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http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1517917-fallout-4-speculation-ideas-and-suggestions-257/

I want as much crazy new lore as possible. I really hope we don't get another Fallout 3 in terms of lore inspiration, just being a holding pattern or some type of reboot. All of the lore outside the Capital Wasteland was great - just need to focus on that instead of the old and tired Enclave and BoS.

@Undecafindeed: The Institution? You can't be serious. I agree with Gizmo, androids fit the lore. And I agree with AwesomePossum, think about what was possible in the [censored] pre-war era already.

I have written entire chapters on how to properly do androids, but you obviously didn't bother. I even got props from evlbastrd which I'm very proud of.

I agree, but I don't know if I agree with "crazy".

Maybe not "crazy", maybe more as high imagination as possible. Bethesda has written a lot of neat stuff over the years, especially in TES where there is some really weird stuff just lurking under the surface. Its just that Fallout 3 had too much of things that have already happened and were written by someone else in the first place. Things like The Insitute, The Pitt, and the rest of the east coast are what I think should have been the focus. If there is old factions again, it should take on a different form. If there is Enclave, it should take the form of something like a neo-enclave movement that is trying to subvert society from within. If there is BoS, they could have turned into a giant empire stretching across much of the land, using the superior tech they've gathered to divide and conquer. If Fallout turns into the same thing over and over again - Power armoured good guys shooting black power armoured baddies with super mutants crawling around the edges, I don't think id keep coming back.

But then, TES has proven that Bethesda can write originality, I just think that they were heavily misguided on some of the lore with Fallout 3. Its also present in New Vegas to a lesser degree, the game constantly reminds you that its a -Fallout Game- with heavy handed references to past events. The same things happens in TES to a much lesser degree with a lot of things being lifted from previous games for the sole reason that it was a previous game that is fondly remembered.

When E3 comes and we (hopefully) see Fallout 4, I am pretty optimistic that what we see is going to be amazing. If it's "Fallout 3: 2" ill be pretty dissapointed, same with it being "New Vegas: 2". I hope for as much new stuff as possible, from mechanics to lore and everything inbetween.

Yeah, yeah. The Institute - The Institution... Same difference, who gives a [censored]? I'm sure you understood what was meant. In any case, as Bethesda has said (Emil I think it was): "It's Fallout, so basically anything goes." Perhaps we do get a wild variety of different synthetics and stuffies to check up on.

Knock yourself out with more android chapters -- I've a habit to jump past specified story and writing related stuff (outside mechanical things like branching and such) as that's the least likely thing for a dev to pick up on (adapting to fan fic), so yeah, I've missed out on that stuff.