» Thu Aug 19, 2010 12:24 am
IF they make them make sense in the context of the Mariposa super muties, I'm all for it.
I honestly believe that, despite the goofs in the lore, Bethesda intended the two strains of super mutant to be more or less the same. They obviously buggered some things up (ie. lack of genitals), but for the most part I'd consider them part of the same species. Even the Master noticed that intelligence in the resulting mutants drops the more a subject is irradiated, and seeing how badly DC was hit, it's understandable that there'd be more unintelligent super mutants than there are intelligent ones. The mutants with the least amounts of radiation seem to be the original inhabitants of Vault 87 (ie Fawkes), but obviously even the Vault wasn't guaranteed to produce intelligent mutants, what with the nuke going off right outside the Vault.
Given the amount of time that's passed, having a couple of Mariposa mutants (possibly Nightkin, if the mutation is tied to the subject's intelligence or sanity, which is possible) develop into Behemoths of some kind, would be quite interesting to see.
I know, I know, people don't like seeing "their" Fallout be tainted by Bethesda, but the fact is, besides art direction and the occasional plot hole and goof in the lore, there's nothing stopping the east and west coast mutants from being that different from each other. And if that means that the more unintelligent Mariposa mutants have a chance of going Behemoth, then I say go for it.