With Mad Max: Fury Road so fresh on the mind, I can't but help hoping to see raiders a little influenced by the movie visuals and style.

Fury Road really captured what I always wanted the raiders to be like. Somewhat suicidal maniacs with their own identity and culture, with little or no regard to the wellfare of anyone outside their sphere of influence and with a unique look to them.

The warboys look very distinctive, foregoing armor, covered in chalk/dust/ash? (guessing as a means to limit the suns radiation), they're not immune to the effects of the area they live in (tumorous growths), they have their own mythology apparently loosely based on those of the vikings. They're berserkers in a way.

I'm hoping Fallout 4's designers take a close look and ensure the raiders in the game will have their own identity as well.

Fallout 3 in particular with the guts & gore decor always strikes me as plain stupid and half-baked design. I could understand corpses meant as warning signs. As food source. But as interior decoration? That's just bait for wasteland critters, breeding ground for diseases and would mess and stink up the place you call home.

Fury Road also delivers with introducing several factions of raiders who war for resources with each other. You got the warlords, the ones in the spiky cars, the ones controlling the canyon and sort-off the women Furiosa originate from.

Each has their distinct look and style. I'm hoping Fallout 4 will have less generalized cannon fodder raiders and more clans like this.

What a day, what a lovely day.

Thoughts?

I can't see how that would be possible. Fury Road just came out. I'd imagine the visuals for Raiders was finished several years ago.

I am ashamed to say the first time a Boy chromed himself I was thinking holy crap did he just take a hit of turbo.

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Agreed, there's a lot of nods to the mad max films. I think the fallout series draws a lot from the max universe as well as endless post-apoc fiction.

Probably too late to see Fury Road specific references but maybe future DLCs ?

Loved Fury Road, one of the best action flicks ever.

Opps forgot also the figure standing in front of the bat store. Really reminds me of The Warriors movie (1979) cause reasons.

I secretly hope this is kind of a nod to that even though its dated still pretty cool movie.

Okay for real, that raider woman you're talking about looked like she had the same face paint as Furiosa. That was pretty great.

I wouldn't be surprised if there were a few Fury Road references, but maybe we'll see more in a DLC?

I certainly hope they are more than just crazy haired people with terrible armor and low end weapons. They're interesting enough initially, but get boring fast. I would really like more quests involving them and definitely more dialog with them. Learn more about them, their lore, etc. Having one as a companion would be a great way to get more information about them.

This, I really want a pragmatic raider follower who followed you because you've just slayed his/her gang, and as the saying goes: If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

He/she just tags around for fun and loot, and if he/she has a quest, it involves making him/her more loyal to you and not betraying you later (yes, I wish there will be a point in the story where he/she "stabs you in the back" because he/she is not that attached to you, and there's that window of opportunity), and maybe change his/her ways or simply make him/her more loyal and attached to you as a follower.

It will be interesting to see what he/she will say about his/her fellow raiders' customs...

The only difference would be that the "raiders" from Mad Max: Fury Road were badass, or at least the War Boys were. Say what you want, but the scene where the war boy goes kamikaze on those other "raiders" was top level badass. The Fallout raiders are simply annoying at best. So yeah, I wouldn't mind seeing that level of badassery in Fallout 4.

Think we'll be stuck with generic 'raiders' again? I really liked the different gangs/tribes in New Vegas...

With every new Fallout, there is always a movie that comes out around the time of development/pre-release that people kinda rub against Fallout like a sponge on a greasy old man in a bathtub.

During Fallout 3, it was Book of Eli. New Vegas had The Road (I think). Now we have Mute Max: Femme Road.

...I personally skipped the movie, after a lady friends scathing review ("Max doesn't say a damn thing throughout the whole movie and the one time he does something cool they off-screen it!")

More power to strong female characters, but I'm not going to see a Mad Max movie to watch a buncha wasteland women kick ass while the title character just kinda...exists.

I'll stick to the originals.

While I kind of agree with your lady friend's review, the movie is worth seeing on the big screen for the special effects alone.

I don't know if I would say "always". The raiders of Fallout 1 and 2 were just organized wasteland bandits that wore practical armor, as opposed to the over the top, borderline psychotic bandits from the Mad Max films that wore crude scrap armor. Fallout 3 raiders, and The Fiends in New Vegas, were definitely inspired by the Mad Max bandits, but it wasn't always like that.

go watch the movie your friend doesn't know what the hell she's talking about ,also IT'S MAD MAX He doesn't talk a whole lot ,and do you really need dialogue to enjoy a movie?

there were Very few special effects ,they just blew a [censored] load of cars up.

MM:FR influence is always a good thing. I hope to see easter eggs and likely tons and tons of mods influenced by MM:FR.

I'm a big fan of the originals, and Fury Road blows them out of water.

It's the highest rated recent movies of all time, action or otherwise. Actually tenth place at Rotten Tomatoes all time list. The other 9 movies are very old classics. I highly recommend seeing it.

Just becaues it follows the escapades of fleeing six-slaves this time around (Rather than Children or random stranded Gas Truck) doesn't make it Femme Road. Just as the others weren't Beyond Never Land or Exxon Warrior.