Fallout 4 setting?

[Atticus89]

Texas. The very thought of it makes me laugh.

 

[FernandoV]

Possibly somewhere not brown...please.

 

[Cheesus333]

Fallout wouldn't work in the UK or any other part of Europe. The UK, in particular, would be annihilated beyond recovery by a full-scale nuclear exchange, being the country which has the densest distribution of potential nuclear targets in the world. Not even Fallout's SCIENCE! would be enough to change that, and they didn't have an equivalent to Vault-Tec to count on.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2023790698427111488#

Watch that movie - it'll show you just how fucked the UK would be in any nuclear exchange.

It's such a shame, because I'm genuinely interested, and yet I can't watch because they had to use a dirty great spider as a visual analogy! The bastards!

I wouldn't want to see the Capital Wasteland again... the Mojave was just so much better. Maybe not so bleak, but definitely more vibrant and exciting.

Also, if they were making a new one I wouldn't want it to be urban, wandering around Washington D.C. in Fallout 3 was just tedious because of all the rubble forcing you underground. Why make a whole city and then discourage people from exploring it?

That Florida idea sounded pretty good though. But having only been to Florida when I was 4 and having not heard much of it since then, I don't really know what it's like so it's hard to tell what the post-apocalyptic version would feel like.

 

[Mooko12]

I would keep in in America. Anything else would probably conflict with the feel you get from playing Fallout.

 

[Harveypot]

London. That would be cool, especially if you got to go to buckingham palace and big ben and stuff. And deathclaws in trafalgar square. that'd be cool.

p.s. If there's something in fallout that says deathclaws were only in US im sorry. i only played new vegas.

 

[Zom-B]

I think what's more important is that where ever it's set and whatever the storyline is, that the next Fallout game (if there is one) finally ditches Gamebryo and uses the new engine from Skyrim. That is by far the most critical element to success of the next Fallout.

Personally, I have given up on F:NV for the moment because 40 or 50 hours in the bugs have become so frequent that I literally can't play the game right now. The last time I tried playing, I got a quest breaking bug right off the bat and after a reset I had a complete freeze about 10 minutes later. Haven't touched it since.

Now if I want a Fallout style gaming experience, I pop in Oblivion. Otherwise Demon's Souls and Dead Space 2 are taking up my time, even though I'd quite like to finish the main story of F:NV.

 

[Eumersian]

The Commonwealth. It's got one of the last remaining institutes of science in what's left of the US.

Or how about anywhere else, like Nashville, Detroit, Wall, I don't know. I feel like it should be in America, because that's where most of the game's lore takes place, but it's always in the most obvious places. DC, California, Vegas?how about somewhere else for a change? Games are never set in Chicago, or Houston, or anything like that. Have it set someplace not obvious, for God's sake.

 

[Varrdy]

I would love to see my home country of the UK being covered, It would be interesting to see the difference between the two counties (albeit only in a game).

Surprised you hadn't already made one, my first thread was the first thing I ever posted.

I second that! The last time me and my best drinking buddy went out and got rat-arsed, we discussed London as a great Fallout location. It has many landmarks, the obligatory subway systems (The Tube), a bloody great water-hazard (The Thames) and so on. Alternatives to Vaults could have been built and, as any River Rat will tell you, London is honeycombed with ancient, underground tunnels and suchlike, which could have been re-purposed into shelters.

London Zoo could be the source of any mutated creatures, Tower Bridge could be involved in a quest (fix it so it can be lowered to gain access to more of the map), Big Ben could be a stronghold for a band of "raiders" who all have Cockney accents and the whole map littered with old Routemaster Buses and Black Cabs (all given the "nuclear" look, of course).

Oh and tea, obviously!

Wardy

 

[Booze Zombie]

A planet that's been colonised by a mysterious group dating back to the 21st century.
Something like that.

 

[Daveeo]

I would love to see my home country of the UK being covered, It would be interesting to see the difference between the two counties (albeit only in a game).

Surprised you hadn't already made one, my first thread was the first thing I ever posted.

I second that! The last time me and my best drinking buddy went out and got rat-arsed, we discussed London as a great Fallout location. It has many landmarks, the obligatory subway systems (The Tube), a bloody great water-hazard (The Thames) and so on. Alternatives to Vaults could have been built and, as any River Rat will tell you, London is honeycombed with ancient, underground tunnels and suchlike, which could have been re-purposed into shelters.

London Zoo could be the source of any mutated creatures, Tower Bridge could be involved in a quest (fix it so it can be lowered to gain access to more of the map), Big Ben could be a stronghold for a band of "raiders" who all have Cockney accents and the whole map littered with old Routemaster Buses and Black Cabs (all given the "nuclear" look, of course).

Oh and tea, obviously!

Wardy

This i want.

 

[Zydrate]

I like that g4 article about Japan. I'd love to play through this in Japan.

 

[Rockchimp69]

I would love to see my home country of the UK being covered, It would be interesting to see the difference between the two counties (albeit only in a game).

Surprised you hadn't already made one, my first thread was the first thing I ever posted.

I second that! The last time me and my best drinking buddy went out and got rat-arsed, we discussed London as a great Fallout location. It has many landmarks, the obligatory subway systems (The Tube), a bloody great water-hazard (The Thames) and so on. Alternatives to Vaults could have been built and, as any River Rat will tell you, London is honeycombed with ancient, underground tunnels and suchlike, which could have been re-purposed into shelters.

London Zoo could be the source of any mutated creatures, Tower Bridge could be involved in a quest (fix it so it can be lowered to gain access to more of the map), Big Ben could be a stronghold for a band of "raiders" who all have Cockney accents and the whole map littered with old Routemaster Buses and Black Cabs (all given the "nuclear" look, of course).

Oh and tea, obviously!
Wardy

The tube would have territories and would be still in use unlike Washington's metro. Buckingham palace would be the main settlement. There would be raiders and traders who boat along the Thames. It would be great

 

[Stalk3rchief]

Florida, with hicks in one part of the map, resorts and retirement homes in another part of the map, an a tongue-in-cheek Disneyworld analogue. It could be about the Eastern Brotherhood, now evolved into a proper army and government a la the NCR, fighting against a huge collective of pirates based out of Cuba.

I don't think Fallout should cover areas outside of America. It's just not that kind of game.

I live in Florida and the hicks fit right in. lol.
But the NCR wouldn't be there, seeing as how the center of the country is in really bad shape, and the Legion is apparently there. The brotherhood part makes sense though.

OT: Idc where it is as long as they bring back intelligent talking Deathclaws. That shit was cool and I always had one on my team for CQC/room clearing stuff.

 

[Continuity]

I don't think Fallout should cover areas outside of America. It's just not that kind of game.

As unfortunate as it is I think you're right, the essence of fallout is twofold vault-tec and 1950 American culture, take it out of America and you loose both of those things.
Its a shame because I'd like to see England in a game like fallout.

 

[bushwhacker2k]

Reading that first line while tipsy was slightly amusing as I didn't see the "thread" part, I was vaguely interested about how creating this thread got you laid.

He meant it's the first thread he's made, genius.

Fallout needs to stick with America because that's where all the Vault Tec Vaults are, and a Fallout game without one would be... odd to say the least.

Maybe that's where all the Vault Tec Vaults are, but who's to say no other country had an inkling what a nuclear war might result in?

It also wouldn't have all the other things such as Super Mutants and whatnot if it was elsewhere.

It might not have Super Mutants but it'd just have other things, I personally think it'd be interesting and will also never happen unless it's a different game, Fallout is American.

I'm hoping the next one will have more interior focus, I'm sick of desert wastelands.

 

[dancinginfernal]

I'd like to see some New England.

Maybe a little Commonwealth action.

 

[AMMO Kid]

Fallout: London - One of the great things in 3 was being able to identify landmarks like the history museum etc. London could provide the same atmosphere

 

[The Long Road]

Fallout has yet to do America. There's so much of America to cover! Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Bronx, Staten, and the northern wasteland. After so many games taking place in the Soviet Union we need a change of pace.

I'm pretty sure you just named 5 boroughs of New York and the Canadian/Alaskan tundra... you have a weird idea of America.

OT: Miami. Have the east side of the map be the Miami Beach area, with destroyed high-class hotels along the shore. Move to the center to get away from the city and into the abandoned industrial sites, then move west into the Everglades. The contrast in environments would provide a compelling game map instead of the current dichotomy of destroyed city or empty wasteland. Maybe include a trip north to Kennedy Space Center for DLC.

A possible conflict would be over the Everglades' natural ability to purify water. The factions involved would have to divide themselves between the cover provided by downtown Miami on the east side of the map and the fresh water on the west. It's a bit of a rehash of 3's plot, but the focus could be the consequences of devoting resources to either shoring up defenses in the city or improving water hauling ability from the Everglades rather than control of one point (Project Purity).

 

[Theron Julius]

America hasn't been finished yet! You still have places like Anchorage, Alaska. It would be perfect. The story could be focused around the Brotherhood of Steel fighting the local tribes over control of the technology left behind from the Reclamation. Think how much cooler it would be (no pun intended) to be in a taiga completely frozen by nuclear winter instead of the standard parched desert. If you can't imagine it, just walk around Jacobstown in F:NV. It would be pretty similar, albeit on a larger scale.

On a somewhat related topic here are some ideas I've been thinking of.

1. The eastern and western Enclave remnants coming together to form a halfway good organization, kind of like the BoS. They would focus on the production of new technology, unlike the BoS with their hunt for pre-war technology.

2. More large scale fights kind of like the end mission of F:NV (I'm pretty sure they are all like that)

3. More enemy factions (Like the Super Mutants or Enclave of F3). Fallout: New Vegas ran out of enemies to kill very fast. It didn't have any hostile random encounters like the Enclave or Talon company, so things just didn't feel as exciting after a while.

4. Instead of fancy standard weapons(I.E. brush gun, plasma caster), make more unique versions of weapons that can be repaired with the normal versions. Having to find a second plasma caster or enough weapon repair kits was a very tiring and expensive process.

6. More craftable weapons. I liked the Railway rifle and the Rock-It Launcher. It saddened me to see those removed from F:NV.