Spoilers for a 13 year old game that got retconned anyways
For those who don't know, at the end of Fallout 3 you have to go into a heavily irradiated room to prevent a big water purifier from exploding. Your character will die but your act of self-sacrifice gives everyone in the wasteland clean water which had been very rare up to that point. However it's been previously established (explicitly and several times) that supermutants are immune to radiation, and the game has a very prominent supermutant companion: Fawkes. You would think you could just ask Fawkes to go into the radiation chamber, but no, you get this incredibly stupid line and are forced to kill yourself. Fawkes up to this point has been very selfless and one of the kindest characters in the game.
Like how do you fuck up writing your game so badly this situation is even possible?!
The best part is the original release of the game didn't have the option to ask him to enter the chamber. They added it in specifically to explain why he wouldn't, even though it doesn't explain anything, and also the point is moot because in the DLC the Lone Wanderer survives and everything's fine.
Wait that was them covering their ass?! Like program in an ambush where all of your companions get knocked unconscious or something. Frankly it's better when they didn't say anything becuase it just draws attention to how stupid it is.
Haha yeah I'm just learning that, too. I just assumed they threw this half-assed bullshit in because they needed a placeholder until they got Broken Steel out, but instead they originally had nothing here and ADDED this lmao
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yeah, that's what happened with me.