Poll: Future Fallout Games

[AlternatePFG]

Fallout: Texas!!! I dare them to make that much land in a video game, it would be MONSTROUS!!!

They made a Fallout game in Texas. And it was awful.

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout:_Brotherhood_of_Steel

 

[Moriarty]

Yes, but it really needs to be set in North America. Every time a Fallout location thread comes up, people start suggesting all sorts of places around the world like London, Beijing, Tokyo, Paris, etc. While these would be interesting in a post-apocalyptic scenario, half of Fallout's charm is the Americana setting that you simply wouldn't get in other settings.

As you've pointed out, there are vast tracts of the continent that haven't been explored yet. If you ask me, Bethesda are probably going to go for the cop-out and set Fallout 4 in New York, but just think of how many major American and Canadian cities there are that would make for interesting settings that either have never been mentioned or referenced only in passing: Seattle, New Orleans, Miami, Boston, Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, Denver, Philadelphia, Atlanta, St. Louis, Memphis, Montreal, Toronto (and many, many more!)

Denver, is mentioned multiple times in FA:NV, by major characters like the king or the Legate. (also, Denver was supposed to be the setting ofVan Buren.)

And damn, a game in the "dog city" would be awesome.

edit: wikia link: http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Denver

 

[TheIronRuler]

Yes, but it really needs to be set in North America. Every time a Fallout location thread comes up, people start suggesting all sorts of places around the world like London, Beijing, Tokyo, Paris, etc. While these would be interesting in a post-apocalyptic scenario, half of Fallout's charm is the Americana setting that you simply wouldn't get in other settings.

As you've pointed out, there are vast tracts of the continent that haven't been explored yet. If you ask me, Bethesda are probably going to go for the cop-out and set Fallout 4 in New York, but just think of how many major American and Canadian cities there are that would make for interesting settings that either have never been mentioned or referenced only in passing: Seattle, New Orleans, Miami, Boston, Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, Denver, Philadelphia, Atlanta, St. Louis, Memphis, Montreal, Toronto (and many, many more!)

Especially since Canada go annexed to america in that universe.
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I really REALLY want to see New Caanan. Go mormons!

 

[jack665]

Most would Disagree with me, but a fallout game set in China or Russia. to see how the other side of the world had faired in the Nuclear holocaust.

 

[White Deer]

I'd like to see what happened to New York since it wasn't even mentioned too much in the games, but probably streets will be littered with rubble and my guess is that there will be a lot tunnel walking/fighting which I didn't enjoy in Fallout 3.

 

[souper soup guy]

I'm split on this, on one hand, what makes fallout so neat is the fact that you actually feel like your in a post apocalyptic setting, and if you starting putting fallouts all over the world, like in middle america, canida, mexico, europe, or asia, it starts becoming less and less believable that the world truly suffered some massive war. If you go to to many places it starts feeling like a world where all the buildings are burnt out, not an apocalyptic world with almost no survivors.
And yet, I can't deny how awesome it would be to see those places in game, I want to go to a burned out London, I want to see the great mid western wasteland, I want to see the burnt out husk of china. I feel like they would make fun and interesting settings to expand fallout to.

I just can't decide which would be better for the series.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

Thing is, the fallout games always pick really well known places on purpose. Seeing a place that you've seen before in countless movies, or possibly even a place you've been to, utterly destroyed gives it a very alien sense. That's what they're going for.

Everyone knows that Los Angeles, or San Francisco, or Washington DC, or Las Vegas look like. Most people have either been there or seen these places on TV or in movies.

How many people know what Toronto looks like, or the areas surrounding the great lakes? Not many other than the people who already live there. They wouldn't use those places because they don't have world wide recognition, and therefore wouldn't be quite as interesting to the majority of people. New York or New Orleans, or Seattle would be much more likely since they're instantly recognizable and have very well known landmarks.

 

[Sonicmixer]

Fallout: Texas!!! I dare them to make that much land in a video game, it would be MONSTROUS!!!

They made a Fallout game in Texas. And it was awful.

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout:_Brotherhood_of_Steel

Wow, I totally missed that one. Then I guess they've got some fix'n to do. I stand by my earlier statement.

Edit: Actually I'll narrow it down a bit. Since the setting needs to have SOMETHING familiar in it, I'd say San Antonio for the Alamo. I'll admit it might not be the most nationally recognized but is probably the most well recognized location in Texas, with perhaps Dallas as a good runner up.

 

[The Unworthy Gentleman]

Yes, but it really needs to be set in North America. Every time a Fallout location thread comes up, people start suggesting all sorts of places around the world like London, Beijing, Tokyo, Paris, etc. While these would be interesting in a post-apocalyptic scenario, half of Fallout's charm is the Americana setting that you simply wouldn't get in other settings.

As you've pointed out, there are vast tracts of the continent that haven't been explored yet. If you ask me, Bethesda are probably going to go for the cop-out and set Fallout 4 in New York, but just think of how many major American and Canadian cities there are that would make for interesting settings that either have never been mentioned or referenced only in passing: Seattle, New Orleans, Miami, Boston, Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, Denver, Philadelphia, Atlanta, St. Louis, Memphis, Montreal, Toronto (and many, many more!)

After the amount of Fallout games we've had there isn't going to much difference between them if you try and go for places like Chicago and Boston, you're just going to get more city than you did in Fallout 3. I see the Americana charm excuse in every thread like this and frankly I think it's bullshit now. That charm can easily be recreated for any other country, Britain, France and a few other country's hated communism just like the US.

OT: Yeah, I think it'd be interesting to see what a couple other countries were like. Specifically the two I mentioned earlier, Britain and France. France is one big trench with cities dotted here and there which would make for interesting gameplay. Nothing is known about the UK though, so it's just one massive canvas. Sadly, it's unlikely that they'll do something outisde the US, as hinted at by one of Fallout's lead designers.

Allistair Tenpenny came to the Capital Wasteland from Great Britain to seek his fortune, so that alone tells you that the U.K. was also hit in the war. And if he came to U.S. to succeed, that says a lot about how screwed up Europe must be. So we just allude, a little bit, to the state of the rest of the world. We like to leave a lot to the players' imaginations, and somebody like Tenpenny serves as a catalyst for those thoughts.

 

[Zarkov]

Actually, I think it could be very interesting to have a truly urban wasteland for once, and New York could offer a range of different types of environments; a completely overgrown and wild Central Park (something we've never seen before in a Fallout game), Broadway a vivid town, areas like the Bronx that are all broody, scary and bandit infested, you name it. It could offer way more variation than Fallout 3 ever did.

The problem with that is cities don't tend to produce food. A constant pattern we see when a civilization collapses is that people abandon the cities for the country side. I don't think this scenario would be any different. For that matter, central park is a man-made environment. The water in it runs at the twist of a valve and a lot of the plants in it are not native to the region. It's unknowable how the park would fare on rain water alone but my guess is, not well. I'm not opposed to the idea though.

Well, let's look at the facts though: Fallout isn't quite the game series to be harping on realism... Besides, those reasons could make for a good game. Maybe the character has a reason to go New York (trying to find someone or whatever), and so it would provide a vibrant completely destroyed and challenging area for the setting of the game.