ever since i started playing fallout i always wanted to play as a super mutant, wrather choose it as a race when i first start the game or be transformed into 1 through a side quest. i just it would be awesome to play as a super mutant in Fallout 4.

Absolutely. I always had one in my squad in Fallout Tactics. One of the things that disappoints me in FO3 is that you cannot play as either a Super Mutant or a Ghoul (at least not without mods). The only difference between the races you can play as is purely cosmetic. meh.

Any Quest that made you into a super mutant would be stupid for the following reasons:

1) would need yet again another source of FEV.

2) People would want a way to return to being human.

3) So much time would have to be spend making it so everyone knows you are now a super mutant which would be like making the game many times over.

I'd be for it as long as:
A) You could be a ghoul too.
B) You have to choose the race at the start like in the Elder Scrolls. No becoming one in game.
C) There were adequate changes in gameplay/dialgoue. I shouldn't be able to work with Human supremacists as a Ghoul or Super Mutant, and radiation shouldn't harm me as a Ghoul or Super Mutant either.

I think it'd be a realy cool idea. I play the PnP version of Fallout too and in that, when you create your character you have a list of races to choose from. Human, Ghoul, Super Mutant, Robot, Half -mutant, Deathclaw & Dog. Now the last three wouldn't really work in a videogame, half mutants kind of go against the canon & deathclaws and dogs would become dull very quickly in an RPG.

I think that this could be implimented easily into a future fallout game as Bethesda already have a system for selecting different races in the Elder Scrolls games and this, coupled with NV's reputation system could make for a very interesting game with the posibility for several playthroughs.

If, for example you start as a ghoul, then with the rep system you could automatically be vilified in WeHateGhoulstown, but be accepted in somewhere like FO3's Underworld. Some towns could be more tolerant than others towards the different races. While depending on the race chosen, some could be openly hostile. It would probably need to have at least one town dedicated to each race & with race specific factions.

Okay, lets enable Supermutant play.

Great, you're a supermutant, now what? Most of the world wants to shoot you on sight, so you've locked yourself out of most of the game.

(that means we're going to have to create more game just for supermutants, which results in more time spent building parts of the game that some people won't see).

Then of course there's the lore issues.

That said, it was in the plan for Fallout 1. Should Bethesda do the unthinkable and do a prequel then it might work, but for now, I dread the arguments.

What would the weaknesses be to balance them with ghouls and humans?

it could be as easy as the enclave FEV data being applied to making new FEV, or something like the mariposa FEV leaking into a water supply or something.. it just takes good writing

there are a lot of choices that you make in games that you cant undo, why would this be any different?

It wouldnt necessarily require them to remake the game many times over.... Could be as easy as an extra dialoge set, much like when youre able to get dialogue options because you completed other quests or pass a skill check.



I dont really like the idea, mind you.. but thats bedcause i think the player should be human.

Originally posted by Gabriel77dan:

Hell yes, of course it would have to be in a place where the NCR hasn't taken over and they are common enough not to be attacked on sight. Although a half-mutie would be much more interesting story-wise to play, maybe with the new Skyrim engine we can dual wield mini-guns for some laughs.

No.

No new mutants, plz. FEV should be phased out as a plot device for new things. Also, I wouldn't want to play as the Vault 87 mutants, because they are mostly stupid and as is evident with Fawkes and Uncle Leo they still sound like they have a log up their ass. The next game in the west, I'd like to play as a first generation, intelligent Mariposa super mutant. 'Twould be awesome.

Sorry, when I read the title I thought this was going to be about super mutants running the 100 meters or something!
:hubbahubba:

Somebody please make a video mod of that ^^^

xD ROFLMAO

No, It would be a tall glass to order for writers and devs. As Styles says too much would have to go into it.


A ghoul I can see, but sm no way.