#I'm assuming Deacon's telling the truth in his story though it IS such an easy cliche fallback narrative he could easily be lying

[obessivedork]

The more I think about it the more annoyed I am by the amount of Deadwoman Sadmen in Fallout 4. Like @the head writer WHO THE FUCK HURT YOU???? @Todd Howard WHY did you approve SO many of the EXACT SAME character backstory for MULTIPLE characters in ONE GAME??

You know what? I WOULD rather a bitter divorced MacCready who nontheless is looking for a cure for his son because that's still his kid! I'd rather Kellog's wife?/gf? LEFT him because he was a piece of shit merc! Must it have been a wife dying for Deacon to feel bad and change his ways? why not some random community member or or a friend something? Time and time again this series uses women as plot devices rather than as characters and fallout 4 is the worst offender. Not only is it misogyny and showing a severe lack of anyone but the most generic cis white men they could pull off the street to sit in the writer's room but it's So. Lazy. Every. Time!!!!

Sexism aside are they not embarassed with their lack of imagination and hack storytelling?

#don't get me wrong I'm still having fun but like fo3 before it I have to ignore a significant chunk of the... ''storytelling'' of 4. #not an attack on all of the writers in the series or FO4 fans- I'd be throwing stones in a glass house given some of the things I like #But fuck Todd Coward and Fuck the head writer for FO4 specifically he's a hack and he should be fired #I'm assuming Deacon's telling the truth in his story though it IS such an easy cliche fallback narrative he could easily be lying #Like NV isn't innocent and it's one of my favourite things of all time but even my first playthrough when I ment Boone #my reaction was a bored and underwhelmed ''oh... we're doing this? I guess so.'' #at least this dumb trope was used a LITTLE more sparingly because the writers were compotent and made OTHER stories!! #FIND NEW STORIES CHALLENGE #fo4 critical #not going to tag anything else I'm just expressing frustration I'm not here for a fight #I'm just. As a writer if someone pointed out I'd done this I'd be SO embarassed and CHANGE it #also I LOVE Mac and Deacon dearly it's not about them it's about the fucking writing decisions