Why does everyone hate Boone?

[Saturday Morning Lilligant]

Like 90% of the people that say they hate Boone cause he paints the Legion in a negetive light. Well they did a damn good job of it themselfs with Nipton. And thats before you meet Boone so that's a moot point.

[AC Denton]

Hate = justification to kill Boone
Killing Boone = cool hat
Cool hat = essential gameplay attire

[Bansheebutt]

I dislike him because he's a perpetual sourpuss and his Dead Wife backstory isn't exactly interesting.

Raul #1 Grandpa.

[psychotron666]

I've like never seen a single person say they hate Boone. I've always seen he's one of the most popular and favourite companions, with his biggest criticism I've seen was that he was too op so that's why people didn't take him.

[Eternie]

@psychotron Agreed he can be such a good shot that you struggle to get kills. The only people who hate Boone are mainly Legion supporters, or Great Khans and if you take him you can get his cool hat if you want. So if you kill him your just crippling your own options.

[Danny]

The Legion captured his wife and were about to sell her and her unborn baby into slavery. :(
He shot her to spare her a life of slavery being unable to clear a whole Legion slaver camp by himself.

[{FU}TheForgeryTTV]

His voice acting is pretty flat, though it makes sense since he's mentally traumatized after what happened to his wife . Also, he is just flat-out hostile to the Legion thus anyone who tries to be at least neutral with them will have to keep that in mind unless you want Boone to go on a sniping spree.

[Johnny Casey]

I hate him, because he's one of the reason why The Legion is the least favored faction.

If you followed the main quest properly, he may be the first companion you can recruit.

And as you know, as long as Boone is in your company, any Legion faction NPC becomes hostile to you and him.

The very first companion who makes one entire faction to be hostile. Great game design, eh?

I hate him so much, I feed White Glove Society with him. Best choice I did in New Vegas.

[Yhwach]

Just like 90% of every other companion except Trejo, they're uninspiring, monotone, boring, and a drag to bring along.
You're better off just killing boone and taking Raul with you everywhere.

[psychotron666]

Originally posted by Johnny Casey:

I hate him, because he's one of the reason why The Legion is the least favored faction.

If you followed the main quest properly, he may be the first companion you can recruit.

And as you know, as long as Boone is in your company, any Legion faction NPC becomes hostile to you and him.

The very first companion who makes one entire faction to be hostile. Great game design, eh?

I hate him so much, I feed White Glove Society with him. Best choice I did in New Vegas.

I'd disagree with that reasoning. Most people who hate the legion usually attacked them in nipton then got legion assassins on them before they hit Vegas. At least from my observations.

And even if you got Boone first, and made legion hostile, the developers made a way to get amnesty from the legion once you hit Vegas through the main quest.

[Bansheebutt]

"Let's get one thing straight. I see any crimson, I'm taking the shot. You don't like that, you're on your own."


Not sure how anyone can be surprised about his indescriminate slaughter of Legion.

[Johnny Casey]

Originally posted by psychotron666:

I'd disagree with that reasoning. Most people who hate the legion usually attacked them in nipton then got legion assassins on them before they hit Vegas. At least from my observations.

Of course they will. Because they already know The Legion, they already know the game, they already played the game. I'm talking about pure first time walkthrough experience.

Originally posted by psychotron666:

And even if you got Boone first, and made legion hostile, the developers made a way to get amnesty from the legion once you hit Vegas through the main quest.

They made a way to get you crimes go away, but they made his companion quest to make the player gets the vilified by The Legion yet again.

There's NO companion quest that leaves no choice but to get negative reputations as a resoult for completing companion's quest, besides Boone's one.

To me, it's a complete development failure.

[burning.phoneix]

Originally posted by Johnny Casey:

To me, it's a complete development failure.

To me that's a complete story telling success.

[Bansheebutt]

God forbid a character in a story actually has principles instead of being a completely malleable action-figure.

[Johnny Casey]

Originally posted by burning.phoneix:

To me that's a complete story telling success.

DEGENERATE

[psychotron666]

Originally posted by Johnny Casey:

Originally posted by psychotron666:

I'd disagree with that reasoning. Most people who hate the legion usually attacked them in nipton then got legion assassins on them before they hit Vegas. At least from my observations.

Of course they will. Because they already know The Legion, they already know the game, they already played the game. I'm talking about pure first time walkthrough experience.

Originally posted by psychotron666:

And even if you got Boone first, and made legion hostile, the developers made a way to get amnesty from the legion once you hit Vegas through the main quest.

They made a way to get you crimes go away, but they made his companion quest to make the player gets the vilified by The Legion yet again.

There's NO companion quest that leaves no choice but to get negative reputations as a resoult for completing companion's quest, besides Boone's one.

To me, it's a complete development failure.

Yeah and I'm talking about Green first time players. Many of them attack the legion in nipton and then complain that they are being hunted down.

And to me personally, I would rather more companions and choices that completely cut you off from factions like Boone (which btw you can do his quest before going to Vegas and confronting Benny) because that's real choice and consequence.

God forbid you have a character that attacks a faction on sight as a team mate make it so you alienate that faction.

Which is why I don't like Bethesda approach to RPGs where they try to push a single character to do everything. I prefer an Rpg that takes multiple play throughs to see all the content, and has consequences for actions.