Poll: What's next for Fallout?

[Watchmacallit]

AUSTRALIA.

Let me explain.
1. We have some of the most deadly animals on the planet.
Giant rat meet giant koala.
Giant Mole meet giant Wombat.
Giant Death Claw meet Giant freaking Funnel web spider.

2. Wide range of scenery.

3. The toughest people live in Aus. Who do ya think is gonna survive a nuclear fallout? xD

4. Who doesn't want a giant mutated kangaroo as a pet? I mean, ride in its pouch, it can do super kicks. Or a dingo. The ranga of dogs.

 

[Watchmacallit]

i think it should stay in america. but i think maybe set it closer to the war. like 5 years after the war. so people are still coming to terms with the end of civilisation. or maybe during the war, so you see the bombs drop.

Maybe you play a character that is a major part of starting the settlements in earlier fallout games. like you play as a guy that helps people survive and settle down in rivit city or megaton.

Like maybe a sort of fallout/sim city sort of thing. where you can invest in the town or get supplies for it. like get metal sheets etc to create the walls around megaton to protect people from raiders etc

you know what i mean.

Games try the build the city thing, never as fun as it sounds. I mean Assassins Creed 2 and Brotherhood did it. Really wasn't fun. 5 years after the war would mean you are stuck in one vault unless you play as a ghoul or super mutant. Ghoul would be interesting.

 

[5t3v0]

Do understand that for it to be a perfectly acceptable sequel it must fall in the realms of the Fallout Lore or expect fanboys to try and mail bomb the office of the developers of said "Fallout" game.

And I for one like the Idea of the continuing future of the fallout games. Unless its a spinoff, im not really for a Prequel game, unless its the FPS version of the resource wars that one of the developers commented that he would like to do. I like seeing the effects of the vault dweller (Im talking the first Fallout here, not the Lone wanderer from Fallout 3 btw)

 

[Merkavar]

i think....

Games try the build the city thing, never as fun as it sounds. I mean Assassins Creed 2 and Brotherhood did it. Really wasn't fun. 5 years after the war would mean you are stuck in one vault unless you play as a ghoul or super mutant. Ghoul would be interesting.

yeah but maybe fallout could make the city building aspect fun.

but im not sure about the fallout story but i thought some people survive the war with out being in a vault. also werent there some vaults that would have opened after like 30 days as part of the expirements

but maybe playing a ghoul might be good. maybe make it so there is like 2 caracters to pick from. both with a seperate start of the game but similar endings. maybe making it so all the faction are more agressive to the ghoul. like if normally you start of as neutral to everyone as a ghoul you start out as hated to more people until you do some quests to get rep up.

 

[Watchmacallit]

i think....

Games try the build the city thing, never as fun as it sounds. I mean Assassins Creed 2 and Brotherhood did it. Really wasn't fun. 5 years after the war would mean you are stuck in one vault unless you play as a ghoul or super mutant. Ghoul would be interesting.

yeah but maybe fallout could make the city building aspect fun.

but im not sure about the fallout story but i thought some people survive the war with out being in a vault. also werent there some vaults that would have opened after like 30 days as part of the expirements

but maybe playing a ghoul might be good. maybe make it so there is like 2 caracters to pick from. both with a seperate start of the game but similar endings. maybe making it so all the faction are more agressive to the ghoul. like if normally you start of as neutral to everyone as a ghoul you start out as hated to more people until you do some quests to get rep up.

I don't know much about the Fallout history but I thought those that were let out early ended up as Ghouls? Or were the ones that turned into weird mutant creatures.

I've only played Fallout 3 and Vegas. A little of Fallout 2 actually (forgive me, when the originals came out I was probably 10 and playing Arcanum).

 

[GrizzlerBorno]

I was a bit disappointed Australia wasn't on your poll, though. Mad Max. Nuff said.

AUSTRALIA.

Oh sorry about that. I guess i didn't put it in separately cause i have no idea how adveresly Australia was affected by the apocalypse in Lore. Can any of you tell me if they ever mentioned it? I mean, I know for a fact that Australia (in our world at-least) has one of the largest deposits of (feasible-to-mine) Uranium on the planet (Canada has a lot too, if i remember correctly) so it may have been pivotal in the Resource War?

I would edit in an Australian option to the poll now, but i don't see this thread surviving for much longer so...

 

[Merkavar]

i think....

I don't know much about the Fallout history but I thought those that were let out early ended up as Ghouls? Or were the ones that turned into weird mutant creatures.

I've only played Fallout 3 and Vegas. A little of Fallout 2 actually (forgive me, when the originals came out I was probably 10 and playing Arcanum).

ok so how about its early years after the war and your a mutant but not a super mutant. like human/mutant. like may increase limb regen and slightly bigger but not a dumb sounding as a super mutant. like the mutation is only physical.

Do you think fallout would benefit from having an oblivion sytle character choice thing. where there are multiple races to play. like a few human ''races'' like starting off in the brotherhood of steel or other factions, or as a vualt dweller or as a ghoul. might add to the replayability of the game.

 

[Watchmacallit]

i think....

I don't know much about the Fallout history but I thought those that were let out early ended up as Ghouls? Or were the ones that turned into weird mutant creatures.

I've only played Fallout 3 and Vegas. A little of Fallout 2 actually (forgive me, when the originals came out I was probably 10 and playing Arcanum).

ok so how about its early years after the war and your a mutant but not a super mutant. like human/mutant. like may increase limb regen and slightly bigger but not a dumb sounding as a super mutant. like the mutation is only physical.

Do you think fallout would benefit from having an oblivion sytle character choice thing. where there are multiple races to play. like a few human ''races'' like starting off in the brotherhood of steel or other factions, or as a vualt dweller or as a ghoul. might add to the replayability of the game.

I like the idea of playing other races but this isn't like Morrowind. In Morrowind all the races can start as a prisoner on a ship but in Fallout only a human can start in a vault with other humans and a ghoul has to start on the outside.

It is a lot of work and the story will have to incorporate any race as the main character. You can't really have a Super Mutant walk in and help out the Brother Hood, they'd gun you down on site. Its tough to do but a nice idea all the same. Would add a lot of variety.

 

[SimuLord]

New York and the Commonwealth seem like the most popular contenders in this thread. I did see that coming, but didn't play that up too much because......well, frankly, we've had so many games in New York :S . I mean it's true that we've never seen it actually blown to smithereens (as far as i know) just in the process of it. But i could still plot a course from Central Park to Brooklyn irl, using just my knowledge from games like Prototype, Spiderman or GTAIV.

But i suppose a Commonwealth Fallout could be pretty damn sweet. Although, hey Simulord, when you say "you go to New York" Do you mean, in a separate wasteland? Because Geographically Boston and NY wouldn't fit in the same Box map without a triangular half of it being ocean. And that wouldn't exactly be good map design. Although i guess it could be 2-3 separate, but interconnected wastelands around the New England area?

I meant something like Tobar's ferry in Point Lookout or the train tunnel in The Pitt. The idea of separate but interconnected wastelands is a fascinating one in its own right, but would they be able to pull it off in a single retail release? That really does scream "DLC" in terms of how it's to be constructed.

(and for what it's worth, Wakefield is my hometown---specifically the Greenwood neighborhood. In case anyone wonders how I got at that in my original post.)

 

[GrizzlerBorno]

I meant something like Tobar's ferry in Point Lookout or the train tunnel in The Pitt. The idea of separate but interconnected wastelands is a fascinating one in its own right, but would they be able to pull it off in a single retail release? That really does scream "DLC" in terms of how it's to be constructed.

I never played those two. When i got FO3, only the anchorage and the "ending-extension" DLC were out, so i played those, and by then was too sick of "muddy brown and gray poisoning" to pick up a Fallout game till i conceded recently for New Vegas (and I'm glad i did [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.265138-So-New-Vegas-just-BURNd-me])

I think they can do it, but the individual areas would be smaller. Like a big "Commonwealth Region" that's maybe as big as all of the Mojave south of Vegas and west of the River? That's pretty big but not too big? They could fit in Boston city and the Institute and what not (is the Institute really the remnants of MIT?).
And then a slightly smaller "Ruins of New York" area stretching from Liberty Island to the south to Albany in the north?

Do you think fallout would benefit from having an oblivion sytle character choice thing. where there are multiple races to play. like a few human ''races'' like starting off in the brotherhood of steel or other factions, or as a vualt dweller or as a ghoul. might add to the replayability of the game.

The answer to that question imo is "yes" though you make it sound like "replayability" is a problem in any Bethesda game. (ok maybe FO3 was a little lacking in that dept, but New Vegas isn't. All the factions are more or less cool, and it's agonizing choosing just one to side with.)

 

[Buizel91]

Fallout Disney Land...Mickey Mouse dressed raiders!

Or London...that could be cool.

 

[Buizel91]

AUSTRALIA.

Let me explain.
1. We have some of the most deadly animals on the planet.
Giant rat meet giant koala.
Giant Mole meet giant Wombat.
Giant Death Claw meet Giant freaking Funnel web spider.

2. Wide range of scenery.

3. The toughest people live in Aus. Who do ya think is gonna survive a nuclear fallout? xD

4. Who doesn't want a giant mutated kangaroo as a pet? I mean, ride in its pouch, it can do super kicks. Or a dingo. The ranga of dogs.

Or this...how i would love to wrestle a giant, mutated Crocodile...

Or Bird eating spider...

 

[wizard_joe88]

It probably should be in America(again). As cool as some of the ideas seem(Europe, Asia, etc.) It just wouldn't seem like fallout without the fifties meets the future artistic style, plus, I hate to sound a little bit like I'm Biased towards America, but it's a large country, we've got lots a places to explore, the NCR may be a major part of the story, and so are the BoS and the enclave, but there's a major part of america left untouched by the games, you could do one taking place in NY state, the southern America(like someone else said, the everglades would be interesting, along with say, the Appalachian mountains) the Legion territory, and it could be like the NCR taking the fight directly to the legion(depending on the ending of NV, it could be to finish off the biggest threat to their power, or a desperate last attempt at saving their territory) and there are probably a million other ideas for this that I can't think of because I'm in the middle of English class(lol)

 

[Bobbovski]

"A pre-Fallout "Resource Wars" game set in collapsing Europe (during the U.K.'s invasions of the Middle East) is one of the games that J.E. Sawyer would like to make if he could do any game, regardless of money and developing time"

Well it seems like the dream game of one of the FO developers is a FO game set in pre-war Europe/middle east. That would be pretty interesting and it also shows that a FO se in a Pre-war or a non-american setting might be possible.

 

[Baron von Blitztank]

While a Fallout: London doesn't sound bad, I don't think that the UK (or anywhere else in Europe) was hit that bad by the Nukes. If anything it'd be in the same condition as Las Vegas. But then again I haven't really looked up much about the Fallout universe other than the stuff that happens in the games so I'm probably wrong.

I'll have no problems with the series staying on in America and the California area (although D.C was really interesting) but what I'd really like to see is a Fallout game where you can join the Enclave.

 

[SamElliot'sMustache]

Chicago. You could still have wannabe gangsters and utilize a different set of '50's music (think Chess Records/Motown artists). Also, elevated streets, Lake Michigan (maybe include a couple jokes about radioactive Asian carp getting through the locks), and right there you've got an interesting new setting that could retain the Fallout style.

I'd also like to see some new mechanics incorporated into the game, like climbing, that could open up the game in different ways (and utilize existing skills/attributes in new ways). That could be a way of evolving the formula so that it's not just the same game with a different coat of paint.

 

[squid5580]

Fallout Canada. Who doesn't want to battle mutant beavers and meese?

Its called a moose and they will rape you and your mother. You know what the wildlife in a fallout Canada would actually kind of scare the living shit out of me.

The mosquitoes wouldn't need to be effected by radiation to be scary.

 

[SlapHappyJesus]

I voted for China,Russia.At this point, I think that a change of scenery is needed.

 

[Yureina]

I'm guessing it will take place in New York, or at least the Northeast US. In any event, I hope that Bethesda does a good job with it. They should take notice of the writing Obsidian did for New Vegas while making another fallout game, because New Vegas story-wise was much better than Fallout 3 was.

 

[Who Dares Wins]

Since one of the biggest points in Fallout is the Wasteland be sure if it's in New York it won't feature all of it, although I would like that. Also it would be cool if it was, you know, A CITY not like DC or New Vegas that were like 2x2 meters of actual civilized space.