Ghoul Lorebreaking

You can just refer to all non hostiles as 'settler' from this point going forward. You are spending too much effort in describing an individual. Settlers. Here is what you do. when describing a settler, just refer to them as settler, no need to confuse people with anything like a back story or to even imply that they are not randomly generated.

Honestly I don't think Bethesda hate their customers. I truly believe that they thought Fallout 4 would be the greatest game of all time.

 

Well they just wanted some herp derp zombies in their game for extra cannon fodder. As for the settler ghouls, I'm surprised you didn't mention the fact that they all look like shriveled up raisins. They don't hate their fans they just wanted to do their own thing and probably didn't put much thought or effort into adding balding ghoul models.

@DirtyOldShoe Well maybe we all don't think that but in the hardcore Bethesda fan boys' minds, Fallout 4 and Todd is #1 in their books.

 

I think most of the NPCs are ugly, the settlers probably look ugly due to RNG farting out randomly created settlers. I can't believe how ugly they made Marcy Long though, to think someone spent time sculpting that face they must of had a really bad day.

 

Procedural generation serves a purpose. It is to save time on a repetitive task. For example, if you have an area that has a forest, procedural placement of 1000 trees is a good idea, you can then tweak them a bit and not waste time on manually placing them, also, they are just trees and can get away with being generic. NPCs are supposed to have substance, they breath life into the game world and if they feel like they belong in that world, it is that much more immersive to the player. Procedural NPCs removes the possibility substance, eliminates immersion, breaks suspension of disbelief and adds repetition. Procedural NPCs can be used, but sparingly and best reserved for enemies. But this would only work in a game where you are not fighting the same enemies over and over. Procedural settlers, wanderers and non-hoslies was a very bad choice.

If the route to take is generated NPC and it has to be that way, the best solution for this problem would to add 5-10 times the available NPCs to generate so that repetition does not set it. The problem with Fallout 4, it was built entirely on a procedural formula and as many others have stated, the only way to fix this is to start over on developing a new game.

 

The game doesn't actually randomly generate NPC faces. It has about a dozen templates for each type of generic NPC and just picks one each time an NPC is generated.

 

Never going to happen. You know it's not going to happen.

 

Keep dreaming, but one day... the dream must always end.

 

They might, when you release the mod engine.

 

They still haven't released the GECK? Jesus.

 

It should all just be soundbytes of "SHAUN!" from Heavy Rain.

 

Yes. Just yes. It was probably Bethesda's original plan, but they had to work due to copyright.