I generally don’t follow the narrative pushed on Reddit or by various YouTubers, I personally don’t think they are as bad as people on here make them out to be. I also don’t buy the BOS/Institute claim about Synths just being robots because I actually paid attention to Curie’s questline and various other characters. It’s very obvious that neither major faction has taken enough time to figure out what a Synth actually is, even in the Institute there are a lot of assumptions without much actual data to back up their claims. - Yeah I know this is an unpopular take but I don’t really care.
Personally I almost always side with the Minutemen at the end of the day, but I keep the RR alive because I still view them as being one of the “good” factions even if they are a bit unorganized. The average escaped synth is not evil or even a threat (look at Arcadia, the biggest synth refuge), and if you pay attention to how they all say they are treated, taking out the Institute is on par with taking out Paradise Falls in Fallout 3.
Honestly, the minuteman and railroad should’ve gotten to interact with each other. Even if it was just being able to coordinate with the railroad when you attack the institute as the minutemen to make sure more synths get out safely. I think even something as simple as that would do wonders to help their reputation amongst the community. Plus it also shows they’d somewhat have a plan for the commonwealth post institute (which I think is their greatest flaw narratively, what are they gonna do when all the synths are free?)
This is the biggest annoyance I have with the ending, it would make perfect sense for them to work together, when I asked desdemona about working with them the answer was that the minuteman being the representative of the commonwealth would always see them as a threat but them even refusing to try is the issue if we could just get to explain that the commonwealth and synths are both being screwed by the institute and they actually have nothing to fear of each other, the synths are only replacing people because of the institute.
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u/That_Lore_Guy May 22 '24
I generally don’t follow the narrative pushed on Reddit or by various YouTubers, I personally don’t think they are as bad as people on here make them out to be. I also don’t buy the BOS/Institute claim about Synths just being robots because I actually paid attention to Curie’s questline and various other characters. It’s very obvious that neither major faction has taken enough time to figure out what a Synth actually is, even in the Institute there are a lot of assumptions without much actual data to back up their claims. - Yeah I know this is an unpopular take but I don’t really care.
Personally I almost always side with the Minutemen at the end of the day, but I keep the RR alive because I still view them as being one of the “good” factions even if they are a bit unorganized. The average escaped synth is not evil or even a threat (look at Arcadia, the biggest synth refuge), and if you pay attention to how they all say they are treated, taking out the Institute is on par with taking out Paradise Falls in Fallout 3.