Deathclaws in Fallout 4

NV or any decent game, do the same swap, ie Quarry Junction, Bonnie Springs, NCRCF,

Imagine this
You walk into Quarry Junction, Level 30. Determined to wipe out this Deathclaw nest. You walk inside and you fight a horde of...bloatflies.
Terrifying huh?
Probably woulda happened if bethesdick made New Vegas

Bethesdick meetings for mob placements were prob this. "Water? must have mirelurks." "Abandoned building? DEFFINATLY RAIDER GUIS"
"hey guichs y-you know that c-cool monster dragon thingy in the other fallouts? letch make em fight one e-early on"

Insert Deathclaw fight
Insert Power Armor
Insert Minigun

its quite stupid huh?
 
My main problem with Fallout 4s deathclaws is that they are everywhere. Like, there are too many across the map.

Like, these are supposed to be the demons of the wasteland, big terrifying creatures that haunted folk stories, yet there everywhere in Fallout 4, and not even payed enough notice to.

Remember the Museum of Witchcraft, and how underwhelming it was having this monstrosity built up, only to turn out to be a Deathclaw. Imagine if that had been the only example of a deathclaw in the entire game. New Players would have no clue whatsoever what it was, and since it's likely one of the hardest boss fights in the game, it would be a memorable type of creature. It would seem like a genuinely terrifying experience, rather than a generic wasteland mutant.

But no, instead of that, Bethesda decided to pull a classic Bethesda move, and saturate the game so filled with references, and nods to the previous games, that the impact those things had on the series was rendered meaningless.
 
IMO I think modern deathclaws are a bit too powerful...

In fallout 1-2, it took quite a few swipes to kill a decent armoured and levelled player, and I was quite capable of beating one, one on one, with nothing more than leather armour and a shotgun to the face.

I remember fighting them in NV, and was mortified that the mother deathclaw was about the speed of a F22 raptor, and proceeded to kill me in like 1-2 swipes.

Fallout 4's are just giant dragon meatsponges, which are far too common.

One of my complaints with Fallout 2 is how damned many deathclaws there are. Every damned encounter near San Fransico is like 4-6 TOUGH deathclaws.
 
F4 Deathclaws are terrible. They do not act like powerful, top-of-the-food-chain creatures of the wasteland. Instead of trying to be as quiet as possible by running bipedal with their infamous claws outstretch (readying to slam down and rend flesh and bone apart), with the only infamous sound of their claws clacking upon the ground and heavy breathing of a beast in motion and by the time you hear it, it's too late, they instead act like fucking idiots, roaring to everything in a 5-mile radius that "HEY FOOD, HERE I AM!" making a fucking huge commotion to make any prey run the exact opposite of it. The only time this should be done is mating season and Deathclaws are challenging one another who has the right to be Alpha, or their initial ambush of prey turns out to be a human being, a terrifying creature that can easily kill them, which would have the Deathclaw try to be intimidating as much as possible to scare the human, or at least make them hesitant. However, these things just...do it any fucking time the wind blows their way. Stupid. Their claw design is fucking awful in terms of killing power, and they don't act like predators, leaping towards their prey and using BOTH claws to maximum effectiveness. I definitely preferred NV's Deathclaw method where breeding is a bit slow, what with only 5 babies and such. Fallout 4 makes it look like Deathclaws are breeding like fucking rabbits. Kinky, but stupid.

as for the body form of the Deathclaw, it looks awful. They exaggerated the hump on it's back greatly and made giant fucking spike decorate it. Idiotic. They should totally make Deathclaws do a stare-off on humans when humans encounter them and such, as a way to show them not extremely aggressive during resting moments, more like "this is my territory, back off, hunter".
 
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