Fallout: Australia?

[tkioz]

I just had this really awesome, or perhaps stupid, thought; there is that rumour going around about a Fallout: London, but really wouldn't it be better to do a Fallout: Australia?

And I'm not just saying that because I'm Australia, I'm saying it because think of all the seriously cool mutations they could put into the game!

I mean seriously rabid dogs and scaled up insects with the occasional cool beast like the Deathclaws, the UK would be just more of the same! Not so with Australia, we're already as close to a <a href=http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DeathWorld>Death World as you're going to get on this planet, now imagine mutated platypuses jumping out of rivers trying to ear your faces, swinging their poisoned paws!

Rabid Kangaroos bounding along, kicking you in the guts (I've seen that happen, it's not fun).

Or how about Kolas scaled up trying to rip your face off (they already do it now, imagine them the size of a grizzly!), it would be like Dropbears brought to life!

So, inspired or stupid? or both!

 

[Nietz]

I'd have to say that Fallout: Australia is probably as inspiring as any fallout:*location* game. Heck, I'd actually go out on a limb here and say that everyone(who likes fallout) wants a fallout game set in their general location. Who doesn't want to see one's own landmarks reduced to cinder from the atomic war.
And on that note:
I'd like to see Fallout: SCANDINAVIA! Seriously, nuclear winter and all the glory that comes out of that. And who wouldn't like to get f*cked up by mutated wolverines. And I'm not even going to start trying to explain the pure awesomeness that is the mutated elk/moose!

Is it even a rumor or some guy wanting to know if the forum thought his idea of Fallout: London was worth a damn? I think it's the latter, as a Fallout in anywhere but USA sounds pants-on-head retarded.

So does the Australia one. Of course you are saying this because you're Australian. It would never occur to you otherwise.

Stupid. Fallout is nothing without the setting of USA.

I'm not convinced that fallout is nothing without the American setting. The whole 50's thing affected most of the world in different and interesting ways, and the nuclear apocalypse angle works everywhere. Sure, the quirkyness of fallouts approach to 50's America would be lost, but the cultural/artistic gain of having multiple fallout's in different parts of the world would far outweight that.

 

[Meestor Pickle]

Well at the moment it'd be less desert and more flood waters.

 

[OManoghue]

Fallout outside the USA would never be as charming. The art style is all based on the 1950s American vision of the distant future of 2002.

London would be an interesting-ish game, but not Australia. Meaning no offense, what's worth bombing in Australia? I can't imagine much of an apocalypse.

 

[Flig]

I doubt that Fallout is going to be leaving the states anytime soon, they'd have to abandon the entirety of the backstory they've generated so far from the past 3 numbered titles(plus NV, Tactics, BoS, and whatever spin-offs I'm missing), since it never mentions anywhere except the U.S. in any sort of detail. If they plan on leaving the U.S. my bet's on either annexed Canada, or China.

 

[rockingnic]

I want a Fallout NEW York, you get almost every type of terrain, besides dessert and I'm pretty tired of desserts now (god Uncharted 3 seems to be there). We have plains, woodlands, urban (oh hell yea Fallout in NYC), suburban, mountains, rivers, lakes, swamps. They should add weather effects (also effects gameplay) like rain, snow, hail, wind. It would be the ultimate HARDCORE mode. I want to fight some mutated 10ft bears.

 

[Merkavar]

would you even be able to tell that something has happened? alot of australia already looks like a nuke has gone off.


i would want super mutant kanagroos with a pouch to hold their guns and weapons.

and since australia isnt so much gun obsessed as america guns and ammo would be rarer making the game harder

 

[TriggerHappyAngel]

They should make Fallout: Rainforest, where all the enemies are giant mutated Mosquito's.

Most. Horryfing. Horror Game. Ever!

 

[Chairman Miaow]

Is it even a rumor or some guy wanting to know if the forum thought his idea of Fallout: London was worth a damn? I think it's the latter, as a Fallout in anywhere but USA sounds pants-on-head retarded.

So does the Australia one. Of course you are saying this because you're Australian. It would never occur to you otherwise.

Stupid. Fallout is nothing without the setting of USA.

Either you're a crazy American nationalist, A Fallout fanboy who refuses to accept change, or you just haven't thought about the possibilities.

I'm not from Australia, but I can certainly see the merit in moving the setting of fallout to somewhere new, not that it would have to be Australia. Fresh enemies, fresh allies, fresh story, fresh everything, but with the same gameplay and post-apocolyptic awesomeness we know and love. Also, I really can't imagine someone with an Aussie accent threatening horrible painful death, it just sounds too friendly.

 

[Lem0nade Inlay]

Sounds awesome.

I mean the fact is a kangaroo can cut open your stomach with one swipe...not good. And a mutated one of those....ergh.

I mean it's not going to happen, the sad fact is that Australian cities are quite generic and wouldn't be interesting to people who don't already live here.

I'd play that game, but it's never going to happen.

Fallout outside the USA would never be as charming. The art style is all based on the 1950s American vision of the distant future of 2002.

You know that art style was also in Australia, right?

Also, I really can't imagine someone with an Aussie accent threatening horrible painful death, it just sounds too friendly.

You should watch Wolf Creek.

 

[Palademon]

Sounds like a good idea to me. Fallout in tons of diverse places would be rather interesting. But I feel it would stagnate after a few.

 

[tkioz]

London would be an interesting-ish game, but not Australia. Meaning no offense, what's worth bombing in Australia? I can't imagine much of an apocalypse.

Ask the Russians, all our major cities and most of our regional centres had ICBMs allocated to them during the cold war. And the vast majority of our population lives in those cities.

 

[OManoghue]

Fallout outside the USA would never be as charming. The art style is all based on the 1950s American vision of the distant future of 2002.

You know that art style was also in Australia, right?

I did not, thank you. At the very least, USA had a much more famous paranoia of Nuclear war.

 

[TrollOgerElf]

The British isles sank and mad max is fallout.
Also fist of the north-star totally Asia.

 

[phantasmalWordsmith]

...I like this. still like fallout london...Flip a coin to decide i would say

 

[Nietz]

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Admit it, a Fallout in Australia sounds like a bad spoof. There's no reason to put any game in a different environment just for the fuck of it, or in other words, just because you live there.

I wouldn't say that Fallout:Someplace-else sounds like a bad spoof. I'd more think of it as moving away from the set binderies. And I guess that any fallout-fanboy(like myself) would love to see one of their games set in their local region. But I would say that setting Fallout outside of America would be a gargantuan task. Since it requires creating a new backstory and portraying the new region in a believable, yet fantastic light. Sure, I love my Fallout games, from the first one to New Vegas, but I have to say that the American 50's vibe is starting to get a wee bit stale. Now that we have beaten that horse to death, I think it's time to move one to greener pastures. And if changing the region proves to be too hard, I think that the least they could do is move a bit forward(or backwards) in the timeline.

Stupid.

You might be blind, so I'll let you off.

The main theme of the Fallout franchise is 'Can the American Dream still be achieved after atomic war'

To ignore the impact of the American setting is to ignore the blade on the knife.

First off, I'm just going to say that there are probably more themes than just that one in the fallout games.
And to move on. Now that we have established that theme, game after game after game, isn't it time to move on to a new theme? or at least mix it up a wee bit?

 

[BROFISTICUS MAXIMUS]

Gun laws rape the plausible available weapons for both, but Australia not so badly. I'm biased towards the English countryside the most though, but Fallout: down under would still be cool