Talk:Themes in the Fallout series

Some questions
Shandy Sands is modeled after ancient Arabic culture? Could have sworn that it was generic Levant.

Deathclaw have been known to hunt human in FO1? Did I miss something? I thought that they were considered a myth then.

--Ant2242 (talk) 09:49, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

DLC questions (and answering Ant)
I can't say for Arabic, but I can confirm that Deathclaws hunted humans all the way back in Fallout 1, they were considered mythic, but you could still be told about them and their abilities and such.

As for my question, would the DLC's for New Vegas count as themes unto themselves? Dead Money has holding onto the past or letting go, similar to New Vegas. Old World Blues questions the same in the form of Mobius and the Think Tank, as well as ethics and morals applied to science. Honest Hearts focuses on religion, individuality, and how one man can change the course of something, as Ulysses did for the White Legs and Randall Clark as the Father in the Cave, and Lonesome Road focuses on the same thing, coupled with ideology (America, NCR, House, Legion), as well as adapting the titular "war never changes" theme to the DLC. --Ss2077 (talk) 03:59, 2 April 2019 (UTC)


 * I've been trying to figure this out myself. I want to add what the DLCs contribute to the themes of Fallout, but I feel like it'll get too bloated. But I'm definitely down for adding them. And Dead Money is a good example of reiterating themes, both greed as a savage force and learning to let go. It also has a theme I haven't been properly able to add in the page is Hegelian dialectics, so often mentioned by Caeser, with Dog/God (thesis and antithesis) who's two sides combine to form a new being (synthesis). That is if you can get the best ending for him anyway. But I think the DLCs new themes or twists on the old themes need mentioning. Like Old World Blues has a nice twist of, you're doomed to repeat the past if can't learn from it (the Think Tanks always getting their minds wiped and rewritten). Devsatatin' Dave(ZIP ZAP RAP) 06:32, 2 April 2019 (UTC)