Just a Rumor: Fallout 4 is in Boston

[evilneko]

So, here's hoping it's actually post-apocalyptic, unlike the last one.

True dat. NV felt nothing like living in a post-apocalyptic setting, especially with a city like vegas still intacted (somehow).

Oh, and sorry to disappoint obsidian fans, but Bethesda is developing Fallout 4. Deal with it.

And I'm glad. I liked the story of Fallout 3 better than lolimgunnahuntdownthedudethatshotme.

 

[EnlightendDead]

Just because part of something is in a game, doesnt mean its cannon. It means they changed it.

Your opinion. Just like it's my opinion that Fallout 3 spits in the face of the canon. I prefer modified versions of dead games to a game that forced mandatory sacrifice on you despite having a radiation resistant party member.

Thank god for broken steel

Just because part of something is integrated into something else, doesnt make the original thing cannon.

 

[William Dickbringer]

Here is hoping they get someone other than Bethesda to write the game. Like Obsidian.

and here's hoping it won't be as broken as new vegas (seriously bethesdia your and obsidian just coop on fallout series 3 was playable but story was a little meh and new vegas was a good story but it barely worked for me)

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Christ it's like watching an argument on the NMA forums.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

Boston would be great but I'm still kind of in shock that they did DC/ the DC Metro area for 3 as that's where I've lived for about 23 years of my 24 year life. I've never been to Boston but any big, Sandbox game taking place away from New York City is always plus for me. Nothing against the big apple of course it's just been done a lot.

As for Fallout lore on the whole, I think (or thought) the main narrative began in the west coast US (L.A. California). Boston would be great, especially if it felt like Fallout 3. New Vegas was a ton of fun but it felt too clean and, advanced to be a post apocalypse: more of a western set in a fucked up modern day what with the working lights and televisions.

 

[Lev The Red]

I still wish Van Buren happened. The plot is still canon as a prequel to New Vegas, but actually playing it would be great

Van Buren's plot is neither canon, nor a prequel to New Vegas.

Van Burn had its plot stripped apart, then scattered into pieces in New Vegas and its DLC.

The Brotherhood of Steel war with the NCR, Joshua Graham's pre Burned Man days, and Caesar's Legion were all set to appear in the game. So parts of Van Buren's plot are still canon.

those are all canon because they appeared in New Vegas, a game which was made. Van Buren was not made, so it's not canon.

back on topic: i'm just glad to hear anything about F4. as a DC resident i'd love to go back to the Capital Wasteland, but The Commonwealth sounds cool.

 

[Sansha]

I'd rather see it in Canada. A lot's been said about Canada's part in the Fallout history - I want to see some of it.

 

[SkullKing84]

I was having a terrible night, but this rumor made me "Squee". Yay, i'm already starting to feel better!

 

[EHKOS]

Wow, Mass sounds fucking boring. I've never been there but I've never heard of anything really interesting there. And it's so close to D.C. I don't believe it, it's not Fallout without huge landmarks.

 

[Dreadman75]

This sounds really cool. I especially like that Bethesda is taking the reigns on this one.

I have nothing against New Vegas, but it always felt a little too...'civilized' would be a good term. There were just so few places that really rewarded exploration outside of any of the questlines. It felt like when the NCR came to the Mojave they combed just about all the places that WOULD have been cool to investigate, and took the rewards with them.

In Fallout 3 however, I loved the urban feel in the DC ruins and traversing them by metro tunnels, while tedious, felt right. And just about every building had something worth finding in it.

I can't wait to see what Fallout 4 has in store for us!

 

[Furbyz]

I wanna see a Fallout game set in China (*read in whiney little kid voice)...

Boston's cool I guess, But I wanna see some non-spin off love for the deep south or the midwest

I know that feel, bro. Seriously, I'd love to know how things are on the other side of the world.

 

[willsham45]

Dare I say it I am fed up of the US cities...go somewhere I know a little closer to home...Cardiff maybe...or OK maybe London would work better.

Either way I am sure it will be a sweet game but I am sure if I ever went to washington or vague the last 2 games would have been a lot more interesting to me full of the oh god I remember that etc...as they stand they are just ruined cites

 

[Fijiman]

I was kind of hoping that the next Fallout would be closer to the Commonwealth, but only time will tell if this is actually true or if it is just another rumor.

 

[Jeff Gennick]

Wait, I thought we already had Boston? Wasn't that one slave place DLC where you faked being a slave in Boston?

I swear I saw a sign wi- oh wait, it said Pittsburgh. Bah, all the same to me. xD

 

[culpeo]

I'm optimistic about this game, regardless of its setting. I thought Bethesda did a more than admirable job resurrecting the Fallout franchise and melding it with their engine. I also believe Obsidian made several notable improvements to the Bethesda model with New Vegas. Now it's just a matter of combining and enhancing the best elements of both games and trimming around the edges.

I just hope that if they go for a huge, Skyrim-esque world, they don't do so at the expense of immersion.

 

[Gottesstrafe]

Glad it's not San Francisco. I was actually hoping it would be in New England, possibly near the border of Canada. I mean, Canada was annexed by the U.S. and supposedly vaults were in the process of being build there too. Not to mention that the continued existence of Toronto was hinted at in The Pitt DLC for Fallout 3. Perhaps Canada suffered less devastation from the nukes than the U.S. and there are still trees growing up there, and maybe the Commonwealth is trying to evict its current inhabitants to gain access to its timber, mineral, and water resources. It'd definitely be an interesting contrast with the shining technological utopia of the Commonwealth, featuring Canada supposedly being retaken by both nature and its former nationals.

 

[OtherSideofSky]

Sweet. It should be interesting to explore the shattered ruins of my home town.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

So, here's hoping it's actually post-apocalyptic, unlike the last one.

Oh right because nothing says "fun" like no progress EVER.

And gamers say they're sick of copy-pasted games.

I'm of the mind that there are two groups of Fallout Fans. The ones that started with the old games, and understand the core themes of rebuilding and black humor of the originals, and those that started with Fallout 3, and were treated to a more traditional apocalypse scenario.

I prefer to move into a new age rather than wallow in the wreckage of what came before.

 

[evilneko]

So, here's hoping it's actually post-apocalyptic, unlike the last one.

Oh right because nothing says "fun" like no progress EVER.

And gamers say they're sick of copy-pasted games.

'cus my post totally said that.

 

[Eddie the head]

I'm of the mind that there are two groups of Fallout Fans. The ones that started with the old games, and understand the core themes of rebuilding and black humor of the originals, and those that started with Fallout 3, and were treated to a more traditional apocalypse scenario.

I prefer to move into a new age rather than wallow in the wreckage of what came before.

I started with Fallout 3. And I got to say it's been what 200 years sense the great war? Yeah New Vegas did it right. It's been 200 years yeah the human race needs to move on. Society's don't stagnate like that. If you have to keep the Fallout name and you just have to be more "post-apocalyptic" then make it a prequel because moving forward don't make sense. What I am saying is I started in Fallout 3, but shit needs to move forward.