I'd love to have a Fallout: England just to see what happened to my home country, but I think the most interesting would be taking it to the other side of the war and going to China and Japan.
Poll: Should the Fallout setting go European (or anywhere else)?
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You know next to nothing about Canada if you think our country is filled with snow.NoneOfYourBusiness said:
I agree though I think it should be set in Canada.
I think a fallout game in canada would be good. Set in ontario with toronto being the main area and the games map going down as far as negaria falls and into buffalo usa. but thats what i think
I would like to see something set in the Midwest (being from there) since we've had the West Coast, the Southwest, and some East Coast already. Something in the Pacific Northwest and/or Alaska (maybe bridging through Canada) might be good too. Different parts of the US carry (and have traditionally carried) slightly different cultural norms and styles, even in the '50s.
Chicago, particularly, and other cities like it in the Midwest (since Chicago was probably leveled completely) had thriving gangs and organized crime which could have 'mutated' over time into a very interesting landscape - and the Great Lakes are in that region to give the "big body of water" - which I mention because it seems a big body of water is something Fallout landscapers like to make a focal point.
Chicago, particularly, and other cities like it in the Midwest (since Chicago was probably leveled completely) had thriving gangs and organized crime which could have 'mutated' over time into a very interesting landscape - and the Great Lakes are in that region to give the "big body of water" - which I mention because it seems a big body of water is something Fallout landscapers like to make a focal point.
Personally I want it to keep an American main character (perhaps exploring other countries to find something) because Fallout is just an American game to me, every time it has been in the US as far as I'm aware.
To play in Japan as some Asian guy (by nationality) would just be weird.
To play in Japan as some Asian guy (by nationality) would just be weird.
A Fallout game in Europe was planned as a spin-off, called Fallout : Resource Wars.
In the background, the European Commission went to war with the Middle East over oil prices.
Would it work? Sure, absolutely. But it would be a huge departure from the basis of Fallout, keeping pretty much only "Post-Apoc Action-RPG", and probably wouldn't sit well with a lot of fans.
In the background, the European Commission went to war with the Middle East over oil prices.
Would it work? Sure, absolutely. But it would be a huge departure from the basis of Fallout, keeping pretty much only "Post-Apoc Action-RPG", and probably wouldn't sit well with a lot of fans.
Ok, so the main argument against it being set elsewhere is that american culture is too deeply-rooted in the fallout experience to be removed and still have the same game.
But american culture has found its way everywhere. I think an outsider's perspective could be fresh and interesting, but still feel a lot like Fallout.
One idea, that maybe those of you who know about this sort of thing could fix up and improve, would be to set it in Japan.
You could have the samurai reborn! Gangs who wish to reclaim Japan as their own, travelling the wasteland with armour and katanas.
Or you could have younger gangs, binge-drinking nuka cola, wearing baseball caps and using guns to assert their power.
See what I mean? It can be all about American culture, without being in America.
But american culture has found its way everywhere. I think an outsider's perspective could be fresh and interesting, but still feel a lot like Fallout.
One idea, that maybe those of you who know about this sort of thing could fix up and improve, would be to set it in Japan.
You could have the samurai reborn! Gangs who wish to reclaim Japan as their own, travelling the wasteland with armour and katanas.
Or you could have younger gangs, binge-drinking nuka cola, wearing baseball caps and using guns to assert their power.
See what I mean? It can be all about American culture, without being in America.
There's an old saying in the writing game: Stick to what you know. Bethesda is an east-coast developer, Obsidian a west-coast developer. Trying to sum up other culture's responses through any kind of lens is always rife for criticism.bruggs said:
Hey don't forget the BoS and their long trek across all of America and complete change of beliefs, society and objective.Ultratwinkie said:
Fallout 4: Afghanistan. Set in a deserted, mountaneous place, with little food or water and armed gangs of people opposing their will to the lawless peaks.
Then again, that could also be MoH or a CoD. Pre-nuked and post-nuked Afghanistan probably won't have much difference. Than again, the mountains in Afghanistan is not exactly much of a strategic target for a nuclear standoff.
Then again, neither are most European countries...
London is a good idea, because in the 50s they have their own counterpart of Americana, funny, not making much sense phase with super spies and Astons. Japan might be interesting, but I think it is too much of a gap and departure from western pop culture, so I don't know if we could get the jokes and references. Maybe Germany, with Nazi leftover ideas instead of Americana would work and it would be something everyone would be able to relate to.
Then again, that could also be MoH or a CoD. Pre-nuked and post-nuked Afghanistan probably won't have much difference. Than again, the mountains in Afghanistan is not exactly much of a strategic target for a nuclear standoff.
Then again, neither are most European countries...
London is a good idea, because in the 50s they have their own counterpart of Americana, funny, not making much sense phase with super spies and Astons. Japan might be interesting, but I think it is too much of a gap and departure from western pop culture, so I don't know if we could get the jokes and references. Maybe Germany, with Nazi leftover ideas instead of Americana would work and it would be something everyone would be able to relate to.
I'd like to see how the commonwealth is doing. Keep hearing bout em, but not much in terms of lore.
Fallout should never leave the U.S because it is about AMERICAN 50's culture mixed with Science Fiction. I hope the next game is in Detroit.