The games called Fallout Its not a fallout game, if there's been no nuclear fallout. Then its just another game.

A game taking place during the war would svck, it would be a 2 hour game.

Ehh really not buying the idea. Just doesn't sound/wouldn't feel like a Fallout game, just an action fps that's based off of Fallout lore. Definitely not buying a Vault-Tec vault opening itself up right after the war, for any reason.

Idk, I have tons of fun trying to piece through all the bits of information and stories on terminals, in buildings and from ghouls to try and figure out the history of the Fallout Universe. A pre-war game would take that away and that just seems lame to me. :/

Honestly... IMO no. Fallout's bygone paradise (from before the bomb) should remain just that.

They had a chance... They could have made their Fallout 3 entirely set around the battle at Anchorage, and have been the FO1 prequel instead of a simulation; but they didn't.

So if you ran out of supplies.. you wouldn't say [censored] it and leave to find supplies even if you would starve to death?

Not true, the Resource Wars lasted over twenty years. It couls be longer then Batman" Arkum Asylum (that took me 6 months to beat).



That's a good reason, everytbody who wants to egt into the Vault has to contribute a certain amount of supplies.

How the [censored] did a Vault-Tec vault run out of supplies within a month or so?

A Fallout Game set before 2077 would be boring potentially and not fallout. Because there is literally no fallout.
Fallout is called Fallout bacause it is a post nuclear world with mutants, mutated animals and radiation.

As interesting as seeing the prewar world would be.

You would just have pre 2077 life and some immenant nuclear war and then it happens.

Maybe if a small part of it was set before 2077, then you are crygenically frozen in a experiment in a vault before the Great War started, then 200 years later you are woken by a person or preprogrammed event or powerfailure and you have to do something important or have something important only you can do by virtue of your prewarness.

Or you are a programmed or destined supersoldier. That would be good. It would still be Fallout but have a little bit of prewarness.

Fallout is actually called Fallout because it sounds alot better than Post Nuclear Game with guns and the six.

maybe a man the CEO saved you but the CEO died trying to save othr people
(lone survivour is the name thing you go on in narating)
I think it would be fun if you go into vault after surviving and other stuff then you find a radio signal from a vault enter it then it starts narrating
" the lone survivour who was saved by a vault tech CEO died 2 days later from exposure from radiation all the people who he tried to save died a week later when the air purifier broke down and radiation seaped in".
Then it starts talking about your actions and karma

Then it shows your grandson or something when it's finaly time to leave the vault aftter 50 years but raiders ambushed you and killed many and took prisoners for ransome but you(your the grandson) limping to a nearby town you grand father told you about.
If you destroy it when your the lone survivour you must search for supplys and heal your self

but if you saved there town you fall down unable to continue a group of 5 people run to save you and carry you off to a doctor than you black out and wake up 2 and 1/2 hours later you wake up with blood around your legs and arms and tons of stiches and a bag with 7 bullets he extracted.
The doctor then helps you stand up and manage to walk
you are than tasked with finding your fellow kidnaped vault citizens. And you must search the town for info by asking around and getting quest or if you destroyed the town you must salvage a map from the town and it will mark the places on your map and you must go to one and ask about raiders in the area

I see someone already had the same idea, but I'd really like a Fallout game taking place a little time before the war, during the war, and the first year after the war.

"Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game" That is all.

As CivilDefense said: "You would have choices on your job, having a family..." sound a lot like life if you ask me....

Wow great idea dude im not even going to read all the rest of the posts Im just going to say yes. I d make it more like 2076 1/2 but with the news and access to all the pre war info it would put so may arguments to rest and give alot of info that all want to know. The Fallout time line and Fallout bible already provide the ground work. All Bethesda would have to do is expand on that info. Well and make the game. Some questions should never be anwsered like who was the Enclave then? or Where did the Enclave go that " Went to remote sections of the world" Who fired the first shot?? If too may questions were anwsered it would take too much mystery out of the game, but id buy it just to get some answers and see what it was like. I d want to be a soilder in the reserves and get called up when marshal law went down. Then i d get to kill some dumb civis that were throwing rocks and nuka cola bottles at guys with guns. I d like to mow down about 20 civis in a sec with a light mg.

Like some others said it would have to include a AND THEN. And you go to a vault where horrible experiments r going down. I think wiki says like 120 vaults r made but its unclear because records were lost during the war so that the opening to make a crazy nasty do what ever vault for the writers. hey you could be the damn hero and stop the experiments, but before I go to the the vault I just wanna mow down some civis that r throwing rocks at me and yell NOW ANY BODY ELSE WANNA THROW ROCKS!!!! I mean not that id want to do it lol but to protect the men i serve with.

It's not fallout if it's before the great war

it could be if it's mainly afterwards.

"A quite darkness lasting YEARS"

Ghouls and other mutants didn't show up right away anyway.

Alright fine how about ten years later.

Erm, too radiated, it would still be hell. Maybe 40 years after, because that is what Fallout 3 felt like.

Well there was a plan to have a game where you are a Tank Commander in the RAC during the resource wars where you had to collect fuel and ammo to make your way back to the UK.

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout:_Resource_Wars

I love the idea of battling to survive in an environment just after the bombs have dropped (having read the Road, On the Beach) but not sure how it would work in practice, i.e. if the goal was to reach a Vault that had stayed open when all the Vaults would close as soon as possible after the announcement of the missiles being launched.

While I'm not in favor of seeing a Fallout game set prior to 2077, I would like to see one set in the same timeframe but in a different location. While I've enjoyed the progression of Fallout - Fallout 2 - Fallout New Vegas, the problem is that the world has changed and recovered and it makes it harder and harder to justify that "ruins of civilization" feeling when it's been 200 years since the war. People already justifiably complain about finding pre-war tech and working lights in places supposedly abandoned for that long. Bethesda tried to solve that by going to the other side of the country, but even there the same problems exist and there are hints that the area had a recovery and then fall back. Justifying it all gets complicated.

However, its pretty clear that Bethesda isn't going to allow a step back from the "current" timeline. When New Vegas was announced there was an interview with someone from Obsidian (Urquart IIRC) who said that Bethesda had turned down some other proposals, including setting the story in a different city and setting it earlier then the events in Fallout 3. So we're going to be stuck with 2282 and beyond.

Resource wars... Didn't J. E. Sawer or someone pitch the idea? It woudlnt techically be "fallout" but it could be a spin off game, set in the same universe, with the same "SCIENCE!" attitude.
This would be a great game to see what the rest of the world was doing in the fallout universe.. I am thinking maybe even getting from European country X to the US, with a time constraint being that you must get there before the New Plague causes the US to shut its borders.

I do like the idea of a 'year zero" type of thing going on.. but. id ont really like the idea of being in a vult per-se. maybe it could have an opening focus on Roger Maxon's pre BoS group and their exodus to Lost Hills?
I would hope for it to be dark as [censored]... opening scense depicting him executing all Mariposa scientists... moving the families in and then the bombs dropping...... Who knows what kinds of things could go bump in the night right after the bombs fell, when things were in the process of chanigng.

Well there is no fallout in any of the games, even those which actually have you detonate a nuclear device.

OT, meh, I like looking at the pre-war world through the nostalgia goggles of the game, I want to see what it was like to live there through the traditional means of the story being told through the environment; they really missed some chances in F3. There should have been some ancient Food Distrebution Stands, or signs of acvtually military checkpoints in the cities, to be fair there were a few out in the outlaying D.C. area but still; the pre-war world certainly wasn't pure 50's small town America.