Full Ghoul Lore Part 2: Fallout 3 and New Vegas

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  @MrHolodoc · 2 years ago

  Honestly, I love the Fact the Fallout 3 Roamer Ghouls wear Combat Armor... makes you think if they were lost Brotherhood/Enclave Soldiers or if they were Pre-War Army Soldiers.

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• BL

  @blu3796 · 2 years ago

  The very first Reaver I encountered in 3 was a bit after I had installed Broken Steel for the first time and just kept playing with my pre-existing level 20 character, and the surprise that came from unloading an entire Chinese AR magazine on it to little to no effect. I was very used to ghouls being basically a joke by that point. Then this one Reaver made me run in circles around a pile of rubble while I shot at it with everything I had, slowly bringing down its health. Then it decided that it could actually climb that pile of rubble and was just messing with me, smacked me into a wall getting me stuck between the ceiling and a desk and obliterated me with a second bitchslap. It was fun to be even lower level in New Vegas and spot a Reaver running down the road to REPCONN Test Site right at me and getting the opposite results because it died from a 10mm pistol. Went from "OH GOD" to just "Oh."

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• AN

  @andrews.4780 · 2 years ago

  The ferals in 3 and NV seemed way more savage than in 4. Those reavers make the Commonwealth ones look like a joke. But the Putrid Ones and Charred ghouls are a force to be reckoned with if you’re a lower level.

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• GM

  @GModBMXer · 2 years ago

  I never noticed Reavers were just throwing chunks of themselves at you. What a unique detail.

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  @screamingcactus1753 · 2 years ago

  I think the reason that super mutants tend to ignore ghouls in Fallout 3 is because they know they can't be made into super mutants. Super mutants in 3 are really dumb, but they seem like they'd be smart enough to notice the difference between ghouls and normal humans, and that whenever they throw a ghoul into the green stuff, it never results in a super mutant. The main reason why super mutants attack humans is to kidnap them and make them into more super mutants, so it'd make sense that they'd ignore ghouls if ghouls can't be made into super mutants.

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• MI

  @Minnip1989 · 10 months ago

  That woman studying the farel ghouls that ended up being killed by them reminds me of The Grizzly Man and how he and his girlfriend were killed when they stayed to long to close to hibernation. Was that supposed to be a reference to him, or am I the only one to think that.

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• GO

  @GOKG98 · 2 years ago

  If they do have a hunger and appetite for food it would make sense that they would only attack other fellow Gouls in dire circumstances. Hence the “95%” times they are peaceful

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• AG

  @AgeoftheFall88 · 2 years ago

  I found in New Vegas with subtitles on, feral ghouls will scream one word phrases or dialog specific groans when you take them down

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• SO

  @sofa_king_kool · 2 years ago

  Never really thought about it, but regular people have a chance to go 'feral' too, it's just called a psychotic break...

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  @The_Obsessed · 2 years ago

  My Reaver story isn't necessarily something terrible, just something I'm proud of. It was my first time actually doing the quest to getthe fertilizer shovel, not the best weapon in the world, but I wanted to test it. I had the Ghoul mask at the time, so I did have an advantage. I went out into the graveyard in the gate, and just squared up with everything there, including a Reaver. It took entirely too long, but I eventually beat it to death. A lot of stimpaks were used, but Blocking helped. I beat the Reaver to death with a shit shovel out of pure Spite.

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• VI

  @victortorres3776 · 2 years ago

  The ghouls remind me of old Iron maiden album covers...lol

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• RO

  @RoughGalaxyYT · 2 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF7LM-Cc5fY&amp;t=840">14:00</a> It&apos;s reasonable to be able to determine sex by movement/stride due to the different bone structure/positioning in the hips specifically. Surprisingly thoughtful in terms of anatomy actually.

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