How in the hell did that happen? Did Fallout 3 devs already have that ending in mind when they began only to add a radiation resistant companion later who explicitly does a task for you along the main quest line to get something out of a heavily irradiated area? It’s so stupid.
The story I heard was a C-level straight up forced the team to make it that way. It’s entirely possible they were already planning to sell a non-stupid ending as DLC with Broken Steel.
It’s one of the few examples of a, well, I guess it’s still technically nearly a plot hole, not a true formal plot hole. You’ve got this person who cannot be hurt by radiation who helps you by going into an irradiated area to get something to save people. Then when THE SAME THING happens again, they just say “nah, this is your story, you’re meant to die here, I’m literally going to let you kill yourself to save everyone even though I just helped you to do the same goal with the same complications and same caveats.”
How in the hell did that happen? Did Fallout 3 devs already have that ending in mind when they began only to add a radiation resistant companion later who explicitly does a task for you along the main quest line to get something out of a heavily irradiated area? It’s so stupid.
The story I heard was a C-level straight up forced the team to make it that way. It’s entirely possible they were already planning to sell a non-stupid ending as DLC with Broken Steel.
It’s one of the few examples of a, well, I guess it’s still technically nearly a plot hole, not a true formal plot hole. You’ve got this person who cannot be hurt by radiation who helps you by going into an irradiated area to get something to save people. Then when THE SAME THING happens again, they just say “nah, this is your story, you’re meant to die here, I’m literally going to let you kill yourself to save everyone even though I just helped you to do the same goal with the same complications and same caveats.”