This is a general discussion on War, and War never changes. Would you like to see more Handicapped people seeing that the setting is post apocolyptic and during a war between basically 4 factions for control of boston, you think there would be more disabled veterans based on the conditions and setting of the story with everything happening. Limps already get blown off but no suriviors are scenes. Theres already wheel chairs in the game but you cannot sit in them. Wouldnt it add to the realisms and continutiy of the game, seeing that war never changed, neither do the horrors of physical or mental struggles veterns and many others endure. The only mention of a physically handicapped person in this game is one person. Would you like to see more handicapped people in fallout 4 providing a more diverse realistic envorment creating a better game for a wider audence to those who struggle with theses issues on a daily basis and find it hard to reconize or relate would you like to see more physically handicapped relatedable characters then just one token person? please feel free to share your thoughts on this and vote. thank you for your time.

http://www.pcworld.com/video/46576/the-rewalk-robotics-exoskeleton-helps-paraplegics-walk-again. they could feature more things similar to this..

Its starting again, the poll man has returned.

Isn't there a guy with a cybernetic arm in Fallout 4?

The Commonwealth is both an uncivilized craphole, and a place where a dude in a wooden shack can perform plastic surgery as an outpatient procedure.

I sort of get the impression that any nontrivial handicap they can't cure tends to end up getting you put out to pasture most of the time. And the ones who aren't would be seen as a charity case except in unisual situations.

As that one Ghouls says: "if you ain't earning you ain't an asset, you're a liability to me and yourself".

Better representation of handicapped people is a reasonable goal, but a post apocalypse isn't a setting particularly conducive to the attitudes that would send the intended message.

It's also just a matter of practicality, too, since they'd have to make completely different animations for anyone without certain limbs, and pathfinding becomes a lot weirder for NPCs that don't have the same freedom of movement. You can meet one woman who lost her legs, and walks around in a Power Armor frame, though; that was a pretty clever move by Bethesda to include a disabled character without giving themselves a heap of extra work.

Thank you for adding the "I don't Care" choice to your poll.

"Would you like to see more handicapped people in fallout 4 providing a more diverse realistic environment creating a better game for a wider audience to those who struggle with theses issues on a daily basis and find it hard to recognize or relate"

There is a whole lot of assumption in this part of a long sentence.

I personally would take it as an insult if someone said because I was disabled, I wasn't able to recognize or relate to the life journey of others who didn't share my personal life journey.

Many people do lack in emotion intelligence, but one might wonder if someone would understand it even if it was shoved into their face if they couldn't see how the plight of say the Ghoul community in Fallout was in fact an allegory for communities or groups in real life.

Indifferent.

The wasteland is a harsh and unforgiving place, the character of note in FO4 thats a paraplegic only works because she has the support behind her to cope with the loss of her legs, and still be a productive person in their society.

No their won't be any handicap veterans cause it takes place 200 years after the bombs fall and both the institute and railroad are secretive and BoS don't show up til later and the mintmen are pretty much natural

The lady who assigns you a T-60 PA suit on the Prydwen has something like that for her set of power armor as she lost her legs in combat but her PA is specialized. You can see that she has no legs in the picture:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CTko70yWIAAukiB.jpg

In a word, no.

Not only would pathfinding be difficult, but two things:

? This is not 'The Elder Scrolls'. In that game, you can explain away any disability with magic. My main character in Skyrim is a blind Breton and I chalk it to magic being how she's able to get around and kick copious amounts of butt. Fallout...doesn't have that. This game is set after a nuclear apocalypse so unless you were stupidly rich and were living close by/very, VERY lucky, you're not gonna have synthetic limb replacement or a convenient power armor to plot your disabled rump in and kick ass. If Cait went blind, let's say, she's basically completely screwed.

? Why does Bethesda have to cater to anyone? I'm disabled myself, but I don't want Bethesda to cater to me. I'd rather them make a good game with their own story than make every other NPC disabled just to please me and others in the disabled community.

thank you all for your input so far.