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.

[☠Ⓐ︎Ⓝ︎Ⓥ︎Ⓘ︎Ⓛ︎☠ ᚨᚾᚡᛁᛚ ®™]

IT WAS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME....... GOOD GRIEF !

[tucson019]

I find Garvey very annoying and was very happy when the MOD One Radiant Quest came out and it limited him to 1 quest at a time, Then Outcasts and Remnants came out and you find out he's a traitor and you could arrest him and put him in Diamond City Jail. Problem solved.

[Xenon The Noble]

Originally posted by tucson019:

I find Garvey very annoying and was very happy when the MOD One Radiant Quest came out and it limited him to 1 quest at a time, Then Outcasts and Remnants came out and you find out he's a traitor and you could arrest him and put him in Diamond City Jail. Problem solved.

You can also kill him.
I usually kill him and put his body into the Auto-butcher, and throw the meat in (or near) Dogmeat's bowl. First time Garvey is useful.

[Lady Aeleanor]

Originally posted by Xenon The Noble:

You can also kill him.
I usually kill him and put his body into the Auto-butcher, and throw the meat in (or near) Dogmeat's bowl. First time Garvey is useful.

How can you kill him? I thought he was essential.

[Xenon The Noble]

Originally posted by Lady Aeleanor:

Originally posted by Xenon The Noble:

You can also kill him.
I usually kill him and put his body into the Auto-butcher, and throw the meat in (or near) Dogmeat's bowl. First time Garvey is useful.

How can you kill him? I thought he was essential.

With the O&R mod that tucson019 is using. You go on this quest and fight the Enclave and discover that Garvey has infiltrated the MM to intentionally destroy it. Not so far fetched, base game is that he destroyed the MM by being an idiot. Once you leave the Enclave bunker, you get the quest "Garvey Must Pay".
It's different, get more gameplay out of with the O&R mod

[Mandalorian Deathknight]

^
with this mod will they go after the BOS?
if not by by Garvey

[Xenon The Noble]

Originally posted by Mandalorian Deathknight:

^
with this mod will they go after the BOS?
if not by by Garvey

Will who go after the BOS?

Most quest mods and companion mods are pro-BOS. O&R you can but don't have to harasses BOS but you don't really go after the BOS, just kill a few (good looting, BOS). It has a companion mod, Project Valkyrie where you reform the BOS.

[Beach Head B82]

God he's annoying. Never mind that large group of raiders still beating down the doors to kill you and these civilians please give me a long winded explanation about all of your problems. Then later on at Sanctuary he says he thought everyone knew about the Quincey Massacre I was like um didnt i JUST tell you 5 minuets ago I was frozen for 200 years? Or that specific prior convo he asked about my background and I was like dude: i just told you about my missing kid around the time you talked my ear off while the raiders were attacking! Personally his voice grates on my nerves because of his endless settlement bs. I remember back when the game first launched he would give you 5 active quests, and if you didnt have 5 and you where within talking distance he'd force a quest on you, 7/10 it'll be a kidnapping that had a timer that would autofail and the vic would die. I decided to hit the Quincy Gunners because they had hit several of my settlements in a row. Figured a little this for that was in order. Then had the "brilliant" idea to bring Preston w/me so he could get some pay back. I had to sit through him spamming me with quests before I could finally recruit him! These days I just banish him to a place I never visit and stay as far away as possible

[Xenon The Noble]

First you complete his great idea that SOLE SURVIVOR should put on the more than half broken power armor and kill all the raiders and the Deathclaw Mamma Murphy told him about but forgot to tell SS about cuz you might refuse to do his killing for him; if you have the molecular relay schematics he will REFUSE to help you after his little speech about how he'll help you. He's too busy going to that nice 125 defense, 40 water, 24 food, new shacks with employment for all.
He's a real work of art. Bethesda went out of their way to make Garvey a craven coward. When you do the "Castle" quest he leaves SS in there to as bait to draw out the Mirelurk queen.
and you find dead MM from Quincy to Lexington that he's conned and got killed with his stupid suicide missions. I'm convinced Cassy Dalton (Far Harbor) is a spoof of his behavior.

[Bored Peon]

Originally posted by Lady Aeleanor:

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.

1. The no option to say no to his quests is realistic but EXTREMELY annoying.
2. Being sent all the way across the map to claim settlements rather than your speed.
3. The fact he completely ignores your need to find your child dog piling quests on you.
4. Preston gets mad if you join up with the BoS rather than viewing it as an opportunity.
5. Preston has no hate dialogue towards Gunners or Raiders.
6. Sturgis shows more leadership than him when the Quincy Monkeys are arguing.
7. As Senior Cinco said, he dialogue delivery is pretty flat and monotonous.

[Joe Coffee]

PG is the most noble of the companions you can get.

He's probably the butt of jokes because of all the "settlement has dialed 911" that happens constantly and his unwillingness to go investigate things himself, and him "ordering" around the SS. PG could be more developed if Beth could have done a story line where the General puts him in command and he grows in confidence and develops as a character, becoming a #2 right after Ronnie Shaw, but still a competent right-hand leader next to the General.

Allegedly, he's considered to be the Mastermind behind everything and is a Sociopath, able to force the SS to do anything, hence why some people hate his guts.

I just wish if you took the BoS side, Institute, or Raider Nuka World paths, you could kill PG, without having to console anyone as being non-essential...or by using mods. Not sure if the RR would want to assassinate PG unless he seriously got in the way, but I'm up for it.

[Bored Peon]

Originally posted by The Jerker:

He's probably the butt...

One of the only companions that has seen the butt of my rifle for getting in the way and opening his mouth about the scrap I pick up.

I cannot stand companions that complain about picking up junk. Which if you are similar avoid the Ellen companion mod. Good story line, but after that back to the Dugout Inn she went.

[captainwiseass]

Decent bloke, but dull as ♥♥♥♥.

[Liquid Inc]

i found the guy alright. Even sided with the MM first playthrough, but i think Sturges would have made a better leader as others have said...
For someone who has lost almost everything, and most of the people he's supposed to protect, he's awfully.. calm? about it.
The only annoying thing about him is he's so obsessed with settlements, yet never actually goes off to help them himself..
(they could have just spawned him with a random chance when you go to help the settlements he sends you to, like a 20% chance or something when not a companion - make it look like he's trying on his own as well)

[Bored Peon]

Originally posted by Liquid Inc:

For someone who has lost almost everything, and most of the people he's supposed to protect, he's awfully.. calm? about it.

I know right? The only time I ever saw get upset was:
1. Not evacuating the institute
2. Joining the Nukaworld Raiders
3. Joining the BoS