Summary
Part of the magic of video games is that when you die, the game, and for that matter, life itself isn’t over. Sure, you might lose a precious life, or you may have to backtrack, but the game isn’t over. However, while the player character is almost always guaranteed a second chance, NPCs typically aren’t. Once they die, well, they die.
That sentiment is very true when it comes to the world ofFallout, Bethesda’s post-apocalyptic role-playing-game franchise. The Wasteland is a brutal and unforgiving place filled with grotesque creatures, insects and humans. Oh, and there’s radiation everywhere. If the initial fallout (see what we did there) of a nuclear explosion doesn’t get you, then a radroach probably will. And if not a radroach, then something probably even worse. That’s just a fact of life when it comes to Fallout.
Taking to Reddit, Fallout fans pondered an important question: Of all the ways to die in The Wasteland, what is the most horrifying of them all? It turns out that gamers have been pondering this question for some time, and they have a variety of answers.
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One of the most horrific ways to die, as told by Fallout players, is death by cazador. The legendary flying insect from New Vegas stands as one of the worst ways to leave this earth, and we’re hard-pressed to agree. “Captured by cazadores. It starts with incredibly painful, paralytic stings, and ends with you in a cocoon with a grub chewing on you. Alive, of course, so that you stay fresh and grub is clever enough to leave your vitals for last,“a user wrote in excruciating detail. “Give me death by Deathclaw any day over that,” they proposed instead.
Elsewhere, multiple Redditors noted that becoming a feral Ghoul would be a horrific death. That’s because it isn’t quick, but rather slow and involves losing your entire identity all the while. Given how popular Walton Goggins' character in Amazon’s Fallout TV series is, it’s easy to forget the hellish world that Ghouls have to exist within.
Of course, it wouldn’t be a Fallout without noting death by radiation.As one user surmised, death by radiation is equally horrifying in this world as it is in that of Fallout. Other users suggestedthat a bloat fly infection would be an awful way to go out.
Finally, one of the more interesting responses has nothing to do with the creatures of Fallout itself, but rather the raiders. They’re everywhere in The Wasteland, and there’s a good chance they’ll capture you before you even cross paths with a deathclaw. “They are human, but they’re much less than what a human is,“one user theorized.
Either way you chop it up, dying in Fallout does not sound fun at all. It’s a good thing that video games are, well, video games, and you can 1) respawn and 2) not have to experience any of it in real-life. Perhaps living a life in a Vault will be better than testing your luck in the world.
