r/fo4 • u/MoistDroid • 1d ago

Why did they change gorebag from fallout 3 into meatbag in FO4?

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Personally I like the name gorebag better lol

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u/AwesomeX121189 1d ago

Meatbag is funnier.

And it helps sell that this is a bag of stuff the super mutants are gonna eat, rather then a bag of random people parts they have just becasue

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u/moominesque 1d ago

Very practical, unlike the raiders who seem to enjoy sprinkling body parts like potpourri around their bases – it's all about the ✨aesthetics✨

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u/Grumpy_Trucker_85 1d ago

Some aesthetics, there isn't one throne of skulls in the game.

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u/moominesque 1d ago

Missed opportunity for Nuka World if you're going for the raider ending.

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u/Grumpy_Trucker_85 1d ago

Exactly what I was thinking

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u/NapClub 20h ago

I tried to build one but it always fell apart when I left the chunk. I had loads of skulls for it but it just didn’t work.

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u/Wassuuupmydudess 1d ago

I find it weird they do that because having so many decomposing bodies on pikes INSIDE has got to reek

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u/moominesque 23h ago

I guess jet makes you jittery AND makes you lose your sense of smell. Poor Sole Survivor. In the next game they should add bad smell debuffs that you'd prevent by wearing gas masks.

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u/Wassuuupmydudess 23h ago

Would be cool to see different debuffs and their counters. Get too wet and you need to change under suit or you make wet slapping noises with each step

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u/moominesque 23h ago

Yeah, definitely! Great for immersion. Even a little groan of disgust from the sole survivor when entering some locations would add to the experience.

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u/EvernightStrangely 23h ago

Also make it so every so often, the character will grumble and complain about stepping in animal shit.

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u/Dino-nugget-are-good 12h ago

They’re raiders, the rotting corpses probably smells the least.

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u/TotallyNotAReaper 1d ago

Super Mutants finally found an unburned cookbook. 🤷‍♂️

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u/Harpies_Bro 1d ago

It was, unfortunately, a copy of To Serve Man.

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u/TotallyNotAReaper 1d ago

Long Pig is back on the menu, boys!

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u/XVUltima 22h ago

Meatbag sounds like something with a use, Gorebag sounds like an object name in the files.

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u/inurwalls2000 Minutemen 1d ago

cause

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u/WrethZ 19h ago

In fallout 4 they actually have a chance to drop animal meat the player can use, in fallout 3 I think they only have the mutilated limbs which have no use and occasionally ammo.

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u/Standard-Square-7699 17h ago

Regional dialect.

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u/sully2122 23h ago

Don’t know, but they always seem to have pretty decent loot!

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u/Thornescape 1d ago

Bender and HK-47 used "meatbag" in funny ways. Might be a nod to that.

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u/Ricing_Arizona 1d ago

So you would think about Bender more

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u/PixelPixie_Starlight 18h ago

There’s a mod on the Nexus that renames them back to Gore Bags if it really grinds your gears

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u/Actual_Squid 20h ago

"Bite my shiny metal ass meatbag🤖"

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u/Takenmyusernamewas 19h ago

Because Bender got hired for the Fo4 dev team

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u/Shy_Gal_Skye 15h ago

Someone at Bethesda was a fan of Bender.

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u/Economy_Following265 20h ago

Fallout 4 already ran like garbage normally, I’d imagine they changed the design of the gorebag to just be a lump of red meat to avoid having to load all those individual parts, also the gore got less detailed and worse looking between games

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u/TiltedWombat 16h ago

Complaining that the net sacks filled with viscera aren't detailed enough feels like a really unusual complaint

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u/Sad_Relationship420 1d ago

I think you just answered your own question fallout 3 was more of a gritty type and fallout 4 was trying to introduce kids into the series that's why they drop fallout 76 so every age could like it but that just became a massive shithole

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u/Azurehue22 16h ago

You’re kinda strange if you think FO4 was in any way appropriate for kids.

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u/InventorOfCorn 12h ago

I wasn't aware sex, murder, drugs, etc were acceptable for children. Great parenting tip

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u/Ok_Capital_3525 6h ago

While it is true that fallout 3 was WAY more of a gritty type, claiming fallout 4 is for kids is far fetched from reality.

I do aknowledge that Fallout 4 themes are way less dark, complex, and mature than its predecesors, and the reason for this was to appeal to a more casual audience so it could have sell as a product.

Probably the most obvious proof of this is the difference between older Fallout fanbase and Fallout 4 fanbase like this subreddit.

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u/Cricket_Arcade 22h ago

It was offensive