Poll: Future Fallout Games

[Sheppard]

Howdy, Escapists.

Now, I'm a big Fallout fan. The environments, characters, and detail all correlate into a delicious wasteland experience. I have one major criticism, however: a lack of variety in the locations the games are set. I would like to see a Fallout located somewhere other than the Core Region or the Capital Wasteland. Since I'm a Vancouverite, I'd like to see a Fallout set here in Vancouver, or at least the Pacific Northwest. killing raiders in a giant conifer forest would be pretty badass. But there are other places, too. For example, I think the Great Lakes would be a great setting, including Ronto (remnant of Toronto, mentioned in "The Pitt"). Do you all agree?

P.S: If you have an idea for a Fallout setting, mention it.

 

[HassEsser]

San Francisco
New York
Toronto
London
Tokyo (!!!)
South Africa
Los Angeles
Seattle (visit VALVe Headquarters!)

 

[Soviet Steve]

San Francisco
New York
Toronto
London
Tokyo (!!!)
South Africa
Los Angeles
Seattle (visit VALVe Headquarters!)

San Francisco and Los Angeles were major locations in the Fallout games already.

 

[Melon Hunter]

Yes, but it really needs to be set in North America. Every time a Fallout location thread comes up, people start suggesting all sorts of places around the world like London, Beijing, Tokyo, Paris, etc. While these would be interesting in a post-apocalyptic scenario, half of Fallout's charm is the Americana setting that you simply wouldn't get in other settings.

As you've pointed out, there are vast tracts of the continent that haven't been explored yet. If you ask me, Bethesda are probably going to go for the cop-out and set Fallout 4 in New York, but just think of how many major American and Canadian cities there are that would make for interesting settings that either have never been mentioned or referenced only in passing: Seattle, New Orleans, Miami, Boston, Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, Denver, Philadelphia, Atlanta, St. Louis, Memphis, Montreal, Toronto (and many, many more!)

 

[Who Dares Wins]

San Francisco
New York
Toronto
London
Tokyo (!!!)
South Africa
Los Angeles
Seattle (visit VALVe Headquarters!)

We already had San Francisco and Los Angeles, New York is too boring and cliche, it has to be in America since it's the premise of the games, so that only leaves us with Seattle which isn't very interesting and we already had a "space needle" in Lucky 38. So no dice.

 

[AlternatePFG]

Fallout has to be in America. Wouldn't mind seeing a main series game in the midwest, maybe Chicago. (Tactics was in the midwest, I forgot alot about it though. Tactics isn't canon anyway) As long as the next Bethesda Fallout game isn't in the West. (Northwest might be interesting)

 

[spectrenihlus]

New York in the fallout universe literally has no information on it therefore it is the most ripe for exploring.

 

[fates_puppet13]

yes it would be awesome
personally i'de love to see fallout in the UK or even in russia

however if it was it really wouldn't be a fallout game anymore
the 50 united states pop iconography and pop culture in-jokes simply wouldn't hold up in an non-US location

the closest i think it hasto leaving the states is with fallout online which is taking about the same amount of time as DNF to produce but it has an easy oppitunaty to show us the world fallout-ified

 

[Alon Shechter]

Tel Aviv.
It was destroyed in a terrorist attack I think, and it could be interesting.
Some stereotypical Israelis always make me laugh, and I sometimes am one of them.

<a href=http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BadassIsraeli>And by that I mean this type of Israeli.

 

[Quinadin]

Fallout has to be set in the US. Even Canada is pushing it but Toronto could work. New York, Chicago, Atlanta, New Orleans, Huston or Austin, Washington State, it has to be a big urban center. NV, though not very populated, worked because it's an oasis.

Honestly I'd love to see Fallout: Chicago or Fallout: Atlanta.

 

[TriggerHappyAngel]

What about a Fallout game that is set in a large series of connected vaults (due to the outside world being completely unaccesable) with varied environments (artifical flora, pre war, futuristic, decayed)

 

[Dalek Caan]

Fallout: London. Imagine going to the Big Ben and finding a unique sniper or going to Buckingham Palace and sitting in the throne.Please Bethseda, I need this.

 

[pyrosaw]

Fallout: Louisiana anyone? I think It'll be great.

 

[BlumiereBleck]

Yes, but it really needs to be set in North America. Every time a Fallout location thread comes up, people start suggesting all sorts of places around the world like London, Beijing, Tokyo, Paris, etc. While these would be interesting in a post-apocalyptic scenario, half of Fallout's charm is the Americana setting that you simply wouldn't get in other settings.

As you've pointed out, there are vast tracts of the continent that haven't been explored yet. If you ask me, Bethesda are probably going to go for the cop-out and set Fallout 4 in New York, but just think of how many major American and Canadian cities there are that would make for interesting settings that either have never been mentioned or referenced only in passing: Seattle, New Orleans, Miami, Boston, Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, Denver, Philadelphia, Atlanta, St. Louis, Memphis, Montreal, Toronto (and many, many more!)

This right here is all you need to read.

 

[mitchell271]

Fallout in Canada could work because, if you remember, the US annexed Canada. They probably would have put up recruitment posters and propaganda so it could work

 

[Cowabungaa]

New York is too boring and cliche

Actually, I think it could be very interesting to have a truly urban wasteland for once, and New York could offer a range of different types of environments; a completely overgrown and wild Central Park (something we've never seen before in a Fallout game), Broadway a vivid town, areas like the Bronx that are all broody, scary and bandit infested, you name it. It could offer way more variation than Fallout 3 ever did.

A new Fallout set around the Great Lakes or in Florida would be cool too. Expand on the Point Lookout DLC. Or what would about Fallout: Fargo?

 

[HassEsser]

San Francisco and Los Angeles were major locations in the Fallout games already.

We already had San Francisco and Los Angeles, New York is too boring and cliche, it has to be in America since it's the premise of the games, so that only leaves us with Seattle which isn't very interesting and we already had a "space needle" in Lucky 38. So no dice.

Yes, I know, I've played and beaten every single Fallout game. I was just thinking it'd be really neat to see these places presented like the Capital Wasteland and Mojave were in the most recent Fallout games (maybe on the Creation engine, too, like Skyrim will be; that'd be so fucking stellar). Also, I don't really care if the space needle was sorta kinda shown in New Vegas, the main focus would be the rest of Seattle anyway. Hell, I'd rather it have been destroyed by the bombs and revealed catacombs underneath (Jak 3 reference anyone?).

 

[Ghengis John]

Howdy, Escapists.

Now, I'm a big Fallout fan. The environments, characters, and detail all correlate into a delicious wasteland experience. I have one major criticism, however: a lack of variety in the locations the games are set. I would like to see a Fallout located somewhere other than the Core Region or the Capital Wasteland. Since I'm a Vancouverite, I'd like to see a Fallout set here in Vancouver, or at least the Pacific Northwest. killing raiders in a giant conifer forest would be pretty badass. But there are other places, too. For example, I think the Great Lakes would be a great setting, including Ronto (remnant of Toronto, mentioned in "The Pitt"). Do you all agree?

P.S: If you have an idea for a Fallout setting, mention it.

As a native of southern california I've enjoyed our stay in the core region, however I think your idea of taking things to new locales is probably the best proposal for doing such that I've ever heard. Basically because you went the extra mile and kept the natural ecology of different regions in mind. Turning the pacific northwest into a desert wouldn't make a lot of sense and it annoyed the heck out of me when they did that to the capitol region, but fighting raiders among the redwood trees would and it sounds like a positively bad-ass change of scenery when you can imagine tree-top villages and creatures that suddenly come out from everywhere thanks to the dense tree cover. It poses a a few new rules for engagement as well.

A neat little detail you could include from the Chernobyl region, in your north-west scenario:

The patch of trees in front of me is called red - or 'magic" wood. In 1986, this wood glowed red with radiation. They cut them down and buried them under 1 meter of earth.

Actually, I think it could be very interesting to have a truly urban wasteland for once, and New York could offer a range of different types of environments; a completely overgrown and wild Central Park (something we've never seen before in a Fallout game), Broadway a vivid town, areas like the Bronx that are all broody, scary and bandit infested, you name it. It could offer way more variation than Fallout 3 ever did.

The problem with that is cities don't tend to produce food. A constant pattern we see when a civilization collapses is that people abandon the cities for the country side. I don't think this scenario would be any different. For that matter, central park is a man-made environment. The water in it runs at the twist of a valve and a lot of the plants in it are not native to the region. It's unknowable how the park would fare on rain water alone but my guess is, not well. I'm not opposed to the idea though.

 

[Sonicmixer]

Fallout: Texas!!! I dare them to make that much land in a video game, it would be MONSTROUS!!!

 

[Terminate421]

Set it in Atlanta, I am surprised no-one has mentioned it here. We Georgians only have one game to actually "call home" (Left 4 Dead 2). Come on guys! Fallout: Atlanta or Just Fallout 4 set in Atlanta.