Fallout game not set in the US

Post » Tue May 17, 2011 12:44 am

So far, every Fallout game in the series has taken place in America. There has been no information, regarding what is happening in the rest of the world. Sure the US was hit hard with bombs during the war, China is probably annihilated, but what about the rest of the world. I'm sure through M.A.D.(Mutually Assured Destruction) that the rest of the world is probably similarly destroyed.

I'd like to see a Fallout game that takes place outside the US. Whats going on in Europe? How about a game based in Britain, France, or elsewhere around the world. Were the Europeans or anyone else in the world prepared with vaults? Are there crazy mutated animals, roaming around in other parts of the world? Are there other nefarious secret government organizations like the Enclave exerting power in other parts of the world? Are other people around the world trying to return to civilization, and reestablishing governments like the NCR?

I think it would be awesome to explore post war London, Paris, Rome, Berlin, etc. Certainly the survivors around the world, are carving their own pathway to civilization, maybe their stories of survival should be explored in a game as well.

What do you guys think? Would you play a "Fallout: International"?
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Post » Tue May 17, 2011 8:51 am

I think it would be awesome, but if it was set in england, then the characters would be horrifically voice acted and it would sound ridiculous.
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Post » Tue May 17, 2011 4:18 pm

Welcome to the Forum :foodndrink:

http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1175896-official-future-fallout-locations-suggestion-topic-5/
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Post » Tue May 17, 2011 3:47 am

There are many problems with a Fallout outside of the USA, but way a game were to take place in Europe, then language would be a problem. Games have to be in english, really. It's the international language, but if the game was set in France... well, french people don't seem to like to speak english today, apparently they don't learn too much english either when everything is dubbed and all that. Then imagine 200 years after society collapsed and 90+% of the world population died, how much english are people gonna speak? :P
So a game would have to be set in the UK, or Bethesda have to give a good reason why people speak english (I won't like if they make the main game in french and put english subtitles to that, or have a english "dub" on it. I hate dubs.)

BUT I think Berlin would be an interesting place to see in the Fallout world, despite all the problems there'll be with a game outside USA and no good reason why they speak english and all that.
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Post » Tue May 17, 2011 10:23 am

Brilliant can you imagine the architectural differences. Not only that the character design would be so awesome like they have whole different styles.
I love fallout you guys are doing a great job but just so you know I would rather have a little load instead of that glitch but its such a great game I don’t even care..
i also think you should look at maybe the country side like oklahoma we have big cities and i used to love that feeling in fallout 3 as i would look over and see what used to be a city.
But we also have good side hills and plains think of the wild life options that could be done that would be truly insane.
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Post » Tue May 17, 2011 12:09 am

I think they should have one. Hire actors that speak what ever language is needed. We can read here in the U.S. believe it of not.

I ve seen a quote floating around from Cain that sayw His idea was to explore the post apocalyptic world. If he wanted just U.S. he may have said post apocalyptic U.S.

I m not one to try to twist people s words he may have ment U.S. game world.

There would be nothing wrong with fo in England or China, or any where. There are plenty of people to hire that speak these languages.

I would like them to mainly stay in the U.S., but sharing fo with the rest of the world would be appreciated I m sure. Im also interested to see what may have happened to other places in the world.

Some of the people in fo fan fiction could write a plot and story line that would be just as fo as fo in the U.S. IMO
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Post » Tue May 17, 2011 12:09 pm

In before the lock.

Now I wonder which mod will lock it?
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Post » Tue May 17, 2011 10:27 am

The Bear?
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Post » Tue May 17, 2011 12:47 am

So far, every Fallout game in the series has taken place in America. There has been no information, regarding what is happening in the rest of the world. Sure the US was hit hard with bombs during the war, China is probably annihilated, but what about the rest of the world. I'm sure through M.A.D.(Mutually Assured Destruction) that the rest of the world is probably similarly destroyed.

I'd like to see a Fallout game that takes place outside the US. Whats going on in Europe? How about a game based in Britain, France, or elsewhere around the world. Were the Europeans or anyone else in the world prepared with vaults? Are there crazy mutated animals, roaming around in other parts of the world? Are there other nefarious secret government organizations like the Enclave exerting power in other parts of the world? Are other people around the world trying to return to civilization, and reestablishing governments like the NCR?

I think it would be awesome to explore post war London, Paris, Rome, Berlin, etc. Certainly the survivors around the world, are carving their own pathway to civilization, maybe their stories of survival should be explored in a game as well.

What do you guys think? Would you play a "Fallout: International"?


Nope. and there is an official discussion on this, my friend.
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Post » Tue May 17, 2011 1:51 pm

No, Fallout should remain in the US, as it uses a lot of american themes.

But I would like to see a Twilight-2000 Great Britain in a game.
http://twilight2000.wikia.com/wiki/United_Kingdom_History_(2nd_Edition)
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Post » Tue May 17, 2011 5:25 am

Other countries had "themes" in the 50s. London would be sweet with a 50s leaning time split.

It up to Bethesda really if they want to do one over seas. I d be down S.S.D.D. Is what I think...........
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Post » Tue May 17, 2011 6:11 am

Other countries had "themes" in the 50s. London would be sweet with a 50s leaning time split.

Indeed, but why tie it to fallout? If we're going to have a 50's apocolypse themed game in London its not really going to gain anything from being having "fallout" in the title - let it stand on its own and have its own canon, its own future history.

It will be a better game for it.
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Post » Tue May 17, 2011 5:14 am

What about the benefit of, I don't know 50's retro-futurism. THAT''s Fallout for you.
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Post » Mon May 16, 2011 11:57 pm

Indeed, but why tie it to fallout? If we're going to have a 50's apocolypse themed game in London its not really going to gain anything from being having "fallout" in the title - let it stand on its own and have its own canon, its own future history.

It will be a better game for it.

A world wide thermal nuclear war took place. That is the set up of fo.

Maybe we have to take a trip to London, or they could just put a game starting there. I just don t see what would be so wrong with putting 1 game in London. It will be the same thing just in a different place. I ve always wondered about the rest of the world as soon as I started playing. Bethesda could go there map out London like they did DC, and it would be sweet.
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Post » Tue May 17, 2011 12:44 pm

What about the benefit of, I don't know 50's retro-futurism. THAT''s Fallout for you.

No, it isn't. Thats like saying a cake is flour. Its only part of the mix.

A 50's retro-futurisist game with the apocalypse outside of the US could be fun; but the word fallout doesnt need to appear on the box for it to be great.

Given that the other elements that make up a fallout game wouldn't be present (No Supermutants, No Power Armour, probably no vault-tec) it would merely be a marketing ploy - oh the kids bought the other game with this label, lets stick it on there.

The game is going to have to introduce a lot of new ingredients to replace these. So much so I don't think it would be fallout any more than a loaf of bread is a cake - they both use flour.

Let an apocolyptic game set anywhere else stand on its own two feet - why straightjacket it with the existing fallout timeline? Let it introduce its own concepts, groups, themes and origin disaster and give it its own name.

A world wide thermal nuclear war took place. That is the set up of fo.

Thats a gross oversimplification. A very *specific* Thermal nuclear war took place at a time when the UK was probably on its backs from a previous limited exchange with the middle east.

A Thermal Nuclear war took place in Twilight 2000 - Is Twilight 2000 Fallout?
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Post » Tue May 17, 2011 7:38 am

Fallout has humour.
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Post » Tue May 17, 2011 7:05 am

What ever they ll do it if they want. If not f it
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Post » Tue May 17, 2011 8:26 am

Think of Fallout set someplace else like.... Bioshock Infinite. I just found out about it, and I also found out that it doesn't really have anything to do with Bioshock 1 and 2. It takes place on a steampunk city in the sky, and not in the underwater city of Rapture. There are no Little Sisters or Big Daddies, no splicers, no ADAM, no Plasmids. It's not set in the 1960's anymore, it's set in 1912 so the design style to everything has changed completely (steampunk). It looks really awesome, but I don't see any connecting to Bioshock in it except for the weird and unique atmosphere of the game that they have. Or well, many things that are in the other Bioshocks are in Infinite aswell, in the way that they are remade and renamed. Like Plasmids, in Infinite there is this thing called Vigor instead. Big Daddies are replaced with Handymen, splicers are replaced by those crazy (seemingly possessed) people in the trailer et cetera.
So think a Fallout Infinite here. The design of everything looks different. The weapons are all different. There's nothing like the Enclave, or the Brotherhood. Super Mutants are replaced with a european version called... Duper Mutants? Very different in appearance, but fill the same role as in the other Fallouts. Then there are the remnants of the ex-government of this nation, unpleasant people in european power armor? Oh, and there wouldn't be much fission powered stuff either, since Europe still relied of fossile fuel from the Middle East, and when that ran out... Resource Wars, the European Commonwealth got split into a lot of nation states that fought eachother like a giant civil war, and USA sat comfortably at home with their fission-powered tech in the American Dream, being affraid of communist spies everywhere... until they and the communist nuked eachother.

So yeah, I'd like to see a post-nuclear game set in some country in Europe. But don't slap Fallout on the box, because it will have very little in common.
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Post » Tue May 17, 2011 12:46 am

Then there are the remnants of the ex-government of this nation, unpleasant people in european power armor?


Europe didn't have power armor, the US is the only nation in the world which developed that particular technology; unless you consider the Chinese Stealth Suit power armor, anyway... so scratch that off the list of things you could include in a Fallout game outside of the US.
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Post » Tue May 17, 2011 2:49 pm

Europe didn't have power armor, the US is the only nation in the world which developed that particular technology; unless you consider the Chinese Stealth Suit power armor, anyway... so scratch that off the list of things you could include in a Fallout game outside of the US.

Yeah, even less things that you associate with Fallout would be in an outside-America game.
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Post » Tue May 17, 2011 6:19 am

If there is never a Fallout that is outside the U.S. What should be done is maybe Fallout New York, or somewhere on the east coast. You could then have a quest about a crashed plane, and men who have funny accents to the locals. You could then have a story about people who are descendants from pre-war Royal Air Force Pilots. Like the inhabitants of Nellis they could get a few planes operational, learn how to fly them using simulators, and after acquiring the right amount of fuel, they make the trek across the Atlantic Ocean. Crash landing on the outskirts of a major U.S. city. Maybe there is enough of them on the plane(s) to survive and create a small town, and are being hassled by the locals, or maybe you need to rescue them from their crash landing in some way. However it's done we could still find out about what is going on somewhere else in the world. I really think what is going on outside the U.S. should be explored.

There could be power armor, although I don't know every single detail of Fallout's pre-war history, I imagine that Britain and the U.S. were allies, maybe the U.S. had a stockpile of power armor inside a joint military facility in Britain, or scientists shared crude less powerful schematics of power armor that the British were working on. Some of the other items that would be exclusive to America wouldn't be in the game, but you could still make the game work and it still can be a Fallout game. Besides the tag line for all Fallout games is "A post nuclear role playing game." It doesn't say post nuclear role playing game set only in America, it's still in the same universe that the other Fallout games are set in, so I don't see what would stop them from doing it.

Don't get me wrong there is plenty of story, and exploring to do of America, and I welcome them all. However I think expanding the Fallout universe outside of the US would be a good addition to the series.
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Post » Tue May 17, 2011 5:59 am

There could be power armor, although I don't know every single detail of Fallout's pre-war history, I imagine that Britain and the U.S. were allies, maybe the U.S. had a stockpile of power armor inside a joint military facility in Britain, or scientists shared crude less powerful schematics of power armor that the British were working on. Some of the other items that would be exclusive to America wouldn't be in the game, but you could still make the game work and it still can be a Fallout game. Besides the tag line for all Fallout games is "A post nuclear role playing game." It doesn't say post nuclear role playing game set only in America, it's still in the same universe that the other Fallout games are set in, so I don't see what would stop them from doing it.


America had just annexed one of Her Majesty's Dominions and a fellow signee of the UKUSA treaty (Canada); the US doesnt seem to have had any involvement in the Euro-Middle east conflict and the US wasn't sharing any of its oil.

The USA at the end had no friends.
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Post » Tue May 17, 2011 2:53 am

ok wow thats alot of disscussion honestly i think, if they did a fallout in another country i think they should do it in japan see like in the future the us wewnt back to the thirtys what if japan was bakc in the futal era and youd have to be like some futuristic japanese ninja? i think it would totally work and uh the whole languege thing, thats why they invented, subtitles
just my opinoin
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Post » Tue May 17, 2011 11:04 am

ok wow thats alot of disscussion honestly i think, if they did a fallout in another country i think they should do it in japan see like in the future the us wewnt back to the thirtys what if japan was bakc in the futal era and youd have to be like some futuristic japanese ninja? i think it would totally work and uh the whole languege thing, thats why they invented, subtitles
just my opinoin

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Post » Tue May 17, 2011 2:57 am

They won't make a game in Japan

"Fallout-Fukismhima"

"LEAVE JAPAN ALOOOONNNNEEEEEEE"
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