The way I see it is that I don't think that horses were wiped out also if they did have horse you could have a Companion/Vehicle that you could ride

Also if you vote yes let me know more about how you would like to see them in the game or if you vote no tell me why you voted no

No, becus that first of they havn't been in the others (and that would make me nerd rage if they jumped out of the ether) and if they are in they will be killed, and that makes me sad.
And I like to be the only irradiated pony!

They are heavily speculated to have become extinct.
IIRC a horse has to be put down if it breaks a leg, so I think that with nuclear fire and radiation and mutants creeping over the world they were one of the first races to go.

I voted yes.

Mutant horses would be awesome.

They could be skeletonlike with fangs, spikes and bone armour.

Having a mutant horse as a companion would be cool. If they died you could get a replacment from their herd or their family. Like when Dogmeat dies you get Dogmeats Puppy.

You could also have mutated ponies.

If there were a lot of them you could get a perk from a quest to summon them if one dies like in Red Dead Redemption.

As to extinction.
I suspect the exstinction explantation has been applied to a few animals because they could not or did not put them in the original games. A need to explain everything too early in a too nialistic way.

I don't think wild horses are as fragile as domesticated ones.

And they would be wild by 2077 or later.

And mutated to some degree.

There are lots of herds of wild horses allover the place. They are shorter and tougher than domesticated ones I think.

Domesticated horses are bred to silly and cruel specifications sometimes I think.

Race horses are bred to have thin bones and be light and thin.

Not all horses are that fragile I think.

Fallout is not a fantasy game so no skeleton horses with bone armor or summoning either.
And "Puppies!" was one of the worst perks ever, what's next? "Cloning!" where any companion that dies automatically has a clone that come back? Hell no.

It is believed they are gone but there has been mentions of horses but that could just be a mistake. Horses mentioned in the book that came with the collectors edition of New Vegas. If we were to see them I would want them to be rare. I don't want them to just show up as if they have always been around. On that note I don't think Future Devs of Fallout will make them rare if they do put them in, so I vote No.

Could always have been Chance's mind just playing tricks on him, he was a heavy drug pusher.

That could be the case. Got the idea of horses from an old book or something.

Or maybe... Engine limitations? I mean hell, the AER Laser Rifles came out of nowhere in Fallout 3 yet we didn't blow a gasket over that. So the idea of horses 'appearing' doesn't bother me in the slightest, what if they migrated north or to the midwest?

Likewise when a human gets hit by nuclear fire, radiation, and mutants they die or need to be put down cause they are so badly injured, yet humans are still around.... So why not horses.

Because many people would rather eat a horse then a human. Humans can use crutches when we have a broken leg, horses can't.

I didn t vote. If in 5 fallout games there hasn t been a horse it would be really hard to see a good way of getting them back.

Writters can do what they want. They could have some scientist that works somewhere with really hightech equipment make one from scratch with DNA like Jarassic Park sp ? dinosaurs and I d go with it. If they made some and were breeding them for like 30 years then you could have a fallout with some horses to ride.

I don t think any made it through the war. Maybe somewhere else in the world theres a chance. The writer would have to do a really good job convincing me however they got in a game. A mutated horse seems really out there. I better be able to learn to ride one if there were some in a fo.

A scientist could bring horses back due to Fallout's "SCIENCE!"
The problem is: why?
Why spend time and resources on bringing them back and for what reason?
All that horses can do Brahmin and/or Bighorners can do.
Only thing they would be suitable for is mounts, and I think people would rather try to bring back cars then spend money, time and resources to bring back horses.

But horses are good for, you know, transport. Without the need for rare fuel sources.

Cows are also good food, so are big horners bu they are alive, at least horses are fast and have the flight or fight response, whcih cows (brahmin) effectively dont because they have all been in captivity for thousands of years.

So that point, is nulll.

And as I said earlier, many things 'appeared' 'out of the blue' in fallout; like the AER laser rifles. They weren't in Fallout 1&2, yet they are in 3 and NV, yet nobody complains or notices that the Wattz series has gone up and vanished. Same with all the 'real-world' weapons, and of course, the horse, might have decided to migrate east out of Cali.

Cattle have more Value then a horse. Some people would fight to protect them from the hungry mobs out there. There are also thousands more cattle out there then there are horses. I am not saying horses are gone for good but I would be pissed if they just showed up in a future Fallout game as if they had always been around. There is a stong case for horses being gone for good.

Thats true. About them migrating, why not say tehy went extinct in Cali, but maybe in other places they are alive.




I would not say that.

Cattle: You can eat em', you can milk em' and they can carrysome stuff.


Horses: You can eat em' they can carry stuff, they can carry you and your stuff, they can plow fields.

I guess really it depends on your priorities, but to me the idea that horses go extinct is as likely as cows having gone extinct.

I figured out why horses are extinct in the Fallout Universe, its so simple!

Horses are extinct because they can't vomit! Something as simple as sea sickness can kill a horse, the allies lost thosands of horses due to sea sickness during WW1 sending them by ship across the ocean. Colic in horses is very serious.

Radiation causes radiation sickness which causes vomiting. Since horses are physically incapable of vomiting, they die from the build up of toxins.

Cattle don't technically vomit but they can regurgitate the contents of their stomach.

Looks like Jurassic Park science is the only way.

i dont want to see any horses.

I hope they don't go down that road.

Good reason, but lets say they were far enough away to not get rad poison. And they dont vomit, and there are horses, that would be epic.

Or maybe in a few places a few of them did not die, adn soon they get released in the wild and begin to grow in numbers.

no horses

It would only work if Bethesda desideds to do away with radiation everywhere, after all its been 200 plus years. With Radiation everywhere horses will still get sick from it and die because they can't vomit.

The planet was covered in radiation after the bombs so I doubt any place where horse can live, would be untouched by the radiation. Maybe a vault but then they would be super rare and inbreeding would become a problem.