Now that Fallout 4 is being teased, what would you like to see in the next installment?

[Ftaghn To You Too]

I want Obsidian to make it. FO:NV was 10 million times better than FO3.

Here, here. I was probably going to get a low content post warning because all I had to say was: Obsidian.

This. What I want for Fallout 4 is for Bethesda to hand it over to Obsidian (and the Elder Scrolls so we can have another game possibly as good as Morrowind) and not touch it at all.

Bethesda has fallen sharply in quality. Oblivion was the start of the decline, but Fallout 3 was good enough that I kept faith in them. Then New Vegas came out and beat Fallout 3 in every way. That was when I knew that it was time for Bethesda to step down. The mess that was Skyrim just confirmed this more. Fallout 4 will most likely be a shallower, blander, and all around less polished version of Fallout 3. Hell, it'll probably not even have a Hardcore mode or many of the advancements made in Fallout: New Vegas.

 

[Terminate421]

Setting it in Atlanta, we've heard nothing about what the nukes did to the southern states. Besides, if we go down south enough:

MUTANT ALLIGATORS

And to anyone else, they aren't setting it outside of America. It won't happen and wouldn't work

Ugh, no. Don't give Bethesda any ideas. I watched a show on Netflix about alligators once. They aren't classified as super predators without a reason.

I said...MUTANT Alligators. That means they could be as menacing as Deathclaws for all we know.

Radiation = Suspension of Disbelief in the Fallout Universe

 

[welker_83]

i want it to be set right on the coast i always wondered what beaches and oceans would be like in the fallout universe i mean mutated sharks and giant squids would be (terrifyingly) amazing if done right.
Also it has to be set in america otherwise it would lose the futuristic 50's theme that helps make fallout, what it is

 

[Lunar Templar]

Off the top of my head?

A story worth caring about; I know this is Bethesda we're talking about and they couldn't write their way out of a wet paper bag, but still.

Actual Moral Choice; if your going to have it in the game FUCKING DO IT RIGHT, no more black/white choices, use the gray area, makes for better experiences.

Habitat where i can get my head around people living in; More a pet pev of mine, but shouldn't nature be, ya know, recovering a bit by the time these games take place?

 

[Kekkonen1]

Simply put, I would like to see more Fallout 1 & 2 and less dystopic future-version of Elder Scrolls.

 

[Jfswift]

Setting it in Atlanta, we've heard nothing about what the nukes did to the southern states. Besides, if we go down south enough:

MUTANT ALLIGATORS

And to anyone else, they aren't setting it outside of America. It won't happen and wouldn't work

Ugh, no. Don't give Bethesda any ideas. I watched a show on Netflix about alligators once. They aren't classified as super predators without a reason.

I said...MUTANT Alligators. That means they could be as menacing as Deathclaws for all we know.

Radiation = Suspension of Disbelief in the Fallout Universe

radiation + Mutant alligators = better hope you have something bigger than that hunting rifle

 

[mrhappy1489]

I would say "Australia", but it would basically be 1000 square feet of mutant cazadors and no way out.

I think New York City would be a nice spot as all of the buildings could be filled in with lots of enemies and it could make a nice sequence, but only if the combat gets fixed up a notch.

Custom start would be good.

More likely it would be 1000 square metres of giant salt water crocodiles, taipans and gigantic King Browns, which aren't the biggest but their name enables them to be some mini boss, called the King Brown. The bigger problem is that there isn't much of a sizeable population to have anything really interesting and all the cool animals are northern or central australia orientated and there is nothing out there. I vote the commonwealth for the next location or something in the deep south. Louisiana would be a really cool location in my mind, not New Orleans because that has been used to recently, but the Bayous or Baton Rouge would be really cool.

 

[bastardofmelbourne]

I would say "Australia", but it would basically be 1000 square feet of mutant cazadors and no way out.

It's not the cazadors you have to worry about. It's the bears.

The bears that drop.

 

[NooNameLeft]

I want the World, atmosphere and Setting to be design by Bethesda. And the story, NPCs, dialogues and quests to be done by Obsidian.
Think about it, everything that is good in Fallout 3 is bad in New Vegas and everything that is good in New Vegas is bad in Fallout 3.

The world in new vegas was empty, full of invisible and monster walls that forced you to go in specific paths, all the caves looked the same and the only reason to travel the world was to find the few interesing locations in a really boring world.
Fallout 3 on the other hand had a large, immersive world that was (mostly) completely open, the world was filled with intresting things to find and was really well done in general.

Fallout New Vegas had a lot of interesting npc (in my opinion), good dialogues and more and better choices on how to finish quests.
In Fallout 3 I can think of maybe 3 NPCs that I liked, Quests had a black & white moral choices and most dialogues were boring.

So yea, Bethesda+Obsidian for the ultimate Fallout game.

too bad it will never happen

 

[Karoshi]

- Why just be a human? Why not a ghoul or a super mutant? Or Glub Glub, the Lakelurk with a heart of gold?

- Mountable vehicles. As in: motorcycles. Further, we can customize them like we could houses. Hell, if they just give us a motorcycle/ car we can drive around in with saddlebags/trunk, I won't even need a house.

Mostly it's just those two points. Vehicles would be nice, but I suppose I'll survive without them. What I really want is to play as a ghoul, though that is highly unlikely.

I am pretty open to whatever the next Fallout 4 will feature, as long it has good writing.

 

[Mauler]

Better crafting Interesting places and ending that doesn't get to end credits and boom your on main menu. I liked fallout 3 continuity (in DLC) but New Vegas kinda made me mad that i couldn't bask in my fruits of labour making Vegas free... I like how they did it in skyrim where you can just faff about and do quests you didnt before the end came... And i think that we would need more DLC(ok non dlc content also) as interesting as Old world blues(BEST DLC EWER(It even bested extended cut and Shivering Isles(LOOK AT HIS FOOTPENISES!!!)))...

 

[blippity]

-A blank character, or at least the option to choose my own background. I do not want to be pigeonholed into playing a vault dweller with daddy issues again.

-Dual wielding one-handed weapons. This is highly likely to happen already, but I always thought it was a little odd that I couldn't pack two pistols or a pistol and a knife in my offhand.

-Far fewer super mutants. Big green uglies just aren't very compelling villains.

-A minor Brotherhood/Enclave presence, if any. It just wouldn't make much sense for the Enclave to be threatening after they've had their asses kicked so many times.

-More quests, with more choices and moral dilemmas. Especially in the main quest. It would also be nice if they had choices actually lead to significantly different quest experiences, instead of just having different people giving you the same quests a la New Vegas.

-A much, much larger world. Though I do hope there are plenty of settlements full of interesting characters, the wasteland should feel vast and desolate between the oases of crude civilization.

-A strong, intelligent, well developed antagonist. The Enclave/super mutants were not this. Caesar's Legion was closer, but they never struck me as very threatening and the quests on their side were woefully underdeveloped.

These are the ones that I agree with and I'd like to see more environmental situations. One thing I liked in GTA SA was the gang warfare (I know some people didn't like it) but when your turf is under attack, you go and defend it. I'd like to have situations where some settlements might be under attack and your duty if you wish to choose, is to defend or fight with the attackers, which influences your reputation in the game. Not necessarily saying that it should be that, but something similar.

 

[loc978]

I really hope they take a cue or seven-hundred from the modding communities of 3 and New Vegas. Obsidian did with their crafting/repair system and hardcore mode (though they dumbed that down a bit).

I'd really like to see
-dynamic weather
-modifiable housing
-crafting/hacking/reusing robots and turrets (maybe for home defense if you don't feel like living in an actual settlement)
-repairable and drivable vehicles
-true darkness in nighttime hours (and indoors) supplemented by a much better piplight (comparable to a lantern with an additional directional flashlight, yes there are mods for that). Repairable streetlights and interior lighting would be cool too.
-more realistic treatment of water (ie. the ability to fill empty bottles without the help of a sentient kitchen sink, carry a canteen that actually needs refilling instead of the insufficient, infinite trickle-feeder from the classic pack, et cetera)
-an equipment wear system that takes components into account and a repair system to match (can't repair a 10mm with a broken slide using another 10mm with a broken slide)

I'd also really, really like to see a return to something resembling Fallout 2's damage/resistance system [http://sprayahen.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/mb05.jpg] (updated, of course). No more of this DR/DT crap, I want a breakdown. What's proof against the flamethrower isn't necessarily proof against the bullet, or the laser, or the sledgehammer. Also, power armor is ridiculously flimsy in 3 and NV, their piercing/slashing/bludgeoning resistance should be through the roof. Even moreso against lasers. Please fix that.

 

[AlbertoDeSanta]

Setting it not in America. It's implied (if not directly stated) that the whole world was affected.
I'd also like to see some other variants of Super Mutants. Not just those ugly green fuckers, but differently built and what not. It's HIGHLY unlikely that every single Super mutant would be grotesquely huge built, green and vicious and Violent (All except for Fawkes). Basically; better characters all around.

 

[Scorpid]

I want Obsidian to make it. FO:NV was 10 million times better than FO3.

I agree completely. Obsidian (unsurprisingly) got the jist of what fallout is about. I think Bethesda got FAR too wrapped up in the circumstances leading up to 2077, when fallout isn't about that. The first two fallouts rarely spent anytime talking about the before times because the message was 'war never changes' so that brilliant intro, particularly the Fallout2's gave us all we needed to know. In general I think Fallout is more of a story of what happens after all the shit goes tits up and how far can we deconstruct americana with it. To be fair though free water to the wastes idea they used was well executed, but FO:NV just knew how to tell a better a story *assuming you bought the DLC.

Personally something I would like to see is that they stop feeling compelled to make one big giant map. I loved the Fallout 1 and 2's overworld map that took you from one place to another. Imagine how many great settings and events you could make if you didn't keep strictly to Washington DC, or Vegas region. Like a southeast setting where you go to Atlanta, Savannah, Chattanooga, Fort Benning. You couldn't go to any two of these places if you wanted to try to trick people into believing that your 14 square mile map is bigger then it is.

I'd like to go to the heart of good ol' Americana Pennsylvania personnally or somewhere around there, upthere towards Michigan maybe.

 

[Subscriptism]

I want to go back to the capital wasteland, and I want the brotherhood to have a part. I want it to feel like a post nuclear dangerous world, NV did not by the way.

 

[Vault101]

I kind of wish bethesda wasnt doing it.....I liked fallout 3 but NV blew it out the water

And I seriously don't get all the Bethesda hate/Obsidian love. I can't name a single good/memorable character from New Vegas l.)

thats just like..your opinion

also Bethesda are the kings of "unemeorable charachters"

anyway even if its a more polished version of Fallout 3 I'd be happy

 

[verdant monkai]

Characters I care about

A setting other than America (how about Brazil?)

For it not to kill you at the end then fuck up your whole save game, because you saved when you got inside the reactor building.