Fall outcolorful mascot of stew boy Completely opposite to the grim, violent, post-apocalyptic reality of role-playing games. Originally inspired by the board game Chance cards Monopoly and cartoon from the 1950s, the blue and yellow jumpsuit-wearing cartoon character was designed to illustrate how perks and abilities worked in the Fallout games.
Much of the humor surrounding Vault Boy comes from the strange and macabre situations that Vault-Tec's cheerful mascot encounters. The first Fallout games show Vault Boy as a tomb robber, slave trader, serial killer, and frequent prostitute as the player gains a “reputation” by performing certain feats. determined in the game. But a Vault Boy cartoon from radioactive fallout 2 Its design was so offensive that its creators pulled it from the game—which turned it into one of the most legendary symbols in the series.
Child Killer is a reputation status in Fall out And radioactive fallout 2 rewarded to the player after killing many child NPCs. Unused illustration for Child Killer depicts Vault Boy delivering a quick kick to the pregnant stomach of a woman – who is wearing a dress with the word “baby” printed on the chest and an arrow pointing downward at her unborn child to do just that. It's clear what's going on. Vault Boy is smiling in the Baby Killer drawing, while his victim looks shocked.
Former Interplay Entertainment artist Brian Menze introduced the original, unused Child Killer illustration to the wider world in 2010, when he uploaded his Vault Boy drawing to DeviantArt. In the description of the piece (which was quickly deleted), Menze said the image “was not used and is the only Vault Boy image ever cut from radioactive fallout 2. (I'm sure you can understand why). It is known that another illustration of Boy Masturbates In The Toilet was also cut from the game, despite what Menze said.
“I remember when I received a request to illustrate the 'child killer' franchise, there was no way to keep it. [it] from being offended,” Menze wrote in 2010. “I mean it seriously! How do you illustrate 'baby killer' and keep it inoffensive? Anyway for some reason, I think this is the least annoying way to do it. I don't know what I was thinking. Even the designer who requested it realized it was a bad idea so we scrapped it. Looking back now, I can't believe I drew this picture.”
The Baby Killer reputation still lives on radioactive fallout 2; it just used a different illustration of Vault Boy running from an angry mob. Fans of the original, unused illustration can re-add it to the classic games using mod.
Choosing to kill children in radioactive fallout 2 according to its creators, is only available in some versions of the game.
“We allowed it,” the original recalls Fall out creator Tim Cain in a presentation at GDC 2012. “We just said, 'Look, we're going to have kids in the game. If you shoot them, it will be a huge karmic punishment, you are really unpopular, there are places that won't sell to you, there are people who will shoot you on sight' and we think every People can decide what they want to DO. However, this of course contributed to our M rating. Europe said no. They won't even sell the game if there are children in the game. We don't have time to rewrite all the tasks, [so] we just deleted the children from the disk. There are references to children; you just never see children.
Every few years, Child Killer's famous illustration appears as a new discovery for Fallout fans. Sometimes it adapted to meme format, change genderor turned into an unofficial item. The Child Killer reputation hasn't carried over into the Fallout era of Bethesda Softworks – that is radioactive fallout 3 and more – but its small, interesting legacy is that one of the series' most offensive images still lives on with its most ardent fans.
