Why do all creatures have the same names everywhere?
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Izak
I Shot The ALBATROSS
Stupidity, that's why. Bethesda was stupid when they decided to keep the name 'Deathclaw' universal and Obsidian was stupid when they did the same to 'Yao Guai'.
However if you want a theory rather than a reason then here's one: Realistically those creatures would have slowly migrated around America, so it's possible that their respective names were handed from settlement to settlement as the animals approached the latter settlement (for example, Jacksonville settlers run into Deathclaws for the first time so they head to the Boneyard and ask them what the fuck the big scary monsters are, hence the name continues onwards).
However if you want a theory rather than a reason then here's one: Realistically those creatures would have slowly migrated around America, so it's possible that their respective names were handed from settlement to settlement as the animals approached the latter settlement (for example, Jacksonville settlers run into Deathclaws for the first time so they head to the Boneyard and ask them what the fuck the big scary monsters are, hence the name continues onwards).
R.Graves
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The big question is why everything that lives in shallow water is called a mirelurk.
R.Graves
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No. This Is a serious question. It's not like Beth is bad at coming up with cool names. Like stingwing and bloodbug And Yao guia. And I've always liked the word mungo. So why don't they name their new creatures with a name that's not already taken?
Izak
I Shot The ALBATROSS
I don't exactly know what you mean by this, are you referring to the Mirelurk king and queen? Because those are presumably derivatives of the main mirelurk species, so their names make sense.
R.Graves
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I'm asking why all of these creatures have the same name.
C'mon. Those can't all belong to the same species. Its bothered me ever since I found my first mirelurk king in fo3. C'mon at this rate they might as well have named both the stingwings and bloodbugs as "cazadores".
Don't give them any ideas. If they can find a way to do even less work while making these games by God they'll do it.
R.Graves
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I only just realised that Beth actually created new creatures with fo4. Too bad they're stuck in a noncanon game.
I prefer the term "shat out".
R.Graves
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Oh come on. Give credit where credits due vergil. Those are some nice designs despite the fact that they don't feel like fallout.
Izak
I Shot The ALBATROSS
Oh, I didn't remember these, yeah I suppose they should've been a different species. Although, Mirelurk could just be a colloquial term for animals that live in shallow water, frankly Bethesda's Fallout creatures aren't developed enough to properly judge any of them.
Exactly
R.Graves
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That brings us back to the Original question. Why is that the colloquial term in D.C, Boston, and kinda-sorta in Vegas?
Izak
I Shot The ALBATROSS
D.C. and Boston are close enough that travellers could have spread the term, New Vegas...
R.Graves
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Okay... What about deathclaw having the same name in all the games. Litteraly all of them regardless of setting. Well actually Beth removed the space between death and claw. Does that count as a different name?
R.Graves
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I dunno the Pitts troglodytes were pretty well developed IMO. Other than that id love it if Beth could put more effort into their creatures backstory and biology and habit/behaviors and shit. That or stop making fallout games.
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DirtyOldShoe
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All it is now is product placement.
"Deathclaw, I recognize that word, that's a Fallout word."
"Pipboy, yeah, that wrist gadget from that Fallout game right?"
"I know that Nuka-Cola is from Fallout, that one is easily recognized"
They exist as products, nothing more.
"Deathclaw, I recognize that word, that's a Fallout word."
"Pipboy, yeah, that wrist gadget from that Fallout game right?"
"I know that Nuka-Cola is from Fallout, that one is easily recognized"
They exist as products, nothing more.
R.Graves
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We're looking for lorefriendly explanations not reasons.
DirtyOldShoe
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>Fallout 4
>Lorefriendly