Where would you like Fallout to be set?

[MasterOfWorlds]

I think Fallout Florida would be cool to see radgators and giant radsnakes and such. Not to mention Florida's fairly diverse landscape. Rolling hills, plains, swamp, beaches, you get the idea.

I also think that Fallout in China would be pretty cool, as would Fallout Russia, maybe Beijing or something for China, and maybe Moscow, St. Petersburg, or somewhere else like that for the Russian one. Oooh, I bet the Gulag (I know I mispelled that, forgive me for not being Russian XD), would be cool to visit in Fallout.

Fallout Africa would be cool too simply for the radlions, radelephants, and so forth and so on.

 

[TheDoctor455]

All right... here's my list:

New York (sure, its overdone, but Fallout hasn't been set there yet, and it would be nice to see how fucked up lady liberty looks)

London

Paris

Cairo (or somewhere in the middle east anyway)

Moscow (without getting too close to Metro 2033)

Vancoover

San Francisco (I know its been set in CA before, but I don't remember ever getting to go to San-Fran... and let's face it... all those hills would make it pretty interesting)

Rome and the Vatican (I find the thought of ransacking the Vatican's vaults hilarious)

 

[Ertol]

It would be a really different game if they dropped the whole 50's and 60's American feel to it. I guess another city like London or Paris or whatever would work, but at the same time 99% of any city they choose will look like exactly like everyother city. I mean once we nuke it all, it's all just destroyed buildings.

 

[TheAbominableDan]

San Francisco (I know its been set in CA before, but I don't remember ever getting to go to San-Fran... and let's face it... all those hills would make it pretty interesting)

There's a pretty fair chunk of San Francisco in Fallout 2.

 

[NoDamnNames]

Around ground 0 in Chernobyl, with strange mutated items that give you special abilities. Oh and fire everyone but 2 or 3 of the voice acting staff who speak with a heavy Ukrainian accent.
Then give the main protagonist amnesia and make the big bad guy you have been trying to kill the entire game you in the end, but you just forgot.



Would make an awesome game...

 

[SimuLord]

Todd Howard (from Bethesda) and Chris Avellone (from Black Isle, and author of the Fallout Bible) have both gone on record as saying that the 50's Americana kitsch is an essential part of the Fallout universe and that the game wouldn't have the right feel if it were set in Europe or China or anywhere else.

I'd like to see a Fallout set in and around Boston (the "Commonwealth"). Besides the fact that Boston's my hometown, they could really build on "The Replicated Man" quest from Fallout 3 and center a hell of a game around the Institute.

 

[ABLb0y]

what about London? there could be missions involving the London eye, harrod's, Buckingham Palace and Big Ben!

 

[TimeLord]

So you are content with the series travelling around America, repeating the same things every game. F:3 and Vegas are different in their location, and that's pretty much it. Which, personally, I think will get boring if they just repeat for their next title.

By the way. I love F:3 and Vegas so I am not saying it's boring yet, but it could get there.

You are completley and utterly wrong. There's no doubt that New Vegas and Fallout 3 are highly similar, but not in terms of plot. The two games deal with completley different factions in completley different settings. I don't understand how you can even say that. Even the factions that are shared amongst both games are very different, such as the Brotherhood of Steel. I don't understand you people. You act like America is the size of a small town. It's a big place. There are so many places in it that that Fallout franchise hasn't even talked about. To suggest that the series will run out of new ideas unless it leaves the USA is ridiculous. I mean Fallout 2 was in the same general area as Fallout 1 and it still felt different.

And again, making a Fallout game outside of America would mean it has to abandon almost everything you associate with the Fallout franchise. So it's not even going to be a Fallout game at that point.

Of course the plot is different. I am talking about the aesthetics of the Fallout world.
How many times can we see 1950s posters and music without thinking:

"This feels a hell of a lot like the last game. Now let me travel from A to B, kill a plot convenient character/collect a plot convenient item, before returning for a reward"?

All I'm saying is that roaming the desert is fun. But unless you drop a concrete donkey on the situation. It will just be the same for the next game. And the next. And the next.

A little bit of exploring the green Scottish mountains maybe? Who would waste nukes on my country in a fight?

My personal opinion is that Fallout does not equal America.
Take GTA for example. Every one of it's games was is set in America, except London 1969. Which was pretty decent IMO.

A little variety in a series goes a long way.

 

[debramster123]

probably amsterdam.. yes.. i would go to my own house and smoke sum weed

 

[TheAbominableDan]

I am talking about the aesthetics of the Fallout world. How many times can we see 1950s posters and music without thinking:

But that is the Fallout world. It sounds like you want to play a different game.

 

[MrGalactus]

Rotherham

 

[Internet Kraken]

My personal opinion is that Fallout does not equal America.

And this opinnion is simply wrong. As I spent the last two posts explaining, everything in the series is rooted in America. The culture, the characters, the themes, the factions, the overarching plot, everything. Nothing you have said as done anything to convince me otherwise.

Take GTA for example. Every one of it's games was is set in America, except London 1969. Which was pretty decent IMO.

Now I don't claim to now anything about GTA, but I'm pretty sure these are two completley different franchises, one being rooted in reality and the other being in American 1950's scifi. So comparing the two doesn't prove anything.

A little variety in a series goes a long way.

You're right. Which is why not every Fallout game has had us fighting Super Mutants to overthrow their leader as the main plot. But you don't need to abandon everything that makes Fallout what it is to get variety. Again, America is a big place. You act like everything in America is the same. But there are many different biomes and cultures spread across America. To suggest that you need to leave America to get more variety is absurd.

 

[TimeLord]

I am talking about the aesthetics of the Fallout world. How many times can we see 1950s posters and music without thinking:

But that is the Fallout world. It sounds like you want to play a different game.

Maybe. But no other game has the immersion and attention to detail like Fallout does to make that a viable option.

No developer is going to release a new game that is "very similar" to Fallout. And say "It's just set in the UK".

 

[Belgian_Waffles]

I'm going to make a completely biased statement, Seattle.
I want to see what would happen to the wetlands that are my hometown.

 

[TimeLord]

Nothing you have said as done anything to convince me otherwise.

I'm not trying to change your opinions. I am just explaining mine.

 

[gl1koz3]

Either way, sticking to roughly the same designs for 127 years is a joke anyway. I'm sure the history can be twisted no less than that for it to feel right in Asia, but could prove harder to pull off. Not like there's something new to see after so many games set in america and having roughly the same mutants around. Next step should be something new.

 

[Sephychu]

The less populated areas of Russia and thereabouts. Metro and STALKER did the populated areas superbly, but what about places like Siberia? That might be cool.

 

[Theron Julius]

I think that Anchorage, Alaska would make a great location for a Fallout game. It would be a nice change of pace from the usual parched, irradiated wastelands that the rest of the games are set in. Additionally you could base the story around the technology left behind from the Anchorage Reclamation or possibly conflicts over the remaining oil.

 

[Cowabungaa]

The Great Lakes area could be interesting, especially Chicago. A city that gets thrown back to it's gangster days, and even more brutal.

The whole of New York could be brilliant as well. The lush and overgrown Central park, the dark and brooding Bronx, crumbling Manhattan, yeah that could work very well.

I am talking about the aesthetics of the Fallout world. How many times can we see 1950s posters and music without thinking:

But that is the Fallout world. It sounds like you want to play a different game.

Maybe. But no other game has the immersion and attention to detail like Fallout does to make that a viable option.

No developer is going to release a new game that is "very similar" to Fallout. And say "It's just set in the UK".

But you can't do that. Most things that make Fallout Fallout are inherently American. The whole style of it is meant to be a World of Tomorrow, atom-punked and even more paranoid anti-commie version of that idealised American 50's culture, that strange combination of paranoia and superficial optimism. Then that world gets nuked to pieces and we see a perverted, twisted version of that same culture.

That's what Fallout stands for, what happens when the ideal American "Duck! And cover!" [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixy5FBLnh7o] society fails and we're left with the ruins. And fact is, no matter how pretty they are, you won't find that in the Scottish highlands. Fallout is inherently America.

 

[Tartarga]

Arizona. Think about it, there could be an entire city in the Grand Canyon or it could be some kind of super mutant outpost. Either way it would be awesome, and for a foreign location I would say Australia. Mutant kangaroos!