New York, the high buildings could provide the game with a vertical plane we've never seen before. towns could be fancier the higher up you go. And at lower levels more mutants and nasties appear.
Where do you want the next Fallout to be set?
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China.
Fallout 3 & NV show some mutated Chinese soldiers & Chinese Spec ops manuals, so we know the Chinese invaded American soil. So maybe seeing what happened to China wouldn't be such a bad thing, especially since it might provide a Chinese perspective on all of this. Like mutated U.S. troops or something, or Deathclaws in the Orient, out to rip your nipples off.
Fallout 3 & NV show some mutated Chinese soldiers & Chinese Spec ops manuals, so we know the Chinese invaded American soil. So maybe seeing what happened to China wouldn't be such a bad thing, especially since it might provide a Chinese perspective on all of this. Like mutated U.S. troops or something, or Deathclaws in the Orient, out to rip your nipples off.
That's where they need to branch out and create their own take on FO which has been solidly fixed in the Southwest. It's why DC was so jarring and a let down for me.Dr. McD said:
Don't just make them Chinese that have been frozen in time and remain Commies, but have been forced to create a new society and evolve over the centuries, maybe having the war be some creation myth of how they got from the East to Alaska. Intermingle them with the locals, make it so their state is some strange combination or 1950s America and Communist Chinese as seen through a dirty glass.
I'd be against an Australia game because much of FOs theme is already taken quite generously from The Road Warrior and to set one there would get people demanding for a rip off or complaining that it's nothing but a rip off.
Fallout 4: IN SPACE!
Seriously though, some sort of a treck through china or Russia would be neeto
CAPATCH: mother country
Seriously though, some sort of a treck through china or Russia would be neeto
CAPATCH: mother country
Yes!!! Someone else who understands that more than anything we need to figure out 'when' as well as where.Elcarsh said:
On the subject, Alaska might be a cool idea if done properly but I think it should be set in some smalltown America with suburbs and white picket fences and all the hallmarks of the 50's culture with a great big bomb dropped on it. Have suburbs around a built up town full of mutants, ghouls, mercenaries and different groups of survivors fighting for survival/supremacy. The player decides who to side with (if anyone) and shapes the conflict that may seem small in the grand scheme of things but to the game its all encompassing.
I don't think it should be another desert game, we had that in New Vegas. I think London would be a good idea, but only if they got the tube right. I doubt it would have been hit by that many bombs, as china would mostly have ignored europe, but maybe they could have their own sort of mini-muclear war in Europe?
I believe they had according to the lore. China and the United States launched their missiles more or less at the same time at October 23'd, but Europe had already torn itself apart in their own resource-war, no doubt with some limited nuclear exchange of their own (My personal theory is that they emptied their stockpiles completly out of panic when the US and China went at it, however).Sigma Castell said:
I think London would have had its fair share of devastation, not only from the war with the middle east for control of the oil wells, but also when Europe collapsed into bickering nations, not to mention Doomsday itself. But I don't think it'd be as concentrated as what poor old D.C. or Los Angeles got.
If they do the tube right, make the story engaging (as well as providing an American link to make sure things remain Fallout in spirit) and do the most out of the location, it could be wonderful. Perhaps we might see more of good ol' Desmond?
I guess GTA: London, 1969 and GTA: London, 1961 snuck by under your radar, then.Combine Rustler said:
Not that I disagree too much; Fallout's 'thing' is 50s Americana. I'm not sure that 50s Britain would work quite as well as a post-apocalyptic world cultural backdrop; though a ruined London would be kinda cool, for much the same reasons that the vista of the bomb-blasted Washington Monument, Capitol Hill et al in FO3 was.
A Fallout in Russia could actually work really well, though, since there's a wealth of Mother Russia cliche and Stalinist-esque propaganda to played off of in much the same way that Reds and McCarthyism are the basis for a lot of dark humour in the series already. Ditto China, and perhaps especially so because of the tie-in to the actual FO canon that Red China has. If you were to take FO out of America, that's where I'd go; though you'd have to make sure that a FO in Russia wasn't just treading over the well-worn ground that Ess Tee Ay Ell Kay Ee Arr and Metro 2033 have already covered.
Staying on the American continent: I'm actually in favour of the idea of going back to D.C and having a game whose story explores the "What Happened Next" factors. I like it when games try to maintain a sense of setting and continuation over finding a new setting.
I'm afraid the Fallout series is long-dead for you, then.Anthraxus said:
OT: New York. Because the idea of a huge destroyed city is interesting, and is a nice break from the usual desert-y Fallout stuff. And also because skyscrapers.
Sounds like someone didn't play New Vegas. And better Bethesda than Interplay running it to the ground.Anthraxus said:
I'm pretty much fine with any major American city. I don't really much like the idea of setting Fallout anywhere outside the States because that's where the heart of the series is. It'd be like setting Independence Day in China.