you probably forgot about this post but i was reading posts and just decided to click the "10" and i saw yours. anyway, i think the creaters of fallout took the movie "The Road Warrior" in mind when they made fallout. If you've ever seen that movie you know what im talking about. the first armor you get in the original fallout the leather jacket... when you put it on you look EXCACTLY like mad max. then you get dogmeat who also fits the spitting image of max's best friend. when vault dweller walks off into the desert with his handheld shotgun on his leg (also what max wears through all the mad max films). also in fallout 2, when you go to the random encounter of the maltese falcon... you get dogmeat, BUT if you kill him, "Mel" (refering to mel gibson who plays mad max for all you slow ones out there) appears and says "Aye mate! why you screwin with me dog?"
is that enough proof that the creators love mad max?
P.S. the road warrior is my favorite movie so when i play both the fallouts i pick up on all this wierd shit that probably no one else does.