AWKWARD ZOMBIE

Stalker is more open world than Metro 2033 and has more glitches.
It's clearly the russian fallout

Not for another thousand years or so, when civilization is back on its feet.

all yes

You know if it weren't for the fact that the games have always made consistent references to the present day, that would be my favorite creepypasta.

Hairy deathclaws are already a thing. They can also talk. Oh and the Midwestern Brotherhood of Steel recruited them.

"Believe me, we know how outrageously overpowered we are, we're sorry about that, we really are. If we could show you around a bit, introduce you to a couple of people, we would be glad to, eh, I have been talking to a corpse for several seconds too long. Sorry again. I'll be off now. HELLO TRAVELER!"

Those aren't what I was talking about. I was talking about a moose crossed with a deathclaw.

As in jagged, sharp, carnivorous teeth and built like a four-legged scaly tank with each "hoof" having giant claws to trample and shred flesh and giant prehensile horns that can grab prey like a Venus Flytrap and bring it closer to the deathmoose's mouth for consumption.

Pretty sure that's as close as you're going to get since Deathclaws were originally mutated from iguanas. The whole fur thing was a pretty unlikely mutation in the first place.

Deathclaws are supposed to be funny because they're among the deadliest creatures post-apocalypse, but previously they were tiny harmless Jackson's chameleons.

How about something even more harmless, but mutated into something even more unstoppable.

Sloths have mutated into lightning-fast cougar-like creatures.

Rabbits have grown a second pair of hopping legs with giant claws meant specifically for disemboweling enemies.

Clown fish grew legs and can live on land, and are the size of sharks HOLY SHIT THEY HAVE BECOME LANDSHARKS.

Oh yeah, Chameleons. Right. Got my lizards mixed up.

How about platypuses? Oh the things those could become.

Domestic housecats gained a hivemind shared amongst all of them and near-human intelligence.

You are the mouse.

I thought they already had that, and they're just waiting until we're all too fat and lazy to defend ourselves when they choose to attack en masse.

Deathclaws arent "natural" mutations though, theyre Enclave experiments that escaped into the wild after the war.

I want to see Texas. The story could revolve around one final motherlode of oil waiting somewhere out in the wastes, one that everyone in the pre-war era missed. That, or a pre-war oil baron hid one last massive cache somewhere in the Texas wasteland, and your character gets caught up in the struggle to find it.

Rolypollies have become Gorons.