After playing Fallout 3 I got to thinkin

[SomeBritishDude]

There a plenty of places that would look awesome in the Fallout style. New York is just one of them.

Personally I want to see out side of America. The rest of the world can't be that well off either. I'd love to see how china faired, especially Hong Kong.

Maybe it's just because I'm curious about my homeland, but I want to see the state Britain is in in the fallout universe. A fallout game in the ruins of London would be immense.

 

[Lyri]

I honestly cannot abide by another game set in NYC again for a very long time, even when trying to mask it as "liberty city".
There's nothing amazingly standout about it, apart from Central park and the short trip to see the Statue of Liberty.

It's nothing impressive really.

NYC is 100 times better than London. And NYC was Americas first capital. If anything, NYC has more historic landmarks pertinent to Americas birth than in the prefabrication which is Washington D.C.

When did London come into this?
But back to NYC, it falls in the same category as the beaches of Normandy. I don't care for it anymore, I'm sure it has wonderful historical relevance to America.
If you look around though, there are a myriad of other fun settings which haven't been used yet.

 

[paragon1]

Fallout in Venice, think about it, seriously.

Wouldn't it all be underwater by that point? Radioactive water at that. Maybe as part of a wider world? I'd love to wonder around Rome myself (even if it is completely radioactive.

Hey, you know guys, if they have a Fallout Game take place outside of America, they'll have to come up with a looming menace besides the Super Muties or the Enclave.

 

[teutonicman]

That would be a cool idea. I had some ideas about fallout 3 also; the first one was making an online co-op element like what fable 2 did. another was more moral ambiguity choices like the oasis quest or whether or not to crab the cure in The Pitt. Those were the elements that turned fallout 3 from an entertaining combat game with the vats system, to a great game that drew me in like a strip bar draws 20 year old guys in.

 

[Clashero]

Perhaps you didn't notice, but if you want to explore San Francisco in a Fallout game, you needn't look any further than Fallout 2.

What does the isometric view have to do with this?

And OF COURSE I know you know that 3 wasn't the first game of the series. Christ, does everything need to be made so clear? It was a figure of speech, referring to the great amount of people who played Fallout 3 and hadn't even heard of the series up until then.

I apologize, I acted without properly thinking. My main problem was why you saw fit to quote myself rather than make a standalone post, I can be rather defensive at times. I apologize for that.

I do remember something about SF in fallout now (I read up on the story when I was brought in on 3 and just forgot everything but the basic plot of the past games). I had to look it up to remind myself but yes you are right there was a small bit of SF in fallout 2. I just would like to see a game that took place in all of SF rather than a relatively small part.

While I would love to play Fallout 1 & 2, I have no idea where I may buy them in reliable quality.

So once again I apologize for my defensiveness. I have always just had problems with perceived slams against my intelligence. It is one of the few things that I pride myself on and one of the few things that is repeatedly attacked, and sometimes I just snap.

Edit: On isometric view, it is one of the things that always seems to come up when people talk about original fallout versus fallout 3. It is a standard argument made by fans of the original, and figured it was a main point of your unsaid argument. Again I snap and don't think straight.

Hah! I know precisely what you mean. I'm a big, defensive, stubborn jerk when I feel my intelligence has been offended =D

That said, although SF did appear in Fallout 2, it'd be nice to see it with next-gen graphics and a first-person view.

 

[Clashero]

How about fallout: detroit, you could see how nukes can improve a landscape

Fallout: Detroit, it takes place in the futuristic year 2010, where a small band of survivalists roam the barren sparsely populated ruined city looking for a scarce and precious resource known as dollars; and always on the lookout for nightmarish ZOMBIE BANKS!

And THEN the bombs fall!

 

[joe182]

Fallout Australia, with Rad Emus, Kangaroos, Koalas, and of course giant snakes and spiders

Plus lots and lots of barbeques.

 

[The_Chief]

I SAY FALLOUT NJ! WE ARE RIGHT ACROSS FROM NYC! WE ARE IMPORTANT TO! *crawls back into corner*

 

[Midniqht]

what really stuck out to me in fallout wasnt the buildings or the setting, but the circumstances in which you find stuff. almost everything tells a story. if you see a skeleton on a bench with a bottle of booze and a suitcase, you know the story was likely that he was drinkin it up in the park when the bombs fell or somethin. look around at all the skeletons and what theyre surrounded by - everyone died in a unique way

 

[jimduckie]

how about FALLOUT LA? that would be cool ,plastic surgery mutes? botox babes ?

 

[squid5580]

I know Toronto!?!?!?!?...... Ok I will go back to my corner now

Why do you want to run around looking at nuked igloos and beaver dams?

I'm allowed. I'm Canadian.

 

[rickthetrick]

how about FALLOUT LA? that would be cool ,plastic surgery mutes? botox babes ?

escape from la reference I take it?

Personally i think A fallout game in San Francisco would be the shit.
All the landmarks like china town, Golden gate bridge, and of course Alcatraz!!

 

[omgwaffles]

i cant wait for fallout vegas but I'm still a little worried that bethesda isn't making it directly.

if that means elder scrolls V comes out sooner, then I'm all for it.

 

[Unreliable]

Of course, a more plausible post-apocolyptic scenario might be the one we are living in:

http://www.salon.com/comics/tomo/2009/03/17/tomo/story.jpg

 

[Taylorcrw]

I started thinking about that too, then I thought about a fallout game that took place in my hometown.

That would be a cool game. At least for me lol

 

[Spineyguy]

England was originally named Albion, then it was named Anglo-land, then England. So it's not even a particularly clever disguise. But why disguise it at all? Are Americans completely incapable of accepting that there are other countries in the world? It's been assumed that if you don't set your game in America, then you won't appeal to the American market, but why? Americans aren't bad people who are self-centred and xeno-phobic (well most aren't anyway). So why not mix things up a bit.

Video Games that take place in places other than America:
Farcry2
Age Of Empires 1 and 2 (the Aztec campaign takes place in Mexico, not USA)
Half-Life 2 and all sequel episodes
Bioshock
Tropico
Planescape: Torment

On-Topic: I would like to see a Fallout game set in China, because I really want to see how nuclear war affected it.

How many of those are set in fictitious locations?

And I'm pretty sure Half-Life takes place in America. Wasn't the Black Mesa research facility in the Nevada desert?

most of the characters in Bioshock are American so it doesn't count. I have no problem with people setting their games in America, but they could at least show some diversity. By all means have things taking place in the US, but not exclusively.

 

[Spineyguy]

How about we do over with the whole 'ruined US cityscape' idea and try something new. Maybe, an RPG with FPS elements set in post-apocalyptic London Can you imagen fighting your way through Parliament house with hordes of mutant politicians trying to claw your nipples off and take all your money.

I would much prefer a game set in England, why does that never happen? The closest thing we've come to an english game so far has been either GTA London 1960s or Fable, and even Fable tries to hide the fact that it's set in england by calling it 'Albion'.

England was originally named Albion, then it was named Anglo-land, then England. So it's not even a particularly clever disguise. But why disguise it at all? Are Americans completely incapable of accepting that there are other countries in the world? It's been assumed that if you don't set your game in America, then you won't appeal to the American market, but why? Americans aren't bad people who are self-centred and xeno-phobic (well most aren't anyway). So why not mix things up a bit.

Also, I'm not counting 'Resident Evil' because they're clearly making a statement about how terrible all these other countries are compared to America, and that an American should go in there and feed them some liberty, democracy and bullets.

Really? Seriously dude, really? An Englishman (UK citizen, at least) is accusing Americans of being self-rightous imperialists? Do I really need to go into just how hypocritical and ironic that would be?
I can only assume the original fallout took place in America because the developers were American. Fallout 2 was a direct sequel, so it wouldn't make much sense for it to take place elsewhere, would it? I guess Fallout 3 took place in America for continuity's sake.

I believe there are several games that take place in London. In fact, Unskippable did an episode on the Getaway, if I'm not much mistaken. Also, don't Americans play an awful lot of games from a little place called Japan? Last time I checked, the land of the rising son hasn't applied for statehood yet.

I said that the majority of Americans AREN'T self-rightious imperialists. (This might have been unclear typing on my part) Some of my best freinds are American and why would I badmouth one of the most powerful nations in the world?

Yeah, you can bring up 'The Getaway' if you like, but I was actually referring to good games. Maybe something a little more mainstream. And I wasn't even referring to Fallout specifically, I just think that by broadening the range of places you set your games in, you would probably attract a wider, not narrower audience.

Besides, the Englishmen who ran the empire a hundred years ago were miles from the hypochondriac, safety-obsessed, desparate people we are today. Half the country live in fifty bedroom houses with butlers and massive govornment paycheques, and the other half live in council provided housing, refusing to find jobs and living off the state benefits and free healthcare. In some ways, we are already a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

Ooh, okay, thanks for clearing that up. The massive government paycheckes sound nice (though I'm betting you guys get taxed halfway to Obilivion). Though I still have one tiny problem with your original statement. Resident Evil was made in Japan, wasn't it? And isn't the protagonist supposed to be working for some sort of international thingy?
P.S. I agree that the Getaway wasn't very good.

Oh yeah, and then you have to factor in that prices are waaaaaayyy higher in Britain than they are in America, and the local councils have a nasty habit of charging unreasonable amounts for things like parking your car and such.

To be fair, Trine was brilliant and that featured all English characters. But it wasn't all that mainstream. Still loved it though. I hope they do a sequel. Though indy games rarely get franchises.

 

[masher]

It's what they put INTO the ruins that would make me squee with spree.

A ruined capital building: yawn. A ruined capital building with two factions(the Super Mutants and the Talon Company) at constant war: Banzai! Bring out the rocket launchers and sniper rifles! It's Genocide time..!

But yeah, I'd love it if they made exploring them worth my while.

 

[NeutralMunchHotel]

Really, what in New York would look good destroyed?

It would look like this: http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories/images/groundzero.jpg

Which incidently, looks enough like this: http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/files/2008/12/fallout3.jpg

...not to matter.

I think you're missing the point of what I'm saying. New York is just a shitload of buildings, which very few landmarks, something that made Fallout 3 great.

 

[phatty500]

how bout we examine the other side and see what happened in moscow. can you imagine fighting a new enemy in the wreckage of the kremlin