You can find out for yourself by grabbing the Autumn Leaves mod and taking it for a spin. The two plots and even dialogue are very similar. It does raise the question whether mos authors should be credited by Bethesda if content is this similar, it would seem the right thing to do. On another note, I also fear that people who played Brain Dead would stumble on Autumn Leaves and ignore it because “Oh, hey, it’s Brain Dead all over again!” “Since Autumn Leaves was out but a few weeks before Fallout 4, I always felt that people didn’t have the occasion to discover it by the time they jumped to F4. (Though Autumn Leaves lasts around 6 hours vs 1 for BD.) Since I witnessed the interest that “Brain Dead” had raised from the players, I thought it would be cool to jump on the occasion to tell them that more of this kind of quests exists. “In my case, why am I making a post of it? Well, to raise some awareness of Autumn Leaves, really.

After all, Autumn Leaves’ inspirations are countless (Asimov’s, Cluedo, Planescape : Torment, Arcanum, older Fallouts, etc.) and being influenced is a natural part of the writing process. And I seriously think this is perfectly okay. Upon confirming, she will then ask the player to follow. She will then ask them if they are part of law enforcement, mentioning that there has been a terrible murder. After one has completed the quest Walk in the Park, while roaming around Far Harbor, the Sole Survivor will be approached by a Miss Nanny named Pearl. “I honestly thought Bethesda’s staff played Autumn Leaves, had a blast with it (I hope) took some things out of it and made their own thing for Far Harbor. Brain Dead is a murder-mystery side quest in the Fallout 4 add-on Far Harbor. Fallout 4 is a 2015 action role-playing game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks.It is the fourth main game in the Fallout series and was released worldwide on November 10, 2015, for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

So why bring this to light now? The Autumn Leaves creator BaronVonChateau explains:

Looking over the content, dialogue, and the quest plot, it’s apparent that Bethesda probably were aware of the mod. There’s a lot more on show on the ModDB post covering this finsing so these are just a couple of examples. Below are a few images comparing Brain Dead to the mod. The evidence the Autumn Leaves mod creator has put together is certainly compelling. In Fallout 4′s Far Harbor DLC there’s a quest called Brain Dead which has a very similar setting and plot. WELCOME TO BATTLEDRAGONRC’s CHANNEL Join me as we play some of my favorite games like FALLOUT( in very hard mode no mods 100+ Level), HEARTHSTONE. The mod creator of a Fallout: New Vegas mod called Autumn Leaves, which was released just prior to the release of Fallout 4, has highlighted that Bethesda may have lifted the quest and used in the Far Harbor DLC.

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