Summary

• Every Fallout game has its own version of Dogmeat, but the Fallout 4 iteration is the most mystical and potentially immortal of them all.
• The original Dogmeat from Fallout 1 also appears in Fallout 2, making it the only Dogmeat to feature in more than one game in the series.
• The Fallout TV series cleverly includes a Dogmeat character, providing a staple of the series and smoothly conveying character morality.

Man's best friend will always have a place by our side, even in video games, and perhaps no canine better represents this than Dogmeat from the Fallout series. Although🌃 rarely the same dog from game to game, Dogmeat has become an iconic companion that for many of you is ಞyour first choice when it comes to who you want to travel the wasteland with.

Every dog has its day, and we decided that it was high time Dogmeat had theirs. We're going to undertake the impossible task of ranking several perfect pooches, determining once and for all which one is the top dog across the Fallout series.

5 💖 Fallout: The Roleplaying Game 𒆙

This One Is Up To You

Fallout: The Roleplaying Game is often forgotten about when people discuss the series. A tabletop roleplaying game, not unlike Dungeons & Dragons, it's an excellent way to create your own Fallout stories with a group of friends, and it even allows you to have your very own Dogmeat.

If you acquire the Dogmeat perk, your character then gains a version of Dogmeat as their very own canine companion, leveling up alongside your character. That means D♔ogmeat scales alongside you and brings several useful abilities to the table, as Keen Senses allows them to track or spot things you might not be able to do alone and assists in combat with a not-inconsiderable Bite attack.

This Dogmeat could be the best or worst one of all, so it's extremely difficult to rank; as a TTRPG companion, just how much character and personality your Dogmeat displays is between you and your friends playing. How effective he is as a tracker or combat aide will depend on dice rolls, which any dice goblin will tell you are rarely good when you need them to be.

4 Fallout 3

The Immortal Dogmeat

For so many Fallout players, this Dogmeat was the first one you may have encountered; Fallout 3 was a bold new direction for the series and brought in many people who had never played the original two games or their spinoffs. This Dogmeat is a stalwart companion but can permanently die, or at least it maybe can, it's a little unclear.

Dogmeat can fall in battle, but if you have the Puppies! perk, a brand new Dogmeat can be found. It is one of Dogmeat's puppies, psychically called to replace him? Is it Dogmeat returned from the dead, a synth replacement, reincarnated? The truly strange thing is that if you tell Dogmeat to wait in Megaton and then remotely detonate the nuke there, Dogmeat survives completely unharmed.

Possible godhood aside, the Fallout 3 Dogmeat is a must-have companion; he can fetch items, help out in combat, and be recruited alongside another companion since he's flagged separately by the game as an animal companion. With the Puppies! perk, there's no real downside to bringing him along wherever you go.

3 Fallout TV Series 🌸 🅺

A True Survivor

Originally labeled CX404, then called Four by Siggi Wilzig, and finally Dogmeat by The Ghoul, this wonderful live-action canine is central to the plot of the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Fallout TV show. Used multiple times by different characters to track the severed head of Siggi Wilzig she ensures that characters keep crossing paths and have a consistent way to remain relevant to the story, and if it wasn't for this Dogmeat a lot of the plot just wouldn't work.

She also serves as an excellent barometer for the morality of different characters, cluing us in smoothly to how we should feel about them; we learn relatively little about Siggi Wilzig but see him ensure she's spared the incinerator and look after her in secret. Initially, you might be horrified that The Ghoul shoots her, but he does so non-fatally and later heals her with a stimpack; even though he does this for pragmatic reasons, that still reveals a lot about his character.

Including a Dogmeat at all in the show was a clever move, cementing the presence of a Dogmeat as a staple of the Fallout series and making those of you who have played the games feel a greater sense of coherency between the show and the games. With Season 2 already confirmed, we have more of this Dogmeat in the future and that's something to be grateful for.

The Fallout show is stacked with incredible actors like Ella Purnell and Walton Goggins, but let's not forget the canine actors who portrayed Dogmeat. She was played by two actors, Luna5 and the absurdly excellently named Nunaya Business de la Forge.

2 ♔ Fallout 1 & 2 ♛

Pulling Double Dog Duty

This is one of those things that even some veterans of the series don't know, the same Dogmeat from the original Fallout is also available as a companion in Fallout 2, making the first Dogmeat the only one to feature in more than one game in the series - not counting 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Fallout Shelter.

Encountered in the first game terrorizing someone away from their home, Dogmeat doesn't behave like any other companion; he can't be controlled or given orders of any kind, making him something of a liability despite how effective he is in combat. His AI also compels him to charge at certain forcefields and die, something the memoirs of the Vault Dweller, the main character of the game, confirm as his canonical fate.

At least, it was until you stumble across the Café of Broken Dreams in Fallout 2, an easter egg and special encounter location that serves as a gathering point for wastelanders across time and space, Dogmeat included. If you wear your ancestral Vault 13 jumpsuit so that you resemble the Vault Dweller, you can recruit Dogmeat and leave with him, and leaving the implica🌠tions this has for the stability of the Fallout timeline aside, it marks this Dogmeat as a rough-and-tumble time traveler who can never be tamed, only befriended.

1 Fallout 4

The Wonder Dog

Fallout is full of fantastical dogs, and some are potentially immortal or time travellers, but there's still something especially mystical about the Fallout 4 iteration of Dogmeat, which might be both. Before ever encountering the Sole Survivor, Dogmeat is one of the only guardians a group of refugees led by Preston Garvey has, but before that, Dogmeat was a detective dog, working alongside Nick Valentine to such a degree that Nick dubbed them a specialist in the field.

Dogmeat was based on the real dog, River, owned by Fallout 4 Lead Level Design꧟er Joel Burgess, and Joel has stated that Dogmeat was intended to be "out of time" just like the Sole Survivor, with their origin left deliberately vague. That means just like the original Dogmeat, this one could also be a time traveller.

Improbable origins aside, the Fallout 4 Dogmeat is 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the most useful of all the game Dogmeats; he can't die, he sniffs out valuable items, restrains enemies, has associated perks, and can be travelled with while using the incredible Lone Wanderer perk, and even plays a pivotal role in the main story. Most important of all though, you can outfit him with cool goggles and a bandana, so it doesn't get any better than that.