TorontRayne said:
I just want to add onto the Behemoth discussion right quick.
I don't really like the Behemoths, but I don't mind them either just for the record. I don't see the big deal with them being so large. 50's science fiction had the 50foot woman, Giant monster, and Godzilla as was already mentioned before.
I understand the complaint that organs and bones shouldn't get that big, but lets just chock that one up to the amazing science of Fallout's world and not over analyze ever aspect of the game.
The information on the FEV or EEP virus does never goes into the amount of detail required to make an observation like "it isn't possible".
1) No such virus exists and we don't know exactly what its capabilities might be if it did exist. The info is limited enough to simply say "I don't know. It could be possible within the constraints of the Fallout universe." It's just as possible to have ghouls, Giant ants, Deformed abominations and talking robots as it is to have a Giant Behemoth mutant.
2)The limited amount of Behemoths goes to show that maybe a lot of potential Behemoths could not undergo the transformation and live.
3) It's just a half way decent game anyway so it doesn't matter.
History proves otherwise, even if this is modified FEV there is absolutely no reason for them to grow this large, they could have presented the Behemoths as an eventual effect of the EEP's modified FEV, but they did not explain them in anyway beyond what they are.
If we follow Fallout 1 and 2, FEV would have no such known effects, it causes things to grow larger, but never to such a degree - that is known. Almost nothing about Fallout 3's modified FEV is known, so most information is guess-work. This vague quality surrounding most of Bethesda's additions to the canon is what truly degrades this game in terms of adherence to the world of Fallout, they just don't explain themselves at all.
As I've said earlier, speculation is not adequate reasoning, Fallout 1 and 2 provided proper exposition for most of their content, Fallout 3 did not.