» Mon May 09, 2011 3:26 am
It would be nice for FO 4 to be set in at least some of FO 1 & 2's old stomping grounds. And it would be nice for the game to have more than just one big zone for a change.
However how about thinking outside the box and coming up with something completely zany next time round?
How about FALLOUT MARS?
Mankind begins to colonize the red planet. Let's say the US, Russia, and possibly China all have a foothold there, and are busy terraforming the place. Since no country trusts the other they all have their own nuke satellites pointed at each other in a big Mexican standoff just like back home.
On Earth things go to hell in a hand basket. Mars is cut off from home. Realizing that cooperation is their only chance for survival these groups pull together, pool their resources and get to work hastening making the red planet habitable. Or after a limited nuclear exchange, after the most warlike are smoldering ash piles, the survivors try to create something out of the ruins. What ever the case, a world that has been hastily terraformed, and induced with say lab grown animal and plant life, that is also possibly now radio active, would certainly allow for all sorts of bizarre and hellish flora and fauna. And who is to say there isn't some sort of dormant Martian DNA awakened by this whole series of events?
Would a setting like this be necessary to make FO 4 fun? Nah. Does such a setting even make sense? Probably not. Is such a setting fun to contemplate? For me hell yeah. Hey and you never know, it might make a great setting for an expansion.
Oh well that's my two bottle caps.