What's with Bethesda always adding canabalism to their games? Skyrim, New Vegas, now Fallout 4? Is it because people keep on asking for it, or perhaps people on the development team are a bit... twisted? Personally I like games that push the limits, are dark, and lower the bar more than most others, but I have to ask this question nonetheless. I've seen alot in gaming, I've been gaming since I was a little kid, but I can only think of Bethesda when it cones to canabalism in games.

Well according to the wiki, cannibalism has featured in someway in all fallout games, even those before Bethesda had anything to do with the fallout universe. Admittedly it has become more prevalent since they took over, but the game is set in a post apocalyptic nightmarish hellhole, so it's to be expected IMO.


Also I learnt something about iguana on a stick today. *shudders*

What did you learn about iguana on stick?

I prefer squirrel myself.

Don't knock it 'till you try it!

But yeah, personally I don't mind it being in the games but it's not something that interests me at all. I did the Ring of Namira quest in Skyrim just for the sake of getting the artifact, but that's it.

Its from one of the old games but I still don't want to spoil anything, look for yourself ?
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Iguana_Bob_Frazier

When was the last time you saw a live iguana in the game?

Thanks OP. Now I have this song playing in my head:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRYFKcMa_Ek

Or squirrels? you have an point, bird on stick would be more realistic. Bird soup even more so as they always end up as bloody mess if you kill them.

When was the last time you saw a squirrel?

I've never eaten Iguana or squirrel in a Fallout game for some reason, I've always assumed I'd find out something bad about it at some point.

The iguana a on a stick is an actual iguana. It's shaped like one.

It's the unidentifiable iguana bits that are more untrustworthy.

Yeah, cannibalism has always been a thing in Fallout. They only added it to Elder Scrolls with Skyrim.

New Vegas wasn't made by Bethesda btw. So it's not just them who adds it.

Ahh Hall and Oates. Classic.

There was cannibalism in Skyrim?

Yes. Taste of Death.

As the 'Beth' theme of the series is something of a take on 1950's sci-fi version of the post -apocalypse, cannibalism forms part of that.

My character is basically Hall & Oates' Maneater. MacCready is her prey.


Btw, I don't use perk, but I think it adds extra craziness to those who want their character go crazy over the radiation.

Actually, you could technically be a cannibal since Morrowind. There was an alchemy ingredient known as human flesh, with it being an ingredient, you could consume it. In Oblivion, there were human hearts and flesh, and you could eat the beating heart of someone during a quest in one of the DLCs.

True. Hell, it's even mentioned in the A Dance in Fire ingame book series and as background lore for more tribal/traditional Bosmer since Morrowind.


Skyrim's probably the first Elder Scrolls title where it unambiguously gets shoved in your face.

Can you really call it cannibalism if you weren't human? After all we do eat Lizard or Iguana on a stick. What if an Argonian ate some human hearts or flesh, that wouldn't be cannibalism then.

It's barely in FO4. I haven't run into one raider clan or settlement with a fridge stocked full of "mystery meat".

This is Anrarchy people, not Sunday school.

I for giggles became a bad character. yes I eat human flesh. its quiet actually hard to find in the game... when you do eat it its does give you extra strength.. although you rads kinda get a little high and when you do Strong likes you more..doesnt matter what you eat really each thing has minus points to it..nw if you cook it.. then it gives you really high health.. but i have yet to see a cook stove that gives you the choice of cooking human flesh.. and if you try to selll it to the meat person in Diamond City she will buy it from you .. no questions asked.. I havent tried yet with other vendors. I keep forgetting.. OH.. OH.. eggs of any sort passify mutants..

"Rat on a stick" or "Bird on a stick" would be more realistic

Just watched a video of companions reactions to the player characters "feeding", should they take the cannibal perk. Strong and codsworths are by far the funniest.


"Strong hungry too . . . SAVE SOME FOR STRONG!!"

Post-Apocalypse cannibalism isn't just something that appears in pretty much every rendition of the genre, it's also highly logical. Practically every tale of group privation results in cannibalism just for a chance at survival.(Or at least the consideration to resort to it if worse comes to worst.) Mine disasters, lifeboat survivors, shipwreck survivors on desert isles, etc. When food becomes scarce, people WILL contemplate dining on whatever source of protein is most available -- which is most often other survivors. Those most suspected of being "likely to die anyway" are prime candidates. But in a pinch, there's always drawing straws.

Dining on humans often uses the euphemism, "eating long pig". Because, I gather, human most tastes like pork. (I sometimes wonder how anyone ever came to that understanding.) [Read an interesting work of fiction where a particularly vicious bandit would take prisoners and then blind them. Then he would cut slices off of them, cook those up, and then serve samples back to the "donors" without telling them what it was they were being served. He thought that was hilarious.]

Anyway, post-Apocalypse, for a lengthy time agriculture production will grind to an abrupt halt. Once the stored foodstuffs tap out, what will people have available to eat? In particular, people that haven't a clue about hunting, fishing, or the growing of food. They don't know how to gather foodstuffs other than through scavenging, but if that taps out... One way or another, a man and his family gotta eat. The only alternative is too roll over and die quietly.