmicks being deconstructed viciously. Their current fanboys would decry the game since they would not be able to comprehend it at all.
I can see it now, when you enter your first made settlement you see happy people doing their jobs and hear them thanking you, but for a moment you see poverty, people who stay away from you, hardworking farmers trying to eke out food and then it goes back to the idyllic town because honestly, how can the player really create a good settlement?
And when the Sole Survivor encounters Father, they does not find an advanced technological Institute but a decayed ruin long abandoned and a corpse that reveals the truth to the Sole Survivor just as the hallucination of Father appears to confront him:
