I came across this entry via Bethesda official Twitter account.
It all really can change the way the journey through wasteland is going to shape.
Well worth a read while we wait for more information and get all excited for the manic madness 🙂
https://www.reddit.com/r/fo4/comments/47cc06/fallout_4_survival_mode_full_overview_extracted/
I wasn’t really sure if to even start writing about “Christine” by Stephen King as in my world I can’t imagine a single person who wouldn’t have read that phenomenal book. Not to mention seeing the film based on that novel but its specific character, atmosphere and the soulless evil of the matter presented in the book makes me only hope that there actually might be some unlucky people who never came across Christine.
It is a car, Plymouth Fury to be exact, a red car named Christine. A powerful machine, which possessed a 17 year old boy named Arnie. He saw that car and fell in love with it straight away. The feeling of love towards that car hit him right in the middle of his heart.
Christine knew who to possess, a shy, not very liked boy, who very often would fall a victim of pranks was an ideal choice, especially that he had great skill in fixing cars and a greater passion of love for cars. It’s a love from the first is sight and Arnie is lost quicker than he can realise. He can only think of the red colour the car is finished in, about the chrome details and finishes about how important it is to restore the car to what it was in the first place.
And slowly but surely, Arnie becomes more confident, more popular and much stronger mentally as Christine needs him as she looks for the revenge as she has some business to finish and the hunting begins…
“Christine” is a book about the first love, about obsessions and about the car that manipulates a teenage boy the way it wants so he only prioritises the needs of the car slowly cutting him off from everything that was connecting him to humanity. The car needs to punish some people for the lack of care towards it but it also recognise the need to punish those who hurt Arnie. The car is like a possessive woman and the question that is to be answered is who will win Arnie’s soul? The car or the humanity?
I read this book several times and I had watched the movie too and I find it amazing how Stephen King turned an ordinary daily object such as car into such blood thirsty creature… It is really a classic among so many of King’s books.
That means you’re, erm… two centuries late for dinner! Perhaps I could whip you up a snack? You must be famished!
It is hard not to feel sorry for Codsworth once you get to spend some time with him. If he was of human statue I could probably give him a big hug several times during many encounters with him. Of course if he wasn’t stuck inside of my tv.
You should meet your robotic butler pretty quickly after leaving the vault 111, all you have to do is to head to your home or what’s left of it after the war. It is great to see good ol’ Codsworth around, making sure he is looking after the surroundings even though there’s nothing really to look after.
As you talk with that robust Mr. Handy you realise he was initially busy with all the housework, including waxing the floor tiles, or polishing your old rusty car but as Codsworth admits himself that the war and the isolation eventually got to him and you realise your robotic mate feels quite depressed.
He went onto looking for companion but since he was badly treated in Concord he returned to Sanctuary and did his best to pretend that nothing happened. And it finally rewards him as you come along and offer him to travel with you.
What a fierce companion Codsworth is! I really enjoyed how he masterfully operates his circular saw and how his arms go all nuts towards the enemies and you soon realise he is quite a good companion to have, especially at the start as he really takes the heat off you in the combat.
As you two travel through the wasteland you sometimes wish, that there was a way of turning the robot into something more of a human nature to increase the closeness of reactions but not all is bad as despite his metallic case Codsworth has plenty of soul and spending time with him isn’t a wasted time.
I have travelled with him few times, I can’t really think if I like his perk after reaching maximum affinity or not but I’m more than sure that Codsworth is more human than some of the humans you come across in game and perhaps in real life.
Marcin's Corner 