Where do you want the next Fallout to be set?

[Tuesday Night Fever]

Australia wouldn't work because you don't have mad scientists creating insane robots, mutants, and animals. You'd only have deadly non-mutated animals, and that's not fun, just scary.

By Fallout logic, mutated animals would still exist, seeing as how the game seems to operate with a 1950's understanding of radiation. The mutated animals from the previous games (like Cazadors and Radscorpions, for example) weren't created by scientists... just background radiation mutating otherwise fairly benign animals.

And given Australia's relations with the United States and proximity to China, it's not too much of a stretch to imagine that it helped out as a staging area in the war with China. So... there's your robots and scientists and military stuff.

 

[Sean Hollyman]

London. I just think that it would work so well. Additionally, British 50s culture is different enough to American that it would feel different. Plus, Big Ben, the Underground, Thames, London Bridge, you could even have the Eye, etc etc. I think it would be great.

Madam Tussauds could also make for quite an interesting level. Terrifying too, if done right!

That would be incredible!

It could really fuck with your head

If it was really dark and your pip boy light could only see a little bit ahead, you'd be seeing shapes and not being able to distinguish whether or not they are waxworks or enemies

It would be a nice break from the action of the game

 

[Dead Seerius]

Great question! I've always wanted to see a Mid-West (United States) Fallout. They've gone East-coast, Western Rockies, and quite a few other areas in DLC (hell, even space!) The hills of the Mid-Western region would play in nicely if you ask me. I know trees don't cope well with nuclear bombs, but a somewhat forested setting could be pretty cool, at least in a certain part of the map.

 

[Pinkamena]

Eastern Europe or something. Would bring some nice Stalker/Half Life vibes to it.

 

[beastro]

Pacific Northwest.

It would be the major staging area for the war with China which would mean plenty of crazy pre-war tech left around, maybe something naval like some super ships left pier side at Bremerton, would explore Canada's annexation and hostility remaining between British Columbians and Washingtonians.

Add in the remnant of the West Coast Enclave left behind relocating there and them having a more forward looking view of carving out their own state mixed with a more pragmatic eye now that the Old Guard is off in DC or dead. Local powers vying for power, maybe a Vancouver Island Republic to be a political enemy and possibly reveal that an American-Chinese state emerged from WWIII in Alaska after all the soldiers left dumped there during the nuclear exchange suddenly found the need to unite to survive than keep fighting each other... and maybe they want to expand south and are resisted by the Enclave, the Canadians, the rump of independent Washington and yet another nameless hero?

For Cold War nostalgia add in the Museum of Flight and show off some Cold Warriors ala the B-29 in NV as well as other strange air and spacecraft that emerged since the timeline diverged from our own like the DC museum.

The main impetus behind the game being to star fresh with a new land with it's own novel post-apocalyptic flora and fauna without having the silliness of transplanting Southwest fauna and folks like Radscrops, Super Mutants and the Enclave all the way across the continent ala FO3 because the developer is too sacred to alienate old time fans after the prolonged hiatus to the series.

No Radscrops, it's the Pacific Northwest, an evolved Enclave, not just a rehash from the first two games and no Super Mutants since the Master's army is by now a long way away and receding quickly into the past. Add in more unique nuclear freaks, new lore and technology.

Just expand upon the series like NV did, which is sadly all we got from the original FO3/4. That, or set the timeline back before NV and just make the game an FPS Van Buren with as much can be savaged from so much being compressed into NV.

 

[Deadyawn]

I kind of want to see the core region in first person, so that. As long as its done by obsidian. If bethesda is developing it then fuck it, I don't want to play it.

 

[Deadyawn]

Australia wouldn't work because you don't have mad scientists creating insane robots, mutants, and animals. You'd only have deadly non-mutated animals, and that's not fun, just scary.

By Fallout logic, mutated animals would still exist, seeing as how the game seems to operate with a 1950's understanding of radiation. The mutated animals from the previous games (like Cazadors and Radscorpions, for example) weren't created by scientists... just background radiation mutating otherwise fairly benign animals.

Actually cazadores were made by scientists. So were deathclaws (Pre war american government) and spore plants (vault-tec) and nightstalkers (Think tank) and centaurs (Grey with FEV) and wanamingoes (I think).
There are just mutated animals but most of them aren't the really dangerous ones.

 

[Zanderinfal]

Oh for fucks sake people.

How many games are near Atlanta? Not many.

Let's do that!

Isn't that place an airport? (For those who don't know, that was a Fututrama reference.)

 

[malestrithe]

I would rather see Fallout go away for a decade to let interest in it come back. Either that or a MMO situation.

But since we live in an age where brands are not allowed to go away until every penny is squeezed out, I'll play ball and say:

Fallout New Mexico.

Set it mostly in the Santa Fe, Albuquerque area.

It could boast Native Americans, different style of raiders.

Soryline would be a stretch because I do not know why you would set a game there.

White Sands could be an expansion pack DLC, as would be the Mesa Verde Cliff Dwellings. The Aliens could return, as the Church of Scientology maintains a landing strip in NM for that purpose. Also, have some bear Grylls survival in the wilderness.

 

[ThePenguinKnight]

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.

New York has been featured in WAY to many settings and I think we desperately need a break. I'd either go for Chicago or the OP's idea of Alaska. A mutant polar bear pretty much sells it.

 

[Sean Hollyman]

Eastern Europe or something. Would bring some nice Stalker/Half Life vibes to it.

Fallout: Chernobyl?

Maybe as a DLC

 

[TheOneBearded]

I'm one of the people who think that it should stay in America because the game is about the American mind during the Cold War. I wouldn't mind it being in the midwest and have "nice" places - not too full of the "blown-sky-high" look.
For DLC, they could have it in other places and feature a different playable character. Each DLC would feel like a small game on its own. One could be down in Florida. Another in Georgia. Hell, one or two could go to another country to show how other landmasses (except for Australia - Seriously, no one would survive an attack by their irradiated creatures.) are being afflicted by the apocalypse.

 

[Simonoly]

As much as I like a good Fallout desert wasteland, I absolutely loved exploring DC in Fallout 3. So I'd actually like Fallout 4 to be set mostly, if not entirely in a city-based landscape. I'm thinking New York or San Francisco - any major city in the US with interesting land marks would do really. I got my fix of desert wasteland in New Vegas, so I won't miss it.

 

[StormShaun]

Hmm, maybe New York, London or Australia. That would be nice for a change.

 

[That One Six]

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

I would love the Commonwealth to be a new Fallout location. The technological advances would change the landscape enough to make it feel different while inside populated areas, while still having the ruined civilization on the outside.

Also, Fallout cannot take place outside of America. Everything else was nuked into nonexistence. I learned this from the last one of the threads, and I hope my knowledge is passed onto all of you. =P

 

[Ninonybox_v1legacy]

Fallout Volgograd, the city has a good layout for it. That of Fallout London.

 

[Erttheking]

New York City would be a nice place to go. Maybe Canada, it'd be interesting to see traces of the forceful annexation.

 

[Josufu]

Fallout: Seattle might be interesting. It gives you access to sea coast, proximity to the timberland nearby (or their ashen remains), a somewhat urban area to explore in the city itself, it would be closer to Alaska then previous setting, so there might be Chinese remnants that managed to work their way down their . . . there could be some possibilities.

 

[Josufu]

EDIT: Accidental Double Post.

 

[Erttheking]

Eastern Europe or something. Would bring some nice Stalker/Half Life vibes to it.

Fallout: Chernobyl?

Maybe as a DLC

Chernobyl with MORE radiation?...oh dear god I don't want to think about that.