FO3..Mutant Dogmeat...

[RinrIck]

My big question is. Has anyone been able to find out some of the down low on Dogmeat. If he is the original then he would be 30+ years old. Was he infected by the FEV virus or what?

What do you think?

 

[Amnestic]

My big question is. Has anyone been able to find out some of the down low on Dogmeat. If he is the original then he would be 30+ years old. Was he infected by the FEV virus or what?

What do you think?

I've not played Fallout 1+2, but weren't they set over in the west side (California?) of the US? It seem highly unlikely that this is the same Dogmeat. More like it's a dog called Dogmeat as another one of Bethesda's nods to the older games.

 

[searanox]

Canonically, the dog isn't the same one from the first two games, but he is a long-lost descendant.

 

[InvisibleMilk]

I think perhaps some raiders could of been taking care of him.
Besides the ones he rips apart while your looking for him.

 

[RinrIck]

Canonically, the dog isn't the same one from the first two games, but he is a long-lost descendant.

One thing that made me wince the worst was that there was only one type of dog skin for every mutt in FO3...((Except vicious dog of course))

I've not played Fallout 1+2, but weren't they set over in the west side (California?) of the US? It seem highly unlikely that this is the same Dogmeat. More like it's a dog called Dogmeat as another one of Bethesda's nods to the older games.

There have been plenty of stories that people move across the US and their pets somehow get to them. So on a scale of 1-10 how impossible do you think that that is the ORG dogmeat?

 

[RinrIck]

((ugh dbl))

 

[Scorched_Cascade]

There was a blog from the devs I'll go dig up saying that dogmeat in Fallout 3 was just a nod to the previous games and in terms of cannon was "his descendant or something".

 

[RinrIck]

My big question is. Has anyone been able to find out some of the down low on Dogmeat. If he is the original then he would be 30+ years old. Was he infected by the FEV virus or what?

What do you think?

You're missing the point, it's not supposed to be the original Dogmeat, I don't have any sources but Bethesda already said more than once that this one is just a tribute to Dogmeat.

But to give it the exact same name and look? A tribute is a tribute but when you go that far out of the way to make it exact...A tribute starts to look like the real thing...

There was a blog from the devs I'll go dig up saying that dogmeat in Fallout 3 was just a nod to the previous games and in terms of cannon was "his descendant or something".

O please do!

 

[Scorched_Cascade]

Right while I look for the blog heres something to chuck into the discussion-the original dogmeat was a tribute himself. Straight from fallout wiki:

Dogmeat is a dog that could be found in Junktown, a reference to the dog Mad Max has in the film Road Warrior.....wearing a black leather jacket, which would remind him of his previous owner - i.e. a reference to Mad Max - who also had such a jacket

and as to what happened to the original Dogmeat?

In the Vault Dwellers memoirs it is disclosed that Dogmeat died in the military base after running into a forcefield.

 

[searanox]

One thing that made me wince the worst was that there was only one type of dog skin for every mutt in FO3...((Except vicious dog of course))

As far as I can tell, it's the same model and to some degree the same texture that the dogs in Oblivion use. Fallout 3 shares some other assets with Oblivion, too, like animations.

There have been plenty of stories that people move across the US and their pets somehow get to them. So on a scale of 1-10 how impossible do you think that that is the ORG dogmeat?

It's a ten on your scale. The dog has been confirmed to be a different one. Period.

 

[RinrIck]

and as to what happened to the original Dogmeat?

In the Vault Dwellers memoirs it is disclosed that Dogmeat died in the military base after running into a forcefield.

Thanks I never really knew what happened to the mutt who saved my life hundred times over...and ate more then half my stimpacks...

 

[spikenog]

Dogmeat...the lovable little pooch that stayed in Megaton (in my apartment) for the ENTIRE game.

Stupid dog.

 

[orifice]

How do you find him?

 

[Kermi]

How do you find him?

I ran into him in the scrapyard on my way to minefield, but I didn't realise he was a friendly at the time and shot him with my hunting rifle. He ran off and I haven't seen him since.

 

[Amnestic]

How do you find him?

Scrapyard south of Minefield. When he turned up to the scrapyard he was biting the face off two raiders, solo.

 

[Scorched_Cascade]

Can't find the blog as the guys at the fallout wiki don't reference their sources anywhere can find and a significant amount of digging didn't turn it up http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Dogmeat_(Fallout_3)

How do you find him?

Also orifice use this: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_l2B5tvTbqM8/SRSIDvIgJ_I/AAAAAAAADmU/q3JVfGpsas8/s1600-h/fallout+3+map.bmp hes in the north east part of Scrapyard battling 5 raiders the first time you go there.

 

[karn3]

It's definitly not the same dog considering that fallout 3 is set 200 years after the end of fallout 2

 

[dMighty]

There have been plenty of stories that people move across the US and their pets somehow get to them. So on a scale of 1-10 how impossible do you think that that is the ORG dogmeat?

It's like a post-apocalyptic 'Homeward Bound'

 

[laikenf]

Dogmeat...the lovable little pooch that stayed in Megaton (in my apartment) for the ENTIRE game.

Stupid dog.

I hear you. I only take him to places where I'm certain I won't encounter tough enemies (like Deathclaws, Mister Gutsy, Centry Robots, Behemoths and places where there are too much Mirlurkes) other than that, he can handle Raiders, Mercs, Super Mutants and members of the Waistland Fauna (vicious dogs, ants, radoscorpions, etc.) pretty effectively, just make sure you give him some stimpacks after every encounter cause he's pretty good at finding weapons and ammo.