Where you want the next fallout setting?

[tgbennett30]

Florida would be great, but as several have mentioned, Disney lawyers would lay siege to anyone even hinting at their property

As a New Orleans native, I can see some nice aspects to that - you've got your generic city stuff like any FO game, maybe have the Superdome as a major hub/city/whatever, and then throw in all the non-desert stuff several have mentioned (swamps, bayous, etc., along with the corresponding wildlife). Throw in cool stuff like oil rigs out in the Gulf as a nod to the ending of FO 2, maybe. And historically, political corruption is so bad in La. that it would make the contrast between Caesar's Legion and the NCR look like a girl scout picnic - there would be no good guys, only varying degrees of bad

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And while the FO universe has been strongly averse to vehicles, one could argue that boats are a different matter, and to incorporate fishing, mutated sea life, travelling to hidden islands, etc. - that might be worthwhile. Have the Sons of Jean Lafitte as a waterborne band of raider-pirates, etc.

 

[Asita]

New Zealand. To my - admittedly limited - understanding of war, New Zealand is near the bottom of the list as far as military targets go, and thus among the 'safest' places to be in the event of nuclear war. If accurate, the country should have a decent amount of its infrastructure intact in the immediate aftermath of the war. That said, if Australia's east coast was targeted, it would still have to deal with significant - wait for it - fallout (especially given how radiation works in the Fallout universe) in the aftermath. In effect, we get a very different scenario than usual. In Fallout, America's downfall principally came from being scorched. New Zealand's downfall would come from being poisoned. Additional wrinkles come in if survivors and early refugees recognized NZ as a safe zone and emigrated there, forcing NZ to deal with a massive refugee crisis on top of the aforementioned poisoning of nuclear fallout that's slowly affecting them and mutating their flora, fauna, and people. Cut ahead a few dozen years...could be an interesting setup.

 

[Gethsemani_v1legacy]

Los Angeles - I can't help but think that the Nick Valentine character presages a Fallout dip into Noire. Which would be well suited to Los Angeles art deco stylings and insanity. Plus we have yet to visit California in 3d.

Los Angeles was in Fallout actually, it was the Boneyard location. Which would mean that most of LA is just a long stretch of ruined skyscrapers in various states of disrepair. Other then that, you have some really good points and ideas.

 

[IceForce]

So, I had another think about this. From what I can tell, I think the world (as we know it) in Fallout is pretty much goneburgers.

Chernobyl, 1986:

This the result of just ONE nuclear meltdown. If the US and China were covered in high-yield nuclear explosions like we've been led to believe in the Fallout universe, then the entire world would be affected. If the bombs don't get you, the radiation will.

This would also seem to be further reinforced by the Mothership Zeta DLC, where it's possible to look down on the earth. And the earth doesn't look... well, very good. It's looks like practically the entire thing is wasteland.

 

[KingsGambit_v1legacy]

TBH, if it isn't outside of the former USA, then it doesn't much matter where they set it. Ultimately it will be a similar setting against a different backdrop. We've met the US factions and been involved with them for three games now, we've visited the landmarks and enjoyed the 50s americana/futuristic ambiance. If FO5 is more of the same, while I would still end up buying it it would be disappointing. I'd like to see somewhere else, either Europe or maybe China.

 

[Floppertje]

Chernobyl, 1986 This the result of just ONE nuclear meltdown.

Other than having to scrap the local crops that were exposed, as a security measure, very little needed to be done about that though. If it's a larger scale event people would simply reduce the safety standards, eat mildly irradiated crops for a year and you'd see nothing other than a tiny hike in related illnesses.

They'd need to exagerate the existing lore by quite a bit to explain a Europe in ruins. Nuclear ruins anyway. They never filled in too much about the supposed 'European civil war', just that it lasted 17 years on and off, nothing's said about nuclear weapons being used during that.

since when has bethesda cared about making fallout lore consistent? And wouldn't expanding it be a good thing? Europe has to be in ruins too, if everything was fine and dandy they would've come around to putting the US in order again in the past 200 years, wouldn't they? or at least recolonize it...

 

[Floppertje]

since when has bethesda cared about making fallout lore consistent?

Mea culpa. I'll refrain from applying logic to game design from now on. ;-)

Europe has to be in ruins too, if everything was fine and dandy they would've come around to putting the US in order again in the past 200 years, wouldn't they? or at least recolonize it...

Recolonize the land of obesity and school shootings? The cost for EU missionaries to bring civilization alone would bankrupt us many times over...

maybe the only holotapes about the US that survived were re-runs of jersey shore or Trumps presidency speeches. that would explain it

 

[dohnut king]

New York, because I want to hunt feral ghouls while Sinatra sings New York, New York in the background.

Also, great locations and an unparalleled set of references to work from.

 

[RisenStorm]

Somewhere with more color and better writing.