If you were t🐬o make a list of the best game universes of all time, the worꦕld of Fallout would be right there at the top. Sure, the setting can be a li𓆉ttle depressing - what with the whole ♏post-nuclear-apocalypse and all - but what makes Fallout’s world so compelling isn’t the fact that the world has ended and is now filled with desperate people t🦹rying to rise from the ashes.
It’s the fact that a🍒bsolutely nothing maඣkes any sense.
Think about it. If you were to actually wake up after a nuclear attack, there’d be radiation everywhere, everyone would be starving, and the world would be a desolate blasted wasteland fi🐼ll wit🌱h death and decay. And while there’s certainly a fair share of that to be found in any Fallout game, there’s so much mo💎re to finﷺd too, and all of it is completely ludicrous.
Centuries-old twinkies still fresh in the packets? Sounds like lunch. Giant mutant cockroaches? Just a common household pest. Miniat🧸urized nuclear bombs being bought and sold at the corneꦛr store? How did society ever get by without them!
With logic like that it seems inevitab𓂃le that the Fallout universe would become immortalized in the 𒉰best way possible: memes. So let’s take a stroll down the rabbit ౠhole with the best Fallout logic memes around.
26 𒐪 Bandits Must Think They're Invincible
I've always found it to be somewhat strange why I keep getting assaulted by bandits in raiders in Fallout. It might make sensಌe early on while I'm wearing a vault uniform and appear like a lost tourist, but eventually, I gain power armor and an arsenal to put a small country to shame. You'd think at that point some poorly armed bandit gang would think twice before messing with me.
They never do, of course, and I inevitably wind up mowing down dozens upon dozens of enthusiastic, but ultimately foolish ra🌠iders.
And that's only if I let them attack me. Usually my sneak skill is so high I co💛uld bypass an entire gaggle without them🥂 ever noticing me.
25 Maybe All The Biꦚkes Blew Up When The Bombs Fell
Y'know, I never really thought about this. Bikes were invented in the 1800s, require no power source, and could easily be created with the various items one finds in the Fallout wasteland. That's even discounting the possibility a bicycle actually survived the nuclear apocalypse fully intact and ready to use. Why exactly am I walking around the wasteland rather than biking over it?
This is actually a problem that goes far beyond bikes. Why can't you tame Deathclaw and start riding it into battle like a noble steed? Why can't you repair any of the numerous burnt-out cars and actually drive around? Why can'tღ you createꦏ your own armored personnel carrier and take out bandit encampments like a SWAT team?
Maybe it's because bikes are already trademarked by Pokémon.
24 ꦫ Extracting Ammo Is A Delicate Operati🐼on
Why does Bethesda insist on putting ammunition in toilets? Who in their right mind would stash ammo in a commode? Don't they know that water will eventually ruin the gunpowder? I𓃲t's almost like the developers did this on purpose.
To be fair to Fallout, this is more of a Bethesda issue than anything else, but only in Fallout do you routinely find desirable items submerged in༺ undesirable radioactive toilet water, where one misclick can suddenly see you sucking down water that hasn't been flushed in centuries.
It's basicall♑y the same as my bong water. I really should clean that thing. Or maybe I should leave it and eventually wake up one day to find bullets stuffed inside. Hmm.
23 The Best Way To Better Guns Is To Steal Them 🍨
How many times have you been playing any open-world game and thought to yourself, "Ma🌟n, that guy has a really cool piece. I wonder if I could lift it off him?" And of course you can't, so you wind up murdering them and taking their gun off their cor⛦pse.
Of course, Fallout makes it pretty simple to get a gun from virtually anyone without bloodshed. All you need to do is build your skills to be a thief. Maximize your sneak and pickpocket skills and you'll be able to grab anybody's gun withꦚout them ever realizing it's gone.
But I know of very few people who would forg🐟o the myriad damage buffing skills just so they could steal some dude's gun. Most of us just murder and loot, and if it breaks a quest down the line, so be it.
22 👍 To Suck, Or To Blow?
One thing that Fallout has always had is a lot of junk. Fallout 4 may make a lot of that junk useful in that you can break it down into its component parts and use them to make something new, but every Fallout prior inওcluded tons of junk items thatও had no use.
Enter the Rock-It Launcher, the weapon introduced in Fallout 3 that allowed you to 𝔍use all that junk to your advantage and fire it at unsuspecting bandits. Suddenly those teddy bears and screwdrivers are deadly weapons capable of inflicting severe🔴 injury.
Then Fallout 4 came along an🍸d had a very similar item, the Junk Jet, only this time you had far less reason to fire junk at people because it was all useful. Teddy bears became cloth, broken telephones became plastic and screws, broken cans became elemental aluminum, and nothing could be thrown away. It made some of us wish to a junk vacuum rather than a Junk Jet.
21 That Lꦕoc✱k Seems Pretty Sturdy
Don't get me wrong, I really enjoy the lockpick mechanics of every Fallout 4. Probably because I think I'm pretty good at them, and thus a lock is never much of an impediment to my progress. But Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas had the unfortunate requirement that a lockpick skill be of a ༒minimum level before being able to attempt a particular lock. And some of those locks seemed not nearly as sturdy as their level requirements made them𓆉 out to be.
One day Bethesda games will get t🧜o the point where you can just reach through windows to grabꦛ what's on the other side, but until then we get questionable barriers to entry.
20 ✃ We Travel As The Crow Flies, Always 🦩
Tell me if this is how you too play every Fallout game: you always head straight to your destination, and if there's a mountain in the way you just keep ♛hammering the j🍷ump button until you've magically made your way through.
Everyone? I thought so.
That's how Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas felt most of the time. Fallout 4 has a brand new physics engine that seems to understand that a human being can't scale a sheer cliff face on their feet alone, but for some reason that just always felt wrong to me. I should be able to scale a mountain with enough grit and determination, and not a single bit of mountaineering equipment. Nothing should stand i🦩n the way🐻.
Well, except maybe a certain mutant insect.
19 💫Spea🌜king Of Which...
Nothing fills a Fallout player with more dread than the terrifying buzzing of a giant, killer wasp. Cazadors were more terrifying than Deathclaws in Fallout: New Vegas simply because there was no escape - a Cazador can☂ easily keep up with a running vault-dweller. Your only option is to stand and fight, and pray.
If you stumble 𒅌across them in the early game, often y💎our only option was to pray.
It seems fitting that not even Bethesda would be so cruel as to create a winged death machine as vicious as a Cazador. It had to be Obsidian, the makers of New Vegas, to develop such an evil opponent. I can't tell you how many times I've lost a save file to these depraved beasts. Let's hope they never appear in a Fallout game again.
18 🌳 The Pinnacle Of Armored Perfection
Power armor has been a standby of the Fallout series since the very beginning, but they always felt the same. You'd get a lot of defense, you'd be able to carry more stuff, but ultimately it just felt like a fancy new suit. Might as ܫwell find the one that gives you the most armor and then discard the older model.
That changed in Fallout 4. Suddenly you could customize your power armor to do specific things, and that made every power armor worthwhile. Maybe you'd🔴 customize one power armor𓂃 to have a jetpack so you can jump onto the roofs of buildings, while you could customize another to have automatic stimpak applicators that would stim you once you dropped below a certain health. Each one useful for a different situation, and you could keep them all in a run-down garage.
17 Canine Companions ꦡAlways Had Wei﷽rd Expressions
If you were to travel the myriad wastes of Fallout, would you want it to be with a dog? I can think of no better companion to have in a world where literally anyone would sell you out to🌌 some raid🌜ers just for a scrap of food.
Naturally, Rex was the best companion of New Vegas simply because he was part dog, and part machine. Having been a police dog before the bombs fell, Rex is given new life after meeting The Courier and receiving a new 🌼brain. Depending on who's brain you give Rex, he can become more defensive, more aggressꦺive, or faster than before.
But of course, he still has biological components, and living in the wasteland can be hard on the old digestive system. Sadly, Immodium is not a drug that exists in the Fallout universe.