They should have added horses to the game, because it falls perfectly under the desert cowboy theme of the game, and it would satisfy people who complained that fallout 3 had no fast way of getting around on foot. Thoughts?

Eh...nah

horses in the wasteland :thumbsup:

ridable horses in the wasteland :thumbsdown:

If they had them in there and acted as brahmin did then I guess that would be okay
but no riding them

Have you ever played TES IV: Oblivion? Did you ever ride the horses in the game?

Vehicles (that includes horses) do not work well with the Gamebryo engine, or at least Bethesda hasn't found a way to make them work effectively. Horses in Fallout: New Vegas would work out the same way as in Oblivion; horribly.

I don't understand how they worked out horribly. I just thought the reason was that Fallout 3s terrain wasn't built for vehicles.

I didn't think the horses were quiet terrible either. Just got annoying having to battle with a horse, which likely ends with your horse getting killed or lost.

Like I said, not quite horrible, but just led to frustrating game play. Became easier to adventure on foot.

I have a feeling this might get locked.

Aren't horsies extinct?

After abandoning countless horses (over the "pain in the buttocks" factor) in Oblivion, I've no desire to repeat the process in New Vegas. :thumbsdown:

Maybe, just maybe, if you could shoot without dismounting. But even then...meh.

For what 5 seconds of OMG I'M RIDING A HORSE? theres something called fast travel

according to Chris Avellone they didn't.

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Horse

aren't goldfish extinct :whistling:

Nope, they're even more scary than a platoon of deathclaws.

Wow. This comes up everytime doesn't it?

Horses are pretty fragile creatures. They get sick easily, have special requirements, and injury makes them useless. I doubt they survived the apocalypse, seeing as how they couldn't surive the Ice Age in North America, I doubt more severe climate change (you know, nuclear winter) would have set well with them.

Everything horses could be used for, brahmin do better, like pulling plows, providing food in the form of both milk and meat, and as pack animals. The one advantage to horses is that you could ride them and get somewhere faster, but with small, insular communities like the Fallout world, no one wants to go too far from home, since they might not survive the trip.

Any horses that survived nuclear devastation would have been domesticated, and thus easily made food in the rough starvation time after the bombs fell.

And yeah, horses controlled like crap in Oblivion. Without mods, they turned like tanks, and they were so fast, they caused problems with terrain and object pop-up, and paths meant only for people. So, OMG, no it wouldn't be so cool.

EDIT: And according to trekkie107's link, apparently Chris Avellone agrees with me.

Good point, but Oblivion has fast travel too, and horses.

I wouldn't mind horses, or motorcycles, ferry boats, trams or flying Vertibirds for that matter. All of which would add to the interaction in the Fallout World. We might see this stuff in Fallout "4".

Obsidian is not Bethesda, but either way its just a bad idea.

Yeah I guess I would be pretty scared of http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.fynnmood-club.com/GoldfishMood/forumpic/10_goldfish34_1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.fynnmood-club.com/GoldfishMood/viewtopic.php%3Fp%3D27264%26sid%3D89576e934be2e8c7186f84bb12121fc2&usg=__o70DgOf-IVIBg3MJvd5X1rfqraw=&h=300&w=400&sz=35&hl=en&start=21&zoom=1&tbnid=NAJNfGd_JOM74M:&tbnh=123&tbnw=183&prev=/images%3Fq%3DGoldfish%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1362%26bih%3D553%26gbv%3D2%26tbs%3Disch:10%2C415&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=497&vpy=126&dur=2169&hovh=194&hovw=259&tx=184&ty=157&ei=TgeMTMvSN8GB8gbVtZjnCg&oei=PgeMTLjoLIP58Aa8mbSPCg&esq=2&page=2&ndsp=21&ved=1t:429,r:2,s:21&biw=1362&bih=553 in the middle of the wasteland

Going on foot is a big part of the appeal to the series to this point. Vehicles might make the game feel a bit too much like GTA, but if they could do it right, with great controls and a FPV inside the dashboard, it might be a fun diversion.

But yeah, the only good I found the horses in Oblivion is when I had to escape the Armored Police. Otherwise, on foot was more fun and easier to defend yourself. Imagine in Fallout, getting hit with a barrage of bullets while scooting along in a Caravega car.

naaaayyy

lol.

only debatable if the horses worked as well as red dead R. not gonna happen with this engine

If cats were all eaten, I don't see why horses weren't. Just imagine it with a nice side dish of squirrel and a cold bottle of Nuka Cola. Mmm-mmm

Talk about beating a dead radiated horse.

Horses are a lot harder to catch than house cats and owning to wild mustangs, they are pretty damn sturdy. They can live off of dirt and weeds and still be healthy. I don't care if they are in there just arguing for horses surviving the wastes.

It's canon that horses didn't survive the apocalypse. It's been said that they're extinct.

The best fast mode of transport in fallout would be small chop shop buggy's like from road warrior.

It would be cool, but I'd rather travel the wasteland Mad Max-style

I hated the horses in oblivion. Horses in Fallout would JUST... NOT... WORK.
What's wrong with brahmin?