Fallout (video game)/Trivia

• Divorced Installment: Originally, the game was going to use the GURPS system for character creation, and was entitled Vault 13: A GURPS Post-Nuclear Adventure. Disagreements with Steve Jackson led to the termination of Black Isle's GURPS license, so the developers cooked up the SPECIAL system for the game and changed the title to Fallout.
• Hey, It's That Guy!:
  • Sheriff Killian Darkwater is Colonel O'Neill and MacGyver.
  • The super mutant Lieutenant is Shere Khan and Megabyte.
  • We have the original and Transformers Prime Megatron as John Maxson.
  • Rhombus voiced by Clancy Brown, who's also known for voicing Mr. Krabs.
• What Could Have Been:
  • One of the concepts dropped from the game during development to meet release deadlines was a race of FEV-mutated Noble Savage raccoons, descended from two pairs of FEV test subjects that escaped from the research facility that ended up as the Glow. It was scrapped because to the devs, the idea didn't feel Fallout enough; as such, the only hint left in the game about their existence is the FEV experiment holodisk at the Glow mentioning that when the virus made the test subjects smart enough to escape from the laboratory, the guards hunted them down and exterminated them, but two pairs remained unaccounted for.
  • The original draft of the conclusion of the Junktown questline was rather morally grey, with Gizmo turning the town into a grade-A resort in which society flourished, although for a mainly selfish reason, and on the other hand having Killian become a Knight Templar who ends up ridding the town of crime once and for all, which also causes a slow depopulation of the place, as people would start to avoid it in fear of the overzealous sheriff. This was scrapped for the final release after the marketing department decided that the game had to "reward good and punish bad".

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