Actually, I've wondered about this myself.

Bethesda implemented diseases into their previous Gamebryo titles (eg. Oblivion), yet they somehow didn't in a gameworld where stuff like cholera and the bubonic plague would run rampant.

Maybe because it'd be too difficult/politically incorrect to have real-world diseases?

Yeah, remember the diseases from Oblivion? They basically had almost no effect. They were a form of resource attrition- if you were wandering around in the wilderness, you had to carry potions of Cure Disease or suffer stat penalties after extended roaming. In NV, that gameplay role is taken by Food/Water/Rads (and Ammo/Stimpaks to a lesser extent, as your attacks and healing no longer rely on regenerating magic).

Plus, the games aren't supposed to be simulations of reality down to the finest detail- they're designed around the themes of the setting. When you think of Fallout, you don't think of getting dysentry, you think radiation and mutation.

Having diseases would be hard to put into a game. Ones such as AIDs would go away overtime. Most of the Human population wiped out during the great war. People infected with a disease that will kill them won't last long. Survival of the fittest. Anyone sick in a group of survivors most likely would be left behind to keep the rest of the gorup healthy. Medications would not be around to extend the lives of those infected with something that in time will kill them. So they won't be around long enought to spread it. Large tracks of wasteland for several hundred miles between settlements would restrict travel. One settlement gets the pledge it is not likely to spread beyond that settlement. At least not in the first decades of nothing after the Great War. The years of quite darkness.

Not to say every disease is gone. Just ones that are contagious/fatal. Cancer is still around in Fallout then again cancer is not contagious.

Fallout 2 is full of condems aka Jimmy Hats.

Well i dont know if van buren counts but there was the new plague other than that i think there is still cancer and std's

Whilst the game is rated 18+, the forums aren't and can be read by small children and animals. They're probably responsible for most of the posts here, even.

At the risk of being reported, I'm going to point out that AIDS doesn't exist in FO because it has a different history to ours, one in which there's no reason to believe AIDS ever became a problem.

seriously we have too many diseases in the real world without adding them to games

I think it would have been good for a quest, but just having random disease when being stung but certain things? Lame.

There should have been snakes in the game.

There should have been snakes in the game.

They're are.

They've just been horribly spliced togther by some as-yet-unknown idiot who said "Hey...you know what? It'd be a great idea to make an animal thats half-coyote, and half rattlesnake!" Freaking nightstalkers. :pinch:

Having diseases would be hard to put into a game. Ones such as AIDs would go away overtime. Most of the Human population wiped out during the great war. People infected with a disease that will kill them won't last long. Survival of the fittest. Anyone sick in a group of survivors most likely would be left behind to keep the rest of the gorup healthy. Medications would not be around to extend the lives of those infected with something that in time will kill them. So they won't be around long enought to spread it. Large tracks of wasteland for several hundred miles between settlements would restrict travel. One settlement gets the pledge it is not likely to spread beyond that settlement. At least not in the first decades of nothing after the Great War. The years of quite darkness.

Not to say every disease is gone. Just ones that are contagious/fatal. Cancer is still around in Fallout then again cancer is not contagious.

Fallout 2 is full of condems aka Jimmy Hats.

If you've played Far Cry 2; You'd know why.

If you've played Far Cry 2; You'd know why.