Fallout: Australia?

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Giantpanda602

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Fallout isn't just about America though. The games may haves stories based in America, but its based on an entire world conflict that destroyed almost every civilization and how the world is starting to be rebuilt. In my opinion it should start to branch out to the rest of the world.
 

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Giantpanda602 said:
Fallout isn't just about America though. The games may haves stories based in America, but its based on an entire world conflict that destroyed almost every civilization and how the world is starting to be rebuilt. In my opinion it should start to branch out to the rest of the world.
Clearly you don't know much of the Fallout lore, as many others will tell you. All other parts of the world were blown to bits:

Ordinaryundone said:
I'm more targeting this at everyone than just you, but it needs to be said again.

The rest of the universe didn't turn out as anything but ashes! Europe blew itself to hell, then got nuked. The Middle-East and Africa were destroyed by Europeans fighting over them. Australia...what about it? It likely got nuked just the same as anyone else, but there was nothing interesting going on over there anyway. Ditto Russia and the other Eastern European countries.

China got smashed by the entire U.S. arsenal. If anything is left, it'll only be a small section of it like New Vegas. And even then, canon has already stated that the Chinese already tried to rebuild, and collapsed again. There isn't really anything left, no factions or anything. It would be as if the Enclave took over the Wasteland, and then they all got killed by raiders.

People aren't saying that the series shouldn't leave America because they are American nationalists who want to keep it to themselves, we are saying it because the story really can't work outside of America due to both thematic and logical reasons. You are operating under the false assumption that a Fallout set in your location of choice could still retain Fallout's distinct (and already discussed, American) feel while somehow incorporating your country's culture and such. It simply can't be done. Either you end up with a game that is just Fallout with some labels moved around, or something that simply isn't Fallout. And I'm pretty sure you don't want either of those.
 

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I disagree because USA bears no resemblance to post nuke USA except for names.Also Australia is roughly 100x more interesting then America kangaroos ftw! Just my opinion.
 

Eclectic Dreck

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I think they could just set a game in Australia without resorting to nuclear mutation and it would already closely resemble Fallout.
 

UltamaKilla

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During the mounting nukes between the USA and china whose to say their was not a spy or a separate Masters army project being controlled across continent.Water born strain of FEV. Their are so many ways to work FEV into any area.
 

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I don't think Fallout would work in Australia. An apocalypse game by all means, but not Fallout, because we've seen how amazing it could be with Mad Max 2, and a game would have to be at least as awesome as that. I'd spend 10 minutes in Fallout Australia and wonder where are the bike gangs, the V8 interceptors, the dune buggies and tanker trucks, the autogyros, the vehicular mayhem of every kind.

Hell that's what I think whenever I play Fallout 3 anyway.
 

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No, not at all. Fallout is a game series of a American nationalist type theme. Its the style of game, and what makes it unique. I am tired of people saying that this series should be taken elsewhere. This also results me in needing to repeat the fact that no vaults were ever built elsewhere! For the most part, everyone outside the U.S. is dust.
 

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This again?

Fallout is all about 50s American culture and aesthetics, it wouldn't be Fallout in whatever country you guys come up with next that isn't America.
 

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Can someone point me to were it states that the rest of the world is pretty much wiped off the face of the map? As far as i can tell they dont go into any detail of other countries after the Bombs started to fall.
 

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MiracleOfSound said:
This again?

Fallout is all about 50s American culture and aesthetics, it wouldn't be Fallout in whatever country you guys come up with next that isn't America.
No chance of Fallout: Papu New Guinea then?
Balls... XD

OT: To be honest, the only way you'll ever see a game set in another country with Fallout written on it is if Sawyer ever gets around to making that Resource Wars [http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Resource_Wars][footnote]Check towards the bottom of the page.[/footnote] spin-off he's mentioned but from what I can tell, that's not gonna happen. Even if it did, it would be set between 2052 and 2077, focus on the European side of things and with 2077 the year being the Great War [http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Great_War] started and finished and it would only serve as a prequel to the Fallout games. Even then, some of the Resource Wars is based on canon from Van Buren so...it's just a big ol' mess, really.

So...yeah. No one is gonna get a main Fallout game in another country any time soon, only a spin-off based on the events leading up to it, which by based in Europe.
 

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psyconinja7 said:
Also, for all those who have, stop saying stuff like 'it would be an improvement' or 'it wouldn't be much different'. I find that offensive.
Way to encourage the vultures.

(weird, my solve media phrase for this post was 'true blue')
 

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Sorry but Australia has terrifying enough animals. Also the outback is kind of already a wasteland. Just kidding, I think it would be fun.
 

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psrdirector said:
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psrdirector said:
Who would nuke australia to that level?
Someone who wanted to get their hands on or wipe out the world's largest uranium deposits?
considering the games backstory, I would imagine that deposit would be gone by the time of the resource wars one way or another.
deposits, plural. Australia has 23% of the world's uranium reserves.