Where Will Fallout 4 Be Set?

[SL33TBL1ND]

I'm hoping for either somewhere in the north, like Canada, the Commonwealth or Seattle, or the Southeast. It'll make for a nice change of scenery. It'll be somewhere in North America, I'm sure. And before you say "Oh, America's getting stale! It should be set in China/London/Paris/Tokyo/wherever!", go get a map of North America, and mark out all of the territories the previous Fallout games have covered. Even Tactics and Brotherhood of Steel. There's still huge swathes of America it hasn't touched upon that would make for unique and interesting settings.

Plus the whole point of Fallout is old US war-time culture in the future.

 

[Melon Hunter]

I'm hoping for either somewhere in the north, like Canada, the Commonwealth or Seattle, or the Southeast. It'll make for a nice change of scenery. It'll be somewhere in North America, I'm sure. And before you say "Oh, America's getting stale! It should be set in China/London/Paris/Tokyo/wherever!", go get a map of North America, and mark out all of the territories the previous Fallout games have covered. Even Tactics and Brotherhood of Steel. There's still huge swathes of America it hasn't touched upon that would make for unique and interesting settings.

Plus the whole point of Fallout is old US war-time culture in the future.

Very true. I've tried making that point before, but some people still cling to the idea that the best setting for Fallout 4 would be outside the US, despite the lore being that no-one really knows what the world's like outside America, and also that the rest of the world had already collapsed before the Great War due to other wars, economic collapse, etc., and therefore would be nothing like a Fallout game.

I was trying for another argument as to why Fallout shouldn't (and can't) leave the North American setting, and so far, it appears to be working quite well! I usually get quoted by someone trying to convince me that London is a suitable location for Fallout 4 and that I'm wrong when I use the 'Americana' argument.

 

[Jovip]

I want somewhere really out in the middle of butt fuck nowhere, i don't really know America all that well so i can't pick somewhere. But i want it away from the developing wasteland world, not what new vegas did, taking away the small settlements and such and giving luxury and gambling. It's common human methodology, you don't thrive until you can survive without doubt. That is what fallout is about, as well as the subtext towards war and human nature. So please, although it is in and of it's self a aspect of human nature to conquer and control, put us somewhere less developed, still barbaric, still barking up the evolutionary tree of anarchy. Give us a plot which demands respect, not American power fantasy's. Fallout 1 and 2 were beautiful for that, the 3rd to me, had the best story due to the extremely large group it's plot would effect. But new vegas was maintaining luxury, that doesn't fly in the wasteland. It's the renascence with guns.

 

[Mazza35]

I think the land down under (Australia)
We have diverse ranging landscapes (Rain forest on one side of a state, extreme desert on other)
Plus mutated kangaroos.

 

[Akisa]

Fall out 4 was set in New Vegas... Oh wait... Actually I want to see Canada, Europe, Northeast and Deseret.

 

[Filip Bosnjak]

They should have the continents merge and be able to walk from London to New York and you should have the ability to go to space stations that have preserved the lucious forest life of the world with all kinds of interesting mutants oh and then you should be able to go on mars where a civilized section of humanity reside and then you should be able to go under water with a huge rapture like city and there should with huge ass giant fish and thennnn.........

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

I usually get quoted by someone trying to convince me that London is a suitable location for Fallout 4 and that I'm wrong when I use the 'Americana' argument.

Well, London would make a good game in the same sort of vein, but it wouldn't make a good Fallout game.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

In the state of Florida?

Supermutant alligators

That would be freaking awesome and I would buy the hell out of that game (although I think most of the scenery would be similar to Point Lookout).

I would love to see someplace other than the US in Fallout 4 like, Brisbane or, London. The thing is though, someone may realize that no Fallout has taken place in New York City yet...

 

[Melon Hunter]

I usually get quoted by someone trying to convince me that London is a suitable location for Fallout 4 and that I'm wrong when I use the 'Americana' argument.

Well, London would make a good game in the same sort of vein, but it wouldn't make a good Fallout game.

Exactly. I'd love to see a post-apocalyptic game set in London (Hellgate: London was a great idea, if poorly executed). But Fallout is the wrong franchise for it.

 

[sneakypenguin]

I'd love to see Nashville. Games don't set themselves there very often, it makes sense to nuke it in a nuclear war on a tactical front as three major highways intersect there, and the culture around the place would make for a decent post-apocalyptia.


Plus it's only 50 miles or so from my front door. Which is a plus.

I'd vote the Knoxville area, diverse terrain (lakes, great smokey mtns) Plus you have the oak ridge national laboratories, you could do a lot with that area.


And you could play rocky top all throughout the soundtrack.

 

[boag]

I think this thread has been done already, though it's not out of the question that I'm mistaken. Being from the Boston area, I would love to see it set in Massachusetts, or as it's known in the Fallout universe, "The Commonwealth". I honestly just think it would be cool to see a post-apocalyptic Boston/Cambridge.

I actually thought it was the same thread we had a bunch of months ago.

Ill put my top 3 choices again just for good measure.

1) Hong Kong, I want to see what happened during the war from the other viewpoint.
2) Alaska, I know Operation Anchorage already visited this place, but I really want to see what happened there after the nukes flew.
3) Texas, I want to know how the middle of the country is dealing with the events of from east and west.

 

[Legomaniac91_v1legacy]

I think an interesting place to set the next Fallout game would be in China. The other games have made it clear that they were supposed to be this great evil superpower that America was competing with. I don't know if they explain who started the war, but it would be interesting to see how it affected the other side as well as America.

 

[BOOM headshot65]

I vote the midwest. It will look even MORE like the wild west than New Vegas did.

 

[Korten12]

It would be nice if it was set somewhere other then america.Like china for instance.I mean they was the ones the war was with.I'm sure they had vaults or something of that nature as well.

The problem with that is that, the vaults were NEVER created to actually protect from Nuclear weapons. Granted, they do, but that isn't their real reasons:

Officially, the vaults were nuclear shelters designed to protect the American population from nuclear holocaust. However, with a population of almost 400 million by 2077, the U.S. would need nearly 400,000 vaults the size of Vault 13, while Vault-Tec was commissioned to build only 122 such vaults. The government, and Vault-Tec, never really believed an actual nuclear war would occur; the real reason for the existence of these vaults was to run social experiments on pre-selected segments of the population to see how they react to the stresses of isolation and how successfully they recolonize Earth after the vault opens.

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Vault

This is also why almost certianlly no other countries had them, there wasn't a huge rush to make them because no one thought it would actually happen.

 

[wrecker77]

New Orleans would be nice, all that smooth Jazz and the super mutant alligators. Lush green swamps It would make a nice change from grey cities and brown dusty wastelands.

Great idea. I'm shocked I have never seen anybody say this before. My mind is racing at the possibilities.

I don't know.... Maine? I guess fog could be a cool element. All the little port towns could be cool to explore. Also I want to see Maine get nuked. Nothing personal.

 

[Robert Ewing]

In the mysterious land, of Toronto Canada.

And Scott Pilgrim will be dating a high-schooler.

 

[CatsAttackAgain]

Has no one thought of Springfield? Then they would have a reason to be yellow.

 

[CheckD3]

Why not Cleveland? A place barely effected by bombs, but close enough for radiation to impact a bit. If you think about it, areas that aren't major cities anymore, or superpowers now, would be bigger cities in the future when they're left mostly unharmed since they aren't a major threat.

Tell me running around the Rock and Roll hall of fame and being able to play around in there wouldn't be just rad

 

[neverarine]

gonna have to agree with the detroit, the desert and stuff just didnt sit well with me in New Vegas, the cities from 3 were good, but lets gets more area's like the pit

 

[Smiley Face]

It had better not do Canada. Setting it in Canada would require it to deal with the fact that the US annexed Canada by force, and portraying that as an actual issue would take the tone of it away from the Fallout brand white-picket-fence, Pro-America, Anti-Communist feel that defines it. And if it didn't, there'd be no point in setting it in Canada rather than somewhere else in America where they can explore new stuff.

Besides, I don't really like the idea of a future where the US annexes Canada. Jackasses.

But yeah, they'll definitely go somewhere NEW. I don't know where, but same ol', same ol' isn't really an option.

A better question might be how long will it be til another one comes out? I mean, New Vegas is what, a year and a bit old? I know Bethesda didn't develop it, but they'll probably want to leave a bit of a gap.