Where you want the next fallout setting?

[chuckman1]

Fallout discussion has been live lately. So i ask, where do you want the next fallout game to be? Personally, i want arizona.
Why? 1. I live there and am biased 2. Phoenix has millions of inhabitants 3. Caesars legion 4. Lots of small towns with character 5. Native americans (honest hearts?).
The close location to Mexico allows for interesting dlc. And there's plenty of gangs and guns to cause chaos in the post apocalypse.

So what do you think? Where do you want it? And do you think my idea is awesome?

 

[Here Comes Tomorrow]

Manhatten island would be fun, and Queens and Brooklyn could be DLC locations.

Detroit would be good as well. There could a twist ending where it turns out that you're playing before the bombs fell.

 

[distortedreality]

I say this every time this thread pops up....but Australia.

The wildlife alone would make it worthwhile, and if it was located in Sydney, there's tons of great landmarks and history to explore.

 

[WolfThomas]

The American Midwest. Chicago what not.

Make Fallout Tactics truly canon and show what happened to the BoS there. Fallout 4 is 80years afterwards so there is a lot of time for an entirely different BoS culture to develop. With domesticated Deathclaws, Ghoul and Mutant members, etc. Technology to remerge and new societies and cultures.

Have vehicles like in tactics that you can repair and drive across an open but often empty world. Things like a Highwayman, Humvee etc. Small airships and what not. That you can drive from your base or live in.

 

[Zhukov]

I'm pretty sure one post-apocalyptic retro-futuristic American city looks much the same as another, give or take a few landmarks.

 

[MASTACHIEFPWN]

I don't care, I just want it to have more soul than Fallout 4.

 

[FirstNameLastName]

Anywhere but America. I know this gets suggested every time people talk about Fallout, and while I agree that the 50s American aesthetics are pretty central to the setting, I feel like it's run its course already. I've seen enough bombed out suburban houses with their charred picket fences, I've seen enough retro-futuristic American products, I've read enough text logs taking jabs at nuclear hysteria and government and military's shady activities. At this point I'm really not interested in going through the motions another time, so a Fallout game set somewhere outside of America would probably be the only thing that could get me excited for a new one.
I know that for the people living in America all these different locations across America must have some degree of significance, but to me it's pretty much all a minor variation of the same 50s Americana I've seen before.

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

How about somewhere other than America?
Tokyo? Cyber-Steam-Punk Asian Biker babes sounds cool.

London? Cockney raiders is always a giggle.

Hong Kong would probably be very appropriate. Lets see what the Reds have to say about the whole 'Apocalypse' thing.

 

[Zontar]

How about somewhere other than America?

Because a big part of the story is about America's fall from grace. It just wouldn't work if the story was set somewhere other the the US. A small DLC is one thing, but a whole game? Just wouldn't work.

OT: St. Louis mainly because I want to see the Luddites from Fallout Lore be canonized.

 

[Hawki]

I say this every time this thread pops up....but Australia.

The wildlife alone would make it worthwhile, and if it was located in Sydney, there's tons of great landmarks and history to explore.

I dunno - Australia's already a wasteland without the need for a nuclear apocalypse.

Though it DOES allow the Fallout universe to have its own Mad Max equivalents I suppose.

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

Just wouldn't work.

Well judging by the way Fallout 4 was received, I'm not convinced its working now. A change of pace is exactly what it needs.

I mean come on, what could going to another ruined American city add? Oh, more bandit gangs? Another Enclave/NCR/Brother of Steel outpost? Oh, another resource war?!

Dare I say MOAR Super Mutants?!

Come on man, change up the equation a little! With another country you can add new factions, new enemies, new social concepts and ideas.

 

[IceForce]

Okay, so, the obvious question here is; how much of the world was destroyed by the nukes? Correct me if I'm wrong (and I probably am), but the lore only describes America and China (and I guess Canada, due to its annexation) falling to nuclear war. So we have no idea what happened to the rest of the world.

Is the rest of the world still trucking? I guess it could be, and everyone just avoids traveling to the dangerous/irradiated areas (ie: America).

 

[Souplex]

Okay, so, the obvious question here is; how much of the world was destroyed by the nukes? Correct me if I'm wrong (and I probably am), but the lore only describes America and China (and I guess Canada, due to its annexation) falling to nuclear war. So we have no idea what happened to the rest of the world.

Is the rest of the world still trucking? I guess it could be, and everyone just avoids traveling to the dangerous/irradiated areas (ie: America).

Raul talks about the destruction of Mexico.
New York, because New York is the best. You start out in the ruins of Brooklyn, and you learn that the mysterious vague unknown antagonist is in the force-field bubbled ruins of Manhattan. (The rich assholes set it up to survive the war, and of course they only did it for Manhattan because they don't care about the outer Boroughs.) For once they don't include the BoS for a change of pace.
That or they could do Florida. The scraped Fallout Tactics 2 was going to take place there, and the concept seemed pretty interesting.
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout_Tactics_2

 

[CeeBod]

As the survivors misinterpreting the leftovers from before the war is a big thing with Fallout games, how about it being set in a huge Spy-training facility in China that's made to look like the USA, except of course the survivors think they really are in the USA, as does the player. That lets them keep all of the 50s Americana stuffs whilst also allowing for new creatures, factions, etc and it should allow for a more interesting main quest than "Find dad / find son".

 

[pookie101]

for me its not a case of where its when the game is set. personally ive always wanted a game set right after the bombs dropped in the chaos that came after, you always hear stories that it was very very bad and dark, not to mention with the radiation you could have a hell of a lot of new mutated creatures and monsters that didnt end up surviving long term, new cults, roving bands of cannibals

 

[mysecondlife]

Kansas. Corn fields m'fucka! [sub](I enjoyed Jericho while it lasted)[/sub]

 

[Quazimofo]

I understand why people say the whole American aesthetic is played out, but really that's just a failure of Bethesda. Fallout New Vegas did a very nice job looking at the western aspects of American culture as well as how the whole "post apocalypse" narrative changes over a long enough period of time, which is to say nations, not just settlements, emerge. Frankly at 200 years there should be many more large factions than the NCR. Even on the drastically slowed time frame of fallout it doesn't take that long for people to organize. Even fallout 2 acknowledged this. If someone with better writers than Bethesda makes a game there's a LOT more to be explored in the US besides new accents.

Hell, so long as it isn't just fallout 3 but in a different part of the US (super mutants, brotherhood, a main settlement bigoted against ghouls, one radio station of classical tune run by the antagonists who have few if any redeeming features and a fundamentally incorrect view of the state of the wasteland and one run by a secluded DJ with the same 12 songs, an ever-present well organized and equipped mercenary group you have no option of non-violent interactions with, a main plot of finding a lost family member (who is markedly older than the player) and then either completing or destroying their life's work etc.), the standard post apocalypse fare of old abandoned buildings full of useful junk and scattered settlements/factions can still be very interesting in a new US location if done well.

 

[nomotog_v1legacy]

I'm pretty sure one post-apocalyptic retro-futuristic American city looks much the same as another, give or take a few landmarks.

Ya. Boston didn't really feel different from DC. They should do something more exotic. Maybe set it someplace with out a city?

 

[Here Comes Tomorrow]

How about somewhere other than America?

Because a big part of the story is about America's fall from grace. It just wouldn't work if the story was set somewhere other the the US. A small DLC is one thing, but a whole game? Just wouldn't work.

OT: St. Louis mainly because I want to see the Luddites from Fallout Lore be canonized.

People used to say Fallout being an RPG is central too. Yet Bethesda released a FPS and it outsold all other Fallout RPGs...

And look at the backlash.
People have pretty much stopped talking about Fallout 4 already.

 

[Mister K]

I don't really care as long as it's not in Bethesdas hands, but in hands of those who can actually make a good RPG With good story and characters.

But if I were to choose... How about annexed Canada?