What's your opinion on Preston Garvey?

[punishing bird]

Personally, I like him, I get the settlement ♥♥♥♥ can be annoying, but it can be pretty easily avoided but just getting 3 radiant minutemen quests and you just won't get anymore, he actually has some pretty good writing to him, good in combat too.

[Castyles]

He's alright, story wise.

He's annoying, as a gameplay mechanic.

[Senor Cinco]

IMO, the worst of all the followers.

He has the same putrid AI as most, that causes him to crawl on top of the SS.

The voice acting is mediocre at best. Often, just 'reading' the lines like a bedtime story.

The writing isn't something I'd praise.
for ex... He reacts to the SS by describing a "20' tall irradiated lizard'. As if, he was accustom to the old world chameleons that manifested into a Deathclaw before his eyes.

... and what about the 'discovery' of Sanctuary? After you have completely upgraded it with a dozen settlers.

[Lady Aeleanor]

Originally posted by rat ♥:

Personally, I like him, I get the settlement ♥♥♥♥ can be annoying, but it can be pretty easily avoided but just getting 3 radiant minutemen quests and you just won't get anymore, he actually has some pretty good writing to him, good in combat too.

I cannot for the life of me, understand all the hate. I always do the Minutemen quest line, and I'm fine doing the radiant quests afterwards. I find the hate comments on him baffling.

[Lady Aeleanor]

Originally posted by Courva:

he always praise me , like i'm something else, i'm incredible....
exactly what i like to hear . i like him because he's the good, honest, polite and respectfull type.

Not sure if it's just a female thing for me with Preston, but I have to agree.

[Angela]

I actually like doing settlement building, so he's useful to me.

I wouldn't take him around as a companion though, without changing his weapon and using mods.

With mods making his AI better, and other mods reigning in the frequency of his radiant quests, I see no issues with him. His bad rep came from the endlessness of his radiants - making him into a meme with that famous repeat phrase - and the very useless laser musket.

[The Faceless Gamer]

All they had to do was make it so he wouldn't give you any more quests after you retake Fort Independence and make it so Radio Freedom gives you those quests instead.

[captainwiseass]

He means well.

[wtiger27]

I have no issues with him. If he gives me a settlement quest, I always have the option to ignore it. I do like his personality.

[Flippy]

Yep hes a good character, and i am 100% sure any negative comments are not genuine and trying to make the title and its players look bad. Preston the last of the Minutemen has an interesting role in the game and offers alot of game content and fights beside the player and is an excellent character to be entirely honest.

When anyone sees the trolling Skyrim gets none stop, or the Bugthesda comments none stop and other comments and actually play this game and see all the characters are well done including a primary character Preston, then anyone can be 100% sure any negative comments are not genuine.

[Madbat]

He's alright. I don't use him much because it can glitch up the minuteman questline if he's a companion.

[Inner Sight]

He's a good boy. I think every fallout game needs an earnest good boy in it.

[Xenon The Noble]

I get that Garvey is a game mechanic, but he was not very well implemented: he's a coward (I got my hands full here, walking up and down the street like a hooker), he got all the other minute men killed, he promises you that he'll help you if you save his life and he'll only help you if it helps him to murder those he wants dead...
Even when he's a companion, he'll stand outside the Castle as you provoke the Mierlurk queen to attack you.
And if you shoot Ronnie Shaw for not just being a deserter who left the MM to die at Quincy in their hour of need, Garvey will side with the deserter and try and kill you. To me, that's makes no sense at all. "Oh poor me!" says Garvey "The Minutemen deserted us in hour hour of need" and "how dare you shoot that woman for being a deserter and leaving the people of Quincy to die!"
And he calls SS "general" like he's some sort of idiot.

WTF Bethesda! They even mocked this in Far Harbor, where Dalton sends you on missions and you keep finding the dead people that she sent other useful idiots on. Players still don't get it.

[duanevp]

Well, fallout 4 can be annoying in general if you feel like you GOT to IMMEDIATELY do every quest that you get handed. It's not just Preston with that problem but one or two questgivers with every faction. Example: you can never just turn in a MILA quest to Tinker Tom without immediately being handed ANOTHER one - only with TT it's worse because you get junk shoved into your inventory that you can't get rid of except by completing the quest. In that respect IT'S NOT JUST PRESTON that's annoying. Unlike other similar quest-givers, Preston waits to jump you AT A SETTLEMENT (which is typically Sanctuary where many/most make their first and possibly only base).

Mostly what I do now is just never go back to Sanctuary after finishing the fight in Concord (unless I'm good and ready). I operate out of Red Rocket. I'll do Tenpines/Corvega and probably add Abernathy on my own since Olivia is on the way. If I want more I'll add them myself (like Hangman's Alley), but don't go back to Preston for more settlement missions - SAME as I don't go back to Tinker Tom to avoid burdening myself with more MILA missions unless I feel like doing more of them.

It strikes me as pretty disingenuous (or just unobservant) to complain about Preston but not radiant quests from other factions. Like radiant quests from other faction - if you don't want to endlessly do them, just DON'T. Let them sit in your quest log until hell freezes over - or you want something to do.

As a companion Preston is as annoying as they all are IMO, blocking doorways and ESPECIALLY blocking your field of fire. I typically only use companions if I have a physically weak and fragile character build, but even then not all the time because they habitually start trouble when I actually want to avoid it.

[~ Fabulous ~]

he is ok actually

[erastisa]

He's a quest dispenser who sound more synthetic than most named synths in this game.