Fallout Canada???

[Kimarous]

To people suggesting Australia and New Zealand, I'm pretty sure that they were some of the only places that were NOT nuked, although lack of contact with the outside world resulted in similar social degredation.

In any case, speaking as a native Canadian, I do think a straight-up "Fallout: Canada" wouldn't be very good. Still, I would like to see a Fallout game north enough to include Canadian characters. Maybe some kind of "Fallout: Seattle" featuring a major faction that originally hails from Vancouver or something...

 

[GLo Jones]

I don't want to be that guy, but...

Although, a Guy Ritchie GTA universe would be fun.

Right after we get another British GTA game, guv'na

Bolded for her your pleasure ;d

Don't want to be that guy...again, but...

Well that was merely an expansion. How about another new British GTA game.

 

[P.Tsunami]

Americans, Canadians, and everyone else out in the world, what do you think? Isn't it time for some veriaty?

No

The Fallout series has always, and should always, taken place in America. This is for a reason. The game's setting focuses around an exaggerated American gold age that was devastated by nuclear war.

This. By God, this. I couldn't even imagine a Fallout game based anywhere else than the US. The whole style of the game is deeply grounded in American 50's kitsch, PSA's, and the roaring time of rock n' roll. No offense meant to Canadians, I do not associate that era with Canada. Or any other country, for that matter.

 

[P.Tsunami]

Well that was merely an expansion. How about another new British GTA game.

I for one want to whole heartedly support this. Going by the new series of GTA games, we've had takes on traditional mobster movies (GTA III), topical mobster movies (GTA:VC), thug life stories (GTA:SA) and something else entirely with GTA IV. I think it's time for the series to go back to embracing the clichés of cinema. Specifically, I'd love to see a GTA set in a British city (Guy Ritchie-style) and one set in Hong Kong or Japan (dealing with Kung Fu clichés and/or the Yakuza).

 

[GLo Jones]

Well that was merely an expansion. How about another new British GTA game.

I for one want to whole heartedly support this. Going by the new series of GTA games, we've had takes on traditional mobster movies (GTA III), topical mobster movies (GTA:VC), thug life stories (GTA:SA) and something else entirely with GTA IV. I think it's time for the series to go back to embracing the clichés of cinema. Specifically, I'd love to see a GTA set in a British city (Guy Ritchie-style) and one set in Hong Kong or Japan (dealing with Kung Fu clichés and/or the Yakuza).

A GTA Hong Kong would definitely be interesting. I could see them maybe overdoing the stereotypes and accents though, which could get irritating.

Spoiler: Snip

Canada would be a horrible place to act as a setting for a Fallout game! What would be there? Snow? Forest? Look at all this snow and forest!

Vancouver

Calgary

No-one wants to trudge through the boring emptiness of snow, when they can be trudging through the boring emptiness of the wastes.

 

[P.Tsunami]

A GTA Hong Kong would definitely be interesting. I could see them maybe overdoing the stereotypes and accents though, which could get irritating.

I could see that too. However, consider this: The GTA series has been able to hire some seriously high-grade voice acting talent so far. Samuel L. Jackson, Sean Penn, Michael Madsen, Kyle MacLachlan, Ray Liotta, Tom Sizemore, Michael Rapaport, Dennis Hopper, Burt Reynolds, to name a few. It's not far fetched to think they're willing to pull out stops to get famous actors, to say the least.

Following that, I could see a GTA: Hong Kong starring the likes of Chow Yun-Fat, Jet Li and Jackie Chan.

 

[theSovietConnection]

Spoiler: spoilered for space

From here: http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Ronto

"Ronto is a region mentioned by Ishmael Ashur and the slave Brand. In a speech to the slaves of The Pitt, Ashur proclaims that The Pitt, with its industry, security, and strength, is the envy of the Commonwealth, the Capital Wasteland, and Ronto. The name Ronto refers to the Canadian city of Toronto, which would have been under the control of the United States after the annexation of Canada in 2076, just prior to the Great War. The context in which the region is mentioned implies that by 2277, Ronto had established a reputation as a significant military power over the years."

To put that quote in context.. the actual speech goes like this: "Citizens of The Pitt, workers of Downtown, traders of Uptown, and all the fierce souls who do what must be done! I bring you good news! We stand at the dawn of a new golden age. Where others merely survive, we thrive! Our industry is the envy of the Commonwealth! Our safety is the envy of the Capital Wastes! Our might is the envy of Ronto!..."

Sounds like a great setting for a DLC to me.. that would be cool.. I live in and around Toronto and I have to say that the setting of Fallout just doesn't work to set a whole game there.. but a Ronto DLC, thats a good idea.

I think this about sums up what I was going to say. It's not always the intrinsics of what the place was like before the bombs dropped, but what they devolve/evolve into after the dust and radiation has settled. Though much of the backdrop for the Fallout series is the parody and twisting of what the "wholesome 50's America" has turned itself into through what may be its own doing, that doesn't mean they can't use a setting in a foreign country to [sub]*gasp*[/sub] appeal to a different market. Canada would actually be the perfect test location for deciding if a game set in a new location would sell or not.

 

[Nouw]

It'd be really funny to see a Relic Building in it and you could get Space Marine armour for real!

I support this because Canada has a lot of juicy things we could do in it.

Maple Syrup that ups your HP!

 

[Generic_Dave]

I'd really extend this to all games (though not specifically Canada)...trying to think of open world games NOT built around American cities...I'm coming up with Saboteur and the Getaway game, as for RPG's I'm stuck at nothing...which was good but deeply flawed...

Though I understand the focus on American cities, besides the recognisibility of US cities, there's the cities planning, long, straight, wide roads, easy to navigate. And also the fact that people usually write from what they know. So mostly American writers = American cities. But it would be wonderful one day, to snipe from behind Big Ben's face...to speed through the Brandenburg gate...lob Mini-Nukes off the Shanghai World Financial Centre...Storm a Sydney Opera House full of Ghouls...or Pic through the destroyed shanty towns of Rio...or the above mentioned Canada.

Sigh...I wish...at this point I'd just settle for less FRAKKIN' NEW YORK!!!!

 

[Nouw]

It'd be really funny to see a Relic Building in it and you could get Space Marine armour for real!

I support this because Canada has a lot of juicy things we could do in it.

Maple Syrup that ups your HP!

Mountie hats! Mutant beavers! Crazy coloured pre-war money!

We need more Canadian stuff!

 

[chstens]

Right after we get another British GTA game, guv'na

Once again, GTA: London 1960-something.

 

[chstens]

I think its a bad idea.
From my understanding of the weather up there, you'd have to stay inside for half the year.

God no, not that many hours of copy and pasted tunnels....

It would probably be 30 degrees celsius in December...

 

[Keava]

Id rather see the events that took place prior to Fallout 1, mainly the Resource Wars from European perspective.

 

[CLEVERSLEAZOID]

Well, it may not have been post-apocalyptic, but there was the Operation Anchorage DLC, which I'm pretty sure was on the Canadian borders.

 

[Deadlock Radium]

I wouldn't have anything against a Fallout: Canada. Sounds fun actually.

Fallout: Paris would be interesting, since it's a big and iconic city throughout the world. It would be awesome.
"Watch out, J'ai be armed with ce Baguette Francaise!"

 

[Low Key]

I don't know if it's canon, but on the Mothership Zeta DLC, you have the option to fire a big ass laser, and it's pointed directly at Canada (near Algonquin National Park). That would lead me to believe the most populous area in Canada, save for Vancouver, would be totally destroyed, and rather boring to explore at that point.

 

[Oktanas]

haven't you seen fallout 3 loading screens???

Canada is annexed by USA they can't realy to a game where are no people.