Fallout 4's Saddest Random Encounter

Fallout 4 features a random encounter that allows us to reunite with old friends....

[Comrade_Nils]

I've encountered those ferals several times and always wondered why they were individually named. Apparently, six playthroughs were not enough for me to connect the dots lol.

[fleetwoodcraic]

The saddest part to me is that they probably weren’t feral the whole time and were briefly normal ghouls, and even then they all stuck together

[Dino.Nerd.]

“They might have survived the bomb, but they won’t survive me.”
-Average Fallout 4 Player

[nemosthebandit]

For me the moment that got me was when the Vault Tech Rep now a ghoul recognized me. That blew my mind. He now lives happily in Sanctuary Hills where he runs his own convenience store.

[brianmoyachiuz]

She baked me a cake, he helped fix Codsworth, she and her husband made us a baby shower

[st.anselmsfire]

It's wild that your character clearly recognizes them even in ghoul form but doesn't say a thing as he casually greases his neighbors.

[RH_]

Also Codsworth tells that he saw Neighbours kid wearing his "Halloween costume"..

[Cyrodil]

Pair that with the theory that some feral ghouls retain their memories but not able to properly associate with people and this becomes sadder. They remember you, but you are merely a ghost to them, which makes them angry and upset and sends them into a ptsd episode where they can’t control what they are doing. Either that or they remember you, but are bitter that you still look “perfect” and were able to get into the vault, leaving them to their fate.

[RDeathmark]

I'd be more impressed if the ghoul clothing matched a very tattered version of their pre-war outfits

[thefrogthatknows]

Oh God...

The worst part is the implication that the Sole Survivor recognizes them. That somehow, after all this time, you still know their names, and you can see those sloughing off faces and remember what they were.

[immortalgoat]

I remember there being a mod where if you had the ghoulish perk, you could relocate them back to Sanctuary, and they just became your shambling neighbors again

[randomnerdythings]

Damn, that’s made even more sad when you realize that only some of the neighbors have names. Indicating that these were your friends. You knew them. Hell, there’s a pretty good chance they were even at Shaun’s baby shower

[argentandroid]

I remember bumping into them and thinking they were from that nursing home because it was nearby, never even realized they were the neighbors from Sanctuary...

[fallofall]

"In my defense, You Honor, they tried to eat me first."

[VaultArchive]

And they still wander the wastes together after all this time and after losing both of their minds.

[commenceun]

Bethesda really worked so hard to make the sole survivor devoid of feelings

[MatthewYoink]

Plot twist, they survived as normal ghouls until they were banished from Diamond city and eventually went feral in the more irradiated areas of Boston.

[deptusmechanikus]

It is incredible luck that after turning feral they not only stuck together at a pack, but survived over two centuries of being essentially wasteland critters

[Springboi]

What’s even sadder is that codsworth accidentally confirms that child feral gouls exists by saying only Mrs Rosa’s boy running around in his Halloween costume

[airitindeparrotin]

The kid is a ghoul too, most likely feral. Codsworth complains that he's out in his costume too early for Halloween. That's the part that hurts the most. In fact he must be feral because he'd be an enemy and we can't take out kids in this game. Thus why we never get to see him... Man...