Poll: Fallout:England-Would it Work?

[Sovvolf]

Sadly not, as much as I'd love to see another free-roam game take place in my homeland... Fallout is an American series. The whole charm in fallout is how it makes fun of the whole 1960s-70s cold war propaganda and how the world was at that time. I don't think that charm would work in the U.K as we never (officially) entered the cold war and I'm doubting they'd be all that much to make fun off when it comes to nukes.

 

[De Ronneman]

It would work best if it would take England with a nice little grain of salt.

Y'know, hilarious accents, slapstick humour and at least one person looking and talking like Baldric from Blackadder^^

 

[Taldeer]

Guns aren't nearly as wide-spread in Europe as they're in America. No Second Amendment here. I think European post-apocalypse-land would look a lot more like The Road than Mad Max or Fallout.

 

[Gothtasical]

It would really depend. I don't think the Fallout canon has anything to do with the UK, though I imagine they would be the US's allies in the war. So maybe there would be a little nuclear action going on.

No, because there is no vaults in England.

Also, this. There would be no vaults in the UK. I'm not saying that it would be impossible to make one simply because there are no vaults, since people managed to stay alive outside of vaults anyway, but no vaults means no Pip-Boys. The Pip-Boy is a device that, not in-game mind you, bridges the noticeable gap between game and character. It gives you a tangible device that gives you information, so that you aren't just looking at in-game menus. I feel like no Pip-Boys would take away the subtle charm that it provides, which would actually do more damage than it may seem. The developers may have to think of a clever work-around, without ruining the canon.

ahh yes but you could very easily have a quest where you find a box of pip boys or such and a community which you could be doing quest for early before you turn into a adult gets

 

[ineedscissors]

I think a fallout game in Canada (prb Toronto, I think my home town Winnipeg might be too obscure) would make more sense, as it was occupied by the States during the war, and would therefore probably be more significant to the canon of the North American based Fallout series. Not to say an English one wouldn't work, just that I'd rather see one up here in Canada. One problem though, the snow animations for a Canadian fallout would probably crash the game all the time.

 

[Gothtasical]

ahh but IN A WAR there are bound to be plenty of military units running around with what? guns so you wouldn't find as many guns that wouldn't be used for war but even with no guns i find that a post-war game based on more melee weapons since most guns would be rusted beyond repair anyway to be quite entertaining and maybe a secretish weapon like the alien blaster only in melee form would be oh say excaliber?

 

[Joshimodo]

No.

Fallout Scotland, on the other hand, more specifically Edinburgh...

But yeah, I'd like Fallout to explore another country's reaction, post war Britain was pretty cool culture-wise. Anywhere in Europe, actually...

You don't need a game - Edinburgh looks post-apocalyptic already!



A Fallout London would be cool. Clearly the whole world became a nuclear warzone, but I'd imagine the UK would be spared (primarily because it would only take a few to cover our landmass).

The Underground would be FAR more interesting than D.C.'s metro, and the landmarks would be interesting.

Plus, you'd have a good mix of really old buildings (Victorian, Edwardian etc.) and more modern 50s ones.

 

[AnAngryMoose]

On Topic. I'd love to see a Fallout game set in England. Maybe some branching out into Ireland for DLC or something.

Amen to this! Being an Irishman I think it'd be pretty awesome to have a "blast from the past" moment and have a heavily re-industrialised England trying to lay claim to Ireland (again). As long as I got to side with the Irish. >.>

Only problem is I'm pretty sure both England and Ireland sunk, or something to that affect.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

No because not only is it changing Cannon it is changing the whole feel of the game. The game is supposed to be in 1950s but somehow super advanced America playing on the culture at the time. Also given that according to cannon there are no Vaults in Europe at least due to Vault tec knowledge but at this point you're getting into a bit of Deus Ex Machina. Given that I don't what English culture was like I would assume it never got past the 50s either. Given that Europeans have less firearms regardless of how you want to look at it. So there should then be less weapons and guns to go around. It would be interesting but just too many flaws. Given that it won't be cannon it will not be well received by fan base. Well probably not.

 

[legion431]

Yes, it could work, but I would rather see one set in Australia.

 

[Mr Companion]

Why not? at least it will be full of the best accent in the world! except russian.

I should have known I would meet my soalmate on the escapist! (jokejoke) Anyway I agree that Russian and British accents are the best. If only there were some game like fallout where the nuclear winter hit Russia. A game with lots of Russian people living out the apocalypse together in Moscow. Perhaps in the metro system? Nah im being silly now.

But in all seriousness I think a fallout game set somewhere other than Amarica would rock.

 

[spectrenihlus]

I think Fallout New York would me more likely first.

Surprisingly there is very little to no information on what happened to New York during the war.

 

[supermariner]

i'm english and still voted no
the fallout universe has always been set in a kind of 1950's america vibe yet in the future

a fallout STYLE game would be wonderful in england
but not a fallout installment

 

[RegeM]

"The only issue I can see is the availability of firearms"

Well seeing as how fallout occurs because of wars surely England would have a large stockpile of weapons. I may be wrong seeing as how i don't know much fallout lore.

 

[beniki]

Yeah it's easy to do. Write the back story of England as being the 51st State, heavily into American goods and culture, and have all the American 50s style with a British flavour.

I can see the Vault billboards now: "Come on in! We've got tea!"

 

[Wolfenbarg]

Could it work? Yes, and it would probably be pretty cool. However, if we're going outside of America, why not China? I mean not only did they get it worse than anyone else, but that is a territory where we almost never see games.

 

[E-Penguin]

Its already sinking into the ocean as is. I doubt after it was blown to hell and back it would still be above sea level.

I only have limited A-Level Physics and Mechanics knowledge - you probably know more about this sort of thing than I do. But I'm not 100% convinced that a few nuclear explosions would have anywhere near the force required to sink such a large landmass, let alone move it at all...

Maybe Britain could have sunken a little, it would create some pretty cool environments. Imagine for example London with half the city underwater, but with a lot of the taller structures still standing. There could be small settlements or docks at the top of old apartment complexes!

Also, longer into the city, you might have to wade through about ten cm of water. A lot of London (or whatever town it's set in) could still be dry, though.


You could use a rowboat or something to get around in the city where the water is deep enough; think of it as a kind of mount, like the horses in Oblivion.

Wouldn't that be cool?

 

[revolutionaification]

No.

Fallout Scotland, on the other hand, more specifically Edinburgh...

But yeah, I'd like Fallout to explore another country's reaction, post war Britain was pretty cool culture-wise. Anywhere in Europe, actually...

Hell yeah! In fact, you could easily get most of Scotland into the game, it's not too big. There's nothing I'd love more than rampaging about my hometown (Glasgow) punching the heads off Deathclaws left and right. Or not considering the radiation probably wouldn't have effected our critters in the same way.

Anyone else fancy battling a ten foot pine martin? Or wildcat?

I think it'd be really interesting to branch out and see just how the war has effected the rest of the world. And for all the people who say we wouldn't survive without vaults, it's not necessarily true. There's enough paranoid freaks (myself included) who'd have some form of shelter (unfortunately I don't...yet) and enough open wilderness to save quite a few lucky sods. I know it won't ever happen, but it'd be great to see a spin-off set here.

 

[Mr.PlanetEater]

It's not going to happen, and it never should because it wouldn't be a true Fallout game if it took place outside of America. Fallout's entire premise is the worst extremes of America's McCarthyism in the 50's plus it plays heavily off of that mentality and culture to actually work. Plus you wouldn't have Deathclaws because Chameleons don't live in England and wouldn't survive, you wouldn't have Vaults because there are no Vaults, you wouldn't have the Super Mutants because all Super Mutants in the Fallout Canon were either made in Mariposa or in Vault 87. So all you're left with is Feral Dogs, Radscorpions (They came from pet stores so 'eh it'd work), Mirelurks and Ghouls. But even the Ghouls wouldn't work if you take the side of Chris Taylor and say that Radiation and FEV is needed then you can't have those canonly.

Thus Falloutoutside of America with the exception of Canada because Canada was Annexed by America so therefore could have one or two vaults wouldn't work unless you destroy all the Canon up to this point.

Now a post apocalyptic game that wasn't Fallout and was it's own series would be kick ass in London or any part of Europe for that matter.

 

[RMcD94]

Okay, you've chosen England over the UK, Great Britain, or whatever city you were thinking of?

I have to only assume that you are telling me the game takes place in every where that's inside England.

That sounds fine, but pretty large, too large maybe, indeed, if you're going to go that size I suggest Great Britain, or the British Isles. Great Britain if you don't want to cross a sea, and British Isles if you don't mind.

England seems constrictive, you're missing out on the variety Britannia has to offer (certainly this far in the future they could easily be separate nations, indeed, England could too).

But again if we think of a county or city scale we should not limit ourselves from that part of the UK, I'm sure Edinburgh is as valid a Fallout zone as Manchester.

As it is, I shall retain from voting.