Last year I took a trip to London, England and I now realize how sweet it would be for the next Fallout to take place there. Running through Big Ben, The London Tower, and even getting on the London Eye.
http://www.attractiontix.co.uk/images/photos/large/london-eye6.jpg
What do you think? We've covered The United State's Capitol, now lets roam in Great Britain's Capitol

Taking the fallout series out of america is kind of.....drastic.

true but i felt that it would be a perfect setting

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I think it would be a good choice 'in an ideal world'.

As in, I think London has great potential for a post-apocalyptic setting. But I don't think it ties in with Fallout as a series. Fallout was very much revolving around the US. It had the F.E.V, the government conspiracies, and a vast continent. Finding a reason to include any of these things, or incorporating others to make events noteworthy enough to base a game on, would feel like the series is trying too hard to get London in the picture.

It would 'be kool' to be in London. But I've learned that being kool for the sake of being kool, is more damaging to a game than good.

Leave it to fan-fiction

A spin-off similar to Redguard for London could work Fallout: London xD

I dont think its a great idea... London has got what it takess sure, but I think it would be too much like DC and Hellgate london. I think its a better idea for Fallout 5 or 6.

Not a great idea!!!.

Any major city by your citeria constitues a immaculate finding.

Fallout takes place in AMERICA, if you want major landmarks and buildings cross your fingers that they place the next game in New York, statue of liberty, time square, empire state building, etc..

Now that would be awesome.

Since I picked up Fallout 3 and seeing what can be done with The Capital Wasteland...I've pictured in the game being set in Chicago. I feel like it would be an excellent place to set the next game and here are my reasons.

1.) Much of what makes Fallout amazing, are the normal average things that appear in the game. Sure you can have a large gun with spike or something on it and thing, and say to yourself, that thing is messed up...but a scorched and radioactive teddy bear with a messing eye and torn off arm with a look on its face that says "I'm in pain"...that's down right creepy, and that's part of what makes Fallout great. The average destroyed civilization. And what better place to see this than the heart of the Midwest. Thick with average American culture and ripe with setting potential.

2.) As the 3rd largest city in America including the Sprawling Metropolis that surrounds it, the area it would cover and represent almost every moral and value held strong and dear to America's hearts back then. Areas could range from what's left of desolate skyscraqers and multi-floor office and shopping centers to thick suburbs and projects to rural farmland. And depending on what effect the wars had on the Great Lakes...a greatly depleted Lake Michigan with shipwrecks and plane wreckages.

3.) Though some might compare it to The Capital Wasteland...due to it either not taking direct hits or limited hits, the scenery and overall desolation very well could shift to Fallout in a survival horror setting.

4.) Weapons and equipment and clothing choices could be drastically different due to Chicago's proximity with Manufacturing centers and overall "heartland" ... also Bootlegging routes and tunnels that would have been sealed off from the 20's very well could be fair game in this world.

I don't know to what extent the Fallout universe describes the existence and remnants of other cities in America, but I just feel like there are so many possibilities available with very believable story and universe tie-in points. (Theorizing off of them using this, but DLC's branching out from this location could include cities like Minneapolis (think Mall of America), Indianapolis (The Motor Speedway as well as college locations), and even a trip to Kentucky were you discover President John Henry Eden's home........and his real dead body along with creepy holotapes leading up to his death...that area could also include a theme park or resort area.

I do like hearing people say New York as a statue of liberty ala Planet of the Apes would be cool, but I feel like with it being another Eastern sea city, it would be to hard to distinguish it from The Capital Wastes, where as moving to a place with the attack was less severe but with similiar outcomes would feel different as well. Either way let me know what you think!

The London Eye, would never have existed in the Fallout Timeline.

Thing is the London Eye wouldn't exist in the fallout universe.

Anyway if they were to take it out of the US it would most likely be the UK, but they won't.

Mass Market appeal does not care for the uk, the makers of GTA are from Dundee, Scotland. They won't make a major UK only release because sadly the majority of US consumers couldn't point anywhere in Europe on a map and couldn't give a crap about the rest of the world. Plus we all drink tea and say tally ho.

Or in my case i am groundskeeper willie and my vocabulary consists of 'Och' and 'Aye'

EDIT- I by no means mean above as a veiled assault against my American cousins

I think you could make any major city look good in Fallout, but I have to agree that this is one case of an American game made about America, set in America and with American themes and actors, etc.

While London or even Beijing could make for an Awesome fallout mod/DLC/game, I think it would take Bethesda far too long to add in all the English-flavor to it - and I don't really think it would work as well. I mean you can destroy any city and make it look "Falloutish", but 1950's America had a flavor that comes out very strongly in Fallout3 and just wouldn't work as an English setting.

With any American city they can re-use alot of items from the original game without have to re-craft them, and still have it fit the American 1950's theme. A London version would be like making an entirely new game (cute little Red phone booths and all).

Great ideas, but I doubt it will come true.

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But that would interfere with my theory that http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WMG/Fallout3

There has already been a Fallout game set in Chicago.

One word for why no Fallout game should ever take place outside of the former United States:

Americana

Fallout lore is based on it, steeped in it, and surrounded by it. It adds layers of depth to the story and setting beyond just "urban areas gets nuked...then". There's a lot of themes explored in the Fallout games that are attached to American psyche that I don't think would ever work as well in a different setting.

I had no idea, I just looked through info about some of the older games and saw that Tactics was set in Chicago...but then also that most consider that game to be non-canon. But, given the graphics and what not presented in Fallout 3, I feel it would be an extremely strong setting for a future game

I wouldn't mind it being a spin off, but I don't think Fallout 4 should be set there because

I don't understand why the whole 'I want to see my city in Fallout' argument is so popular. The whole idea is that anything significant (such as the very Capital of the US for one) would be completely obliterated. Whilst the hiroshima bombings showed that building can survive blasts from as close as 150meters away, the world was peperred with an inumerable amount of nukes, and any city of any landmarked significance would have been wiped off the face of the planet. The whole idea is that regions are 'reborn' and slavaged, often lesser important locations becoming far more significant as they would have recieved less of a hit, and so are alot more preserved.

This is just another "it would be really kool if" factor that shouldn't be the point and reason for a setting in the Fallout scheme of things.

Florida would be a better place. There'd be mutated alligators and that sort of [censored]. The Brotherhood of Steel wouldn't be there, and instead you'd have a group dedicated to saving 'Nature' :0.

Villian would totally be a scientist, using the Kennedy Space Center to launch a rocket into space. He'd believe that human's selfish desires ruin the world and so on, and plans to erase all of mankind so animals can take over.

Bad-a.

Fallout is the based on the idea of an alternative future. Pre-war fallout is what many people predicted the world to look like in the 50's, the hight of the nuclear age, but the Three Mile Island accident in 1979, and the Chernobyl reactor explosion in 1986 caused people to loose faith in nuclear power. Lots of american people thourght everything would be run using nuclear power and Ford even made a nuclear run car, much like the ones in fallout.
The awe of atomic energy was not really shared by europeans so there for a Fallout set outside of the united states would be completely different and would change Fallout drastically and maybe make the game to different. If done right though it could be quite good.

Also i agree that any major city would have been completely wiped out and the only places that would survive would be those of little significence.
I think it should be set in central USA or maybe canada with the wastland getting snowy the further north you go. It could be set in an area which was not so drastically affected by the bombs as it may have been a rural area pre-war. A few trees would bring the wastleand to lfe a bit.

(And I know that the bombs in Fallout, megaton, are a lot smaller then real nukes so how come there are like no craters in the DC area except for the whitehouse. And like no buildings have been flattened. or did one bomb drop on DC and that landed on the whitehouse and the rest landed in the wasteland)

Nah not london no more enclave ect,

Ah so you want gamesas to put Deadroth back in huh? Also you know gamesas, they seem to be incapable to NOT include White knights and mustached villians. Hell they turned one of the classic sef-serving originations in Fallout in to "Knights of the Wasteland"

Fallout 4 is definitely taking place in Alaska.

Seriously.

Think about the pretenses they've set up.

Now think about Alaska in general: it's huge, barren, cold, with pockets and crevices of vibrant life. We got all sorts of wild life up there, wacky day/night schedules, some of the biggest fruits and vegetables due to said day/night schedules (imagine a jungle in Alaska from fallout and lots of light), on top of that swag, Alaska has got an incredibly diverse landscape, atleast the southern bits do. There's a good amount of military installations up there, including the US military's arctic training grounds (experimental weaponry, another Liberty Prime, some other sort of [censored]-ery).

Got the Russians over the Bering Strait, Canada to the other side. Hell, Kodiak would make a sweet place to get ripped to shreds by bears. Two-headed caribou, irradiated snow rabbits, land salmon, mutant walrus, acid spewing puffins, and talking snow cats...

Alaska.

Sorry UK, but, Alaska.

I'd imagine bombs in Fallout would be more potent and destructive than real-world nukes, the Fallout world put alot more research and development focus in to fusion power. Most of the warheads would have been airbursts, unless the ground suffered a direct hit it would be unlikely for a noticable crater to emerge. What happened to the White House compared to the surrounding area makes little sense, however..


And? Why would that be a bad thing? The Enclave has had its day twice. They didn't even need to be in FO3. But it fit in with the montage. The Enclave can go and make way for something alot more interesting than a third appearance.


Gah, that sounds too much like a Final Fallantasy to me.

The UK does not care for your apologies, it does not need it

Being totally and un-ashamedly biased, I'd like to see a London setting, though I live in the midlands UK, London is still a familiar location to me having visited there on a number of occasions, it's certainly got the landmarks, streets and underground, sights like the London eye collapsed, and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tower_bridge_London_Twilight_-_November_2006.jpg would be a great place as a base or something similar.

What is it with people wanting Fallout to be in all these different places ?