Poll: Fallout:England-Would it Work?

[LarenzoAOG]

No, the food in England is already terrible, nuclear war war would put an end to fresh ingredients and imported food, causing the quality of the already terrible food to deminish, at which point people would refuse to eat leading to the starvation of everyone in England.

Nothing wrong with a big serving of toad in the hole and bubble 'n' squeek.

I don't even understand what thats supposed to mean, but when I read it my stomach churned.

Oh..OKay. Well Toad in the Hole is a baked product, chefly consisting of a bread batter - much like Yorkshire pudding - with sausages, leeks and other yummy stuff mixed into it.

Bubble 'n' squeek is a vegetable dish, where you get potato mash and cooked vegetables like cabbage, peas carrots and make a pattie out them. You then season and fry them in a pan till golden brown. MMMMMmmmm!

Oh my, when you put it that way it sounds so good, but that name, good lord that name is unappatising.

I think that's where the whole myth of crappy British food comes from; Their wacky culinary names. I want to know which English peasant decided he'd name his dessert Spotted Dick!

No, I've actually eaten British food, not in Britian mind you, and the majority of it was terrible, very greasy, and quite vinegar-y, I've never eaten food that was so vinegar-ed. But than again, the sample size was pretty low and only came from about a dozen sources, its not outside the realm of possibility that the places I ate at just sucked.

 

[spectrenihlus]

According to the wiki Alistair Tenpenny came from England so it is still around.

Hell Europe might be better off than America because it probably wasn't nuked.

 

[individual11]

At some point there needs to be shouted NPC dialogue for a guard:

"Get out of here, WANKER!"

Hah, parody.

 

[Nickolai77]

I think it would be done, but a few things of note should be addressed:

Firstly, there would need to be some sort of equivalent of Vault-Tec in the UK. This is perfectly plausible, after all there are nuclear bunkers in Britain. In fact there is one just over an hours drive from where i live.

Fallout's aesthetics may have to be modified for Britain. America's aesthetics are 1950's esque, and i think you could do similar for the UK. In Resistance 1, there were elements of British 1950's-1960's architecture. You could create good gaming environments with rows of terrace houses and towering, crumbling concrete blocks of flats.

But, i think if you went for a more neo-Victorian Steam-Punk theme then that would be better and give the game more style unique to Britain whilst making it stand out from it's American counterpart. Plus, like how Fallout 3 harps back to the American "Golden Age", a Fallout in Britain would do likewise for Britain's "Golden Age" with environments full of Imperial pomp and decadence, steam powered machinery, airships and Victorian fashion. Britain also has the advantage of having more history, so you could have gaming environments set in stately homes and medieval castles. There would also be more medieval weapons such as cannons, longbows, pole arms, swords, axes, armour et cetera would be more plentiful than in America.

 

[_Cake_]

I'm not even American and I think it just wouldn't fit with the fallout tone of 1930s-50s Americana.

 

[Nomanslander]

It could work, but you have to remember Fallout is also a major satire of 50s America and the fundamental ideologies based on that time that can still be found today.

Fallout makes fun of Americans more than it celebrates them. Question is how do you make a satire of 50s England? 60s England is another matter.

 

[individual11]

It could work, but you have to remember Fallout is also a major satire of 50s America and the fundamental ideologies based on that time that can still be found today.

Fallout makes fun of Americans more than it celebrates them. Question is how do you make a satire of 50s England? 60s England is another matter.

Yeah, a satire of Post-War Britain would be a little... dry.

But the Fallout vibe is centred around a future in which the American Dream is realised, and the social image is crafted to fit the previous Golden Era of Americana - the 1950s.
So, In that future, the British Dream (provided Britain had the same economic/social dealings) would probably be the heyday of British Empire - the height of Imperialism/Colonialism.

Maybe, I don't really know, personal opinion. I come from one of those bloody colonies.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

No, because there is no vaults in England.

Oh really? I beg to differ.

To the OP:

or if you want a realistic image, look up "Threads". Nuclear attack on modern day Sheffield.

 

[TehIrishSoap]

Nah, screw that, it should be set in IRELAND.

 

[ZydrateDealer]

No, because there is no vaults in England.

Nope but there are mineshafts in Wales and North England so fallout Britain could work, there may not be the same critters as other fallouts but there could be different ones like mutated lions who's ancestors escaped from safari parks for example.

Right new life goal think up a backstory for fallout Britain...maybe sell it to Bethesda as the idea for their next game.

 

[MattRooney06]

Fallout could work anywhere, personaly i like the thought of the game's boundries being the sea rather than montain range's or road blocks

plus i would (rather morbidly) love the ideea of seeing another major city as if it was attacked by a nuke....i mean come on, bombed DC was intresting

 

[MattRooney06]

would an American Doctor who work?

it's not the britishness that makes the Doctor great, its all the storys. aleins and things like that

An american doctor would be hard to swallow but could work

 

[Comrade_Beric]

I would sadly say no, I don't think it would work, and here's why:

The Fallout setting is patterned after the American 1950's image of the future. As such, as long as it's set in America, there is no problem. However, if you take it to another country, what happens? Would the setting there be the same as the American image? Or would they have followed their own country's image of the future?

More basically: Are you going to shoe-horn in the American version of the future on all of the other countries of the world, or are you going to throw out the fallout setting in favor of something that the country's people actually imagined and just keep the word "fallout" in the name to sell copies? There is no right answer here. Which ever way you go, you're either going to insult the people from that country or you're going to tamper with the formula that people know and love.

Besides, they still haven't even done Texas yet. Come on, Brahman Barons, Ten Gallon Hats, Oil Wells, Whore Houses, Cowboys and Indians, Mosquitoes the size of Geese, fighting off Super Mutants from inside the Alamo, raiding the Pantex facility (the last Nuclear Weapon construction company in the US), all the while the developer's choice of the ruins of Dallas, San Antonio, Ft. Worth, Houston, Lubbock, Austin, Waco, El Paso, and/or Corpus Cristi to explore. Hell, half of them could be done up into individual DLCs. I can definately see them doing a Texas Fallout game before they shoot themselves in the foot by moving to another country.

 

[kahlzun]

Doesn't England still have all those old Air Raid shelters from back in WW2?
British 50's music was quite interesting (or was that 60's?) so go nuts.

Wouldn't it end up being Fallout: European Coalition or whatever tho?

 

[Korolev]

Eh. No. A Fallout game set in Russia, sure. But remember, most of the charm of Fallout came from exploiting the old "Nuclear Holocaust" fears and 50's paranoia and style. America has a huge history and relationship with nuclear weapons which England doesn't have.

I also get the feeling that an English Fallout would be just bleak and humourless. That's not to say that the UK doesn't have great comedians - David Mitchell, Monty Python, all great in my book, but they don't have the CONTEXT or the cultural background to make a truly great Post-Nuclear War setting.

Americans have been writing about nuclear Armageddon for decades. During the Cold War, that paranoia was always at the back of their minds. The UK was also somewhat fearful of nuclear war, and they also had their "what-if-it-happened" movies and books ("Threads" in particular, I remember vividly). But the Nuclear War scenario was never as much in the mind of englanders as it was with Americans. The Cold War and the fear of Nuclear war was a PIVOTAL part of American culture for decades. Same can not be said of Britain.

 

[captaincabbage]

Wouldn't being set in England disrupt the Futuristic American 50s style of Fallout?

Ah, but you see, there'd be a whole tweed jacket-wearing era of England to explore!



. . . Oh wait, that would kinda suck.

OT: It could work, but I don't know how well.
Personally I'd like to see a game called 'Fallout: Not Full of Fucking Shitty Bugs Edition'

 

[The Unworthy Gentleman]

On Topic. I'd love to see a Fallout game set in England. Maybe some branching out into Ireland for DLC or something.

On that note, I think it would actually be pretty good if they had some DLC for going to England. A good field test to see if people like it or not and we get to see and play in England for a bit.

It's worth a try, isn't it? We're always complaining that the industry isn't experimental enough, yet when ideas like these come along that interrupt 'canon' we all turn and shout no.

 

[Xiorell]

Guns are actually a lot more common in UK than some of you seem to think. Just not registered etc, it'd be pretty easy for me to go out now and find a shooter if I wanted. And I don't even live in a big city.
Besides, wouldn't there have been a fuck-ton of weapons kicking around from WW2 in 1950s england, and stuff like heavy artilery, AA-Guns all that sort of big stuff.
Just a thought.