He’s good with pistols and melee weapons but also kind of dumb and likely to get himself killed in combat or, better yet, shoot you by accident. Ian is likely the first character you come across in the original Fallout that you can recruit. I’m just going to build me and my dog a house and we’re gonna sit on my porch and grump at every ghoul and raider that stumbles across our lawn. How could anyone turn down that face? And it looks like you’ll be able to play fetch with the dog in Fallout 4. He’s pretty useful in combat, if not the strongest character, but oh my god look how cute he is. Dogmeat is the companion character who shows up the most in series with the canine in Fallout 3 being a descendant of the original dog from the first game. Dogmeat ( Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout 3, Fallout 4)ĭog is man’s best friend, even at the end of the world.
Here are, in chronological order of first appearance, the most interesting, peculiar and dependable buds in Fallout.
A lot of them are cranky, others a little too cheery given the bleak conditions-and some aren’t even human. Littered across every Fallout game are companions you can recruit under specific conditions to help you in your journey. Luckily, you don’t have to trek across it alone if you don’t want to.