Where do you want the next Fallout to be set?

[Sean Hollyman]

Since I know next to nothing about American stuff, I don't know... though somewhere snowy would be cool, maybe Alaska yet.

Yeah.. Fallout Alaska. Polar Bears, snowy mountains, and abombinable snowmen deathclaws. Awesome.

 

[Hero in a half shell]

Maybe Fallout Texas. It would be like a post-apocalypic western! Herding brahmin across the toxic Rio Grande, having settlements built around oil derricks, getting invaded by Mexico, holding out in the Alamo against mad patriotic hillbillies, fighting giant mutated crocodiles in the swamps, (they could be standins for deathclaws!) Awesome.

You'd also have the Nasa headquarters in Houston, which could be used to form the main plotline about the space programme the government had established, and it's exact relation to the vaults.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

It's got to stay in America, I think that much.

I agree with Alaska.

A nice change of setting without getting rid of what fundamentally makes Fallout, feel like Fallout.

 

[DJjaffacake]

I've always thought (and by always I mean since I heard about the franchise a few years ago with Fallout 3) that a Fallout set in whatever's left of another country might be cool. The main obstacle would obviously be the difference in environment and theme, although they could just say everyone had a sci fi 1950s USA look. But vast desert wastelands don't really fit with France or wherever. China might be interesting to see what the effect of the war was there. Alternatively Mexico for still fitting with the theme or Canada to explore the whole US invasion background plot.

 

[Tuesday Night Fever]

Fallout: Australia

And you thought Deathclaws and Cazadors were bad...

 

[Rumpsteak]

It was my intention to vote for Canada but reading through here I'm going Tuesday Night Fever instead opt for Australia. That would be pretty sweet.

 

[Sean Hollyman]

I've always thought (and by always I mean since I heard about the franchise a few years ago with Fallout 3) that a Fallout set in whatever's left of another country might be cool. The main obstacle would obviously be the difference in environment and theme, although they could just say everyone had a sci fi 1950s USA look. But vast desert wastelands don't really fit with France or wherever. China might be interesting to see what the effect of the war was there. Alternatively Mexico for still fitting with the theme or Canada to explore the whole US invasion background plot.

London would be pretty interesting, it has lots of landmarks and stuff.

Feral Chav Ghouls... huehue...

 

[Terminate421]

Oh for fucks sake people.

How many games are near Atlanta? Not many.

Let's do that!

 

[DJjaffacake]

I've always thought (and by always I mean since I heard about the franchise a few years ago with Fallout 3) that a Fallout set in whatever's left of another country might be cool. The main obstacle would obviously be the difference in environment and theme, although they could just say everyone had a sci fi 1950s USA look. But vast desert wastelands don't really fit with France or wherever. China might be interesting to see what the effect of the war was there. Alternatively Mexico for still fitting with the theme or Canada to explore the whole US invasion background plot.

London would be pretty interesting, it has lots of landmarks and stuff.

Feral Chav Ghouls... huehue...

I've considered that as well, but I can't see England or the UK fitting with the whole sci fi western thing that characterises Fallout. There'd be no epic deserts or frontier towns, just gentle brown hills and lots of drizzle. Feral Chav Ghouls would probably be an improvement on normal chavs though.

 

[hermes]

I am going to give the cliche answer here: New York.

Why? Because roaming on the desert is not as interesting as exploring a destroyed city, specially one filled with landmarks. That is the main reason why I prefer Fallout 3 to New Vegas.

 

[BloatedGuppy]

It's got to stay in America, I think that much.

I agree with Alaska.

A nice change of setting without getting rid of what fundamentally makes Fallout, feel like Fallout.

Not necessarily. While a lot of Fallout's kitsch is a heavily distorted/comic vision of 50's Americana, you could easily give the same treatment to another prominent culture. In fact, it might be somewhat invigorating for the series. Keep it from getting in too much of a rut.

I'd say London would work well.

 

[Jynthor]

The Commonwealth. [http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Commonwealth]

 

[Muspelheim]

Silly suggestion; Fallout: Gothenburg. :3

Like a reversed settlers-story, a pre-war freighter is used to carry emmigrants from the scorched wastes of the American east coast to the ever so slightly less scorched bits of Europe. Topple the king, or rule from the shadow of his throne! Make the old world your new world! And watch out for radioactive mackereel.

Proper suggestion: New York, or perhaps Boston. I did like the urban enviroments in F3, as well as the suburban/countryside parts. While I really did like the enviroment in New Vegas as well, a place that has always been (more or less) a desert isn't as interesting as a temperated zone turned desert by the war, with burnt treestumps and whatnot.

While I do agree that Fallout-games would work best in America, though, I still think it'd be interesting to explore the ruined Fallout universe from a different perspective at least once. Perhaps London or Paris would be a close enough compromise?
Both have an interesting Metro-system (and Paris got the famous catacombs, to boot), well-known landmarks and would look great in post-apocalyptic make-up. If not fit for an entire game, maybe bits of them could be used as DLC-material? There ought to be at least one loony out in the wasteland with a functioning zeppelin or something.

(And in before Frankophobia: the United States and France are way more similar than anyone cares to admit. Embrace your brothers in stripy shirts/with cowboy hats!<3)

 

[endtherapture]

It's got to stay in America, I think that much.

I agree with Alaska.

A nice change of setting without getting rid of what fundamentally makes Fallout, feel like Fallout.

Not necessarily. While a lot of Fallout's kitsch is a heavily distorted/comic vision of 50's Americana, you could easily give the same treatment to another prominent culture. In fact, it might be somewhat invigorating for the series. Keep it from getting in too much of a rut.

I'd say London would work well.

Do something like 20/50s British culture in London.

But please god no subway systems.

 

[BloatedGuppy]

Do something like 20/50s British culture in London.

But please god no subway systems.

What if there was a working subway, and it could ferry you around? Maybe to and from a substantial underground city/bunker? What if it could get raided Mad-Max style by subway bandits who jumped onto it as it trundled along, and you had to push them out windows or roll around fighting them on the roof?

 

[endtherapture]

Do something like 20/50s British culture in London.

But please god no subway systems.

What if there was a working subway, and it could ferry you around? Maybe to and from a substantial underground city/bunker? What if it could get raided Mad-Max style by subway bandits who jumped onto it as it trundled along, and you had to push them out windows or roll around fighting them on the roof?

If there was a whole subway system culture, and it was really well integrated into the game it'd be great- the tube system in London has a lot of character and that'd be great.

But in Fallout 3 it was just horrible and annoying.

 

[BloatedGuppy]

If there was a whole subway system culture, and it was really well integrated into the game it'd be great- the tube system in London has a lot of character and that'd be great.

But in Fallout 3 it was just horrible and annoying.

Agreed, but since this new hypothetical Fallout exists only in our imaginations, I think we can limit the number of horrible and annoying elements. =D

 

[endtherapture]

If there was a whole subway system culture, and it was really well integrated into the game it'd be great- the tube system in London has a lot of character and that'd be great.

But in Fallout 3 it was just horrible and annoying.

Agreed, but since this new hypothetical Fallout exists only in our imaginations, I think we can limit the number of horrible and annoying elements. =D

We also need cool British stuff like this:


Far cooler than Americana in my opinion.