How i explain the Yao Guai: : Fallout Series Discussion

» Sat May 28, 2011 12:01 am

did it occur to you guys that: the yao guai might just be you know...mutated bears like the game says

I'm with you on this one.

» Fri May 27, 2011 8:27 pm

did it occur to you guys that: the yao guai might just be you know...mutated bears like the game says

Who was debating whether they were bears or not? We know that, its clear from looking at them, that they are in fact bears.

» Fri May 27, 2011 8:48 pm

I dont know who named them, or where they came from, nor do I care.

I just love killing them in mid-pounce in VATS, then watching them sail away for miles

» Fri May 27, 2011 9:20 am

Me too. (heeheehee) It was extremely satisfying to be the last one standing after an attack by three of the svckers at once. Yes, three, I kid you not.

Anyway -
I had assumed that yao guai was some Chinese term for "bear" (dunno what particular dialect it might've been). "Don't feed the yao guai (bears)," see. My thought is that terms from the language of the enemy bled over into the opponents' vocabulary (Vietnamese terms were used by the US soldiers in the Vietnam movies back in the '90s, after all). Since yao guai were certainly not really bears anymore, a term (roughly) meaning 'monster' must've seemed right.

» Sat May 28, 2011 12:31 am

I'm pretty sure they were bears, since we got those in the Western part of Maryland. Mainly black bears, which the Yao Guai resemble most. So I'd say that's the most reasonable explanation.

» Fri May 27, 2011 10:03 am

Kids today, always convinced they're right and don't want to hear any counter arguments to the fact... *sigh*

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Yao_Guai

plus this Fact gets put in your face quite a few times during the large number of load screens you see during play

According to a Fallout 3 load screen, these strange beasts are descended from the D.C. area's black bears.

» Fri May 27, 2011 1:06 pm

Kids today, always convinced they're right and don't want to hear any counter arguments to the fact... *sigh*

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Yao_Guai

plus this Fact gets put in your face quite a few times during the large number of load screens you see during play

According to a Fallout 3 load screen, these strange beasts are descended from the D.C. area's black bears.

I declare you the winner of this thread.

» Fri May 27, 2011 11:14 am

Now I'm having horrifying visions of what the Yao Guai must look like in Anchorage - those would be descended from kodiak and grizzly bears. (eek!) :bolt:

» Sat May 28, 2011 12:21 am

Did... did somebody just mix up Yogi Bear with Yu-gi-oh? Oh dear Azura, somebody show this kid a cartoon made before 1990.

I swear, these darn kids these days, what with their annie may cartoons and their rap music and their Super Sweet 16s and their Transformers Animated (weren't they already animated?) and their XBOX 360's. Why, back in my day, we had to make do with 8-bit Sega Master Systems that were in 2D and had to be tuned into the TV to work and we had to walk 16 miles in the snow to the game store and the games actually were difficult to play! And we liked it! And get offa my lawn!

Man, I feel old.