Poll: Thoughts on a Fallout game set in another part of the world?

[ninjaRiv]

I'm speaking as a non American here:

I wouldn't enjoy it set somewhere else. It's a uniquely American game. I prefer it that way for the same reason I like Captain America; it's interesting and the way it's meant to be (in a way).

The cold war, nuclear arms and all that is a big part of the American culture and just wouldn't be the same anywhere else. Maybe Russia or China, I guess... But not really.

It's like, Metro 2033 would suck if it was set anywhere else! Because it's a very Russian game and has a lot of their culture involved.

 

[Malty Milk Whistle]

I've said it before and I'll say it again: The Great British Isles would be a great place.
Just make London steampunkish and foggy, and Scotland even more rugged and brutal.
Possibly drop a nuke on newcastle as an improvement for the populace.

 

[scar_47]

What makes Fallout different is the whole America in the 50's it's such a major part of the franchise identity that I don't really think it would work without it, so moving it to another country kills that.

 

[Altorin]

However, radiation in fallout is treated more as a particle then a ray. *shrugs* At least thats how I took it since fallout 3

radiation from nuclear explosions technically does produce radioactive particles i think, and actually thats how radiation tends to spread out, because the debris that gets thrown high up in the atmosphere becomes radioactive and it can travel quite far before falling back down.

When a nuke goes off, very little of the fissionable/fusionable materials are actually split/fused. what's left vaporizes and spreads over a large area and goes up into the air and the wind picks it up and it moves.. and then that remaining nuclear material "falls out" of the sky over vast areas.

The radiation itself is basically light, perhaps with larger charged particles, that's emitted from very heavy elements as they decay into lighter elements until they become Lead, which is stable. But the radiation emanates from the nucleus of the atom, and that atom is a particle. Also, on a quantum level, the radiation itself IS a particle, or wave of particles, and the larger charged particles (alpha and beta particles) certainly are particles.

Fallout does get radiation sickness wrong in a lot of ways, but the ways of contracting it and the overall idea of its existence aren't that bad

 

[psicat]

No, because it would stop being Fallout.

 

[GTwander]

No, because it would stop being Fallout.

That's what people said about BoS, Tactics and the changeover to no.3 and so forth.
It stopped being Fallout when they stopped making the games along the lines of "Battle Chess".

I for one embrace the idea of using another country as the backdrop, because America will still exist in the minds of the people there as a major cornerstone to the end of the world. They would either blame us for what's going on, or assume we are the last standing civilization left and try to migrate here somehow. You can't escape the presence of the united American front in that universe, regardless of where you are. We are like rock stars of the apocalypse.

It would be awesome to be an American in a foreign land set in the Fallout Universe. Everyone would hate you...

Wait... now shits getting too real.

 

[Aaron Foltz]

Fallout set in the rest of world only to find that it was the U.S. that was completely destroyed O___o

 

[Warachia]

London would be neat. Get to see big ben all smashed up, along with Mr. Handys complaining about the state of the city.

Except that even in the context of the more limited nuclear war in Fallout than there would be in reality, London - and for that matter, the entirety of Great Britain - would be utterly devastated by nuclear war. Any survivors after the first generation would likely be severely mentally retarded, and sterility would likely set in after the second generation. The density of the population means a lot more problems than in America, where places like Wyoming might conceivably survive with little infrastructural damage, even in a real nuclear war.

Why force a player to play as a human then? Give us the option of something different, like a super mutant or a ghoul, I don't see any problem with one of them exploring destroyed cities.

 

[Th37thTrump3t]

working it into the lore might be a bit tricky, maybe someone emerges from a vault and sets sail for a different region of the world for whatever reason.

that being said, i would find it considerably more interesting to explore some different settings. bombed out america has been going on for a while now

It wouldn't necessarily be too hard to implement into the lore. Surely other nations took notice to how fucked the situation was between China and the US before the bombs dropped and knew something bad was coming. I'm fairly certain that the many European countries and especially China would have enacted some sort of bomb-proofing or radiation-proofing plans similar if not completely identical to America's "Vaults".

Think of how much Vault-Tec would have made selling their Vaults in other countries.

 

[Anti-American Eagle]

It really depends if it was handeled like point lookout. It would have to be an American expedition into other places.
Also please remember the opening of the original, it was stated that the entirety of the world was fried because of the amount of nukes thrown around. I'm not saying that there weren't untouched places, and I'm not saying that it's impossible that other countries fared as well as America. I'm saying it's unlikely.

 

[Wanderer787]

Remnants of underground Chinese military elements would be interesting. Eastern Europe has already been done ala the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series, but I'd like to see an Asian setting for FallOut. Maybe even a London or Parisian setting, where those who survived only did so by getting into the Underground or Labyrinth before the bombs hit.

 

[GTwander]

making a fallout game without all the recognised factions,creatures, pop culture references and feel, etc all you will be left with is a Stalker game with nuka cola references and period music. which might be awesome but whats the point of calling is fallout. they might as well make another post apocalypse IP

Farrout: New China

*rimshot*

 

[Zykon TheLich_v1legacy]

Yes, I would. I really don't care about Fallout canon or themes, I have no attachment to the Enclave, BoS, the goofy 50's Americana or anything else that makes Fallout "Fallout". Europe, Russia, Australia would all be good, although Russia already has Metro 2033 (I really need to play that) for a post apocalypse game. China might be interesting given the place it takes in the fallout universe, the survivors trying to throw off the remains of the communist government but from a familiarity POV I'd prefer the others. I still prefer Fallout 3 to NV despite NV being a better game with a better plot, characters etc etc, because if you ignore the American accents and the Washington monument etc the capital wasteland could have been any devastated urban area and beyond. The wild west setting of NV did nothing for me.

So basically what I'm saying is I'd like Bethesda/Obsidian to make a post Nuclear Apocalypse game with the same game engine and general premise of the recent Fallout games but I don't really care about it being set in the same game universe.

That said, I can't see them making one outside the US or moving from Fallout the setting. The developers are American and would probably have a hard time getting the right flavour for another country or at least wouldn't be able to do as good a job of things as they did with their own culture. They have a good formula that they know works well and it will be a lot more work to make a Fallout game (either in the same setting or just with the same engine) with a different aesthetic and more of a risk to do so.

 

[NotSoLoneWanderer]

Jeese, wait a few games until you think of setting fallout in another part of the world. We're not exactly finished with where all established lore and possibilities within what were the states. I wouldn't mind moving up into Canada or down to Mexico with the remnants of the states still being involved. Or...you know...just make a game that takes place all over the country and China...and Russia...and other places. I'd wait a few years extra for that.

 

[Senare]

Fallout is fine. The theme is is pretty dependent on the US atomic-age mentality and culture.

If you want to see it in another country, why not just use another and fresh post-apocalyptic setting? In my own country (Sweden) we have at least one promising, already established post-apocalyptic IP - Mutant: Undergångens Arvtagare.

Here's a fan-made film from that setting:

part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUBldc3DzOQ
part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xftuF9NBUsc&feature=relmfu
part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TblsZgEZ8q4&feature=relmfu

Sadly the film will not do you many favours in understanding the setting, but it is a sneak peak into yet another bleak future.

 

[Aarowbeatsdragon]

i think the poll should have the option "yes id play it, but i dont think they should do it". Anyway thats preety much my opinion on it right there.

 

[direkiller]

I'd love to see the game take place in New York or something but maybe that's because they'd hopefully put cars back into the series.

they really can't as there is basically no gas left(it's why the war happend). The only faction that has any real assess to gas is The Enclave(oil rig)but that was destroyed in fallout two.
The NCR and brotherhood also seem to have access(as they also use captured Vertibirds) but only in a limited capacity.

Energy cell are an option but lore wise they drain quickly. T-45d(The less advanced of the two Brotherhood power armors) runs on them and burn though them quickly. I would hate to see what a car sized object would do.

Fission cells seem a bit out of the question for non military/Valtec.

 

[Risingblade]

No Fallout has to take place in the US that's kind of the point of the series. If they want to make a fallout like game somewhere else then do it by all means but the actual Fallout games should stay in the states.

 

[GTwander]

I'd love to see the game take place in New York or something but maybe that's because they'd hopefully put cars back into the series.

they really can't as there is basically no gas left(it's why the war happend). The only faction that has any real assess to gas is The Enclave(oil rig)but that was destroyed in fallout one.
The NCR and brotherhood also seem to have limited access(as they also use captured Vertibirds) but only in a limited capacity.

Energy cell are an option but lore wise they drain quickly. T-45d(The less advanced of the two Brotherhood power armors) runs on them and burn though them quickly. I would hate to see what a car sized object would do.

Fission cells seem a bit out of the question for non military/Valtec.

The Enclave Oil Rig was in Fallout 2.
The same game that featured said microfusion cell powered car, which would let you travel from Washington state to San Francisco and back on less than half charge.