Poll: Fallout: London must be made.

[asdadogs]

From my understanding, Alister Tennpenny sailed across the Atlantic several decades prior to the events of Fallout 3, so the UK must have been in a pretty bad condition.

But it would kinda suck due to the lack of weaponry here in the UK.

The events in Dunblane screwed up gun ownership.

 

[Captain Pancake]

I like the sound of that. Although the london eye would have collapsed in the event of a nuclear attack, methinks. It just doesn't look like the type of structure that would last 200 years. Guys and st thomas' hospital would be a great stop for stimpaks, though. Plus the imperial War museum would be a great counterpart to the museum of technology from fallout 3.

 

[Ryuk2]

What about Fallout 4: Space adventures and space time continuum?

 

[dirkdeldiablo]

I dunno...personally, I'm skeptical. Fallout was always so heavily influenced by 50s-era Americana and sci-fi that setting it in a different country would mean either all of a sudden Britain was identical to the United States save for new scenery, or the game would be so different everyone would complain about how it wasn't Fallout anymore. The original creators openly refused to even speculate on what happened to the rest of the world (I think Russia was actually one of the most asked after countries) probably in part due to this design motif.

I'm not saying that it would make a bad game, but it would probably be very very different from what we'd expect from Fallout London. Hell, it could be exactly the shake-up Fallout needs. At the very least, it couldn't be worse than Brotherhood of Steel on the consoles.

 

[Paragon Fury]

Playing in London Fallout 3 style would be great. So far, I can think of many things that would be great.

pro: countless land marks (London eye, for one)
pro: a clean slate. The brother hood and the enclave would not have to be in the game. Things in England will have mutated differently, so no more super mutans.
pro: new story with new groups with new point of views and strugles.

What do you think? I personaly am not british, but my father is and still has a thivk accent. I have been there many times and would greatly enjoy going through the palace with my combat shotgun blwing off heads of britich raiders.

Fallout 3 killed the series, so I hope they don't make any goddamn more.

Fallout 3 did no such thing.

What it did was give a good new entry into a well-liked franchise, introduced a new generation and group of gamers to one of the most interesting gaming lores in the industry, and pretty much single-handedly raised the series from the grave, while presenting it in a modern, fun yet-still-true to the style way.

 

[EzraPound]

Playing in London Fallout 3 style would be great. So far, I can think of many things that would be great.

pro: countless land marks (London eye, for one)
pro: a clean slate. The brother hood and the enclave would not have to be in the game. Things in England will have mutated differently, so no more super mutans.
pro: new story with new groups with new point of views and strugles.

What do you think? I personaly am not british, but my father is and still has a thivk accent. I have been there many times and would greatly enjoy going through the palace with my combat shotgun blwing off heads of britich raiders.

Fallout 3 killed the series, so I hope they don't make any goddamn more.

Fallout 3 did no such thing.

What it did was give a good new entry into a well-liked franchise, introduced a new generation and group of gamers to one of the most interesting gaming lores in the industry, and pretty much single-handedly raised the series from the grave, while presenting it in a modern, fun yet-still-true to the style way.

No, Fallout 3 gave Oblivion a new set of art assets.

The quality of the game judged on its own merits notwithstanding, the problem with Fallout 3 is that, fundamentally, it isn't Fallout. With video games, consumers of them have become accustomed to believing that a sequel is "proper" if it is "good", with no respect for artistic continuity. Let me pose the analogy: if Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr put out an an excellent album in 1979 under the moniker of "The Beatles" without Lennon or Harrison, would it really be a Beatles album? The answer is no. So why is a sequel to Doom released in 2004 without the input of John Romero and Tom Hall garner any respect as a 'proper' sequel? Similarly, how can Fallout 3 be referred to as a "Fallout" game when Black Isle didn't even work on it, and many of the characteristics that defined the original are conspicuously absent?

...I would've been alot more comfortable with Fallout 3 had it been titled something like The Elder Scrolls: Fallout or Fallout: [insert subtitle], as opposed to Bethesda posturing it as a sequel.

 

[Remleiz]

It could work i reckon.

The houses of parliament could have been turned into a town a la Rivet City

The London underground could house loads of ghouls/radroaches etc and allow you travel all across London.

Imagine climbing up a ruined Big Ben and fireing a Fat-man hehe

 

[Svenparty]

Fallout has always been about American Culture/World of Tomorrow nonsense/50's Cold War , I don't know how this could be pulled off in an effective manner if it was set in London.

Another part of Me thinks that Bethesda needs to do something like this to move away from Fallout 1/2.


A reviewer for Fallout 3 once said that they wished that Bethesda had just made their own unique post apocalyptic game and never bothered buying the Fallout franchise (I think this was a comment on how it mostly relies on Lore and developers being constrained to "Fallout Universe)

 

[Cmwissy]

I would like to see Big Ben post apocalypse.

And maybe the Thames has flooded the area.

Sweet.

 

[Misterian]

How about this?

Fallout: whatever-would-provide-much-bigger-world-scale-than-Fallout-3-but-with-just-as-much-variety.

 

[Mr Scott]

As long as Bethesda doesn't make it FO3 re-skinned to look like London-town, I'm all in.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

I live near milton keynes and i'd love to see a shooter set around that city, the terrain's perfect for big open battles and the overpasses and tunnels would make great ambush spots!

then there's the shopping centre...with a fat man...

I used to live there. I think the place looked like a concrete wasteland already. And those damn vertical sleeping policemen would wreck any cars suspension.

 

[Red_Serpent]

Only if Fallout: London is based on the original Fallout and includes parts of Ireland and mainland Europe.

 

[wizzerd229]

maybe Scotland

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

I used to live there. I think the place looked like a concrete wasteland already. And those damn vertical sleeping policemen would wreck any cars suspension.

ah yes, but not a BROKEN concrete wasteland! its more the dense estates with surprising open areas in them i'd love to fight over, or running through the centre and suddenly finding yourself shooting ghouls in an overgrown campbell park...

course if i want that experience all i have to do is head down fishermead and play some phil collins.

and yeah, the suspension on my car is heaving a sigh of relief since i came to uni.

Let's face it. The Point in itself could be a whole zombie haven. And I know you can make your own jokes there.

To those not in the know : Milton Keynes is an "artificial" town just above London that has the architectural nightmare of a New York Grid system with non-parallel roads, with each intersection being a roundabout. The urban planning fit to put the Bronx area next to the Texas area next to the Mexican area. A bus system that works on exact change only, but doesn't advertise prices or have any change points nearby. And a system of pavements that run inbetween the roads rather than beside them, making them some of the most dangerous areas outside Manchester (Apologies Mancunians, but Moss-side?)

Spoiler: This is the most well known thing in Milton Keynes

Nuff said

 

[nick_knack]

If it were done, I feel it should be done by a U.K. developer. Washington benefited as a setting because of the fact that Bethesda lives there. They wouldn't have the same nuance if the setting were London imo.