Chihuahuas right?

Think beth are dead set on us having a German Shepard, It would be cool if we could have a choice on what breed of dog we could have as a companion and have different personality traits like real dogs have, I'd have a Rottweiler given the choice.

I would immerse in this game if I could have my Boxer with me in it. She had white fur and passed away in 2010... Would be epic if I could get into this journey with my real-life dog.

Thanks for that!

Exactly!

The fact that there's a pure-breed dog running loose 200 after the bombs fell is nonsense.

It's called "sci-fi". And there is no such thing as FEV, nope.

Besides, that's kind of a premise of the game. How can you compare that to a pure-breed dog is beyond me - especially considering all previous games were sensible in this aspect.

Pretty sure all the other dog breeds are extinct. It's the only logical explanation.

Well...duh? Those beasts are a result of something that has happened because of an apocalypse. Pure-breed dog is something that happened because BGS looked at COD:Ghosts and thought "Wow, that's a brilliant idea, let's copy it!" instead of using a street-breed dog that fits in into the universe.

I would like the choice to have a Boxer, Pit or Rottweiler as a companion, The option to replay with different custom skins that remind me of dogs I have had.

Unlikely. The original Dogmeat dog was based on Mad Max 2. http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Dogmeat_%28Fallout%29

Its a Australian Cattle Dog. Met a golden-coloured one when walking in a park a couple years ago, I felt like I was looking at a real life version of Dogmeat. Fallout 3 did a great job with it.

Bethesda has also included a Irish Wolfhound in Skyrim and Huskies in Dawnguard.

Ive got a Rat Terrier/Chihuahua myself, and I can't really see her or any dogs like her surviving in The Wastes or Tamriel. I mean maybe they could survive hunting small rodents, but there is no way they'd be able to take down a raider, and really if you're doing the whole wanderer thing you need to have everybody you travel with be useful. My Rat Dog might be able to carry a spare mag in a strap on her back, but thats about it. This is also getting into the animations of having such a small creature moving around the game world in a believable way.

Indeed. So was the Dog in Mad Max 2. A beautiful breed.

I kinda expected Dogmeat to be in some ways off or out of scale compared to the real thing. But nope, Dogmeat in Fallout 3 looked and felt the exact same as that dog I met in the park. The proportions, the movements, the body language, all pretty much the same as Fallout 3. Bethesda did a great job there, I am expecting even better with Fallout 4's dog, although personally id like to name him something different.

Motion capture isn't bound to looks, just a skeleton

The world in Mad Max is a little different, don't you think? Two hundred of nuclear wasteland years and "a few" years of the world slowly falling apart is the difference. A detail someone like BSG would overlook. And please, there's also a difference between "is based on" and "is a reference to".

No, Dogmeat in FO3 being an Australian Cattle Dog was another callback to Fallout 1.... where it's strongly implied that the Dogmeat you make friends with was Max's. (and completely ignoring that the "real" Max would have been in Australia, in a different apocalypse.)

(in other words, they pick the dog breeds for fun, not out of some obsession with "post-apocalyptic realism".)

I wasn't talking about Fallout 3 (and frankly the dog was so poorly modelled that I couldn't tell). The dog sprite in Fallout 1/2 was a generic dog as far as I know, and yes, dog which was a friend of a Max is what we call a "reference".

And yeah, suspension of disbelief works only so far. Of course a hardcoe fan of Foblivion would call that an "obsession" . Ironic.

Gee, I wonder if they did it solely for the reason of selling dog breed unlocking.

Or they're just not "dog people" and it didn't even occur to them that people would get all worked up over breeds because... it's just a dog.

I tend to call things an "obsession" when someone's going on at length (and seemingly with some heat) arguing the minutia of a pretty trivial thing as if it's of great importance.

("hardcoe fan of Foblivion"? Eh, what? Honestly, I'm not sure I'm a "hardcoe fan" of anything.)

edit: you know, I'm not even a hardcoe fan of cats, because it would never occur to me (if I played a game that gave you a cat companion) to ask "but, hey - will I be able to customize the cat to match my favorite cat breed?"