hairy deathclaws

[Jabberwok]

Am I the only one who grew up thinking that the Fallout 1 and 2 deathclaws had fur? I'm not talking about the Tactics ones. I know there is some very old art of them looking scaly, but the ones in-game always looked like furry lizards to me.

 

[Gizmojunk]

Deathclaws were based on the D&D Tarrasque; they needed a monster, and had the figurine already made for a different project.

Spoiler: BLACK ISLE's Terrasque figurine

 

[Atomic Postman]

They lay eggs don't they? The adytum egg nest might have given that away that they weren't mammals

 

[Tribalus Maximus]

Big lizards, or small dinosaurs. Reptiles. Don't think they wear fur.

 

[Gizmojunk]

They lay eggs don't they? The adytum egg nest might have given that away that they weren't mammals

Both the duck-billed platypus and the echidna are egg laying mammals; monotremes.

IIRC the deathclaws were engineered via DNA splicing, as a drop & kill everything biological weapon; with DNA included from Apes, Jackson's Chameleons, and others.

 

[Jabberwok]

Deathclaws were based on the D&D Tarrasque; they needed a monster, and had the figurine already made for a different project.

Yeah, I was finally reading up on it. Also saw that one of the earliest concepts was hairy, but that one looks more like the Tactics deathclaws. I won't start nitpicking what traits belong with what classification of animal, because they always just seemed like a spliced together concept, which fit in with all the other mutated monsters. It was just that that old sprite somehow looked like brown fur to me, and my memory edited out a couple of the images from manuals and such.

 

[Hardboiled Android]

I could've sworn I'd seen old concept art depicting Deathclaws as hairy, though perhaps I'm just conflating Tactics art.

 

[Jabberwok]

I could've sworn I'd seen old concept art depicting Deathclaws as hairy, though perhaps I'm just conflating Tactics art.

No, there is at least one early piece of concept art from before that: