Fallout 5 Wishlist: 10 Things Fans Need To See

6. Larger Interactivity With Companions

If Fallout 4 did anything right it was putting a larger focus on its supporting cast. Although the series has always featured companions that accompany the player on their adventures through the wastes, it has only been recently that the games have been willing to explore these companions as actual characters rather than different numbers on a stats board.

But Fallout 5 needs to take this even further. Companion-specific missions and unique dialogue helped make these NPCs feel like actual people for a change, but in the future the reputation you hold with them should have a larger effect on your interactions.

Instead of the reputation meter gauging how effective support characters are going to be in battle it should more harshly reflect how they feel about you personally, with differing ways of seeing the world being able to turn the best of friends into mortal enemies.

The Fallout series can be lacking in emotionally involving stories, but by putting a larger focus on characters you're already spending countless hours with anyway it would mean that there'd be personal stakes in every mission.