Poll: What should be the next setting of Fallout 4

[knight steel]

Australia
Why,because I want a mad max game dammit >_<
Seriously Australia lends itself so perfectly to an apocalyptic story yet no games have been made about it T_T

 

[Xpwn3ntial]

New Orleans.

I want to see radgators.

 

[Sigmund Av Volsung]

How about somewhere that isn't the United States?

Half the aesthetics would go out the window (Pip-boy, Americana cartoons etc.) also the music would have to change drastically.

It might as well become a spin-off, as the enclave and the Brotherhood of Steel are US-Specific.

And if you're a bit bored of only US-based post-apocalyptic games, might I suggest Metro 2033 and the S.T.A.L.K.E.R series?

 

[putowtin]

Anywhere, so long as they would be willing to contract Obsidian to make the game. (please, please, for the love of writing, pleaaaaaaaaaase)

Give this man a medal.... he just read my mind!

 

[Reincarnatedwolfgod]

I say Boston. Bethesda should leave the west coast area of America alone.
Let Obsidian make fallout games located in the west coast area of america because Bethesda has issues with writing and they would mess it up.
There writing is bad enough that I am unable to give a single fuck about the 99% of the characters, the story, and the fate of the world in skyrim.

Australia
Why,because I want a mad max game dammit >_<
Seriously Australia lends itself so perfectly to an apocalyptic story yet no games have been made about it T_T

So much of what makes fallout fallout is rooted in america. I can't see a fallout game being really far away from America. I could potently see fallout in Canada but not Australia.
In order to have fallout in Australia it would have to be a spin off.

Anywhere, so long as they would be willing to contract Obsidian to make the game

I agree but Bethesda is already making fallout 4. Hopefully the next fallout game can be made by Obsidian.

 

[wintercoat]

Really it is coming down to either Ronto or The Commonwealth. I'd sort of like a Fallout set in the NCR, with political chicanery as commentry on our own duplicity with (perhaps) the sundering of the Republic, but I doubt anyone else wants to go back to Shady Sands. Also Ed130's point about Obsidian is food for thought.

I guess the Commonwealth is going to have all manner of replicanty "who is the real monster here anyway?" horror and Cloud Atlas-esque moments with robots shouting about not being subject to criminal abuse whilst I shoot them with a rocket launcher. So you've got a plot and a theme right there.

What happens in Canada though? Canada gets annexxed and then there's all that hulabaloo in Alaska and then it goes boom. That's not really a fat lot to be honest. Yes you'd have the army and the natives still slogging it out, 300 years later, which could be quite good and you'd have the wilderness but is there really anything of any real narrative value in Toronto? Is there a great seat of power or learning or industry or hedonism? I am unaware of anything, but then I am very ignorant.

So I'm going with the Commonwealth.

Well, Ronto is theorized to be a prominent military power by the fans. However, because it's only mentioned twice, during The Pitt expansion for Fallout 3, there's almost nothing to go off of. They could do almost anything with it.

It could also be in reference to Toronto, Ohio, which is about ten times closer to Pittsburgh than Toronto, Canada, so there's a good chance Ronto isn't even in Canada to begin with.

 

[Professor Lupin Madblood]

I've never cared much for Fallout (the whole "hey, let's be radically whimsical and contrast the optimism of 50s America against a nuclear holocaust, which ISN'T optimistic!" shtick is really overdone), but I had no idea that the people at Bethesda knew anything about Canada, so, yeah, Toronto. Ronto. Whatever the hell it's called.

Doesn't really matter precisely where it's set as long as Obsidian is writing it, honestly.

Fallout 4: Beyond the Thunderdome

Marry me.

 

[Dr.Awkward]

I think New York would be a worth visiting if canon allows it - Being able to wander down in the subways all the way up to the skyways and catwalks would be a great experience.

 

[Me55enger]

Luton.

Pretty much a wasteland as it is.

 

[Kyber]

Oh, it's THIS thread again... que people saying somewhere outside the US, and then people explaining why it can't happen.
OT: Somewhere with famous historical monuments and landmarks and a new environment, like always. I honestly wouldn't mind revisiting some old locales from the previous games, but the rumored Boston sounds like an okay choice.

 

[DRTJR]

Florida, in the Swampland that created a radioactive swamp with super gators.

 

[Windcaler]

I cant say I know much about Fallout lore. I remember 3 and new vegas pretty well but even though I played Fallout 1 and 2 extensively and beat both games I hardly remember anything about them. That said, I think we've explored the US as much as we can unless they went to the pacific northwest (which to my knowledge is untouched in fallout lore). Personally I think I would like to see what happned up in Canada. So far as I know thats been untouched as well, in particular I would like to see it surrounding Quebec or Nova Scotia

 

[Bertylicious]

What is Ronto?

Baby don't hurt me,

Don't hurt me,

No more.

Well, Ronto is theorized to be a prominent military power by the fans. However, because it's only mentioned twice, during The Pitt expansion for Fallout 3, there's almost nothing to go off of. They could do almost anything with it.

It could also be in reference to Toronto, Ohio, which is about ten times closer to Pittsburgh than Toronto, Canada, so there's a good chance Ronto isn't even in Canada to begin with.

That DOES make sense, but if that is so then basically "Ronto" is the mid-west. Or mid-east. It's not coastal anyway and therefore in the middle. Which could be pretty rad, thinking about it, as you could get away from the NCR and the Brotherhood and start something fresh. Maybe something with more of a Wasteland vibe.

OMG you could be a Ronto Ranger!

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

Bah, think outside the box, people.

Set it in the rectum of a dead god.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

That DOES make sense, but if that is so then basically "Ronto" is the mid-west. Or mid-east. It's not coastal anyway and therefore in the middle. Which could be pretty rad, thinking about it, as you could get away from the NCR and the Brotherhood and start something fresh. Maybe something with more of a Wasteland vibe.

If Bethesda did the Mid-West they'd almost certainly cack-handedly turn the Chicago/Mid-West chapter of the BoS from FO:Tactics into canon... and most probasbly bring the Mid-West Enclave, the Mid-West Supermutants and a certain Robot Army into the mix as well.

 

[Bertylicious]

That DOES make sense, but if that is so then basically "Ronto" is the mid-west. Or mid-east. It's not coastal anyway and therefore in the middle. Which could be pretty rad, thinking about it, as you could get away from the NCR and the Brotherhood and start something fresh. Maybe something with more of a Wasteland vibe.

If Bethesda did the Mid-West they'd almost certainly cack-handedly turn the Chicago/Mid-West chapter of the BoS from FO:Tactics into canon... and most probasbly bring the Mid-West Enclave, the Mid-West Supermutants and a certain Robot Army into the mix as well.

Yeah, well, that doesn't sound too bad. Then again I share your doubts that Bethesda could really capture the jingo-istic ass-hattery of the Mid-West BoS.

Have I understood you right? Do you not like the FO: Tactics setting? Only I rather liked it, particularly as the player operated in something of a moral vacuum.

 

[bartholen_v1legacy]

Florida, in the Swampland that created a radioactive swamp with super gators.

I think they already kinda covered that with Point Lookout.

How about somewhere that isn't the United States?

I am terribly curious to see how other nations are faring during this time.

There are some locations like New Zealand, The Pacific Islands, Iceland and Greenland that couldn't have been viewed as threats during the nuclear war and are far enough away from the 'big dogs' that the fallout couldn't have spread that far.

The potential for these 'intact but hardly superpower' nations to suddenly find themselves in a position of complete stability and power and the choices they make given this power would be worth looking into.

That being said, The Commonwealth is an area I would like to see explored in more detail.

A Fallout game set in Iceland or New Zealand would be very interesting, since they'd offer way different locations. As I'm not from good ol' 'murica the location in North America would make no difference to me, because I've never seen them live. The locations would all look the same to me, whether they were in Boston or LA. I'd just go "oh, ruined city x followed by nuclear wasteland y".

But with settings in different countries it could be really interesting. Anyone who's been to New Zealand knows why. Radioactive jungles, rolling hills, mountains etc. It'd really offer variety.

 

[Two Bears]

The Fallout franchise, as said above, really needs to stay in the US for aesthetic. Take that away and you don't have Fallout anymore. It may be a great game, but it isn't Fallout. That is also what has me worried about these rumors of Boston, The Institute and Blade Runner. Fallout is all vacuum tubes, not microchips, and I am concerned that going cyberpunk is going to ruin the feel of the series. I love Bethesda; I love what they do, but I find those rumors troubling.

 

[Diddy_Mao]

The Fallout aesthetic seems to rely pretty heavily on cartoonish reimaginings of Americas own self image.
Seems to me that Texas would be an excellent place to set that up.

That's less of a dig at Texans themselves and more of a play on the "Wild West" setting and how it would play out in a post apocalyptic setting.