Wouldn't a Fallout outside of the US not really work?

[Plurralbles]

it's kind of funny how china is the only one with underground shelters for the public IRL.

 

[Maxi96203]

Russian fallotu would be cool

It's called S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

 

[Smallells]

It would be very different. Weapons would be inherently scarcer and there would be a largely reduced variety. Shotguns would dominate - what with most weapons being owned by game hunters and the like. A huge amount of country-side could make the game truly terrifying - assuming it wasn't set in London. As others have said, the Royal Family could provide an interesting story-line. It would all be very interesting.

 

[The 11th Plauge]

The UK has it's own very distinct 50s culture which, come to think of it, is kind of similar to that of 50s US.

This, you'd just need to find a British equivalent to Ron Perlman.

Stephen Fry?

 

[The Night Shade]

Yeah but other countries also have their own culture so i can be a nice change

 

[Ubermetalhed]

Fallout is getting stale in the US. I'll be glad to see the back of super mutants and deathclaws and see some new interesting creatures to fight. Besides Europe has a hell of alot more history than the USA and that could be used to create truly fun and unique worlds.

Also as people have said a medieval take on Britain would be a hell of alot of fun. Plus there's opportunities to have Communist and Fascist parties reviving in the chaos of it all.
The opportunities to make the increasingly dull series come back to life are endless if set in a different place.

Furthermore if they set it in the UK Ron Perlmans replacement would have to be Jason Statham, no question.

 

[xchurchx]

i Reckon London would be a great place to host a fallout game and with mass effect heading there in 2012 could be a way to get with the competition

 

[AtmaPhil]

Hell Gate london was an horrible game but it did prove that an apocalypse in London if well made could be a ton of fun. People hide in subways instead of Vaults and come out to the open to hunt for suply and coming back to hide before the englands version of mutants come to eat them.

 

[Mcupobob]

How about a fallout form a American point of view? You start out in America then you can travel to other location and see the different post-apoplectic cultures and such. It will feel like exploring a new world for the American audiences a 'other' as extra credits put it and it will give everyone else a chance to see what effects the war and nukes had on their homes. Maybe even being able to pick where you start off.

Though all these ideas are for not. It's not like anyone important from Obsidian is going to be reading this thread.

 

[pulse2]

The lack of weaponry in the UK would make the whole survival aspect more interesting. In fact, no reason we can't start making use of broad swords again, bring back the REAL knights.

Fallout 3 became less of a challenge right about the time I got hold of dogmeat early, who in turn helped me obtain a minigun amongst other overpowered weapons :/ Heck, as soon as you start the game, you might as well beeline straight for the scrapyard at the start of the game. Dogmeat is a pain in the arse at times, but he does come in handy as a distraction.

I want to have completed the game and still feel like walking across the wasteland is dangerous, sort of like 28 Days Later, not feel godly and untouchable.

 

[akibawall95]

It could work but I do not think it would be the same Fallout. One of the main themes of Fallout is the over characterization of what America was like in the 50ies and the corruption of America and the Enclave. I think it would be cool if the player visited another country like they wanted to do in Fallout Extreme. I would like to see a Fallout in Canada maybe.

 

[someonehairy-ish]

Of course it would. If the world was in such a crisis (which it seemed so) for Vault-Tec to allocate shelter to so many people, who is to say that other nations didn't have their own vaults? Hell, there might be multi-national branches of Vault-Tec.

Imagine post apocalytic Britain. The London Tower, Big Ben, Buckingham Palace, all places easily turned into forts or strongholds (were they still standing). Also think of London Underround. And why should it stop there? Anywhere in Europe could be used and new lore could be written.

EDIT

Just thinking back to Fallout London, imagine this:

The royal family would have their own private vault. Once the bombs have stopped, surely it would be their first call of duty to return order to London and begin rebuilding the country. Hell, it might go back to total Monarchy.

Someone make this game.
Instead of American 50's culture, use English late 70's counterculture. Think about it. Fallout: London, with the royal family having established a new monarchy. The family is shaded from the public eye bye a shadowy sect formed from the remnants of the SAS and royal guard. There are whispers that the family never survived at all, or that they are just puppets for some malevolent force...
The punk revolution has begun, and anarchists are forming underground rebellions against the new monarchy. Presumerably the leaders of the punks would be some kind of play on the Sex Pistols. Probably some kind of caricature of Johnny Rotten as the leader, with the Sid Vicious equivalent as the right-hand man.

There has to be some sort of MI6/spy agency type faction as well, just because having some kind of James Bond type character in a London based Fallout would be awesome xD.

This quote is a pretty good starting point:
"Early Seventies Britain was a very depressing place. It was completely run-down, there was trash on the streets, total unemployment?just about everybody was on strike. Everybody was brought up with an education system that told you point blank that if you came from the wrong side of the tracks...then you had no hope in hell and no career prospects at all. Out of that came pretentious moi and the Sex Pistols and then a whole bunch of copycat wankers after us."

Fallout is Steampunk already. Just emphasise the punk bit.

Oooh
Heres something I found for a villain archetype:
"Most of these groups would be vastly improved by sudden death. The worst of the punk rock groups I suppose currently are the Sex Pistols. They are unbelievably nauseating. They are the antithesis of humankind. I would like to see somebody dig a very, very large, exceedingly deep hole and drop the whole bloody lot down it."

Also, very few guns because there aren't many at all in britain aside from in military locations. Would improve the survival aspect if you can no longer just hose things down with a minigun. Also, perhaps have a character who is like a crackpot british inventor, who could improvise you weapons from unlikely materials.

Check out these pics, they look like something that could be from a fallout:london game http://www.lorinix.net/the_city/index.html

 

[ramboondiea]

it would work, it would be more of a spin-off tho, but compleatly viable, and its full of possibility, its not like a developer could run out of ideas using europe as a template,

and why the need for vaults? they could just as easily use normal bomb shelters or non-at all, the need for them in fallout was due to a nuclear attack, but a direct attack isnt needed for a nuclear fallout, could just say a vaccination started to be distributed or something?

fallouts a game that can be set anywhere really, a developer could milk a game for decades through just dlc of different countries etc

 

[Cheesepower5]

Canada reportedly had vaults.

And really, find a culture, find what they consider the good old days and use that as the aesthetic.

 

[hem dazon 90]

Tere should be a fallout set in India or Egypt


Just sayin.

 

[NLS]

Vault-Tec is an American company and so other countries wouldn't have Vaults - they might have Bunkers, or Shelters, but they wouldn't be Vaults.

It's American founded yes, but who is to say that Vault-Tec isn't multinational? After all, they were only hired by the US Government, why would it not be possible for other nations to have contracted Vault-Tec to build vaults as the tension between the US and China grew?

I doubt they would be, since they comminsed 400,000 vaults but only 100 something got built and just that costed 645 billion dollars, I doubt they would have enough to spread their reaches.

It also says that they praticaly became part of the US Government, if they worked also moslty international they probably wouldn't be considered that.

And nobody in Europe would think about making their own vaults? It's not like Vault-Tec had monopoly on the whole business. The Swiss have big bank vaults, it's not like they could get into the process of making other types of vaults when the time comes.

 

[CrustyOatmeal]

i dont see why the next fallout would have to be outside of the US since the US in fallout lore is much larger than the US of today (remember they annexed canada) and the US has a wide range or geographic locations to choose from. i think if it ever did move to another country it would have to either go to china of it would have to expand apon the lore and start telling more about the war and possible allies the US and china had. i would be excited to see a game take place in another country but they would need to transfer alot of what made fallout fallout into the new location without any snags which would be extremely difficult

 

[Talon_Skywarp]

The UK has it's own very distinct 50s culture which, come to think of it, is kind of similar to that of 50s US.

This, you'd just need to find a British equivalent to Ron Perlman.

Brian Blessed. He would make the game the best thing ever.

I could go through the huge amount of great British Actors to do the voices but Brian Blessed wins all.

In all seriousness The Uk has some great locations to play with and even Italy, France, Spain etc.

In the end, as long as it plays like Fallout, you could set it on Mars and No one would care.

 

[Korten12]

Canada reportedly had vaults.

And really, find a culture, find what they consider the good old days and use that as the aesthetic.

Technicaly Canada in the Fallout Universe is the US since it was annexed by the US.

 

[Premonition]

As that Highlander game on the Jaguar proved, the Scottish Highlands make a good Wasteland.


Wait ...

(But yeah, an Asian centered wasteland would be awesome. Like Japan or China)