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Fallout Curiosities

A few oddities from the Fallout world. I didn't include everything that didn't make it into the final versions, because there's nothing curious about that.

• The main reason that NPC interaction (I'm talking about follower NPCs) was so bad in Fallout was that the engine was never intended to support a party. It was all Jess Heinig's idea, and he created the party members as simple scripts.
• There are some graphics for torn wallpaper in Fallout 2, complete with prototype files (scenery 1117–39), which were never used. It's just strange because there doesn't seem to be a particular reason not to use them.
• There are several graphics that were obviously designed assuming you could put one wall on top of the other:
  • Double-high columns for Vault 13 (scenery 9/COLUMN2; COLUMN1, no proto);
  • an older version of the garage where the low wall on the roof is technically a wall and not a floor;
  • The large vent for Vault 13 fits directly above the pipes (scenery 27/28; VOSP000, VOSV000).
• Not counting the end bosses, there are three NPCs with unique sprites in Fallout (Overseer, Lieutenant, Gizmo), but only two in Fallout 2: Lynette and Myron.
• There is a gold locket item from a never implemented Fallout quest (Julianna). Yet, when the designers needed a locket for the ghost quest in the Den, they created a new one.
• At least four quest items from Fallout continued a totally useless existence in Fallout 2. On the other hand, only one useless item from Fallout served as a (sort of) quest item in Fallout 2.
• The designers could never quite agree on where Gizmo's casino is located: Killian's dialog lines place it at the entrance, from the logic of map design it would be found at the west end of L-shaped Junktown, from the way the exit grids are placed it is in the east.
• Older screenshots show that originally you could equip only one two-handed weapon, or two one-handed weapons, which were than displayed side by side. Therefore the graphics for one-handed weapons are a maximum of 95 pixels wide. Interesting enough, nearly all the new weapons graphics for Fallout 2 still follow this norm.
• For Fallout 2, many things including three locations were planned but never executed, a common occurrence in the game industry. But for the original Fallout, more than a dozen NPCs and several quests were completely scripted, but later thrown out again.