Lone Wanderer vs. Wanderer + Companions

[Ty Tanium]

Howdy Gamestars, 'sup?
Little bit ago I asked the question "Favourite Companions and why?" and it turned out to be a meeting of the Ed-E fan club... LOL

So, a new question, what's your style - do you prefer to "Go it alone" and become THE supreme Mojave bad**s or do you prefer wandering the wastes with companions...and why?

This time I'll hold my comments until later.
Cheers,
T

[GRIMS]

i always going solo, both ingame and IRL

[NightmareGats]

Companions are just a way to carry my stuff, they're annoying and dont obey my orders, if i try to stealth they shoot everyone

[MurderMoose]

Solo Courier 4 Lyfe

[Tom]

Solo. I tend to play hardcore mode and my companions get themselves killed too often, i found myself charging in with a shotgun to save them from melee enemies and then reloading saves when they die anyway but after a while i gave up on that.

If companions had better AI, and were maybe a bit more mass effectish, then I'd take them.

Edit. One time I had boone with me taking on some deathclaws, he was using his rifle and doing good damage and then out of nowhere and for no reason he just pulls his machete and charges the deathclaws.

[wicked lester]

I almost always have a companion because I love the companion stories in this game. I mean, not as good as Planescape Torment, but still.

[Vali Riversong]

I like having a gang of weird ass mismatched companions in Bethesda games, from both vanilla and mods. It's fun.

[Vex Hilarius]

I usually run with just ED-E. I like having the companions around to do their quests but if im just wandering its just me and ED-E, or sometimes Rex.

[MurderMoose]

Raul can be useful too, especially after getting him Full Maintenance.

[Doggy Friend]

I enjoy being the Lone Wanderer much more, but I always do companion's quests because I like them, so I travel with each of them for a short time.

[Shiroi Ren]

I always wander alone with my dog, my drone and roboscorpion. XD

[Akasaki]

Around 4 companion. 2 Humans, 1 Deathclaws and Ed-E.

[Danny]

Lone Wanderer is Fallout 3, not New Vegas.
Better to post this on the Fallout 3 forums.

[MurderMoose]

Originally posted by Danny:

Lone Wanderer is Fallout 3, not New Vegas.

The Lone Wanderer also doesn't go to the Mojave. They clearly meant the Courier.

[Ty Tanium]

Howdy Gamestars, 'sup?

Yes, absolutely, Danny and Murder are right... I meant only to use the term to mean do you prefer to be a solo courier or a courier with companions... apologies for the confusion.

It's interesting to me to see how other people approach the game itself. I have my preferred methods which kinda depend on how I am feeling when I start a playthrough. Do I wanna be the strong, silent, ammoral merc type who trusts no one or do I wanna make a "gang"...

My current playthrough is a party of 4 including my player character and three companions, a sharpshooter, a kicka** gung-ho action hero and a tech-savvy... oh, and we're all cowboys with the first three being strictly limited to wild west, cowboy style weapons (ever tried to take down a Deathclaw with a six gun??? Sheeesh...! LOL)

Cheers,
T

[Docsprock]

Most playthroughs I will 'collect' all the followers and store them at the Lucky 38. If Im going Hardcore, I will use them on certain quests.