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Parable - 97 - HD
🕑 Added 2020-04-28 03:01:01 +0000 UTCMaybe Bunny Susan's affinity for Susan hasn't gone up much, but I bet her dancing made y'all swoon.
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Even though this is poking fun at the things you do to make NPCs like you in Fable 2, and how long it can sometimes take, that "10% goes up to 10.2%" bit reminds me more of Fallout 4.
In Fallout 4, you can have companions, and they like and dislike different things. Do enough things they like, and you'll progress through dialogue with them, possibly get a quest (I really feel there should have been more companion quests), and, eventually, get a new passive ability if they ever like you enough.
If you're fine with just traveling with them for a while and are prone to making choices they like, this can happen at a fairly natural pace. If you just want them to please like you already, however, and to try to rush it, it's a slow grind. What's more, you can't do too similar things that they like one after the other, or they won't be impressed, so you can't just impress the person who likes stealing by taking everything that isn't nailed down.
I granted, I prefer that to how Fallout New Vegas handled getting access to companion quests. The quests themselves were ultimately better, sure, but you triggered most of them by having your companions around in the right places and/or the right events, and if you didn't know what those places and/or events were, you just didn't get to do their quests, or could reach a point of them no longer being available.
It might be weird that you can make a Fallout 4 companion fall in love with you by picking enough locks over an extended period of time, but at least you didn't have to know to take them to the right place with the right NPC, have the right dialogue with that NPC, and know to ask your companion that new question that's been added to their dialogue options.
But then, at least in New Vegas, you knew you'd get some sort of quest with satisfying character development out of it. Neither game's getting a perfect score from me on this one.
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Some Ed
Of course stealing everything not nailed down doesn't impress NPCs who like stealing. 1. That would most likely consider some possessions that NPC feels are theirs. Stealing from them is generally not something that would make them overly fond of you. 1a. If they're really into stealing, they may consider everything that isn't nailed down theirs. 2. You're leaving all the stuff that is nailed down. 2a. Some people consider things they can pry loose to be theirs also. Just sayin, so's you know. ;)
Chordat
see, the trick to maxing out how much they like you is to grab a lute, stand in a public place, and start playing. You draw a crowd pretty quick, and once you finish, they ALL get a love boost, and you can rinse and repeat however many times you like. Or you can alternate between that and yelling at them if you want to be both loved AND feared.
Ardent Slacker
the one game where I made six fart jokes and got proposed to when I was just trying to network for my job.
Stephen Gilberg
Sheesh, even making friends in "The Sims" doesn't take that long.
