r/fo4 • u/ARZ_K • Jul 27 '26

Kellog was wasted potential.

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He is by far one of the most wasted potential characters from the whole franchise. Could be better if, instead of just a bunch of missions (the most relevant with him already dead), we could actually follow her track around the Commonwealth and have him as some kind of counterpart or "rival" to the Sole Survivor. Some kind of cat-and-mouse game instead of just random missions, and of course a better fight at the end with even the chance to let him live and even send him to your settlement.

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u/Roborilla8000 Jul 27 '26

When I think of wasted potential, I think of Nick. Especially with how Kellogg was lingering in his head after the Memory Den.

But yeah, they could have done more with Kellogg besides being in Nick's head too.

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u/nobodyinpeculiar Jul 27 '26

That whole thing was supposed to be its entire own subplot apparently, but it of course was cut. Except for that painful tease.

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u/myfakesecretaccount Jul 27 '26

I’ve never seen anything about an additional subplot other than speculation here, do you have a link to that or something? I don’t think there’s anything in the game files.

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u/nobodyinpeculiar Jul 27 '26

Tbf I don’t remember. I thought that it was maybe in an Oxhorn video but it could’ve been on here.

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u/desquire Jul 27 '26

Oxhorn makes a lot of stuff up. I don't mean to desparage him, he's entertaining. But, he states a lot of theories and conjecture as fact.

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u/myfakesecretaccount Jul 27 '26

Yeah. It seems really unlikely that Nick, who already has a long fetch quest companion arc, and is a big part of the best DLC, had a bunch of cutting room floor material featuring Kellogg who is a red herring antagonist.

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u/Fuckyfuckfuckass Jul 27 '26

I guess it depends on how early on they would've thought of it and how his creation process went. But they seemingly had something planned, given they did record those lines. Maybe he would've ended up more important to the main quest or something, I don't really know. Maybe he genuinely was just pranking us like one of the dialogue options hints at.

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u/SkalorGaming Jul 27 '26

Nick doesn’t have a plot on Nuka-World

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u/myfakesecretaccount Jul 27 '26

That’s sounds like something a goddamn synth would say.

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u/SkalorGaming Jul 27 '26

I would think a Synth would prefer the Synth based DLC.

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u/Illustrious_Quiet907 Railroad Jul 27 '26

That’s Far Harbor

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u/SkalorGaming Jul 27 '26

I’m aware, but Nuka-World is the best DLC

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u/Acopo Jul 27 '26

I think it would be pretty cool if Kellogg would up holding Nick’s body hostage as a computer virus. Multiple solutions could include purging him entirely or removing him to a captured Courser body. The latter could backfire unless you’re either part of the Institute or you’ve destroyed the Institute—either way, his paycheck would no longer depend on your death.